Lucius Books

Lucius Books Rare books, first editions, manuscripts, literature, original art - bought and sold.

24/08/2026

The banners are up for the York National Book Fair - hope you will come along . There will be thousands upon thousands of books for sale along with maps, prints and ephemera. York Book Fair PBFA Independent Life York

10/08/2026

Breathing new life back into old buildings is one of the most satisfying parts of what we do, and an area we have many years of experience in. We’re still coming down to earth from the completion of Lucius Books in York, Team YPS spent over a year working on Micklegate and seeing the shop buzzing with customers now has us brimming with pride. Thank you again to our client for trusting us with this epic renovation.

Take a tour of the space here: https://www.yorkpropertysolutions.co.uk/projects/north-yorkshire-a3gtc

A deluxe limited first edition of ‘Salavdor Dali’s Tatot’. Salvador Dali began work on his tarot cards in the early 1970...
10/08/2026

A deluxe limited first edition of ‘Salavdor Dali’s Tatot’. Salvador Dali began work on his tarot cards in the early 1970’s when he was approached by Albert Broccoli to create a custom deck of tarot as a prop for the James Bond film ‘Live and Let Die’ (1973). The prop contract fell through due to Broccoli not wanting to meet Dali’s fee, but his wife Gala, who was interested in mysticism, encouraged the artist to continue the project. Over the following decade Dali created an entirely new deck, which he described as a ‘Universal Tarot’, featuring himself as the Magician and his wife Gala as the Empress. In 1984 a limited edition set of cards was printed by Naipes Comas which quickly sold out. This first book publication, by Rachel Pollack, leading expert in modern Tarot and author of ‘Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom’ (1980), provides an explanatory guide to the imagery and symbolism in his cards. Issued in a ‘deluxe’ edition of just 125 copies, from which this example is numbered 80, it is decidedly scarce in commerce.

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A signed first Lucy Kemp-Welch illustrated edition of ‘Black Beauty’ by Anna Sewell. Issued in a limited edition of 600 ...
09/08/2026

A signed first Lucy Kemp-Welch illustrated edition of ‘Black Beauty’ by Anna Sewell. Issued in a limited edition of 600 copies, this example is numbered 224 and signed by Kemp-Welch in black ink on the limitation page. Kemp-Welch (1896-1958) was the foremost equestrian artist of her generation one of the best-known female artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A horsewoman herself, with a particular love of work horses, Kemp-Welch matches the sensitivity and insight of Anna Sewell’s equine classic that raised an unprecedented level of awareness of horse welfare and made a lasting impact on legislature in both the UK and USA.

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A first UK edition of ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ by John Steinbeck. An enduring modern classic, Steinbeck’s Great American No...
02/08/2026

A first UK edition of ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ by John Steinbeck. An enduring modern classic, Steinbeck’s Great American Novel follows a struggling farming family as they flee the Dust Bowl for California during the Great Depression. It won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and was cited by the Nobel committee as one of the factors in their deciding to award Steinbeck with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. The novel was adapted into the 1940 Academy Award winning film of the same name, directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda and Jane Darwell.

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A first edition of ‘Summer Coming’. The last of four critically acclaimed social realism novels of Swinging London, by t...
28/07/2026

A first edition of ‘Summer Coming’. The last of four critically acclaimed social realism novels of Swinging London, by the Somerset Maugham Award winning author and journalist Jane Gaskell.

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A first edition of ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ by Douglas Adams. The first novel in a comedic science fiction...
26/07/2026

A first edition of ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ by Douglas Adams. The first novel in a comedic science fiction series that would become a global multimedia phenomenon, it began as six radio plays broadcast on the BBC on 8 March 1978. Following their immediate success, Douglas Adams adapted the first four parts into a novel. Pan Books acquired the rights and published it as a paperback original on 12 October 1979, selling more than 250,000 copies within its first three months. A hardback edition, published by Arthur Barker, followed later that year.

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