Gift Ideas

  1. POPE, Alexander.

    Letters of Mr Alexander Pope, and several...

    London: Printed by J. Wright for J. Knapton...

    First folio edition, large paper issue,...

    £1500

  2. TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. 

    In Memoriam. 

    London, Edward Moxon … 1850.

    First edition, first issue, with the misprints...

    £950

  3. BROUGHAM, Henry, first Baron Brougham and Vaux.

    Albert Lunel. A Novel ... In three Volumes...

    Clarke ... [1872].

    First edition, Sadleir’s ‘really scarce’...

    £450

  4. THOMAS, Dylan.

    Under Milk Wood. A Play for Voices …

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

    First edition, first impression, our copy...

    £1500

  5. CHURCHILL, Winston S.

    A History of the English-Speaking Peoples,...

    London, Cassel & Company Ltd, [1956; –...

    First editions, with dust-jackets, of Churchill’s...

    £200

  6. CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer; F. RHODES, editor; Angus McNEILL, illustrator.

    The River War: An Historical Account of...

    [London, Spottiswoode & Co. for] London,...

    First edition of Churchill’s second book,...

    £2500

  7. WETZELL, Madame.

    Les Matinées de la poupée, ou récréations...

    Paris, J. Langlumé, [1844?].

    First and only edition, very rare, of a...

    £275

  8. GURNEY, Edmund, Frederic W.H. MYERS, and Frank PODMORE.

    Phantasms of the Living …

    London, Society for Psychical Research,...

    First edition, second issue as usual, with...

    £800

  9. [GUARINI, Giovanni Battista.]

    Il Pastor Fido.

    ‘In Parigi, appresso Tomaso Iolly, 1706’.

    Scarce Parisian edition of Guarini’s...

    £175

  10. WALTON, Izaak, and James THORPE, illustrator.

    Complete Angler or contemplative man’s...

    London & Edinburgh, T.N. Foulis, [1925].

    A very attractive illustrated edition of...

    £500

  11. BRULL, Mariano, and Mathilde POMÈS, translator.

    Solo de Rosa. Poemas.

    Con dos rosas de Mariano y Portocarrero....

    First edition, no. 186 of 300 copies, printed...

    £650

  12. RUSH, John; Jacob F. SHEEK, editor.

    The Hand-Book to veterinary Homoeopathy,...

    New York & San Francisco, Boericke & Tafel,...

    Later American edition of a rare hand-book...

    £275

  13. PALAFOX Y MENDOZA, Juan de. 

    The History of the Conquest of China by...

    London, W. Godbid for M. Pitt, 1671. 

    First edition in English of Palafox's Historia...

    £1750

  14. Aristotle: From Antiquity to the Modern Era.

    Preface by Martin J. Gross. Essays by Benjamin...

    Lewes, D. Giles Ltd for the Martin J....

    Aristotle’s influence towers over western...

    £30

  15. POWYS, John Cowper.

    Autobiography.

    London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, [1934].

    First edition, signed on the half-title...

    £250

  16. LEWIS, Wyndham, and Anne Gladys LEWIS.

    Christmas card to the Bridsons.

    [1950s].

    ‘To Joyce [née Thirlaway] + Geoffrey...

    £50

  17. PRINCE, F[rank].

    T[empleton]. Soldiers Bathing and other Poems.

    London, The Fortune Press, [1954].

    First edition, Prince’s second collection,...

    £200

  18. RACHEWILTZ, Boris de.

    L’Elemento magico in Ezra Pound.

    Milan, All’insegna del pesce d’oro...

    First edition, no. 182 of 1000 copies,...

    £150

  19. MITCHISON, Naomi; Wyndham LEWIS, illustrator.

    Beyond this Limit …

    [London,] Jonathan Cape, [1935].

    First edition. This was Lewis’s only...

    £75

  20. ANDREWS, Mark E.

    The Science and Engineering of Water: An...

    Toronto, A.E. Publications, 2022.

    A finely bound deluxe copy, one of twenty...

    £675