"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka
Collected Works & Sets
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 Burwash Edition of the Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling.
New York, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1941. [Complete Works] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Complete in 28 volumes. Octavo (23 x 16 x ). Number 677 of 1010 sets SIGNED by the author in black ink to the limitation page of volume I. A photographic frontispiece portrait of the author also..... More
The Writings of Abraham Lincoln. Edited by Arthur Brooks Lapsley. With an Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. Together with The Essay on Lincoln, by Carl Schurz; The Address on Lincoln, by Joseph H. Choate; and The Life of Lincoln, by Noah Brooks.
New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1923. [American Politics] THE Constitutional Edition. Complete in eight volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 37cm). A black and white frontispiece with captioned tissue guard to each volume. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to black backing on spines. Top edges gilt, and fore-edges..... More
The Works of Jack London. Including: The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Iron Heel, Martin Eden, Before Adam, The Sea-Wolf, Adventure, The Cruise of the Snark, The Valley of the Moon, Burning Daylight, as well as When God Laughs and Other Stories, South Sea Tales, and Love of Life and Other Stories.
New York: The Review of Reviews Company, 1915 - 1917. [American Literature] 13 volumes in all. Octavo (19 x 13), each with illustrated frontispiece. Beautifully bound in recent dark blue half morocco with gilt titles and gilt to spines, blue cloth boards, top edges gilt. Elegantly hand-bound in half navy..... More
The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. (Reprinted from the Revised American Edition) with Explanatory Notes. The "Albion" Edition.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [circa 1900]. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.x; 630 [2]. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. Contemporary navy full calf with raised bands, gilt titles to red label, and further gilt decoration to spine. All edges and endpapers..... More
The History of the Life of King Henry the Second, and of the Age in which he Lived, in Five Books: To which is Prefixed, a History of the Revolutions of England From the Death of Edward the Confessor To the Birth of Henry the Second.
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1769. [English Mediaeval History] THIRD EDITION. Complete in six volumes. Octavo (22 x 14 x 22cm), pp.[4] viii; 487 [3]; pp.[6] 517 [3]; pp.[6] 496 [2]; pp.[8] 576 [4]; pp.[8] 425 [5]; pp.[8] 505 [3]. Contemporary brown full speckled calf, with raised bands, gilt titles..... More
A History of British Birds.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1870. [Ornithology] HAND COLOURED PLATES. Second edition, six volumes, quarto (27 x 19 x 27cm). Illustrated with 365 fine hand coloured plates. Publisher's embossed green cloth with gilt pictorial titles to spines, gilt stamped birds to centre of upper, black coated endpapers. The preferred second..... More
The Collected Works of Mervyn Peake.
London: Queen Anne Press, 2011. FINELY BOUND. Ten volumes bound by Shepherds, Sangorski and Sutcliffe in black full goatskin, gilt titles to spine and various onlays. Red endpapers and gilt top edges, each volume housed in a custom, lined slipcase with leather trim. The set housed in a black cloth..... More
The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe. The Virginia Edition.
New York, NY: Thomas Y. Cromwell, 1902. [Strange Tales and Mysteries]. FINELY BOUND COMPLETE WORKS. Seventeen volumes. Crown octavo (16 x 11 x 39cm). With frontispiece engravings. Contemporary tan half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to contrasting green and brown labels to spines, gilt decoration to spines and marbled..... More
The Complete Works of William Hickling Prescott. Edited, with the Author's Latest Corrections, by John Foster Kirk.
London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., no date [circa 1890s]. [History] FINELY BOUND. Twelve volumes, octavo (23 x 16 x 45cm). Beautifully bound by Bayntun for Lauriat Booksellers in tan half calf over marbled boards, gilt titles on contrasting morocco squares and extra gilt to spines, top edges gilt, marbled..... More
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His Dark Materials; 1. Northern Lights [Golden Compass] 2. The Subtle Knife 3. The Amber Spyglass.
London: Scholastic Press, 1995-2000. ALL FIRST EDITIONS. 3 volumes, octavos. Publisher's cloth in original pictorial dust-jackets. The set housed in a custom felt lined slipcase. Some water marking to the cloth which had transferred with some colour to the reverse of the slightly edge worn dust-jacket of the first volume..... More
Complete Swallows and Amazons Series. Swallows and Amazons; Swallowdale; Peter Duck; Winter Holiday; Coot Club; Pigeon Post; We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea; Secret Water; The Big Six; Missee Lee; The Picts and the Martyrs: or Not Welcome At All; Great Northern?
London: Jonathan Cape, 1930-1947. [Children's Adventure] COMPLETE FIRST EDITIONS, FINELY BOUND. 12 volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 42cm). With occasional illustrations, and an engraved frontispiece to each volume. Uniformly bound in recent green full morocco by BAYNTUN-RIVIERE of Bath, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and..... More
A New Dictionary of the English Language.
London: William Pickering, 1839. [English Dictionary] EARLY PRINTING. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (29 x 24cm), pp.[8] [72] 1184 [4]; pp.[8] 1185-2223 [5]. Contemporary lightly-diced brown calf boards with gilt rule, recently re-backed to-style in tan calf with raised bands and gilt titles. All edges speckled red; textured orange-patterned endpapers..... More
The Works of Roosevelt [set of writings/essays including The Rough Riders, Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail, The Winning of the West, African Game Trails, Through the Brazilian Wilderness, Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter, etc.]
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923-6. [Memoirs] MEMORIAL EDITION. 24 volumes, octavo (25 x 17 x 114cm). Limited to 1050 sets, SIGNED by Edith Roosevelt. Beautifully printed on fine paper with watermark seal to centre. Photographic portrait of Roosevelt with a facsimile autograph as frontispiece. Publisher's deep red cloth lettered..... More
The Works of Roosevelt [set of writings/essays including The Rough Riders, Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail, The Winning of the West, African Game Trails, Through the Brazilian Wilderness, Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter, etc.] Edited by Hermann Hagedorn, under the Auspices ofThe Roosevelt Memorial Association..
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923-6. [Memoirs] THE NATIONAL EDITION. 20 volumes, octavo (20 x 14 x 72cm). Elegantly bound in half dark blue oasis morocco over matching cloth-covered sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with traditional raised bands, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Contents clean, exteriors unmarked. A...... More
Waverley, or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since.
Edinburgh: James Ballantyne and Co., 1814. Second Edition, in ORIGINAL BOARDS. Three volumes. Octavo, with half-titles, edges untrimmed. Frontispiece illustration to each volume. A rare survival in the original grey-paper covered boards, with blue paper spine and printed title labels (lacking from vol. II). Some general wear to the fragile..... More
The Family Shakespeare. In which nothing is added to the original text, but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1874. [Plays of Shakespeare] FINELY BOUND CENSORED PLAYS. Large octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[4] x; 910 [2]. Very small print set in two columns. With an engraved head piece for each play. Contemporary black full morocco with raised bands, gilt title to spine, and heavy..... More
The Tragedies of Shakespeare.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1912. [Shakespeare's plays] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[viii]; 1315; [1]. Oxford binding of quarter vellum over blue cloth boards, gilt decoration and titles to spine, top-edge gilt, housed in the original card slipcase. Frontispiece from a drawing by Sir George Scharf. Ownership..... More
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[Bell's Shakespeare]. [Romeo and Juliet; All's Well that Ends Well; The Winter's Tale; Love's Labour's Lost; Tempest; Titus Andronicus; As You Like It; Measure for Measure; Antony and Cleopatra; Midsummer-Night's Dream; King Lear; Othello; Cymbeline; Much Ado about Nothing; Julius Caesar; Comedy of Errors; Timon of Athens; King John; Merry Wives of Windsor; Richard II; Richard III; King Henry VIII; Hamlet; Taming of the Shrew; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Twelfth-Night, or, What You Will; Troilus and Cressida; Macbeth; Coriolanus; Henry V; Henry IV, parts I and II; Henry VI, parts I, II and III; Names of the Original Actors in the Plays of Shakspeare, by Will. Shakspeare: Printed complete from the Text of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Steevens, and revised from the last Editions.
London: John Bell [and] John Cawthorn, 1784-1807. [Shakespeare] JOHN BELL EDITION, later printings, mixed issue. 36 of 38 volumes. Duodecimo in half-sheets (16 x 10cm). Most volumes dated 1788 or 1803, with just a few intersectional exceptions. All volumes with two engraved title pages of varying dates ranging from 1784..... More
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The Library Shakspeare [Shakespeare].
London: William Mackenzie, no date [1873-75]. [Dramatic Works] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Complete in three volumes. Quarto (32 x 27cm), pp.[6] 396 [2]; pp.[6] 406 [2]; pp.[6] 476 [2]. With a full-page engraved plate for each play, nine very fine coloured plates, including a frontispiece to each volume, and very..... More
The Works of William Shakespeare.
London: Archibald Constable, n.d [c.1910]. FINELY BOUND EDITION. 12 volumes. Crown octavo (19 x 14 x 40cm). Half scarlet calf by The Times Bindery, with green morocco title labels, gilt to spine, matching buckram sides, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Contents a little thumbed, bindings with the odd mark or..... More
Calender of Wills, Proved and Enrolled in the Court of Hustings, London.
London: John C Francis 1889. 2 vols, parts one and two. Octavo. Bound in half brown morcco with green cloth boards highlighted with single gilt rule, raised bands with gilt decoration and gilt titles to spine, all edges gilt. Includes binder's ticket. Some rubbing and wear, the spine of part..... More
The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, complete in one volume, with memoir of the author, by Thomas Roscoe.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1863. [Illustrated literature] ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[2]; xl; 966. With a drypoint-finished etched portrait frontispiece of the author after Joshua Reynolds, a facsimile letter facing the preface and 19 copper engraved plates by George Cruikshank. In publisher's blind-decorated red cloth with gilt titles..... More
The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin, accurately revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-Plates; with Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory, by John Hawkesworth.
London: Printed for C. Bathurst, C. Davis [etc.], 1755. [Literature] FINE CONTEMPORARY BINDING. In six volumes. Quarto (27 x 23 x 28cm), pp.[4]; 44; xviii; 184; [2], viii; 286; [2]; pp.[6]; 232; [4]; 182; [2]; pp.[4]; vi; iv; 192; [6]; 253 [3]; pp.[10]; 318; [2]; ii; 237; [3]; pp.[6]; 258;..... More
The Works of W. Thackeray. Including: Vanity Fair, Pendennis, Barry Lyndon, etc.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1869, 1886. 24 volumes. Octavo. Contemporary dark green half morocco by Riviere, with gilt titles and elaborate gilt decoration to spines in 3 compartments; light green cloth boards with gilt rule; top edges gilt; marbled endpapers. With illustrations by the author. Spines evenly faded to..... More