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Established 1971

Adrian Harrington began trading in 1971 as part of Harrington Brothers, in the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's fashionable King's Road. In 1997 the business moved to our present address in Kensington Church Street, where many of London's finest antique dealers can also be found.

We deal in a wide selection of literature, modern first editions, leather bound library sets, children's and illustrated books and fine and rare antiquarian and old books in all fields. We also offer a full and expert bookbinding and restoration service.

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First 5-volume Edition. 4to.; large paper. Limited to 1000 copies of which this is No. 329. Bound in fine contemporary red morocco with gilt titles and delicate, extra gilt tooling to spines, marbled boards and end papers, top edges gilt. Portrait frontispiece to vol.I. Light traces of handling; small markings to a couple of spines; bookseller label to paste downs. The best edition of this monumental work, in a superb binding for Mr Francis F. Ormond, with his bookplate to paste downs.

The English and Scottish Popular Ballads.
CHILD, Francis James (Editor).

Boston: Printed at the Riverside Press for Houghton, Mifflin and Company, n.d. (c. 1898)., First 5-volume Edition. 4to.; large paper. Limited to 1000 copies of which this is No. 329. Bound in fine contemporary.. more

Price: £1,450.00

First US edition. 8vo. Publisher's heavily decorated burgundy cloth, titled and decorated in fine cod-Egyptian style in yellow, green and white. Clean and sharp, very good indeed, minor sunning to spine and a little bumping to extremities. Internally clean with some waterstaining to guttering. Wonderfully illustrated, gorgeously melodramatic, a lovely piece of re-animated dead high priest of a pharaohnic dynsty takes revenge on trespassing tomb raiders...and you know how cluttered that particular genre is.

The Living Mummy.
PRATT, Ambrose.

New York; Frederick A. Stokes. 1910, First US edition. 8vo. Publisher's heavily decorated burgundy cloth, titled and decorated in fine cod-Egyptian style in yellow, green and.. more

Price: £575.00

ALL FIRST EDITIONS. 11 volumes bound as 10. 8vo. All the Horatio Hornblower novels in First Editions, bound uniformly in recent half blue morocco, gilt titles to spines with gilt ship motifs, blue cloth boards, top edges gilt. A Fine Set. Increasingly rare. C.S. Forester was awarded the 1938 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for both the Hornblower novels 'A Ship of the Line' and 'Flying Colours'.

The Complete Hornblower Novels.
FORESTER, C. S.

London: Michael Joseph, 1932-68., ALL FIRST EDITIONS. 11 volumes bound as 10. 8vo. All the Horatio Hornblower novels in First Editions, bound uniformly in.. more

Price: £2,750.00

FIRST EDITION, earliest issue with two pages of terminal ads. but without the 8-page advertisement catalogue Octavo, pp.277, with eight plates illustrated by Whitwell. Publisher's polychrome binding of dark red cloth with pictorial upper and spine, titled in gilt. Internally clean but for light sporadix foxing mainly to prelims but occasionally recurring. Ink ownership to front flyleaf. A very sharp copy indeed with some light wear to extremities and its most noticeable defect being a half centimetre repaired split to the rear spine hinge. A very clean, handsome copy of an early Wodehouse.

The Gold Bat
WODEHOUSE, Sir P.[elham]G.[renville] (1881-1975).

London, A & C Black, 1904, FIRST EDITION, earliest issue with two pages of terminal ads. but without the 8-page advertisement catalogue Octavo, pp.277, with eight.. more

Price: £1,650.00

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