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We are delighted to present our seasonal end-of-year catalogue, comprising rare books, manuscripts, maps and modern art. Make this season truly memorable with timeless treasures that hold stories from the past.

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  • [Don Quixote].

    [ASHENDENE PRESS]. CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de.
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    One of only 225 copies. A near-fine set of this superb private press edition, undoubtedly one of Ashendene's finest achievements. Limited edition, ...

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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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  • Ostanovka v Pustyne [A Stop in the Desert].

    BRODSKY, Joseph.
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    First edition of Ostanovka v Pustyne [A Stop in the Desert] Brodsky's second book of poetry in Russian to be published in America. Described as hi...

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  • Master i Margarita [v] Zhurnal Moskva No.11 (1966) & No.1 (1967)

    BULGAKOV, Mikhail.
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    The scarce first printing . The first publication in any format of Master And Maragirita, one of the most important Russian novels of the twentieth...

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  • The Naked Lunch.

    BURROUGHS, William.
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    One of the triumphs of the Beat movement. An exceptional copy of Burroughs masterpiece, one of the triumphs of the Beat movement. Not common in thi...

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  • The Speckled Band.

    CONAN DOYLE, Arthur.
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    Genuine Sherlock Holmes rarity. The exceedingly scarce first edition of Doyle's stage adaptation. A genuine Holmes rarity. Needing to find a play t...

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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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  • The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe.

    DEFOE, Daniel.
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    A handsome uniformly bound set of Daniel Defoe's (d.1731) much beloved essays and novels, comprising 19 works including Robinson Crusoe, The Histo...

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  • Oliver Twist;

    [DICKENS, Charles].
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    First edition, first issue. The first edition, first issue of Charles Dicken's (1812-1870) second (and arguably his most famous) novel Oliver Twist...

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  • The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

    DICKENS, Charles.
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    'the pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again'. The first edition, first issue in book form of Dickens' The Life and Adventures of Ni...

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  • A Decade of Years Poems...1798-1807.

    [DOVES PRESS]; WORDSWORTH, William.
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    Presentation copy from cobden-sanderson. Inscribed on front free end paper: 'To Mr Mason/ with the compliments/ of the printer C-S, Nov, 1911'. J....

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  • Keats.

    [DOVES PRESS]; KEATS, John; COBDEN-SANDERSON, Thomas James (selected & arranged by).
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    After establishing the Doves Bindery in 1893, Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson partnered with Emery Walker to found the Doves Press in 1901. Alongsid...

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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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  • From Russia, with Love.

    FLEMING, Ian.
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    'but I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time'. The fifth of the James Bond titles by Ian Fleming, considered by some to be t...

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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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  • 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 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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