"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust

London: William Tegg and Co., 1849. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xx; 736; [2]. With six steel engraved plates by various artists including a frontispiece, as well as an engraved vignette title page. Contemporary full morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and extensive gilt decoration..... More
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, no date [1925]. [American Literature] COMPLETE WORKS LIMITED EDITION. 12 volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 31cm). Number 712 of 750 sets thus, printed on all-rag watermarked paper. Publisher's quarter black cloth, with white cloth over boards, gilt titles to spines, and a gilt..... More
London: James Cundee, 1806. UNCOMMON EDITION. Four volumes, 6mo, pp.xlviii; 232; [11 of notes, 1 of adverts]; pp.221; [25 of notes, 6 of adverts]; pp.217; [35 of notes]; pp. 198; [46 of notes, 4 of adverts]. Frontispiece engraving to each volume. Bound in contemporary dark brown mottled calf, gilt titles..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1949-1951. [Russian Literature] FINELY BOUND SET. Twelve volumes, all later printings. Octavo (19 x 13 x 37cm). Handsomely bound in recent red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles black labels and further gilt decoration to spines, and matching red cloth over boards. Some volumes a little..... More
New York, Dodd Mead and Co., 1885. First edition. Four volumes. Octavo. Publisher's dark blue cloth, titled and decorated in gilt to spines and uppers. All volumes clean and sharp with light wear to spine ends, pale spot to lower edge front board volume III. Volume I has some minor..... More
Philadelphia: George Barrie, 1895. [True Crime] Octavo (20 x 14 x 30cm), eight volumes. With several full-page illustrations, all with tissue guards. Handsomely bound in half red morocco, gilt, with matching red cloth sides, top edges gilt, gilt-patterned endpapers. Some foxing within, lightly handled to exterior; a very good set..... More
London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1832-1833. FINELY BOUND. Eighteen volumes, octavo (18 x 12 x 44cm). Finely bound by Riviere for Little, Brown and Co. Early twentieth century brown half morocco over cloth boards, raised bands, gilt titles and extra gilt to spines, gilt top edges, marbled endpapers. All volumes illustrated..... More
Boston and New York; Houghton Mifflin Co., Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford Upon Avon and published by Basil Blackwell, Oxford. 1926. [Classic Literature] LIMITED LARGE PAPER EDITION. Number 198 of 500 copies. Ten volumes. Octavo (24 x 16). With an engraved frontispiece and other illustrated plates. Title and..... More
Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co., and New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898. [Literature] FINELY BOUND. Twelve volumes, octavo (23 x 15 x 38cm). Beautifully bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe for E.P. Dutton and Company in contemporary dark red half morocco over marbled boards, raised bands and gilt titles and..... More
London: Queen Anne Press 2008. LIMITED EDITION in Vellum over cloth sides, one of just 100 copies. 18 volumes, octavo. The definitive edition of Ian Fleming, issued to commemorate the birth of the author; no such edition has been published before. The Queen Anne Press was created by Lord Kemsley..... More
London: Pan Books, 1955-1967. [Spy fiction] All paperback First Editions. Fourteen volumes, octavo (18 x 12 x 19cm). Publisher's illustrated softcovers. Live and Let Die being the 'thick' paper variant. All UK printings [Live and Let Die, Dr No, OHMSS (60c), You Only Live Twice and The Man With The..... More
London: Foyle [The Book Club], 1956-1966. [James Bond] COMPLETE BOOK CLUB EDITIONS. 11 volumes, octavo (20 x 14 x 26cm). Elegantly hand-bound in half dark blue calf over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands. Some toning and and occasional spotting to the cheap paperstock, externally..... More
London: Queen Anne Press, in association with Adrian Harrington, [2022]. 15 volumes, octavo (22 x 14 x 15cm). Publisher's hardcovers stamped in gilt, decorated with author's initials in gilt to to cover, plain black endpapers. This series comprises fifteen selected titles, uniformly cased in harlequin colours, being remaining sheets from..... More
London: Penguin 007, 2008. [Spy novels] All FIRST IMPRESSIONS. Fourteen volumes, octavo (23 x 15 x 42cm). Bound in original silver-stamped black cloth in striking dust-jackets with 'retro' style artwork by Michael Gillette. A fine set, housed in a custom-made cloth slipcase with fleece lining and ribbon pulls. A particularly..... More
London, Queen Anne Press 2008. LIMITED EDITION. 18 volumes. The definitive edition of Ian Fleming, issued to commemorate the birth of the author; no such edition has been published before. No.36 of 250 sets bound by Shepherds, Sangorski and Sutcliffe in dark blue cloth, top edge gilt, with gilt-titled leather..... More
London: Titan Books, 2006-2014. Ian Fleming's James Bond; the original comic strips as adapted and serialised in the Daily Express by Anthony Hern, Henry Gammidge, Peter O'Donnell and Jim Lawrence, illustrated by John McLusky, Yaroslav Horak and Harry North. ALL FIRST EDITIONS. Six volumes, quarto (24 x 19cm). Bound in..... More
Ashford: Henry Igglesden, 1871-1874. [Kent Topography] FIRST EDITION, a presentation copy. Two volumes bound in three parts, as issued. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 462; pp.xii; 424; pp.iii; 425-935. With six folding maps. Publisher's handsome green cloth with gilt titles to spine, black tooling, and gilt motifs to the upper..... More
London: Swordfish, an imprint of Orion Publishing Group, 2011. [Spy novels] BOX SET. Quality hardback re-issues of the first Jonathan Cape editions (1981-6) featuring the same dust-jacket artwork. FIRST EDITIONS thus, with a full strike-line number sequence. Octavo, five volumes in publisher's illustrated red card slip-case, showing the original printed..... More
Canterbury: Printed for the Author, by Simmons and Kirkby, 1778-1799. [Kentish history]. FIRST EDITION. In four volumes. Folio (41 x 26cm), pp.[4]; xii; clii; 580; 42; [2]; pp.[4]; 817; [1]; 72; pp.[4]; ii; 765; [1]; 51; [3]; pp.vi; 788; 46; [2]. Complete with all 167 copper engraved illustrations, including county..... More
London: The Grolier Society / Edinburgh Press, no date [circa 1900]. [History] FINELY BOUND. 6 volumes, octavo (23 x 16 x 23m). Hand coloured frontispieces and illustrations throughout, each with captioned tissue guards. Printed on water marked paper of the Grolier Society. Elegantly bound for/by Brentanos in green half crushed..... More
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1849. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xii; 652 [2]. Small print in two columns. With an engraved frontispiece of the author and a vignette title page. Contemporary green full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and elaborate gilt decoration stamped all..... More
New York, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co. for Review of Reviews Co., 1913. COMPLETE WORKS. 12 volumes. Octavo (19 x 14cm). With a frontispiece to each volume. Publisher's red leatherette with gilt titles to spines and gilt monograms to upper boards, brown monogrammed endpapers, top edges gilt. Some volumes with..... More
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1922-1923. [Natural History] FINELY BOUND COLLECTION. 19 of 24 volumes. Octavo (23 x 16 x 69cm). One of just 850 sets thus. In contemporary navy half crushed morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, and matching cloth over boards. Top edges gilt..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1906-1910. [Literature] FINELY BOUND BY ZAEHNSDORF. Eleven volumes, octavo (19 x 14 x 37cm). Beautifully bound by Zaehnsdorf in contemporary deep blue half morocco over marbled boards, gilt and leather onlays to spines. Top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Internally fine. Binding lightly handled. A sumptuous presentation of..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Coöperative Society, no date [circa 1900]. [Collected Works] THE NEW CAMBRIDGE EDITION. Complete in 16 volumes, bound as eight. Octavo (23 x 16cm). Each volume with a black and white frontispiece and two further illustrated plates. Number 150 of 500 sets thus, SIGNED by the New York..... More