The best edition - signed by the author . The best edition of Wells' works, with the author's revisions to the texts, special Preface to each volum...

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

George Eliot (1819-1880) was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, one of the leading English novelists of the 19th century. Her novels are celebrated f...

A scarce little production, printed for private circulation by the author.Sole issue; 8vo; single leaf folded vertically and printed on all sides;...

The first railway detective stories. An extremely rare early detective fiction title, with only one previous auction record we could find, describi...

Second edition; 2 vols, 8vo (200 x 130 mm); portrait frontispiece to volume 1 (2nd state, 1st issue), 4 engraved maps, 2 engraved plans, woodcut h...

Includes: Biographical memoirs of Browne; Personal Correspondence; Religio Medici; Pseudodoxia Epidemica; Garden of Cyrus; Hydriotaphia; Brampton ...

A beautiful presentation set in deluxe velvet binding with Portuguese royal coat-of-arms gilt-stamped to the covers. This edition of Pope's famou...

Manuscript copy of Louÿs' work, first published in 1899. Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925) was born in Ghent in 1870 into a Champagne family, who had taken...

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) is best known for a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie Humaine, which presents ...