Books and Manuscripts

A hugely successful modern science fiction novel by Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary combines hard science, humour, suspense, and interstellar ...

Robert Freke Gould's History of Freemasonry is one of the landmark nineteenth century studies of the subject, long regarded as a foundational work ...

A complete original set of Reynolds' Geognostic Profiles, an exceptionally scarce and visually striking suite of Victorian scientific educational w...

The Accident by Dexter Masters is a powerful mid-twentieth century novel rooted in the anxieties of the atomic age, drawing on the author's own exp...

Arctic Adventure is the memoir of the Danish explorer, writer and anthropologist Peter Freuchen, one of the twentieth century's best-known Arc...

Drunkard is the English translation of L'Assommoir, one of Émile Zola's most important and controversial novels, first published in 1877. A major w...

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the most influential poets and literary voices of the twentieth century, known for her intensely personal and p...

Cultural Amnesia by Clive James is an expansive and highly personal work of literary and cultural criticism, first published in 2007. Structured th...

Acts of Light brings together selected poems by Emily Dickinson with luminous colour paintings by Nancy Ekholm Burkert, accompanied by an appreciat...

A distinctive three-volume grouping centred on Dennis Wheatley's Murder Off Miami, illustrating the evolution of one of the most inventive crime pu...

Minority Report; H. L. Mencken's Notebooks by H. L. Mencken is a posthumous collection of the author's private notebooks, first published in 1956. ...

With Malice Toward Some by Margaret Halsey is a humorous travel memoir first published in 1938, recounting the author’s experiences in Britain (and...

Banshee Harvest by Jim Phelan is a novel first published in the United States in 1945, having earlier appeared in England under the title And Black...

The life and travels of Isabella Bird (1831-1904) are among the most remarkable of the nineteenth century, and this biography by Anna M. Stoddart o...

The works of Isabella Bird (1831–1904) remain among the most vivid and engaging travel narratives of the nineteenth century. The Hawaiian Archipela...

First Man; The Life of Neil A. Armstrong, by James R. Hansen. Published by Simon & Schuster UK, London, 2005. 1st Uk edition. A fine red cloth ...

I Cover the Waterfront by Max Miller is a vivid and engaging account of life along the San Diego waterfront, first published in 1932. Drawing on Mi...

The Primrose Path by Ogden Nash is a collection of his characteristically witty verse, first published in 1935. Known for his playful use of langua...

"A boorish husband, a wife starved for love, and a lover out of the East, exotic, passionate, and chivalrous. Then Fate and a senseless betrayal. W...

Morning of Life by Kristmann Guðmundsson is a novel set against the rugged backdrop of Icelandic life, drawing on a landscape and culture shaped by...

First edition of A. E. van Vogt's Rogue Ship, a novel constructed from three interrelated science fiction stories originally published in magazines...

First UK edition of Roger Zelazny's Today We Choose Faces, a thoughtful and character-driven work of science fiction exploring themes of identity, ...

First UK edition of Frederik Pohl's Slave Ship, a sharp and unsettling work of mid-twentieth-century science fiction. Blending dystopian themes wit...

The Persian Journey of the Reverend Ashley Wishard and His Servant Fathi by Elgin Groseclose is a lively and engaging novel of travel and adventure...

The Fortunes of the Pasquiers by Georges Duhamel forms part of his well-known sequence of novels following the lives of a French family in the earl...

The Fountain by Charles Morgan is a reflective and psychologically nuanced novel first published in 1932. Set largely within the confined world of ...

The Outward Room by Millen Brand is a powerful and unconventional novel first published in 1937, exploring themes of mental health, freedom and per...

Fiesta in November is an early anthology of Latin American fiction, presenting a selection of short stories and novelettes to English-speaking read...

A complete 1858 first edition set of The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray, with all plates present. A sequel of sorts to Henry Esm...

The "Breakfast-Table" series by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. brings together three of his most popular and enduring works - The Autocrat, The ...

A substantial and handsomely bound six-volume set of John Richard Green's celebrated histories of England, comprising the complete four-volume Hist...

Isaac Asimov's Authorised Murder presents a curious and entertaining departure from the author's better known science fiction, offering in...

Philip K. Dick's The Game-Players of Titan is one of the author's most inventive and darkly satirical science fiction novels, set in a futu...

This numbered limited first edition set of Ready Player One and Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline brings together the two bestselling dystop...

First published in 1935 by Victor Gollancz, The Nature of Capitalist Crisis is John Strachey's influential Marxist analysis of the structural weakn...

The Duchess of Cleveland – Invitation to “Mr Henry James” 17 St James’s Square – Saturday Evening, May 7th[Likely 7 May 1876 or 7 May 1881] A finel...

A key reissue of a foundational text in social and demographic history, reproducing Francis Place's Illustrations and Proofs of the Princip...

A fine, as new copy in unread condition, of Rebecca Roanhorse's Black Sun, signed and numbered by the author to the limited edition title p...

A New American History by William E. Woodward is a revisionist and accessible survey of United States history by one of the most influentia...

A major scholarly work by Sir James George Frazer, expanding the comparative method that made The Golden Bough famous and applying it to th...

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, ...

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

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...

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...

Texas by James A. Michener, illustrated by Charles Shaw, was published by the University of Texas Press in 1986 to mark the Texas Sesquicentennial....