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Present Perfect 2022

A fine selection of perfect gifts for the festive season, including (1) Fiction, Poetry & Prose, (2) Children's & Illustrated, (3) Visual & Performing Arts, (4) Special Interest & Sports, (5) Judaica & Hebraica, (6) Near East & Islamic and (7) Modern Prints.

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  • Anna Pavlova et les principaux artistes de sa troupe at the Palais du Trocadéro, Juin 1921.

    [ANNA PAVLOVA].
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    A scarce souvenir programme for a charity performance held by Pavlova for the benefit of Russian refugees and victims of WWI. The wrappers are viv...

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  • Memoirs of an Infantry Officer.

    SASSOON, Siegfried.
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    That he is but one insignificant person caught up in events beyond anyone's comprehension'. Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), one of the major First W...

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  • Portrait photograph of Samuel Beckett.

    [BECKETT, Samuel]. BRASSAI.
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    With photographer's presentation inscription. A stunning portrait of Beckett in his absolute prime, showing his head and shoulders, leaning slightl...

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  • The Madras Cookery Book for the People.

    [HIGGINBOTHOM, Mrs. J.]
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    Recipes are listed by course, including soups, fish, meat, eggs, rice, curries, savoury dishes, as well as sambals (a chilli sauce or paste), chut...

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  • The Berlin Stories.

    ISHERWOOD, Christopher.
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    Inscribed by Christopher Isherwood. Signed by the author on the title page beneath which he adds 'see page 41'. On that page at the point in the te...

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  • Kapitanskaia Dochka. [The Captain's Daughter].

    PUSHKIN, Alexander Sergeevich.
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    A fine illustrated example of one of Pushkin's most popular novels. A limited edition of Pushkin's historical novel based on Pugachev's rebellion o...

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  • Black Mischief.

    WAUGH, Evelyn.
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    Waugh's third novel, written whilst staying at Madresfield Court, Worcestershire as the guest of the Lygon sisters; this was the book that establi...

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  • F is for Football

    BLAKE, Peter
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    Screenprint in colours, 1991, on wove paper, signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 95 in pencil, published by Waddington Graphics and Co...

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  • Shakespeare's Comedy As You Like It.

    THOMSON, Hugh (illustrator); SHAKESPEARE, Wm.
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    'the fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool' . A charmingly illustrated edition of one of Shakespeare's perennial ...

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  • Le Livre de la Marquise.

    SOMOV, Konstantin.
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    Somov's famous illustrations. Konstantin Somov (1869-1939), Russian painter and graphic artist, was a student of Ilya Repin and a close associate o...

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  • Rings for the Finger

    KUNZ, George Frederick.
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    A well illustrated account of rings from the earliest time to the present, with full descriptions of the origin, early making, materials, etc. Cer...

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  • The history of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton and Westminster;

    ACKERMANN, Rudolph.
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    This was the fifth of Ackermann's 'sumptuously illustrated volumes of English topography'. The finest pictorial record of the nine most famous sch...

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  • The Twenty-Four Books of the Holy Scriptures. [The Hebrew Bible].

    LEESER, Isaac (translator).
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    First English translation of the entire Hebrew Bible by a Jew. First edition of the first English translation of the entire Hebrew Bible by a Jew.B...

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  • The Square Book of Animals.

    NICHOLSON, William (illustrator); WAUGH, Arthur.
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    He'd be best with a little mint-sauce for a relish. An unusually good example of the rarest of William Nicholson's illustrated works; his illustrat...

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