John Byrne Leicester Warren, 3rd Baron de Tabley (1835-95), English poet, numismatist, botanist and an authority on bookplates (notably reflected ...

The great man's first novel of which just 1500 copies were printed. Not so common in this condition.First edition, first impression; 8vo; publishe...

"Petits contes un peu libres" (Brunet). Scarce early edition based on Cornazano's collection of tales. Antonio Cornazano or Cornazzano (1429-84) wa...

Author's Presentation Copy. Inscribed by the author to his fellow novelist and friend, Charles Hamilton Aidé. Described by his friend Henry James a...

Inscribed presentation copy. A major literary presentation copy of the author's first literary publication. Inscribed by Wells on the half title pa...

Rare early edition. Austen's debut novel and one of her several masterpieces, was originally issued in this three-volume format with a print run th...

Further poems by the English poet, and Catholic mystic, Francis Thompson. Potentially inspired by the author's relationship with the daughters of ...

Conrad's third publication and in our experience the hardest of the first three to find in such superlative condition.First edition, first impress...

Combining a critical assessment of Hardy's work, a short bibliography and an additional bibliographical note.First edition; 8vo; frontispiece port...

First edition, first issue, with 'The long day lengthens' in the dedicatory poem and with Beau appearing to be overweight in the illustration faci...

A complete run of the relaunched magazine The Butterfly, originally created by Walter Haddon in 1893; extremely uncommon in the original wrappers....

The mother of the detective story. A 'bibliomystery' by one of the first American detective fiction authors, Anna Katharine Green, who garnered acc...

Synesthesic ponderings by Aesthetic critic Alice Meynell: 'Red is the colour of violence, or of life broken open, edited, and published.'First edi...

An eight-volume collection of fictional letters claiming to have been written by an Ottoman spy named 'Mahmut' in the court of the French king Lou...

Inscribed by Betjeman to Mary Wilson. Betjeman loaned several items to this exhibition and provided an introduction to this catalogue. Inscribed by...

Other contributors include 'Anodos' (Mary Coleridge), Laurence Binyon and 'E.L.' (Emily Lawless?).First edition; small 8vo; ink & pencil name ...

A remarkably scarce example of eighteen-nineties detective fiction, not in the British Library, and with only one copy we could trace in other ins...

'When the gift of the Imagination was conferred upon mankind, a double-edged sword covered with flowers was thrust into its baby-hands...' (openin...

First performed on 14th February 1895, The Importance of Being Earnest marked the zenith of Wilde's career, and followed on from the success of La...