Miscellaneous Books

A collection of short stories featuring the character of Antrobus, one of the author's recurring comic and satirical creations. First published by ...

A lively and enduring fixture of British popular fiction, The Sexton Blake Library brought the adventures of the famous detective Sexton Blake to g...

A lively and enduring fixture of British popular fiction, The Sexton Blake Library brought the adventures of the famous detective Sexton Blake to g...

The Arabian Nights; Tales from the Thousand and one Nights. Illustrations by Detmold. Published by The Folio Society, London. First issued in this ...

Offered here is an original autograph postcard from the acclaimed English playwright, author, actor and screenwriter, Alan Bennett. It is offered t...

A charming surviving example of the Victorian Christmas and seasonal publishing tradition associated with Charles Dickens's celebrated ...

A distinctive three-volume grouping centred on Dennis Wheatley's Murder Off Miami, illustrating the evolution of one of the most inventive crime pu...

A uniform group of volumes from The Uniform Edition of the Works of J. M. Barrie, published primarily by Hodder and Stoughton, comprising a selecti...

The works of W. W. Jacobs (1863–1943) remain among the most distinctive contributions to late Victorian and Edwardian short fiction, combining mari...

The works of W. W. Jacobs (1863-1943) form one of the most distinctive bodies of late Victorian and Edwardian short fiction, combining maritime lif...

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

A finely produced companion volume to the celebrated Nonesuch Dickens, issued in 1937 as both a retrospective on Dickens’ illustrators and editions...

Anyone Got a Match? by Max Shulman, first published in the UK by Heinemann in 1965, is a sharp and playful social satire, set around the American c...

The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth and Marvels by Thomas Ingoldsby (the pseudonym of clergyman Richard Harris Barham) is one of the most popular colle...

Vathek: An Arabian Tale was written in French in 1782 by William Beckford (1760–1844), an English novelist, art collector, and eccentric. It is one...

The Golden Ass (also known as Metamorphoses) by Lucius Apuleius is the only complete surviving novel from ancient Rome. This picaresque tale chroni...

A Collection of Jessie M. King Ephemera; Posters, leaflets, cuttings, articles, cards etc., 1980s-2000s. A substantial and varied collection of mod...

This is a handsome set of four large-format 19th‑century bound volumes of Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, originally launched in 1832 by the enterpri...

This is a handsome 19th‑century bound volume of Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal – New Series, Volume II, comprising issues 27–52 from July to December...

A charming pocket‑sized 1828 edition of Paul and Virginia, the enduring pastoral romance by Jacques‑Henri Bernardin de Saint‑Pierre, here translate...

The Spectator began publication in 1711 and ended in 1713, and at its height sold 20,000 copies a day, according to its authors, covering all manne...

Witch’s Blood by William Blain traces the saga of a Scottish family descended from Elspet, a red‑haired woman accused of witchcraft and executed du...

A volume of literary criticism by Virginia Woolf, some articles previously published in The Times Literary Supplement, Life and Letters, The Nation...

A charming volume published by The Medici Society on the world of cats - the Introductory 'Category' features an essay form the author/compiler exp...