Time and Western Man, perhaps [Wyndham] Lewis's single most important philosophical work, was written during his period of intense study and work,...

Locked room mystery. Sidney Williams' The Body in the Blue Room is a classic example of golden age detective fiction, with a locked room mystery at...

From the library of Eric Quayle. The first issue Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi by Charles Dickens is identifiable via the appearance of the plate at p...

The continuing adventures of the Bucket family and the splendid Willy Wonka, catapulted into the heavens via Wonka's special glass elevator, where...

An attractive set, scarce signed thus with presentation inscriptions all written near to the time of the relevant volume's publication. The dedica...

Helen Bannerman originally wrote this story during a long railway journey in India, to send to her two small daughters that she had just left to b...

First edition, 8vo; contemporary ink gift inscription to front free endpaper, foxing to edges of text-block but otherwise internally fine, publish...

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...

humane and moving: one of the profoundest "political" novels since Conrad' (Justin Wintle, Makers of Modern Culture)A very good copy of one of Lew...

A very good, inscribed first edition of this collection of satirical poetry by Wyndham Lewis, dedicated on the front free endpaper 'To Arthur Smit...

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...

Early issue, 8vo; original cloth, dust-jacket by Frank Sherwin, one closed tear to top-edge of upper panel, minor fraying but overall an attractiv...

A lovely copy with the rare original wrap-around, simply stating "The New 'Hannay' Adventure". This is the final story featuring John Buchan's mos...

Large-paper edition, number 40 of 560 copies, signed by Rackham, 4to., xix, (blank), 549, (blank)pp., 24 tipped-in colour plates with captioned ti...

Signed limited edition. Number 533 of 575 copies, signed by Rackham, 4to., 231, [1]pp., with 12 colour plates, including frontispiece, numerous bla...

Conrad's unfinished book, centred around the character of Napoleon Bonaparte.First edition, 8vo; frontispiece, 4pp. advertisements, original cloth...

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...

The further adventures of Baroness Emmuska Orczy's elusive Scarlet Pimpernel, aka Sir Percy Blakeney, during the French Revolution. This time set ...

"An amusing couple of hours can be spent in the reading of this fantastic trifle. Vivian Darsay, a young man of great physical beauty and financia...

Helen Bannerman originally wrote this story during a long railway journey in India, to send to her two small daughters that she had just left to b...

Lewis's first, very scarce, separately published literary publication, preceded only by Timon of Athens (1913), a portfolio of his artwork. One of...