PRAWER JHABVALA (Ruth).

In Search of Love and Beauty, 1983.

£30

ATWOOD (Margaret).

Dearly. New Poems, 2020.

£30

HUGHES (Ted).

By Heart. 101 Poems to Remember, 1997.

£40

ALLENDE (Isabel).

Of Love and Shadows, 1987.

£50

COPE (Wendy).

Does She Like Word-Games?, 1988.

PRESENTATION COPY

£50

MAHON (Derek).

The School for Wives. A play in two… 1986.

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

£50

WEBB (Mary) & HASSALL (Joan), illustrator.

Fifty-One Poems, 1946.

£50

GILL (A.A.)

Breakfast at the Wolseley, 2008.

£50

BUCHAN (John).

A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys, 1922.

£60

DUFFY (Carol Ann). & CLARKE (Gillian). Editors.

The Map and the Clock. A Laureate's Choice… 2016.

£60

O'BRIEN (Edna).

The Love Object, 1968.

£65

AUDEN (W.H.).

Homage to Clio, 1960.

£75

SMITH (Sydney Goodsir).

Orpheus and Eurydice, 1955.

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION

£75

MOTTRAM (R.H.)

Europa's Beast, 1930.

£85

SHARP (William) as & MACLEOD (Fiona) pseudonym.

The Mountain Lovers, 1906.

INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR'S WIDOW

£95

MORRISSON (Toni).

Love, 2003.

£100

Beowulf, 1999.

£100

GROUSSAC (Paul).

A Buénos-Ayres, 1888.

£100

HOFFMAN (Alice).

Practical Magic, 1995.

£100

GOGARTY (Oliver St. John). & YEATS (W.B.)., Preface.

An Offering of Swans and Other Poems. With… 1924.

Inscribed by the author's eldest son

£100

ARDIZZONE (Edward).

Wine List Decorations 1961-1963, 1963.

£125

AUDEN (W.H.).

Epistle to a Godson & Other Poems, 1972.

£125

POTTER (Beatrix).

The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, 1932.

£125

[BRONTE (Emily).] & SWINTON DRY (Florence).

The Sources of Wuthering Heights, 1937.

£125

DOBSON (Austin).

The Ballad of Beau Brocade and other Poems… 1892.

£125

[MILL (John Stuart).] & HAYEK (Friedrich August von)., editor.

John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor: their friendship… 1951.

£150

COPE (Wendy).

Life, Love and The Archers. Recollections, reviews and… 2014.

INSCRIBED AND WITH A SIGNED NOTE TO MARGO EWART

£150

SABATINI (Rafael).

Scaramouche. A Romance of the French Revolution, 1923.

£150

SHIELDS (Carol).

The Republic of Love, 1992.

£150

KINSELLA (Thomas).

Glenmacnass, 2003.

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION

£175

DUFFY (Carol Ann).

Fifth Last Song. Twenty-One Love Poems. With Illustrations… 1982.

£175

MORRISON (Toni).

Beloved, 1987.

£200

BURTON (Lady Isabel) & WILKINS (W.H.).

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton. The Story… 1897.

£225

FERMOR (Patrick Leigh).

A Time to Keep Silence, 1957.

£225

THOREAU (Henry David).

Excursions, 1910.

£250

HASEGAWA (T.)

Japanese Fairy Tale Series No.20 – The Enchanted… 1911.

£250

HASEGAWA (T.)

Japanese Fair Tale Series No. 2 –The Tongue… 1911.

Lost and Found

£250

HUET (Michel)., VERGER (P.), CLAEYS (J. Y.), DE SACY (S.), M.F.O.M. & LÉVY (Paul), preface.

Viet Nam, 1951.

£250

LAWRENCE (D.H.)

Love Among the Haystacks & Other Pieces, 1930.

LIMITED EDITION

£250

GLÉON (Delort de)

La Rue du Caire.  L'Architecture arabe des Khalifes… 1889.

AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY

£250

DOBSON (Austin).

The Story of Rosina and other Verses, 1895.

£250

PERSIUS FLACCUS (Aulus) & JUVENALIS Decimus Junius

Satyrae. Cum annotat. Th. Farnabii, 1650.

A SCHOOLMASTER'S EDITION OF JUVENAL

£275

TENNIEL (John)., Illustrations. & DE LA MOTTE FOUQUE (Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr).

Undine, A Romance, 1861.

The 1861 reprint of Tenniel's rare first book.

£275

THOREAU (Henry David).

Walden, 1910.

£300

YEATS (W.B.)

A Vision, 1937.

£300

LAWRENCE (D.H.)

Love Poems and Others, 1913.

£300

JOYCE (James).

The Cat and the Devil, 1965.

£300

MITCHISON (Naomi).

Memoirs of a Spacewoman, 1962.

£300

KEATS (John).

The Poetical Works of John Keats, 1929.

£350

TAKAHASHI (Masataka).

Momikarakami [Kneaded papers], 1971.

A privately printed book on highly specialised washi

£350

YEATS (W.B.).

The Wild Swans at Coole, 1919.

£350

KUNG (David S.)

Nihon no tako [Japanese Kites] – Japanese Kites:… 1962.

Celebrating kite-makers in Japan

£350

COLETTE [(Sidonie-Gabrielle)]. (Translated by Janet Flanner).

Chéri, 1929.

£375

HASEGAWA (T.)

Japanese Fairy Tale Series No.8. The Fisher Boy… 1886.

A boy, the sea, and great fortune

£400

WHISTLER (Rex)., illustrations., BLOOMFIELD (Paul & Millicent), compiled by. & [RACKHAM (Arthur)., bookplate designed by.]

The Traveller's Companion: A Travel Anthology, 1931.

WITH A BOOKPLATE DESIGNED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM

£400

SUCKLING (Sir John) & RAVILIOUS (Eric), illustrator.

A Ballad Upon A Wedding, 1927.

£400

NAGATA (Gigen).

Eigo tsuben jizai: Shoyo futsu / English and… 1886.

Modern English for the Meiji reader

£450

HASEGAWA (T.)

Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 18 – The… 1889.

Man Vs. Ogre

£450

KAWAKAMI (Sumio).

Hirado genso [Hirado fantasy], 1977.

The Dutch trading port of Hirado, Nagasaki

£450

KAMISAKI (Sunao).

Toki seou [Bearing the weight of time], 1987.

Time: in fourteen influential thinkers

£450

BASKIN (Leonard). & [BERWICK (Thomas)]

An ABC with best wishes for 1958 from… 1957.

Baskin & Berwick

£450

TAKEDA (Taichi).

Jindai goshu kaiko hanachigai no den [Ancient Traditions… 1875.

The history of Japanese sericulture

£450

YEATS (W.B.)

Poems, 1923.

£450

MONTEZ (Lola, Countess of Lansfeld).

Lectures: Including her Autobiography, 1859.

MEDITATIONS ON BEAUTY AND MORE BY THE FAMED COURTESAN

£450

RHINOCEROUS PRESS & CLARKE (E. M.)

The Ballad of Little Musgrave, 1986.

Impressively large woodcut prints

£450

KOUEI (Ippen). & [MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS]

Nippon seihin zusetsu: zasshu kaiso  [Illustrated Products of… 1899.

Seaweed: vibrantly printed in woodblock

£500

CHRISTIE (Agatha).

A Pocket Full of Rye, 1953.

£500

CESNOLA (Alexander Palma di).

Salaminia (Cyprus). The History, Treasures, & Antiquities of… 1882.

£500

POTTER (Beatrix).

The Pie and the Patty-Pan, 1905.

£500

SEKINO (Junichiro).

Kosetsu shiki [The Story of the Blind Man… 1975.

The hand-coloured edition

£550

POTTER, Beatrix

Peter Rabbit's Almanac for 1929, 1928.

£550

HASEGAWA (T.)

Japanese Fair Tale Series No. 21 – Three… 1925.

A FINE COPY OF THE LARGER FORMAT EDITION

£600

BOCCACCIO (Giovanni).

Ameto over comedia delle nimphe fiorentine, 1524.

LOVE TRANSFORMS A BRUTE INTO A MAN

£600

CHRISTIE (Agatha).

A Pocket Full of Rye, 1953.

£600

HEMINGWAY (Ernest).

Across the River and Into the Trees, 1950.

£600

FLEMING (Ian).

The Man with the Golden Gun, 1965.

£650

ERDRICH (Louise).

Love Medicine, 1984.

Inscribed by the author

£650

SHAKESPEARE (William).

The Dramatic Works, From the Text of Johnson… 1831.

£650

ELIOT (George).

Romola, 1880.

Eliot’s Romola, bound in vellum and hand-painted, featuring a lion rampant holding a crest of the flag of Florence

£650

GOTO (Seikichiro).

Tesuki no kami [Handmade paper], 1984.

A highly tactile book on paper-making in Asia

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SEKINO (Junichiro).

Hida yuki [Travels in Hida], 1951.

With two original Sekino woodblock printed postcards, signed

£650

JOYCE (James).

The Mime of Mick, Nick and the Maggies.… 1934.

LIMITED EDITION

£750

MIYASHITA (Kozo). & SERIZAWA (Keisuke). illus.

Ai ori to ishizara [Indigo dye and Stoneware… 1984.

Bound with a ceramic plate

£750

[KOCHI PREFECTURE HANDMADE WASHI ASSOCIATION].

Tosa Washi, 1990.

Introducing paper-making in Tosa

£750

SEKI (Bunsen).

Bunsen Gafu. [Bunsen's Album], 1848.

£750

SHIBATA (Hanamori)., SHIMAZAKI (Gembei). & HASEGAWA (Sadanobu), illus.

Kaika kocho [Ancient Signs of Enlightenment], 1874.

The rare, illustrated edition

£750

[VILLIAUME (Claude).]

Extrait du porte-feuille de M. Villiaume, précédé d'un… 1813.

LOOKING FOR LOVE IN NAPOLEONIC FRANCE

£750

YEATS (W.B.)

The Secret Rose, 1897.

£750

HASEGAWA (T.)

The Children's Japan By Mrs. W. H. Smith, 1914.

"HASEGAWA'S UNTEARABLE CRÊPE"

£800

KAWAKAMI (Sumio).

Ima wa mukashi [Once upon a time], 1967.

Bound with a reverse glass painting

£800

COELHO (Paul) & CLARKE (Alan R.), translator.

The Alchemist, 1993.

£850

KAWAKAMI (Sumio).

Shonen shojo [Boys and Girls], 1952.

Reflecting on childhood and the passing of time

£850

CHAUCER (Geoffrey).

Chaucer's Romaunt of the Rose, Troilus and Creseide… 1846.

£850

ELIOT (T.S.). & KAUFFER (E. McKnight)., illustrator.

Marina. With Drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer, 1930.

SIGNED BY T.S. ELIOT

£875

CHRISTIE (Agatha).

The Labours of Hercules, 1947.

£950

POTTER (Beatrix).

The Roly-Poly Pudding, 1908.

£950

OKAMURA [Kichiemon].

Okinawa no minyo [Folk Songs in Okinawa], 1961.

A nostalgic book of Okinawan folk songs

£950

ORWELL (George).

Down and Out in Paris and London, 1933.

£950

BURTON (Richard F.).

The Book of the Sword, 1884.

£950

[BRONTË (Emily & Anne)] "Ellis and Acton Bell"

Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, 1858.

£950

YEATS (W.B.).

The Collected Works in Verse and Prose, 1908.

£1,000

POE (Edgar Allan).

The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. Illustrated and… 1900.

£1,000

AUSTEN (Jane).

Pride and Prejudice, 1907.

£1,000

MORRIS (May)

Decorative Needlework, 1893.

WRITTEN AND DESIGNED BY MAY MORRIS

£1,000

FLEMING (Ian).

On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 1963.

£1,200

LONDON (Jack).

The Call of the Wild, 1903.

£1,250

CHANDLER (Raymond).

The Big Sleep, 1939.

£1,250

[TRINIDAD.]

[Trinidad Carnival Costume Gowns.], 1963.

THE COSTUME COMPETITION

£1,250

PETERS (Heather) & SOCIETY OF HERMITS

Hypoxia, 2021.

A breathing book

£1,250

CADOGAN ROTHERY (R.).

Sunny Winter Homes, 1880.

WITH AN ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR

£1,250

SHAKESPEARE (William).

The Works of William Shakespeare, 1795.

£1,500

DANTE ALIGHIERI . & CAYLEY (C.B.), translator.

Dante's Divine Comedy. The Vision of Hell [with]… 1851.

THE FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF DANTE IN TERZA RIMA

£1,500

KAWAKAMI (Sumio).

Kawakami Sumio Sakuhin-shu [Collection of works by Kawakami… 1975.

A beautifully produced posthumous tribute

£1,500

MENNIE (Donald).

China by Land and Water, 1930.

£1,500

ABE (Eishiro)

Izumo Mingei Shifu [Izumo folk craft papers], 1956.

Made by the hands of a Living National Treasure

£1,500

FLEMING (Ian).

The Spy Who Loved Me, 1962.

£1,500

FLEMING (Ian).

Thunderball, 1961.

£1,500

ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS & [SMYTH (James Frederick)].

Panorama of London and the River Thames, 1842.

A DETAILED CELEBRATION OF THE RIVER THAMES

£1,500

HARE (Augustus), illustrator.

[Sketches of Normandy and Brittany.], 1885.

Original sketches by Augustus Hare

£1,500

[PLEASURE GARDENS].

Petit Waux-Hall, 1780.

INTRIGUE AND AMOROUS ADVENTURES IN A PARISIAN PLEASURE GARDEN

£1,500

BEARDSLEY (Aubrey) & HARLAND (Henry), editors.

The Yellow Book. An Illustrated Quarterly, 1894.

£1,500

YEATS (W. B.)

The Secret Rose, 1897.

£1,600

SHAKESPEARE (William).

The Plays of William Shakespeare, 1807.

£1,750

HEMINGWAY (Ernest).

The Old Man and the Sea, 1952.

£1,750

AUSTEN (Jane).

Sense and Sensibility, 1856.

£1,750

TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)

The Hobbit. Or There and Back Again, 1976.

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit"

£1,800

YANAGI (Muneyoshi). & [YANAGI (Soetsu)].

Washi no Bi [The Beauty of Japanese Paper], 1943.

With the rare original dust jacket

£2,000

YEATS (W. B.).

Poems, 1895.

£2,000

ZINCGREF (Julius Wilhelm)

Emblematum Ethico-Politicorum Centuria. Une centaine d'Emblêmes morales &… 1698.

POLYGLOT EMBLEM BOOK WITH MERIAN'S ENGRAVINGS

£2,000

GOTO (Seikichiro).

Nihon no kami: higashi nihon • nishi nihon [Japanese… 1958.

Japanese paper-making arranged by prefecture

£2,250

CHAUCER (Geoffrey), SKEAT (Walter W.) [Editor] & FLINT (W. Russell) [Illustrator]

The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, 1913.

£2,500

BURLEY, D. W.

Original artwork for Chessington Zoo and Circus Transport… 1939.

£2,500

YEATS (W.B.).

The Wanderings of Oisin, 1889.

£2,500

HEANEY (Seamus)., translator.

Pangur Bán, 2016.

ONE OF ONLY 30 COPIES

£2,500

KAWAKAMI (Sumio).

Ranpu to onna [Lamps and Women], 1965.

Natural and man-made beauty, admired together

£2,500

WAKAYAMA (Yasoji). & NAITO (Masakatsu), binder.

Kappa aijo-ki [Kappa love story], 1948.

Wakayama's first self-published book, one of 10 special copies

£2,600

DONNE (John).

Poems on Several Occasions, 1719.

"BUSIE OLD FOOL, UNRULY SUN"

£3,000

RADCLIFFE (Ann).

The Mysteries of Udolpho, a Romance, 1794.

£3,000

KAWAKAMI (Sumio).

Futarizure [Couples], 1947.

A catwalk of stylish couples

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ALLIX (Susan) & LONGUS

Daphnis and Chloe, 1982.

£3,000

YEATS (W.B.)

The Poems of W.B. Yeats, 1949.

£3,250

JOYCE (James).

Ulysses, 1936.

£3,500

BURNE-JONES (Edward Coley)

Pan and Psyche, 1887.

£3,500

KAWAKAMI (Sumio).

Tabako Toraiki [On the Arrival of Tobacco], 1943.

A quiet rebellion in the form of a private press book

£3,500

LOCKE (John).

The Works of John Locke, 1823.

£4,000

KAWAKAMI (Sumio).

Yuenchi haikyo [Amusement Park Ruins], 1956.

One of 5 special copies

£4,000

AUSTEN (Jane).

Pride and Prejudice, 1894.

The Thompson Peacock edition.

£4,000

ASHENDENE PRESS

A Book of Songs and Poems from the… 1904.

'A VARIED AND BEAUTIFUL WORK'

£4,250

FRENCH ARTIST

A suite of large neo-gothic illuminated initials. [France, c.… 1840.

GOTHIC REVIVAL ILLUMINATION

£4,500

FRENCH ARTIST

Illuminated calendar leaf on vellum for January/February from… 1490.

£4,500

POTTER, Beatrix

The tale of Mrs Tittlemouse, inscribed, 1910.

Inscribed "From Miss Potter. Christmas 1910."

£4,500

BROCKMAN (Stuart) [Binder], GROSS (Philip) & REDDICK (Peter)

Abstract Garden, 1996.

FINELY BOUND BY STUART BROCKMAN

£4,500

SHIBAYAMA (Mochitoyo). & TOSA (Mitsusada), artist.

Hyakunin isshu [One hundred poems by one hundred… 1808.

A sumptuous hyakunin isshu with the original envelope

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FLAUBERT (Gustave).

Madame Bovary. Provincial Manners. Translated from the French… 1886.

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION

£4,500

DOUGLASS (Frederick).

My Bondage and Freedom, 1855.

THE MOST IMPORTANT BLACK ABOLITIONIST IN AMERICA

£5,000

JOHNSON (Samuel).

A Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.

£5,000

NARITA (Kiyofusa). & [OJI PAPER COMPANY MUSEUM].

Koshi hyakutai [Varieties of old papers], 1949.

'The most enduring monuments are those made of paper'

£5,000

KAWAKAMI (Sumio).

Jagatarabumi [Letters from Jakarta], 1941.

The half-Japanese diaspora in Jakarta

£5,000

WEBBER (John). & BARTOLOZZI (F.),

The Death of  Captain Cook, 1784.

VALENTINES DAY 1779

£6,500

SEKINO (Junichiro).

Kojiki emaki [Picture Scroll of the Kojiki], 1949.

A calming book for the busy age

£6,500

PONTING (Herbert).

"Into the Pack Ice", 1910.

SIGNED BY PONTING, A VIEW FROM THE RIGGING OF TERRA NOVA

£6,500

SHAKESPEARE (William).

The Works of William Shakespeare. Edited by Israel… 1899.

£7,500

ASCHAM (Roger)

Familiarum Epistolarum Libri tres, magna orationis elegantia conscripti,… 1602.

A DE THOU BINDING, WITH HIS WIFE'S ARMS

£7,500

TOLSTOÏ [TOLSTOY] (Léon). [(Leo).]

La Guerre et la Paix. Roman historique traduit… 1879.

THE RARE FIRST FRENCH TRANSLATION OF TOLSTOY'S MASTERPIECE

£7,500

RILEY (Dominic) [Binder] & BARNFIELD (Richard)

Richard Barnfield's Sonnets, 2001.

A BEAUTIFUL AND THOUGHTFUL BINDING BY DOMINIC RILEY

£7,500

CRANACH PRESS & VERGILIUS MARO (Publius)

The Eclogues of Vergil. In the original Latin… 1927.

One of the greatest achievements of 20th century fine printing

£8,000

BOCCACCIO (Giovanni)

Le Philocope de Messire Jehan Boccace florentin, contena(n)t… 1542.

OWNED BY A PICARDY COUNTESS IN THE LATE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

£9,500

CHELONIIDAE PRESS & BROCKMAN (James) [Binder]

Birds and Beasts of Shakespeare, 1990.

A MASTERFUL BINDING BY JAMES BROCKMAN

£12,000

CHURCHILL (Winston S.)

The Second World War: The Gathering Storm; The… 1948.

Inscribed to Grace Hamblin, "the longest-serving member of Churchill’s secretarial staff".

£15,000

AUSTEN (Jane).

Mansfield Park, 1816.

An Austen family copy of the second edition in beautiful Regency binding.

£15,000

AUSTEN (Jane).

Sense and Sensibility, 1813.

A second edition in beautiful Regency binding.

£15,000

WILDE (Oscar).

Signed and dated photographic portrait of Wilde, 1892.

Signed during the first run of Lady Windemere's Fan

£20,000

COUPLET (Philippe) editor.

Confucius Sinarum Philosophus, Sive Scientia Sinensis Latine Exposita.… 1687.

THE CONFESSOR'S COPY

£64,000

MATISSE (Henri) & MALLARMÉ (Stephane)

Poésies, 1932.

MATISSE'S FIRST LIVRE D'ARTISTE

£82,500