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The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
London: George Routledge and Sons, [no date] c.1900. [Poetry] SCHOOL PRIZE BINDING, Cambridge Edition. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[iv]; xxi; [1]; 689; [4], blank. Bound in blue full calf with gilt tooling and gilt scholastic device to upper. Raised bands, gilt tooling and tan label to spine. All edges marbled..... More
The Poetical Works. Complete Copyright Edition.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press Warehouse, 1901. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.viii; 878. Beautifully bound by in contemporary brown full morocco, raised bands and gilt titles to spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece engraving of the author. Printed in double columns. Internally nice and clean..... More
The Golden Legend.
London, David Bogue 1851. 8vo. First Edition. Publisher's dark pink cloth with blind stamped design to boards, extra gilt, pale yellow endpapers, owner's name to neat label attached to free endpaper. Minor wear, sunned to spine; a clean, fresh copy. Longfellow's classic verse, in which the central figure is an..... More
The Ghost City Killings.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1940. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.284; [4], advertisements. Publisher's red cloth, titled and trimmed in black, striking illustrated dust-wrapper, priced 8/3 (including War tax). Some toning to edges, jacket with a few chips and tears, some creasing. Uncommon. An Anthony Trent detective mystery..... More
The Last Scourge.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1948. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.218; [2], blank. Publisher's red cloth, titled and trimmed in black, striking illustrated dust-wrapper, priced at 8s. 6d. A very good, used copy; jacket with a few nicks, chipped to spine ends, sunned to same, joins rubbed. Uncommon..... More
Acting Charades. Deeds Not Words: A Christmas Game to Make a Long Evening Short.
London: D. Bogue, no date [circa 1850]. [Victorian Party Games] EARLY EDITION. Octavo (17 x 14cm), pp.xii; 158 [2]. Printed by Vizetelly. With a hand-coloured wood engraved frontispiece and vignette title page, as well as numerous further in-text illustrations by Hine. Publisher's red cloth, rebacked with the original spine laid..... More
Roden's Corner.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1898. [Victorian Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.vi; 343; [9]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Top and fore-edge untrimmed. Dark brown coated endpapers. Largely unopened. With a bookseller's postcard bill loosely inserted, addressed to Goulden and Curry..... More
Just Wild about Harry. A Melo-Melo in Seven Scenes.
London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1964. [Drama] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.106 [2]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green and purple typographic dust-jacket, priced at 16s. The lightest of handling. A lovely crisp fine copy. More
Quiet Days In Clichy.
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1958 [Printed December 1957]. [Salacious Literature]. SECOND EDITION. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.174. With photographs by Brassai. Illustrated self wraps. Gentle reading crease to spine, joints rubbed. Very good indeed. The full text of Miller's 1956 pornographic novel, which was banned in America under obscenity laws..... More
Tropic of Cancer.
London: John Calder, 1963. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6] 318. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page; possibly a secretarial hand. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the blue dust-jacket, priced at 25s. Large blue ink ownership to..... More
Americans Abroad: An Anthology. With Autographed Photographs and Biographic Sketches of the Authors.
The Hague: The Servire Press, 1932. [Anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xi; [1] blank; 475; [1] blank. Publisher's orange paper covered boards, grey cloth spine, titles in red to spine and upper, top edge dark blue, grey endpapers. Some spotting to preliminaries and endpapers, textblock a little shaken..... More
St. George's Day And Other Poems.
London: John Murray, 1918. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.48. Publisher's green cloth, white titles and ruling to upper. Gilt titles to spine. Light toning to leaves, some offsetting to endpapers. A few pencil annotations here and there. Two ownership inscriptions to flyleaf, one in black ink, one..... More
The Story of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (the old 43rd and 52nd Regiments).
London: Published at the Offices of "Country Life" by George Newnes, 1915. [Military History] FIRST EDITION, in the Deluxe binding. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 224 [20]. With two colour plates including a frontispiece, seven further black and white plates, a folding map at rear, and numerous in-text plans..... More
The Snuff Mill Story, Local History of Morden, Mitcham, Merton.
Letchworth: The Garden City Press, 1970. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.160. With 100 b/w photographic illustrations. In publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original pictorial dust jacket. Some closed tears and very minor chipping to jacket. Very good overall. A history of three south London communities linked by..... More
The Orchard of Tears.
London: Methuen and Co., 1936. [Modern Literature] FINE PRE-WAR DUST-JACKET, seventh edition. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[6]; 250. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black to spine, illustrative dust-jacket designed by Frank Marston with publisher's advertisements to flaps. Toning and light spotting to edges of textblock, toning and some spotting to..... More
Virgin In Flames.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1953. [Modern Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.204 [4], publisher's advertisements. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black to spine, illustrative dust-jacket with printed price of 9/6 to front and rear flaps. Toning and spotting to edges of textblock, extremely light and infrequent spotting throughout..... More
The Yellow Claw.
Lippincott's Magazine. 1915. First appearance in print, bound from the parts. 8vo. Attractively bound in recent half green morocco leather with gilt titles to spine, black title label. Green cloth boards and plain endpapers. Near fine. Bound from the parts extracted from the 1915 issues of Lippincott's Magazine predating the..... More
A Map of Hearts.
London: Lindsay Drummond, No date [1944]. [Short stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] 185 [1]. Publisher's yellow cloth, pink titles and pictorial motifs blocked to upper and spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 8s 6d to front flap. Cloth lightly toned to extremities. Some toning and gentle..... More
Transformation Four.
London: Lindsay Drummond, 1946. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.305 [1]. Publisher's red cloth blocked in black to upper and spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by John Heartfield priced at 8s 6d to front flap. Internally bright and clean. Gentle toning to cloth spine, boards slightly..... More
My Sporting Holidays.
London: Edward Arnold, 1904. [Hunting and Fishing] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xii; 367 [17]. With 16 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. All edges untrimmed. A large black ink ownership dated Xmas 1904 to..... More
In Darkest Africa, or, The Quest Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria. With Two Steel Engravings and One Hundred and Fifty Illustrations and Maps.
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1890. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Two volumes, octavo. Illustrated, with three folding maps housed in pockets to the rear of each volume. Publisher's green cloth, pictorially stamped in gilt and black. Some edgewear and rubbing to extremities, spine tips frayed, loose maps with some expected wear..... More
In Darkest Africa, or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1890. [African Exploration] FIRST TRADE EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 529; [1]; pp.xvi; 472; [2]. With 150 woodcut illustrations and maps, including three folding. Also with a copy of John Speke's map of eastern equatorial Africa loose to preliminaries of..... More
British Rural Sports: Comprising Shooting, Hunting, Coursing, Fishing, Hawking, Racing, Boating, Pedestrianism, with all Rural Games and Amusements.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [circa 1875]. [Blood and Outdoor Sports] FINELY BOUND, the 11th edition. Octavo (19 x 15cm), pp.xx; 872 [2]. Very small print over two columns. With numerous engraved plates by various artists. Contemporary red half calf, with gilt titles to a black label, further..... More
Of Friendship. An Essay from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.
Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1901. [Philosophy] LIMITED EDITION, PRIVATE PRESS. Duodecimo (20 x 12cm), pp.[4] vi; 88 [6]. Number 448 of 500 copies thus, letterpress printed on fine hand-made paper. Publisher's quarter cream cloth, with gilt titles to spine and upper, and dark grey paper..... More
The Writings of Henry David Thoreau.
Boston, MA and New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906. FINELY BOUND. Twenty volumes, octavo (20 x 14 x 61cm). The Walden Edition. Handsomely bound in contemporary dark blue half morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and ornate tooling to spine, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. All volumes illustrated..... More