BUYING
Jarndyce is always looking to buy new stock and will be pleased to visit you by arrangement. If you have books to sell please contact us.
We ALWAYS want to buy:
- DICKENS first and early editions, especially in original cloth; Dickensiana: autograph letters, manuscript and ephemera, books about Dickens, music and plays based on Dickens' books, imitations, plagiarisms, etc.
- NOVELS: 1700-1920, in very good condition and, especially, in the original binding as issued, including:
- Victorian Three-Deckers
- Original Parts
- Publisher’s Boards, Cloth or Leather
- POETRY: 1700-1900.
- 18TH & 19TH CENTURY PLAYS & books on the Theatre
- BOOKS ILLUSTRATED BY CRUIKSHANK, PHIZ, SEYMOUR, MEADOWS, etc. and ORIGINAL DRAWINGS FOR BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS
- Books on the SOCIAL SCIENCES
- ENGLISH DICTIONARIES, SPELLING BOOKS, GRAMMARS 1600-1900
- BOOKS ON LONDON, especially Low-Life Pre-1940
- NEWSPAPERS: 1640s-1940s, bound volumes; books about newspaper history
- MANUSCRIPTS & AUTOGRAPH LETTERS
- Literary Manuscripts and Letters
- Historical Manuscripts and Letters relating to the social, economic and political history of Great Britain and its empire.
- EPHEMERA: including BROADSIDES, CHAPBOOKS, SONGSHEETS, GAMES, etc.
Please always quote good to fine copies of 1st, 2nd, 3rd and other early editions by the following authors:
AINSWORTH
ALLINGHAM
ARNOLD (Matthew)
AUSTEN
BECKFORD
BENTHAM
BESANT
BLACK (Wm.)
BLACKMORE
BLAKE (Wm.)
BLESSINGTON
BORROW
BOSWELL
BOWLES (W.L.)
BRADDON
BRONTES
BROUGHAM
BROWNING (R. & E.)
BURKE
BYRON
CAMPBELL
CARLETON
CARLYLE
COBBETT
COLERIDGE
COLLINS (Wilkie)
COWPER
CRABBE
DARWIN
DIBDIN
DICKENS
DISRAELI
DOYLE (Conan)
EDGEWORTH
ELIOT (George)
FARJEON
GALT
GASKELL
GISSING
GLADSTONE
GODWIN
GRANT (James)
HAGGARD
HARDY
HAZLITT
HOOD
HOOK
HOWITT
HUGHES (Thomas)
HUNT
HUXLEY (T.H.)
JAMES
JEFFRIES
JERROLD
JOHNSON (Samuel)
KAVANAGH
KEATS
KINGSLEY
KIPLING
LAMB
LANDOR
LE FANU
LEVER
LEWES (George)
LEWIS (Monk)
LOCKHART
BULWER-LYTTON
MACAULAY
MACDONALD
MALTHUS
MARRYAT
MARTINEAU
MAYHEW
MEREDITH
MILL (James)
MILL (John S.)
MONTGOMERY
MOORE
MORE (Hannah)
MORGAN (Lady)
MULOCK
OLIPHANT
OPIE
OUIDA
PATMORE
PAYN
PEACOCK
PORTER
QUINCEY De
RADCLIFFE
READE
RICARDO
RIDDELL
ROGERS
RUSKIN
SALA
SCOTT (Sir Walter)
SHELLEY (Mary)
SHELLEY (P.B.)
SMILES
SMITH (Adam)
SMITH (Charlotte)
SMITH (Sydney)
SMOLLETT
SOUTHEY
STEPHEN (Leslie)
STERNE
SWIFT
SWINBURNE
TENNYSON
THACKERAY
TROLLOPE (Anthony)
TROLLOPE (Frances)
TROLLOPE (T.A.)
WILDE
WILKES
WOLLSTONECRAFT
WOOD (Mrs. H.)
WORDSWORTH
YONGE