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The Novels of the Sisters Brontë: Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Agnes Grey, Shirley, Villette, The Professor. The Thornton Edition.
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1905. [Prose Works] LEATHER BOUND THORNTON EDITION, first printings thus. 12 volumes. Octavo (21 x 15cm). With a frontispiece illustration to each volume, and numerous black and white photographic plates showing Bronte country. Elegantly bound in navy blue half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles on twin..... More
[Complete Novels] The Great Gatsby and the Last Tycoon; Tender is the Night; This Side of Paradise; The Beautiful and the Damned.
London: The Folio Society, 2005. [Novels Set] COMPLETE NOVELS, FIRST THUS. Four Volumes. Octavo (24 x 18 x 14cm). Each illustrated by Brown. Publisher's blue cloth decorated in silver and black, each with a matching blue paper-covered slipcase. Some light general wear to cloth and slipcases. Near fine. More
The Beautiful and Damned.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. [American Literature] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.x; 449 [1]. The first issue, with no colophon to copyright page. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind to upper. Fore-edge untrimmed. Owner name in ink to fly-leaf, cloth..... More
The Beautiful and Damned.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. [American Literature] FIRST EDITION, second state/printing, with publisher's seal device to copyright page, ads to rear. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.x; 449; [1], blank; [2], ads; [2], blank. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind to upper. Fore-edge untrimmed. Contents..... More
The Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald, with an Introduction by J.B. Priestley. Being a compilation of novels and shorter pieces, including: The Great Gatsby, The Last Tycoon, Tender is The Night, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and The Damned, The Rich Boy, Letters and Short Stories, etc.
London: The Bodley Head, 1958-63. [Modern Literature Set] FIRST BODLEY HEAD EDITION. Complete in 6 volumes. Octavo. Publisher's red cloth in pale grey/cream dust-jackets printed in black and red. Some minor dustiness. Both the books and jackets are in clean, fresh condition without the often-seen toning to the spines. A...... More
The Vegetable. Or, From President to Postman.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. [Comedy Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 145 [7]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind to upper. Fore-edge untrimmed. Gently toned throughout, as usual. Neat ownership to flyleaf, bookseller's labels to rear endpapers. Gilt a little rubbed..... More
The Vegetable. Or, From President to Postman.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. [Comedy Drama] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[10] 145 [5]. Recently bound in green full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a facsimile signature stamped in gilt to upper. Top edge gilt, fore-edge untrimmed, and..... More
Roden's Corner.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1898. [Victorian Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.vi; 343; [9]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Top and fore-edge untrimmed. Dark brown coated endpapers. Largely unopened. With a bookseller's postcard bill loosely inserted, addressed to Goulden and Curry..... More
The Devil is Jones [and] The Startled Face of Death [in] Street & Smith's Detective Monthly. Vol. 1, Issue 11.
London: Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co., Ltd., October 1955. [Crime Fiction] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.64. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled twice and priced at 1s. Spotlessly clean, with some very light handling. Almost as-new. This gripping collection of short stories is made only more appealing by its..... More
Satan in the Suburbs. And Other Stories.
London: The Bodley Head, 1953. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.138; [2]. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrated dust-jacket with printed price of 9s 6d to front flap. In-text illustrations throughout. Light spotting to bottom of textblock, sunning to back cover of jacket. Near..... More
The Corrida at San Feliu.
London, Secker and Warburg. 1964. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 16cm), pp.317 [3]. Publisher's orange cloth titled in silver to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Peter Rudland, priced at 25s. A clean, fine copy, showing just a hint of toning to jacket spine and a little light..... More
The Mark of the Warrior.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1958. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp. 223; [1]. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in silver to spine, pictorial dust-jacket with printed price of 15s to front flap. Ex-libris stamp front paste down, toning and some spotting to edges of the textblock, wear to..... More
Shelley at Oxford. The Early Correspondence of P.B. Shelley with his Friend T.J. Hogg together with Letters of Mary Shelley and T.L. Peacock and a hitherto Unpublished Prose Fragment by Shelley. Edited by W.S. Scott.
The Golden Cockerel Press, 1944. Limited Edition to 500 numbered copies of which this is No. 279. Publisher's quarter brown morocco with gilt titles to spine, green cloth boards, top edge gilt others untrimmed. Binding slightly rubbed. A clean and tight copy. The third book of a trilogy, edited by..... More
Woodstock, or, The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-One.
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1887. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6]; 503; [3]. With an engraved frontispiece and title page by the Dalziel brothers. In a fine prize binding for Harrow School. Slightly later full green calf with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a...... More
Waverley, or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since.
Edinburgh: James Ballantyne and Co., 1814. Second Edition, in ORIGINAL BOARDS. Three volumes. Octavo, with half-titles, edges untrimmed. Frontispiece illustration to each volume. A rare survival in the original grey-paper covered boards, with blue paper spine and printed title labels (lacking from vol. II). Some general wear to the fragile..... More
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Baronet. The Globe Edition, with a Biographical and Critical Memoir by Francis Turner Palgrave.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND, a new edition. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.xliv; 559 [3]. Small print, mainly in two columns. Contemporary brown full morocco for Stonyhurst College, with raised bands, gilt titles and further gilt decoration to spine, as well as gilt school stamp to..... More
Anne of Geierstein, or, The Maiden of the Mist.
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1887. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6]; 490; [2]. With an engraved frontispiece and title page by the Dalziel brothers. In a fine prize binding for Harrow School. Slightly later full green calf with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a...... More
The Antiquary.
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1886. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6]; 438; [2]. With an engraved frontispiece and title page by the Dalziel brothers. In a fine prize binding for Harrow School. Slightly later full green calf with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a...... More
Chronicles of the Canongate.
Edinburgh: Printed for Cadell & Co., 1827. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION IN PUBLISHER'S BOARDS. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[4] xxviii; 351 [1]; pp.[4] 374 [10]. Publisher's light brown pasteboards, with plain printed paper title labels to spines. All edges untrimmed. Twin black ink ownerships to fly-leaf..... More
Innocent.
London: Mantle, 2010. [Legal Thriller] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 406 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine and orange endpapers. With the dust-jacket priced at £17.99. A fine, as-new copy. A sequel to..... More
The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal: for Nov. 1814..... Feb. 1815.
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1815. CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS. Octavo, pp.[8], 560 [2]. In contemporary tan half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled boards. All edges flecked blue / grey. Some light edge wear; a few marks to spine. Very good indeed. Works reviewed include Wordsworth's 'The..... More
The Adventure of the Dying Detective [and] The Horror of the Heights [and] How it Happened [and] The Poison Belt, Chapter 6 [and] To the South Pole: Captain Scott's Own Story [and] Back to Back [and] Keeping Watch [and] The Weaker Vessel [and] Bits of Life [and] The Journal of Aura Lovel [and] Keeping it from Harold [and] The Torch [and] Wet Magic [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume 46, complete.
London: George Newnes, July to December 1913. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.iv; 802; viii. With frequent black and white, and occasional dichromatic, illustrations. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spines and black titles and decoration to uppers. All edges speckled red. Ink library stamps of..... More
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