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NEW CATALOGUE | Present Perfect

Federica Marconi
NEW CATALOGUE | Present Perfect
NEW CATALOGUE Present Perfect.
Available in printed and digital formats.
NEW CATALOGUE | Present Perfect
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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    A Boy's Will.

    FROST, Robert.
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    Frost's first published book in the earliest 'A' binding, one of around 350 copies. Frost wrote A Boy's Will whilst living with his family in Beac...

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    A Christmas Carol...

    DICKENS, Charles; BROCK, C.E. (illustrator).
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    Chivers - vellucent binding. Following a lecture by Cyril Davenport of the British Museum on the 18th-century painted vellum bindings of Edwards of...

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    A Clockwork Orange.

    BURGESS, Anthony.
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    Three issues exist: two in black boards - the first priced 16s, the second priced 18s; thirdly, in the late '60s the last copies were issued in pu...

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    A Leaf of the Gutenberg Bible: Exodus XXXIX].

    [GUTENBERG, Johann.
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    Extraordinary survival from the dawn of the printing press. An excellent, well-margined leaf from the Gutenberg Bible, the first substantial book p...

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    A Small Town in Germany.

    LE CARRÉ, John.
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    Signed by the author. 'Only the Foreign Officer; a junior diplomat remarks, "could have sent a bull to catch a matador". The bull is Alan Turner, a...

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  • 113078_2 113078

    Basni I. Krylova [Krylov's Fables].

    KRYLOV, Ivan Andreevich.
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    Wonderful Art Nouveau binding. An excellent illustrated edition of Krylov's fables in a wonderful Art Nouveau binding. Ivan Krylov (1769-1844) is R...

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    Breakfast at Tiffany's.

    CAPOTE, Truman.
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    The first edition of Truman Capote's renowned novella, the basis for Blake Edward's film, starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard.First edition...

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    Brideshead Revisited.

    WAUGH, Evelyn.
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    Unclipped dust-jacket. ...his most carefully written and deeply felt novel..... The brightly devastating satirist of England's twenties and thirtie...

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    British Birds; A Naturalists Sketch Book; British Mammals; Game Birds and Wild Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland,

    [ORNITHOLOGY]. THORBURN, Archibald.
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    Bound by Sangroski & Sutflcliffe. A fine collection of limited edition titles by the acclaimed artist Archibald Thorburn F.Z.S (1860-1935), a S...

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