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Farthest East, and South and West. Notes of a Journey Home through Japan, Australia and America.
London: W. H. Allen, 1892. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. pp. xii, 343. With 12 photographic plates including frontispiece. In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, as well as black/white illustrations. Navy end-papers. Black ink prize inscription to verso of front free end-paper. Reading lean. Clean and..... More
The Gulistan of Shaik Saday; a Complete Analysis of the Entire Persian Text.
Calcutta: Thacker Spink and Co., 1861. [Persian Literature in translation] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; pp.592 [2]. Re-bound in contemporary or slightly later brown half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles and blind decoration to spine, and textured brown cloth over boards. Marbled endpapers, and vestiges of..... More
The Dream of Ravan: A Mystery. (Reprinted from "The Dublin University Magazine," 1853 & 1854.)
London: The Theosophical Publishing Society, 1895. [Hindu Theosophy] FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4] 248. Publisher's green cloth with black titles to spine and upper. All edges untrimmed. Merchant Taylors' School prize plate to front pastedown, dated 1944. Spotting to endpapers, and to first and final few leaves..... More
How They Do It.
London: George Allen and Unwin ltd, 1945. [Essays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.158; [2]. With numerous in-text illustrations by Karel apek. Publisher's green cloth to boards, blue titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket, price-clipped to front flap. Top edge green. Toning to leaves and endpapers. Minor sunning..... More
Three Novels [Noetic Trilogy]. Hordubal; An Ordinary Life; Meteor.
London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1948. [Modern Literature] FIRST OMNIBUS EDITION IN ENGLISH, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.469 [3]. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine and upper. Top edge orange. With the grey typographic dust-jacket, printed on the reverse of a WWII map of Denmark..... More
The Novels and Letters of Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and Letters volumes I and II. The text based on Collation of the Early Editions by R.W. Chapman. With Notes, Indexes, and Illustrations from Contemporary Sources.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1923-1932. [Classic Literature] First Oxford Edition. Large Paper, limited to 1000 sets. Complete in seven volumes. Octavo (24 x 16 x 35cm), pp.[6] xiv; 429 [3]; pp.[2] xiv; 415 [1]; pp.[2] xiv; 567 [1]; pp.[2] xiv; 521 [1]; pp.[2] xiv; 252; 310 [2]. With a...... More
The Novels and Letters of Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and Letters volumes I and II. The text based on Collation of the Early Editions by R.W. Chapman. With Notes, Indexes, and Illustrations from Contemporary Sources.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1923-1932. [Classic Literature] First Oxford Edition. Large Paper, limited to 1000 sets. Complete in seven volumes. Octavo (24 x 16 x 35cm), pp.[6] xiv; 429 [3]; pp.[2] xiv; 415 [1]; pp.[2] xiv; 567 [1]; pp.[2] xiv; 521 [1]; pp.[2] xiv; 252; 310 [2]. With a...... More
Pigsticking, or Hog-Hunting. A Complete Account for Sportsmen and others.
London: Harrison and Sons, 1889. FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.211; [1], imprint; [16], advertisements. Bound in publisher's blue-black cloth, titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board, sepia floral endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Illustrated throughout by the author, depicting the techniques and tribulations..... More
Cricket. With contributions by A. Lang, W. G. Grace, R. A. H. Mitchell, and F. Gale. With Numerous Engravings after Lucien Davis and from Photographs.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1901. [Sports] 1901 Reissue (first published 1888). Octavo (19 x 15cm), pp.408; [4], ads. Includes a large number of illustrations. Handsomely bound in brown half morocco, gilt, with contrasting blue title label and cloth sides. Marbled paper over sides. Contents clean but for some very..... More
Six Months at the Cape. Or Letters to Periwinkle from South Africa.
London: James Nisbet and Co., 1879. [African Colonial Topography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 256. With 12 engraved plates, including a frontispiece. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'Mrs. Aveling | with kind regards from | The Author.' Publisher's red cloth with gilt..... More
Lorna Doone. A Romance of Exmoor.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, no date [1893]. [Romantic Novel] FINELY BOUND, the thirty-ninth edition. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.viii; 517 [5]. Contemporary red full calf by ALLMAN & SON of London, with gilt titles to green label and further gilt tooling to spine. All edges and endpapers marbled..... More
Lorna Doone. A Romance of Exmoor.
London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1893. [Romantic fiction] FINELY BOUND. Three volume edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[18] 343 [3]; pp.[10] 361 [3]; pp.[8] 358 [2]. Green half calf, blue and gilt flowered paper over boards and endpapers, gilt titles and decorations to spine, gilt ruling to boards, top..... More
Lorna Doone. A Romance of Exmoor.
London: W. and R. Chambers, No date [circa 1911]. [Romantic Fiction] Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[2]; viii; 634; [2]. Full navy calf, gilt titles to spine, raised bands, pastel marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, gilt 'Church Schools Company Limited' armorial device to upper. Bound by Bumpus. Forty-seven pen and ink..... More
Birds of the West Indies.
London: Collins, 1960. [Ornithology] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.256; [1], blank. With colour plate illustrations and line drawings. Publisher's red cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine, cartographic endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket priced at 35s. A few related ink notes to half title else contents clean. Used..... More
Nobody Lives Forever.
Cleveland & New York: The World Publishing Company, 1945. [Crime thriller] FIRST MOTION PICTURE EDITION. Octavo (21x 15cm), pp.243; [3], blank. Two black and white photos as frontis plate. Publisher's red cloth blocked in grey, endpapers feature ten b & w stills from the movie, photographic dust-wrapper. Cheap paper toned..... More
Little Lord Fauntleroy.
London: Frederick, Warne and Co., 1886. [Classic children's story] FIRST UK EDITION, with 1886 date to both title and copyright pages. Octavo (pp.22 x 15cm), pp.x; 269; [1], imprint. Twenty-six illustrations illustrations after Reginald B. Birch. Half green straight-grained morocco, gilt, red leather label to spine, combed marble sides and..... More
Little Lord Fauntleroy.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. [Children's Literature] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION, second issue. Square octavo (21 x 17cm), pp.xii; 209 [19]. With 26 illustrations after Reginald B. Birch. The second issue, showing J.J. Little on the copyright page. In a very fine binding of green full morocco, with..... More
Andrew R. Buxton: The Rifle Brigade, A Memoir.
London: Robert Scott, 1918. [Great War Memoir] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x; 294. With 16 black and white half-tone plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's dark green gained cloth with black titles to spine and upper. Black ink inscription stating 'from Andrew Buxton's Sister | Rosamond Buxton | December..... More
The Boy on the Bridge.
London: Orbit, 2017. [Zombie Apocalypse] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 392 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's black cloth with silver title to spine, and yellow endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by Duncan Spilling, priced at £16.99. 'Signed by the Author'..... More
Mad Morgan's Murder Sanctum [and] Danger! Dead Men! Detour! [in] Detective Story Magazine. Vol. IX, No. 5.
London: Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co., Ltd., May 1954. [Crime Fiction] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.64. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled twice and priced at 9d. Spotlessly clean, with some very light handling. Almost as-new. This gripping collection of short stories is made only more appealing by its..... More
Dali by Dali.
New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1970. [Art and Philosophy] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 156 [4]. Heavily illustrated in colour. Publisher's cream cloth with black titles to spine and upper. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced with a sticker at £2.50. A touch of toning to extremities..... More
Give Us This Day.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1973. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.767; [1]. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine, illustrated endpapers. Top edge blue. With the dust-jacket illustrated by George Chrichard. Some page corners tuned down, some marks to edges. Price-clipped jacket spine sunned, some light..... More
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
London: Chapman and Hall, [1837] 1845. [Classic literature] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[16] 609 [3]. With 43 engraved illustrations by Phiz and Seymour, including a frontispiece and vignette title page (from the first printing, dated 1837). Contemporary green half morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and..... More
The Poetical Works of John Dryden.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908. [Poetry] FINE LEATHER BINDING. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xlii; 1054. With a tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Dryden and a title-page photographic illustration of Trinity College, Cambridge. Red full morocco over boards, gilt ruling and embellishment to upper and lower. Gilt titles, further..... More
The Junior Week-End Book.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1939. [Children's Illustrated Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 12cm), pp.574; [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with titles backed in navy to spine. With cartographic endpapers and in-text illustrations throughout. Toning and light spotting to edges of textblock, offsetting to upper cloth from dust-jacket. Toning to to jacket..... More