Gift Ideas

  1. FLEMING, Ian.

    You only live twice.

    London, Jonathan Cape, 1964.

    First edition, first impression, first...

    £850

  2. ELIOT, George.

    The Writings …

    Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin...

    The Large-Paper edition of Eliot’s complete...

    £2500

  3. SOPHOCLES; Ezra POUND, translator.

    Women of Trachis. A Version by Ezra Pound.

    London, Neville Spearman, [1956]. 

    First edition of Pound’s version of Sophocles’...

    £1000

  4. [I CHING.]

    WILHELM, Richard, and Cary F. BAYNES,...

    London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974.

    Third edition, reprinted, in a striking...

    £1950

  5. WHITMAN, Walt, and Antonio FRASCONI (illustrator).

    A Whitman Portrait.

    [New York, Spiral Press, 1960.]

    First edition, comprising extracts from...

    £250

  6. PARLIAMENTARY RECRUITING COMMITTEE.

    Which? Have you a reason or only an excuse...

    London, The Abbey Press, 1915.

    A forthright call to the men of London,...

    £250

  7. WALLIS, William.

    The Western Gentleman’s Farrier, containing...

    Troy (OH), John T. Tullis, 1838.

    Second edition of an American work on farriery,...

    £250

  8. [PARIS UPRISING.]

    Votez toujours. Je ferai le reste [Always...

    Paris, Comite d'initiative pour un movement...

    First edition. A striking image of General...

    £550

  9. THACKERAY, William Makepeace. 

    The Virginians, a tale of the last century. 

    London, Bradbury & Evans, November 1857...

    First edition in the original monthly parts...

    £600

  10. [ANTIPHONAL.]

    Very large historiated initial ‘H’...

    Italy (Siena), c. 1300.

    A very fine large initial painted in a...

    £6750

  11. [BECKFORD, William.]

    Vathek, conte arabe.

    Paris, Poinçot; Chatellerault, P. J....

    Extremely rare, the only traced copy, of...

    £3750

  12. MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.

    Urbis Romae topographia.

    Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.

    First illustrated edition (third overall),...

    £5500

  13. THOMAS, Dylan, and Sir Peter Blake, illustrator.

    Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices.

    London: Apple Litho (Bristol) Ltd. for...

    De Luxe edition, number 61 of 100 copies...

    £975

  14. THOMAS, Dylan.

    Under Milk Wood. A Play for Voices …

    London, J.M. Dent & Sons, 1954.

    First edition, first impression, our copy...

    £1500

  15. GISSING, George.

    The Unclassed, A Novel … in three Volumes.

    London, Chapman and Hall, 1884.

    First edition of Gissing’s second novel...

    £950

  16. [CALLIGRAPHIC SCORES.]

    Two anonymous manuscript scores.

    London, 1820s.

    Two charming productions, sent as anonymous...

    £850

  17. [ALTAR CARDS.]

    Two altar cards with Latin text and images...

    ‘A Paris, chez I. Baudemont’, second...

    Two seemingly unrecorded hand-coloured...

    £2750

  18. COPPERTHWAITE, R.H.

    The Turf and the Racehorse, describing...

    London, Day & Son, 1865.

    First edition of a scarce account of mid-nineteenth-century...

    £160

  19. HUGHES, Ted.

    T.S. Eliot: A Tribute by the Poet Laureate.

    [London,] ‘Privately Printed by [the...

    A privately printed tribute to T.S. Eliot,...

    £175

  20. REFELL, A. 

    Trugbilder: Eine Anleitung Erscheinungen,...

    Stuttgart, Rieger, 1865. 

    First German edition, rare, of this fascinating...

    £1250