Books and Manuscripts

Beatrice Webb is a clear, engaging biography of one of the most important figures in British social reform, written by Margaret Cole. Cole traces W...

A smart copy of the "fourth book in The Hitchhiker's Trilogy". This installment takes the series in a slightly different, more relaxed direction. A...

A smart copy of the second printing of Worzel Gummidge, the much loved living scarecrow, familiar to many in the UK from the later 1970s BBC televi...

The Acts of Parliament in Scotland, Volume II (1424-1567) is part of the authoritative early nineteenth-century edition of Scotland’s statutory rec...

The Blaeu Atlas of Scotland (2006) is a finely produced modern edition of one of the most important cartographic works ever devoted to Scotland, or...

Fighting Terms (1954) is the first book by Thom Gunn and a striking debut that announced his arrival as a poet of unusual discipline and intensity....

Moly (1971) is one of the key collections in the development of Thom Gunn's mature voice, written during his early years in the United States and r...

The Passages of Joy (1982) marks a significant moment in the career of Thom Gunn, bringing together poems written during a period of stylistic free...

This Nonesuch Press edition brings together two of John Bunyan's most enduring works, The Pilgrim's Progress and The Life and Death of Mr. Badman, ...

Far From Home (1941) is a wartime novel by R. H. Newman, published in the early years of the Second World War and shaped by the period’s concerns w...

With Malice Toward None (1928) is Honoré Willsie Morrow-s best-known novel and a sensitive fictionalised portrait of Abraham Lincoln, taking its ti...

An Act for Repairing the Road from the Powder-Mills on Hounslow Heath, in the County of Middlesex, to a Place called Basing-Stone, near the Town of...

A signed and remarqued edition of this title from the hugely popular children's fantasy series, Mortal Engines. There is a beautiful fine pen illus...

A signed and remarqued edition of this title from the hugely popular children's fantasy series, Mortal Engines. There is a beautiful fine pen illus...

A signed and remarqued edition of this title from the hugely popular children's fantasy series, Mortal Engines. There is a beautiful fine pen illus...

A deluxe limited folio facsimile of Antoine-Jean-Baptiste Thomas's celebrated Un an à Rome et dans ses environs, issued in Rome in 1972 by Gabriele...

A first edition, first impression of South Wind Blows, published in New York in 1948, representing Clark Porteous' contribution to post-war America...

Back-Trailers from the Middle Border is the final volume in Hamlin Garland’s celebrated Middle Border series, completing his semi-autobiographical ...

A first printing of Robert P. Tristram Coffin’s Maine Ballads, published in 1938 at the height of his reputation as one of America’s leading region...

A substantial and complete six-volume 1827 English translation of George Buchanan’s celebrated History of Scotland, by James Aikman – long regarded...

Samuel Butler’s Evolution, Old and New remains one of the most provocative nineteenth-century critiques of Darwinian theory, setting the ideas of B...

A finely produced companion volume to the celebrated Nonesuch Dickens, issued in 1937 as both a retrospective on Dickens’ illustrators and editions...

Alfred Lord Tennyson’s In Memoriam is one of the defining elegies of the Victorian era, written in memory of his closest friend, Arthur Henry Halla...

A handsome limited-edition Nonesuch Press printing of the poetry of Andrew Marvell - one of the most distinctive voices of seventeenth-century Engl...

A cornerstone account of one of the most ambitious Arctic undertakings of the nineteenth century, Sir George Naress Narrative of a Voyage to the Po...

A landmark study of Scotlands historic market crosses, produced in a limited edition and richly illustrated with architectural plates. John W. Smal...

A classic Oxford edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, edited by J. R. R. Tolkien and E. V. Gordon and published by the Clarendon Press in 19...

First published between 1954 and 1955, The Lord of the Rings is Tolkien's epic high-fantasy masterpiece and one of the most influential works of mo...

The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited and published after the author's death by his son Christopher Tolkien, presents the mythic prehistory of...

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien remains one of the most beloved classics of modern literature, introducing readers to Middle-earth and the adventures ...

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien remains one of the most beloved classics of modern literature, introducing readers to Middle-earth and the adventures ...

A handsome Folio Society boxed set of C. S. Lewis's complete Chronicles of Narnia, with all seven novels in matching hardback editions. Finely prod...

A well-presented part set of Schillers Werke, edited by Heinrich Kurz and published by Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig. Friedrich Schiller (175...

Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. continues the comic adventures of Major Sinclair Yeates, the long-suffering English magistrate transplanted in...

A much-loved classic of Anglo-Irish comic fiction, Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. follows Major Sinclair Yeates, an English ex-army officer appo...

A substantial Edwardian biography of the influential Victorian newspaper editor John Thadeus Delane, who steered The Times through major political,...

A landmark in both printing and aesthetics, The Nature of Gothic forms a key chapter from John Ruskin’s The Stones of Venice and embodies his passi...

A beautifully produced pocket edition of Poems and Songs by Leonard Cohen, edited by Robert Faggen and published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2011 as part...

Journals of the Western Isles: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by James Bo...

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien remains one of the most beloved classics of modern literature, introducing readers to Middle-earth and the adventures ...

A very smart illustrated edition of Gilbert White's 'Natural History of Selborne', produced in conjunction with the Gilbert White Museum. White (17...

A very scarce copy of this family history of the Macdonalds behind the world famous Glenmorangie whisky brand, and related branches of that family....

Fifty Years and More of Sport in Scotland is the Duke of Portland's engaging memoir of deerstalking, salmon fishing, grouse shooting and country pu...

Joseph Swan (1796-1872) was one of Scotland's foremost 19th-century engravers and publishers, known for his finely detailed steel-plate views of Sc...

Winner of the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction, Piranesi by Susanna Clarke is one of the most critically acclaimed and award-winning novels of the de...

The Ladies of Grace Adieu, and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke is a beautifully written companion to her acclaimed novel Jonathan Strange & Mr ...

Winner of the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction, Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell is a richly imagined and deeply moving novel inspired by the life and loss...

Anyone Got a Match? by Max Shulman, first published in the UK by Heinemann in 1965, is a sharp and playful social satire, set around the American c...