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Winnie the Pooh.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1928. [Children's classic] SEVENTH EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 158 [2]. Profusely illustrated in-text by Ernest Shepard. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and gilt decoration to upper. Top edge gilt; pictorial map endpapers. Blue ink gift note to first blank, and..... More
Miss Elizabeth Bennet. A Play from 'Pride and Prejudice.'
London: Chatto and Windus, 1936. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xiv; 116. Publisher's grey cloth, paper label to spine. Top edge tinted blue. The odd internal mark, textblock edges lightly spotted with toning to top. Cloth sunned, with spotting to spine. Gentle bumping to extremities. Very good. By..... More
Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, 1940-1965. Taken from the diaries of Lord Moran.
London: Constable, 1966. [Diaries] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xviii; 829 [1]. With 15 black and white photographic plates, some double-sided. Publisher's red cloth in a stylish embossed typographic dust-jacket. Discreet black ink date (May 1966) to flyleaf. Top edge faded, with some spotting to edges. Jacket price-clipped..... More
Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, 1940-1965. Taken from the diaries of Lord Moran.
London: Constable, 1966. [Diaries] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[2] xviii; 829 [3]. With 15 black and white photographic plates, some double-sided, including a frontispiece. Recently re-bound in red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and matching cloth over boards. Top edge..... More
Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, 1940-1965. Taken from the diaries of Lord Moran.
London: Constable, 1966. [Diaries] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, first impression. Large octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[2] xviii; 829 [3]. With 15 black and white photographic plates, some double-sided, including a frontispiece. Elegantly hand-bound in red half oasis morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and gilt 'lion rampant' motif to spine, matching..... More
How a Penny became a Thousand Pounds.
London: Houlston and Stoneman, 1856. [Self-Help] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.96. Publisher's blind-decorated brown cloth with one decoration stamped in gilt to upper. Yellow-coated endpapers. Black ink ownership to flyleaf, dated 1856. Light browning throughout - a minor ink note to final page. Light rubbing to cloth. Very..... More
The Railway Panoramic Guide. Complete Midland. A Panoramic Decription of the Principal Objects of Historic Interest, Sacred Edifices, Chief Cities, Towns, Villages, Country Seats, Pleasure Resorts, Natural Objects, Engineering Works, Roads, Rivers, Canals, etc., Inviting the Attention of Passengers over the Main Line and Chief Branches of the Midland Railway.
London: Bembrose and Sons, n.d. [1873]. FIRST EDITION PAMPHLET. (295 X 190mm), pp.i, 56 [10]. First page of adverts dated 1873. With an illustrated map of the railways and steam boat routes of England, Wales and southern Scotland to verso of front cover. In publisher's yellow paper covers with black..... More
Antiente Epitaphes (from A.D. 1250 to A.D. 1800). Collected and sett forth in Chronological order.
London: Joseph Masters and Co., 1878. [Headstone epitaphs] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[10]; 196; [2]. With a folding facsimile frontispiece. Contemporary blue half calf with gilt titles to maroon label on spine. Marbled paper over boards; all edges speckled red; grey endpapers. A small, neat repair to frontispiece..... More
Trekking On.
London: Faber and Faber, 1936. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Fifth impression, octavo, pp. 351. Five folding maps. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, in dustwrapper. Some occasional light spotting, some spotting to the edges. Slight wear and marking to the cloth with some bubbling to the rear of the..... More
The House of Life: A Sonnet-Sequence. Variorum Edition with an Introduction and Notes.
Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer Ltd., 2007. [Poetry] CRITICAL EDITION, First Thus. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxii; 301 [3]. A scholarly edition containing a large introduction, extensive detailed notes, and appendices. Publisher's brown cloth with titles in gilt to spine, and a paper label to upper. A fine, as-new copy... More
The Poems of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
London: Ellis, 1907. [Poetry] FINE VELLUM BINDING, pocket edition. Octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.16; 714. With a tissue-guarded, engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. Contemporary quarter vellum, green cloth over boards. Brown label lettered in gilt and gilt floral designs to spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Light spotting to..... More
The Poetical Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
London: Ellis and Elvey, 1891. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND, a new edition. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary brown full morocco, with raised bands and gilt titles to spine, all edges gilt, and endpapers decorated with gilt. Gentle toning throughout, with spotting to frontispiece tissue guard. Moderate wear and bumping to..... More
Poems & Translations 1850-1870, Together with the Prose Story 'Hand and Soul.'
London: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1926. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND, a later edition thus. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[2] xx; 482 [4]. With a frontispiece of the author's self-portrait in the National Portrait Gallery. Contemporary navy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and blue cloth..... More
Poems & Translations 1850-1870. Together With the Prose Story 'Hand and Soul.'
London, Edinburgh etc.: Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, 1919. [Poetry] OXFORD EDITION, with interesting provenance. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.xvii [3] 482 [2]. With a halftone frontispiece portrait of the author. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt motif to upper board and gilt titles to spine. Boards blind-ruled. Contains a loose letter and..... More
The State Policy of Modern Europe, from the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century to the Present Time.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. In two volumes. Octavo, pp.xvi, 334; x, 392. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to front free end-paper, dedicated to Sir Edward Shepherd CREASY, author of 'Fifteen Decisive Battle of the World' (1851). In publisher's light tan embossed..... More
The Way We Live Now.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1875. [Classic Literature] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii; 320; pp.viii; 319; [1]. With forty wood engraved plates after Linton, including a frontispiece to each volume. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spines, and decorative ivy patterns stamped to upper boards in..... More
The Writings of Anthony Trollope. Collector's Edition.
Philadelphia, PA: Gebbie and Company, 1900. [Complete Works] FINELY BOUND LIMITED EDITION SET. Complete in 30 volumes. Octavo (22 x 16 x ). Each volume with a frontispiece and three further illustrated plates. Number 5 of just 250 sets thus. Finely bound by HADDON and Co. in black full crushed..... More
The Story of Wilbur the Hat. Being a True Account of the Strange Things Which Sometimes Happen in a Part of the World Which Does not Exist.
New York City: Horace B. Liveright, 1925. [Children's illustrated] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.112. With numerous full-page lithographic illustrations by Van Loon. Pictorial endpapers. Pictorial paper over boards, black cloth with titles to spine. Interior bright and mostly clean, some marking and spotting here and there..... More
The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Volumes I, II, III, IV and V, 1915-1941.
New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977-1984. [Literary Diaries] COMPLETE FIRST US EDITIONS. Five volumes. Octavo (24 x 16 x 16cm), pp.xxviii; 356; pp.xii; 371 [1]; pp.xiv; 384 [2]; pp.xiv; 402; pp.xiv; 402. Sketch-maps to endpapers of all volumes except I. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spines and..... More
The Letters of Virginia Woolf, 1888-1941. The Flight of the Mind; The Question of Things Happening; A Change of Perspective; A Reflection of the Other Person; The Sickle Side of the Moon; Leave the Letters Till We're Dead.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1975-1980. [Letters] COMPLETE FIRST EDITIONS, first impressions. Six volumes. Octavo (24 x 16 x 25cm), pp.xxiv; 531 [1]; pp.xxviii; 627 [1]; pp.xxiv; 600; pp.xxii; 442; pp.xx; 476; pp.xviii; 556 [2]. With four double-sided black and white photographic plates each to volumes I-IV, and frontispieces to volumes..... More
The Common Reader First and Second Series.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1945. [Essays] FIFTH AND THIRD EDITIONS. Two volumes. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.305; [3]. pp.270. Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 7/6 to spine. Small booksellers stamp to front pastedown of first vol., gilt titling worn, bumping to..... More
The Common Reader First Series and The Common Reader Second Series.
London: Hogarth Press, 1948. [Literature] UNIFORM EDITION, seventh impression, fifth impression. Two volumes uniformly bound. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.305; [1]. pp. 207; [2]. Publisher's bright teal cloth lettered in gilt to spine with typographic dust-jacket priced at 7s 6d to front flap and spine. [Vol I] Pencil margin marks..... More
Flush. A Biography.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1933. [Literature] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.163 [1]. With six photographic plates and four drawings by Vanessa Bell. Recently re-bound in red half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. Original cloth spine bound in at rear..... More
Jacob's Room
London: The Hogarth Press. 1949. [Modern Literature] UNIFORM EDITION, seventh impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.176. Publisher's turquoise cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 7/6 to spine and front flap. Top edge green. Previous owner's name and date in green ink to verso of..... More
A Letter to a Young Poet. The Hogarth Letters No. 8.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1932. [Literary Essay] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 28. Publisher's card covers, sewn, with an illustration by John Banting. A clean copy showing a little spotting to preliminaries, and moderate toning to covers. Minimal wear. Near fine. First published earlier in the..... More
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