Present Perfect 2022
A fine selection of perfect gifts for the festive season, including (1) Fiction, Poetry & Prose, (2) Children's & Illustrated, (3) Visual & Performing Arts, (4) Special Interest & Sports, (5) Judaica & Hebraica, (6) Near East & Islamic and (7) Modern Prints.
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[Todi Ragini: a lady stands with a vina, feeding two deer.
[RAGAMALA PAINTING].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| /Examples of Datia ragamala paintings are rare. A few examples from the same series, also identified as being from Datia, are in the Paul Walter co...
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Proclamation of Martial Law in Jerusalem.
[BRITISH MANDATE]. ALLENBY, Edmund.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| /Rare proclamation, issued by General Allenby, following the defeat and expulsion of the Turkish forces from Jerusalem on 9th December 1917 by the ...
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A Tale of Two Cities.
DICKENS, Charles.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| /A first issue with p. 213 mispaginated as 113 and signature 'b' on 'List of Plates' leaf and 'affetcionately on p. 134, line 12With one of the mos...
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Toad of Toad Hall.
MILNE, A.A.Original price £2,900.00 - Original price £2,900.00Original price £0.00£2,900.00£2,900.00 - £2,900.00Current price £2,900.00| /Poop-poop. A very attractive copy of the first dramatisation of Wind in the Willows, here in deluxe format signed by Milne and Grahame.Milne extrac...
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Le Coq d'Or, et d'autres contes.
PUSHKIN, Alexander; ZWORYKINE, Boris (illustrator).Original price £2,800.00 - Original price £2,800.00Original price £0.00£2,800.00£2,800.00 - £2,800.00Current price £2,800.00| /Limited edition with an extra suite . A graduate of the Moscow Academy, Zworykine found success early on in his career illustrating books with all ...
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Her Majesty's Army.
RICHARDS, Walter.Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £0.00£500.00£500.00 - £500.00Current price £500.00| /A very good copy overall, depicting military costumes. Volume 3 describes Colonial and Indian forces, with a section devoted to South African forc...
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A Dictionary of the English language:
JOHNSON, Samuel.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| /A very attractive 18th-century edition of Samuel Johnson's masterpiece, and the most famous dictionary of the English language.Eighth edition, cor...
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Finnegans Wake.
JOYCE, James.Original price £3,250.00 - Original price £3,250.00Original price £0.00£3,250.00£3,250.00 - £3,250.00Current price £3,250.00| /Joyce's last and most innovative prose work. One of 3,400 sets of sheets for the trade edition of Finnegans Wake which were printed for Faber. Of t...
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Poems.
BROOKE, Rupert.
Original price £875.00 - Original price £875.00Original price £0.00£875.00£875.00 - £875.00Current price £875.00| /First edition, first impression of 'Poems', second impression of '1914'; first separate edition of 'A Memoir'; 3 vols, 8vo; publisher's blue cloth...
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.
KEYNES, John Maynard.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| /'We are all Keynesians today'. The first edition of Keynes' masterwork, scarce in dust-jacket. Written in the aftermath of the Great Depression, Th...
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Solar.
McEWAN, Ian.Original price £325.00 - Original price £325.00Original price £0.00£325.00£325.00 - £325.00Current price £325.00| /Signed. A beautifully designed publication.First edition, first impression, one of 100 numbered copies, specially bound and signed by the author; 8...
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Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
SWIFT, Jonathan.Original price £2,900.00 - Original price £2,900.00Original price £0.00£2,900.00£2,900.00 - £2,900.00Current price £2,900.00| /Second edition; 2 vols, 8vo (200 x 130 mm); portrait frontispiece to volume 1 (2nd state, 1st issue), 4 engraved maps, 2 engraved plans, woodcut h...
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An Essay on The History and Theory of Music;
NATHAN, Isaac.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 work on the history and theory of music by the composer of the famous Hebrew Melodies. Isaac Nathan (c. 1791-1864) was a Jewish-English composer...
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Hebrew Melodies.
BYRON, Lord.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £750.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /The text of the songs of the original Hebrew Melodies.. 'The subsequent poems were written at the request of the author's friend, the Hon. D. Kinna...
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