Books and Manuscripts

A very smart, still sealed, limited edition, of this James Bond novel by Jeffrey Deaver. Carte Blanche, The New James Bond Novel, by Jeffrey Deaver...

A very substantial 'Royal Octavo' edition of Debrett's Peerage from 1959. Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage, With Her Maje...

An attractively presented book featuring 50 tipped in water-colour view of Oxford, each mounted on coloured textured paper, with facing descriptive...

Complete set of original hardbacks with their dustjackets; Born Free, Living Free, & Forever Free, by Joy Adamson: Born Free; A Lioness of Two ...

First published in Paris in 1719, this is David Humphrey's 1721 translation of this work by Father Bernard de Montfaucon. This folio size volume is...

This charming Penguin paperback features the drawings and amusing writings of John Lennon, combining John Lennon in His Own Write and A Spaniard in...

A smart copy of this classic spy thriller from British author, Len Deighton. This issue is from the Companion Book Club and is the Collector's Delu...

An original typescript thesis for a Doctor of Divinity Degree at Durham University. Almost certainly a unique document of considerable depth in ter...

A beautiful copy of this work by American artist, Emelene Abbey Dunn (1859-1929), who founded the New York Normal Art School, after studying art in...

A smart copy of David Brewer's study of seven centuries of Greek life under the rule of the Ottoman Turks, before Greece became a self-governing na...

A smart gift copy from the author to William St Clair as denoted in St Clair's own hand on the first pastedown and with accompanying Publisher's pa...

 A very smart book indeed, of the author's attempt to make sense of society in evolutionary terms. Rebound in modern green cloth bindings, this pre...

A very smart book indeed, of this work by Charles Darwin. Rebound in modern green cloth bindings, this presents as a handsome volume. We have recen...

A very smart book indeed, of this work by Charles Darwin. Rebound in modern green cloth bindings, this presents as a handsome volume. We have recen...

A very smart set indeed of this most influential of Charles Darwin's works. Rebound in modern green cloth bindings, these present as a handsome set...

A very smart set indeed of this work by Charles Darwin. Rebound in modern green cloth bindings, these present as a handsome set. We have recently a...

Frontiers of Jazz, edited by Ralph de Toledano. No. 58 in the series. The Jazz Book Club was a publishing project of Sidgwick & Jackson publish...

The New Jazz Book; A History and Guide, by Joachim Berendt. Translated by Daniel Morgenstern. No. 55 in the series. The Jazz Book Club was a publis...

Toward Jazz, by André Hodeir. Translated bu Noel Burch. No. 54 in the series. The Jazz Book Club was a publishing project of Sidgwick & Jackson...

Dinosaurs in the Morning; 41 Pieces on Jazz by Whitney Balliett. No. 56 in the series. The Jazz Book Club was a publishing project of Sidgwick &...

Man Walking on Eggshells, by Herbert A. Simmons. No. 50 in the series. The Jazz Book Club was a publishing project of Sidgwick & Jackson publis...

Agatha Christie's autobiography was first published in 1977, following her death the previous year. However, in 2008, her Grandson discovered a box...

Charles Skilton's facsimile edition of The Jacobite Peerage, which was originally issued in 1904 and was a fully subscribed print run on issue. The...

The Burke's Peerage facsimile edition of Ruvigny's Titled Nobility of Europe, which was reproduced here in 1980 for the first time. SOLD The Titled...

A first printing of Ruvigny's directory of the Titled Nobility of Europe, which has been smartly rebound in modern red cloth bindings by Riley, Dun...

A very smart set indeed of nicely rebound editions of this respected work on American history. A very clean set which is probably unread, as many p...

Bugles for Beiderbecke, by Charles H. Wareing & George Garlick. No. 22 in the series. The Jazz Book Club was a publishing project of Sidgwick &...

World in a Jug, by Roland Gant. No. 24 in the series. The Jazz Book Club was a publishing project of Sidgwick & Jackson publishers, from London...

Second Chorus, by Humphrey Littleton. Drawings by the Author. No. 21 in the series. The Jazz Book Club was a publishing project of Sidgwick & J...

Originally published in 6 volumes, between 1900 and 1909, this volume brought all these books together into one substantial volume, photographicall...

A substantial, and high quality, volume on Nineteenth century art "With Illustrations from Pictures and Objects in the Fine Art Loan Collection of ...

A fascinating unpublished typescript journal of an 1839 voyage undertaken by Agnes Paterson from Scotland (nee Aird, 1809-1893). An introductory No...

A smart copy of this 18th century medical text by Dr Samuel Chapman. The Royal College of Physicians notes: "Samuel Chapman, M.D., was a native of ...

This work by Arthur Conan Doyle was a collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories from Strand magazine, originally intended to be Holmes' final out...

"Troopin', Troopin', Troopin' to the Sea: "O.H.M.S." An Illustrated Record of the Voyage of S.S. "Tintagel Castle", Conveying Twelve Hundred Soldie...

A substantial early 18th Century illustrated bible, attractively bound and with a scripted family provenance in the book. This is Vol. I only; Gene...