Literature
The Hero with a Thousand Faces.
New York, NY: Published for Bollingen Foundation Inc. by Pantheon Books Inc., 1949. [Comparative Mythology] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxiv; 416. With 12 double-sided black and white illustrated plates, and occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's black quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine and green cloth over..... More
Laughing Anne.
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
The Rover.
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
The Rover.
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
Suspense. With an Introduction by Richard Curle.
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
Suspense. With an Introduction by Richard Curle.
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
Tales of Unrest.
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
Victory.
London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1915. [Literature] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, fist issue title page with comma following 'Essex Street'. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 415; [1], imprint; [4], ads dated 'Autumn 1915'; 32, catalogue dated 8/5/15. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles and decoration to spine. Large open tear to bottom..... More
Victory.
London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1915. [Literature] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, first issue title page with comma following 'Essex Street'. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 415; [1], imprint; [4], ads dated 'Autumn 1915'; 32, catalogue dated 8/5/15. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles and decoration to spine. Armorial bookplate of Stanley Austin..... More
The Works of Joseph Conrad. Including: The Nigger of the Narcissus, Nostromo, The Secret Agent, Lord Jim, Youth, etc.
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
Tales of My Native Town.
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
Arena 13.
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
The Poetical Works of John Dryden; containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations; with notes by the Rev. Joseph Warton, D.D.; the Rev. John Warton, M.A.; and Others.
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
Catch-22.
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
All the Puck Stories (Puck of Pooks Hill, with Rewards and Fairies).
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
Puck of Pook's Hill.
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
Puck of Pook's Hill.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. [Fantasy Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[4] x; 306 [12]. With 20 black and white illustrations by H.R. Millar, including a frontispiece. Advertisements dated 15.8.06. Elegantly hand-bound in red half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and the original cloth with..... More
Abaft the Funnel.
New York, NY: B.W. Dodge and Company, 1909. [Short stories] FIRST US UNAUTHORISED EDITION. Octavo (30 x 13cm), pp.viii; 360. Pictorial blue cloth binding lettered in red (the secondary binding). Contents clean, edges a little soiled, label neatly removed from pastedown, cloth with light edge wear, lower corner bumped. A...... More
Actions and Reactions.
London: Macmillan, 1909. [Strange Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6] 301 [13]. Advertisements date Autumn 1909. Publisher's red cloth with pictorial gilt medallion to upper, and gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt. No inscriptions, some toning to endleaves, minor wear to covers, spine and extremities slightly sunned..... More
The Bombay Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling. [Set of writings / novels / poems including: The Jungle Book, Kim, Wee Willie Winkie, Just So Stories, Captain Courageous, Rewards and Fairies, Stalky and Co, Puck of Pook's Hill, Rewards and Fairies, etc.]
London: Macmillan and Company, 1913-1938. LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED by the author in volume I to half title. Complete in 31 volumes; large octavo (25 x 132cm). Finely bound in deep red half morocco, raised bands and gilt rules to spines, matching cloth sides, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Printed from..... More
The Dipsy Chanty And Other Selected Poems.
East Aurora, NY: The Roycroft Shop 1899. Limited Edition to 950 copies of which this is No. 466, SIGNED by Elbert Hubbard. Post octavo, pp.93; [2], blank. Bound in the publisher's limp, green suede boards with yapp edges, embossed gilt to front board, blocked with the image of a tall..... More
The Five Nations.
London: Methuen and Co., 1903. LIMITED FIRST EDITION printed on Japanese paper. Crown octavo, pp.xv; 215; [1], blank. Elegantly bound in publisher's full vellum with gilt titles, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. A clean, fine copy with just a little expected bowing to the vellum covers. A rare book..... More
Many Inventions.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2]; x; 365; [7]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and decoration in gilt and blind to spine and upper board, green endpapers. Neat ink ownership to first blank, and a single ink correction to..... More
Stalky and Co.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1899. [School Story] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xii; 272; [2], advertisements. Elegantly hand-bound in half red calf, gilt-printed patterned paper-covered sides, top edge gilt, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands. Light and occasional thumbing. A near fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding. Stewart..... More
Stalky and Co.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1899. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xii; 272; [2], advertisements. Elegantly hand-bound in half red oasis morocco leather over original cloth sides gilt with elephant medalion to upper, top edge gilt, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands. A few light marks within; externally..... More