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Literature
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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1901 Nonsense Songs and StoriesLondon: 1901The ninth edition of this heavily illustrated collection of Edward Lear poems, in the publisher's original pictorial cloth. -
1854 A Book of Nonsense[London]: 1854Illustrated with seventy-three lithographs, this is the very scarce second edition of Edward Lear's enduringly popular work. -
c1920 The Book of Nonsense to Which is Added More NonsenseLondon: c1920An excellent copy of Edward Lear's charmingly illustrated and much-loved work, 'The Book of Nonsense'. -
1914 The Wisdom of Father BrownLondon: 1914The first edition of G. K. Chesterton's second anthology of Father Brown detectivetales. -
1891 Nonsense Songs & StoriesLondon, New York.: 1891This charmingly illustrated collection of children's verse by the celebrated nonsense poet Edward Lear, bound in the publisher's original pictorial paper wraps. -
1889 Nonsense Botany and Nonsense AlphabetsLondon, New York.: 1889This uncommon, illustrated collection of children's verse by the celebrated nonsense poet Edward Lear, bound in the publisher's original pictorial paper wraps. -
c1888 The Book of NonsenseLondon: c1888An unusually bright copy of Edward Lear's charmingly illustrated and much-loved work, 'The Book of Nonsense'. -
1914 The Napoleon of Notting HillLondon: 1914An attractive example of G. K. Chesterton's work of speculative alternate-reality fiction, illustrated throughout. -
1901 The Book of NonsenseLondon: 1901A charming copy of Edward Lear's much-loved humorous Book of Nonsense, with one-hundred-and-ten illustrations. -
1904 The Napoleon of Notting HillLondon: 1904The scarce first edition of this work of speculative fiction set in an alternative future reality, following an unserious king and written by Gilbert K. Chesterton. -
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1924 Stampede!Kensington : 1924An exceptionally scarce, signed first edition of Lance de Sieveking's debut novel, surrounding ideas of telepathy and mind-control, with charming illustrations from the authors godfather, G. K. Chesterton. -
c1912 The Book of NonsenseLondon: c1912The entertaining nonsense work of Edward Lear, an illustrated collection of one-hundred and ten comical limericks. -
1935 The Scandal of Father BrownLondon: 1935The first edition of G. K. Chesterton's novel featuring crime-solving parish priest, Father Brown. -
1900 Nonsense SongsLondon: 1900An illustrated edition of the entertaining nonsense poems of Edward Lear, this edition colourfully illustrated by Leonard Leslie Brooke. -
1938 The Coloured LandsLondon: 1938The first edition of this comical anthology of prose and poems by G. K. Chesterton, illustrated by the author. -
1894 Nonsense Songs and StoriesLondon: 1894The illustrated ninth edition of Edward Lear's popular collection of nonsense songs and verse. -
1938 The Coloured LandsLondon: 1938A fantastically illustrated collection of Chesterton's original stories and illustrations, complete with an unclipped dust wrapper. -
1880 The Book of NonsenseLondon: c1880An early edition of Edward Lear's charmingly illustrated and much-loved work, The Book of Nonsense. -
1905 The Book of Nonsense Edward Lear Illustrated LimericksLondon: 1905A charming copy of Edward Lear's profusely illustrated and much-loved work, The Book of Nonsense.