The Bookshop
Welcome to our online antiquarian bookshop where you can begin your rare book search. Here you will find antiquarian books, rare books, works on paper, and first edition books for sale, all selected by our book specialists who have over 200 years of experience between them.
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.
If you're in possession of a rare book to sell, please contact us for more information.
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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 -
First edition. 4to., 1047pp., original cloth gilt, pictorial dust-wrapper, NEW.
£150 -
8vo, 20 colour illustrations. Original blue diapered cloth boards with gilt stamped lettering on spines, with gilt vignette of the sailing ship Victoria on upper cover, with blind stamped design, recased. Very good.
£50 -
8vo, 92pp, numerous photographic illustrations; publisher's pictorial grey wrappers, a good firm copy.
£30 -
Fourth edition. clxxxvi, 442pp, 21 maps, 85 plans, 55 vignettes, pages browned, purple stamp on title-page, bookseller's label on front paste-down, inner hinges slightly cracked; publisher's red cloth gilt; a good copy
£110 -
First edition, ink presentation form the author to front free endpaper, photogravure fonrtispiece portrait of the author and numerous further illustrations, some full-page, very occasional mottling to head of page, most noticeable to title, otherwise good; handsome mid-twentieth century half morocco gilt, marbled endpapers and top edge gilt.
£150 -
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 -
First edition; 4to (27.5 x 23.5 cm); text and music by Kuzmin, four phototype plates printed on strong wove paper, and four full-page illustrations, by N. Feofilaktov and S. Sudeikin, Сyrillic ownership inscription 'A. Artsikhovskiy' in pink ink to upper flyleaf; decorative coloured silk boards, silk frayed at spine and edges;
£650 -
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