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Shakespeare’s stories and works have been told and published in thousands of different ways over the years, but this particular set is very special. This twelve-volume set of Shakespeare’s works was published in 1882 by Keagan Paul, Trench & Co. and is bound in vellum. The white vellum binding (which is untanned leather), with the red and black titling, means this quality and luxurious set will stand-out proudly on any shelf. Included in these twelve volumes are all of Shakes

With its beige, unembellished dust jacket, this illustrated edition of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Morte D’Arthur  is very unassuming from the outside. However, the inside bursts with colour and gold of Alberto Sangorski’s fabulous illustrations, brining to life this version of the classic British myth. This illustrated edition of the poem Morte D’Arthur by Tennyson was published in 1912 by Chatto and Windus. The page design was produced by the Graphic Engraving Company, to (as t

‘The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám’ is a famous poem, originally written in Persian by poet, astronomer and mathematician Omar Khayyám. In 1859, Edward Fitzgerald translated this work for the first time from Persian into English: a translation that is still read and loved today. The edition that we are selling of ‘The Rubáiyát’ was published in the early 1930s by Hodder and Stoughton, and uses Fitzgerald’s translation for the text. Not only that, but included in this book are twel

Did you know that the famous musical Cats  was actually based on a book? It was inspired by T.S. Eliot’s work Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats , which was first published by Faber and Faber in 1939. We are lucky enough to have a first edition, second impression copy (also published in 1939) of this book for sale in our shop! Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats  is a short poetry collection of fourteen whimsical poems about the lives of cats, and formed the inspiration for

The Tempest  was one of the later plays written by William Shakespeare: the play is thought to have been written in 1610 or 1611, but wasn’t published until 1623, after Shakespeare’s death. The book that we have on sale is an illustrated version of The Tempest , published in 1908 by Chapman and Hall. Included are seventeen full-page, colour illustrations by Paul Woodroffe and multiple other black and white drawings amongst the text. There is also accompanying music by Joseph

EDIT: This book has now been sold, but we have plenty of other first editions and classics on sale online and in our shop. Please get in touch if you have any questions! Taught in many schools across the world and enjoyed by adults for decades, Lord of the Flies by William Golding has become a modern classic. The book tells the tale of a group of boys who struggle to survive as a group after their plane crashes on a deserted island. Lord of the Flies  was originally published

Behind the beloved Bond film series, that spans around sixty years and includes over twenty-five films, is a book series of equal intrigue and drama. Ian Fleming wrote fourteen books in the James Bond series, with You Only Live Twice  being the twelfth instalment. The film adaptation of You Only Live Twice  was released in 1967, three years after the book’s publication, and Bond was played by the iconic Sean Connery. It was the fifth Bond film in the series. Our copy of the b

One of his most iconic novels, this first edition copy of Brighton Rock  by Graham Green is a perfect collector’s piece or gift for any fan. Brighton Rock  is a murder-slash-thriller book set in, as the name suggests, Brighton, in the 1930s. The story is very famous and has been adapted into a film, stage play, and a musical! The first edition hardback which we are selling was published in 1938 by William Heinemann. The pages themselves are slightly aged, and there is some si

For lovers of strong female protagonists, slow-burn romances, and sharp observational humour, Jane Austen is the timeless, well-loved author for readers young and old.  We are selling a six volume hardback set of all of Austen’s works, including her six completed novels, and an additional volume of her unfinished and shorter works (such as ‘Lady Susan’, ‘Love and Friendship’, and ‘Sanditon’). The full length novels included in the set are: Pride and Prejudice , Emma , Sense a

Exactly one hundred years after the most popular version of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein  was published, the film Frankenstein (1931) was released – and a film tie-in of the classic gothic novel was produced. Thought up in the stormy landscape of Geneva in 1816, after sharing ghost stories with fellow writers Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, Frankenstein was published two years later by Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones (but our copy is a hardback published by Th