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A Flame of Fire.
London: Henry E. Walter, [no date] Circa 1949. [Modern Literature] VINTAGE EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.304. Publisher's black cloth lettered in red to spine, pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Peter Fraser with printed price of 6/- to front flap. Spotting to preliminaries and endpapers, toning to edges of textblock, previous..... More
The Jungle Book [and] The Second Jungle Book.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1894; 1895. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITIONS, first impressions. Two volumes. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 212; pp.[6] 238 [2]. With frequent in-text illustrations by the author's father John, as well as a frontispiece and a number of full page plates to volume I. Publisher's blue cloth..... More
All the Puck Stories (Puck of Pooks Hill, with Rewards and Fairies).
London: MacMillan and Co. Ltd. 1935. [Fantasy Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.x; 670; [4], ads. With colour frontispiece and full page illustrations. Publisher's red cloth, gilt, with top edge gilt, in pictorial dust-wrapper priced 10/6. Contents clean, school prize label, binding a little mottled, fragile jacket mostly..... More
Puck of Pook's Hill.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. [Fantasy tales] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[2] x; 306 [2]. With 20 engraved plates by Millar, including a frontispiece. Contemporary green half calf by BUMPUS with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and green cloth over boards. Top edge gilt; marbled..... More
Puck of Pook's Hill.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. [Fantasy Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[4] x; 306 [12]. With 20 black and white illustrations by H.R. Millar, including a frontispiece. Advertisements dated 15.8.06. Elegantly hand-bound in red half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and the original cloth with..... More
Abaft the Funnel.
New York, NY: B.W. Dodge and Company, 1909. [Short stories] FIRST US UNAUTHORISED EDITION. Octavo (30 x 13cm), pp.viii; 360. Pictorial blue cloth binding lettered in red (the secondary binding). Contents clean, edges a little soiled, label neatly removed from pastedown, cloth with light edge wear, lower corner bumped. A...... More
Actions and Reactions.
London: Macmillan, 1909. [Strange Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6] 301 [13]. Advertisements date Autumn 1909. Publisher's red cloth with pictorial gilt medallion to upper, and gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt. No inscriptions, some toning to endleaves, minor wear to covers, spine and extremities slightly sunned..... More
The Bombay Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling. [Set of writings / novels / poems including: The Jungle Book, Kim, Wee Willie Winkie, Just So Stories, Captain Courageous, Rewards and Fairies, Stalky and Co, Puck of Pook's Hill, Rewards and Fairies, etc.]
London: Macmillan and Company, 1913-1938. LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED by the author in volume I to half title. Complete in 31 volumes; large octavo (25 x 132cm). Finely bound in deep red half morocco, raised bands and gilt rules to spines, matching cloth sides, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Printed from..... More
The Dipsy Chanty And Other Selected Poems.
East Aurora, NY: The Roycroft Shop 1899. Limited Edition to 950 copies of which this is No. 466, SIGNED by Elbert Hubbard. Post octavo, pp.93; [2], blank. Bound in the publisher's limp, green suede boards with yapp edges, embossed gilt to front board, blocked with the image of a tall..... More
The Five Nations.
London: Methuen and Co., 1903. LIMITED FIRST EDITION printed on Japanese paper. Crown octavo, pp.xv; 215; [1], blank. Elegantly bound in publisher's full vellum with gilt titles, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. A clean, fine copy with just a little expected bowing to the vellum covers. A rare book..... More
Many Inventions.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2]; x; 365; [7]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and decoration in gilt and blind to spine and upper board, green endpapers. Neat ink ownership to first blank, and a single ink correction to..... More
Stalky and Co.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1899. [School Story] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xii; 272; [2], advertisements. Elegantly hand-bound in half red calf, gilt-printed patterned paper-covered sides, top edge gilt, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands. Light and occasional thumbing. A near fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding. Stewart..... More
Stalky and Co.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1899. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xii; 272; [2], advertisements. Elegantly hand-bound in half red oasis morocco leather over original cloth sides gilt with elephant medalion to upper, top edge gilt, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands. A few light marks within; externally..... More
Traffics And Discoveries.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1904. [Short Stories / Strange Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[2] vi; 393 [23]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, and gilt elephant motif stamped to upper. Top edge gilt. Some toning and spotting to edges and endpapers; internally clean. A little..... More
Espagne, depuis L'Expulsion des Maures jusqu'a L'Annee 1847 [Spain, from the expulsion of the Moors until the year 1847]; Iles Baleares et Pithyuses; Sardaigne; Corse: L'Univers, ou Histoire et Description de tous les Peuples, de Leurs Religions, Moeurs, Costumes, etc.
Paris: Firmin Didot Freres, 1850. EARLY EDITION. Octavo, pp.413; 27; 49; 144. With 55 engraved plates to rear. Text in French. In contemporary quarter tan calf with gilt titles to black labels on spine. Marbled boards and end-papers. Black ink ownership inscription to title page. Gilt nearly all worn from..... More
We Always Take Care of Our Own.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1965. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.272. Publisher's orange cloth lettered in gilt to spine, 'Gollancz' yellow typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 25/6 to front flap. Publisher's advertisement sash with quotes from David Daiches and Frank Swinnerton. Offsetting to flyleaves, toning to edges..... More
Fortress Colony: The Final Act 1945-1964. Vol. I 1945-1954.
Valletta: Studia Editions, 1987. [Maltese History] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.xx; 444. With occasional black and white in-text illustrations. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to the title page: 'To Graham | with very best wishes | Jos M. Pirotta.' Publisher's deep red leatherette, with gilt..... More
Lexicon Manuale Graeco-Latinum, et Latino-Graecum, Primo Concinnatum, Terque editum a Cornelio Schevelio: Postea Vocabulorum octo quasi millibus locupletatum, plurimisque praeterea in locis auctum et adornatum, prout ex Praefatione constat. Studio atque Opera Josephi Hill. Ad calcem adjectae sunt Sententiae Graeco-Latinae, quibus Omnia Gr. L. Primitiva comprehenduntur. Item Tractatus Duo; Alter de Resolutione Verborum, de Articulis alter; uterque perutilis, et adhuc desideratus. Editio Nona prioribus multo emendatior.
London: Printed by G. Bowyer for J. Churchill, 1717. [Greek-Latin Dictionary] NINTH EDITION THUS. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[6] 642; 176. Contemporary full panelled and speckled calf, with hand-written title labels to spine. Black ink ownership to fly-leaf dated 1791, and purple stamps of the Wellington Hotel, Tunbridge Wells, to..... More
Marvin and Molly.
London: Sheepsy, 2012. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 24cm), pp.[34]. With colour illustrations by the author to every page. SIGNED by the author in black in, with some doodles, to half-title. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, priced at £6.99. A fine, as-new copy. More
Marvin Gets MAD!
London: Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2008. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (28 x 25cm), pp.[32] With fully intact sticker sheet at rear, and colour illustrations to every page by the author. SIGNED by the author in black ink, with a doodle to copyright page. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, priced..... More
[Contribute to] Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge. Volume VI. - Part I.
Philadelphia: Jane Aitken, 1804. [Americana] IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. Quarto (27 x 23cm), pp.xx; [4] contents; 190. Original grey paper covered boards, cream paper spine, with title label, edges untrimmed and some leaves unopened. Four engraved plates and numerous tables throughout. Small circle clipped from title page, perhaps removing an ownership..... More
Stalky and Co. [in] The Windsor Magazine. Volume 9.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., December 1898 to May 1899. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.vi; 754. With numerous photogravure illustrations. Publisher's green cloth over boards, with gilt and brown titles and decoration to spine and upper. Floral-patterned endpapers. Pink 'Book Fund' book plate to front pastedown..... More
The Works of Virgil. In English Verse. The Aeneid Translated by the Rev. Mr. Christopher Pitt, The Eclogues and Georgics, with Notes on the Whole, by the Rev. Mr. Joseph Warton. With several New Observations by Mr. Holdsworth, Mr. Spence, and Others. Also, A Dissertation on the Sixth Book of the Aeneid, by Mr. Warburton. On the Shield of Aeneas, by Mr. W. Whitehead. On the Character of Iapis, by the late Dr. Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester. And Three Essays on Pastoral, Didactic and Epic Poetry, by the Editor.
London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1758. [Classics in Translation] FINELY BOUND, a later edition thus. Complete in four volumes. Duodecimo (17 x 11cm), pp.[8] xxiv; 335 [3]; pp.[8] 246 [4]; pp.[8] 352 [4]; pp.[8] 306 [32]. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume, a folding engraved plate showing..... More
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