Literature
Bones [in] Tales From Many Sources.
New York, Dodd Mead and Co., 1885. First edition. Four volumes. Octavo. Publisher's dark blue cloth, titled and decorated in gilt to spines and uppers. All volumes clean and sharp with light wear to spine ends, pale spot to lower edge front board volume III. Volume I has some minor..... More
The Lucifer Society.
London and New York: W.H. Allen, 1972. [Horror/strange tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.256. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket. Lightly toned throughout. Bookplate of Trevor Hickman to front pastedown. Textblock edges marked and spotted. Light soiling to dust-jacket. Very good. 'A remarkable..... More
Man Overboard! [in] The Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine. Volume I, 1898-9.
London: Harmsworth Bros., Limited, 1898-1899. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCE. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.viii; 672. With black and white in-text illustrations throughout. Publisher's DELUXE BINDING of leather-backed dark green boards with extra gilt decoration to spine, tan endpapers, edges marbled (the standard binding was mid-green cloth. Contents clean, joints slightly..... 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
[Five Publishers' Sample Books]. 'Our Martyred President: The Life and Public Services of Gen. James A. Garfield'; 'The London Dickens'; 'The Klondike Gold Fields'; 'Canada Under the Administration of Lord Dufferin'; 'Earl Kitchener and the Great War'.
[various publishers in North America], n.d. [c.1870's - 1910's]. [Book history] RARE PUBLISHERS' SAMPLES. Five volumes, octavo (largest volume 22 x 15cm). Each in publisher's cloth, all slim volumes lacking titles to spines. Each sample is unique, some containing lined paper at the back for the salesman to record subscribers..... More
English Lyrics.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co., 1883. [Poetry] FIRST THUS, interesting provenance. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.xix [1] 296 [4]. With an original poem lovingly INSCRIBED to a front blank by Scottish writer S.R. Crockett to his future wife Ruth Mary Milner, dated 1883. Contemporary white paper boards, red titles..... More
The Brass Bottle [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 19 and 20; numbers 109 to 117.
London: George Newnes, January to September 1900. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Nine parts in their original light blue illustrated paper covers. Octavo (28 x 20cm), pp.xliv; 120; xlv-lii; pp.xl; 121-240; xli-xlviii; pp.xl; 241-360; xli-xlviii; pp.xl; 361-480; xli-xlviii; pp.xliv; 481-600; xlv-lii; pp.xliv; 601-724; xlv-lii; pp.xliv; 120; xlv-lii; pp.xxxvi; 121-240; xxxvii-xliv; pp.xxxvi;..... More
The Labours of Hercules [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 98 and 99, numbers 587 to 597.
London: George Newnes, November 1939 to September 1940. [Literary Magazine] First appearance. Eleven magazine issues in their original colour-illustrated paper covers, priced at 1s. Octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.[7-8] 104 [9-16]; pp.[1-2] [15-16] 105-208 [17-24]; pp.[8] 209-312 [9-16]; pp.[8] 313-416 [9-16]; pp.[12] 417-520 [13-20]; pp.[12] 521-624 [13-20]; pp.[12] 104 [13-20];..... More
Little Innocents: Childhood Reminiscences.
London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1932. [Childhood Anthology] DELUXE FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii, 124 [4]. In contemporary full vellum with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt; others untrimmed. Binder's label for Leighton Straker Bookbinding Co. to copyright page. A little toning to edges, and some light marks and discolouration..... More
Active Anthology.
London: Faber and Faber, 1933. [Poetry Anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.255 [1]. Publisher's brown cloth with white titles to spine. Gently toned, otherwise a clean copy internally. Lightly rubbed and bumped to boards, with heavy rubbing and toning to spine. Lower joint split; upper starting. Good. A...... More
An African Millionaire [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 12 and 13, numbers 66 to 77.
London: George Newnes, June 1896 to May 1897. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. 12 parts in their original light blue paper covers. Octavo (25 x 17cm). Presented in a navy blue quarter morocco clamshell box, with gilt titles to spine, raised bands and a fleece lining. Some spines badly abraded; some..... More
The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings [and] Miss Cayley's Adventures [and] The Story of the Beetle-Hunter [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume 15.
London: George Newnes, January to June 1898. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[2] 804. With frequent in-text black and white illustrations. Publisher's cyan cloth with titles in black and gilt to spine, and black titles and decoration to upper. All edges speckled red. A nice crisp, clean..... More
"Q.Q." Detective Stories [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 68 and 69, numbers 405 to 408, and 412 to 413.
London: George Newnes, September 1924 to May 1925. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Six parts in their original colour illustrated paper covers, priced at 1s. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[52] 215-318 [53-68]; pp.[64] 319-422 [65-80]; pp.[68] 423-530 [69-84]; pp.[96] 531-670 [97-132]; pp.[68] 319-424 [69-86]; pp.[52] 425-528 [53-68]. With frequent black and..... More
Vintage Verse. An Anthology of Poetry in English.
London: Hollis and Carter Ltd., 1945. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 15cm), pp.vi; 338. Publisher's burgundy cloth, gilt titles to spine and upper, top edge red, patterned endpapers, dust-jacket with repeating vine and grape motif, price clipped and repriced with an ink stamp at 10/6 net. Some light spotting..... More
A Century of Greek Poetry 1900-2000. Bilingual Edition.
River Vale, NJ: Cosmos Publishing Co., and The Hellenic Literature Society, 2004. [Modern Greek Poetry] FIRST THUS. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.[2] xxviii; 993 [3]. With a frontispiece reprising the jacket illustration. Fair-sized print on very thin paper, with the original Greek and English translation on facing pages. Publisher's..... More
Irish Short Stories.
London: Faber and Faber, 1932. [Short Story Anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.428; [4]. Publisher's green cloth with red titles to spine. With the green dust-jacket priced at 3/6. Small blue ink ownership to flyleaf. Light spotting and browning to edges and endpapers. Jacket with chips and closed..... More
The Bookman Christmas Double Number 1915. December 1915. No. 291. Vol. 49.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, December 1915. [Literary Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE SPECIAL. Folio (34 x 23cm), pp.xx; 65-108; 149; xxi-xxix. Not including the special portfolio of colour plates by Bernard Partridge. With numerous in-text black and white illustrations, and occasional colour plates by various artists, including a frontispiece by Rackham. Publisher's..... More
The Bookman Christmas Double Number 1912. December 1912. No. 255. Vol. 43.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, December 1912. [Literary Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE SPECIAL. Folio (34 x 23cm), pp.xvi; 133-196; 217; xvii-xxxv. Not including the special portfolio of colour plates by Dulac, and also lacking the frontispiece portrait of Kipling. With numerous in-text black and white illustrations, and occasional colour plates by various..... More
A Feast of Lanterns.
London: John Murray, 1936. [Poetry] THIRD IMPRESSION. Octavo (17 x 13cm), pp.96. Publisher's blue cloth, titles and pictorial motif stamped in orange to upper and spine. With the dust-jacket of matching design priced at 3/6. Interior lightly toned and spotted, with larger patches extending until around pg.25. Light edgewear to..... More
The Pic Nic Papers. By Various Hands.
Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1841. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8] 367 [3]. Publisher's blue quarter morocco, with gilt titles to spine and brown cloth over boards. All edges speckled red. With a loosely inserted etching of 'The Pic-nic' at rear. Bound by Birdball and Son..... More
The Strand Magazine, volumes I to VI. [The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, etc.]
London: George Newnes, 1891-1893. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Six volumes. Large octavo (24 x 18 x 25cm). Illustrated throughout. Original magazine parts bound in half-yearly volumes. Publisher's cyan cloth with titles in black and gilt to spines, and in black with the 'Strand' street scene to uppers. All edges speckled..... More
The Strand Magazine, volumes I to XII. [The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, etc.]
London: George Newnes, January 1891 to December 1896. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. 12 volumes. Large octavo (25 x 17 x 50cm). Illustrated throughout. Original magazine parts bound in half-yearly volumes. In contemporary green half calf, with gilt titles to red labels, gilt and blind ruling to spines, and matching textured..... More
[Sherlock Holmes in] The Strand Magazine, July-Dec (1926) and Jan-June (1927).
London: The Strand Magazine, 1926, 1927. [Literature] FIRST EDITIONS. Two volumes. Octavos (24 x 28cm), pp.666; pp.630. Consecutive bi-annuals uniformly bound in green cloth lettered in gilt to spine. Black and white illustrations throughout (1927 edition has some coloured illustrations and title pages), double columns. All edges speckled red. Toning..... More
The Book of Ballads.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons, no date [circa 1870]. [Illustrated Ballads] REISSUE. Octavo (19 x 15cm), pp.[6] 256. With illustrations in-text and to margins by various artists, as well as an engraved frontispiece and a title page decorated in red and gilt. Publisher's blind-decorated blue cloth, with gilt..... More
Love Lyrics from Five Centuries.
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., printed at the University Press Oxford, 1932. [Illustrated Poetry Anthology] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.198 [2]. With five mounted colour plates, including a frontispiece, by Rosenkrantz. INSCRIBED by the editor in black ink to the half-title: 'To Charles &..... More