Maggs Bros. Ltd.

THUCYDIDES & ASHENDENE PRESS

Thucydides [History of the Peloponnesian War], 1930.

£7,000

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

Gone with the Wind, 1936.

FIRST EDITION, BOUND BY PAUL DELRUE

£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

KIPLING (Rudyard).

Sixteen Illustrations of Subjects from Rudyard Kipling's Jungle… 1903.

£6,000

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

TASSO (Torquato)

La Gerusalemme liberata. Paris, appresso A. Delalain, P.… 1771.

"RELIURE DE PRESENT" DESIGNED BY GRAVELOT FOR THIS EDITION

£5,750

WILDE, Oscar.

A Woman of No Importance, 1894.

£5,750

JOHNSON, Lionel Pigott, & Richard Le Gallienne.

Bits of Old Chelsea:, 1894.

£5,200

BECKETT (Samuel). & JOYCE (James).

Our Exagmination Round his Factification for Incamination of… 1929.

His writing is not about something; it is that something itself.

£5,000

APOLLINAIRE (Guillaume).

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

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

£5,000

POWELL (Anthony).

From a View to a Death, 1933.

The Author's copy, with manuscript revisions

£5,000

POTTER, Beatrix

Autograph Letter Signed (“Beatrix Potter”) to “My dear… 1906.

"I shall bring my paintbox”

£5,000

Death of A Naturalist, 1966.

£5,000

MOLIERE (Jean Baptiste Poquelin)

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

A MASTERPIECE OF 18TH CENTURY FRENCH ILLUSTRATION

£5,000

MIRÓ (Joan) & LÉVIS MANO (Guy)

Le Dedans & Le Dehors, 1966.

ORIGINAL SIGNED ETCHING BY MIRÓ

£5,000

SARTRE (Jean-Paul).

La Nausée, 1938.

INSCRIBED BY SARTRE, IN A REVORIM BINDING BY JEAN DE GONET

£5,000

BECKFORD (William).

An Arabian Tale, From An Unpublished Manuscript: with… 1786.

THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF VATHEK IN ANY LANGUAGE

£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

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

FAULKNER (William).

Absalom, Absalom!, 1936.

First edition in exceptional condition.

£4,500

FLAUBERT (Gustave).

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

“One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.”

£4,500

KIPLING (Rudyard).

The Jungle Book. [with:] The Second Jungle Book, 1894.

£4,500

DUNSANY (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany).

Small archive of correspondence relating to his work… 1919.

A.A. MILNE MENTIONING CHRISTOPHER ROBIN, LORD DUNSANY, AND J.M. BARRIE

£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

ALLIX (Susan) & LEON BATTISTA (Alberti)

On Painting. Translated from the original Italian, abridged… 1999.

ALBERTI'S MANUAL OF PAINTING, VIA SUSAN ALLIX

£4,500

DOYLE (Arthur Conan).

The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1902.

£4,500

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

Manuscript book of poetry, 1933.

£4,250

DOSTOEVSKY [DOSTOYEVSKY] (Fyodor).

Buried Alive, or Ten Years of Penal Servitude… 1881.

THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD

£4,250

RABELAIS (Francois)

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

UNCOMMON EDITION IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING

£4,000

ELIOT (T.S.) & JONES (David).

In Parenthesis, 1961.

'The greatest book about the first world war'

£4,000

WILDE (Oscar)].

The Trial of Oscar Wilde from Shorthand Reports, 1906.

THE EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE JAPANESE VELLUM ISSUE

£4,000

VERLAINE (Paul), YSEUX SR. DE THIERRY-SIMIER [Binder] & CHIMOT (Édouard)

Parallelement, 1931.

THE LAST GASP OF THE 'ROARING TWENTIES'

£4,000

BRUGALLA (Emilio), JUVENAL & DE BECQUE (Maurice)

Satire Sur Les Femmes, 1923.

A FINE ART DECO BINDING BY THE CATALAN MASTER

£4,000