Maggs Bros. Ltd.

ELIOT (T.S.)

The Waste Land, 1922.

A fine copy of this cornerstone of modernist poetry.

£140,000

FLEMING (Ian).

A Complete Set of the James Bond Novels… 1953.

With one copy signed by the dust jacket artist Kenneth Lewis.

£130,000

MATISSE (Henri) & MALLARMÉ (Stephane)

Poésies, 1932.

MATISSE'S FIRST LIVRE D'ARTISTE

£82,500

VAUGHAN (Henry).

Silex Scintillans: or Sacred Poems and Priuate Eiaculations… 1650.

£65,000

BROWNING (Elizabeth Barrett).

Six autograph letters signed (“Elizabeth Barrett Browning’) to… 1852.

A MUTUAL LITERARY APPRECIATION: LETTERS TO THE YOUNG WRITER, DINAH CRAIK

£37,500

AUSTEN (Jane).

Northanger Abbey: and Persuasion, 1818.

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

£35,000

[DE BALAGNY (Gauthier)]

Recueil de bonnes et mauvaises poisies, de diferens… 1587.

A MANUSCRIPT MISCELLANY SPANNING MORE THAN A CENTURY

£25,000

WOOLF (Virginia)

Jacob’s Room, 1922.

First edition signed by Virginia Woolf.

£22,000

WILDE (Oscar).

Signed and dated photographic portrait of Wilde, 1892.

Signed during the first run of Lady Windemere's Fan

£20,000

BROWNING (Elizabeth Barrett). & BROWNING (Robert).

Autograph letter signed (“Elizabeth Barrett Browning”) and with… 1859.

"I believe in a perpetual sequence according to Gods’ will, & in what has been called a ‘correspondence’ between the natural world & the spiritual."

£18,000

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

ROWLING (J.K.)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. [with]… 1999.

£15,000

KIPLING (Rudyard).

Just So Stories For Little Children, 1902.

WITH THE RARE DUST JACKET

£12,500

BARON L'ESTAT

Lali et Sainval drame en trois actes en… 1784.

WRITTEN & PERFORMED FOR CATHERINE THE GREAT

£12,500

DICKENS (Charles).

The Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol, The Chimes,… 1844.

Dickens' Christmas books, lavishly bound by Ramage

£12,500

PÉCHEUR (Jane), ANOUILH (Jean) & ANTHOINE-LEGRAIN (J.)

Antigone, 1945.

A STUNNING TYPOGRAPHIC BINDING

£12,000

JOYCE (James).

Autograph Letter Signed to Maurice Martin Du Gard, 1922.

JOYCE, IN 1922, ON TRANSLATING DESIRE

£10,000

THOMAS (Dylan).

Collected Poems. 1934-1952, 1952.

ONE OF ONLY 65 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

£10,000

DANTE

[Opere]. La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri con… 1757.

SPECTACULARLY ILLUSTRATED, ROCOCO DANTE

£10,000

FAULKNER (William).

The Sound and the Fury, 1929.

An excellent copy of Faulkner's fourth novel.

£9,750

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

ASHENDENE PRESS. & BOCCACCIO.

Il Decameron di Giovanni Boccaccio, 1920.

Fine binding by Donald Glaister.

£9,000

LAWRENCE (T.E.) & CORVINUS PRESS.

Two Arabic Folk Tales, 1937.

£8,750

WORDSWORTH (William).

Poems, in Two Volumes, by William Wordsworth, Author… 1807.

A REMARKABLY FINE COPY OF AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION

£8,500

ORWELL (George).

Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949.

One of the greatest works of British dystopian literature and a terrifying critique of totalitarianism.

£8,500

DOUGHTY (C.M.)

Correspondence with Doughty’s publisher 'Messers Duckworth', and specifically…

A rich archive of an effort to restore English literature

£8,500

KRULL (Germaine)

Études de Nu, 1930.

'Why make nudes? because it has always been beautiful and I liked it one summer morning'

£8,500

KIPLING (Rudyard & Alice).

Echoes. By Two Writers, 1884.

£8,250

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

(JOHNSON, Lionel) et al.

The Book of the Rhymers' Club. [and] The… 1892.

Both copies inscribed by Lionel Johnson

£8,000

STOWE (Harriet Beecher).

Uncle Tom's Cabin; Or Life Among the Lowly, 1852.

FIRST EDITION OF THE ABOLITIONIST LITERARY PHENOMENON

£7,500

WAUGH (Evelyn)

Rossetti. His Life and Works, 1928.

INSCRIBED TO ANTHONY POWELL

£7,500

SHAKESPEARE (William).

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

£7,500

WAUGH (Evelyn)

Black Mischief, 1932.

FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY WAUGH TO MRS. ANTHONY POWELL

£7,500

BEERBOHM (Max).

Miniature Design for a colossal fresco commemorating the… 1924.

£7,500

FLEMING (Ian).

The Spy Who Loved Me, 1962.

UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY IN RARE PROOF DUST JACKET

£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

HEANEY (Seamus).

Eleven Poems, 1965.

"These pamphlets are very valuable."

£7,500

HARTLEY (L. P.)

Night Fears and Other Stories, 1924.

A superlative copy, inscribed by the author

£7,500

[FEARN (John Russell)]. & STATTEN (Vargo). Pseudonym.

Creature from the Black Lagoon, 1954.

£7,500

REPTON (Humphry).

Designs for the Pavillon at Brighton, 1808.

£7,000