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Spinoza.
London, Boston, Melbourne, and Henley: Routledge and Keegan Paul, 1985. [Philosophy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 317 [3]. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket, priced at £25 to front flap. Light toning internally. Includes a loose news clipping. Near fine. An analysis and..... More
The Cat of Bubastes. A Tale of Ancient Egypt. With eight full page illustrations by J.R. Weguelin.
London: Blackie and Son, 49 and 50 Old Bailey, E.C., 1889. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.iv; [5]; 10-352; 32 of publisher's advertisements. Publisher's brown cloth blocked in gilt, red, and black. Olivine edges, dark blue coated endpapers. With eight half tone plates printed in sepia, including..... More
Cruising and Ocean Racing. The Lonsdale Library Volume XV.
London: Seeley Service and Co. Ltd., 1933. [Yachting] ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.592. Publisher's tan cloth, titled in gilt to spine, gilt insignia to spine and upper board, blue illustrative endpapers, top edge brown, photographic frontispiece. With over five hundred illustrations. Some spotting to the textblock. Binding a little..... More
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1981. [Letters and biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, (23 x 15cm), pp.[8] 463 [1]. Frontispiece facsimile of Tolkien's 1938 letter to Charles Furth which he enclosed with the first chapter of 'The Fellowship of the Ring.' Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the brown..... More
Finn and Hengest: the Fragment and the Episode.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983. [Literary criticism] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 180. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at $15.95 to front flap. Jacket backstrip slightly sunned. Near fine. A study of the tale surrounding two fifth-century Germanic heroes, the..... More
The Lord of the Rings. Illustrated by Alan Lee.
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1991. [Fantasy] FIRST THUS, omnibus edition. Three volumes in one. Octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.1193 [7]. With numerous colour plates illustrated by Lee and a map. Publisher's brown cloth, lettered in gilt to upper and spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket by Lee priced at £30 to front flap..... More
The Lord of the Rings. Illustrated by Alan Lee.
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1991. [Fantasy literature] Three volumes. Octavo (22 x 14 x 12cm). Illustrated with maps. Publisher's black cloth hardcovers blocked in silver to spine, Harlequin style illustrated dust-wrappers, each priced at £16.99. No ink names or signs of ownership. Contents clean, page edges gently toned else fine. A vintage..... More
The Silmarillion. [Lord of the Rings].
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1977. [Fantasy] FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, domestic issue, printed by Billing & Sons. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.365 [1]. Folding map to rear. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, top edge blue. With the dust-jacket illustrated with drawings by Tolkien, priced at £4.95..... More
The Silmarillion. [Lord of the Rings].
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1977. [Fantasy] FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, domestic issue, printed by Billing & Sons. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.365 [1]. Folding map to rear. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, top edge blue. With the dust-jacket illustrated with drawings by Tolkien, priced at £4.95..... More
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again.
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1995. [Children's Fantasy Adventure] LEATHER-BOUND SIXTH EDITION, First Thus. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] 272. With 13 illustrations by the author, including five colour plates. Recently re-bound in green half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, matching cloth over boards, and green endpapers. With the original..... More
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun.
London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2009. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8] 377. With a photographic frontispiece. Publisher's brown paper over boards with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £18.99. A clean near fine copy showing a little toning to edges. This book is..... More
The Lord of the Rings. Being: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1961. [Fantasy Classic] FIRST EDITION, the eleventh, eighth, and eighth impressions respectively. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (23 x 15 x 10cm), pp.423 [1]; pp.352; pp.416. With a folding map at the rear of each volume. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spines and..... More
The Lord of the Rings. Being: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1974. [Fantasy Classic] SECOND EDITION, all from 1974, all being ninth impressions. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (23 x 14 x 10cm), pp.[4] 423 [1]; pp.352; pp.416. With a folding map at the rear of each volume. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spines..... More
Air Force Poetry.
London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1944. [Second World War Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.90 [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. With the blue and white dust-jacket designed by Foss, priced at 7/6. Cloth spine faded, with toning to jacket spine. Rubbing..... More
Scottish Art and Letters. Number One.
Glasgow: William MacLellan, 1944. [Literary and Art Criticism] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.52. With three double-sided illustrated plates, one image reproduced in colour, as well as occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth, with gilt titles to spine and advertisements to endpapers. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at..... More
The County Companion, Diary, Statistical Chronicle, and Magisterial and Official Directory for 1887; Containing: the Calendar—Post Office Regulation—Names of British and Foreign Ambassadors—A Topographical, Geological, and Historical Description of the Counties of England and Wales, Supplemented by Electoral, Financial, Administrative, Police, Criminal, Agricultural, and General Statistics, and Comprising Useful Information respecting the Quarter Sessions, Petty Sessional and Lieutenancy Divisions, Prisons, Industrial and Reformatory Schools, Asylums, Chambers of Agriculture and Commerce, Urban and Rural Sanitary Authorities, School Boards, Burial Boards, Poor-Law Districts, and Militia and Volunteer Forces; also a County Magisterial Directory, a Table of Acts of the Parliamentary Session of 1885, and a reliable Government, Public Offices, Law, Parliamentary, Banking, and Insurance Guide.
London: Waterlow & Sons, 1887. [Country Almanac] ORIGINAL DIRECTORY. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.lxxxviii; 586. Also with an unpaginated diary and cash account section towards rear, not filled out. Publisher's grain-effect cloth, with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. All edges speckled red; advertisements to endpapers. Hinges split..... More
The Dinner Party at Bardolph's.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1937. ['Golden Age' crime fiction] NEW EDITION, first thus. Crown octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.320. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black, blocked in blind, illustrated dust-jacket priced at 2/- net. Contents clean, no inscriptions, jacket with a few tears, chipped at crown. Very good. A yellow..... More
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