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First Edition. 1945. Published by Ward, Lock & Co Ltd. Hardback. Top and Bottom of spine missing. Protected by a plastic sleeve. Writing in pen inscribed on the inside of the first page.

Deluxe editions published by Harper Voyager in 2011. Exceptional condition. Hardback and with individual slip cases.

More commonly know as A Game of Thrones. A series of epic fantasy novels by American novelist and screenwriter George R. R. Martin. The first volume of the series, A Game of Thrones, was first published in 1996. Though initially envisioned as a trilogy, the novels thus published comprise five out of a planned seven volumes. The fifth and most recent volume of the series, A Dance with Dragons, was published in 2011 and took Martin six years to write. He is currently writing the sixth novel, The Winds of Winter.

This includes a brief record of the history of the institution and the acquisition of the memorial house, detail of the opening ceremony, various related letters and documents, titles of the first two thousand works acquired. The Keats-Shelly memorial is the two room Rome apartment which John Keats passed away in 1821.

Macmillan &Co. Ltd., London & New York 1910 - 1913 the first two issues, respectively. 187pp & 199pp. Binding is paperback.

Cutting from The New York Times Book Review, September 24, 1939 found inside.

Condition: discolouration to front covers of both books. Both have been placed in a plastic cover to protect the paperback cover. Heavy foxing to edges of pages.

1^st Edition.  1^st Printing. 1963 Published by Jonathan Cape: London. Hardback with Dust Jacket.

Condition: Original grey-brown boards, white ski track on cover. Tiny tear to top front of dust jacket, some slight scuffing to jacket spine, but overall, in good condition. No foxing.  Good condition, one page (chapter 14) has been turned in corner but almost barely read condition.

Open the doors to Hogwarts Castle and the wizarding world of Harry Potter to reveal the complete behind the scenes secrets, techniques, and over-the-top artist that brought J.K.Rowling’s acclaimed novels to cinematic life.

2011 Insight Edition, Harper Collins Harper Design.

Perfect New Condition, signed by Daniel Radcliffe.

1^st Edition.  1^st Printing. Dated 1964, published by Jonathan Cape: London. Hardback with Dust Jacket.

Condition: Original grey boards with silver writing, with gold Japanese writing on front cover and printed inside jacket.  Designed endpapers unmarked. Overall, very good condition, hardly read. No foxing.

1st Edition. 1st Printing. Published in 1961 by Jonathan Cape: London. Hardback with Dust Jacket.

Condition: Well read. Original grey-brown cover with skeleton hand embossed. Creased pages from having been read. Pencil marks. Inside there is a signature marking, which has been erased but left an imprint. The original jacket is fairly worn, torn on edges, scuffed, and marked. A beautiful well-read example. No foxing.

Reprint of first edition, 1931, Constable and Company.

Works- Man & Superman, St Joan, The Apple Cart, Three Plays for Puritans, Misallaianger, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Fanny’s First Play, Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, Playlets of the War, Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant, Unpleasant Plays, The Doctor’s Dilema, Getting Married, The shewing-up of Blanco Posnet.

Great Condition- appears new and unused. Gold gilt lettering on spine. Foyles sticket bottom left hand corner of front cover inside on all. Accompanying letter regarding origin of the collection. Gold gilt top page edges. No dust jacket.

Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co. 1888 1st Edition.

This was Kipling's first published volume of fiction.

Condition: Rebound with Original binding enclosed and minimal foxing to pages.

1st Edition 1840, Chapman and Hall. Illustration by ‘Phiz’.

Worn at the edges and top and bottom at spine. Foxing on outer pages and illustrated pages. Great Condition, stamps from previous ownership.

Limited Edition 185/250, 1879. Chapman and Hall London.

Good condition, foxing on the outer pages. Stamp of previous owners. Newspaper cutting inside featuring book.

Published in 1822 by Archibald Constable and Co and Hurst Robinson and Co.

Published in three volumes initially anonymously as with all the Waverley novels prior to 1827 the plot centres on the arrival of a shipwrecked captain named Cleveland on Shetland which spoils a young man's developing relationship with the Troil sisters and the subsequent bitter rivalry between the two men. Scott instilled within the narrative a great sense of place , the complexity and dichotomy of human beings ruled by Scotland but Scandinavian in their way of life and traditions and the very remoteness of the land , isolated in time

1-3 volumes. Volume 1 top of the spine missing, creasing throughout the volume pages. Foxing on hardback covers. All three volumes have some minor wear and tear for 200 year old books. Beautifully aged books.

First edition thus, first impression, issued to commemorate the half century of the completion of Casino Royale in 1952. This was the first James Bond hardback edition published by Penguin Books, who held the publishing rights to the series for a decade. octavo. Original black boards, lettering to spines in silver, with dust jacket.

SMERSH, the Russian intelligence unit whose acronym stands for Death to Spies, is hell-bent on destroying Special Agent James Bond. His death would deal a catastrophic hammer blow to the heart of the British Secret Service.

The lure? A beautiful woman who needs 007s help. Tatiana Romanova is a Russian spy who promises to hand over the prized Spektor decoding machine if Bond aids her defection. Bond suspects a trap but cant resist the opportunity to give the British the upper hand in a chilling new front of the Cold War.

So begins a deadly game of bluff and double bluff, with Bond a marked man as he enters the murky world of Balkan espionage.

Condition: The jacket is fairly worn, torn on edges and scuffed. Minor foxing with strong binding.

Glasgow: William Collins, Sons, and Company, 1863. Hardcover Very Good condition. Includes ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ and ‘The Holy War’, with an essay on The Pilgrim’s Progress by James Montgomery and a Life of the Author by Rev. Thomas Scott. Includes numerous wood engravings and a series of chromo-lithographs by T. Stothard. Half brown leather with marbled boards. Bound with and firm with small marks on edge of pages and minimal foxing to a few pages.

Published by George Allen in 1902. Bookplate on inside cover page. Marbled page edges.

Written in 1856 while Ruskin was working on his seminal work " Modern Painters , he was given his only commission to pen commentaries on some art plates produced by J M W Turner - an important art history work by one of the cultural theorist and thinkers of the time. Ruskin described four of the twelve exquisite mezzotints as the finest executed by Turner from his marine subjects. Tolstoy described Ruskin as " one of the most remarkable men not only of England and of our generation but of all countries and times." Some of his ideas and concerns would resonate with us today around sustainability, the environment and nature.

Condition: worn, with slight damage on the spine from age and wear. Good readable condition.

Published by Denwick and Clare, for Lackington, Allen & Co in 1806.

Worn condition, stamps, browning, and some foxing. Containing Dr. Blair’s three celebrated critical dissertations; a preliminary discourse or review of the nearest controversy relative to the authenticity of the poems in which the opinions of David Hume, Mr Leving, Ms Macdonald, the Highland Society, Mr Knight etc are considered.

First Edition, 1960, Hamish Hamilton.

Don't Tell Alfred is the wickedly funny sequel to Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love.

Fanny is married to absent-minded Oxford don Alfred and content with her role as a plain, tweedy housewife. But overnight her life changes when Alfred is appointed English Ambassador to Paris.

In the blink of an eye, Fanny's mixing with royalty, Rothschilds and Dior-clad wives, throwing cocktail parties and having every indiscreet remark printed in tomorrow's papers. But with the love lives of her new friends to organize, an aristocratic squatter who won't budge and the antics of her maverick sons to thwart, Fanny's far too busy to worry about the diplomatic crisis looming on the horizon . .

Very good condition. Dust jacket slightly damaged at the bottom of spine and bottom of back page. Jacket design by Cecil Beaton. Slight foxing to top edge of pages, a few marks to back cover.

First edition published in 1977.

Very good condition with minimum foxing. Hardback book in dust jacket. Jacket designed by John Gorham. Pencil mark inside of a price, edition and publishing date.

Signed. This edition contains illustrations in colour and in black and white. Published by A & C Black. Gold gilted page edges.

Condition: general wear and age and creasing of spine.

Hardcover. First edition. Published in 1907 by Blackie & Sons Ltd. School prize label inside dated October 1908.

Olive Green boards with gilt writing. Firm binding and clean pages. Slight foxing to the edges and signs of wear to spine and corners but otherwise in good condition.

Published by The Cultural Society in 2015, poems by Steven Toussaint.

This beautiful collection of verse by the American poet Touissant, uses both the medieval and the modern in a theological soundscape, similar to Dante's Inferno. These lyrical pieces speak to an absconded God and to people who may have achieved happiness but in this they have lost their true being.

Perfect condition.

Published 1896 by Patrick Geddes and colleagues, Edinburgh.

Hardback 8 volume with celtic patterned endpapers. A gift inscription inside and the previous owner’s name and date 1950 and 2006 also inscribed.

James Macphearson was a Scottish writer, poet, literary collector and politician, known as the ‘translator’ of the Ossian cycle of epic poems. He was the first Scottish poet to gain an international reputation. Macphearson claimed to have collected word of mouth material in Scottish Gaelic, said to be from Ancient sources, and that the work was his translation of that material.

First Edition dated 1932. Herbert Jenkins Limited: London. No dust jacket. Orange cloth with black titles to front board & spine.

J. Wellington Gedge seems to have everything a man could desire: a rich wife, a chateau, a life of ease in the south of France. But all he really wants is to return to California, not least because Mrs Gedge, who holds the purse-strings, is scheming to have him appointed as American ambassador in Paris, which means he will have to wear a sissy uniform.

Fortunately, her plans are thwarted by a complicated series of events which involves French aristocrats, American crooks, an English novelist and the appalling Senator Opal, whose daughter, Jane, has a mind of her own.

Condition: orange cloth discoloured on front board and spine. Foxing throughout but still legible. Previous owner inscription. Back of title page publishers logo coloured in pencil (small emblem). Placed in a plastic protective cover by the team.

Published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd: London, 1967. First edition; second impression of the same year. illustrations by Pauline Baynes. Laminated hard cover with pictorial design on both sides.

Composed almost a decade after The Lord of the Rings, and when his lifelong occupation with the 'Silmarillion' was winding down, Smith of Wootton Major was the product of ripened experience and reflection. It would be the last work of fiction to be published in Tolkien's own lifetime.

Condition: Previous owner inscription on the first page. Pages in clear readable condition. Some wear to the back of the spine and corners. Binding in good condition.

The final volume of Dirk Bogarde’s autobiography. Published by Viking in 1986.

Backcloth is volume four of Dirk Bogarde's best-selling memoirs. Filling the gaps left between his previous memoirs, as well as highlighting new episodes, Backcloth explores the patterns of pleasure and pain that have made up Bogarde's extraordinary life. Based on personal letters, notebooks and diaries and covering many aspects of a celebrated life, we share experiences from his family home in Hampstead through to his farmhouse retreat in Provence. This memoir highlights the people, emotions and episodes that made him into the man that so many loved.

Condition: Small creases to the top of the spine of the dust jacket, otherwise in good readable condition.

Published by MacMillan and Co in 1905. First edition.

Condition: gold gilt to top of pages. Wear on the spine due to age and use. Minor marking to front of hardcover.

First edition published by Blackie & Son Ltd: London. Dated 1958. Illustrated by Victor Bertoglio. Hardback with dust jacket.

Condition: small tears to the top and bottom of dust jacket due to wear. Hardback in great readable condition.