Latest Arrivals

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• All titles include price and condition notes. Unless stated otherwise, books are in very good condition. 

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UK Vault - New Arrivals 3rd October

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The Hobbit - Limited Edition: £664 (2002 1st ed, VGC: #1234, wear to covers)

The Silmarillion - Limited Edition: £956 (2003, Like New: #1234)

The Lord of the Rings: £241 (1977 1st ed, VGC: small scratches to the spine of Two Towers, light fading to case)

The Hobbit: £250 (1976 1st ed, VGC: light marks to spine and page edges, light stain to endpapers, small crack and fading to slipcase)

The Hobbit: £46 (2001, Good: very small scratch and fading to spine, bump to case and spine, light marks to case )

The Silmarillion: £69 (2002, VGC: very small scratch to spine, small dents and fading to case)

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The Foundation Trilogy: £144 (2012 1st ed, VGC: very light scratches to bottom page edges, faint marks to case)

I, Robot: £309 (2016 1st ed, VGC: book like new, small scratch to case)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Complete set: £236 ( 1st ed, VGC: small mark to case and small stain to page ix of Hitchhiker's Guide)

The Novels of John Wyndham: £100 (2011, Good: fading to case, small scratch to cover of Triffids, light stain to page edges of Midwich)

UK Vault - New Arrivals 1st October

A Christmas Carol: £34 (2007, VGC: a few small faint marks to case)

A Christmas Carol: £36 (New & Sealed)

A Tale of Two Cities: £20 (1985 1st ed, Good: a few light stains on case and cover, a few very small cracks to case, slightly foxed case and page edges)

A Tale of Two Cities: £27 (1995 1st ed, Good: a few small faint stain to case, slightly foxed spine)

Christmas Books: £26 (1994 1st ed, VGC: faintly faded case, very small dent to case and spine)

David Copperfield: £18 (1994, VGC: very small dent marks to case, minor production defect on p.556)

Oliver Twist: £21 (1994 1st ed, Good: faintly faded case, slightly foxed spine)

Oliver Twist: £46 (2004 1st ed, VGC: a few faint scratches to case)

A Tale of Two Cities: £83 (2005 1st ed, Good: book - VGC, small cracks and dent to case)

David Copperfield: £34 (2004, VGC: book - like new, a few very small dents to case)

Great Expectations: £36 (2004, VGC: book - like new)

The Pickwick Papers: £43 (2005, VGC: a few very small dents to case)

The Pickwick Papers: £26 (2011, Good: light fading and a fw small cracks to case, partly peeled gilt on spine, some light stains on case and cover)

UK Vault - New Arrivals 29th September

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First Folio of Shakespeare, The Norton Facsimile: £77 (1996, VGC: a few very small dents and marks to case, small light mark on page edges)

Selected Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: £27 (2004, VGC)

John Donne: The Complete English Poems: £51 (2005 1st ed, VGC: faint fading and very small dent to case, small light mark on spine)

Selected Poems by Rudyard Kipling: £23 (2004 1st ed, Good: fading and small dent to case, minor production defect on p.181)

John Keats: Complete Poems: £33 (2002, VGC: very small dent and scuff on case)

Selected Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson: £41 (2006 1st ed, VGC: faint fading and a few very small dents to case, small faint mark on page edges)

Troilus & Criseyde: £24 (1990 1st ed, VGC: a few very small dents to case)

The Iliad: £154 (2007, VGC: book - like new, a few very small dents to case)

The Iliad: £42 (1975 1st ed, Good: no slipcase, sticker on endpaper)

Shakespeare's Sonnets: £37 (New & Sealed)

Shakespeare's Sonnets: £22 (2010, Like New)

Faust: £94 (2005 1st ed, Good: book - VGC, fading to case)

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The Persian Wars: £23 (2008 1st ed, VGC)

The World of Odysseus: £21 (2002 1st ed, VGC: book - like new)

The Normans: £82 (2003, VGC: a few small light marks and scratches on case)

The Vikings: £51 (1999, VGC)

Empires of the Ancient Near East: £103 (2000, VGC: in individual cases, faintly faded cases, minor production defect of skewed endpaper of Persians, small light mark on page edges of Egyptians )

Medieval Comic Tales: £20 (New & Sealed)

Crusader Castles: £29 (2010 1st ed, Like New)

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The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon: £29 (2015, VGC: very small dent to case and spine)

A History of Chinese Civilisation: £36 (VGC: sealed, a few very small dents to case)

Eyewitness to History: £36 (2008, Good: tear and a few dents to case, lightly foxed page edges and inside the case)

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: £66 (1995 1st ed, Good: light stain to spine of vol.I)

Notable Historical Trials by Justin Lovill: £45 (2010, VGC: books - like new, a few very small dents to case)

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The Folio Anthology of Humour: £14 (New & Sealed)

The Mandarins: £29 (2008 1st ed, VGC: book - like new)

Thank You, Jeeves: £21 (New & Sealed: tear to seal)

The Novels of Henry Fielding: £39 (1995 1st ed, VGC: books - like new apart from faint pencil indentations on half-title page of Jeseph, very small crack to case)

Comedies by Evelyn Waugh: £141 (1999 1st ed, VGC: books - like new, a few very small dents and light scratches to case)

The Folio Book of Christmas Crime Stories: £21 (2004 1st ed, Like New)

The Folio Christmas Book: £23 (2000 1st ed, VGC: book - like new)

The English Christmas: £26 (2002 1st ed, VGC)

The Screwtape Letters: £55 (2008 1st ed, VGC: book - like new, a few very small stains on case)

UK Vault - New Arrivals 26th September

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Poems & Stories - Tolkien - Deluxe Edition: £268 (1980, VGC: ISBN: 0-04-823174-6, book - like new, small mended tears to case)

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Shakespeare's First Folio: 400th Anniversary Facsimile Edition - British Library: £76 (Like New: sealed, a few very small tear to seal, very small dent to case entrance)

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The Secret Life of Trees: £61 (Like New: sealed, hairline scratch to case)

Seeds of Change: £20 (New & Sealed)

Down the Garden Path: £44 (New & Sealed)

In Your Garden and in Your Garden Again: £32 (Like New: sealed, very small hairline scratch to case)

Silent Spring: £23 (2000 1st ed, VGC: faint fading to case entrance)

Longitude: £23 (2014 1st ed, VGC: lightly faded case entrance)

Relativity: £19 (2005, VGC: faintly faded spine)

The Selfish Gene: £47 (2011 1st ed, VGC: book - like new, a few very small marks and scratch on case)

Climbing Mount Improbable: £34 (New & Sealed)

History of Western Science: £33 (2007, VGC)

Greek Science: £35 (2012 1st ed, VGC: book - like new, very small crack to case entrance)

The descent of man: £68 (2008 1st ed, VGC: book - like new)

The Ascent of Man: £23 (New & Sealed: small tear to seal)

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A History of Venice: £50 (2007 1st ed, VGC: book - like new, a few specs of mark on case)

The Daily Life in Ancient Rome: £21 (2004 1st ed, VGC: book - like new, a few very small dents to case)

Pompeii, The Life of a Roman Town: £73 (New & Sealed)

The Mediterranean and Mediterranean World In The Age Of Philip II: £45 (2000 1st ed, Good: books- VGC, small dent and crack and a few very small scuffs to case)

The Habsburgs: £20 (2004 1st ed, VGC)

The Story of the Renaissance: £41 (2001 1st ed, VGC: faintly faded case, light mark to case and page edges)

Charlemagne, Father of a Continent by Alessandro Barbero: £26 (2006 1st ed, VGC: faint pencil indentations on half-title page)

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Cider with Rosie: £20 (2003 1st ed, VGC)

Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb: £23 (2016 1st ed, VGC: small faint creases on the first few pages)

The Moon's a Balloon: £37 (New & Sealed)

Thesiger in Arabia: £49 (2005 1st ed, Like New)

Travels With Charley: £16 (2006, Like New)

Travels with Robert Louis Stevenson: £28 (2004 1st ed, Good: some spots of light stain to case and some page edges)

Homage to Catalonia: £23 (2008 1st ed, Good: book - VGC, no slipcase)

The Brontes: A Life in Letters by Juliet Barker: £31 (2006 1st ed, VGC: book - like new, faint fading and a few smal marks on case)

Blake by Peter Ackroyd: £27 (2008 1st ed, VGC)

The Diaries of Victor Klemperer: £45 (2006 1st ed, VGC: books - like new, a few small pen marks and worn spots to case)

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Germinal: £33 (2010 1st ed, VGC)

Once there was a war: £26 (2013 1st ed, Like New)

The Good Soldier: £19 (2008 1st ed, VGC)

As I Lay Dying: £42 (2011 1st ed, VGC: faint fading and a few very small dents to case)

Utopia: £26 (2011 1st ed, Good: book - VGC, light fading and foxing on case)

Waverley: £30 (New & Sealed)

The Siege of Krishnapur: £24 (2008 1st ed, VGC: a few small light marks on case)

Buddenbrooks: £17 (1989 1st ed, VGC: light fading and very small crack to case)

The Magic Mountain: £37 (2000 1st ed, Good: a few small pen marks on spine, otherwise VGC)

Birdsong: £48 (2008 1st ed, VGC: a few very small marks on spine and page edges)

I, Claudius: £25 (1994 1st ed, VGC: a few light scratches and marks to case, partly sprung binding)

Claudius the god: £37 (1995 1st ed, Good: foxed page edges)

A Month in the Country: £26 (1999 1st ed, Good: book - VGC, fading and small scuff on case)

UK Vault - New Arrivals 24th September

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The Complete Tales of Hans Christian Andersen: £102 (2005 1st ed, Good: a few tears and small marks to case, a few small dents to spines)

I Capture the Castle: £21 (1997 1st ed, VGC: lightly faded spine)

The Chronicles of Narnia: £245 (2001, Good: some small marks and scratches and a few tears to case, small dent to some spines, light marks to some page edges)

Irish Fairy and Folk Tales: £35 (2007 1st ed, Good: spot of scuff and a few very small dents to spine, otherwise VGC)

Folk Tales of the British Isles: £29 (2007, VGC: book - like new, a few very small dents to case)

Chinese Fairy Tales & Fantasies: £94 (2014 1st ed, VGC: a few very small dents and some faint marks and creases to case)

The Arabian Nights: Tales From The Thousand and One Nights: £27 (New & Sealed)

East of the sun and west of the moon: £74 (2000 1st ed, VGC: light fading and a few very small dents and marks to case and spine)

The Fables of Aesop: £20 (2001, VGC: faintly faded case)

The Hunting of the Snark: £31 (New & Sealed)

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Collected Stories by Nikolai Gogol: £48 (2010, VGC)

The Realm of the Unreal and Other Stories: £29 (2009 1st ed, Like New)

Short/Adventure/Crime Stories from the Strand: £24 (1995 1st ed, VGC: some small scuffs and dents to cases, small light stain on some page edges)

The Compleet Molesworth: £35 (2008, VGC: book - like new)

Japanese Short Stories: £29 (2000 1st ed, VGC: a few small dents to case, a few small faint marks to page edges)

Bundle: Classic Short Stories: £31 (2000, VGC: a few small dents to case of 3v, light mark to some page edges)

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In Search of Lost Time: £173 (2001, Good: light marks and fading, a few tears and dents to cases, lightly faded spines)

Ernest Hemingway, The Great Novels: £145 (1999 1st ed, Good: books - VGC with faint mark on page edges, no case)

Hemingway Short Stories: £24 (2012, VGC: book - like new)

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Bestiary: £21 (1992 1st ed, VGC: a few small light marks to case)

Folk Tales of Britain, Legends: £150 (2011 1st ed, VGC: a few faint marks to case and some page edges)

The Norse Myths: £41 (New & Sealed)

Chronicles of King Arthur: £40 (1988, VGC: books - like new, some small scuffs to case)

The Once and Future King: £112 (2003 1st ed, VGC: a few very small dents to case)

The Golden Fleece: £27 (2004, VGC: faintly faded case)

Legends of Ancient Rome: £134 (2008 1st ed, VGC: very small bump to rear of case, very small scuff to spine)

Legends of King Arthur: £42 (2000 1st ed, Good: light fading to case, faint pencil indentations on half-title page, small light stain on case, page edges and p.26)

Epics of the Middle Ages: £57 (2005 1st ed, VGC: a few very small marks and dents to case)