Presentation copy inscribed by Evelyn Waugh. Presentation copy of the first edition of this 'great tease', with pieces on 'U' and 'Non-U,' inscribe...

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...

The first of Virginia Woolf's posthumous essay collections, several of these having been recently discovered following her death.First edition; 8v...

An unusually well-preserved copy of the author's sole book-length biography, written at the request of the family of the famous painter and member...

This was published with the boards in either blue or cream but neither has priority over the other.First edition, first or second printing; 16mo; ...

Presentation copy. One of 500 copies, this one inscribed by the author to Colette. The presentation inscription reads: 'a Colette et Robert Jouvene...

Inscribed by Annie Maria Harris nee Armitt. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: 'Mary Mackenzie from Mrs. Stanford Harris, Rydal Cottage, August ...

A rare Hubin listed first edition, by an author of detective fiction who often drew favourable comparison with Agatha Christie during her long car...

Rare signed proof of author's last novel. A seemingly uncommon signed proof of the last novel by Iris Murdoch, which saw a altered, in some ways si...

The author's first book. As early as 1908 Virginia Woolf was seriously concentrating on her first novel, which she called Melymbrosia and would lat...

George Eliot (1819-1880) was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, one of the leading English novelists of the 19th century. Her novels are celebrated f...

The Pax Britannica trilogy. James (later Jan) Morris was a British historian, author and travel writer. Educated at Lancing College, West Sussex, a...

First edition in the scarce dustjacket of Nancy Mitford's translation of Madame de Lafayette's sensational and controversial novel, originally pub...

An attractive first edition of Virginia Woolf's seventh and most experimental novel, a polyphonic work featuring six characters plus another prese...

Comprising: Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Agnes Grey, The Professor, Villette, Shirley, Jane Eyre and Poems, with various Introd...

Maria Graham's India was her first book. Graham was an artist who visited India and married the ship's captain shortly afterwards. Together they m...