Gift Ideas

Cambridge Physical Series; Radio-Activity, by Ernest Rutherford. A classic work by the New Zealand Physicist, Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), consid...

Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to 'The Edinburgh Review' by Lord Macaulay. Authorised Edition. Published by Longmans, Green, and Co., L...

The Life and Works of Robert Burns. Edited by Robert Chambers. Library Edition. In Four Volumes. Offered here are Volumes one and two only, bound a...

Hunting & Stalking The Deer; The Pursuit of Red, Fallow and Roe Deer in England and Scotland. By Lionel Edwards and Harold Frank Wallace. With ...

The Megalithic European; The 21st century Traveller in Prehistoric Europe, by Julian Cope. A very personal journey across Europe by Julian Cope, fo...

The Modern Antiquarian; A Pre-Millennial Odyssey Through Megalithic Britain, including a Gazetteer to over 300 prehistoric Sites, by Julian Cope. S...

A Standard Dictionary of the English Language, upon original plans; designed to give, in complete and accurate statement, in the light of the most ...

The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore. Reprinted from the Early Editions, With Explanatory Notes, &c. By Thomas Moore. The "Albion" Edition.  Thom...

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...

Little Dorrit & A Child's History of England. Two books bound as one. By Charles Dickens. SOLD Little Dorritt was originally released in serial...

Two volumes bound as one; The Rules and Exercises of Holy Living; In Which are Described The Means and Instruments of Obtaining Every Vertue, and t...

The Children of Dickens. By Samuel McChord Crothers. Illustrated by Jessie Wilcox Smith. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1931. Repr...

Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling. Illustrated by the Author. SOLD Kipling's classic stories of animal tales such as 'How the Camel got his Hump'...

The Table-Talk and Bon-Mots of Samuel Foote. (With an Introductory Memoir.) Edited by the Late William Cooke. Illustrated. Samuel Foote was born in...

Coridon's Song And Other Verses from Various Sources. With Illustrations by Hugh Thomson and an Introduction by Austin Dobson. A beautifully illust...

A Translation of the Inferno of Dante Alighieri, in English Verse, with Historical Notes, and the Life of Dante. To Which is Added, A Specimen of a...

Miniature Painters British and Foreign, With Some Account of Those Who Practised in America in the Eighteenth Century. Illustrated by Numerous Exam...

A Treatise on the Epidemic Puerperal Fever as it Prevailed in Edinburgh in 1821-22, To Which is Added an Appendix, containing the Essay of the Late...

Ian Hay was the pen name of John Hay Beith (1876-1922), British schoolmaster, soldier, novelist, playwright and historian. His humorous account of ...

A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, A New Edition by Mr. Yorick & Voyage Sentimental en France et en Italie, par M. Yorick. Written...

Camden's Britannia 1695; A Facsimile of the 1695 Edition Published by Edmund Gibson. With an introduction by Professor Stuart Piggott, and a Biblio...

Sue Townsend; First editions of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4 & The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, 1982 & 1984. Both Illustrat...

In Praise of Tweed, by W.S. Crockett, Minister of Tweedsmuir. An anthology of poetic writings connected with the River Tweed, with biographical int...

The Testament of Beauty; A Poem in Four Books, by Robert Bridges, Poet Laureate. The work that secured Bridges great popularity, only shortly befor...

History of the Hammermen of Glasgow; A Study typical of Scottish Craft Life and Organisation. By Harry Lumsden, LL.B., Clerk of the Trades House of...

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...

This scarce 1694 first edition, printed by Nath. Crouch of London, is a significant early Quaker publication documenting the unity of belief among ...

Jungle John; A Book of the Big-Game Jungles, by John Budden. Illustrated by Major-General H.J.P. Browne. A vintage jungle adventure yarn featuring ...

A History Maker, by Alasdair Gray. A wonderful work by Alasdair Gray, probably the most important contributor to Scottish art and literature in mod...

Poor Things; Episodes From the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officer. By Alasdair Gray, although his own credit r...

The Works of Charles Dickens; Complete Edition in Twenty Volumes. With Illustrations by Cruickshank, 'Phiz,' &c. Chapman & Hall / Oxford Un...

The Justice of Kings, by Richard Swan. Published by Orbit in Association with Goldsboro Books, London. Signed and Numbered Limited edition of 2,000...

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

The Astronomy of Love, by Jon Stallworthy. Contains 40 poems. Published by Oxford University Press, London, 1961. First edition. A very good mottle...

The Sunlight Pilgrims, by Jenni Fagan; Signed, Doodled and Dated by the author to the title page. Dated 19th August, 2016. Published by William Hei...

The Starless Sea, by Erin Morgenstern. Published by Harvill Secker in Association with Goldsboro Books, London. Signed and Numbered Limited edition...

Godsgrave, by Jay Kristoff. The second book in the Nevernight Chronicle series. Signed by the author to the title page. SOLD Published by Harper Vo...

Poems from the Works of Charles Cotton. Newly Decorated by Claude Lovat Fraser. Featuring 14 poems with 75 line illustrations. Published by The Poe...

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

Couples, by John Updike. With attractive William Blake image in cover design. Published by The Book Society, London, 1968 - exclusive members editi...

Original typed letter signed by Rudyard Kipling, from Bateman's, Burwash, 1903. SOLD A rather splendid letter signed by Rudyard Kipling and typed o...

The Works of John Milton in Verse and Prose. Printed from the Original Editions with a Life of the Author by the Rev. John Mitford. In Eight Volume...

The Works of William Shakspere; Imperial edition. Edited by Charles Knight, With Illustrations on Steel, 4 Volumes. RESERVED Published by Virtue &a...

English Poetry; An Illustrated Catalogue of First and Early Editions Exhibited in 1947 at 7 Aldemarle Street, London. Compiled and Revised by John ...

A Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of Italian Art, held in the Galleries of the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, January-March 193...

The Human Factor, by Graham Greene. Published by The Bodley Head, London, Sydney, Toronto. Printed in Great Britain. First edition, 1978. A very go...

A General Description of the Shire of Renfrew, Including an Account of the Noble and Ancient Families, who, from the Earliest Times, have had Prope...