Printed Books, Maps, Playing Cards & Games, English Literature, Private Press & Illustrated Books

Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice: a novel, 3 volumes, 2nd edition, London: T. Egerton, 1813, half-titles, first 4 leaves of volume 3 torn to upp...

Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto the Fourth, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1818, first issue, with 'impress...

Shelley (Percy Bysshe). Queen Mab, 1st published edition, 2nd issue, London: R. Carlile, 1822, lower blank margin of cancel title excised, verso o...

Austen (Jane). Sense and Sensibility: A Novel, 1st illustrated edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1833, half-title, engraved frontispiece and vigne...

Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge, "Lewis Carroll"). Phantasmagoria and Other Poems, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: Macmillan and Co., 1869, 1st issue wi...

Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice. A Novel, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1870, 358, [2] pp., half-title, marbled endpapers with armorial bookplat...

Hardy (Thomas). The Hand of Ethelberta, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Smith, Elder, 1876, half-title to vol. 1 only, eleven wood-engraved plates...

Hardy (Thomas). The Woodlanders, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Macmillan, 1887, half-titles, publisher's advertisements to rear of volume 1, Ref...

Tolstoy (Leo). Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth, 1st edition in English, London: Vizetelly & Co, 1888, portrait frontispiece, bookplate of William Ro...

Doyle (Arthur Conan). The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1st edition in book form, London: George Newnes, 1892, 1st issue with misspelling 'Violen...

Doyle (Arthur Conan). The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, 1st edition, London: George Newnes, 1894, illustrations by Sidney Paget, small neat contempo...

Wilde (Oscar). The Picture of Dorian Gray, 2nd edition, London, New York & Melbourne: Ward Lock & Bowden Ltd, [1895], half title, 8 pp. advertisem...

Wells (H.G). The Island of Doctor Moreau, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: William Heinemann, 1896, frontispiece, publisher's advertisements to rea...

Hope (Anthony). Rupert of Hentzau, 1st edition, presentation copy, Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith, [1898], inscribed by the author to half-title 'To A....

Yeats (W.B.) Poems, 2nd UK edition, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899, portrait frontispiece, advertisements at rear, some light spotting, original cl...

Doyle (Arthur Conan). The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1st edition, London: George Newnes, 1902, frontispiece, 15 illustrations, preliminary & rear ...

Childers (Erskine). The Riddle of the Sands. A Record of Secret Service Recently Achieved, 1st edition, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1903, folding ...

Henty (G.A). The Treasure of the Incas, a tale of adventure in Peru, 1st edition, London: Blackie & Son, 1903, 8 full-page black and white illustr...

Wallace (Edgar). The Four Just Men, 1st edition, London: Tallis Press, 1905, folding frontispiece, numbered competition leaf at end, some spotting...

Stoker (Bram). Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving, 2 volumes, 1st edition, presentation copy, London: William Heinemann, 1906, inscribed by St...

Freeman (R Austin). The Red Thumb Mark, 1st edition, London: Collingwood Bros, [1907], frontispiece, lightly spotted, original black cloth, spine ...

Nesbit (Edith). The Enchanted Castle, 1st edition, London: T Fisher Unwin, 1907, monochrome illustrations by H. R. Millar, pencil inscriptions to ...

Grahame (Kenneth). The Wind in the Willows, 1st edition, London: Methuen & Co., 1908, frontispiece by Graham Robertson, faint offsetting to title,...

Grahame (Kenneth). The Wind in the Willows, 1st US edition, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908, half title, frontispiece by Graham Robertson,...

Pound (Ezra). Personae, 1st edition, London: Elikin Mathews, 1909, untrimmed, original publisher's dark grey boards lettered in gilt, a little rub...

Forster (Edward Morgan). The Celestial Omnibus, 1st edition, London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., 1911, half-title with contemporary ownership 'G[ilbe...

Doyle (Arthur Conan). The Lost World, 1st edition, 1st issue of the large paper edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1912], 13 tipped-in illustra...

Grahame (Kenneth). The Wind in the Willows, 7th edition, London: Methuen & Co., 1913, 10 colour plates by Paul Bransom, monochrome plate by Graham...

Freeman (R Austin). The Uttermost Farthing, 1st edition, Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1914, black & white illustrations (including f...

Buchan (John). The Thirty-Nine Steps, 1st edition, London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1915, publisher's advertisement leaf to rear, bookplate of ...

Freeman (R. Austin). The Exploits of Danby Croker, being extracts from a somewhat disreputable autobiography, 1st edition, London: Duckworth & Co,...

Lewis (Wyndham). The Ideal Giant, the Code of a Herdsman, Cantelman's Spring-Mate, 1st edition, London: Privately printed for the London Office of...

[Kim Philby - Cambridge Spy Ring]. The Edge of Doom, by H.F. Prevost Battersby, 1st edition, London: John Lane, 1919, a few light spots, prize lab...

Owen (Wilfred). Poems, 1st edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1920, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, contemporary ownership inscription ...

James (M.R., editor). Madam Crowl's Ghost and Other Tales of Mystery, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, collected and edited by M.R. James, London: G. B...

Woolf (Virginia). The Common Reader, 1st edition, London: The Hogarth Press, 1925, endpapers toned, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, faint ...

Forester (C.S). Josephine, Napoleon's Empress, 1st edition, London: Methuen & Co, 1925, 12 black & white plates (including portrait frontispiece),...

Joyce (James). Ulysses, 9th printing, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1927, half-title, small bookseller's label at foot of title page (faint vert...

Forester (C.S). Love Lies Dreaming, 1st edition, London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1927, bookplate of Walter A Frankel to front pastedown, origin...

Freeman (R Austin). The Magic Casket, 1st edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1927, front dust jacket panel pasted to front pastedown, lightly sp...

Freeman (R Austin). The Surprising Experiences of Mr Shuttlebury Cobb, 1st edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1927, frontispiece, gift inscripti...

Lewis (Wyndham). The Apes of God, limited signed edition, London: The Arthur Press, 1930, minor spotting front and rear, original cloth, spine ton...

Grahame (Kenneth & E.H. Shepard). The Wind in the Willows, London: Methuen & Co., 1931, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, folding maps at end, spare ...

Grahame (Kenneth & E.H. Shepard). The Wind in the Willows, 38th edition, London: Methuen & Co., 1931, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, a few pale sp...

Waugh (Evelyn). Black Mischief, 1st edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1932, map frontispiece, original snakeskin effect cloth, dust jacket, spine...

Huxley (Aldous). Brave New World, 1st edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1932, occasional light spotting, original cloth, spine slightly darkened a...

Creeps series. A collection of 6 titles, London: Philip Allan, 1933-35, comprising: Quakes, 1933; Nightmares, 1933; Panics, 1934; Powers of Darkne...

Lewis (Wyndham). One-Way Song, 1st edition, Faber, 1933, title page and part-title designs by Wyndham Lewis, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, o...

Johns (W.E). The Cruise of the Condor, London: John Hamilton, [circa 1934], 2 black and white illustrations (of 4), lacking frontispiece, contempo...

Zweig (Stefan). Kaleidoscope, thirteen stories and novelettes, 1st edition, New York: The Viking Press, 1934, inscribed by the author 'Mr and Mrs ...

Orwell (George). Burmese Days, 1st edition, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1934, pastedowns restored, stamp to front free endpaper, a few light spot...

* Barrie (J. M., 1860-1937). Autograph letter, signed to Molly [Margaret Winet, 1863-1937, the author's sister], dated Adephi Terrace House, Stran...

Orwell (George). A Clergyman's Daughter, 1st edition, London: Victor Gollancz, 1935, ownership inscription 'E Marsh' to front free endpaper upper ...

Du Maurier (Daphne). Jamaica Inn, 1st edition, London: Victor Gollancz, 1936, ownership inscription to head of front free endpaper, scattered spot...

Hamilton (Edmond). The Horror on the Asteroid and Other Tales of Planetary Horror, 1st edition, London: Philip Allan, 1936, a few light spots, sma...

Mitchell (Margaret). Gone with the Wind, 1st UK edition, 1st impression, London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1936, original pale green cloth, price-cl...

Jones (David). In Parenthesis. Seinnyessit e gledyf ym penn mameu, 1st edition, London: Faber & Faber Ltd., 1937, three monochrome plates, pale bl...

Tolkien (J.R.R.). The Hobbit or There and Back Again, 1st edition, 2nd impression, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1937, 12 illustrations (4 in colo...

Waugh (Evelyn). Scoop, 1st edition, London: Chapman & Hall, 1938, a few minor spots, bookplate of Dorothy McIlwraith (?1891-1976, former editor of...

Woolf (Virginia). Three Guineas, 1st edition, London: Hogarth Press, 1938, half-tone illustrations, some offsetting to endpapers, original cloth (...