"Outside of a dog, man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx

London: Faber and Faber, 1937. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Small Quarto, unpaginated. SIGNED by both artist and author in black ink to verso of front free endpaper; hand-numbered 100 of 100 copies. Brightly illustrated throughout with lithographs by Jones. In publisher's colour-illustrated cloth boards, with matching jacket and illustrated endpapers. Some..... More
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1927. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.viii; 320. With six colour plates, and numerous in-text line drawings, by Watson. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. A nice clean copy, with some offsetting to fly-leaf only. Light toning to spine, and..... More
Almogavers: Salamandra, 2014. [Children's Literature] POP-UP BOOK, the sixth impression thus. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.66. With the author's original illustrations reapplied as pop-ups throughout. All text in Spanish. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards with black titles to spine and upper. Not priced. A touch of sunning to spine and a...... More
London: W.S. Orr and Co. 1839. [French Literature in Translation] First Edition in English. Quarto. pp. xxix, 306. With 30 large engravings on India paper, and hundreds of other smaller in-text engravings throughout, by various artists. In brown full morocco, with raised bands and gilt titles and tooling to spine..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965 and 2009. [Gastronomy] UNCORRECTED PROOF, FIRST EDITION, and REISSUE. Three volumes. Octavo (20 x 24cm, and 14 x 21cm), pp.[6] 134 [4]; pp.[6] 138; pp.320. All volumes illustrated throughout, including diagrammatic endpapers to proof and first edition. Proof in publisher's green monogrammed soft covers, with provisional..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1980. [Second World War] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.224. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Frank Wootton, priced at £8.50. Jacket sunned to spine and back panel. Near fine..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, no date [1924]. [Illustrated] First Detmold illustrated edition. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.240. Twelve tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue guards. Publisher's white cloth pictorially blocked and lettered in gilt. Contents clean, some spotting to edges and endpapers, contemporary ink note (1926) to flyleaf, cloth rather..... More
London: Printed for the author, by W. Bulmer and W. Nicol, Shakspeare Press, and Sold by Payne and Foss, Longman, Hurst and Co., 1821. [Bibliographical Travel] FIRST EDITION. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (27 x 18cm), pp.[6] xxxii; 462; lxxx [2]; pp.[6] 555 [3]; pp.[6] 622; lxii [2].With a total..... More
London: Printed for the author, by W. Bulmer and W. Nicol, Shakspeare Press, and Sold by Payne and Foss, Longman, Hurst and Co., 1821. [Bibliographical Travel] FIRST EDITION. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.[8] xxxii; 462; lxxx [4]; pp.[8] 555 [5]; pp.[5] 622; lxii [4]. With a...... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1876. [Classic Literature] VINTAGE COPY with the original illustrations. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[8] 709 [3]. With 14 engraved plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth, with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Yellow coated endpapers, and all edges untrimmed. Armorial bookplate of..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. [Classic Fiction] FIRST EDITION, bound from mixed issue parts. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 624. With 39 engraved plates by Phiz, and a frontispiece portrait of the author by Maclise. This copy does not have "visiter" for "sister" on p.123 line 17, but it does..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1860. [Classic Literature] FIRST EDITION, THIRD ISSUE. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] x; 254 [2]. With 16 engraved plates by "Phiz", including a frontispiece and vignette title page. One plate misbound. Lacking the signature 'b' on the list of plates, and the pagination of p.213 is..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, no date [circa 1880's]. [Historical Fiction] LEATHER-BOUND. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x; 613 [3]. With seven full page engraved plates, and numerous in-text wood engravings, by various artists. Contemporary brown half morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and deep mauve cloth over boards. All..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. [Crime / Mystery] FIRST EDITION in book form. Large octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii; 190 [34]. With 12 wood engraved illustrations after Fildes, as well as a steel engraved frontispiece and vignette title page. Publisher's green cloth, recently re-backed with the original cloth spine laid..... More
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. [Classic Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo. pp. xvi, 624 [1]. Illustrated with 38 plates, vignette title page and engraved frontispiece by Phiz. Bound from the parts with the vast majority of sheets in the earliest state of the text. 'Dark' plate opp. p.547 in fine order..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, no date [circa 1895]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (22 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 624 [2]. With 40 engraved plates by Browne, including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Contemporary green half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and textured green..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, no date [circa 1870]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xviii; 624 [2]. With 40 engraved plates by Browne, including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Contemporary burgundy half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and marbled paper..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, no date [circa 1895]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (22 x 17cm), pp.[2] xiv; 625 [3]. With 40 engraved plates by Browne, including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Contemporary green half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and textured..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. [English Literature] FIRST EDITION. First issue text with 'pricipal' for 'principal', page 115 of volume II, line 38. Two volumes. Octavo, pp.[2] xii; 320 [2]; pp.[2] viii; 309 [3]. With 40 engraved plates by Stone, including a frontispiece to each volume. Complete with the half-titles..... More
London: George Newnes, July 1892 - November 1892. [Literary Magazine]. FIRST APPEARANCES. Four magazines in their original paper covers. Large Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 112; xvii-xx; pp.xvi; 113-220; xvii-xx; pp.xvi; 221-328; xvii-xx; pp.xvi; 441-548 ; xvii-xxiv. Not including the October issue, which did not contain a Detective's Casebook story..... More
London: The Museum of London, 1999. [Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 17cm), pp.131 [1]. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Publisher's black soft covers with white titles. Light rubbing to covers. Near fine. From the library of the writer, media and film executive Edward Milward-Oliver... More
London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1898. [Literary Magazine]. FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.vi; 3-716. With numerous in-text lithographic illustrations. In publisher's green cloth with red titles to spine and upper board. Brown floral endpapers. With a PSA Book Fund bookplate to front pastedown. Some gatherings a little loose;..... More
London: Paddington Press, 1978. FIRST EDITION. Double-width Crown Octavo (19 x 26cm), pp.xxx, 91. In publisher's cream cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. End-papers with burgundy marbling effect. With original burgundy dust jacket. Jacket worn and lightly chipped to edges. Light even browning to text-block, as expected..... More
New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, June 17, 1893. FIRST AMERICAN APPEARANCE of this adventure, illustrated by W.H. Hyde, which was later collected in 'The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes'. Single newspaper issue in pictorial wraps (41 x 29cm). Disbound or extracted from a hardcover with associated wear to the spine..... More
New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, February 11, 1893. FIRST AMERICAN APPEARANCE of this adventure, illustrated by W.H. Hyde, which was later collected in 'The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes'. Single newspaper issue in pictorial wraps (41 x 29cm). Disbound or extracted from a hardcover with associated wear to the spine..... More