Books and Manuscripts

A two-volume Everyman's Library edition of the first volume of Karl Marx's Capital - One of the most influential works of economic and political th...

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 ...

Three desirable early printings of the first 3 Harry Potter volumes. This publishing phenomenon was first released to the world in 1997....

This sold-out, deluxe collector's edition, was produced and sold by Amazon on behalf of The Children's High Level Group, the former name...

Hanif Kureishi's debut novel follows Karim Amir, a teenager of mixed English and Indian parentage, as he negotiates family life, sexuali...

Dansk-Norsk Och Svensk; Ordbok af A.F. Dalin. Andra Upplagan, Granskad och Redigerad af J.E. Spilhammar. Danish-Norwegian and Swedish Di...

Villages, by John Updike. Published by Hamish Hamilton (Penguin Books), London. 2004 first UK edition, first impression. A near fine har...

The Information, by Martin Amis.  This copy comes from the personal library of the distinguished theatre director, writer and biographer...

Three first editions by Kingsley Amis:  Stanley and the Women; Hutchinson Ltd, 1984. The Old Devils; Hutchinson Ltd, 1986. The Biographe...

An early nineteenth-century religious biography of Susan Huntington (1791–1823), an American Christian writer and diarist associated wit...

An interesting association copy of Peter Shaffer’s celebrated play, dramatising the rivalry between Mozart and the court composer Antoni...

An interesting association copy of Hugh Wheeler’s comedy about a disgraced former professor and the assorted friends who depend upon him...

An interesting association copy of Martin B. Duberman’s documentary play, drawing on letters, speeches and historical records to trace t...

An interesting association copy of John Osborne’s controversial play, based on the life of Alfred Redl, an Austro-Hungarian army officer...

 A substantial two-volume collection of short stories by William Trevor, one of Ireland’s most acclaimed writers and a master of the form. Set chie...

An eighteenth-century sixth edition of the opening volume of Laurence Sterne’s celebrated comic novel, whose digressions, eccentric characters and ...

An attractive annual volume of The Youth's Instructor and Guardian for 1847, a Wesleyan Methodist periodical combining religious and moral instruct...

An uncommon first edition of ten public lectures delivered in Edinburgh during the winter of 1880-81, aimed at making medical knowledge and practic...

An uncommon first edition of this collection of essays and descriptive sketches by John M'Diarmid (1790-1852), Scottish journalist, author and edit...

A biographical account of Major-General Andrew Gilbert Wauchope (1846–1899), the distinguished Scottish soldier who served in numerous British mili...

Songs of Scotland; a hundred of the Best, Chosen and Edited with Musical Accompaniment and Notes biographical and Historical by Wilma Paterson desi...

Guts Minced with Oatmeal: Ten Late Poems, by Alasdair Gray. Published by FRAS Publications, Dunning, Scotland, 2018. First edition, first impressio...

Sixteen Occasional Poems, 1990-2000, by Alasdair Gray. Published by Morag McAlpine (Alasdair's wife), Glasgow, 2000. First edition, first impressio...

An attractive and uncommon sammelband of four works of Scottish humour, dialect stories and verse by James Smith, published by John Menzies & C...

An uncommon first edition of this study of Sir Thomas Craig of Riccarton (c.1538-1608), the distinguished Scottish lawyer and jurist, best remember...

An uncommon work of nineteenth-century Scottish fiction, Jessie Cameron; A Highland Story is a poignant tale of love, loyalty and social divisions,...

A late eighteenth or early nineteenth-century copy of William Buchan's household medical manual, combining advice on the prevention of illness thro...

An unusual and scarce collection of ten nineteenth-century Scottish pamphlets and essays, published in Edinburgh by Edmonston and Douglas between 1...

A scarce collection of Scottish humour, bringing together comic anecdotes, witty sayings and assorted drollery, both ancient and modern. Published ...

Pitcairn: The Island, the People, and the Pastor; to Which is Added an Account of the Original Settlement and Present Condition of Norfolk Island, ...

An uncommon and attractively illustrated nineteenth-century account of the exploration, conquest and early history of the Americas, by the British ...

First published in 1810, The Scottish Chiefs is a celebrated historical romance by the English novelist Jane Porter (1776–1850), recounting the exp...

An uncommon illustrated survey of English social life, tracing changing customs and recreations from Saxon times to the eighteenth century. Drawing...

Companion to Alfred Ronald's Fly Fisher's Entomology. The Extracts are printed from the Sixth Edition of the Work, by permission of Messrs. Longman...

Two scarce Victorian travel accounts by David Kennedy, Junior, describing the Kennedy family's professional tours performing Scottish songs in Indi...

A substantial study of the art of Jack B. Yeats, one of Ireland's leading twentieth-century painters. T.G. Rosenthal examines Yeats's distinctive a...

A particularly attractive early edition of one of Richard Jefferies' best-known works on English country life and natural history. Drawing extensiv...

The Decameron is a collection of 14th Century short stories. The tales are said to be told by a group of seven young women and three young men, tak...

An uncommon early history of British horse-racing, tracing the development of the sport and the establishment of its principal race meetings, toget...

An entertaining and wide-ranging collection of nineteenth-century sporting anecdotes by the Scottish journalist and author James Glass Bertram (182...

A handsome uniformly bound group of four novels by Charles Kingsley (1819-1875), one of the prominent novelists, clergymen and social commentators ...

First edition of Sir Walter Scott's historical novel The Fortunes of Nigel, published anonymously in 1822 as the work of "The Author of Waverley". ...

A landmark study of William Caxton (c.1422-c.1491), the merchant, translator and printer who introduced the printing press to England and produced ...

An extensive contemporary account of the extraordinary political and military events of 1815, written and published immediately following Napoleon'...

Robert Bloomfield's The Farmer's Boy was one of the remarkable literary successes of the early nineteenth century. First published in 1800, the poe...

Frederic Prokosch's The Asiatics was his first novel and the work which established his literary reputation, presenting the episodic journey of a...

Frederic Prokosch's The Seven Who Fled is an atmospheric novel of adventure and psychological tension, following seven Europeans whose journeys c...

Rupert T. Gould's The Case for the Sea-Serpent is a serious and remarkably detailed investigation into one of the most enduring mysteries of mari...