Recommended Books
The Children of Men. 1993.
£55.00P.D. JAMES; SIGNED US EDITION – JAMES, P.D. (1920-2014). The Children of Men. 8vo. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.
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The Night Manager. 1994.
£50.00SIGNED – LE CARRÉ, John (1931-2020). The Night Manager. 8vo. New York: Ballantine Books, 1994.
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Moses Brown Captain U.S.N. 1904.
£25.00MACLAY, Edgar Stanton. Moses Brown Captain U.S.N. Illustrations and maps as called for. PROVENANCE: Previous owner’s inscriptions to front endpaper. 8vo. New York: The Baker and Taylor Company, 1904.
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Anita Loos. Kiss Hollywood Good-By. 1974.
£50.00LOOS, Anita (1889-1981). Kiss Hollywood Good-By. 8vo. New York: The Viking Press, 1974. SIGNED by Loos on the half title.
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Trafalgar Refought. [c.1905-1907].
£30.00CLOWES, Sir. W. Laird; Alan H. Burgoyne. Trafalgar Refought. Frontispiece, 19 plates, 5 folding plans. PROVENANCE: J. W. S. Ashworth (signature to front endpaper). 8vo. London, Edinburgh, Dublin and New York, Thomas Nelson and Sons, [no date c.1905-1907].
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The Dream: Or The True History of Deacon Giles’s Distillery… [c. 1843-48]
£108.00RARE AMERICAN ANTI-ALCOHOL RELATED PAMPHLET. [c.1840’s]. [CHEEVER, George Barrell, (1807-90)]. The Dream: Or The True History of Deacon Giles’s Distillery, and Deacon Jones’s Brewery. Reported for the Benefit of Posterity. “It was a Dream, yet not all a dream”. Folding frontispiece illustration, numerous woodcut engravings within the text. Interior: light soiling, light soiling, spotting. Binding: Original yellow wrappers. (Binding frail, text block hanging by a thread in places, wrappers detached, some chipping and tearing with loss, soiling). 32pp. 8vo. New York and Boston: Printed For the Publisher’s. [no date c. 1843-48].
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Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors. 1900.
£67.50LIMITED EDITION OF 947 COPIES OF WHICH THIS COPY IS NUMBER 244. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ELBERT HUBBARD AND ALSO ILLUMINATOR IDA METCALF. HUBBARD, Elbert.(1856-1915). Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors. 6 monochrome frontispiece illustrations depicted the various authors: Thomas Macaulay, Lord Byron, Joseph Addison, Robert Southey, Samuel T. Coleridge, Benjamin Disraeli. Illuminated title page, illuminated floral borders to the first page of each chapter. Illuminated letters. Green suede soft cover (spine faded, covers fading). 8vo. New York: Roycrofters, 1900.
£75.00
