Maggs Bros. Ltd.

FLEMING (Ian).

A Complete Set of the James Bond Novels… 1953.

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

£130,000

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

ALBIN (Eleazar) & & ALBIN (Elizabeth).

A natural history of birds ... published by… 1731.

THE FIRST BOOK OF ORNITHOLOGY WITH COLOURED PLATES

£25,000

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

ROWLING (J.K.)

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

£15,000

BARON L'ESTAT

Lali et Sainval drame en trois actes en… 1784.

WRITTEN & PERFORMED FOR CATHERINE THE GREAT

£12,500

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

Antigone, 1945.

A STUNNING TYPOGRAPHIC BINDING

£12,000

DANTE

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

SPECTACULARLY ILLUSTRATED, ROCOCO DANTE

£10,000

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

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

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

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

HARTLEY (L. P.)

Night Fears and Other Stories, 1924.

A superlative copy, inscribed by the author

£7,500

SHAKESPEARE (William).

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

A stunning set of Shakespeare's complete works

£7,500

REPTON (Humphry).

Designs for the Pavillon at Brighton, 1808.

£7,000

MITCHELL (Margaret) & DELRUE (Paul) [Binder]

Gone with the Wind, 1936.

FIRST EDITION, BOUND BY PAUL DELRUE

£7,000

THUCYDIDES & ASHENDENE PRESS

Thucydides [History of the Peloponnesian War], 1930.

£7,000

KAWABATA (Yasunari).

Izu no odoriko [The Dancing Girl of Izu], 1932.

SIGNED BY JAPAN'S FIRST NOBEL PRIZE WINNER FOR LITERATURE

£6,800

WHITMAN (Walt).

Complete Poems and Prose, 1888.

THE DEFINITIVE LIFETIME EDITION OF WHITMAN'S WORKS, BOLDLY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

£6,500

[WODEHOUSE (P.G.)] & BACON (Peggy).

Uncle Fred in the Springtime: original dust jacket… 1939.

£6,250

TZARA (Tristan). & ARP (Hans)

Vingt-cinq poèmes. Dix Gravures sur bois de Hans… 1918.

£6,000

JOHNSON, Lionel

Poems.

£6,000

Squarings. Twelve Poems. Lithographs by Felim Egan, 1980.

'SHIFTING BRILLIANCIES' SIGNED BY HEANEY AND FELIM EGAN

£6,000

SAUVAGE (Slyvain) & DE LACLOS (Choderlos)

Les Liaisons Dangereuses, 1930.

EIGHT ORIGINAL WORKS AND FOUR COPPER PLATES BY SAUVAGE

£6,000

BETJEMAN (John) as Deirdre O'Betjeman.

Some Immortal Hours. A Rhapsody of the Celtic… 1962.

£5,750

APOLLINAIRE (Guillaume).

Alcools - Poèmes - (1898-1913).  Paris [Tours, E. Arrault… 1913.

NUMBERED FIRST EDITION OF AN 'ASTONISHING' WORK OF FRENCH POETRY

£5,000

MOLIERE (Jean Baptiste Poquelin)

Oeuvres. Nouvelle édition. Paris, [Pierre Prault], 1734, 1734.

A MASTERPIECE OF 18TH CENTURY FRENCH ILLUSTRATION

£5,000

JOHNSON (Samuel).

A Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.

£5,000

JOHNSON, Lionel.

Sir Walter Raleigh in the Tower, 1885.

£4,800

GASPAR (Enrique).

El Anacronópete, 1887.

THE FIRST NOVEL TO DEPICT A TIME TRAVEL MACHINE

£4,800

HORNE, Herbert (editor).

The Century Guild Hobby Horse, 1886.

£4,690

JOHNSON, Lionel.

The Art of Thomas Hardy, 1894.

£4,600

GONNE (Maud).

Portrait photograph of Maud Gonne, 1901.

£4,500

DOWSON, Ernest.

Verses, 1896.

£4,500

WAUGH (Evelyn).

Christmas card for 1950, 1950.

Gaetano Giulio Zumbo's plague diorama, the perfect Christmas card for Scrooge-like Waugh

£4,500

[LAWRENCE (T.E.)] & DUNN (G.W.M.)

Manuscript book of poetry, 1933.

£4,250

RABELAIS (Francois)

Les Oeuvres de M. Francois Rabelais, Docteur in… 1588.

UNCOMMON EDITION IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING

£4,000