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Half-leather bound, 1831, the first single volume edition with a new introduction by J F Cooper

Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, London, 1831

Half-leather bound, 1834, the first single volume edition with a new introduction by J F Cooper

Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, London, 1834

The Everyman's Library 3 volume edition of Tolstoy's classic (Numbers 525, 526 and 527)

J M Dent, London, 1958

Signed by Norah Lofts, the first US printing, a collection of 16 short stories

Doubleday, New York, 1958

1956 first edition in dustwrapper of Rumer Godden's post-war classic

Macmillan, London, 1956

1988, the first UK issue in paperback

William Heinemann, London, 1988

1885, signed by Scottish educationalist Sophie Weisse

Perrin et Cie, Paris, 1885

and Euphues and his England (1580), two volumes bound as one, published 1868 in Arber's English Reprint series

Alex Murray & Son, London, 1868

1928, hardback copies of Emily Eden's two novels

Elkin Mathews & Marrot Ltd, London, 1928

First edition, signed by Barbara Ker Wilson

Secker & Warburg, London, 1984

1905, first edition of the novel H G Wells's considered his favourite

Macmillan, London, 1905

1928, the first UK edition of Francois Mauriac's classic novel

Martin Secker, London, 1928

A first edition of Wells's short story, printed in Phil May's Winter Annual 1895, bound with Hood's Comic Annual for 1877

The Office, London, 1895

1989, the first printing of the first volume of Raymond Williams' immense Welsh history novel

Chatto & Windus, London, 1989

Signed by Jane Duncan, the second printing, and thirteenth of the author's "Friends" series

Macmillan, London, 1967

1906, a fine blue leather Bumpus binding on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1885 novel

Chatto & Windus, London, 1906

1912 edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel in a fine blue leather Bumpus binding

Cassell, London, 1912

A first edition of Norman Douglas' second novel, rebound in half-leather

Chapman & Hall, London, 1920

1884, first edition. A whimsical fantasy novel in the original decorative binding

Chapman & Hall, London, 1884

1928, first edition. C E Montague's last book, a collection of his short stories

Chatto & Windus, London, 1928

First edition, signed by Leslie A Fiedler to Arnold Wesker, a work of speculative fiction

Stein and Day, New York, 1974

Signed by Robert Barnard, Liza Cody, H R F Keating, Susan Moody and Michael Z Lewin.

Chatto & Windus, London, 1992

First edition, signed by Courttia Newland, twelve macabre short stories

Peepal Tree Press, Leeds, 2006

Signed and dated by Segun Afolabi

Jonathan Cape, London, 2006

1906; An early German hardback printing of Thomas Mann's classic novel in the original decorative cloth

S Fischer, Berlin, 1906