Literature
The Journey of a Lonely Man.
Singapore: Gabriel Fratini, 1989. [Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp. 47 [1]. Line-drawn illustrations by the author throughout. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'To Hans | from G.F. | 30-5-90.' Black paper-covered boards showing illustrations by the author. Light wear to covers..... More
The House of Life: A Sonnet-Sequence. Variorum Edition with an Introduction and Notes.
Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer Ltd., 2007. [Poetry] CRITICAL EDITION, First Thus. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxii; 301 [3]. A scholarly edition containing a large introduction, extensive detailed notes, and appendices. Publisher's brown cloth with titles in gilt to spine, and a paper label to upper. A fine, as-new copy... More
The Poetical Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
London: Ellis and Elvey, 1891. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND, a new edition. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary brown full morocco, with raised bands and gilt titles to spine, all edges gilt, and endpapers decorated with gilt. Gentle toning throughout, with spotting to frontispiece tissue guard. Moderate wear and bumping to..... More
Poems & Translations 1850-1870, Together with the Prose Story 'Hand and Soul.'
London: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1926. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND, a later edition thus. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[2] xx; 482 [4]. With a frontispiece of the author's self-portrait in the National Portrait Gallery. Contemporary navy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and blue cloth..... More
Salvage from the Cynthia.
London: Arco Publications, 1964. [Adventure] FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.192. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the white and blue dust-jacket, originally priced at 12/6. Price-clipped jacket lightly toned to spine with a few marks. Near fine. A young man, rescued from a shipwreck as..... More
The Wonderful Travels. Containing 'Around the World in Eighty Days,' 'Five Weeks in a Balloon,' and 'A Journey into the Interior of the Earth.'
London: Ward, Lock, and Co., [n.d.] c.1900. [Adventure fiction] FIRST THUS. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 5-192; 7-268; 268. With three halftone frontispieces, the first one also with a tissue-guard. Publisher's green pictorial cloth, designs and gilt titles to upper and spine. Black endpapers. Interior lightly toned, thumbed, and creased..... More
Adrift in The Pacific.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1893. [Castaway Adventure] EARLY CHEAP EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.151 [1]; 142. With engraved plates by Benett, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Yellow-coated endpapers. Black ink ownership to fly-leaf. Upper hinge split..... More
Clovis Dardentor. Les Voyages Extraordinaires, Couronnes par l'Académie Française.
Paris: Bibliothèque d'Éducation et de Récréation J. Hetzel et Cie., no date [1896]. [French Literature] FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Quarto (28 x 19cm), pp.[4] 244 [8]. With 45 engravings after Benett, including six chromotypographic plates and a frontispiece. All text in French. Facsimile dedication to half-title. Publisher's red cloth with black..... More
The Chancellor [The Survivors of the Chancellor / The Wreck of The Chancellor].
London: Arco Publications, 1965. FIRST EDITION THUS, being part of the popular Arco uniform 'Fitzroy' series reissued in the 1960s, often featuring amended titles (as with the present volume). Crown octavo, pp.192. Publisher's cloth in a harrowing pictorial dust-jacket. Toning to page edges, some dustiness, spinea touch sunned... More
Homeward Bound. Part II of Hector Servadac.
London: Arco Publications, 1965. [Science Fiction Adventure] FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.192. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the black and blue dust-jacket, originally priced at 12/6, and re-priced to £1.25 with a sticker. Gently toned throughout. Original price to back cover crossed out with..... More
Into the Abyss. Part II of Family Without a Name.
London: Arco Publications, 1963. [Historical Fiction] FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.171 [1]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the black and orange dust-jacket designed by William Langstaffe, priced at 12/6. Lightly toned to jacket spine. Near fine. The second part of the grand heroic tragedy..... More
The Mysterious Document. Part I of Captain Grant's Children. Including also the first part of On the Track.
London: Arco Publications, 1964. [Adventure] FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.189 [3]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the blue and black dust-jacket, originally priced at 12/6, and re-priced to £1.25 with a sticker. Jacket price-clipped, otherwise a lovely fine copy. A message found in a...... More
The Purchase Of The North Pole.
London: Arco Publications, 1966. [Science Fiction] FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.176. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pink and black dust-jacket, originally priced at 15s, and re-priced to £1.25 with a sticker. Gently toned throughout. Price-clipped jacket a little rubbed to edges and sunned..... More
The Steam House: The Demon of Cawnpore [and] Tigers and Traitors.
London: Arco Publications with Bernard Hanison, 1959. [Science Fiction Adventure] FIRST THUS. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[2] 170 [4]; pp.176. Each volume with an engraved frontispiece illustration from the original editions, and a publisher's catalogue request card loose to preliminaries. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles..... More
Texar the Southerner. Part II of North Against South.
London: Arco Publications, 1963. [French Literature] FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.190 [2]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the black and pink dust-jacket designed by Jozef Gross, priced at 12/6, and re-priced with a sticker to 15s. Just a hint of toning to jacket spine..... More
The Blockade Runners.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1876. [Historical Adventure] FIRST SEPARATE EDITION IN ENGLISH, second issue in hard covers. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] 120 [16]. With 14 engraved plates by Férat and Hildibrand, and a frontispiece portrait of the author by Bertrand. Publisher's puce cloth with gilt titles..... More
Adventures in the Land of the Behemoth. [The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa].
Boston, MA: Henry L. Shepard & Co., 1874. [African Adventure] SECOND US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2] 190 [2]. With 20 wood engraved plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth with titles and decoration in gilt and black to spine and upper. Dark blue endpapers. Lightly browned throughout. Some..... More
The Tribulations of a Chinaman.
New York, NY: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1881 [1880]. [French Literature] FIRST FREWER EDITION. Octavo (19 x 15cm), pp.[2] viii; 262 [4]. With 49 engraved plates by Benett, including a frontispiece. Publisher's light blue cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Some heavy creasing and a...... More
The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876. [African Adventure] EARLY UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.191 [17]. With nine engraved plates, including a frontispiece, by Ferat. Publisher's puce cloth with gilt and black titles and decoration to spine and upper. All edges gilt. Repairs to starting hinges. Somewhat..... More
Hector Servadac.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1882. [Science Fiction] THIRD ENGLISH EDITION, the 'Pears Soap' binding. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.iv; 370. With six wood engraved plates and a vignette title page. Publisher's red pictorial cloth, with titles and decoration in black and light blue to spine and upper..... More
The Giant Raft: Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon [and] The Cryptogram.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1893 and 1894. [Amazon Adventure] VINTAGE COPY, a later edition complete in two volumes. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 244; pp.192. With a total of 11 engraved plates by Benett, including a frontispiece to each volume. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and black..... More
The Giant Raft: Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon [and] The Cryptogram.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. [Amazon Adventure] VINTAGE COPY, an early edition. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2] xiv; 254 [4]. With a folding map and 79 engraved plates by Benett, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt and black titles and decoration to spine, and black titles..... More
Floating Island, or, The Pearl of the Pacific.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, no date [circa 1897]. [Science Fiction] EARLY EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 382 [2]. With 79 illustrated plates including a frontispiece by Benett. Recently re-cased in publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles and pink and blue decoration to spine and upper, with..... More
The Steam House: The Demon of Cawnpore [and] Tigers and Traitors.
London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1883. [Science Fiction Adventure] SECOND UK EDITIONS. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (19 x 16cm), pp.viii; 262 [2]; pp.viii; 246 [2]. With a total of 98 engraved plates by Benett, including a frontispiece to each volume. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and..... More
The Child of the Cavern; or, Strange Doings Underground.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1883. [Strange Tale] THIRD UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 15cm), pp.xii; 246. With 44 engraved illustrations, including a frontispiece, by Jules Férat and Charles Barbant. Publiisher's green cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Yellow-coated endpapers. Bookseller's label and..... More