Books Sought

We are always on the look out for fine books for our customers and are equally happy to buy individual fine books or entire libraries. Below are some of the first editions we are actively seeking at present:

A & C BLACK COLOUR BOOKS

 All twenty shilling books in fine condition

NON FICTION

Mrs Beeton: Book of Household Management

Winston Churchill: Any first editions in fine condiiton

Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species

J.M. Keynes: The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

Sir Ernest Shackleton: South

Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations

André Simon: Wines of the World, deluxe issue

THAMES AND ROWING BOOKS

J. Burn: A History of Henley on Thames

Emily Climenson: A Guide to Henley on Thames

J. Boydell: A History of the River Thames

W.Westall: A Picturesque tour of the River Thames

All early rowing books, esp. Steve Fairbairn

Histories of Henley Royal Regatta

PRE 1900 FIRST EDITIONS

Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice & Northanger Abbey (also beautiful editions)

Charlotte Brontë : Jane Eyre

Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights

Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventure in Wonderland & Alice Through the Looking Glass

Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe

Rudyard Kipling: Kim & If

William Shakespeare: Folios or Quartos

Fables: Aesop or Gay

MODERN FIRST EDITIONS IN ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET

Douglas Adams: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim

F.Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby

Ian Fleming: Casino Royale

Ian Fleming: All James Bond first editions in fine condition

Graham Greene: Brighton Rock

Aldous Huxley: Brave New World

Aldous Huxley: Crome Yellow

George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell: Animal Farm

George Orwell: Coming Up for Air

Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisited

Evelyn Waugh: A Handful of Dust

CHILDREN'S FICTION FIRST EDITIONS IN DUSTJACKET

Enid Blyton: The Enchanted Wood, The Magic Faraway Tree & The Folk of the Faraway Tree

Enid Blyton: The Secret of Spiggy Holes

Enid Blyton:  Famous Five, Secret Seven, Adventure series, all needed in fine condition

Roald Dahl:  Fine first ediitons of all titles sought

E. Nesbit:  The Railway Children (no dustjacket required)

Tove Jansson: Finn Family Moomintroll

A.A. Milne: Winnie the Pooh

Arthur Ransome:  Swallows and Amazons

Noel Streatfeild:  Ballet Shoes

Dodie Smith: 101 Dalmatians

Illustrated Books  

Alice in Wonderland - illustated by Tarrant, Rackham, Hudson, Attwell & Bowley

Water Babies - illustrated by Goble, Anne Anderson & Willcox Smith

Fairy Tales - Andersen, Grimm, Perrault

Fairy Books - Lang, Tarrant & CM Barker

Book of Fairy Poetry - Goble (in dustjacket)

Ancient Mariner - Willy Pogany

Christmas Books

To find you more about selling your books please drop us an email or phone 01491 576427