Literature
The Secret Trail A Jimmie Rezaire Story.
London, Methuen 1928. A Secret Service thriller. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp256. Publisher's hardcover in dustwrapper. A very good copy with owner name, loss to jacket at base of spine affecting imprint, faded beneath at same, one or two other minor nicks or tears (one taped at rear) spine sunned. A...... More
Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold.
London: Macmillan, 1913. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[xii]; 510. Riviere binding of contemporary brown half morocco over purple cloth boards, with raised bands, gilt title and extra gilt to spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Presentation note to "Miss D.M. Lapage", the commandant of the Kent 142..... More
Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1908. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND, a later printing thus. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xiv; 510 [2]. With a frontispiece etching of the author. Contemporary green full crushed morocco by SPOTTISWOODE & CO., with raised bands and gilt titles to spine. All edges, gilt-ruled turn-ins, and machine-marbled endpapers..... More
Girl with a Monkey.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1958. [Australian Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[4] 144. Publisher's light blue cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Frank Book, priced at 13/6. Small blue ink ownership to flyleaf. Light toning to edges. Jacket toned to spine and flap..... More
The Penelopiad.
Edinburgh: Canongate, 2005. [Greek Mythological Fiction] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 199 [1]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black paper over boards, with grey titles to spine and a grey device to upper. Black patterned endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated..... More
The Country Cousin.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978. SIGNED First Edition. Octavo. pp. 239. In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original dust jacket featuring a very light monochrome image of a man sitting at a desk next to closed blinds. Brown and red titles. Inscribed to recto of front..... More
Collected Longer Poems.
London: Faber and Faber, 1968. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.356. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, typographic dust-jacket, repriced by Faber at £2.50 net with a sticker over the original printed price of 45s / £2.25 net. First and last leaves faintly creased at the..... More
The Magic Flute. An Opera in Two Acts. Music by W.A. Mozart. English Version after the Libretto of Schikaneder and Giesecke.
New York, NY: Random House, 1956. [Opera] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xviii; 108. With three illustrations by Rouben Ter-Arutunian, including a frontispiece. Publisher's black quarter cloth with silver and coloured titles to spine, and decorative paper over boards. Top edge black and light green endpapers. With the..... More
Letters From Iceland.
London: Faber and Faber, 1937. [Poetry and Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.268. With 15 double-sided black and white photographic plates, as well as a frontispiece, seven charts and diagrams, and a folding map at rear. Publisher's green cloth with red and blue titles to spine. Top edge..... More
The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays.
New York, NY: Random House, 1962. [Literary Criticism] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 528. Publisher's cyan cloth, with gilt titles to black backing on spine. Top edge black. With the typographic dust-jacket, priced at $7.50. A little spotting to cloth at the head of the spine. Jacket..... More
Academic Graffiti.
London: Faber and Faber, 1971. [Illustrated Clerihews] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), unpaginated. 60 poems with an illustration by Sanjust to each facing leaf. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Sanjust, priced at £2.00. Light handling; a fine copy. More
About the House.
London: Faber and Faber, 1966. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, with the errata slip at p.7. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.94 [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green and pink dust-jacket, priced at 15s. South African bookseller's ticket to pastedown. The lightest of offsetting to endpapers. Spine..... More
Collected Shorter Poems 1930-1944.
London: Faber and Faber, 1950. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.303 [1]. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the yellow typographic dust-jacket, priced at 15s. Armorial bookplate of Labour politician Woodrow Wyatt to front pastedown. Toning to edges, with a moderate tobacco scent. Jacket toned..... More
The Dance of Death.
London: Faber and Faber, 1933. [Drama] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.38 [2]. Publisher's green paper-covered boards titled in black to spine and upper. A red ownership stamp to flyleaf, with a pencil note stating it refers to C.H. Waddington, and a blue ink note also to flyleaf..... More
Making, Knowing and Judging. An Inaugural Lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 11 June 1956.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1956. [Literary Criticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (23 x 15cm), pp.33 [3]. Publisher's plain typographic paper covers, sewn. Sewing broken; covers detached. Quite heavy wear, and a crease, to covers. Good. More
Thank You, Fog: Last Poems by W.H. Auden.
London: Faber and Faber, 1974. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] 57 [5]. Publisher's blue quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine and light blue paper over boards. With the black and grey dust-jacket, priced at £1.75. Jacket lightly toned to spine, with the lightest of handling to..... More
The Vox Edition of the Works of Jane Austen
London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1933-4. [Classic Literature] FIRST VOX ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13 x 21cm), 7 volumes. With colour plates and in-text black and white illustrations by Maximilien Vox. Prefatory letter, in French by Maximilien Vox and an introduction by Emile Legouis. Publisher's patterned grey cloth..... More
Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1897. [English Literature] FIRST THOMSON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 444. Illustrated with 39 wood engravings, including a frontispiece, by Thomson. Publisher's burgundy cloth with titles in gilt to spine and upper, blind-embossed floral pattern to covers, edges untrimmed. Contents clean, no ink names..... More
Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1837. [Literary Classic] SECOND BENTLEY Edition, Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[viii]; 440. Engraved frontispiece and title vginette by Pickering. Bound in late nineteenth century green pebble-grained cloth lettered in gilt. Contents clean with minor toning, marginal dampmark to engravings, plain and functional binding has some..... More
The Novels and Letters of Jane Austen [set of works, comprises 5 volumes of the novels]: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey and Emma, and 2 volumes of Letters. The text based on Collation of the Early Editions by W.R. Chapman. With Notes, Indexes, and Illustrations from Contemporary Sources.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1923. [Classic Literature] First Oxford Edition. Large Paper. Limited to 1000 sets. Seven volumes. Coloured frontispieces. Original grey linen-backed marbled boards, printed paper labels to spine with spares bound in at rear, untrimmed deckle edges. First and final leaves toned, some age-related browning to spines..... More
Pride and Prejudice.
London: The Zodiac Press, 1974. [Classic Literature] FINE COPY, the ninth impression of the Zodiac Press edition. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.299 [3]. Publisher's grey and white patterned paper over boards, with gilt titles to blue backing on spine. With the dust-jacket showing a painting by John Sergeant, price-clipped and..... More
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The Winchester Edition of the Novels [Works] of Jane Austen. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Emma, Lady Susan and The Watsons.
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1911. [English Literature] COMPLETE WINCHESTER EDITION. Ten volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 34cm), with portrait frontispiece to first volume, title pages printed in red and black, vignette 'JA' monogram illustration. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles to spines; top edges gilt, others untrimmed..... More
War Storm.
London: Orion, 2018. [Young Adult Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 662 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to preliminary leaf. Publisher's navy cloth with metallic blue titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Sarah Nichole Kaufman, priced at £12.99. 'Signed by the Author'..... More
Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1870. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, a later edition. Quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.[12]; 268. With frequent wood engraved vignettes by the Patons. Contemporary green full morocco by R. and A. SUTTABY of London, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and gilt..... More
The Wind in the Wood.
London: Hollis and Carter, 1952. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[10]; 143; [1]. With twelve chromolithographic plates including a frontispiece by the author, and wood engraved vignettes to chapter headings. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine and upper board, illustrated dust-jacket priced at 18s. net..... More