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Can’t make it into our bookshop? Looking for that hard to find or obscure book? Our entire internet stock of over 17,000 books is completely searchable on Biblio and Abebooks. We add new books online every week, almost daily. The books we have online tend to be those that are harder to find, rare, more niche, collectable items.
Please note that our online stock is mostly separate from the books we have in the bookshop, due to reasons of space, so if you’ve seen one of our books online, and would like to view it in the bookshop, please contact us and we will happily bring it into the bookshop for you to see in person.
There is always a changing selection of books that are listed online that are also available to browse in person in the bookshop.
Buy with confidence online from a reputable ‘bricks and mortar’ bookshop, we are long standing members of the ABA and PBFA and ILAB, and we have an excellent reputation for our communication and honesty and for the care with which we pack books for postage.
(Members of these associations are committed to maintaining the highest standards. They vouch for the authenticity of all items offered for sale. They provide expert and detailed descriptions, disclose all significant defects and / or restorations, provide clear and accurate pricing, and operate with fairness and honesty during the purchase experience.)
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Here is a very small ’taster' selection of the 17,000+ books we have listed online:
TWO TREATISES...
1664
by DIGBY Sir Kenelm
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TWO TREATISES (...)
1664
£1,800
TWO TREATISES. IN THE ONE OF WHICH, THE NATURE OF BODIES; IN THE OTHER, THE NATURE OF MANS SOULE; IS LOOKED INTO: IN WAY OF DISCOVERY, OF THE IMMORTALITY OF REASONABLE SOULES
Paris,, 1644. First Edition.. An impressive example: no inscriptions or significant foxing or blotching. The top corner of the first five leaves has been diagonally cropped but not near text. A slight wave in the lie of the pages tightens almost to a couple of creases near the end of the book. Overall remarkably dry and clean. Binding only slightly worn.. [44], 466pp. Folio (33 x 22cm). Signatures Ggg iij and Ggg ij are transposed; otherwise complete and correctly bound. Very scarce first printing of Digby's major work of natural philosophy, followed the next year by the smaller London edition. Ornamental woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. Brown nineteenth-century half morocco over marbled paper; gilt lettering, rules and fleur-de-lis ornaments to spine.
THE WORM AND THE RING, 1961
by DIGBY Sir Kenelm
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THE WORM AND THE RING.
1961
£600
London,, 1961. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.. Good plus in good dust jacket. Foxing to end papers and edges. Further foxing to interior dust jacket. A little rubbing wear to top fore corners of dust jacket. Crease to dust jacket [approx. 9cm] at top corner of front flap. Toning to dust jacket spine. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Still a very nice copy with no tears/loss to dust jacket.. 8vo. Pp: 273. First Edition First Printing. Publisher's black and yellow dust jacket with white illustrations to front and spine and yellow and pink lettering. Publisher's burgundy boards lettered in gilt at spine. Scarce due to libel suit.
DRACULA, 2019
by STOKER, Bram, John Banville (Intro.)
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DRACULA
2019
£800
London,, 2019. First Edition Thus. Hardback. . Slipcase has a few light marks and faintly rubbed edges, else book is clean and neat. Fine in very good slipcase. . Angela Barrett. (Signed).. 4to. pp xvii, 377. Original publisher's red leather, blocked in black and gilt with an illustration by Angela Barrett, bound by Richard Mayer Buchbinderei Gmbh, Esslingen/Zell, Germany. For the Folio Society. Printed on Abbey pure rough paper, with silk ribbon and all edges gilt. Encased in blue cloth slipcase with gilt blocked lettering and cream illustration of a bat silhouette. Illustrated with fine colour plates and black and white line drawings throughout the text. Limited, hand-numbered edition of 750 (numbered 442). Signed by the illustrator at tipped-in editions page. Description
THE BEASTLY BABY (SIGNED)1962
by WEARY, Ogdred,
[Pseud. Edward Gorey]
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THE BEASTLY BABY (SIGNED)
1962
£1,200
1962. First Edition. Paperback.. Covers tanned at front, a few light spots at edges of rear pages and at front and rear covers, else content clean and binding firm. Very good. . 12mo. pp [32]. Original publisher's light grey stapled wraps, illustrated and lettered in black at front and rear. Black and white illustrations throughout. Limited edition of 500 copies published by Edward Gorey's own publishing imprint. Inscribed by the author at title-page to Livia Gollancz, the daughter of the publisher Victor Gollancz, who later became managing director of the publishing house following her father's health problems in 1966. She was the first female principal horn of a major UK symphony orchestra previous to her father's invitation to join the company. Signed by Gorey with one of his most favoured pseudonyms ""Odgred Weary"", an anagram of his name: ""For Livia Gollancz, Ogdred Weary. 4 December 1962.""
THE SATIRES OF JUVENAL. 1807
by JUVENAL Tr. Francis Hodgson
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THE SATIRES OF JUVENAL. 1807
£400
London,, 1807. Binding sensitively rebacked and restored, although one of the raised bands has been mostly chipped off. Later front and rear marbled endpapers and reinforcement to hinges.. [8], xxxix, [1], 572pp. 4to. English version of Juvenal's fifteen satires, with extensive endnotes, by the Cambridge scholar and lifelong friend and correspondent of Byron. Byron features in the preliminary list of subscribers. Presentation inscription from Eton schoolmaster E C Hawtrey (according to the list five copies were printed for a presumed kinsman Rev Stephen Hawtrey) to Egerton Leigh (1815-76) whose armorial bookplate is on the pastedown. The occasion of the presentation was the recipient's leaving Eton ('ab Etona discedenti') in 1830. In the following decades Francis Hodgson and E C Hawtrey served consecutively as provost of the school. Contemporary full calf, decorative gilt borders to both panels, spine lettered gilt and decorated gilt in compartments and on raised bands.
POOR THINGS
1992
by GRAY, Alasdair
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POOR THINGS...
1992
£300
POOR THINGS: EPISODES FROM THE EARLY LIFE OF ARCHIBALD MCCANDLESS M. D., SCOTTISH PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICER
London,, 1992. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Head of spine ever so slightly crumpled. Small ding to tail edge of rear board. Spine of dust jacket sunned, as is usual. Some toning to edges of dust jacket. Very small light [approx. 0.5cm] scractch to rear dust jacket. . 8vo. Pp: 317, [1]. First Edition First Printing. Publisher's colour-illustrated jacket with purple lettering. Publisher's blue boards lettered and illustrated in silver. Black and white illustrations.ISBN: 9780747512462
UNEARTHING SUITE [SIGNED]. 1983
by ATWOOD, Margaret
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UNEARTHING SUITE [SIGNED]. 1983
£250
Toronto,, 1983. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket As Issued.. Very good plus, contents clean and sound, with very slight abrasion to top fore corner of front board and faint surface mark to spine. . 8vo. Unpaginated. Limited edition of 175 signed and numbered copies, this copy numbered 119. Grey and black boards with black lettering and minimalist illustration to front cover. Signed by author.
CARRYING OFF THE PALACES: JOHN RUSKIN'S LOST DAGUERREOTYPES.
by JACOBSON, Ken, Jenny Jacobson
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CARRYING OFF THE PALACES: JOHN RUSKIN'S LOST DAGUERREOTYPES.
£250
London,, 2015. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.. Book contains some pen marks by Alastair Grieve. Otherwise a very good copy indeed with near fine boards. Very good plus dust jacket with surface marks to rear and light wear to edges. . Landscape 4to. Pp: xxvi, 406. First edition. Black and white photo illustrated dust jacket. Grey buckram boards with silver lettering to spine. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Ownership signature of Alastair Grieve to front free end paper. Two reviews, London Review of Books and Burlington Magazine, loosely inserted.ISBN: 9780956301277
A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES. 2019
by KENNEDY TOOLE, John
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A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES. 2019
£240
London,, 2019. First Edition Thus, Hardback In Slipcase.. Near fine in fine slipcase. Slight hints of rubbing wear at spine above title lettering ""(Confederacy"") and author's name.. Large 8vo. Pp: xvii, [i], 332. First Edition thus. Publisher's red and black illustrated slipcase. Publisher's yellow boards with red and black illustrations and red spine lettered in black. Colour and black and white illustrations.
THE TRIAL.
1937
by KAFKA, Franz, Willa Muir [Trans.], Edwin Muir [Trans.]
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THE TRIAL.
1937
£320
London,, 1937. First Edition In English. Hardback. Lacks Dust Jacket.. Good minus. Toning to spine. Light foxing to paper throughout, heavier at preliminary pages. White mark [approx. 1.2cm] to front board near spine. Boards a little discoloured/grubby. Previous owner's name and date to front free end paper. Lacks dust jacket but still solidly-bound, no major bumps/damage to boards. . 8vo. Pp: 285. First Edition in English. First UK Edition. Publisher's blue boards lettered in blue at spine.
JOURNAL OF OUR MISSION TO FEZ (1909).
by THE MILITARY ATTACHÉ
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JOURNAL OF OUR MISSION TO FEZ (1909).
£450
London,, 1909. First Edition. Hardback.. Pages toned throughout, endpapers browned, small ink inscription at front flyleaf, boards rubbed at spine ends and corners, slightly grubby, else a good, solid copy. . 4to. pp 108. Original publisher's vellum backed green paper covered boards, lettered gilt at spine and black at front. Black and white photographic illustrations throughout.
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THE LESS DECEIVED: POEMS. 1955
by LARKIN, Philip
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THE LESS DECEIVED: POEMS. 1955
£400
Hessle,, 1955. First Edition, Second State. Hardback. Dust Jacket.. Pages toned, light toned offsetting at endpapers, some light spots throughout and heavier at top edge, spine ends and corners bumped, boards slightly faded, else binding firm. good plus in faded, slightly edgeworn with shallow tears and chips at head of spine, good plus dust jacket.. 8vo. pp 43, [2]. Pink paper dust jacket lettered black with floral motif border. Original publisher's green buckram cloth with gilt lettering at spine. First edition, 2nd state with a rounded spine and price label (reading 7s 6d nett) to the front dust jacket flap.
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We pack all books very carefuly, using bubble wrap and strong specialist cardboard book mailing boxes for all books. We minimise the use of plastic in our packing, using recycled paper bubble wrap and strong purpose made book postal wraps.
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Delivery
You can order or make an enquiry online and pick up and pay in the shop, and view the book before purchasing. We ship to most places in the world wth just a few exceptions. We only use tracked services to post books.
Please note: most of our listed books are not stored in our Charing Cross Road shop, but can be brought there for viewing by appointment if you arrange this with us beforehand. Please contact us before just dropping in to avoid a wasted trip.
Postage rates:
Books up to 2 kg (normal size books):
UK: From £5.50 2nd class to £7.00 1st class, signed for within the UK
EU: £18.00 tracked and signed within Europe
EU Customers - Please note: Until 1 July 2021, goods sent to the EU may be subject to import VAT and may incur a handling fee in the receiving country.
USA: £18.50 tracked to USA
Rest of the World: from £24.00 tracked / tracked & signed to Canada, Asia, Australia and most international destinations
We post to most anywhere in the world, with a few exceptions.
Books weighing over 2 kg (UK) and in some cases over 1 kg (international) will cost more and will be charged accordingly - please contact us for an estimate on postage costs if you would like to know these before purchasing. We can discount these rates for smaller books and pamphlets, and will combine books to reduce shipping costs where we can.