Literature
Proust | Three Dialogues.
London: John Calder, 1965. [Literary and Art Criticism] FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.126 [2]. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the orange dust-jacket, priced at 18s. A nice crisp, clean copy, with just a little wear to jacket edges. Near fine. A republication of Beckett's..... More
Company.
London: John Calder, 1980. [Modern Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.89; [1]. Publisher's black cloth lettered in silver to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of £5.60 to front flap. Some scuffing and marking to back board. Near fine. 'Company' is a novella which is narrated from..... More
Waiting For Godot. A Tragicomedy in Two Acts.
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1959. [Drama] FIRST SOFTCOVER EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.94 [2]. Publisher's orange wraps priced at 4s 6d to inner cover. Lightly annotated in pencil throughout. Some faint spotting/mottling to edges. Spine sunned, minor edgewear. Loose leaf of type inserted. Very good. Beckett's monumental drama..... More
The Boy's Own Volume of Fact, Fiction, History, and Adventure.
London: S.O. Beeton, 1863. [Anthology] FINE ILLUSTRATED COPY. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 552 [4]. With 24 engraved plates including a frontispiece, and numerous other in-text illustrations. Green publisher's cloth, lavishly stamped in both gilt and blind. Titles to upper and spine. Yellow coated endpapers. All edges gilt. Interior lightly..... More
Sand and Canvas; a Narrative of Adventures in Egypt, with a Sojourn Among the Artists in Rome.
London: Charles Gilpin, 1849. [Travel Memoirs] FIRST EDITION, an association copy. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] xii; 370 [2]. With eight engraved plates, including a frontispiece, after drawings by the author, six being hand-coloured, each with a tissue guard. Pencil note to verso of fly-leaf stating: 'Wm. Bevan - my..... More
Hudibras, in Three Parts, Written in the time of the Late Wars.
Edinburgh: Printed by Bell and Murray, 1779. [Satirical Poetry] FINELY BOUND, a later edition. Complete in two volumes. Duodecimo in half-sheets (18 x 11cm), pp.xxxii; 408; pp.419 [1]. With a preface and very extensive footnotes. Also with a folding copper engraved frontispiece to volume I. Original marbled boards showing vellum..... More
The Way of All Flesh.
London: Grant Richards, 1903. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.424; [12], advertisements. Publisher's dark red cloth lettered in gilt to front cover and spine, top edge gilt. Housed in a vintage leather-spined slip-case with paper-backed cloth chemise. Bookplate of Frank J. Hogan, bookseller ticket (Liverpool), typed slip to..... More
Don Quixote; Pamela; Peruvian Tales etc; Arabian Nights [Four bound volumes of The Novelist's Magazine].
London: Harrison and Co., Paternoster Row, 1782-6. [Literature] Four volumes, octavo (21 x 14 x 19). Vignette engraved illustrations to title pages. Engravings to Pamela (XIV plates) and Peruvian Tales (XV plates). Bound in simple red half English calf over marbled sides, five raised bands, simple gilt rule and titles..... More
A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words are Deduced From Their Origin and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples From the Best Writers. To Which are Prefixed A History of the Language, and an English Grammar. In Two Volumes.
London: Printed for G. and J. Offor, W. Allason [et al.], 1822. [Dictionary] OFFOR'S EDITION, third impression thus. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (29 x 24cm). pp.[4] 60; 1029 [3]; pp.[4] 1084. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, and a leaf with spare paper spine labels bound in..... More
A Dictionary of the English Language; In Which the Words are Deduced From Their Originals; and Illustrated in Their Different Significations, by Examples From the Best Writers. To Which are Prefixed A History of the Language, and an English Grammar. In Two Volumes.
London: Printed by W. Strahan, 1755. [Dictionary] FIRST EDITIONS. Complete in two volumes. Folio (42 x 27cm). Titles printed in black and red. Bound to style in full brown calf with red and green title labels, raised bands to spine, decorated in gilt and blind. Some expected spotting/toning from use;..... More
The Works of Samuel Johnson.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Coöperative Society, no date [circa 1900]. [Collected Works] THE NEW CAMBRIDGE EDITION. Complete in 16 volumes, bound as eight. Octavo (23 x 16cm). Each volume with a black and white frontispiece and two further illustrated plates. Number 150 of 500 sets thus, SIGNED by the New York..... More
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F.R.S., from 1659 to 1669, with Memoir.
London: Frederick Warne, No date [c.1900]. [Diaries] FINE LEATHER BINDING, reprint. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] xii; 639 [1]. Red full calf, boards gilt-ruled. Brown label lettered in gilt, gilt-tooling, and raised bands to spine. Dentelles in blind to turn-ins. Marbled endpapers and matching marbled edges. Some toning to first..... More
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S. Secretary to the admiralty in the reigns of Charles II. and James II. the diary deciphered by the Rev. J. Smith, A.M., from the original shorthand MS. in the Pepysian Library. With a life and notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke.
London: Henry Colburn, 1848. [Diaries] THIRD EDITION, much enlarged and extended. Five volumes uniformly bound. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xli; 388; [3]; 16, pp.[5]; 450; 2, pp.[4]; 440; 4, pp.[4]; 511; [1], pp.[4]; 561; [1]; 16. Publisher's brown cloth with blind tooling to boards, gilt tooling to boards and gilt..... More
The Pleasures of Memory, with Other Poems.
London: For T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1801. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND NEW EDITION. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[8] 187 [1]. With numerous copperplate vignettes throughout, designed by Thomas Stothard. Contemporary brown full tree-calf, boards gilt-ruled. Brown label with blind titles and gilt-tooling to spine. Dentelles in blind to turn-ins..... More
[Bell's Shakespeare]. [Romeo and Juliet; All's Well that Ends Well; The Winter's Tale; Love's Labour's Lost; Tempest; Titus Andronicus; As You Like It; Measure for Measure; Antony and Cleopatra; Midsummer-Night's Dream; King Lear; Othello; Cymbeline; Much Ado about Nothing; Julius Caesar; Comedy of Errors; Timon of Athens; King John; Merry Wives of Windsor; Richard II; Richard III; King Henry VIII; Hamlet; Taming of the Shrew; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Twelfth-Night, or, What You Will; Troilus and Cressida; Macbeth; Coriolanus; Henry V; Henry IV, parts I and II; Henry VI, parts I, II and III; Names of the Original Actors in the Plays of Shakspeare, by Will. Shakspeare: Printed complete from the Text of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Steevens, and revised from the last Editions.
London: John Bell [and] John Cawthorn, 1784-1807. [Shakespeare] JOHN BELL EDITION, later printings, mixed issue. 36 of 38 volumes. Duodecimo in half-sheets (16 x 10cm). Most volumes dated 1788 or 1803, with just a few intersectional exceptions. All volumes with two engraved title pages of varying dates ranging from 1784..... More
The Story Of The Life Of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer.
London: John Murray, 1860. [Biography] Tenth thousand. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.x; 356; 32 of advertisements. Publisher's green cloth, embossed panelling to boards, gilt titles and gilt steam engine to spine. Includes portrait of Stephenson and illustrative woodcuts. With Edmonds and Remnants, London binder's ticket at rear. Binding is somewhat..... More
The American Claimant.
Charles L. Webster and Co., New York, 1892. 8vo., half-title, frontispiece, illustrations in text, pp. 278 + 8 of adverts. Publisher's pictorial grey cloth. Head and tail of spine very slightly rubbed. Fine. FIRST EDITION. BMC No261, p90-93. More
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade).
London: Chatto and Windus, 1884. [Literature] FIRST UK EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY, being novelist Sir Walter Besant's copy, a friend of the author and an early public champion of this book. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 438; [34]. With 174 wood-cut illustrations by Kemble. Pictorial red cloth boards, brown floral endpapers..... More
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (Tom Sawyer's Comrade).
London: Chatto and Windus, 1884. [Literary classic] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo, pp.xvi; 438; [2], blank. With 174 wood-cut illustrations by Kemble. Exquisitely bound by Frost of Bath in full scarlet polished calf with full gilt back, twin title labels, marbled endpapers, inner gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, original decorative cloth..... More
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (Tom Sawyer's Comrade).
London: Chatto and Windus, 1884. [Literary classic] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo, pp.xvi; 438 [34]. Catalogue dated October 1884. With 174 wood-cut illustrations by Kemble. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Publisher's brown foliate endpapers. Presented in a black quarter morocco clamshell box, with..... More
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (Tom Sawyer's Comrade).
London: Chatto and Windus, 1884. [Literary classic] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo, pp.xvi; 438 [34]. Catalogue dated October 1884. With 174 wood-cut illustrations by Kemble. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Publisher's brown foliate endpapers. A few reading marks within, discreet rubber stamped name..... More
A Tramp Abroad.
Chatto and Windus, London, 1880, FIRST ONE VOLUME EDITION- with scarce catalogue dated JUNE 1880. The first single volume edition, following the rare two volume edition by four months. First issue calls for sewn catalogue dated the month of publication which was August 1880. Other copies noted with later Sept..... More
Pudd'nhead Wilson. A Tale.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1908. [Crime Satire] NEW EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xii; 246 [34]. With six illustrated plates by Loeb, and a frontispiece photograph of the author. Publisher's navy cloth lettered in gilt to spine and upper. Moderate spotting and light toning throughout. Very light wear to binding..... More
The American Claimant.
New York, NY: Charles L. Webster, 1892. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp. 277; [9], publisher's advertisements. Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt to spine and upper board with illustrations to upper. Illustrative frontispiece, black and white illustrations throughout. Toning to edges of textblock, rolling to spine, bumping..... More
Extract from Adam's Diary.
New York, NY and London: Harper and Brothers, 1906. [Comedic fiction] Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[vi]; 89; [1] blank. Frontispiece, and numerous in-text illustrations by F.Strothmann. Bound in red morocco with green labels over original pictorial cloth sides. Contents clean, minor marks to covers. A fine copy in a handsome..... More