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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Anna Pavlova et les principaux artistes de sa troupe at the Palais du Trocadéro, Juin 1921.
[ANNA PAVLOVA].Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00A scarce souvenir programme for a charity performance held by Pavlova for the benefit of Russian refugees and victims of WWI. The wrappers are viv...
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Memoirs of an Infantry Officer.
SASSOON, Siegfried.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00That he is but one insignificant person caught up in events beyond anyone's comprehension'. Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), one of the major First W...
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Portrait photograph of Samuel Beckett.
[BECKETT, Samuel]. BRASSAI.Original price £4,250.00 - Original price £4,250.00Original price £0.00£4,250.00£4,250.00 - £4,250.00Current price £4,250.00With photographer's presentation inscription. A stunning portrait of Beckett in his absolute prime, showing his head and shoulders, leaning slightl...
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The Madras Cookery Book for the People.
[HIGGINBOTHOM, Mrs. J.]Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00Recipes are listed by course, including soups, fish, meat, eggs, rice, curries, savoury dishes, as well as sambals (a chilli sauce or paste), chut...
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The Berlin Stories.
ISHERWOOD, Christopher.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00Inscribed by Christopher Isherwood. Signed by the author on the title page beneath which he adds 'see page 41'. On that page at the point in the te...
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Kapitanskaia Dochka. [The Captain's Daughter].
PUSHKIN, Alexander Sergeevich.Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00A fine illustrated example of one of Pushkin's most popular novels. A limited edition of Pushkin's historical novel based on Pugachev's rebellion o...
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Black Mischief.
WAUGH, Evelyn.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00Waugh's third novel, written whilst staying at Madresfield Court, Worcestershire as the guest of the Lygon sisters; this was the book that establi...
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F is for Football
BLAKE, PeterOriginal price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00Screenprint in colours, 1991, on wove paper, signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 95 in pencil, published by Waddington Graphics and Co...
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Shakespeare's Comedy As You Like It.
THOMSON, Hugh (illustrator); SHAKESPEARE, Wm.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00'the fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool' . A charmingly illustrated edition of one of Shakespeare's perennial ...
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Le Livre de la Marquise.
SOMOV, Konstantin.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00Somov's famous illustrations. Konstantin Somov (1869-1939), Russian painter and graphic artist, was a student of Ilya Repin and a close associate o...
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Rings for the Finger
KUNZ, George Frederick.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00A well illustrated account of rings from the earliest time to the present, with full descriptions of the origin, early making, materials, etc. Cer...
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The history of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton and Westminster;
ACKERMANN, Rudolph.Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00This was the fifth of Ackermann's 'sumptuously illustrated volumes of English topography'. The finest pictorial record of the nine most famous sch...
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The Twenty-Four Books of the Holy Scriptures. [The Hebrew Bible].
LEESER, Isaac (translator).Original price £10,000.00 - Original price £10,000.00Original price £0.00£10,000.00£10,000.00 - £10,000.00Current price £10,000.00First English translation of the entire Hebrew Bible by a Jew. First edition of the first English translation of the entire Hebrew Bible by a Jew.B...
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The Square Book of Animals.
NICHOLSON, William (illustrator); WAUGH, Arthur.Original price £1,350.00 - Original price £1,350.00Original price £0.00£1,350.00£1,350.00 - £1,350.00Current price £1,350.00He'd be best with a little mint-sauce for a relish. An unusually good example of the rarest of William Nicholson's illustrated works; his illustrat...
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