Maggs Bros. Ltd.

OUIDA, [Marie Louise de la Ramée]

Ruffino &c

"Ruffino was a little Pomeranian dog with a small black nose, and large black eyes, and a ruff as wide and imposing as Queen Elizabeth's"

£100

CONRAD (Joseph).

Nostromo. A Tale of the Seaboard, 1904.

"I'd rather have written Conrad's Nostromo than any other novel" (F. Scott Fitzgerald).

£1,500

OUIDA, [Marie Louise de la Ramée]

Moths, 1894.

"Marriage could never bring her aught better than it brought her already - a luxurious and ornamented slavery..."

£175

OUIDA [Marie Louise de la Ramée]

Held in Bondage, 1893.

An "immature and most imperfect romance." (Ouida)

£125

OUIDA [Marie Louise de la Ramée]

A Village Commune, 1882.

"... it is a little Italian borgo, like many other, lying under the sweet blue skies of this beloved and lovely land that has been mother to Theocritus and Tasso."

£100

OUIDA [Marie Louise de la Ramée]

Strathmore, 1886.

"Those swift, silent Strathmores, they are very cold, they say, and love very rarely; but when they love, it must be imperiously, passionately, madly, tout au rien."

£125

OUIDA [Marie Louise de la Ramée]

Strathmore, 1882.

"Those swift, silent Strathmores, they are very cold, they say, and love very rarely; but when they love, it must be imperiously, passionately, madly, tout au rien."

£100

CHRISTIE (Agatha).

The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, 1962.

£275

MITCHELL (Gladys).

Death and the Maiden, 1950.

£150

PIPER (John)

Grongar Hill, 1982.

'Quite clearly the Promised Land'

£450

BENNETT (Miss M. G.)

Calligraphic manuscript of verse taken from William Morris'… 1929.

£1,000

MACLEAN (Alistair).

The Guns of Navarone, 1957.

£150

CHANDLER (Raymond).

Playback, 1958.

£125

MCCARTHY (Cormac).

No Country For Old Men, 2005.

£250

MITCHISON (Naomi).

Memoirs of a Spacewoman, 1962.

£300

AMIS (Martin).

London Fields, 1989.

£100

LE CARRE (John).

A Small Town in Germany, 1968.

£175

BETHUNE (Lebert).

Juju of My Own, 1965.

"AN AFRO-AMERICAN PRODUCTION": A SIGNED COPY

£750

YEATS (W.B.)

Broadsides. A Collection of Old and New Songs, 1935.

£3,000

CHRISTIE, (Agatha)

Typed Letter Signed ("Agatha Christie") to Frederick Bason… 1929.

"I hope to have another play on sometime but plays are very uncertain things"

£2,000

RADCLIFFE (Ann).

The Mysteries of Udolpho, a Romance, 1794.

£3,000

PRIESTLEY (J.B.)

An Inspector Calls. A Play in Three Acts, 1947.

£300

KRULL (Germaine)

Études de Nu, 1930.

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

£8,500

MCCARTHY (Cormac).

The Road, 2006.

£200

DOYLE (Arthur Conan).

The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1902.

£4,500

POTTER, (Beatrix)

The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin

"This is a Tale about a tail..."

£1,000

AMADI (Elechi).

Sunset in Biafra, 1973.

PRESENTATION COPY

£1,250

YEATS (W.B.)

The Secret Rose, 1897.

£750

TWAIN (Mark). [Samuel L. Clemens].

Les Aventures de Huck Finn: L'ami de Tom… 1887.

Lovely copy of the first French edition

£1,000

ELIOT, T. S.

Typed Letter Signed ("T. S. Eliot") to "Dear…

£700

BEERBOHM (Max).

Miniature Design for a colossal fresco commemorating the… 1924.

£7,500

LAWRENCE (T.E.)

Autograph cheque signed ('J.H. Ross'), made out to… 1926.

£2,500

ELIOT, T. S.

Typed Letter Signed ('Tom') to 'My dear Winnie'… 1963.

£1,200

POWELL (Anthony).

Afternoon Men, 1931.

£2,500

JAMES (M. R.)

The Five Jars, 1922.

A dark fairy story & James' only novel

£350

JAMES (M. R.)

A Thin Ghost and Others, 1919.

£1,500

[WAUGH (Evelyn).] & LANDON (Letitia Elizabeth).

The Amulet, 1836.

Inscribed by Evelyn Waugh

£325

OUIDA [Marie Louise de la Ramée]

Chandos, 1881.

"Few in town that night looked up at the shooting star as it flashed its fiery passage above the dull, leaden, noxious, gas-lit streets."

£125

OUIDA [ Marie Louise de la Ramée]

Frescoes Etc, 1885.

"Send me somebody to paint the ballroom..."

£100

OUIDA [Marie Louise de la Ramée]

A Dog of Flanders and other Stories, 1896.

"It was a Christian country, and Pastrache was but a dog"

£125

OUIDA [Marie Louise de la Ramée]

A Dog of Flanders and other Stories, 1881.

"It was a Christian country, and Pastrache was but a dog"

£150

YEATS (W.B.).

The Collected Works in Verse and Prose, 1908.

£1,000