Lucius Books

17/06/2026

A signed first edition of ‘Long Walk to Freedom’, the autobiography of Nelson Mandela. Inscribed by the South African President on the half title, underneath which the deputy President and last President of the Apartheid system, F. W. De Klerk, has also inscribed. The book was signed on the opening day of the 1995 Rugby World Cup, a defining event in the early stages of Mandela’s Premiership. The two leaders had a famously difficult relationship in power, consequently it is rare to see both inscriptions on the same page.

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15/06/2026

A signed first edition of ‘The Dice Man’ by Luke Rhinehart. The author’s debut novel that became a cult classic.

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09/06/2026

A fantastic inscribed first edition of ‘The Light Fantastic’ by Terry Pratchett. The second novel in the Discworld series, issued in an edition of 1,034 copies on 2nd June 1986.

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02/06/2026

A first edition of ‘The Sleeping Lord and Other Fragments’ by David Jones. Issued in a limited edition of 150 copies, this example is numbered 26 and is signed by the author. The last work published by the painter and poet David Jones in his lifetime, ‘The Sleeping Lord’ continues the exploration of the themes of war and religion begun by its predecessors ‘In Parenthesis’ and ‘The Anathemata’.
During World War I Jones was stationed at the front for two years, one of the longest stretches of any British writer, an experience that left him with post traumatic stress disorder and shaped his literary and visual work for the rest of his life. His lengthy works of poetry and sensitive paintings that grapple with both anxious tension and quiet normalities have evaded the clear definitions of contemporary movements such as modernism or expressionism, standing instead enigmatically alone. While Jones has remained a relatively obscure figure in general culture, his work has been praised as some of the greatest of the 20th century by giants of literature and the arts such as Igor Stravinsky, W. H. Auden and T. S. Eliot, and art historians Kenneth Clark and Herbert Read.

25/05/2026

A fantastic first edition of Earnest Hemingway’s ‘The Old Man and the Sea’. The author’s last major work of fiction published in his lifetime. The novella was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953, and was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.

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19/05/2026

A rare and beautiful bas-relief siderolith plaque produced by Johann Maresch after a design by Alphonse Mucha that exemplifies Art Nouveau’s emphasis on the marriage of the fine and decorative arts as well as Mucha’s monumental impact on the movement. The design is from Mucha’s ‘Danse’ decorative panel from his ‘Les Arts’ series, commissioned and printed by the Parisian printer Champenois. Of the panels, Mucha wrote “I was happy to be involved in an art for the people and not for private drawing rooms. It was inexpensive, accessible to the general public, and it found a home in poor families as well as in more affluent circles”.
The work of Johann Maresch and his ceramic studio, heavily influenced by Art Nouveau, straddled a similar convergence of concepts, creating both practical and purely decorative objects that were durable, accessible and reflected commercially popular designs, but always centred beauty and artistic merit. Originally designed for reproduction and for decorative use by a wide range of people, the design is here reproduced with a further degree of separation, in a material and form with a long history of use in mass-production and the applied arts, rooting Mucha’s work even further within the world of crafts.

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15/05/2026

Day two at the Saatchi Gallery, many glasses raised and canapés consumed at yesterday’s preview 🥂
Here till 8pm today 📚📖

14/05/2026

Before and after. Doors are open for the preview of FIRSTS 2026. Here until Sunday at Booth B16, come and say hi!
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