Rare special edition. The first edition of Anna Livia Plurabelle by James Joyce, the text that was to become chapter eight in Finnegans Wake, and i...

Limited edition on japon. Théophile Gauthier's novel was undoubtedly inspired by the 'Orientalism' which dominated French culture in the middle of ...

One of the very first female detectives in fiction. Though originally believed to have first been published in 1861, experts in the genre have dete...

Rare first UK edition of Pinocchio. The rare first UK edition of Collodi's classic for children, originally published in book-form in Florence, Ita...

Hemingway's American debut. The collection of short stories and vignettes that marked Ernest Hemingway's American debut and brought him fame.When I...

The first edition illustrated by Boucher. With illustrations by the celebrated Rococo painter François Boucher. 'The book's format is noble, Molièr...

Premiere edition de luxe que l'on ait donnee de ce grand poete. Elle se recommande et par sa belle execution typogr. et par d'assez bonnes estampe...

First and very limited French edition of the 18th century 'Cries of London'.First French Edition, limited to 30 copies only (copy no. 27). 8vo; mo...

Autograph correspondence between Charles Dickens and Eliza Davis, concerning the Jewish characters in his novels, and the presentation of a Hebrew...

An unusually good example of this famous equestrian tale, told from the perspective of a horse. Black Beauty was Quaker author Sewell's only publi...

Eric Ravilious (1903-1942), artist, designer and wood-engraver, produced his first lithograph in 1936 entitled 'Newhaven Harbour', which was print...

A very good example of the special limited edition of the first part of Wyndham Lewis' trilogy The Human Age, published simultaneously with an ord...

This is the best "first" Detective Story that has ever come our way' (Gollancz's blurb on jacket).An unusually good example of the first novel by ...

Communism & Catholicism collide.First edition; 8vo; publisher's boards, dust-jacket with design by Michael Ayrton, a sharp, near fine copy.Mor...

The first edition of this satirical attack on the book world, originally destined for publication in 1936 but pulled by the then publishers Jonath...

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) is best known for a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie Humaine, which presents ...

Signed limited edition. A very good first edition of Anna Livia Plurabelle by James Joyce, the text that was to become chapter eight in Finnegans W...

Signed by Updike on each title page. A great set of this classic of modern American literature, uniformly signed by John Updike to the title-page o...

A very good first edition example of this translation of Seneca's Oedipus by Ted Hughes, presented at the time of publication to his friends John ...

The first railway detective stories. An extremely rare early detective fiction title, with only one previous auction record we could find, describi...

Inscribed copy. A fine, inscribed first edition of this key Ballardian title, in the distinctive Bill Botten dust-jacket.First edition, signed pres...

First edition of Bowles' first novel. The first edition of the author's first novel, a landmark title in modern literature, and in many ways a prog...

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

One of only ten copies. '...the poems in this volume are hitherto uncollected. A few of them will be included in Winter Trees, a collection of Poem...