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We are delighted to present our seasonal end-of-year catalogue, comprising rare books, manuscripts, maps and modern art. Make this season truly memorable with timeless treasures that hold stories from the past.
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La Divina Commedia or The Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri in Italian & English.
[NONESUCH PRESS]; ALIGHIERI, Dante.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 sumptuous edition bound in orange vellum, this beautiful book was the most over-subscribed of all the Nonesuch publications. The production was ...
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Down and Out in Paris and London.
ORWELL, George.Original price £9,500.00 - Original price £9,500.00Original price £0.00£9,500.00£9,500.00 - £9,500.00Current price £9,500.00| /First edition of the author's first book. Orwell's first book was printed in a run of just 1500 copies many of which sold to the circulating librar...
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The Grapes of Wrath.
STEINBECK, John.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| /Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.' . Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of ...
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Twenty-Five Poems.
THOMAS, Dylan.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| /First edition of Thomas' second collection of poems. Uncommon thus.First edition, first impression; 8vo; light spotting to prelims and endpapers, ...
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Nov' [Virgin Soil].
TURGENEV, Ivan Sergeevich.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| /Fine copy of the rare true first edition in book form of Virgin Soil, Turgenev's last and longest novel. It was this work that established the wri...
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[Christmas Poems].
WHITE, Eric Walter.Original price £475.00 - Original price £475.00Original price £0.00£475.00£475.00 - £475.00Current price £475.00| /A collection of Christmas poems by the musicologist, composer, translator, editor, poet, writer, and arts administrator Eric Walter White, compri...
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The Winding Stair
YEATS, W.B.Original price £875.00 - Original price £875.00Original price £0.00£875.00£875.00 - £875.00Current price £875.00| /A very good copy of this later work by W.B. Yeats, in the distinctive T. Struge Moore binding & jacket, notable perhaps for the inclusion of t...
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The Sixpence that Rolled Away.
BAWDEN, Edward (illustrator); MACNEICE, Louis.Original price £1,100.00 - Original price £1,100.00Original price £0.00£1,100.00£1,100.00 - £1,100.00Current price £1,100.00| /Edward Bawden's own copy. 'Once upon a time there was a One Pound Note and he married a Ten Shilling Note and they had three children, a half-crown...
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Hold Fast By Your Teeth.
BAWDEN, Edward (author & illustrator).Original price £1,650.00 - Original price £1,650.00Original price £0.00£1,650.00£1,650.00 - £1,650.00Current price £1,650.00| /From the author to his daughter. Nine short stories written and illustrated by Bawden.First edition, signed presentation inscription from the autho...
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A Bear Called Paddington.
BOND, Michael.Original price £6,750.00 - Original price £6,750.00Original price £0.00£6,750.00£6,750.00 - £6,750.00Current price £6,750.00| /Paddington's debut. The debut of a certain bear from Peru with a penchant for marmalade sandwiches, a near-fine copy.'I bought a small toy bear on ...
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The BFG.
DAHL, Roald; BLAKE, Quentin (illustrator).Original price £4,250.00 - Original price £4,250.00Original price £0.00£4,250.00£4,250.00 - £4,250.00Current price £4,250.00| /One of 300 copies - signed by the author and illustrator. Deluxe limited first US edition of this Dahl classic, signed by both the author and the i...
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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.
ELIOT, T.S.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| /Eliot's poetry book for children about cats, which would become the basis of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats. The book became hugely popular, s...
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The Tiger Who Came to Tea.
KERR, Judith.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| /Rare, especially in such very good condition and with the dust-jacket, which is entirely unsophisticated in having no restoration, tears or signif...
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[Winnie-the-Pooh Books].
MILNE, A.A.; SHEPARD, E.H. (illustrator).Original price £15,000.00 - Original price £15,000.00Original price £0.00£15,000.00£15,000.00 - £15,000.00Current price £15,000.00| /A complete set. Milne's first volume, When We Were Very Young, was published in November 1924 and was such a resounding success that the subsequent...
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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, wonderfully illustrated by one of Ukraine's greatest artists, Heorhiy Narbut....
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The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse.
POTTER, Beatrix.Original price £4,250.00 - Original price £4,250.00Original price £0.00£4,250.00£4,250.00 - £4,250.00Current price £4,250.00| /The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse was published with the boards in either blue or brown but neither has priority over the other.First or second printin...
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Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens.
RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator); BARRIE, J.M.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| /Signed limited edition. Rackham's magnificent illustrations capture so succinctly the ethereal atmosphere of the story, with the still recognisable...
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Maybe You Should Fly a Jet!
SEUSS, Dr. [pseud. GEISEL, Theodor Seuss].Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /A very rare title from the Dr. Seuss canon and more so in such good condition. A wonderfully inspirational but light-hearted plethora of carrear s...
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The Decorative Art of Léon Bakst.
[BAKST]. ALEXANDRE, Arsene; COCTEAU, Jean.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| /With fine provenance . An exceptionally fresh example of this major luxury work on Bakst's art.Cecil Hopkinson (1898-1977) was a musical bibliograp...
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The Tempest.
CHAGALL, Marc (artist); SHAKESPEARE, William.Original price £10,000.00 - Original price £10,000.00Original price £0.00£10,000.00£10,000.00 - £10,000.00Current price £10,000.00| /Signed by the artist - one of 250 copies. A fine example of this limited edition of Shakespeare's The Tempest with 50 original lithographs after Ch...
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