" It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life. "
— Henry Ward Beecher

London: Red Fox, 2015. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST PAPERBACK THUS. Small quarto (30 x 23cm), pp.[32]. With fine colour illustrations to every page by Deacon. SIGNED by the illustrator in black marker to title page. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, priced at £7.99. A fine, as-new copy. Abridged and illustrated by..... More
London: Gordon Spilstead, 1980. [Illustrated Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.47 [1]. With a black and white illustration by Peake facing every poem. Number 158 of 200 copies SIGNED by the illustrator's wife, Maeve Gilmore, in the publilsher's pink silk-covered boards with gilt titles to spine and..... More
London: Murdoch and Co., 1898. FIRST EDITION in book-form. Pamphlet, pp.16, printed wrappers. Trivial toning. A fine copy, but for the rust-through from the single staple at fold. The text of Wilde's celebrated letter to the Daily Chronicle, appearing on 28th May 1897, which concerned the affair of Warder T...... More
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1910. [Poetry] NEW EDITION. Small octavo (17 x 13cm), pp.46 [2]. Publisher's grey illustrated paper-covered boards, recently re-spined to-style. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Black ink gift inscription to fly-leaf. Extensive pencil annotations. Wear and browning to board extremities. Very good. Mason 363... More