Gift Ideas

  1. TACITUS. 

    C. Cornelius Tacitus, cum optimis exemplaribus...

    Amsterdam, Daniel Elzevir, 1678. 

    A remarkably fresh set of the third and...

    £275

  2. HUGHES, Langston. 

    Shakespeare in Harlem. 

    New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1942.

    First edition of this wartime collection...

    £1000

  3. [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

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

    A Whitman Portrait.

    [New York, Spiral Press, 1960.]

    First edition, comprising extracts from...

    £250

  5. KELLER, Martialis.

    Neueröffnete Himmels-Schule, in welcher...

    Augsburg, Matthäus Riegers, 1793.

    Rare later edition of this educational...

    £500

  6. LAING, Alexander. 

    The True Hero and Other Poems … 

    Glasgow, Morison Brothers, 1893. 

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

    £375

  7. [THE BOOK COLLECTOR.]

    A special Number to commemorate the 150th...

    The Book Collector, 1997.

    A collection of essays together recounting...

    £25

  8. 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

  9. QUARITCH, Bernard Alexander Christian, editor.

    Contributions towards a Dictionary of English...

    London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 1969.

    A facsimile reprint of Quaritch’s series...

    £25

  10. SWIFT, Jonathan. 

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

    London, C. Bathurst, 1751. 

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

    £175

  11. STEPNIAK, Sergey. 

    דאָס אינטערערדישע רוסלאַנד...

    New York, Maks N. Maisel, 1921. 

    Scarce first American edition in Yiddish...

    £150

  12. ROUQUET, Jean-André. 

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

    London, for J. Nourse, 1755. 

    First edition in English, published in...

    £19500

  13. WALLER, Edmund. 

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

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

    Second (but first licensed) edition of...

    £850

  14. [JUVENILE.] 

    Preliminary lessons on the history of England,...

    Taunton, J. Poole, 1821. 

    Later edition of this uncommon Taunton-printed...

    £135

  15. ELIOT, George.

    The Writings …

    Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin...

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

    £2500

  16. PRIOR, Matthew.

    Poems on several Occasions.

    London: Printed for Jacob Tonson … 1709.

    First authorised edition, preceded by Curll’s...

    £400

  17. FIELDING, Henry.

    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling …

    Paris: Printed by Fr. Amb. Didot the eldest,...

    The first French edition in English of...

    £425

  18. HUGHES, John.

    Poems on several Occasions. With some select...

    London: Printed for J. Tonson and J. Watts....

    First edition of the principal collection...

    £850

  19. [UNGER, Salomo Gottlob.]

    Geschichte des Oesterreich-Russischen und...

    Leipzig, Wilhelm Gottlob Sommer, 1792.

    First and only edition, extremely rare,...

    £1250

  20. [HALL STEVENSON, John.]

    Makarony Fables …

    London: ‘Printed for Circulation among...

    Limited edition, numbered 172 of 300 copies,...

    £100