Scarce and decorative antiquarian books and first editions on all subjects

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We specialize in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings.

We sell throughout the world and dispatch to all five continents each week.

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1906 CHATTERBOX Halfpenny weekly John Erskine Clarke

Price: £168.00

The Chatterbox from 1906 unusual in a modern crushed morocco binding. A great collector's item. With several full page colour illustrations. Chatterbox was a halfpenny weekly paper for older children founded in 1866 by John...

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1825 Travels WESTERN AFRICA William GRAY Dochard First

Price: £516.00

A comprehensive monograph on the African expeditions of Peddie and Gray, and Gray and Dochard. With a fold-out map, five botanical plates, and nine illustrative plates, collated complete. With a facsimile half-title and...

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1976 The Blue Dahlia RAYMOND CHANDLER UK 1ST ED.

Price: £49.99

A bright, clean uncommon UK first edition of The Blue Dahlia by Raymond Chandler. Bound in red paper-covered boards with gilt lettering and an unclipped dust wrapper. First UK Edition. Raymond Thornton Chandler, 1888 1959, was...

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c1907 HEROES GREEK Tales Children Relfe C. KINGSLEY

Price: £119.99

A smart copy of Kingsley's classic retelling of the Greek stories of Perseus, the Argonauts and Theseus. With a bookbinder's stamp for Relfe Brothers, London, to the verso of the front free-endpaper. Featuring a tissue guarded...

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