A charming collection of letters written by nursing sister Jessie Marjorie Morris (d.1964) during her posting in the Quetta, the capital of Baluch...

This delightfully illustrated and much sought-after edition, is further enhanced with a very handsome binding.Taken from the poverty of her parent...

Last night i dreamt i went to manderley again'. A superb copy of Daphne du Maurier's classic thriller, rich in characterisation and now regarded as...

Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoiled, vain and irrepressibly witty, she organises the lives...

First edition of the author's first book, written whilst she was working as an editor at Vogue magazine.First edition, first impression; 8vo; unma...

The first edition, first printing of Agatha Christie's A Caribbean Mystery, the ninth novel in the Miss Marple series, and the first to be set abr...

Comprising: Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Agnes Grey, The Professor, Villette, Shirley, Jane Eyre, Emma, Poems (by all three) an...

A sweet mixed edition set of Jane Austen's 6 published novels, comprising Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northa...

Pardoe's work is one of the most popular and attractive of all books on the Bosphorus. This work was obviously planned to take advantage of the gr...

Nancy Mitford's most successful novel dedicated to Gaston Palewski, with whom she had fallen madly in love, and for whom she moved to Paris at the...

In the original glassine dust jacket. A very good copy in the rare dust-jacket.First edition, first printing (with the correct front and rear endpa...

Unique inscription by the author. A rare inscription by Beatrix Potter to a member of her family, 'Wynne' the wife of Jack Heelis, Beatrix Potter's...

Scots in the Sinai. Margaret Agate kept a diary of her journey in Egypt between Autumn 1901 and Spring 1902. She made an excursion on the Nile and ...

Complete set of Stark's autobiography. Freya Stark is one of the most well known female travellers associated with the Middle East. She was one of ...

The rites and rituals of the Brahmin. Mrs Belnos' scarce book on the rites and rituals of the Brahmin.'Relatively little is known about Mrs. Belnos...

C.E. Brock originally illustrated Pride and Prejudice for Macmillan in 1895, with black and white line drawings. He then collaborated with his bro...

The origin of modern nursing. First edition, early issue — probably the third or fourth — with advertisements on the endpapers and 'the right of tr...