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The Wrecker.
London: Cassell & Company, 1892. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 427 [12]. Publisher's catalogue dated May 1892. With 12 half-tone illustrated plates by Hole and Metcalf, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Fore-edge untrimmed. Repair to split lower hinge. Spotting and..... More
The Wrong Box.
London: Cassell and Company, 1889. [Mystery novel] FIRST EDITION, noted in several important crime checklists. Crown octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[iv]; 283; [1], blank; [16], catalogue (dated January 1889). Publisher's red cloth, titled in black and gilt. 'Swan' patterned endpapers. Internally clean, inside paper joints parted, and signature of Wyville..... More
A Child's Garden of Verses.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1908. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST SOWERBY ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Large octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 125 [3]. With 12 colour plates including a frontispiece, as well as occasional vignette illustrations. Contemporary crushed blue half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. Top..... More
A Child's Garden of Verses.
London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1905. [Illustrated Children's Poetry] FIRST UK WILLCOX SMITH EDITION. Large octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.xii; 125 [1]. With 12 colour plates, as well as numerous in-text line drawings by Willcox Smith, as well as a colour-illustrated vignette title page. Publisher's dark navy cloth with gilt..... More
Treasure Island.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. [Children's Illustrated] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST WYETH ILLUSTRATED EDITION, First Issue, with '23' for '123' to p.x. Large octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.[2] xiv; 273 [3]. With 14 colour plates, each with a captioned tissue guard, as well as an illustrated title page. Recently re-bound..... More
Catriona. A Sequel to 'Kidnapped' Being Memoirs of the Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad.
London: Cassell and Company, 1893. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[2] x; 371 [19]. Catalogue dated 8/93. Publisher's dark blue cloth, with gilt titles to spine, and floral-patterned endpapers. All edges untrimmed. Black ink ownership to fly-leaf. Careful repairs to split hinges. Light to moderate spotting throughout..... More
Memories and Portraits.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1909. [Essay collection] FINE LEATHER BINDING. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[13] 299 [4]. Tan half calf with doubled marbled paper over boards. Gilt foliar tooling and titles to spine, raised bands. With doubled marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Interior is mostly clean with some spotting to..... More
The Wrong Box.
New York: Charles Scribner's Son, 1889. [Comic Novel] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[II]; VII; [I], blank; 244; [II] blank; [IV], publisher's advertisements; [II], blank. Publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt to spine, title lettered in blue mounted on paper stamp. Toning to edges of textblock, spotting on..... More
Island Nights' Entertainments. Consisting of The Beach of Falesa, The Bottle Imp, The Isle of Voices.
London: Cassell & Company, 1893. [South-Sea Novellas] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with hand-corrected price on page facing half-title. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xii; 277 [19]. Advertisements dated 3.93. With 28 illustrated plates, including a colour map and a frontispiece. Publisher's light blue grained cloth, with gilt titles and decoration to..... More
Island Nights' Entertainments. Consisting of The Beach of Falesa, The Bottle Imp, The Isle of Voices.
London: Cassell & Company, 1893. [South-Sea Novellas] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with hand-corrected price on page facing half-title. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xii; 277 [19]. Advertisements dated 3.93. With 28 illustrated plates, including a colour map and a frontispiece. Publisher's light blue grained cloth, with gilt titles and decoration to..... More
Kidnapped. The Adventures of David Balfour.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1913]. [Adventure Fiction] FIRST WYETH EDITION. Quarto (24 x 18cm), pp.xii; 289; [3], blank. With colour-illustrated title page and fourteen captioned colour plates, one folding map. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, colour plate laid down to upper, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others..... More
The Black Arrow. A Tale of the Two Roses. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916. [Historical Fiction] FIRST WYETH ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (24 x 18cm), pp.x; 320. With fourteen full-page colour illustrations. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and full size pictorial illustration laid down to upper board, colour printed illustrated endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed..... More
Treasure Island.
London: Ernest Benn, 1927. [Illustrated classic] FIRST DULAC EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.xiv; 15-256. Contains 12 full page colour illustrations by Dulac, including frontispiece. Publisher's brown buckram binding with leather title label to spine lettered in gilt, boards trimmed in gilt. Contents clean, neat gift inscription to f.e.p., label..... More
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