Gift Ideas

  1. [MONROE, Marilyn.] 

    DIENES, André de.  Marilyn. 

    Cologne, Taschen, 2002. 

    First edition of this celebratory book...

    £200

  2. ZUKOFSKY, Louis.

    Some Time. Short Poems …

    Stuttgart, Jonathan Williams, 1956.

    First edition, one of 300 copies, inscribed...

    £500

  3. REXROTH, Kenneth.

    An Autobiographical Novel …

    Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company,...

    First edition, inscribed ‘In friendship...

    £300

  4. [PRAYERS.] 

    ‘Orationes diversae pro temporum opportunitate...

    [Likely Lucca, late eighteenth century.] 

    A delightful manuscript prayerbook for...

    £475

  5. TACITUS. 

    C. Cornelius Tacitus, cum optimis exemplaribus...

    Amsterdam, Daniel Elzevir, 1678. 

    A remarkably fresh set of the third and...

    £275

  6. HUGHES, Langston. 

    Shakespeare in Harlem. 

    New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1942.

    First edition of this wartime collection...

    £1000

  7. [BOLINGBROKE, Henry St John, Viscount].

    Letters, on the Spirit of Patriotism: on...

    London: Printed for A. Millar … 1749.

    First authorised edition. Written in 1738...

    £375

  8. WHITMAN, Walt, and Antonio FRASCONI (illustrator).

    A Whitman Portrait.

    [New York, Spiral Press, 1960.]

    First edition, comprising extracts from...

    £250

  9. KELLER, Martialis.

    Neueröffnete Himmels-Schule, in welcher...

    Augsburg, Matthäus Riegers, 1793.

    Rare later edition of this educational...

    £500

  10. LAING, Alexander. 

    The True Hero and Other Poems … 

    Glasgow, Morison Brothers, 1893. 

    First edition, scarce, a presentation copy,...

    £375

  11. [THE BOOK COLLECTOR.]

    A special Number to commemorate the 150th...

    The Book Collector, 1997.

    A collection of essays together recounting...

    £25

  12. MYERS, Robin, Michael HARRIS, and Giles MANDELBROTE (eds).

    Lives in Book History: Changing Contours...

    Leicester, Garendon Press, 2022.

    ‘This volume has grown out of one event...

    £35

  13. QUARITCH, Bernard Alexander Christian, editor.

    Contributions towards a Dictionary of English...

    London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 1969.

    A facsimile reprint of Quaritch’s series...

    £25

  14. SWIFT, Jonathan. 

    A Tale of a Tub … to which is added,...

    London, C. Bathurst, 1751. 

    A scarce later edition of Swift’s classic...

    £175

  15. STEPNIAK, Sergey. 

    דאָס אינטערערדישע רוסלאַנד...

    New York, Maks N. Maisel, 1921. 

    Scarce first American edition in Yiddish...

    £150

  16. ROUQUET, Jean-André. 

    The present State of the Arts in England. ...

    London, for J. Nourse, 1755. 

    First edition in English, published in...

    £19500

  17. WALLER, Edmund. 

    Poems, &c. written by Mr. Ed. Waller...

    London, Printed by I. N. for Hu. Mosley...

    Second (but first licensed) edition of...

    £850

  18. [JUVENILE.] 

    Preliminary lessons on the history of England,...

    Taunton, J. Poole, 1821. 

    Later edition of this uncommon Taunton-printed...

    £135

  19. ELIOT, George.

    The Writings …

    Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin...

    The Large-Paper edition of Eliot’s complete...

    £2500

  20. HUGHES, Ted.

    T.S. Eliot: A Tribute by the Poet Laureate.

    [London,] ‘Privately Printed by [the...

    A privately printed tribute to T.S. Eliot,...

    £175