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You can buy rare books, many of them signed, on a variety of subjects, including Travel & Voyages, Literature, Rare Children’s books, Natural History, Illustrated books, Hebraica & Judaica, books of Russian interest and Guidebooks. We have books from a variety of famous authors available at our rare bookstore.
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First edition, first impression, inscribed by Fowles on the front free endpaper; 8vo; publisher's black boards, titles to spine in gold, with the dust jacket. A lovely copy in the dust jacket.
£975 -
First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the title page; 8vo; publisher's green boards, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket illustrated with David Hockney's Félicité Sleeping with Parrot, a fine copy in the dust-jacket.
£1,750 -
First American edition, first printing, Henry Miller's copy, annotated by him; 8vo; publisher's quarter blue cloth, grey boards, decoration to upper board in blue, titles to spine in black, an excellent copy, dust-jacket somewhat worn; housed in a blue cloth folding box.
£1,250 -
First American edition, first printing, Henry Miller's copy, annotated; 8vo; publisher's green cloth, titles to upper board and spine gilt, red topstain, dust jacket, sunned and a little frayed and marked dust jacket.
£950 -
4 vols, 8vo (192 x 140 mm); light spotting to half-titles (curiously), otherwise very bright; mid-twentieth century half calf over cloth, gilt spines, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, slight bumping to some corners, otherwise near-fine.
£350 -
Sole edition; 8vo; 9 plates (2 folding); publisher's wrappers lettered in green and red, dust-jacket, yapp edges slightly bumped, extremities lightly rubbed.
£6,500 -
First edition, first printing, signed by the author; 8vo; frontispiece and illustrations by Joseph Schindelman, some minor toning to text-block; publisher's cloth-backed boards, slightly toned towards top edge, dust-jacket, a little toned at top edge but overall a very good example.
£1,750 -
First edition; 4to (25 x 17.5 cm); 70 photographic reproductions by Robert Capa, some full page; publisher's quarter pale yellow cloth over turquoise cloth, lettered in dark blue, pictorial dust jacket, top edge a little creased, rubbed at extremities, spine ends chipped, otherwise very good and internally fine.
£225 -
First edition, signed by the illustrator; small 4to (250 x 195 mm); colour illustrations by Valerie Littlewood; publisher's pictorial boards without jacket as issued, a fine, sharp copy; with the original artwork for 'Secret Five' by Littlewood (375 x 505 mm unrolled).
£150 -
First edition, first impression; 8vo; mild toning to edges of text-block, publisher's brown boards, titles to spine gilt, with the Edward Bawden designed dust-jacket, a very good copy.
£125