First published in the USA in February 1945 under the title of Remembered Death, it was published in the UK in December of the same year under Chr...

the first of Akhmatova's works to be published after the death of Stalin.Akhmatova (1889–1966) was one of the legendary figures of modern Russian ...

An attractive copy of Agin's celebrated series of illustrations. Alexander Agin (1817-75) was a Russian graphic artist and illustrator and this se...

A rarity in the original binding. The collection of Italian folk-tales by Giambattista Basile, Conte di Torrone, 1566-1632, (who is believed to hav...

Produced in significant numbers at the time but heavy and heavily read through the years, copies do not survive often in anything approaching the ...

How the Bow and Arrow may againe profitably bee employed'. I have... shewed how the Bow and Arrow may againe profitably bee employed, and Revived, ...

Deluxe issue with signed print. The deluxe issue of Brassai's last book, specially bound and with a signed gravure print: 'Henri Matisse drawing fr...

A very rare title from the Dr. Seuss canon and more so in such good condition. It is one of the six titles Dr. Seuss Enterprises withdrew from pub...

Containing some of Brooke's best remembered poems, Tiare Hahiti and The Soldier, with its famous opening line, 'If I should die, think only this o...

An excellent commemorative edition, published on the 300th anniversary of Culpeper's Complete Herbal, reproducing the exact text and plates in col...

Comprising: Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Agnes Grey, The Professor, Villette, Shirley, Jane Eyre, Emma, Poems (by all three) an...

A sumptuous publication. A stunning and scholarly history of the British Crown Jewels, profusely illustratedLimited Edition, no. 171 of 650 numbere...

An important illustrated edition. An exceptional copy of an important illustrated edition of Aesop's Fables, the text taken from the 1692 edition o...

With the dustjacket. The five volumes of the saga of the Forsyte family are here collected for the first time as 'The Forsyte Saga'. Very scarce in...

A comprehensive description of the most famous golf courses of the British Isles, accompanied by an attractive set of illustrations from original ...

Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man'. Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of te...

Signed first edition of the author's first novel. An exceptional copy of the author's first novel, signed by her in black ink on the title page.Fir...

One of only 500 copies. Comprising of four works, entitled: British Game Birds and Wildfowl; British Deer and Ground Game; The Big Game of Africa &...

Early account of modern winemaking. A lovely copy, in half-red morocco of Alexander Hamilton's History of Ancient and Modern Wines. One of the firs...

Original silver 'furniture'. The King James Version, splendidly preserved in the original black morocco gilt binding furnished in silver. A handsom...

Exceptional contemporary mosaic binding. An exceptional example of the Oxford folio Bible in a striking contemporary mosaic binding by Thomas Sedgl...

Silver-gilt Renaissance Revival embossed Bible case. A sweet pocket King James Bible in a silver-gilt Renaissance Revival embossed case, the upper ...

The Hound of the Baskervilles is not merely one of the most famous of all Sherlock Holmes novels but also one of the great Edwardian novels. Belov...

One of 1000 copies. One of 1000 copies of Wilde's most celebrated play. First performed on 14th February 1895, The Importance of Being Earnest mark...