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Bacon's New Chart of the World. Mercator's Projection.
BACON, G.W.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| /A large map of the world showing the British Empire at its height marked in pink. Insets record a wealth of additional detail, including the princ...
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Uncle Lubin.
ROBINSON, W. Heath.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| /A children's fantasy written and lavishly illustrated by the great Heath Robinson. Copies with much of the binding illustration intact are exceedi...
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Redondillas, or Something of That Sort.
POUND, Ezra.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| /One of 110 copies - signed by the author. One of 110 copies, signed by Ezra Pound on the colophon. Originally intended to be published in the first...
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The Tower [and] The Winding Stair.
YEATS, W.B.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| /W.H. Auden's copies. W.H. Auden's copies, with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper of The Tower, and with a bookseller's note to tha...
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Lustra.
POUND, Ezra.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 only 60 copies. This privately issued version was put out by the lawyer/collector John Quinn ahead of all other US issues. Gallup described ...
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Lustra.
POUND, Ezra.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| /Harriet Monroe's copy. Harriet Monroe's copy with a booksller's note to that effect on the front free endpaper and more importantly three notes in ...
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Ripostes.
POUND, Ezra.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 first issue in the cloth binding and with the ads at the rear extant. Pound tore out these advert in copies he handled after Swift went bust w...
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Hugh Selwyn Mauberley by E.P.
[POUND, Ezra].Original price £4,000.00 - Original price £4,000.00Original price £0.00£4,000.00£4,000.00 - £4,000.00Current price £4,000.00| /A stunning copy. This fabulous and resonant book - produced by John Rodker at his recently formed Ovid Press - contains some of Pound's greatest wr...
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Selected Poems.
POUND, Ezra; ELIOT, T. S. (introduction)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| /In his capacity as publisher this is Eliot's homage to his friend and editor - a crucial publication in Pound's career. The jacket is particularly...
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Prygun [The Jumpers].
NARBUT, Heorhiy (artist); ANDERSEN, Hans Christian.Original price £1,850.00 - Original price £1,850.00Original price £0.00£1,850.00£1,850.00 - £1,850.00Current price £1,850.00| /Russian translation of Hans Christian Andersen's tale, Springfyrene (The Jumpers), wonderfully illustrated by one of Ukraine's greatest artists, H...
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Biggles - Air Commodore.
JOHNS, Captain W.E.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00| /The true first edition of this early, and uncommon, Biggles title.First edition, first impression; 8vo; illustrations, including colour frontispie...
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An Account of the Kingdom of Nepal and of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha.
BUCHANAN, Francis Hamilton.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 the earliest comprehensive accounts of Nepal. Buchanan accompanied Knox to Nepal and later spent two years on the Nepalese frontier collect...
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Mycenae;
SCHLIEMANN, Dr. Henry.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| /From the renowned collection of Panos Gratsos. 'It is a spectacular book and was a roaring success... No one could overlook or ignore this book and...
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Indispensable accomplishments
FRANKLAND, Richard.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £2,500.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| /A scarce pirated edition. A fine series of plates illustrating correct horsemanship in riding to hounds. The plates are captioned: "Going along a ...
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Los Caprichos.
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de.Original price £200,000.00 - Original price £200,000.00Original price £0.00£200,000.00£200,000.00 - £200,000.00Current price £200,000.00| /The complete set of eighty etchings with burnished aquatint, drypoint and engraving, 1797-1798, on laid paper. A very good set from the first edit...
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Canzoni.
POUND, Ezra.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 important early collection, preceding the composition of any of the Cantos proper but with many tell signs of what was to come. The book sold p...
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Personae.
POUND, Ezra.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| /A twearp's copy. From the library of the poet and critic T. W. Earp. with his harlequin bookplate to the front paste down. Earp - rather unfortunat...
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Queen Ntombi Twala, from Reigning Queens
WARHOL, AndyOriginal 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| /Queen Ntombi Twala is one of four portraits which makeup Warhol's renowned portfolio Reigning Queens, 1985. Each of the four Queens were chosen by...
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