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The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and other verses from The Red Book  builds on the myths and legends (the legendarium) of the world of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings  through a series of poems. This book is a hardback, first edition, 1 st impression published in 1962 by George Allen and Unwin. Included are sixteen poems in various forms that tell tales from the Tolkien universe, mainly through the character of Tom Bombadil, who was featured briefly in The Lord of the Rin

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

The Lord of the Rings series hardly needs an introduction: it is the cornerstone of the fantasy genre and one of the most well-known epic, adventure trilogies which is still enjoyed around the world decades after its original publication. The original books were released between 1954 and 1955 and published by George Allen and Unwin. Our set of The Lord of the Rings are all hardbacks and first editions – but varying impressions – from 1959 and 1960 (also published by George Al

Harry Potter , the now multi-billion dollar franchise, famously had a few false starts, with J.K. Rowling’s manuscript for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone  being rejected numerous times before Bloomsbury accepted it. But soon after, fans worldwide were invested in the boy wizard Harry Potter and his friends at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and in 1998, only a year after the first book in the Harry Potter series was published, J.K. Rowling released Harry

In the space of just two weeks in July 2007, the film adaptation of   Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was released and the final book in the seven-part series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,  was published. By this point, Harry Potter was a global phenomenon and JK Rowling was one of the most famous authors in the world. Luckily, we have acquired a hardback, deluxe, first edition copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows  from 2007, published by Bloomsbur

Nearly twenty years after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was published, Harry Potter still remains a multi-billion dollar franchise with fans all around the world. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire  is the fourth book in the seven-part series and was originally published in 2000, with the film adaptation being released in 2005. This hardback copy of The Goblet of Fire  was published in 2004 by Bloomsbury, but the thing that makes this book so special is its signatures

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

Mimicking the quirky and whimsical nature of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , comes this truly one-of-a-kind version of Lewis Carroll's most popular novel. Completely handbound by a local binder, each letter on this eclectic, leather cover has been cut out, gilded, and pasted by hand. Not only this, but the marbled endpapers on the inside have been affixed by hand as well, and the whole book assembled by one man who binds books as a hobby. The cover is utterly unique, and t

This antiquarian book, dating all the way from 1694, is one of many seventeenth century books in our collection. If you are looking for something interesting and rare to add to your shelf, then you are in the right place. The General History of Earthquakes describes various volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, and makes note of particular mountains and geographical discoveries: each story or recount is numbered, going up to sixty-four. Section forty-one, for example, tells th

The Hunting of the Romish Fox is a curious book, not only in its content but its history: it is (as many of our religious antiquarian items are) born out of a turbulent time of theology in Britain and Ireland. The full title is: The Hunting of the Romish Fox, and the Quenching of Sectarian Fire Brands: Being a Specimen of Popery and Separation . According to the title page, the writer and historian, Sir James Ware, collected this work out of the ‘Memorials of Eminent Men bot

From the mid-eighteenth century emerges a fabulously researched and edited collection of the works of England’s greatest polymath: Excerpta by Sir Isaac Newton. The full title, in Latin, is: ‘Excerpta Quaedam e Newtoni Principiis Philosophiae Naturalis, cum notis variorum’, which can be translated as, ‘Certain Extracts from Newton’s Principles of Natural Philosophy, with notes of various kinds’. This book of Newton’s works was published in 1765 in Cambridge, and was edited by