SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley. 

The School for Scandal, a Comedy [– The...

Dublin, William Porter for William Jones,...

The first attempt to publish a collected...

£275

QUINTILIAN, Marcus Fabius, and Jacques-Louis d’ESTREBAY (editor).

Compendium libri secundi, tertii, et quinti...

Paris, Thomas Richard, 1558.

Very rare third edition of this compendium...

£350

AYRTON, Michael.

Tittivulus, or the Verbiage Collector …

London, Max Reinhardt, [1953].

First edition, signed, of Ayrton’s first...

£100

AUDEN, Wystan Hugh, and Christopher ISHERWOOD.

The Dog beneath the Skin or where is Francis?...

London, Faber and Faber Limited, [1954].

Sixth impression. When Bridson had reviewed...

£100

THACKERAY, William Makepeace. 

The Virginians, a tale of the last century. 

London, Bradbury & Evans, November 1857...

First edition in the original monthly parts...

£600

[OSBORNE, Francis.]

Historical memoires on the reigns of Queen...

London: Printed by T. Grismond, and are...

First edition of Osborne’s history of...

£475

[EDWARD VII – COMMON PRAYER.]

[Cover title: ‘Prayer Book of...

[Norwood (MA), Plimpton Press for] New...

Authorised American edition of the Essex...

£500

[GEORGE V.]

The Form and Order of the Service that...

London, Novello & Company, 1911.

A handsome copy of the Coronation service,...

£450

GREENE, Graham. 

A burnt-out Case. 

London, Heinemann, [1961]. 

Uncorrected proof copy of the first edition...

£275

LEWIS, Wyndham.

The Roaring Queen. Edited and introduced...

London, Secker & Warburg, [1973].

Limited edition, no XXVII of XXX copies...

£500

WILLIAMS, William Carlos.

Paterson [Books 1, 2, 3 & 4].

Norfolk, New Classics, [1951]. [with:]

First collected edition of Books One...

£1250

[MONROE, Marilyn.] 

DIENES, André de.  Marilyn. 

Cologne, Taschen, 2002. 

First edition of this celebratory book...

£200

ZUKOFSKY, Louis.

Some Time. Short Poems …

Stuttgart, Jonathan Williams, 1956.

First edition, one of 300 copies, inscribed...

£500

REXROTH, Kenneth.

An Autobiographical Novel …

Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company,...

First edition, inscribed ‘In friendship...

£300

[PRAYERS.] 

‘Orationes diversae pro temporum opportunitate...

[Likely Lucca, late eighteenth century.] 

A delightful manuscript prayerbook for...

£475

TACITUS. 

C. Cornelius Tacitus, cum optimis exemplaribus...

Amsterdam, Daniel Elzevir, 1678. 

A remarkably fresh set of the third and...

£275

HUGHES, Langston. 

Shakespeare in Harlem. 

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1942.

First edition of this wartime collection...

£1000

[BOLINGBROKE, Henry St John, Viscount].

Letters, on the Spirit of Patriotism: on...

London: Printed for A. Millar … 1749.

First authorised edition. Written in 1738...

£375

WHITMAN, Walt, and Antonio FRASCONI (illustrator).

A Whitman Portrait.

[New York, Spiral Press, 1960.]

First edition, comprising extracts from...

£250

KELLER, Martialis.

Neueröffnete Himmels-Schule, in welcher...

Augsburg, Matthäus Riegers, 1793.

Rare later edition of this educational...

£500