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Scenes in Kafirland,
GRAHAM, Lieut. Lumley; Lieut. Hugh Robinson.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £0.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00| /Twenty-one hand-coloured lithographed plates. The rare hand-coloured edition of Graham and Robinson's Scenes in Kafirland. In their preface the aut...
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Winnie-The-Pooh.
MILNE, A.A.; SHEPARD, E.H. (illustrator).Original price £1,400.00 - Original price £1,400.00Original price £0.00£1,400.00£1,400.00 - £1,400.00Current price £1,400.00| /The publisher's deluxe bindings came in three colours with green being the most favoured due its similarity to the green cloth of the regular trad...
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Moonchild.
CROWLEY, Aleister.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00| /Moonchild was the second of Crowley's interwar novels - following Diary of a Drug Fiend in 1922. It is a wild fantastical roman-à-clef and inciden...
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Time Was Away. A Notebook in Corsica.
MINTON, John (illustrator); ROSS, Alan.Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00| /Signed by the illustrator. Signed and dated (1955) by the artist on the title page. Minton was a parsimonious inscriber of books; we have seen only...
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The Drowned World.
BALLARD, J.G.Original price £1,375.00 - Original price £1,375.00Original price £0.00£1,375.00£1,375.00 - £1,375.00Current price £1,375.00| /Key climate change novel. A truly excellent first hardback edition of this key climate change novel, as with his 1966 novel The Crystal World antic...
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The Go-Between.
HARTLEY, L.P.Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00| /Presentation copy. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in blue ink on the title page: 'For Leon Drucker, with all my good wishes, Leslie Har...
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Blank on the map.
SHIPTON, Eric.Original price £3,950.00 - Original price £3,950.00Original price £0.00£3,950.00£3,950.00 - £3,950.00Current price £3,950.00| /With letter from the author. Shipton's scarcest and most important work with a personal letter tipped in on front pastedownThis book describes an e...
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Thoughts and Adventures.
[HISTORY]. CHURCHILL, Winston S.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00| /In the original dust-jacket. The second volume of Churchill's autobiography including his early political career, the First World War...Gallipoli, ...
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The Good Citizen's Alphabet.
RUSSELL, Bertrand.Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00| /Signed limited edition. A superb copy of the scarce limited edition of Russell's witty guide to the alphabet for 'immature minds', one of only 100 ...
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.
DAHL, Roald; SCHINDELMAN, Joseph (illustrator).Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| /Signed by author. A near-fine, signed, first edition of the continued adventures of Charlie Bucket and his family, in the company of mad confection...
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The Invisible Man.
WELLS, H.G.Original price £2,200.00 - Original price £2,200.00Original price £0.00£2,200.00£2,200.00 - £2,200.00Current price £2,200.00| /Rare inscribed copy. Probably the most famous of H.G. Wells' 'scientific romances', in which a scientist finds a way of turning himself invisible w...
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Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes.
POTTER, Beatrix.Original price £3,000.00 - Original price £3,000.00Original price £0.00£3,000.00£3,000.00 - £3,000.00Current price £3,000.00| /In the original glassine dust jacket. A very good copy in the rare dust-jacket.First edition, first printing (with the correct front and rear endpa...
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History of the recent discoveries at Cyrene,
SMITH, Captain Robert Murdoch; E.A. Porcher.Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00| /Early photography. An attractive description of the excavations of the long neglected site at Cyrene in Libya between Tripoli and Benghazi, with al...
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Cadeau (Gift)
MAN RAYOriginal price £1,600.00 - Original price £1,600.00Original price £0.00£1,600.00£1,600.00 - £1,600.00Current price £1,600.00| /Cast iron sculpture with rust patina and 14 copper nails, 1921/74, annotated with the artist's name and titled in white paint on the handle, numbe...
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Gorod. Stikhi. [The City. Poems].
GONCHAROVA, Natalia (illustrator); RUBAKIN, Alexander.Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00| /One of 25 copies on Chine. A fine copy this masterpiece of the Russian avant-garde. Number 4 of the tirage de tête of only 25 copies on china paper...
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Exploration of Kina Balu.
WHITEHEAD, John.Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00| /Unique author's presentation copy to his parents with all plates and text illustrations specially hand-coloured. A unique copy of Whitehead's Kina ...
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Letters written in a Mahratta camp during the year 1809,
BROUGHTON, Thomas Duer.Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00| /With 10 hand-coloured aquatints. Broughton was Commander of the Resident's Escort at the Court of Scindia. His march commenced in Agra and took in ...
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Demon.
LERMONTOV, Mikhail; EBERLING, Alfred (illustrator).Original price £4,750.00 - Original price £4,750.00Original price £0.00£4,750.00£4,750.00 - £4,750.00Current price £4,750.00| /Finely bound illustrated edition of Lermontov's Demon, one of the most celebrated works of Russian Romantic literature. Alfred Eberling (1872-1951...
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Egypt, the Sinaitic Desert and the Holy Land.
AGATE, Margaret M.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /Scots in the Sinai. Margaret Agate kept a diary of her journey in Egypt between Autumn 1901 and Spring 1902. She made an excursion on the Nile and ...
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Jesus- Christ Rastaquouere.
PICABIA, Francis.Original price £32,500.00 - Original price £32,500.00Original price £0.00£32,500.00£32,500.00 - £32,500.00Current price £32,500.00| /Unique presentation copy with an original signed drawing. An extraordinary unique copy of Picabia's seminal dada text with a signed original drawin...
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Letters Concerning the English Nation.
[PHILOSOPHY]. VOLTAIRE (pseud. AROUET, François-Marie).Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00| /'the first bomb hurled against the Ancien Régime'. The first edition of this interesting, outsider's take on English society and its people, precip...
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