Manuscript Abecebestiary
An extraordinary early Victorian manuscript, exhibiting a clear High Gothic Revival influence, but stranger and more original.
An extraordinary early Victorian manuscript, exhibiting a clear High Gothic Revival influence, but stranger and more original.
First edition in English, elusive first printing, of the book form of "the first [science fiction] epic of cinema" (Clute and Nicholls).
First edition of Hughes's "greatest collection of verse" (Arnold Rampersad), in the scarce original dust jacket designed by Aaron Douglas.
Spectacular association copy of this lurid underworld memoir, the annotated copy of Henry John Nelson, Sharpe's attorney and author of the foreword, and signed by both Nelson and Sharpe.