Collected Works & Sets
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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 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
Present-Day Prose.
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1928. [Prose anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 244. Publisher's pink paper wraps, with red titles to spine and covers. Untrimmed edges. Includes prose from sixty-three authors. Heavy toning to spine, and some wear and marks to front cover. Very good. Including pieces by..... More
[Woburn Books Collection]. A Wedding Morn; Portrait of The Misses Harlowe; The Apple Disdained; The Man who Missed the Bus; The Male Impersonator; Alice and the Lost Novel; Fame; The Goldfish Under the Ice; A Ghost in the Isle of Wight; Triall by Armes.
London: Elkin Mathews and Marrot, 1928-1929. [Collection of Short Stories] SIGNED BY AUTHORS. Ten volumes. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.50 [2]; [2] 26 [2]; 31 [1]; 32; 28 [4]; [2] 27 [3]; 40; [2] 26 [4]; 30 [2]; 30 [2]. Publisher's paper to boards, titles and illustrations in various colours..... More
The Masque [6 volumes]: The Old Vic King Lear; Designs for the Theatre by Rex Whistler Parts 1 and 2; Oscar Wilde and the Theatre; The Masque of Christmas; Notes on the Verse Drama.
London: The Curtain Press, 1946-1948. [Theatre notebooks] FIRST EDITIONS. Six volumes. Octavos (19 x 12cm), pp.16; pp.20; pp.24; pp.36; pp.40; pp.40. Many colour and halftone illustrations throughout each issue. All with the original paper covers, staple-bound, with ads imprinted to cover interiors. All six books are protected by the pink..... More
[Navarre Society Illustrated Classics]. The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick. Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Sonne Pantagruel, Together with the Pantagrueline Prognostication, the Oracle of the Divine Bacbuc, and response of the bottle, Hereunto are annexed the Navigations unto the Sounding Isle and the Isle of the Apedefts: as likewise the Philosophical cream with a Limosin Epistle. [and] The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. [and] The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, Prince of Adventurers and the most indomitable of Lovers. [and] The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Translated into English from the Authentic Text of M. le Roux de Lincy, with an Essay upon the Heptameron by George Saintsbury, M.A., also the Original Seventy-three full-page Engravings Designed by S. Freudenberg, and One hundred and fifty head and tail pieces by Dunker. [and] The History of Don Quixote of the Mancha Translated from the Spanish of Miguel de Cervantes by Thomas Shelton, reprinted from the First Edition, 1612-1620, with a new preface by F.J. Harvey Darton, and Illustrated with two portraits, eighteen plates and facsimiles of the original engraved titles. [and] The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and The Confession of the New Married Couple.
London: Privately Printed for the Navarre Society, 1921-1923. [Private Press Classics] SIX LIMITED EDITION TITLES, collected in fourteen volumes. Octavo (24 x 16 x 65cm). All text in English. Each volume with various engraved illustrations, title pages printed in two colours. Each set strictly limited and printed on fine laid..... More
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