Rare Books & Works on Paper

LANG, Andrew 'The Green Fairy Book' Fourth edition, original green cloth with gilt embossed decorations, very slight bumping to extremities, gilt ...

CARROLL, Lewis 'Through The Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There,' Seventieth thousand, orignal red cloth vg, gilt edge to textblock, frontis ...

Barbara Hepworth & Bernard Leach. 'On the occasion of the conferment of the Honorary Freedom of the Borough...In Recognition of Their Internationa...

Three first editions. Charles Webb. 'The Graduate,' first edition, original cloth, nibbles to unclipped dj, small amount of spotting to edge of te...

[Signed] Ralph Steadman. CHERRYWOOD CANNON By Ralph Steadman (1978) Paddington Press. First edition and THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK (1975) Michael De...

PROUST, Marcel. Folio Society 'In Search of Lost Time', six volumes in two slipcases, 'Swann's Way', 'Within a Budding Grove', 'The Guermantes Wa...

DARWIN, Charles. 'The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex' Second edition, twenty-ninth thousand, spotting and rubbing to original co...

BURGESS, Anthony 'A Clockwork Orange' First edition, second issue with purple boards and 18s price to dj, original cloth, tear to inner flap of un...

AINSLIE, Kathleen. 'Lady Tabitha and Us' First edition, original publishers thin paper wrap, pictorial card wraps in a fine condition, 14 full pag...

The Rev. John Batchelor. 'Sea-Girt Yezo. Glimpses at Missionary Work in North Japan,' Original cloth with pictorial gilt decorations, frontis b+w ...

AUSTEN, Jane. 'The Winchester Edition' Ten volumes, titles include Pride and Prejudice (2 vols), Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility (2 vols),...

FOX, Charles James 'A History of the Early Part of the Reign of James the Second,' Half leather with marbled boards, rubbed and bumped with front ...

WEEVER, John, 1767. 'Antient Funeral Monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the Islands adjacent. With the Dissolved Monasteries therein contai...

WALKER (Adam) 'A System of Familiar Philosophy: In Twelve Lectures,' Full calf, debound front board, all lectures and copper plates accounted for,...

LEWIS, Samuel 'A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland,' First edition, two volumes of text and volume of bound maps, contemporary half black leathe...

'Black's General Atlas,' 1844. 'Comprehending Sixty-One Maps from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources,' By Sidney Hall, Hughes, &c, folio, cont...

I. T. Tregellas. Seven Cornish tracts bound in one volume. Dating from 1856–1863, some are rare, three are signed by the author;'Rozzy Paul & Zack...

'Some Account of the Proceedings at the Election for Truro August 3rd–6th 1830'. 'As Reported in the West Briton Together With Extracts from that ...

Arthur Phillips and John Darlington 'Records of Mining and Metallurgy, or facts and memoranda for the use of the mine agent and smelter', publishe...

GOLDSMITH, Oliver. 'The Deserted Village' First edition of Goldsmith's famous poem, with catchword on page 9 misprinted with 'Careless' for 'Thus'...

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'The Country-mans Recreation, or the Art of Planting, Graffing, and Gardening,' 'In three Bookes. The first declaring divers wayes of Planting, an...

CERVANTES (trans. T. Smollett) 'The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote,' Volumes I, II, III (lacking vol IV), contemporary quarter...

MAX AND THE WHITE PHAGOCYTES By Henry Miller (1938) Obelisk Press. First edition. Teg. Bound in leather spine. A fine copy (1) ...[more]

[Signed] GRAVES, Robert 'The Feather Bed' Signed by the author, limited edition, 206/250, bumping and nibbles to original boards, owner signature ...

George Woodley Cornubia A poem in five cantos, descriptive of the most interesting scenery, natural and artificial in the County of Cornwall inter...

Mount Edgcumbe A walk round Mount-Edgcumbe Printed by Congdon and Hearle, at The Telegraph Office, Fore-Street, Plymouth-Dock. This edition has a...

OLIVER, George. 'Ecclesiastical Antiquities in Devon,' Being Observations on Several Churches in Devonshire, With Some Memoranda for the History o...

MOORE, Thomas. 'The History of Devonshire. from the earliest period to the present,' Two volumes, deficient, lacks map of exeter, thirty-six plate...

[Signed] FULLER, Leonard 'Cornish Pasty' First edition, signed by both author and illustrator Leonard Fuller (drawings by) Marjorie Mostyn, pagin...

ALEXANDER, Cecil Frances. (1818-1895) 'The Siege of Derry' First edition, original thin card wraps, sewn, head and tailpiece, rare, no copy on Wor...

ELIOT, T.S Two poetry books 'Anabasis a poem', translated from the French of St. J. Perse, first edition, cloth, unclipped dustjacket, Faber, 1930...

SMITH, Stevie 'Tender Only to One' poems and drawings First edition, very scarce proof copy, yellow wrappers, light evidence of label removal to t...

BISHOP, Elizabeth Scare first UK collection of poems 'Poems', cloth, unclipped dustjacket, no U.S. equivalent edition, Chatto and Windus, 1956. ...

C.P CAVAFY Poems translated by John Mavrogordato 'The Poems', introduced by Rex Warner, a scare first edition to be published in English, cloth bo...

REICH, Wilhelm. 'International Journal of Sex-Economy and Orgone-Research,' Volume I, Number I, March 1942 Edited by Theodore P. Wolfe, thin card ...

Issac Asimov, L. Ron Hubbard, A. Bertram Chandler and others, contributors. A collection of science fiction 'Pulp' magazines and books. Early Brit...

RACKHAM, Arthur. 'Siegfried & The Twilight Gods' 'The Ring of the Niblung. A Trilogy with a Prelude by Richard Wagner,' first trade edition, orig...

John Wallis. 'The Cornwall Register'. First edition, with bookplate of Edward Robert Pearce Edgcumbe, fine copy, Liddell and Son, Bodmin, 1847. ....

Nicholas James. 'Poems on Several Occasions,' 1742, first edition, published by Andrew Brice (born in Exeter and apprenticed to Joseph Bliss, and ...

Cornish tales and poetry. Three works. William Bentink Forfar. 'Pentowan or The Adventures of Gregory Goulden Esq and Tobias Penhale, A Cornish St...

DOYLE, Arthur Conan. 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' First edition, first impression, with blank street sign on front cover and misprint 'Miss...

ADAMS, Douglas. 'The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy' First edition, with a second issue unclipped dj, sun fading to the spine, light spotting t...

ADAMS, Douglas. 'Life, the Universe and Everything' First edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, slight toning to edges of leaves, scarce, Arthur ...

J. R. R. Tolkien. Four classic works. 'The Two Towers,' tenth edition, original cloth, some soiling to an otherwise vg unclipped dj, some very lig...

TOLKIEN, J. R. R. 'The Lord of the Rings' 'The Fellowship of the Ring,' thirteenth impression, lacks dj, original cloth with gilt tooled school cr...

FLEMING, Ian. Three first editions. 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service,' first edition, original cloth, fine unclipped dj, by Richard Topping (1963)...

WW2 poetry collection [Signed] Henry Reed and others A Map of Verona, signed, dustjacket, 1946 with Emanual Litvinoff 'The Untried Soldier' 1942,...

Major H. Sainsbury, late 1st Battalion D. C. L. I. A retrospect of interesting events in the 32nd light infantry, later 1st battalion.'Duke of Cor...

Duke of Cornwall Light Infantry Interest. Colonel G. C. Swiney. 'Historical Records of the 32nd (Cornwall) Light Infantry, Now the 1st Battalion D...

The Cuala Press. Two works. 'The Bounty of Sweden: A Meditation, and Lecture Delivered Before The Royal Swedish Academy and Certain Notes by Willi...

Al-Awda (The Return) Project. 'Project to put out the Fires in the Kuwaiti Oil Wells - 1991, following expulsion of the Iraqi Forces.' Fifty photo...

[Signed] Beryl Cook 'Mr Norris Changed Trains,' signed by the artist to titlepage, original cloth, slip case, colour illustrations, The Folio Soci...

COOK, Beryl. Nine works Including 'One Man Show' 1981, 'Private View' 1980, 'Cruising' 2000, 'Happy Days' 1995, 'London' 1988, and four other book...

JOHNSTONE, Gwyneth (1915-2010) 'Jig-Saw,' A collection twelve of juvenile poems, thin card wraps, spotting throughout, extremely scarce, signed an...

[Signed] O'LEARY, Brian 'The Fertile Stars. Man's Look at Space as the New Source of Food and Energy' Flat signed with a charming doodle of a rock...

'The Lawrences of Cornwall,' By Edith Durning-Lawrence, first edition, scarce family history, original cloth with embossed coat of arms to front b...

[Signed] Buster Merryfield 'During the War and other encounters. an autobiography' Exuberantly flat signed to titlepage, reprint, limp back, Summe...

ELIOT, T.S. [Signed by illustrator] 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats' Full page illustrations by Edward Gorey, mounted on front endpaper is an...

MERWIN M.S. 'A Mask for Janus' Poet's first scare collection, Yale Younger Poets Series, foreword by W.H. Auden, cloth, unclipped dustjacket, Yale...