Decorative silk binding . A rare music score composed by Kuzmin (who was known predominantly as a poet) with the addition of wonderful illustration...

An exceptionally bright copy . Promotional programme for the 1921 tour of Nikita Baileff's revue, La Chauve-Souris to London. The Bat, as it was kn...

A later title in the oeuvre of prolific author Florence Warden, but an early example of a crime thriller in a dust-jacket, with wonderful jacket a...

The Scottish journey is written in a series of letters to better inform those south of the border of the positive aspects of Scotland and the Scot...

Richardson was travelling physician to the Earl of Belmore, whose party spent two years in the Mediterranean, mainly in Egypt, Palestine and Syria...

Wilson concentrates on St. Petersburg and Moscow. Information on Architecture, etc.First edition. 2 vols. 8vo, xvi, 383; viii, 343 pp., 6 aquatint...

A valuable description of the culture of India in the 1820s. Heber's tour encompassed a journey through Bihar, Rohilkhand, Rajputana, and Gujarat,...

Memoir of the proceedings of the Liverpool Commission charged with the disposition of the Mansion-House Relief Fund in aid of the Jewish refugees,...

Annenkov's own copy. Programme for the Russian opera in Paris.The Queen of Spades, an opera in 3 acts by Pyotr Tchaikovsky to a Russian libretto by...

An attractive first edition of Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens, one of his most enduring novels: 'Our Mutual Friend had a mixed reception (th...

Essential reading for archaeologists and anyone interested in Egyptology. One of two books (the other being Pharos and Pharillon), in which Forster...

One of 25 copies - presentation copy . Produced as Russell's Christmas card for 1919 in just 25 copies. With the author's signed presentation inscr...

There is a deeper quality in R. Austin Freeman's work than is projected by his meticulous and solidly satisfying plots.' (Queen's Quorum, p.56).Th...

'only venture capitalists can play with this balloon' says mummy. The true first issue of this satirical work, written and designed in the style of...

The author's first novel. The scarce first edition of the first novel by Ruth Rendell, introducing detective fiction readers for the first time to ...

Each poster is from the unnumbered Neon edition, all numbered by Gorey in ink in lower margins. Fine condition. The numerical order of these attra...

Each poster is from the unnumbered Neon edition, all numbered by Gorey in ink in lower margins. Fine condition. The numerical order of these attra...

First edition, trade issue, signed by Gorey on the last leaf; folio; publisher's stapled wrappers.

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...