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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.
THOMAS, Dylan.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /The great man's first novel of which just 1500 copies were printed. Uncommon in this condition.First edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked inte...
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A History of British Birds [with] A History of British Fishes with Supplement [and] A History of British Quadrupeds [and] A History of British Reptiles.
YARRELL, William & BELL, Thomas.Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00| /Imperial octavo. A handsomely bound imperial octavo set, all first editions, of Yarrell's copiously illustrated British Birds and Fishes, including...
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March of Intellect.
[HEATH, William].Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /An excellent example in contemporary hand-colour of this satire on the pace of technological and social change from William Heath's (d.1840) celeb...
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Kiss Kiss.
DAHL, Roald.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. A collection of short-stories by one of the masters of that medium, Kiss Kiss includes the apiologically disconcerting 'Royal Je...
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
FLEMING, Ian.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /The second title in the Blofeld trilogy, preceded by Thunderball (1961) and concluding with You Only Live Twice (1964). The novel is significant i...
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Cicero's Prince.
CICERO, Marcus Tullius; [BELLENDEN, William (editor); RYMER, Thomas (translator)].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| /Rare edition in English. The first edition in English of these collected writings by Cicero on the origin and duties of princely government.The wor...
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Montparnasse.
GURSKY, Andreas.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| /Issued to accompany a 1995 exhibition at Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, this publication is devoted to Andreas Gursky's monumental 1993 photograph o...
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Russisches Ballet [Russian Ballet].
KAINER, Ludwig (illustrator); NIJINSKY, Vaslav; KARSAVINA, Tamara.Original price £6,250.00 - Original price £6,250.00Original price £0.00£6,250.00£6,250.00 - £6,250.00Current price £6,250.00| /Scarce large-scale portfolio on the Ballets Russes. One of only 250 copies. Ludwig Kainer (1885 - 1967) started a career in medicine but decided t...
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David Bailey's box of pinups.
BAILEY, David; Francis Wyndham.Original price £35,000.00 - Original price £35,000.00Original price £0.00£35,000.00£35,000.00 - £35,000.00Current price £35,000.00| /Defaced by Bailey's co-author Francis Wyndham. A remarkable copy of Bailey's most desirable publication, defaced by his co-author Francis Wyndham, ...
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The Holy Bible
[BIBLE. KING JAMES VERSION].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| /Original silver 'furniture'. The King James Version, splendidly preserved in the original black morocco gilt binding furnished in silver. A handsom...
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Olena Kulchytska.
[ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT UKRAINIAN ARTISTS]. HOLUBETS, Mykola; OSINCHUK, Mykhailo.Original price £1,350.00 - Original price £1,350.00Original price £0.00£1,350.00£1,350.00 - £1,350.00Current price £1,350.00| /'the first great modern Ukrainian woman-painter'. A scarce monograph on Olena Kulchytska published by the Assocation of Independent Ukrainian Artis...
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Hilkhot De'ot sive Canones Ethici
MAIMONIDES (Moses Ben Maimon); GENTIUS, Georgius (translator).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| /First edition of Gentius's Latin translation of 'Hilkhot De'ot', from the first book of Maimonides's 'Mishneh Torah', with a commentary. This is G...
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Yom HaMedinah (The Day of The State).
ISRAEL, State of.Original price £2,400.00 - Original price £2,400.00Original price £0.00£2,400.00£2,400.00 - £2,400.00Current price £2,400.00| /A joint one-off publication of Israel's newspapers on the day of the proclamation of the state of Israel. On May 14, 1948, 'the last day of foreig...
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Desert, Marsh and Mountain
THESIGER, Wilfrid.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /Signed limited edition. Thesiger's splendid look back at his earlier explorations in Abyssinia, the Arabian gulf, Iraq, and Yemen, in a well illust...
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Octal.
VASARELY, Victor (illustrator); BUTOR, Michel.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00| /One of 150 copies. A wonderful example of Michel Butor's avant-garde text Octal, illustrated by Victor Vasarely with 9 original signed lithographs....
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The Abridgement of the English Chronicle,
STOW, John; [HOWES, Edmund].Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /Bloomsbury Group adjacent. Edmund Howes' abridgement to this popular history of England by the chronicler John Stow, a concise historical record ru...
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Priapeia;
[EROTICA]. [BURTON, Richard F. (translation) & SMITHERS, Leonard C. (editor)].Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /One of 250 copies - printed for private circulation. A near-fine copy of a Burton rarity. One of 250 numbered copies, published for members of the ...
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The Second World War.
[military] CHURCHILL, Winston.Original price £22,500.00 - Original price £22,500.00Original price £0.00£22,500.00£22,500.00 - £22,500.00Current price £22,500.00| /Presentation copies inscribed and initialled. A stunning set of Churchill's magnum opus, signed in vol. I and then initialled by him in all the rem...
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Paper Pools
HOCKNEY, DavidOriginal price £37,000.00 - Original price £37,000.00Original price £0.00£37,000.00£37,000.00 - £37,000.00Current price £37,000.00| /Lithograph printed in colours, 1980, signed and dated in pencil, numbered 27/1000, printed and published by Tyler Graphics, Ltd., Mount Kisco, New...
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The revolt in Arabia.
HURGRONJE, C. Snouck.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /Hurgronje's account of The origins of the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire during World War I. The booklet is a collection of newspaper arti...
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Description du Sacre et du Couronnement
[CORONATION ALBUM].Original price £37,500.00 - Original price £37,500.00Original price £0.00£37,500.00£37,500.00 - £37,500.00Current price £37,500.00| /The coronation of Tsar Alexander III. Fine copy of this celebrated coronation album of alexander III. The beautiful chromo-lithographed plates and ...
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