Books and Manuscripts

A distinguished Centenary Edition, first published in 1934 by the Nonesuch Press, Bloomsbury, London, and edited by G.D.H. Cole. This volume brings...

A distinguished Centenary Edition, first published in 1934 by the Nonesuch Press, Bloomsbury, London, and edited by G.D.H. Cole. This volume brings...

A popular picaresque classic of European literature, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane was originally written in French by Alain-René Lesage...

Irene Iddesleigh is the infamous debut novel of Mrs. Amanda McKittrick Ros (Anna Margaret Ross, 1860–1939), celebrated for its extravagantly ornate...

The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth and Marvels by Thomas Ingoldsby (the pseudonym of clergyman Richard Harris Barham) is one of the most popular colle...

Vathek: An Arabian Tale was written in French in 1782 by William Beckford (1760–1844), an English novelist, art collector, and eccentric. It is one...

Vathek: An Arabian Tale was written in French in 1782 by William Beckford (1760-1844), an English novelist, art collector, and eccentric. It is one...

The Golden Ass (also known as Metamorphoses) by Lucius Apuleius is the only complete surviving novel from ancient Rome. This picaresque tale chroni...

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 Wasp Factory, by Iain Banks; Probably one of the most impactful and influential novels by a Scottish author in the 1980s. A work of dark brilli...

A Collection of Jessie M. King Ephemera; Posters, leaflets, cuttings, articles, cards etc., 1980s-2000s. A substantial and varied collection of mod...

Tales from Inverbothrie, by Frances Ryhnd Brightman. Described as "Written as a historical novel, Tales from Inverbothrie charts the fortunes of a ...

Master Humphrey’s Clock began in 1840 as Dickens’s weekly miscellany of tales and sketches narrated by “Master Humphrey,” but soon became the seria...

This is a handsome set of four large-format 19th‑century bound volumes of Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, originally launched in 1832 by the enterpri...

This is a handsome 19th‑century bound volume of Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal – New Series, Volume II, comprising issues 27–52 from July to December...

A delightful modern epistolary novel, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2008) was the debut work of American author Mary Ann Shaff...

A charming pocket‑sized 1828 edition of Paul and Virginia, the enduring pastoral romance by Jacques‑Henri Bernardin de Saint‑Pierre, here translate...

A smart 1829 volume of The Gem; A Literary Annual, edited by the poet and humorist Thomas Hood, featuring contributions from some of the era’s most...

A popular picaresque classic of European literature, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane was originally written in French by Alain-René Lesage...

A smart, well illustrated Victorian edition of this Charles Dickens classic. Barnaby Rudge; A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty, by Charles Dickens. Wit...

A very smart first edition of The Mystery of Edwin Drood – Charles Dickens’s final and famously unfinished novel. First published in 1870, it was b...

A smart, well illustrated Victorian edition of this Charles Dickens classic. The Personal History of David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens. Illustr...

A smart, well illustrated Victorian edition of this Charles Dickens classic. Dombey and Son, by Charles Dickens. Illustrated by F. Barnard. Publish...

The Spectator began publication in 1711 and ended in 1713, and at its height sold 20,000 copies a day, according to its authors, covering all manne...

A beautiful Folio Society edition of this standalone crime mystery - a fine, as new copy, still sealed, with slipcase. The Franchise Affair by Jose...

A beautiful Folio Society edition of this standalone crime mystery - a fine, as new copy, still sealed, with slipcase. Considered one of Josephine ...

Glasgow Boys by Margaret McDonald is a contemporary coming-of-age novel set in modern Scotland, following the intertwined lives of Banjo an...

The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan is a deeply allegorical tale of a man’s spiritual journey, written in plain, powerful prose that has resonate...

Samuel Rutherford Crockett (1860–1914), known in print as S.R. Crockett, was a Scottish novelist celebrated for his tales of adventure and historic...

Samuel Rutherford Crockett (1860–1914), known in print as S.R. Crockett, was a Scottish novelist celebrated for his tales of adventure and historic...

Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood is a modern retelling of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, part of the Hogarth Shakespeare Project. Set in a performing arts p...

For the Flag (original French title: Face au drapeau, 1896) is one of Verne's later novels and part of his Extraordinary Voyages series. The story ...

Witch’s Blood by William Blain traces the saga of a Scottish family descended from Elspet, a red‑haired woman accused of witchcraft and executed du...

Sannikov Land is a Soviet-era science fiction and adventure novel by Vladimir Obruchev, translated into English by David Skvirsky and published by ...

A very smart set indeed of this limited edition version of Don Quixote. The History of The Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant Don Quixote of The Manc...

A fine, as new, UK first edition set, of these thriller novels, which are all signed by both Bill Clinton and James Patterson. All are in pristine,...