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Death in Venice.
New York, NY: printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club, 1972. [German Literature] LIMITED EDITION. Large octavo (27 x 20cm), pp.107 [3]. With numerous in-text wood engravings by Hoffmann, and a frontispiece. Number 1076 of 1500 copies thus, SIGNED by the illustrator in pencil to limitation page, and..... More
The Poetical Works of John Milton.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1911. [Poetry] FINE PRIZE BINDING, reprint. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 626. Contemporary navy full calf, boards gilt-ruled, with gilt armorial device of Marlborough College to upper. Spine with brown label lettered in gilt, raised bands, and gilt tooling. Dentelles in blind to turn-ins. Marbled endpapers..... More
Our Village.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. [English Village Life] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, the second impression thus. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.lx; 256 [2]. With numerous in-text wood engravings after illustrations by Thomson, as well as a frontispiece. Contemporary light brown half crushed morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration..... More
Twelve Poems.
Stoke Ferry: Daedalus Press, 1968. [Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.[22]. Number 8 of 300 copies SIGNED by the author. Publisher's plain soft covers, with the grey dust-jacket titled in gilt to front cover. Bumped to corners, with some light handling. Near fine. More
Master and Commander.
London: The Folio Society, 2008. [Naval Fiction] FIRST THUS. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xx; 356. With three suites of two double-sided colour plates. Publisher's illustrated blue cloth, with maps to light blue endpapers. With the matching blue paper-covered slipcase. A fine copy, with just a touch of light wear to..... More
People vs. Withers and Malone. Six Inner Sanctum Mystery Novelettes.
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1963. [Crime fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.254 [2]. Publisher's cream quarter cloth with mottled orange paper over boards, and black titles to spine. Top edge orange; others untrimmed. With the orange pictorial dust-jacket designed by Lawrence Ratzkin, printed price $3.50. Heavily..... More
Out of the Smoke; Into the Smother; The Sword and the Blossom,
London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, 1963, 1968. [Wartime trilogy] FIRST EDITIONS, COMPLETE. Three volumes, octavo (23 x 15 x 10cm), pp.xv; [5]; 310; [2]; pp.xiv; [2]; 290; [2]; pp.xx; 266. Publisher's cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jackets. Illustrated throughout. With an introduction to the first volume by van der..... More
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and Other Pieces of our Earlier Poets; together with some few of Later Date. Reprinted entire from the Author's Last Edition.
Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1867. [English Ballads] FINELY BOUND. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xcvi; 290 [2]; pp.viii; 318 [4]; pp.xxxvi; 340 [2]. Contemporary red full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spines and upper boards, and elaborate blind tooling all over. All edges gilt; dark brown..... More
Bubu of Montparnasse.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1952. [French Literature] FIRST THUS. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xviii; 101 [1]. With eight illustrated plates by Rosoman, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to black backing on spine. Top edge red. With the illustrated orange dust-jacket, priced at 10/6. Bookplate of Alan..... More
Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel.
London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1892. [Satirical Novels] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (29 x 20cm), pp.[4] xlvi [2]; 341 [7]; pp.[4] xiv; 455 [5]. With 15 photogravure illustrated plates, including a frontispiece to volume I, with tissue guards. Number 247 of 1000 copies thus. Contemporary green..... More
The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1895. [Satirical Adventure] FIRST THUS. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.lii; 299 [1]. With frequent wood engravings, including a frontispiece, by Strang and Clark. Publisher's cream cloth with black titles and decoration to spine and both boards. Black decoration also to edges. A Glasgow bookseller's label to..... More
Collected Poems. With an Introductory Memoir by Dan Davin.
London: Oxford University Press, 1971. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xxvi; 149 [1]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £3.00. Some associated news clippings loose to preliminaries. A crisp, clean copy showing some light wear to jacket extremities..... More
Poems by Isaac Rosenberg.
London: William Heinemann, 1922. [Great War Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 186 [2]. With a black and white photographic frontispiece of the author. Publisher's black cloth with plain printed title label to spine. Fore and lower edges untrimmed. A nice clean copy with just a little toning..... More
The Lemon Tree.
London: J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd, 1937. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[18]; 29; [1]. Publisher's grey cloth with blue titles to spine, dust-jacket made by The Temple Press, with printed price of 2s 6d to flap. Light toning to board edges and spine, slight sunning to dust-jacket..... More
The Leopold Shakespeare. The Poet's Works in Chronological Order, from the text of Professor Delius, with "The Two Noble Kinsmen" and "Edward III.," and an Introduction by F.J. Furnivall.
London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin & Co., no date [circa 1880s]. [Shakespeare's Works] FINELY BOUND, with illustrations. The thirty-second thousand. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[4] cxxviii; 1056 [2]. With a frontispiece etching of the Bard, and frequent in-text wood engravings. Contemporary tan full calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to..... More
The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books, 1566-1910. A Catalogue.
Toronto: Toronto Public Library, 1975. CORRECTED EDITION. In two volumes. Octavo. pp. xxiv, 562; xii, 563-1138. With occasional illustrations, many in colour to volume one. In publisher's pictorial green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Green end-papers. A fine copy. First published in 1958, and reprinted with corrections in 1966..... More
The Seasons, Odes, Songs, and Hymns.
London: Printed for John Bumpus, 1822. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Duodecimo in half-sheets (16 x 11cm), pp.[2] xxiv; 192 [4]. With a frontispiece portrait of the author, and an introductory biography by Aikin. Contemporary tan full calf, with gilt titles to a black label, further gilt decoration to spine, and gilt..... More
Love Lyrics from Five Centuries.
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., printed at the University Press Oxford, 1932. [Illustrated Poetry Anthology] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.198 [2]. With five mounted colour plates, including a frontispiece, by Rosenkrantz. INSCRIBED by the editor in black ink to the half-title: 'To Charles &..... More
Five Overs & 2 Wides.
Compton Chamberlayne: the Compton Press, 1975. [Cricket Poetry] LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xx; 72 [4]. With occasional woodcuts by Gili. One of just 500 copies thus. Publisher's marble-effect pastepaper over boards, with titles in black to spine. Deep pink endpapers. A fine, as-new copy. A collection of poems..... 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
We.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. [Dystopia] FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.285 [3]. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge black. With the striking purple dust-jacket designed by Stanley Chapman, priced at 35s / £1.75. A crisp, clean copy, with just a little rubbing..... More
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