Michal Sawka Rare Books

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)

ORWELL, George. · 1950

£640.00 (€767.13 | $845.53 | ¥134,978)

Very Good Good Secker & Warburg London Fourth Printing. Very Good in an about Very Good jacket, unclipped (10s. net), generally rubbed and toned, a few small chips, creases and closed tears throughout. Green buckram, faded at the spine and edges and with a ghost mark of the te...

Solaris

LEM, Stanislaw. · 1962

£176.00 (€210.96 | $232.52 | ¥37,119)

Very Good Very Good Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej Warszawa (200 x 135mm). Second edition, published year after first edition. Pictorial creamy cloth, title to front, in very good condition. Original dust jacket, spine slightly lean, minor wear along edges, missing ...

Poirot Investigates

CHRISTIE, Agatha. · 1925

£1,500.00 (€1,797.97 | $1,981.72 | ¥316,354)

Very Good Very Good John Lane The Bodley Head Limited London vii, 298pp [+14 ads]. 'Cheap edition 1925' stated to the copyright page. Original green cloth, black title to the spine and front cover together with decorated motif in black. Spine slightly faded, little wear to spi...

Times Review of the War - supplements to the Times Newspaper: Monthly Reviews of the War; [with] War Poems from the Times Aug 1914-1915; [with] The War Maps

KIPLING, Rudyard; HARDY, Thomas; DE LA MARE, Walter et al. · 1914

£800.00 (€958.92 | $1,056.92 | ¥168,722)

Good The Times / J.P. Bland [1915] London Collection of The Times Monthly Reviews of the War with the following dates: October 1, 1914 (Campaign in France); November 3, 1914 (Campaign in France and Belgium); December 1, 1914 (The Campaign in Poland); January 5, 1915 (The Advan...

George Mackley Wood Engraver

MACKLEY, George] GREEN, Lewis (Editor) · 1981

£72.00 (€86.30 | $95.12 | ¥15,185)

Fine Very Good 1st Edition Gresham Books Limited Folio. Original blue cloth, gilt title to the spine, brown dustjacket. Bookplate. The jacket has two small tears at top, the pages are very slightly creased. Else fine copy, clean and firm.

The Enid Blyton Poetry Book. Ninety-Six Poems for the Twelve Months of the Year

BLYTON, Enid. · 1934

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

Good 1st Edition Methuen & Co. Ltd London (170 x 110 mm). 'First published in 1934' on copyright page. Original brown cloth, gilt titling to the spine, embossed title to the front cover. Cover soiled, same front endpapers, spine ends and corners bumped, tanned and foxed edges,...

Critical And Historical Essays Contributed To The Edinburgh Review

Lord Macaulay · 1885

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,453)

Very Good Longmans, Green and CO. London (180 x 130 mm). Four volumes. New edition. Half calf spine leather, gilt title to the spine, gilt lining, marbled endpapers, hinge reinforced, all edges marbled. Lacking title and contents pages in vol. III. Corners slightly bumped and ...

A Farewell to Arms

HEMINGWAY, Ernest. · 1979

£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.28 | ¥6,749)

Bernard Fuchs As New The Franklin Library Octavo. Original brown leather spine, gilt title to the spine, richly decorated in gilt. Unread book in fine condition.

Don Quixote de la Mancha

Miguel De Cervantes · 1979

£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.28 | ¥6,749)

Jose and Luis Jiminez y Aranda As New The Franklin Library Octavo. Original brown leather spine, gilt title to the spine, richly decorated in gilt. Unread book in fine condition.

Hindu Tribes and Castes as Represented in Benares

Rev. M. A. Sherring · 1872

£220.00 (€263.70 | $290.65 | ¥46,399)

Very Good 1st Edition Trubner And Co. London (290 x 230 mm). Half calf leather, five raised bands, gilt title to the spine, gilt lining. First five pages (including title page) and last page are facsimile. A few pages professionally repair. Tanned edges, some slightly soiled. ...

An Atlas of Antient and Modern Geography

BUTLER, Samuel. · 1854

£280.00 (€335.62 | $369.92 | ¥59,053)

Fine Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans London Folio. New edition, re-engraved, with corrections. Quarter red calf leather, gilt titling to the front cover and spine, three raised bands, marbled new endpapers, gilt edges. Complete atlas contains hand colored 23 maps from Anti...

Japanese makimono painting in sumi ink- City View

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£400.00 (€479.46 | $528.46 | ¥84,361)

Fine Japanese makimono painting in sumi ink - City View. Size: 450 x 26cm. Period - XIX century. Scroll on wooden roll. Signed and sealed by artist.

Epigrams and Aphorisms

WILDE, Oscar. · 1905

£38.40 (€46.03 | $50.73 | ¥8,099)

Very Good John W. Luce and Company Boston Octavo. Original creamy cloth, titles to spine and front cover, top edge gilt. A fantastic book of Wilde's famous epigrams and aphorisms. In very good condition. Spine sunned, cover soiled, corners rubbed and slightly bent. Nice, clean...

Niezwyciezony I Inne Opowiadania

LEM, Stanislaw. · 1964

£600.00 (€719.19 | $792.69 | ¥126,542)

Piotr Borowy Very Good Very Good 1st Edition Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej Warszawa (180 x 110 mm). First edition, first impression on the copyright page. Original creamy cloth, black title to the spine and front cover. Pictorial brown and white dustjacket, spine s...

The Innocents Abroad, or the New Pilgrim's Progress: Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City's Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land; with Descriptions of Countries, Nations, Incidents and Adventures, as they Appeared to the Author

TWAIN, Mark. · 1870

£176.00 (€210.96 | $232.52 | ¥37,119)

Good Hartford: American Publishing Company Octavo. First edition, third issue, including at the end, after page 651, 5 pages advertisements. Original boards, gilt titling and decorations, brown endpapers. Ex libris Henriri Lawrance on endpaper. Illustrated with 234 B&W reprodu...

Rip Van Winkle

IRVING, Washington; RACKHAM, Arthur. · 1910

£140.80 (€168.77 | $186.02 | ¥29,695)

Very Good William Heinemann London Small folio. Original publisher's green cloth covered boards, with illustration and lettering pieces in gilt to the upper spine and publisher's vignette in blind centre of the rear cover; joints are rubbed; shelf wear to spine head and foot e...

Wierna Rzeka: klechda

ZEROMSKI, Stefan. · 1912

£900.00 (€1,078.78 | $1,189.03 | ¥189,813)

Very Good 1st Edition Spolka Nakladowa 'Ksiazka'. Sklady Gl.: S.A. Krzyzanowski, Krakow. J.Mortkowicz, Warszawa. The Polish Book Importing Co, New York Drukarnia Narodowa w Krakowie 8vo. [6], 264 p. On the half-title page a heraldic bookplate: "Ze zbioru Edwarda M. Sieradzkieg...

The Book of Wonderful Characters. Memoirs and Anecdotes of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in All Ages and Countries.

WILSON, Henry; CAULFIELD, James. · 1869

£480.00 (€575.35 | $634.15 | ¥101,233)

Very Good 1st Edition John Camden Hotten London 8vo. xxii, 23-416p. Bound by Hatchards of Piccadilly in half red morocco with red cloth covered boards, five raised bands, gilt title to spine, top edges gilt. Joints creased and just becoming a tad tender; spine is slightly fad...

Ninety-two Days. The Account of a Tropical Journey Throug British Guiana and Part of Brazil

WAUGH, Evelyn. · 1934

£720.00 (€863.02 | $951.23 | ¥151,850)

Fine Near Fine 1st Edition Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. New York 8vo. First US edition. Original yellow cloth, titles to spine and front cover. Dust-jacket price-clipped with a few chips. Frontispiece and illustrations in black/white printed on glossy paper. Including map in fine ...

The Nest of the Scarecrow

ATKINSON, M. E. · 1944

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.42 | ¥10,123)

Stuart Tresilian Fine Near Fine 1st Edition John Lane The Bodley Head London 8vo. First impression, 'FIrst published 1944' on copyright page. Original red cloth, black title to the spine, pictorial endpapers in blue/black/white. Illustrated throughout the text. Not price clipp...