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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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  • Nov' [Virgin Soil].

    TURGENEV, Ivan Sergeevich.
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    Fine copy of the rare true first edition in book form of Virgin Soil, Turgenev's last and longest novel. It was this work that established the wri...

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  • [Christmas Poems].

    WHITE, Eric Walter.
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    A collection of Christmas poems by the musicologist, composer, translator, editor, poet, writer, and arts administrator Eric Walter White, compri...

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  • The Winding Stair

    YEATS, W.B.
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    A very good copy of this later work by W.B. Yeats, in the distinctive T. Struge Moore binding & jacket, notable perhaps for the inclusion of t...

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  • The Sixpence that Rolled Away.

    BAWDEN, Edward (illustrator); MACNEICE, Louis.
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    Edward Bawden's own copy. 'Once upon a time there was a One Pound Note and he married a Ten Shilling Note and they had three children, a half-crown...

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  • Hold Fast By Your Teeth.

    BAWDEN, Edward (author & illustrator).
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    From the author to his daughter. Nine short stories written and illustrated by Bawden.First edition, signed presentation inscription from the autho...

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  • The Tiger Who Came to Tea.

    KERR, Judith.
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    Rare, especially in such very good condition and with the dust-jacket, which is entirely unsophisticated in having no restoration, tears or signif...

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  • [Winnie-the-Pooh Books].

    MILNE, A.A.; SHEPARD, E.H. (illustrator).
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    A complete set. Milne's first volume, When We Were Very Young, was published in November 1924 and was such a resounding success that the subsequent...

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  • Prygun [The Jumpers].

    NARBUT, Heorhiy (artist); ANDERSEN, Hans Christian.
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    Russian translation of Hans Christian Andersen's tale, Springfyrene (The Jumpers), wonderfully illustrated by one of Ukraine's greatest artists, H...

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  • The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse.

    POTTER, Beatrix.
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    The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse was published with the boards in either blue or brown but neither has priority over the other.First or second printin...

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  • Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens.

    RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator); BARRIE, J.M.
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    Signed limited edition. Rackham's magnificent illustrations capture so succinctly the ethereal atmosphere of the story, with the still recognisable...

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  • Maybe You Should Fly a Jet!

    SEUSS, Dr. [pseud. GEISEL, Theodor Seuss].
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    A very rare title from the Dr. Seuss canon and more so in such good condition. A wonderfully inspirational but light-hearted plethora of carrear s...

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  • The Decorative Art of Léon Bakst.

    [BAKST]. ALEXANDRE, Arsene; COCTEAU, Jean.
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    With fine provenance . An exceptionally fresh example of this major luxury work on Bakst's art.Cecil Hopkinson (1898-1977) was a musical bibliograp...

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  • The Tempest.

    CHAGALL, Marc (artist); SHAKESPEARE, William.
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    Signed by the artist - one of 250 copies. A fine example of this limited edition of Shakespeare's The Tempest with 50 original lithographs after Ch...

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  • Shakespeare's Boy Actors.

    DAVIES, W. Robertson.
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    The noted Canadian author's first book, his Oxford honours thesis, on the life and training of Elizabethan boy actors. Uncommon in the dustjacket....

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  • Walker Evans. American Photographs.

    EVANS, Walker.
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    With an essay by Lincoln Kirstein. First edition of Walker Evans American Photographs in the original dust-jacket. This ground-breaking monograph w...

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  • Cabaret.

    MASTEROFF, Joe; KANDER, John (music); EBB, Fred (lyrics).
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    Presentation copy. From the collection of Clive Hirschhorn, who for decades was the film and theatre critic for the London Sunday Express, with Mas...

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  • [Costume design for Clorinda, from Rossini's La Cenerentola.]

    MESSEL, Oliver.
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    Oliver Messel (1904-1978) was 'Great Britain's leading theatre designer from the early 1930s to the mid 1950s..., [winning] international acclaim ...

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  • The Greatest Gift.

    STERN, Philip Van Doren.
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    It is, indeed, a wonderful life. The story goes, Stern was in a New York department store, waiting in line to pay for some Christmas presents, when...

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  • The Importance of Being Earnest.

    WILDE, Oscar.
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    First performed on 14th February 1895, The Importance of Being Earnest marked the zenith of Wilde's career, and followed on from the success of La...

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  • The Works of Francis Bacon,

    BACON, Francis; MALLET, David (editor).
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    [philosophy] earl of Macclesfield's copy. A beautifully bound set of The Works of Francis Bacon edited by the poet David Mallet (d.1765), with an i...

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