The Bookshop

George Hancock Rare Books specialises in selling rare and collectible books and works on paper in a range of collecting fields, including antiquarian, literature, travel, autographs & manuscripts and fine bindings. Please find in the Bookshop a representative sample of my carefully curated offering.

(LITTELL, Jonathan.) The Kindly Ones. (Signed First Edition Plus A Reader’s Introduction Guide.)
£110.00
[Burton (Robert)], "Democritus Junior". The Anatomy of Melancholy. What it is, with all the kinds causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & severall cures of it.
£1,250.00
(LOCKE, John.) An Essay concerning Humane Understanding in Four Books.
£3,500.00
A unique collection of three World War One journals compiled by Pioneer Laurence Horton of the Royal Engineers, 'E' Special Company.
£1,450.00
(CHAMBERLAIN, Neville.) A 1940 World War II Typed Letter Signed to Sir Clement Hindley.
£1,250.00
(BURTON, Sir Richard Francis.) 1873 Autograph Letter Signed to Alexander George Findlay.
£4,000.00
(BOWIE, David, & MacCormack, Geoff.) From Station to Station. Travels with Bowie 1973-1976. (1 of 350 Signed Deluxe copies.)
£2,250.00
(ASAI, Shimpei.) Hello, Goodbye, The Beatles in Tokyo 1966. (A Signed Limited Edition. 1 of 350 Signed Deluxe copies.)
£800.00
(QUEEN ELIZABETH II.) 1989 Autograph Letter Signed to Angela Lascelles.
£3,750.00
(STEINBECK, John.) The First Watch.
£2,500.00
(MANTEL, Hilary.) Wolf Hall. Inscribed First Printing.
£2,250.00
(AMIS, Kingsley.) The Darkwater Hall Mystery.
£110.00
(SCHEFFLER, Axel.) Signed Original Drawing Of The Gruffalo.
£4,000.00
(SCHEFFLER, Axel.) Signed Original Drawing Of Pip And Posy Meeting Tiddler And Zog.
£4,000.00
(BRUNHOFF, Laurent de.) Signed Original Drawing Of Babar the Elephant.
£3,000.00
(MOORE, Roger.) My Word Is My Bond. (Signed Limited Edition.)
£325.00
(HUMPHREYS, Dr Gordon Noel.) Everest Expedition 1936 Autograph Letter Signed to Cyril H. Barraud and two other pieces of correspondence.
£3,000.00
(CARRE, John Le.) Our Kind of Traitor and An Address Given at the Oxford Literary Festival March 2010. (1 of 25 copies. A Signed Limited Edition.)
£1,800.00
(HUGHES, Ted.) 1994 Autograph Letter Signed.
£750.00
A Vintage British Royal Family Signed 1932 Christmas Card, inscribed and signed by King George VI, additionally signed by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
£975.00
(HARDY, Thomas.) The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character.
£4,000.00
(MONTGOMERY, Bernard Law, Viscount Montgomery of Alamein.) El Alamein to the River Sangro. Normandy to the Baltic. (Signed Limited Edition.)
£1,250.00
A unique collection of 71 photographs contained in a single photograph album, compiled by an RAF Serviceman between 1915-1920. (Contains 4 photographs of Winston Churchill’s visit to Cologne in 1919.)
£575.00
(FOLLETT, Ken.) Pillars Of The Earth. (Signed Limited Edition.)
£500.00
A Vintage 1955 Christmas Greetings Card, Signed by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
£2,400.00
A Vintage 1956 Christmas Greetings Card, Signed by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
£2,400.00
(KING CHARLES III, formerly Prince Charles, H.R.H. The Prince of Wales.) 1992 Autograph Letter Signed.
£1,500.00
(KING CHARLES III, formerly Prince Charles, H.R.H. The Prince of Wales.) 1990 Autograph Letter Signed.
£1,350.00
(KING CHARLES III, formerly Prince Charles, H.R.H. The Prince of Wales.) HRH The Prince Of Wales Watercolours.
£2,000.00
(KING CHARLES III, formerly Prince Charles, H.R.H. The Prince of Wales.) 1995 Autograph Letter Signed.
£2,000.00
(QUEEN ELIZABETH II.) 1963 Autograph Letter Signed, “Lilibet”, to The Honourable Gerald Lascelles, Queen Elizabeth II's First Cousin.
£5,250.00
(H.R.H. Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh.) 1969 Autograph Letter Signed, to The Honourable Gerald Lascelles, Queen Elizabeth II's First Cousin.
£875.00
(JESSE, John Heneage.) London: Its Celebrated Characters and Remarkable Places. Extra Illustrated. Bayntun Riviere Bindings with Unique Provenance.
£3,600.00
(GRAVES, Robert.) John Kemp's Wager. A Ballad Opera.
£400.00
(WELLS, H.G.). Autograph Letter signed, on “The Open Conspiracy”.
£1,200.00
(ROBERTSON, Archibald.) A Topographical Survey of the Great Road from London to Bath and Bristol.
£650.00
(CLÉNARD, NICOLAUS.) Peregrinationum, ac de rebus Machometicis epistolae elegantissimae.
£3,000.00
(GAY, John.) Fables.
£1,500.00
(BLAKE, William.) Illustrations of the Book of Job. The Engravings and related material with Essays, Catalogue of States and printings, Commentary on the Plates & Documentary Record by David Bindman.
£2,500.00
A collection of photographs of the Middle East compiled during WWI by Captain Richard Mountford Pigott.
£1,600.00
A collection of photographs of the Middle East, covering Palestine, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Jericho, Nazareth, Galilee, Haifa, and Egypt, compiled in 1936 by a British Visitor.
£475.00
A collection of photographs of the Middle East, compiled between 1942-1946, by a British RAF Serviceman.
£1,250.00
A collection of photographs of the Middle East, compiled in 1943 and 1944, by a British RAF Serviceman.
£450.00
A Vintage 1962 Christmas Greetings Card, Signed by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
£2,200.00
A Vintage 1965 Christmas Greetings Card, Signed by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
£2,200.00
A Vintage 1966 Christmas Greetings Card, Signed by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
£2,200.00
(TWAIN, Mark.) CLEMENS, Samuel. Autograph Letter Signed.
£4,250.00
(NELSON MANDELA, DESMOND TUTU , and F. W. DE KLERK.) Three signed colour photographs in one mount, each with engraved metal name plate underneath.
£1,350.00
(DAHL, Roald.) Rhyme Stew. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.
£2,200.00
(PIPER, John & GIROUARD, Mark.) John Piper’s Stowe. With An Introduction By John Piper and Commentary By Mark Girouard.
£1,150.00
(BOYD, William.) A Good Man In Africa.
£675.00
(BANKSY.) Wall and Piece.
£1,575.00
(CARRE, John Le.) Silverview. A Limited Edition.
£260.00
(LANDER, Richard and John.) Journal of an Expedition to Explore the Course and Termination of The Niger; with a Narrative of a Voyage Down That River to its Termination. 
£850.00
(HANLEY, James.) The German Prisoner. INSCRIBED by the Author.
£250.00
(MIEGE, Guy.) A Relation of Three Embassies from his Sacred Majestie Charles II to the Great Duke of Muscovie, The King of Sweden, and The King of Denmark.
£1,600.00
(DUARTE, Orlando & BELLOS, Alex.) Pele. The Autobiography. Limited & Numbered Edition.
£190.00
(FROST, Robert.) Accidentally on Purpose.
£625.00
(FROST, Robert.) My Objection to Being Stepped On.
£625.00
(FROST, Robert. Edited by NASH, Ray.) Fifty Years of Robert Frost: A Catalogue of the Exhibition held in Baker Library in the Autumn of 1943.
£625.00
(FROST, Robert.) The Library of Congress Presents Robert Frost Reading His Poems Under the Auspices of The Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund.
£625.00
(SENDAK, Maurice.) Milk In The Batter! Milk In The Batter! We Bake Cake! And Nothing's The Matter! A Signed Fine Art Print. 
£875.00
Richard E. Byrd Inscribed Photograph to Louis Fabian Bachrach.
£750.00
(CARRE, John Le.) The Spy Who Came in the From the Cold.
£260.00
(BELL, Gertrude Lowthian.) The Arab War Confidential Information for General Headquarters from Gertrude Bell being despatches reprinted from the Secret "Arab Bulletin”.
£725.00
(MANDELA, Nelson.) The Illustrated Long Walk to Freedom.
£2,500.00
(CARRE, John Le.) A Signed Photograph.
£85.00
(CARRE, John Le.) A Signed Photograph.
£85.00
THOMAS MANN – Signed and Inscribed Photograph.
£1,550.00
(KALDEWEY PRESS.) The Song Of Songs.
£1,500.00
Postcards Of Photographs Taken By The Members Of The 1922 Everest Expedition.
£975.00
(MORIN, Victor.) La Cuisine Décorative Moderne. Dressages Et Formules Pour l'Exécution.
£750.00
(KEMPIS, THOMAS  À.) De Imitatione Christi Libri IV.
£2,500.00
(BOLINGBROKE, Henry St. John, Viscount.) Letters, on the Spirit of Patriotism: On the Idea of a Patriot King: and On the State of Parties, At the Accession of King George the First.
£300.00
(LE CARRE, John.) Smiley's People.  
£1,400.00
Abbey Church Bath Chromolithograph
£60.00
Charlcombe Church Near Bath Chromolithograph
£55.00
The Lambeth Apocalypse. Manuscript 209 in Lambeth Palace Library. A Limited Edition.
£1,600.00
(CLARKE, Samuel.) A collection of papers, which passed between the late learned Mr. Leibnitz, and Dr. Clarke, in the years 1715 and 1716. Relating to the principles of natural philosophy and Religion.
£975.00
(SADLER, John.) Rights of the Kingdom; or, Customs of our Ancestours: Touching The Duty, Power, Election, or Succession of our Kings and Parliaments; our True Liberty, Due Allegiance….
£1,000.00
(COURT DE GÈBELIN, ANTOINE.) Histoire Naturelle de la Parole ou Prècis de l origine du Langage et de la Grammaire Universelle. Extrait du Monde Primitif.
£500.00
(KEATS, John.) The Poetical Works Of John Keats. Edited with an Introduction And Textual Notes By H. Buxton Forman, C.B.
£240.00
(STOUT, Benjamin). Cape of Good Hope and its Dependencies.
£500.00
(KEATE, Thomas.) Observations On The Fifth Report Of The Commissioners Of Military Enquiry.
£650.00
(BUCKINGHAM & CHANDOS, Duke of.) 10 Volumes of Royal Memoirs.
£1,100.00
(CHURCHILL, Winston. S.) My Early Life. A Roving Commission.
£750.00
(DICKENS, Charles.) The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. 
£375.00
(JOHNS, W. E.) Biggles Air Ace. 1 OF ONLY 40 COPIES WITH A PENCIL ILLUSTRATION.
£625.00
(WARD, Adolphus William.) The Electress Sophia and the Hanoverian Succession.
£250.00
(CAPOTE, Truman.) Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
£3,000.00
(ROWLING, J.K.) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
£1,450.00
(BENNETT, George.) Gatherings Of A Naturalist In Australasia.
£625.00
(HEARNE, Thomas.) The Itinerary of John Leland The Antiquary.
£1,250.00
(GOULD, John and H. C. RICHTER.) Three Hummingbirds Lithograph. (Eriocnemis Alinae.)
£500.00
(GOULD, John and H. C. RICHTER.) Red-throated Bluebreast Lithograph. (Cyanecula Suecica.)
£500.00
(GOULD, John and H. C. RICHTER.) White Tailed Velvet Breast Lithograph. (Lafresnaya Gayi.)
£500.00
(GOULD, John and H. C. RICHTER.) Striated Pardalote Lithograph. (Pardalotus Striatus.)
£500.00
(GOULD, John and H. C. RICHTER.) Tufted Duck Lithograph. (Fuligula Cristata.)
£500.00
(GOULD, John and H. C. RICHTER.) Spotted Crake Lithograph. (Porzana maruetta.)
£500.00
(Wolf, J and RICHTER, H.C.) Summer Plumage Lithograph. (Charadrius Pluvialis).
£500.00
(TENNYSON, Alfred Lord. BRICKDALE, Eleanor Fortescue, Artist.) Idylls of the King.
£575.00
(THOMAS, Edward.) A Centenary Celebration, With Etchings By Arthur Neal.
£575.00
(THATCHER, Margaret.) A Signed Falkland Islands Victory Commemorative Cover.
£500.00
(CONRAD, Joseph.) The Dover Patrol.
£325.00
(MAURICE, Thomas.) A Dissertation On The Oriental Trinities.
£400.00
(ARTIÑANO Y GALDÁCANO, Gervasio de.) La Arquitectura Naval Española.
£1,250.00
Report Of The Special Committee Of The New York Yacht Club.
£375.00
(CHURCHILL, Winston.) Typed Manuscript Proof Page Of Marlborough.
£1,250.00
(LEFTERI, Christy.) The Beekeeper Of Aleppo And Songbirds.
£350.00
(STUART, Douglas.) Young Mungo.
£175.00
(AUDUBON, John James.) Puffin Mormon Arcticus Chromolithograph.
£1,250.00
(HENNIKER, Sir Frederick.) Notes during a visit to Egypt, Nubia, The Oasis, Mount Sinai and Jerusalem.
£800.00
(BAYLEY, John.) The History And Antiquities Of The Tower Of London.
£625.00
(NICHOLS, Robert.) The Budded Branch.
£125.00
(READ, Benjamin). View in the Colosseum Regents Park Aquatint.
£2,000.00
(MOORE, Roger.) James Bond Signed Photograph.
£200.00
(MOORE, Roger.) Bond On Bond.
£325.00