Literature
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Paradise Lost
Folio edition of Paradise Lost. Beautifully produced leather and silk bound volume, Elephant Folio sized in slipcase.
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The Legend of Croquemitaine
Freely Translated form the French of LEpine. Presumed 1st Edition Thus, no date, circa 1886.
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The Bell Jar
I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo. Sylvia Plath’s groundbreaking semi-autobiographical novel offers an intimate, honest and often wrenching glimpse into mental illness. The Bell Jar broke the boundaries between fiction and reality and helped cement Sylvia…
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Wuthering Heights
Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before: of the intense passion between the foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and her betrayal…
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Giovanni’s Room
Giovanni’s Room was named as one of the BBC’s ‘100 Novels That Shaped Our World’ and established Baldwin as one of the great American writers of his time. David, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancée to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets Giovanni, a handsome Italian barman,…
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Lord of the Flies
William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is a dystopian classic. When a group of schoolboys are stranded on a desert island, what could go wrong? A plane crashes on a desert island. The only survivors are a group of schoolboys. By day, they discover fantastic wildlife and dazzling beaches, learning to survive; at night, they…
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The History of Don Quixote
More often seen as a single volume in cloth, this is the seldom seen Morocco leather-backed double volume edition. A most attractive and collectable set with excellent imposing shelf presence, featuring elaborate scrolled floral gilt embossed dentelles and vignettes, and with the definitive illustrations of Don Quixote and Sanch Panza, considered by many to be…