Fiction

Historical and philosophical novel by Walter Pater, first published in 1885, and set in 161–177 AD, in the Rome of the Antonines. Marius the Epicur...

The Penny Pictorial Magazine, 3 bound volumes of issues, 1899-1900. The Penny Pictorial Magazine was sold weekly and its one penny price tag was de...

The Bijou Shakespeare; The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Illustrated. In Six Volumes. With Biographical Introduction and an Essay on Shake...

Lord Dunsany (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, 1878-1957), was a pioneer of fantasy literature. He was an Anglo-Irish writ...

Lord Dunsany (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, 1878-1957), was a pioneer of fantasy literature. He was an Anglo-Irish writ...

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccacci (Il Boccaccio), now first completely done into English. The Stories which it has hitherto been the custom to cen...

Manners in Three Parts. Translated from the French:  SOLD Part I. Of Piety: including the love of God, and the Gratitude and Homage which we owe hi...

The Collarbound, Tales of the Edge, Volume 1, by Rebecca Zahabi. Published by Gollancz in Association with Goldsboro Books, London. Signed and Numb...

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

Maalesh; A Theatrical Tour in the Middle East, by Jean Cocteau. Translated by Mary C. Hoeck. Signed by the Publisher. Published by Peter Owen Limit...

The Death of Abel, by Solomon Gessner. Translated from the German, with Original Notes, by Frederic Shoberl. To which is added,  Death, A Vision, o...

Die Verlorene Handschrift. Roman in Funf Buchern von Gustav Freytag. 2 volume set complete. (The Lost Manuscript. Novel in five books by Gustav Fre...

Friend Monkey, by P.L. Travers (author of Mary Poppins). The story of a monkey who arrives in England from the jungle, and the people he then befri...

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

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

The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period. Edited by Richard Maxwell and Katie Trumpener, (both Yale University). Provenance; from ...

Suspense, by Joseph Conrad. With an Introduction by Richard Curle. Conrad's unfinished novel, published posthumously. Published by J.M. Dent & ...

Jungle-Bogen by Rudyard Kipling. Authorized translation by A. Halling. Danish edition of The Jungle Book. Published by Forlagt AF V. Pio's Boghande...

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...

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

The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, by Bernard Shaw. SOLD At the time of listing, we have a number of interesting works by Geor...

The Political Madhouse in America and Nearer Home; A Lecture, by Bernard Shaw. At the time of listing, we have a number of interesting works by Geo...

The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, by Bernard Shaw. At the time of listing, we have a number of interesting works by George Be...

Before Nature Dies, by Jean Dorst. Translated by Constance D. Sherman, Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York. A book w...

The City Beyond the River, by Hermann Kasack. A Translation of the German novel 'Die Stadt hinter dem Strom' made by Peter de Manelssohn.  SOLD Pub...

The Compleat Imbiber 8; An Entertainment - Edited, by Cyril Ray & designed by Charles Hasler. A 'Compendium of entertainment and information to...

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...

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

Chrestomathie française ou choix de morceaux tirés des meilleurs écrivains français. Ouvrage destiné à servir d'application méthodique et progressi...

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

The Wicked Lord Byron, Richard Deakin, 2018, Signed. The book is a novel - a fictional version of Byron's life. Provenance; from the library of the...

San Francisco Review Annual, No. 1, 1963 (Old Series No. 14). Editors; June Oppen Degnan, R.H. Miller and George Hitchcock.  This issue featured wo...

Stories for Tomorrow; An Anthology of Modern Science Fiction. Selections and Prefaces by William Sloane. An excellent collection of science fiction...

Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather. This novel by her is highly acclaimed and was included on the Modern Library 100 Best Novels of th...

A Thousand and One Follies and His Most Unlooked-For Lordship. Translated from the French of Jacques Cazotte by Eric Sutton. With an introduction b...

A Collection of 4 Issues of Le Livre Moderne Illustre, from 1929-1931. Set comprises: No. 28: Le Bal du Compte d'Orgel, Roman, by Raymond Radiguet,...

Fragments des Oeuvres d'Alexandre Dumas, Choisis a l'Usage de la Jeunesse, par Miss Mary Russell Mitford. Published by Pierre Rolandi, Libraire, Lo...

The Black Tulip, by Alexander Dumas. With an attractive vintage dustjacket. Published by Dean & Son, London. Undated but c. 1960s. Part of Dean...

A Labrador Doctor; The autobiography of Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell. Published by Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1954. A very good blue cloth hard...

L'Ingenieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de La Manche, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Translated and annoted by Louis Viardot and Vignettes by Tony Joha...

Journey Through the Wilderness, by Moris Farhi. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, academi...

Aeschylus; Eumenides. Edited with an Introduction, Translation and Commentary by Anthony J. Podlecki. Provenance; from the library of the late Will...

Euripides; Troades. Edited with Introduction and Commentary by David Kovacs. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021...

Aris & Phillips Classical Texts: Euripides; Selected Fragmentary Plays. General Editor, Professor Christopher Collard. SOLD Volume I: with Intr...

The Last Man, by Mary Shelley. Edited with an Introduction by Hugh J Luke Jr. SOLD Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 ...

Mary Wollstonecraft; Mary, A Fiction and The Wrongs of a Woman. Edited with an Introduction by Gary Kelly. SOLD Provenance; from the library of the...

Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories, with Five Illustrations by William Blake. With an Introduction by E.V. Lucas. SOLD Provenance; from the lib...

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus (The 1818 Text) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Edited, with Variant Readings, An Introduction and Notes, by ...