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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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Third thousand, 8vo, xvii, 427 pp., additional chromolithograph title page, portrait frontispiece, contemporary half roan gilt, marbled boards, a very good copy.
£450 -
Second edition. Small 8vo (18 x 12 cms) pp.[4] publisher's advert, [4], 517, 2 folding maps, 12 engraved views, some pages browned, some minor spotting, both folding maps torn and split into three parts,
, 8 preliminary pages including the title page detached, pages browned, pencilling inside on endpapapers; publisher's green cloth badly worn and rubbed ; a fair copy.£2,200 -
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 -
Second edition. 8vo ( 22 x 14 cm); pp. 160, numerous adverts and two large folding maps, pencilling inside; publisher's pictorial wrappers, spine worn and little cracked; overall a good copy.
£85 -
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 -
Folio (31 x 24 cm); 24pp.; 10 illustrations by Annenkov, text in French and German; original printed wrappers, slightly age toned, a fine copy.
£975 -
First edition, first impression; 8vo; partial browning to endpapers; publisher's brown boards, titles to spine gilt, dust-jacket with artwork by Edward Bawden, somewhat tanned at spine and edges, but upper panel bright and clean.
£375 -
Limited edition, one of 30 copies hand coloured by Miro, signed by the author and the artist on the verso, from a total edition of 100; one leaf, unfolded, small oblong 4to (11 x 27 cm), lithograph heightened with watercolour, pastel and india ink on wove paper, lower right corner slightly creased, otherwise in excellent condition.
£15,000