This volume covers mainly Central and Western Russia and includes a chapter on the Caucasus.Issued c.1892.Third edition. L, 470pp, 11 maps, 16 pla...

An attractive and rare lifetime edition of Turgenev's works inclusive of two first editions, Spring Torrents and the autobiographical story Punin ...

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...

'When the gift of the Imagination was conferred upon mankind, a double-edged sword covered with flowers was thrust into its baby-hands...' (openin...

This book was initially withdrawn due to a threatened libel action to be brought against Smithers by Marie Corelli, one of the subjects of the boo...

Preceded by the US edition, this is Beerbohm's first regularly published title, ensuring his acceptance amongst the 'fastidious and recognised hig...

A very good example of this uncommon large paper edition, part of the Moray Library series. Gleeson White (1851-98) was a prolific player on the e...

Combining a critical assessment of Hardy's work, a short bibliography and an additional bibliographical note.First edition; 8vo; frontispiece port...

Inscribed by Betjeman to Mary Wilson. Betjeman loaned several items to this exhibition and provided an introduction to this catalogue. Inscribed by...

Limited edition of one of Pushkin's most celebrated prose works. The Queen of Spades is an enduring classic of Golden Age Russian literature and pr...

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

A lovely Russian edition of the French folk tale famously popularised by Charles Perrault and first published by Barbin in Paris in 1697. It was f...

Jewish coffee houses and the Great Synagogue. An important record of Jewish settlement in the City of London at the turn of the nineteenth century,...

'an outlaw'. A deed by the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury dated 18th April 1812 granting the equity of redemption (i.e. the right to reclaim a...

Signed by the artist. Album of 25 high quality plates (five in colour), portraying Jewish labourers and craftsmen in rural Ukraine. A limited editi...

A portfolio of 30 lithographs by the Ukranian-Jewish artist Issachar Ber Ryback (1897-1935). The lithographs dating mostly from 1917 and depict sc...