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London: Printed for Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1818. First Edition. Small 4to; pp. x, (2), 256. Publisher's blue paper covered boards, a little stained and rubbed; grey paper spine chipped and frayed; original paper title label chipped and rubbed; edges untrimmed. Internally sound and clean. A very good copy of..... More
London: Printed for W. Strahan [etc.], 1771. [English—Italian Dictionary] A NEW EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (17 x 22cm), pp.[10] xxxiv; [698]; pp.[4] xl; [672]. With an Italian introduction to volume I (Italian to English) and an English introduction to volume II (English to Italian). Main text printed over..... More
London: Johnstone and Hunter, 1849. [Home Medicine and Self-Help] FIFTH EDITION. Duodecimo (14 x 9cm), pp.224. With 30 in-text engraved illustrations. Publisher's grey boards with titles to upper, advertisements to lower, and a pink cloth spine, priced at 1s. Black ink ownership to title page. Nice and clean internally, with..... More
London: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., no date [1902]. [Scots Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Sextodecimo (14 x 11cm), pp.[2] 354 [2]. With a frontispiece portrait of Burns. Contemporary quarter vellum, with gilt titles to a brown label, as well as delicate green and gilt decoration to spine. Striped green cloth over..... More
London: Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington, G. Wilkie, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown [etc.], 1817. [Theology and Philosophy] CONTEMPORARY BINDING, a new edition. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.lxiv; 408. Contemporary tan half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to orange label on spine, and marbled paper over boards..... More
Paris: Chez Le Prieur, Libraire, rue des Mathurins-Saint-Jacques, hôtel de Cluny, 1822. [Morality and Pedagogy] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.333 [1]. All text in French. With six of the eight copper engraved plates, including the frontispiece and decorated title page. Contemporary half marbled calf, with gilt titles to..... More
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1926. [Literary Essays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xviii; 253 [1]. With a frontispiece facsimile of the last manuscript leaf written by Conrad. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and a blind stamp to upper. Top edge green. With the plain dust-jacket..... More
London: Printed at The Morland Press, 1923. [Modern Literature] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.67; [5], blank. Hand-printed in two colours on Kelmscott hand-made paper Publisher's full limp vellum, lettered in gilt to spine, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Number 164 of 175 copies for sale, signed..... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1923. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.317; [3]. With the textual error ' o' for 'go', p. 221, line 2. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Top edge lightly tinted green. With the cream illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 7/6..... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1923. [Literature] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4] 317 [9]. With the textual error ' o' for 'go', p. 221, line 2. Recently bound in green half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and the original gilt-titled green cloth laid over..... More
London: Methuen and Co., 1907. [Landmark Spy novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[viii]; 442; [1], imprint; [1], blank; [40], advertisement catalogue dated September 1907. Bound in publisher's burgundy coloured cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Edges of text block toned/browned, binding a little sunned to the spine..... More
London: Methuen and Co., 1908. [Short stories] FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 310 [2] 40. Advertisements to rear. Publisher's blue cloth, titles blocked in brown to upper board, gilt titles to spine. Blue 'presentation copy' stamp to title page. Bottom edge uncut. Light toning throughout, spotting..... More
London and Toronto: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1925. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. ix; 303; 4 [advertisements]. Bound in publisher's purple textured cloth, with blind ruling to front board, publisher's logo blind stamped to front board, title in dull gilt to spine, top edge coloured dark green. In a pictorial..... More
London and Toronto: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1925. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. ix; 303; 4 [advertisements]. Bound in publisher's purple textured cloth, with blind ruling to front board, publisher's logo blind stamped to front board, title in gilt to spine, top edge coloured dark green. Contents clean, single ink..... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[viii]; 297; [1]; imprint; [14], advertisements. Publisher's dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Owner name to flyleaf, contents shaken within case, inside paper joint cracked, gilt dulled, cloth handled. Very good..... More
New York, NY: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1920. [Literature] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Complete in 24 volumes. Octavo (22 x 16cm). Frontispiece photogravure to volume one, vignette 'Sundial' illustration to title page of each volume, which features text printed in two colours. Handsomely bound in half dark blue oasis morocco with..... More
London: Eveleigh Nash Company, 1920. [Italian Short Stories] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256 [16]. Publisher's brown cloth, with fully-oxidised gilt titles to spine. Internally crisp and clean, with some off-setting to endpapers and quite heavy toning and spotting to edges. Some sunning to board fore-edges, and..... More
London: The Bodley Head, 2015. [Young Adult Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 280 [16]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and black endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by James Fraser, priced at £12.99. Promotional..... More
London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1862. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[2] xii; lx; 445 [3]. With an engraved frontispiece and vignette title page. Very small print in two columns. Contemporary red full morocco by WISEMAN, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and gilt crest of..... More
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1911. [British History] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 250 [4]. With 10 colour plates by Ford, as well as various maps and drawings. Contemporary navy full calf by RELFE BROS for Langport Grammar School, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration..... More
London: Edward Moxon, 1851. [Dictionary] FINELY BOUND, the fifth edition thus. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp. [2] viii; 673 [3]. Brown full calf with raised bands, gilt titles to brown labels and further gilt tooling to spine, gilt decoration to boards. Marbled edges and endpapers. Ex libris to front paste-down..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. [Wartime satire] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x14cm), pp.443; [1]. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine, top edge tinted green, second issue dust-jacket, with five reviews replacing the section of the text reprinted on the rear cover. Slightest sign of shelf wear to the cloth. Dust-jacket..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1894; 1895. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITIONS, first impressions. Two volumes. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 212; pp.[6] 238 [2]. With frequent in-text illustrations by the author's father John, as well as a frontispiece and a number of full page plates to volume I. Publisher's blue cloth..... More
London: MacMillan and Co. Ltd. 1935. [Fantasy Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.x; 670; [4], ads. With colour frontispiece and full page illustrations. Publisher's red cloth, gilt, with top edge gilt, in pictorial dust-wrapper priced 10/6. Contents clean, school prize label, binding a little mottled, fragile jacket mostly..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. [Fantasy tales] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[2] x; 306 [2]. With 20 engraved plates by Millar, including a frontispiece. Contemporary green half calf by BUMPUS with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and green cloth over boards. Top edge gilt; marbled..... More