DERLETH, August (1909-71). Someone in the Dark, Sauk City, Arkham House, 1941, 8vo, black cloth, dust-jacket. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of this collection of fourteen stories and two "novelettes", and the second book to be printed at Arkham House.
DERLETH, August (1909-71). Someone in the Dark, Sauk City, Arkham House,…
DERLETH, August (1909-71).  Someone in the Dark. [Sauk City, Wisconsin:] Arkham House, 1941. 8vo (172 x 115mm). Half title (short tear at the gutter opposite the half title, light stain at the…
Hammer price: £200
Estimate: £200 - £300
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
DERLETH, August (1909-71). Something Near, Sauk City, Arkham House, 1945, 8vo, original black cloth gilt, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION.
DERLETH, August (1909-71). Something Near, Sauk City, Arkham House, 1945,…
DERLETH, August (1909-71).  Something Near. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1945. 8vo (188 x 130mm). Half title, woodcut printer's device on the title (very lightly and consistently browned…
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £200 - £300
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
DERLETH, August (1909-71). The Mask of Cthulhu, Sauk City, Arkham House, 1958, 8vo, original black cloth gilt, dust-jacket. AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION.
DERLETH, August (1909-71). The Mask of Cthulhu, Sauk City, Arkham House,…
DERLETH, August (1909-71).  The Mask of Cthulhu. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1958. 8vo (186 x 132mm). Half title, woodcut printer's device on the title. Original black cloth, the spine…
Hammer price: £280
Estimate: £200 - £300
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
DERLETH, August (1909-71). The Trail of Cthulhu, Sauk City, Arkham House, 1962, 8vo, original black cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION.
DERLETH, August (1909-71). The Trail of Cthulhu, Sauk City, Arkham House,…
DERLETH, August (1909-71).  The Trail of Cthulhu. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1962. 8vo (187 x 135mm). Half title, woodcut printer's device on the title. Original black cloth, the spine…
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £100 - £150
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
DICKENS, Charles (1812-70). A Christmas Carol, London, 1843, 8vo, 4 hand-coloured etched plates by John Leech, original brown decorated cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, of "the greatest Christmas book ever written in any language" (Eckel).
DICKENS, Charles (1812-70). A Christmas Carol, London, 1843, 8vo, 4 hand…
DICKENS, Charles (1812-70).  A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. 8vo (164 x 102mm). Half title, title printed in red and blue within a blue…
Hammer price: £4,500
Estimate: £5,000 - £8,000
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
DICKENS, Charles (1812-70). Oliver Twist, London, Richard Bentley, 1838, 3 volumes, 8vo, half titles in vols. I and II [as called for], 24 etched plates by George Cruikshank, original plum cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION, second issue. (3)
DICKENS, Charles (1812-70). Oliver Twist, London, Richard Bentley, 1838, 3…
DICKENS, Charles (1812-70).  Oliver Twist. London: "Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street," [?November] 1838. 3 volumes, 8vo (202 x 122mm). Half titles in volumes I and II [only, as called for], 24…
Estimate: £700 - £1,000
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
DOCUMENT ON VELLUM - Letters patent granting a baronetcy to Christopher Baynes of Harefield Place, Middlesex, on 2 sheets of vellum, with an engraved portrait of George III at the head of the first sheet, marginal decoration, wax seal, in shaped box.
DOCUMENT ON VELLUM - Letters patent granting a baronetcy to Christopher…
DOCUMENT ON VELLUM - Letters patent granting a baronetcy to Christopher Baynes of Harefield Place, Middlesex, on 2 sheets of vellum, with an engraved portrait of George III at the head of the first…
Hammer price: £190
Estimate: £70 - £100
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
DONNE, John (1572-1631). The Holy Sonnets, London, 1938, 8vo, 4 illustrations by Eric Gill, original black buckram gilt, inscribed to Clarissa Churchill by "Bluey". ONE OF 550 COPIES SIGNED BY ERIC GILL. With 5 other related works in 10 volumes. (11)
DONNE, John (1572-1631). The Holy Sonnets, London, 1938, 8vo, 4…
DONNE, John (1572-1631).  The Holy Sonnets. Introduction by Hugh I' A. Fausset. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd for Hague & Gill Ltd., 1938. Large 8vo (233 x 150mm). 4 full-page wood-engraved…
Hammer price: £1,900
Estimate: £300 - £500
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
DRAYTON, Michael (1563-1631) & William HOLE (d.1624, engraver). Glocester Shyre ... Worcester Shyre. [London: c.1612]. Engraved map including Gloucestershire and Worcestershire, allegorical figures, 250 x 330mm., framed and glazed. With 3 other maps. (4)
DRAYTON, Michael (1563-1631) & William HOLE (d.1624, engraver). Glocester…
DRAYTON, Michael (1563-1631) & William HOLE (d.1624, engraver).  Glocester Shyre ... Worcester Shyre. [London: c.1612]. Engraved map including Gloucestershire and Worcestershire, numerous allegorical…
Hammer price: £90
Estimate: £70 - £100
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
DYKE, Zoë, Lady Hart (1896-1975). So Spins the Silkworm, London, 1949, 8vo, 27 plates, original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper beneath her original drawing of a silkworm.
DYKE, Zoë, Lady Hart (1896-1975). So Spins the Silkworm, London, 1949, 8vo…
DYKE, Zo, Lady Hart (1896-1975).  So Spins the Silkworm. London: Rockliff, 1949. 8vo (218 x 140mm). Half title, half tone frontispiece and 26 plates, 3 illustrations, one full-page. Original blue…
Estimate: £70 - £100
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
EDWARDS, Lionel (1878-1966, illustrator). My Hunting Sketch Book, London, 1928, 4to, 15 coloured plates, original vellum-backed cloth boards. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 226 OF 250 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. With another book of related interest. (2)
EDWARDS. Lionel (1878-1966, illustrator). My Hunting Sketch Book, London,…
EDWARDS, Lionel (1878-1966, illustrator).  My Hunting Sketch Book. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode Limited, 1928. 4to (317 x 250mm). Half title, 15 mounted coloured plates by Lionel Edwards (occasional…
Estimate: £200 - £300
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
FOTHERGILL, Jessie (1851-91). An autograph manuscript of Walt Whitman's poem "O Me! O Life!", probably in the hand of Fothergill rather than that of the poet himself, inscribed at the foot, "Jessie Fothergill, Jan. 16. 1887", on one page, 204 x 126mm.
FOTHERGILL, Jessie (1851-91). An autograph manuscript of Walt Whitman's…
FOTHERGILL, Jessie (1851-91).  An autograph manuscript of Walt Whitman's poem "O Me! O Life!", probably in the hand of Jessie Fothergill rather than that of the poet himself, inscribed at the foot,…
Estimate: £70 - £100
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
FURNEAUX, William (1855-1940). Philips' Popular Mannikin or Model of the Human Body, London, [c.1930], very tall folio, chromolithographed figures, original cloth-backed pictorial boards (stained and rubbed).
FURNEAUX, William (1855-1940). Philips' Popular Mannikin or Model of the…
FURNEAUX, William Samuel (1855-1940).  Philips' Popular Mannikin or Model of the Human Body. London: George Philip & Son, [c.1930]. Very tall folio (490 x 202mm). Chromolithographed illustrations…
Estimate: £40 - £60
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
GUNN, Thom (1929-2004). My Sad Captains, London, 1961, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION, 2nd impression, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed, "Thom Gunn, with best wishes for Clive." With 5 other books by Thom Gunn, all SIGNED BY THE POET. (6)
GUNN, Thom (1929-2004). My Sad Captains, London, 1961, 8vo, original cloth…
GUNN, Thom (1929-2004).  My Sad Captains and other poems. London: Faber and Faber, 1962. 8vo (217 x 140mm). Half title. Original purple cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket with the price…
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
[HANWAY, Jonas (1712-86)]. A Journal of Eight Days Journey from Portsmouth to Kingston upon Thames, London, 1756-58, 4to, 4 engraved plates, contemporary calf. FIRST EDITION. With 3 other works in 5 volumes. (6)
[HANWAY, Jonas (1712-86)]. A Journal of Eight Days Journey from Portsmouth…
[HANWAY, Jonas (1712-86)].  A Journal of Eight Days Journey from Portsmouth to Kingston upon Thames; through Southampton, Wiltshire, &c. with Miscellaneous Thoughts, Moral and Religious; In a Series…
Hammer price: £500
Estimate: £400 - £600
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
HARTLEY, L. P. (1895-1972). The Go-Between, London, 1953, 8vo, original red cloth gilt, dust-jacket (a few short tears to the upper edge without loss, some minor creasing to the head of the backstrip). FIRST EDITION.
HARTLEY, L. P. (1895-1972). The Go-Between, London, 1953, 8vo, original…
HARTLEY, L. P. (1895-1972).  The Go-Between. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953. 8vo (184 x 120mm). Half title. Original red cloth, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt, top edges red (the gilding to…
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £100 - £150
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). A Farewell to Arms, London, 1929, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST U.K. EDITION. With the same author's The Old Man and the Sea (London, 1952, original cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST U.K. EDITION). (2)
HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). A Farewell to Arms, London, 1929, 8vo,…
HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961).  A Farewell to Arms. London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. 8vo (193 x 128mm). Half title, small woodcut printer's device on the title (short tears without loss to the foot of a…
Hammer price: £220
Estimate: £200 - £300
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
HUBBARD, Elbert (1856-1915). Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors ... William Morris, New York, Roycrofters, 1900, 4to, coloured decorations, wrappers. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 767 OF 925 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. With another related book. (2)
HUBBARD, Elbert (1856-1915). Little Journeys to the Homes of English…
HUBBARD, Elbert (1856-1915).  Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors ... William Morris. Done into print by the Roycrofters at the Roycroft Shop. East Aurora, Erie County, New York: The…
Estimate: £200 - £300
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
HUXLEY, Aldous (1894-1963). Eyeless in Gaza, London, 1936, 8vo, half title, original tan hessian lettered in red, top edges red, dust-jacket (some minor creasing and rubbing at the head of the backstrip). A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION.
HUXLEY, Aldous (1894-1963). Eyeless in Gaza, London, 1936, 8vo, half title…
HUXLEY, Aldous (1894-1963).  Eyeless in Gaza. London: Chatto & Windus, 1936. 8vo (208 x 140mm). Half title. Original tan hessian lettered in red, top edges red, dust-jacket with price of 10s. 6d.…
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £70 - £100
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
HUXLEY, Aldous (1894-1963). Limbo, London, 1920. 8vo, original buckram, paper label, with 2 fragments of the dust-jacket. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST PUBLISHED FICTION. RARE.
HUXLEY, Aldous (1894-1963). Limbo, London, 1920. 8vo, original buckram,…
HUXLEY, Aldous (1894-1963).  Limbo. London: Chatto & Windus, 1920. 8vo (190 x 110mm). Half title. Original green buckram, the spine with paper label printed in orange, with 2 fragments of the dust…
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £100 - £150
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
HUXLEY, Aldous (1894-1963). Those Barren Leaves, London, 1925, 8vo, original buckram, dust-jacket (backstrip darkened, frayed). FIRST EDITION. With 14 other books by the same author. (15) Please see the full listing below.
HUXLEY, Aldous (1894-1963). Those Barren Leaves, London, 1925, 8vo,…
HUXLEY, Aldous (1894-1963).  Those Barren Leaves. London: Chatto & Windus, 1925. 8vo (190 x 125mm). Half title (some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Original terracotta buckram, the…
Estimate: £500 - £800
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT - A fine illuminated manuscript on a single bifolium vellum leaf extracted from a prayer book, with exceptional decorative coloured borders heightened in gold, [?]mid- to late-15th-century, probably northern France, 210 x 285mm.
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT - A fine illuminated manuscript on a single…
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT - A fine illuminated manuscript on a single bifolium vellum leaf extracted from a prayer book or missal, incorporating four pages including prayers for the Feast Days of Saints…
Hammer price: £350
Estimate: £300 - £500
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
JAPAN - An album of 50 colour-tinted mounted photographs of Japan in a lacquer album, the photographs 195 x 250mm., the oblong 4to album 325 x 420mm., with a sepia photograph inset into the upper cover (some minor chipping), [c.1880].
JAPAN - An album of 50 colour-tinted mounted photographs of Japan in a…
JAPAN - An album of 50 colour-tinted mounted photographs of Japan in a fine lacquer album elaborately decorated with a floral design, the photographs 195 x 250mm., the oblong 4to album 325 x 420mm.,…
Hammer price: £350
Estimate: £200 - £300
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-84). A Dictionary of the English Language, London, 1755, 2 volumes, folio, lacking the title to vol. II, but supplied in modern facsimile, modern old-style calf. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. (2)
JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-84). A Dictionary of the English Language, London,…
JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-84).  A Dictionary of the English Language: in which the Words are Deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the Best…
Hammer price: £2,200
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT
3 December 2025 , 17:00 GMT

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