Somer Books - Sold Titles Index

 

Please click on the photographs below to browse a selection of our previously sold books.

Whilst no longer available their descriptions contain additional information and photographs which may be of use to you in your search for another copy.

 

Miscellaneous Antiquarian (Pre-1900):

Minstrelsy Of The Scottish Border - Sir Walter Scott (2nd Edition, Cadell, 4 Vols c1833)	The Astrologer Of The Nineteenth Century - Raphael (Knight & Lacey 1825)	Dore's London - Jerrold illus Gustav Dore (Harper, First US Edition 1890)	A Classical Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue - Francis Grose (Second Edition, Hooper 1788)

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (First Edition, 2nd Printing, Jewett 1852)	The Banbury Cross Box Set - Grace Rhys (First Edition, J. M. Dent 1895)

 

Classic & Children's Illustrated :

The Tempest illustrated by Arthur Rackham (First Edition, Heinemann 1926)	Comus illustrated by Arthur Rackham (First Edition, Heinemann 1921)	Undine illustrated and signed by Arthur Rackham (Limited Edition, Heinemann 1909)	Cecily Parsely's Nursery Rhymes - Beatrix Potter (First Edition, F. Warne 1922)

The Tale Of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter (F. Warne c1910)	The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam illustrated by Edmund Dulac (First Edition, Hodder 1909)	More Adventures Of Rupert Annual by Alfred Bestall (First Edition, Daily Express 1942)	Rupert Little Bear's Adventures by Mary Tourtel (First Edition, Sampson Low 1927)

The City Of The West illustrated by Jessie M. King (First Edition, Foulis 1911)	Mickey Mouse In King Arthur's Court Pop-Up Book (First Edition, Dean & Son c1934)	The Compleat Angler by Isaac Walton illus Arthur Rackham (First Edition, Harrap 1931)	The Book Of The Flower Fairies by Cicely Mary Barker (First Edition, Blackie 1925)

 

History & Biography:

The English At Home - Bill Brandt (First Edition, Batsford 1936)	Anne Frank: Diary Of A Young Girl (First UK Edition, Constellation Books 1952)	The Black Jacobins by C. L. R. James (First Edition, Secker & Warburg 1938)	Roll, Jordan, Roll by Peterkin & Ulmann (First Edition, 2nd Printing, Robert O. Ballou 1934)

 

Classic Literature:

The Dynasts - Thomas Hardy (First Edition 3 Volume Set, Macmillan 1904 to 1908)	The Prussian Officer - D. H. Lawrence (First Edition, Duckworth 1914)	The War Of The Worlds - H. G. Wells (First Edition, William Heinemann 1898)	Through The Looking Glass and What Alice Found There - Lewis Carroll (First Edition 1872)

The Doings Of Raffles Haw - Arthur Conan Doyle (First Edition, Cassell 1892)	The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes by A. Conan Doyle (First Edition, Newnes 1894)	Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (First Edition, 2nd Printing, Cassell 1886)	Bleak House by Charles Dickens (First Edition, Bradbury & Evans 1853)

The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (First Edition, Ward Lock & Co. 1891)	Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens (First Edition, Bradbury & Evans 1848)

 

Modern Literature:

The Collector by John Fowles (First Edition,First Printing, Jonathan Cape 1963)	Dr No by Ian Fleming (First Edition, First Printing, Jonathan Cape 1958)	The Sound Of Thunder by Wilbur Smith (First Edition, Heinemann 1966)	Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (Second Edition, Faber & Faber 1946)

 

Natural History & Ornithology :

Works: Quadrupeds & British Birds - Thomas Bewick (Signed First Edition 3 Volumes 1822)	A History Of British Birds + Quadrupeds - Thomas Bewick (3 Vols 1797 - 1820)	A History Of British Birds - Thomas Bewick (First Edition, 2 Volume Set 1804)	Natural History Of Selborne - Gilbert White (White, Cochrane & Co., "New Edition" 1813)

 

Other Previously Featured Titles:

The Christopher Robin Story Book by A. A. Milne (First Edition, Methuen 1929)	The Colt From Moon Mountain by Dorothy Lathrop (First UK Edition, Harrap 1943)	History Of The Shanghai Paper Hunt Club - C. Noel Davis (First Edition, Kelly & Walsh 1930)	The Rose Fyleman Fairy Book illustrated by Hilda T. Miller (First Edition, Methuen 1923)

Bunkle Scents A Clue by Margot Pardoe (First Edition, Routledge & Kegan Paul 1953)	City by Clifford Simak (First UK Edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1954)