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Whatever the occasion, if you are looking for a truly unique gift to give to somebody dear to you, we have a terrific selection of gift ideas to meet all price points...
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The Sunlight Pilgrims, Jenni Fagan, Signed, Doodled and Dated First Edition, 2016

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The Sunlight Pilgrims, by Jenni Fagan; Signed, Doodled and Dated by the author to the title page. Dated 19th August, 2016. Published by William Hei...

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The Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern, Signed and numbered Goldsboro limited, First edition, 2019

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The Starless Sea, by Erin Morgenstern. Published by Harvill Secker in Association with Goldsboro Books, London. Signed and Numbered Limited edition...

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Godsgrave, Jay Kristoff, Signed first edition with sprayed edges, 2017

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Godsgrave, by Jay Kristoff. The second book in the Nevernight Chronicle series. Signed by the author to the title page. SOLD Published by Harper Vo...

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Poems from the Works of Charles Cotton. Newly Decorated by Claude Lovat Fraser, 1922

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Poems from the Works of Charles Cotton. Newly Decorated by Claude Lovat Fraser. Featuring 14 poems with 75 line illustrations. Published by The Poe...

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Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak, 1959

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Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. Translated from the Russian by Max Heyward and Manya Harari. With a particularly striking dustjacket design. SO...

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Couples, John Updike, 1968

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Couples, by John Updike. With attractive William Blake image in cover design. Published by The Book Society, London, 1968 - exclusive members editi...

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Original Typed Letter Signed by Rudyard Kipling, from Bateman's, Burwash, 1903

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Original typed letter signed by Rudyard Kipling, from Bateman's, Burwash, 1903. SOLD A rather splendid letter signed by Rudyard Kipling and typed o...

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The Works of John Milton in Verse and Prose, Rev. John Mitford, 1863. 8 Volumes complete.

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The Works of John Milton in Verse and Prose. Printed from the Original Editions with a Life of the Author by the Rev. John Mitford. In Eight Volume...

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The Works of William Shakspere; Imperial edition. Edited by Charles Knight, With Illustrations on Steel, 4 Volumes, Virtue, c. 1880

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The Works of William Shakspere; Imperial edition. Edited by Charles Knight, With Illustrations on Steel, 4 Volumes. RESERVED Published by Virtue &a...

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English Poetry; An Illustrated Catalogue of First and Early Editions Exhibited in 1947 at 7 AldemarleStreet, London, John Hayward, 1950 numbered, limited edition

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English Poetry; An Illustrated Catalogue of First and Early Editions Exhibited in 1947 at 7 AldemarleStreet, London. Compiled and Revised by John H...

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The Bee and Other Essays by Oliver Goldsmith, Together with the Life of Nash, 1914

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The Bee and Other Essays by Oliver Goldsmith, Together with the Life of Nash. Published by Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press. Printed in Ox...

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A Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of Italian Art, Royal Academy, Burlington House, 1930, 2 Vols

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A Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of Italian Art, held in the Galleries of the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, January-March 193...

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The Handbook for Jamaica for 1925, Frank Cundall

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The Handbook for Jamaica for 1925; Comprising Historical, Statistical and General Information Concerning the Island, Compiled from Official and Oth...

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The Human Factor, Graham Greene, Bodley Head, 1978

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The Human Factor, by Graham Greene. Published by The Bodley Head, London, Sydney, Toronto. Printed in Great Britain. First edition, 1978. A very go...

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A General Description of the Shire of Renfrew; A Genealogical History of the Royal House of Stewart, George Crawfurd, George Robertson, 1818

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A General Description of the Shire of Renfrew, Including an Account of the Noble and Ancient Families, who, from the Earliest Times, have had Prope...

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Classic Myth & Legend; A.R. Hope Moncrieff, Gresham Publishing, 1912

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Myths and Legends series: SOLD Classic Myth & Legend, by A.R. Hope Moncrieff. With Illustrations in Colour & Monochrome from famous Paintin...

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Celtic Myth & Legend; Poetry & Romance, Charles Squire, Gresham Publishing, 1912

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Myths and Legends series: SOLD Celtic Myth & Legend; Poetry & Romance, by Charles Squire. With Illustrations in Colour & Monochrome aft...

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Greeks and Persians, Elizabeth H.C. Pagan, Charles H. Mackie, numbered limited edition

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Greeks and Persians; Being the Record of their Fights and follies done into Doggerel to Goad Reluctant Memory by Elizabeth H.C. Pagan, Aided by Div...

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Stirling Castle and Other Poems, Maimie A. Richardson, 1934

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Stirling Castle and Other Poems, by Maimie A. Richardson. With a frontispiece and four drawings by Sir D.Y. Cameron, R.A. Published by Alexander Ma...

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Cyder. A Poem in Two Books, John Philips, 1708

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Cyder. A Poem in Two Books, by John Philips (John Phillips). Author uncredited, as issued. Philips (1676-1709) was an English Poet, and Cyder his b...

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The Whole Genuine Works of Virgil, William Henry Melmoth, Subscriber's Copy, c. 1788

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The Whole Genuine Works of Virgil, The Famous Roman Poet: Including New and Complete Editions of The Aeneid, Georgics, and Pastorals, Bucolics, or ...

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A History of Liverpool, Ramsay Muir, 1907

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A History of Liverpool, with Maps and Illustrations, by Ramsay Muir. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), Briti...

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Greece and the Aegean Islands, Philip Sanford Marden, 1907

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Greece and the Aegean Islands, by Philip Sanford Marden. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian...

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The Shelley Papers; Memoir of Percy Bysshe Shelley, T. Medwin, 1833

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The Shelley Papers; Memoir of Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Original poems and Papers by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Now First Collected. By T. Medwin, Esq. ...

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Sir Toady Crusoe, S.R. Crockett, 1905. With scarce dustjacket.

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Sir Toady Crusoe, by S.R. Crockett. illustrated by Gordon Browne. Published by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. Ltd., London. 1905 first edition. A ...

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The Pagan Man Wonne to Godde and To Theyr Companie By the Ayde of The Aungels and Sayntes, Rev. Arthur Tooth, Private Printing, c. 1920

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The Pagan Man Wonne to Godde and To Theyr Companie By the Ayde of The Aungels and Sayntes, Wrytten by Rev. Arthur Tooth M.A. Illustrated by T. Derr...

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The Tryals of Thomas Walcot, William Hone, William Lord Russell, John Rous & William Blagg, for High-Treason, for Conspiring the Death of the King, and Raising a Rebellion in this Kingdom, 1683

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The Tryals of Thomas Walcot, William Hone, William Lord Russell, John Rous & William Blagg, for High-Treason, for Conspiring the Death of the K...

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The Bolshevik, Wm. Le Pretre, Henry Walker, London, first edition, 1931

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The Bolshevik, by Wm. Le Pretre (Wiiliam Le Pretre). The scarce first edition of William Le Pretre's dystopian novel, in which a Bolshevik uprising...

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Salman Rushdie; Signed first edition, Imaginary Homelands, 1991

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Imaginary Homelands; Essays and Criticism 1981-1991, by Salman Rushdie. SOLD Published by Granta Books, London. 1991 first edition, first impressio...

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The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien, 1st edition, 1977

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The Silmarillion, by J.R.R. Tolkien. Edited by Christopher Tolkien. SOLD Published by George Allen & Unwin, London, 1977. First UK export editi...

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A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen, Illustrated by Numerous Authentic Portraits on Steel, Rev. Thomas Thomson, 1872

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A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen. Originally Edited by Robert Chambers. New edition, Revised Throughout and Continued by the Rev. Thom...

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Underwood & Underwood Stereoscope Viewer with 18 cards, c. 1889-1906

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Underwood & Underwood Stereoscope Viewer with 18 cards, c. 1905. The viewer is made my Underwood & underwood in New York, and carries a pat...

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Charles Dickens; The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, Chapman and Hall. First book edition, 1844.

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The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, by Charles Dickens. Illustrations by Phiz. Published by Chapman and Hall, London, 1844. First book ed...

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A Companion to the Temple; Or, A Help to Devotion in the Daily Use of Common Prayer, Part II containing The Litany, Thomas Comber, London, 1676

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A Companion to the Temple; Or, A Help to Devotion in the Daily Use of Common Prayer: In Two Parts. Part II, containing The Litany, with the Occasio...

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The New Naturalist; The Sea Shore, C.M. Yonge, 1971

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The New Naturalist; The Sea Shore, by C.M. Yonge. With 61 Colour Photographs by D.P. Wilson and Others, 62 Black and White Photographs, and 88 Text...

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The History of The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, Cervantes, 1879. Translated by P.A. Motteux.

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The History of The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Translated from the Spanish by P.A. Motteux. In 4...

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A Vision of Greece, Vera Willoughby, 1925, Limited Edition

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A Vision of Greece; Described and Painted by Vera Willoughby. SOLD In poetic and theatrical prose Vera Willoughby (1870-1939), winds her way throug...

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Aquarelles de Grece, F. Perilla, Editions Perilla Athenes, 1943

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Aquarelles de Grece (Watercolours of Greece), by F. Perilla. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British histo...

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The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare, edited by Thomas Keightley, 1865

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The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare, edited by Thomas Keightley. SOLD Published by Bell and Daldy, London, 1865. An uncommon edition. Printe...

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Fables Choisies Mises en Vers Par Monsieur De La Fontaine, 1698; 2 Volume Set

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Fables Choisies Mises en Vers Par Monsieur De La Fontaine. Bound in 2 Volumes; the second also containing Nouvelles Fables Choisies Mises en Vers, ...

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Select Fables of Aesop and Other Fabulists, R. Dodsley, c. 1800.

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Select Fables of Aesop and Other Fabulists, In Three Books, by R. Dodsley (Robert Dodsley). A New Edition. The book is complete, and after the prel...

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Milton's Paradise Lost, John Milton, 1802, 2 Volume Set

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Milton's Paradise Lost; A New Edition, Adorned with Plates. By John Milton, 2 Volume Set, Complete. SOLD Published by F.J. Du Roveray; Printed by T...

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Fables, By the Late Mr. Gay, John Gay, 1733

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Fables, By the Late Mr. Gay, by John Gay. Printed for J. Tonson and J. Watts, London, 1733. The Fourth Edition. A handsome copy of this beautiful b...

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The Oxford Thackeray With Illustrations; by William Makepeace Thackeray, 10 Volumes, c. 1908

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The Oxford Thackeray With Illustrations; by William Makepeace Thackeray. Edited, with an Introduction, by George Saintsbury. This is a partial set ...

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The Plays of Bernard Shaw, Constable & Company, Boxed Set, 1927

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The Plays of Bernard Shaw, Boxed Set, 1927. 12 Volumes, boxed presentation set. SOLD Published by Constable & Company Limited, London, 1927. Re...

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Byron; The Flawed Angel, Phyllis Grosskurth, Signed, 1997

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Byron; The Flawed Angel, by Phyllis Grosskurth. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, academi...

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The Works of Lord Byron including his Suppressed Poems, Galignani, Paris 1827

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The Works of Lord Byron including his Suppressed Poems. Complete in One Volume.  Published by A. and W. Galignani, Paris, 1827. This particular boo...

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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J.M. Barrie. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Hodder & Stoughton, 1912

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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens from The Little White Bird by J.M. Barrie. A New Edition. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.  SOLD Published by Hodder ...

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