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Great works of literature, often in their first edition. Classic and familiar stories as well as tales you have never heard before. We go back through four hundred years of storytelling.
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Signed1902 The Sketch BookLondon: 1902A very scarce two volume limited edition of Washington Irving's literary anthology 'The Sketch Book', signed by the illustrator, Edmund Sullivan.
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1919 Memories and PortraitsLondon: 1919An excellent new impression of this collection of essays by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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1848 The Saint's Tragedy; or, The True Story of Elizabeth of Hungary, Landgravine of ThuringiaLondon: 1848The first edition of Charles Kingsley's first published work, a commemorative poetic play about Saint Elizabeth of Hungary.
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1848 The Saint's Tragedy; Or, the True Story of Elizabeth of HungaryLondon: 1848A lovely first edition of Charles Kingsley' biographical verse drama about the life of the thirteenth century saint, Elizabeth of Hungary.
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1909 Familiar Studies of Men and BooksLondon: 1909A lovely later impression of this biographical collection on some of literature's great men, written by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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1962 The Lewis Carroll HandbookLondon: 1962An illustrated guide to the work of the beloved children's writer.
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1850 Oliver Goldsmith's Prose and Poetical Works: Poems, Comedies, EssaysLondon: 1850A handsome copy of Irving Washington's Oliver Goldsmith's Prose and Poetical Works.
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1916 On the Choice of a Profession Robert Louis Stevenson Dustwrapper First EdLondon: 1916The first edition of this post-humously discovered work by the Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer Robert Louis Stevenson.
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1885 Charles Kingsley Plays and Puritans and Other Historical EssaysLondon: 1885Two historical essays by the English novelist, priest and historian Charles Kingsley
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1919 VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE Other Papers Robert Louis STEVENSONLondon: 1919The first collection of Stevenson's essays, in a Gonville and Caius College armorial prize binding.