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...