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A James Bond Omnibus. Containing Live and Let Die, Diamonds are Forever and Dr No.
London: Book Club Associates 1973. FIRST EDITION of the first James Bond omnibus to be published in the UK, preceding the Jonathan Cape equivalent. Publisher's hardcover in original metallic effect dust-wrapper. A used copy with some toning to edges of text block. Jacket shows general use, some scuffing and soiling..... More
The Poetical Works of Gray and Collins.
London: Oxford University Press, 1917. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.324; [4] blank. Oxford binding of navy polished calf binding, raised bands and gilt titling to red label on spine, elaborate gilt decoration to spine and board edges, endpapers and all edges marbled, Frontispiece and two further plates..... More
The Works of H. R. Haggard. Including: King Solomon's Mines, She, Montezuma's Daughter, The Spirit of Bambaste, Cleopatra, Alan Quatermain, The People of the Mist etc.
New York, NY: McKinlay, Stone and Mackenzie, no date [circa 1900]. 20 volumes; octavo. With frontispiece illustrations. Bound in recent dark green half morocco with matching cloth sides, gilt titles on black squares and gilit tooling on red squares to spine. Top edges gilt. Neat ownership inscriptions, to the title..... More
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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. Containing the Antient [Ancient] and Present State of it, Civil and Ecclesiastical; Collected from public Records, and other the best Authorities, both Manuscript and Printed: and Illustrated with Maps, and Views of Antiquities, Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, etc.
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
The Life of Napoleon.
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
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O. Henry Authorised Edition. [Complete Works of O. Henry].
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
Les Miserables.
Boston, MA: Dana Estes [1902]. [Literary Classic] CENTENARY EDITION, Limited to 1000 copies, of which this is Number 831. 5 volumes, Royal octavo (23 x 16 x 21cm). With photogravure frontispiece in colour, other etched illustrations all with captioned tissue guards, title page printed in two colours. Elegantly bound in..... More
The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen. Copyright Edition.
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
The Ingoldsby Legends. Or Mirth and Marvels.
London: Richard Bentley, 1855. [Literature]. FINELY BOUND. Eleventh edition. Three volumes, octavo (21 x 14 x 9cm). Illustrated title pages and a further nineteen plates, plus occasional in-text vignettes. Beautifully bound by Bickers and Son in full polished tan calf, gilt titles to contrasting labels to spines, extra gilt to..... More
The Lives of the most Eminent English Poets with Critical Observations on their Worls. With Notes Corrective and Explanatory, by Peter Cunningham.
London: John Murray, 1854. First Cunningham Edition. 3 volumes; 8vo. Later light brown morocco with gilt titles and extra gilt to spines, marbled boards, end papers and edges. A little foxing to first and last blanks. Bookplates. A fine set. Shows extremely well. More
The Works of S. Johnson.
Oxford: Printed for William Pickering, London, 1825. 9 volumes; 8vo. (H: 9 x L: 12 inches). Contemporary binding by Bayntun of Bath in half dark red morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and gilt tooling to darkened spines; marbled boards and end papers; top edges gilt. Portrait frontispiece to vol.I...... More
The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling. [The works include: The Jungle Books, The Second Jungle Book, Kim, Wee Willie Winkie, Plain Tales from the Hills, Just So Stories, Captain Courageous, Rewards and Fairies, Stalky and Co., Puck of Pooks Hill, Rewards & Fairies, The Man Who Would be King, etc.]
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897-1937. COMPLETE SET, FIRST PRINTINGS, the Outward Bound Edition. In 36 volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm). With a series of engraved frontispieces. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles and gilt to spines and an gilt ivory medallion to upper board of each volume. Top..... 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 8vo. (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
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart.
Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837-1838. [Literary biography]. FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Seven volumes, octavo (20 x 13 x 22cm). All volumes first editions, errata slips present in volumes I, II, and VI. Contemporary dark brown half calf over marbled boards, gilt to spines, gilt titles on red leather squares to spines..... More
The Complete Writings of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The Craigie Edition, with Portraits, Illustrations and Facsimiles.
Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1904. [American Literature]. FINELY BOUND COMPLETE WORKS. Eleven volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 36cm). With 76 engraved plates including a frontispiece to each volume. Contemporary green half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, and marbled boards and endpapers. Top..... More
Longfellow's Poetical Works. Author's Complete Copyright Edition.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1883. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[2] viii; 680; [2]. With 14 engraved plates. Contemporary red full morocco with raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Elaborate gilt decoration to spine and boards. Gilt textured endpapers; all edges gilt. Spotting to preliminaries and..... More
The Principle of Population. Or; A view of its past and present effect on Human Happiness...
London: J. Johnson, 1807. [Economics] The Fourth Edition. Two volumes. 8vo. 580pp, 484pp + 58pp Index. Bound in twentieth century full speckled calf, with red and black title labels, gilt centre tool to compartments. Speckled edges. Top edge stained black. Internally clean and bright with occasional very light spotting. "Malthus..... More
The Poetical Works. With Notes of Various Authors.
London: C. and J. Rivington, J. Cuthell, J. Nunn, J. and W.T. Clarke, Longman and Co., T. Cadell, Jeffery and Son, J. Richardson, Carpenter and Son, J. Mawman, Baldwin and Co., J. Booker, J. Bohn, J. Duncan, Black and Co., G.B. Whittaker, J. Bain, W. [Poetry]. FINELY BOUND. Six volumes..... 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 Rise of the Dutch Republic. A History.
London: W.W. Gibbings, 1892. 3 volumes; large 8vo. Contemporary binding by J. Low in full green morocco with gilt titles and extra gilt to spines, gilt rule to boards with the emblem of the Law Society stamped in gilt to centre of uppers, marbled end papers, all edges gilt. Prize..... More
Life and Writings of Thomas Paine. Containing a Biography by Thomas Clio Rickman and Appreciations by Leslie Stephen, Lord Erskine, Paul Desjardins, Robert G. Ingersoll, Elbert Hubbard and Marilla M. Ricker.
New York, NY: Vincent Parke and Company, 1908. [Political Philosophy] FINELY BOUND DE LUXE INDEPENDENCE EDITION. Complete in ten volumes. Octavo (23 x 16cm). Number 166 of just 500 hand-numbered sets signed by the editor Daniel Edwin Wheeler, published to celebrate the centenary of Paine's death. Each volume with three..... More
Headlong Hall; Nightmare Abbey; Maid Marian; Crotchet Castle. Standard Novels no. LVII.
London: Richard Bentley. 1837. First collected edition; first volume to contain a preface by the author. Octavo. pp. 402. Contemporary half brown calf leather binding with modern red title squares to spine with gilt lettering. Marbled boards and endpapers. All edges marbled. Engravings from 'Nightmare Abbey' and 'Maid Marian' to..... 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
Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe. The Raven Edition.
New York, NY: The Lamb Publishing Company, no date [circa 1902]. [Strange Tales] FINELY BOUND SET. 10 volumes. Octavo (21 x 15 x 35cm). With eight half-tone plates to each volume, including a frontispiece, as well as numerous vignette illustrations. An out-of-series copy from a limited edition of 1000 copies..... More