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CHELSEA BOOK FAIR CATALOGUE 2026

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Discourses in America - PRESENTED TO LADY DOROTHY NEVILL Matthew Arnold [Lady Dorothy Nevill] £1250.00 Book Add to basket
Early 19th Century Children’s Book-Illustrations in a Scrap Album Unknown Compiler £950.00 Manuscript Add to basket
The Golden Virgin; It was the Nightingale; Lucifer Before Sunrise; Young Phillip Addison; How Dear is Life; Solitary War; The Innocent Moon; the Phoenix Generation; A Fox Under my Cloak; Donkey Boy; The Power of the Dead; The Gale of the World; A Test to Destruction; Love and the Loveless; The Dark Lantern [all from] The Chronicles of Ancient Sunlight Henry Williamson £800.00 Book Add to basket
‘ENLISTED BY ME’ - FIELD MARSHAL, LORD BIRDWOOD’S ANNOTATED COPY The Armies of India Major A C Lovett; G F MacMunn; Earl Roberts £900.00 Book Add to basket
SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - To The Ends Of The Earth - A Sea Trilogy comprising Rites of Passage, Close Quarters and Fire Down Below William Golding £140.00 Book Add to basket
The Novels of Dostoevsky - An Honest Thief Fyodor Dostoevsky £400.00 Book Add to basket
Literary Record and Bibliography of Thomas J Dibdin - MANUSCRIPT Edward Rimbault Dibdin; Charles Dibdin £600.00 Manuscript Add to basket
Recollections of Childhood and Youth - With Links to the Paston, Mack and Riviere Families in Suffolk and Norfolk Dorothy Kingsbury, Nee Mack of Paston Hall £650.00 Book Add to basket
A Set of 14 Striking Alice Inspired Dinner Party Menu Cards - After Tenniel Unknown £225.00 Ephemera Add to basket
MANUSCRIPT BY A HALIFAX FRIEND OF ANNE LISTER - ‘GENTLEMAN JACK’ - & FIRST COUSIN OF HER WIFE: Etymological Addition to “English Etymologies” by “H Fox Talbot, Esq:” with Critical Observations William Priestley [Henry Fox Talbot] £3500.00 Manuscript Add to basket
Spanish-Influenced Sketchbook & Friendship Album from 1890s Valencia Anita Bartle £450.00 Manuscript Add to basket
BUCHANESQUE ESPIONAGE VOYAGE TO THE BALTIC in 1909: Two Diaries of a Royal Navy Officer who went on to accompany the Royal Party to South Africa in 1910. Unknown £950.00 Manuscript Add to basket
UNPUBLISHED 18TH CENTURY PHILOSOPHICAL MANUSCRIPT: Pain: the Cause of Human Volition, and of All Voluntary Motion as Pleasure is the End Design’d by All Voluntary Activity. By Philo. Veritas ‘Philo Veritas’ Thomas Letchworth £3500.00 Manuscript Add to basket
Hydriotaphia, Urne Buriall, or a Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes found in Norfolk Together with The Garden of Cyrus, or the Quincuncial, Lozenge Thomas Browne £1500.00 Book Add to basket
Manuscript Assessment of the Revenues of the Churches of England and Wales Unknown Author £850.00 Manuscript Add to basket
A Methodical Hebrew Grammar with Points [&] The Universal English Short-hand or the Art of Writing English - MANUSCRIPT Edward Spencer - John Parkhurst, John Byrom £950.00 Manuscript Add to basket
Football in Shanghai & ‘Feted’ in Hawaii: A British Marine’s China Station Diary on Board HMS Amphitrite, Dodging the Russian-Japanese War and Meeting the Sultan of Muscat British Marine £1250.00 Manuscript Add to basket
‘AS FAR AS EUROPEANS ARE CONCERNED... A NEW PLACE’ A 625 mile Journey around Ugandan Lakes Kioga and Kivania and Surrounding Waters by the Director of Uganda Railways Benjamin Eastwood £1750.00 Manuscript Add to basket
Poems On Several Occasions: With Valentinian; A Tragedy. Written by the Right Honourable John, Earl of Rochester John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester £500.00 Book Add to basket
Memoirs of an Unfortunate Queen. Interspersed with Letters (Written by Herself) to several of Her illustrious Relations and Friends, on Various Subject and Occasions. The Second Edition Caroline Mathilde, Queen consort of Christian VII, King of Denmark £650.00 Book Add to basket
‘LITERARY ASSETS OF THE LATE BARONESS ORCZY’: Manuscript Probate Valuation of the Popular Novelist’s Published Writings including Details of Royalties, Broadcasts & Translation Rights Baroness Orczy - Emma Magdalena Orczy de Orci £400.00 Manuscript Add to basket
Vincent van Gogh - The Letters - In Six Volumes Vincent van Gogh; Leo Jansen; Hans Luijten; Nienke Bakker £800.00 Book Add to basket
Poem of the Month Club: A Portfolio of 48 Signed Broadsides including: The Explosion, Philip Larkin; Natural Linguistics (for Peter Salus), W.H. Auden; A Wembley lad ; The Crem, John Betjeman; Land, Seamus Heaney; Clonalis ; Culleenamore, Kathleen Raine; Wasted ; Kipling at Batemans, Kingsley Amis etc Stevie Smith, C Day Lewis, Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney, Roy Fuller, Stephen Spender, Robert Graves, Anthony Thwaite, John Fuller, Elizabeth Jennings, George Barker, Norman MacCaig, Peter Porter, W H Auden, Douglas Dunn, D J Enright, John Lehmann, Alan Brownjohn, Thom Gunn, Glyn Hughes, John Betjeman, Seamus Heandy, Alan Ross, Ian Hamilton, Gavin Ewart, Hugo Williams, Ruthven Todd, Philip Oakes, Derek Mahon, Harold Massingham, Brian Patten, Al Alvarez, John Montague, Patricia Beer, Kathleen Raine, Austin Clarke, Vernon Scannell, Neil Rhodes, Kingsley Amis, Geoffrey Lehmann, Geoffrey Grigson, Julian Symons, Molly Holden, Norman Nicolson, Donald Davie, Dannie Abse, Robert Conquest, Fleur Adcock, James Reeves £1250.00 Book Add to basket
The History of Health and the Art of Preserving it: Or, An Account of all that has been recommended by Physicians and Philosophers, towards the Preservation of Health James Mackenzie £300.00 Book Add to basket
John Constable’s Sketch-Books of 1813 and 1814 Reproduced in Facsimile John Constable - Graham Reynolds £200.00 Book Add to basket



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