Literature & Biography

This work, the first of its kind to deal with the University and the Colleges, courted controversy Wood, Anthony: Athenae Oxonienses. An exact Hist...

Bryars & Bryars are especially fond of Dr Johnson, having hired his house on Gough Square for our wedding reception Boswell, James: The Life of...

Johnson, Dr Samuel: The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical observations on their works [...] a new edition, corrected […] Lond...

The works of Edmund Spenser […] with the principal illustrations of several commentators. To which are added notes […] by the Rev Henry John Todd [...

The Novels of Ivan Turgenev, Illustrated Edition… Translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett. London: William Heinemann, 1906 15 volumes, in ...

‘Krieg und Frieden’ [‘War and Peace’: a collection of five pamphlets] Berlin, Geneva, Zurich, 1919-20 Sammelband comprising five pamphlets bound to...

Droits de l’homme; en réponse a l’attaque de M. Burke sur la Révolution Françoise. […] Traduit de l’Anglois, par F. S[oulès]. Avec des notes et une...

The 22 volume set of first printings of the Collected Edition, each supplied with a new introduction by the author: Brighton Rock It's a Battlefie...

Reliquiæ sacræ Carolinæ. Or The works of that great monarch and glorious martyr King Charls the I. Collected together, and digested in order, accor...

Human Life, a Poem. London, John Murray, 1819 The poem and its early owner’s commentary Rogers' poem was printed in both quarto and octavo formats ...

Bound with ‘the Court Kalendar’ and ‘A list of the publick offices and officers’ Rider, Cardanus: Riders (1737.) British Merlin: adorn'd with many ...

First edition of Wilkie Collins’ No Name. One of Pinda’s favourite novels, and in her opinion better than his more well-known works Wilkie Collins:...

Probably the first collected edition in English of Gandhi’s speeches and writings. You know a lesser bookseller would omit the qualification, but n...

Condition & Materials 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s cloth, with dustwrapper. The colonial issue, with unpriced dustwrapper and white blockin...

One of those Victorian novels which is both rare and interesting. (OCLC records copies in the BL, Bodleian, Cambridge University Library, and the ...

with a splendid William F Matthews binding The splendid binding by William F Matthews is discussed by Dorothy Harrop in The Book Collector, Winter ...

inscribed to the Cecils Presentation copy, inscribed to Waugh's close friends Lord David and Rachel Cecil: "For David & Rachel / from / Evelyn ...

Condition & Materials First edition, 8vo. A couple of leaves roughly trimmed (evidently a production fault), very slight fading to cloth spine...

The Bending of the Bow: A Version of the Closing Books of Homer’s Odyssey. 4to. Number 15 of 75 copies signed by Neil Curry, with a signed and corr...

Very nice copy in unclipped dustwrapper by Leonard Rosoman; spine lettering to dustwrapper faded as often, and chipped at head of spine with corre...

Arthur Wellard (1902-1980) (Somerset, England and Gaieties) Wrappers, wire-stitched. A few small, faint splash marks to last page of text, otherwis...

illustrated limited edition Folio, wrappers; loose as issued in a paper folder, cloth chemise and slipcase. Text printed by Will and Sebastian Cart...

Related biographical works on the lives of Greek philosophers, originally compiled in the 3rd and 4th centuries CE Diogenes Laertius; Eunapius of S...

Inscribed to Edmund Grosse An important presentation copy, inscribed "Edmund W. Gosse / with the author's kind regards". Covers darkened, spine chi...