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Memoirs of King Abdullah of Transjordan.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1950. [Middle East Political Memoir] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.278; [2]. With a black and white photographic frontispiece. Publisher's pink cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the cream dust-jacket titled in black and purple, priced 15s. Top edge pink. Some offsetting to endpapers. Apparently... More about Memoirs of King Abdullah of Transjordan
Russian Ballet. Camera Studies by Gordon Anthony. With an Introduction by Arnold Haskell.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1939. First Edition. Large Quarto, pp.[28]; 96. Illustrated with 96 tipped-in black and white photographs of Russian ballet stars, including frontispiece. Bound in recent dark blue half morocco with gilt titles and raised bands to spine, blue cloth boards, fore-edge deckled. Internally clean but for a few... More about Russian Ballet. Camera Studies by Gordon Anthony. With an Introduction by Arnold Haskell
Pride and Prejudice.
London: Eldon Press Limited, 1939. [Literature] FIRST THUS. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.xviii; 588; [2]. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, striking metallic gold dust-jacket with printed price of 2'6 net. Some spotting to preliminaries, neat ownership to flyleaf, bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown. Cloth discoloured to foot of... More about Pride and Prejudice
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[The Illustrated Novels of Jane Austen]. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1898-1906. [Illustrated Novels Set] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, later impressions. Six novels in five volumes. Octavo (19 x 13 x 20cm). Pride and Prejudice illustrated by Brock; the other titles by Thomson. 40 wood engravings per volume. In recent navy half morocco with raised bands, gilt... More about The Illustrated Novels of Jane Austen]. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and...
Mansfield Park.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1897. [Illustrated Classic] FIRST THOMSON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xviii; 429; [1]. With 40 wood engraved illustrations by Thomson, including a frontispiece. In the publisher's deluxe red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper board. All edges gilt; yellow peacock design... More about Mansfield Park
Mansfield Park.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1897. [English Literature] FIRST THOMSON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xviii; 429; [1], blank. With wood engravings, including a frontispiece, by Hugh Thomson. Publisher's original burgundy cloth with gilt-stamped floral design to spine and covers, 'Peacock' patterned endpapers, all edges gilt. Minor edgewear, some fading/rubbing... More about Mansfield Park
Mansfield Park.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1897. [English Literature] FIRST THOMSON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xviii; 429; [1], blank; [2], advertisements. With wood engravings, including a frontispiece, by Hugh Thomson. Publisher's original burgundy cloth with gilt titles, floral design in blind to covers, white endpapers, edges untrimmed. Contents quite clean... More about Mansfield Park
The Vox Edition of the Works of Jane Austen
London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1933-4. [Classic Literature] FIRST VOX ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13 x 21cm), 7 volumes. With colour plates and in-text black and white illustrations by Maximilien Vox. Prefatory letter, in French by Maximilien Vox and an introduction by Emile Legouis. Publisher's patterned grey cloth... More about The Vox Edition of the Works of Jane Austen
John Burningham.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2009. [Autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Royal quarto (31 x 24cm), pp.224. With a foreword by Maurice Sendak, and an introduction by Brian Alderson. Illustrated in colour throughout. Signed by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the... More about John Burningham
The works of robert burns. Illustrated by an Extensive Series of Portraits and Authentic Views. With a Complete Life of the Poet: An Essay on his Genius and Character, by Professor Wilson. Numerous Notes, Annotations, and Appendices.
London: Blackie and Son, 1866. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Two volumes. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.cclxxvi; iv; 149; [1]; pp.xx; 412. With a total of 83 engraved plates by various artists, including a frontispiece and vignette title page to each volume, and a facsimile example of Burns' handwriting... More about The works of robert burns. Illustrated by an Extensive Series of Portraits and Authentic Views....
The Road To Oxiana.
London: John Lehmann, 1950. [Travel] SECOND EDITION, (the first edition was published by Macmillan in 1937). Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvii; 18-292. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine, map endpapers, dust-jacket designed by Keith Vaughan with printed price of 15s. net. Illustrated with thirteen black and white plates. Neat... More about The Road To Oxiana
The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1939. [Classic literature] FINELY BOUND. First Nonesuch Press edition. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xiv; [2]; 1165; [1]. Handsomely bound in recent red half morocco over marbled boards, top edge red. With occasional in-text illustrations. Textblock a little toned, edges a little more so, else a fine... More about The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll
The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1939. [Children's] FIRST NONESUCH EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 1165; [3]. With Tenniel's original in-text illustrations to the Alice books. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the orange illustrated dust-jacket, repriced by the publisher with a sticker at 32/6. Top edge red... More about The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll
Killer in the Rain. Being: Killer in the Rain; The Man who liked Dogs; The Curtain; Try the Girl; Mandarin's Jade; Bay City Blues; The Lady in the Lake; No Crime in the Mountains. With an Introduction by Philip Durham.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1964. [Crime stories] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.332. Publisher's red cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper designed by John Andrew. No inscriptions or price-clipping, top edge spotted, jacket a little handled and toned. Very good indeed. First British appearance in book form- contains short stories published... More about Killer in the Rain. Being: Killer in the Rain; The Man who liked Dogs; The Curtain; Try the Girl;...
Killer In The Rain. Being: Killer in the Rain; The Man who liked Dogs; The Curtain; Try the Girl; Mandarin's Jade; Bay City Blues; The Lady in the Lake; No Crime in the Mountains. With an Introduction by Philip Durham.
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1964. [Crime stories] FIRST EDITION (stated). Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.394. Publisher's blue cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper designed by Rob Howard, priced at $5.50. Contents and page edges clean, jacket with a little edgewear and a crease to the spine panel, neat tape reinforcement to... More about Killer In The Rain. Being: Killer in the Rain; The Man who liked Dogs; The Curtain; Try the Girl;...
The Romance of the Echoing Wood.
Newport: R.H. Johns, the "Directory" Press, 1937. [Welsh Fairy Tale] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[8] 43 [5]. Number 50 of just 220 copies, SIGNED by all the contributors, including the publisher, to the limitation page. With wide marginal illustrations and three full page plates all engraved... More about The Romance of the Echoing Wood
After Dark.
London: The Gresham Publishing Co., n.d. [c.1900]. [Classic Literature]. FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xxiv; 355 [1]. With six wood engraved plates by Browne, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, along with distinctive white and green decoration. Grey endpapers. Black ink... More about After Dark
The Pictorial Edition of The Book of Common Prayer, According to the Use of United Church of England and Ireland. Together with the Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons. Illustrated with Many Hundred Wood-Cuts. To which are Added, Original Notes, and an Introductory History of the Liturgy.
London: C. Knight and Co., no date [1838]. [Common Prayer] FINELY BOUND ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Large octavo (27 x 18cm), pp.[2] xl; 712; [2]. Illustrated throughout with wood engravings after the Old Masters by John Jackson (1801-1848), a student of Thomas Bewick. Contemporary full morocco with gilt titles and decoration to... More about The Pictorial Edition of The Book of Common Prayer, According to the Use of United Church of...
The History of Don Quixote.
London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin, circa 1880. DORE ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (32 x 27cm), pp. xxviii, 737. With 118 full-page engraved illustrations by Gustave Dore, as well as numerous in-text illustrations. Original half black morocco, gilt, over green cloth sides, marbled endpapers, All edges gilt. Mostly clean within, title page... More about The History of Don Quixote
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3 [Three] More Novels: Vainglory; Inclinations; Caprice.
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, n.d. [1951]. WARHOL JACKET DESIGN. Octavo, pp.xx, 426. With a frontispiece portrait of the author. In publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original pictorial dust jacket designed by ANDY WARHOL, credited as 'Andrew Warhol', this being a very early commission for the artist... More about 3 [Three] More Novels: Vainglory; Inclinations; Caprice
Cranford and Mary Barton.
London: The Gresham Publishing Co., n.d. [c.1900]. [Classic Literature] FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xx; 409 [3]. With three wood engravings by Hammond, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, along with distinctive white and green decoration. Grey endpapers. Black ink ownership... More about Cranford and Mary Barton
The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith. The Globe Edition, with Biographical Introduction by Professor Masson.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1889. [Literary Works]. FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] lxii; 695 [3]. With a wood engraved frontispiece. Contemporary red full morocco by BICKERS for Ladies' College Guernsey, with raised bands, gilt titles and elaborate gilt decoration to spine, and large armorial gilt stamp of... More about The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith. The Globe Edition, with Biographical Introduction by...
— And The Greeks.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1930. [Society] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 17cm), pp.224. With 13 illustrations by De Junosza-Rosciszewski, including a frontispiece. Publisher's yellow cloth with blue titles to spine and upper board. Fore and lower edges untrimmed. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 7/6. Bookseller's ticket to pastedown, light spotting... More about — And The Greeks
Nigerian Days.
London: John Lane the Bodley head, 1925. [Colonial History]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xxiv; 255 [9]. With 32 black and white plates including a frontispiece and a map. In publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original green dust-jacket with black titles. Top edge red, others... More about Nigerian Days
India by Air.
London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1927. [Aviation] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xix; [1]; [errata slip]; 156. Publisher's blue paper covered boards, blue titles on paper label to spine, photographic dust-jacket, cartographic endpapers. Thirty-five photographic illustrations over twenty-four plates. Moderate spotting to preliminaries and edges, sporadically to the... More about India by Air