A collection of stories in which the writer reveals himself in all his incarnations - as playwright, as novelist, as short-story writer and critic...

First English-language edition of Flann O'Brien's comic masterpiece, first published in the original Gaelic and Anglo-Irish dialect in 1941.First ...

First edition of the author's fourteenth title to feature the character of Perry Mason.First edition, first impression; 8vo; very slight age-tonin...

An excellent copy in crushed brown morocco gilt by Roger de Coverly of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, an important work of religious litera...

A handsome copy of Chaucer's complete works, edited with a critical introduction by the bibliographer and Shakespeare scholar Alfred W. Pollard (1...

Containing valuable information about the poets and visual artists of the movement, the work was compiled to accompany the 1938 Exposition Interna...

Signed. Close Distance was issued to accompany Anders Petersen's exhibition at The National Photomuseum in The Royal Library, Copenhagen.First edit...

First Constance Garnett translation of Dostoevsky's semi-autobiographical novel. A very uncommon and important edition; published as volume five i...

Presentation copy. First edition of what is widely considered to be Amis' masterpiece, inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper, 'To Pete...

Almanacks. A charming trio of Almanacks illustrated in Greenaway's inimitable style.Comprising those for 1883,1884 & 1925; 16mo (100 x 750 mm; ...

Andrews, an East Indian Railway official, had propoped a railway along Euphrates, linking Europe with the Arabian Gulf at Basra, as a direct route...

Account of Burnes' British commercial mission to the Court of the Emir of Kabul in 1837-38. The Mission was a failure and in 1839 Burnes re-entere...

An important work written while Hay was serving in the Civil Administration of Mesopotamia 'always in more or less remote parts of the country'.Fi...

First edition of the author's first book under the name Anna Kavan; a collection of 19 linked short stories marking a radical departure from the a...

The author's copy. The author's copy of his fourth book. Scarce thus, as it was rapidly pulped by the publishers after a litany of misprints and ot...

Comprising: Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Agnes Grey, The Professor, Villette, Shirley, Jane Eyre, Emma, Poems (by all three) an...

Presentation copy. Rare presentation copy of Quentin Crisp's 'early' memoirs, inscribed on the front free endpaper, 'To John McFadden from Quentin ...

Signed by John Waller. The first and only appearance of Greek Horizons, a literary journal founded in Athens in 1946 by British author and war corr...

Ellis (1794-1871), was sent to Madagascar by the London Missionary Society to investigate the treatment of Christians on the island. The work cont...

The whole of life is a repetition'. Kierkegaard's great philosophical novel exploring the concepts of atonement, and the remembrance of things to c...

One of a series of such books by Heath to be illustrated by Bawden.First edition, first impression, with illustrated title-page, boards by Edward ...

Observations is Richard Avedon's first book and is one of the key photographic books of the twentieth century. Vince Aletti refers to it as being ...

Presentation copy. First edition of the author's second book, with his signed presentation inscription in blue ink to the front free endpaper, 'For...

Vignette IV. On 23rd August the expedition left Bethlehem and began their journey westwards to Mauch Chunk. They stopped briefly at the Delaware W...