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...