Books and Manuscripts

William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair is one of the great novels of nineteenth century English literature, offering a brilliant satire ...

A complete set of the 12 Swallows and Amazons adventures by Arthur Ransome. Offered here are 6 of these in "The Swallows and Amazons Adventu...

An attractive box set of classic Winnie-the-Pooh stories by A.A. Milne, with decorations by Ernest H. Shephard. This is a special facsimile ...

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 1908 in a strictly limited edition of 240 numbered copies, The Kirkcaldy Burgh Records by Lachlan MacBean is a substanti...

First published in 1925, The Medieval Village by G. G. Coulton is a classic and accessible study of everyday rural life in medieval England...

The Man Born to Be King is Dorothy L. Sayers' celebrated cycle of twelve radio plays dramatizing the life of Christ, originally broadcast by the BB...

A smart first edition copy of Nicolas Cheetham's Mediaeval Greece, published by Yale University Press, New Haven and London. 1981 first edition. Pr...

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...

Pleasure in Ruins by Rose Macaulay, first published in 1953, is a highly personal work of nonfiction that blends travel writing, cultural history, ...

A signed and numbered edition of this title from the hugely popular children's fantasy series, Mortal Engines.  SOLD Philip Reeve’s Mortal Engines...

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 fine, as new copy in unread condition, of Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun, signed by the author to the half title. Klara and the Sun i...

A charming and well-illustrated trio of mid-twentieth-century books on heraldry, custom, and monarchy by Iain Moncreiffe of Easter Moncreif...

The Political Economy of War by Arthur Cecil Pigou is an important early twentieth-century analysis of the economic consequences of modern ...

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

An album of fine early colour photographic views of the type assembled for affluent European travellers in the late nineteenth and early tw...

A coherent and historically interesting group of 18 original Imperial Russian photographic portraits, dating from the late nineteenth to ea...

Observations on a Tour of the Highlands and Part of the Western Isles of Scotland by Thomas Garnett is one of the most substantial illustra...

Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson is an early and influential example of the epistolary novel, written in the form of letter...

A particularly fine and complete example of Prospects and Observations on a Tour in England and Scotland, first published in 1791, and one ...

Beatrice Webb is a clear, engaging biography of one of the most important figures in British social reform, written by Margaret Cole. Cole traces W...

A smart copy of the "fourth book in The Hitchhiker's Trilogy". This installment takes the series in a slightly different, more relaxed direction. A...

A smart copy of the second printing of Worzel Gummidge, the much loved living scarecrow, familiar to many in the UK from the later 1970s BBC televi...

The Blaeu Atlas of Scotland (2006) is a finely produced modern edition of one of the most important cartographic works ever devoted to Scotland, or...

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...

Far From Home (1941) is a wartime novel by R. H. Newman, published in the early years of the Second World War and shaped by the period’s concerns w...

With Malice Toward None (1928) is Honoré Willsie Morrow-s best-known novel and a sensitive fictionalised portrait of Abraham Lincoln, taking its ti...

A signed and remarqued edition of this title from the hugely popular children's fantasy series, Mortal Engines. There is a beautiful fine pen illus...

A signed and remarqued edition of this title from the hugely popular children's fantasy series, Mortal Engines. There is a beautiful fine pen illus...

A signed and remarqued edition of this title from the hugely popular children's fantasy series, Mortal Engines. There is a beautiful fine pen illus...

A deluxe limited folio facsimile of Antoine-Jean-Baptiste Thomas's celebrated Un an à Rome et dans ses environs, issued in Rome in 1972 by Gabriele...

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

Back-Trailers from the Middle Border is the final volume in Hamlin Garland’s celebrated Middle Border series, completing his semi-autobiographical ...