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We guarantee the authenticity and completeness of all items (unless otherwise described), and are happy to provide a certificate to this effect. All items can be assumed to be in good condition, with any defects being described in our description. 

Fiction, Poetry & Prose

Delve into worlds of the unknown with our rare fiction, poetry & prose finds. The perfect luxury gift for him or her.

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  • By The Pricking of My Thumbs.

    CHRISTIE, Agatha.
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    The first edition, first impression of Agatha Christie's By the Pricking of My Thumbs, the fourth novel in the five-book series featuring the dete...

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  • The Canterbury Tales.

    [GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS]; CHAUCER, Geoffrey; GILL, Eric (illustrator).
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    One of 500 copies. One of the major titles of the Golden Cockerel Press and an extraordinary collaboration between the press director and book desi...

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  • La Divina Commedia or The Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri in Italian & English.

    [NONESUCH PRESS]; ALIGHIERI, Dante.
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    A sumptuous edition bound in orange vellum, this beautiful book was the most over-subscribed of all the Nonesuch publications. The production was ...

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  • Michael Robartes and The Dancer.

    YEATS, W.B.
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    Limited edition of 400 copies. The first edition of Yeats' Michael Robartes and The Dancer, an important collection of poems marking the first publ...

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  • A Farewell to Arms.

    HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
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    First issue dust-jacket. A really good copy in the correct dust-jacket with the name 'Katherine Barclay' so spelled on the front flap.First edition...

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  • Encyclopaedia Britannica;

    [GLEIG, George; MACFARQUHAR, Colin (editors)].
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    With two-volume supplement. A handsome set of the 'most famous of all encyclopaedias in the English language' (PMM), illustrated with 592 engraved ...

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  • The Thousand and One Nights,

    LANE, Edward William (translator).
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    A handsome set of The Arabian Nights translated into English by the British orientalist Edward William Lane (1801-1876), with illustrations from o...

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  • Biggles - Air Commodore.

    JOHNS, Captain W.E.
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    The true first edition of this early, and uncommon, Biggles title.First edition, first impression; 8vo; illustrations, including colour frontispie...

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  • The Lord of the Rings.

    TOLKIEN, J.R.R.
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    Tolkien's modern classic, The Lord of the Rings. Named Britain's best book in the BBC's inaugural The Big Read survey of 2003, The Lord of the Rin...

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  • The Lost World.

    CONAN DOYLE, Arthur.
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    The first edition, first impression of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most celebrated title outside of the Sherlock Holmes canon, The Lost World. Illust...

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  • Winner Take Nothing.

    HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
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    'one of the best short stories ever written'. A 1933 collection of short stories by Nobel Prize Winner Ernest Hemingway, including A Clean, Well Li...

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  • In Our Time.

    HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
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    Hemingway's first collection of short stories and his first book published in the US. One of only 1335 copies printed.The chapters describe acts o...

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  • A Single Man.

    ISHERWOOD, Christopher.
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    Signed by Christopher Isherwood. A near-fine, limited edition of which, purportedly, only about half the limitation was actually printed. The publ...

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  • You Only Live Twice.

    FLEMING, Ian.
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    Presentation copy. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, 'To Jonathan from Ian'. The identity of Jonathan h...

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  • Tess of The D'Urbevilles

    HARDY, Thomas.
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    With clipped signed note by the author. Only 1000 copies were printed of this first impression of Tess of the d'Urbervilles, and as was the case wi...

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  • Down and Out in Paris and London.

    ORWELL, George.
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    First edition of the author's first book. Orwell's first book was printed in a run of just 1500 copies many of which sold to the circulating librar...

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  • This Side of Paradise; The Beautiful and Damned; The Great Gatsby; Tender is the Night; The Last Tycoon.

    FITZGERALD, F. Scott.
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    Superb set of five first editions. A superb set of first editions by one of the leading authorial voices of the Jazz Age, uniformly bound in an att...

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  • Out of Africa.

    BLIXEN, Karen [pseud. DINESEN, Isak].
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    The UK edition precedes the much more common Random House printing. Memorably filmed. This is by far the best copy we have handled.Out of Africa i...

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CHRISTMAS CATALOGUE

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