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The Memoirs of Giacomo Casanova di Seingalt. Translated into English by Arthur Machen.
London: The Casanova Society, 1922. [Memoirs] LEATHER-BOUND LIMITED EDITION. Complete in 12 volumes. Quarto (26 x 21 x 36cm). Privately printed for subscribers only on fine hand-made paper, number 452 of 1000 sets thus. With a frontispiece to each volume, as well as 17 maps, and an index. Recently re-bound..... More
The Romance of the Echoing Wood.
Newport: R.H. Johns, the "Directory" Press, 1937. [Welsh Fairy Tale] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[8] 43 [5]. Number 50 of just 220 copies, SIGNED by all the contributors, including the publisher, to the limitation page. With wide marginal illustrations and three full page plates all engraved..... More
His Last Bow. Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes.
London: John Murray, 1917. [Detective Fiction] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.viii; 305 [7]. Recently re-bound in burgundy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. Top edge gilt, others trimmed. A lovely crisp, clean copy in an attractive new..... More
In Powder and Crinoline.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date [1913]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.164. With 24 mounted colour plates, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Re-bound later in the twentieth century in tan quarter cloth with grey paper over boards and green titles to plain..... More
The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D.D., Sometime Head-Master of Rugby School, and Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford. The Minerva Library of Famous Books.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1891. [Pedagogy] FINE PRIZE BINDING, the fourth edition. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] xxiv; 548 [2]. With nine illustrated plates, including a frontispiece portrait of Arnold. Contemporary red full calf for Beaconsfield School by RELFE BROS of London, with gilt titles to green label and..... More
Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey.
London: John Murray, 1868. [Architectural and Ecclesiastical History] FINELY BOUND, the Second Edition, revised. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.lii; 632 [2]. With 22 illustrations including a frontispiece, as well as a title page vignette. Contemporary peach diced calf with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and gilt crossed..... More
The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family.
London: The Gresham Publishing Co., n.d. [c.1900]. [Classic Literature]. FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xxiv; 584. With six wood engraved plates by Rainey, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, along with distinctive white and green decoration. Grey endpapers. Black ink ownership..... 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
Three of Them [and] Jeeves and the Chump Cyril [and] The Film that was Never Shown [and] The Magic Plus Fours [and] Billy Bones [and] The Forbidden Subject [and] First Aid for Dora [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 55, 56, 64, and 66; numbers 328, 331, 332, 366, 384 and 392.
London: George Newnes, April, July, August, and December 1918, December 1922, and August 1923. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Six magazines. Octavo (27 x 19cm), pp.44; 265-344; 45-52; pp.20; 76; 21-32; pp.16; 77-152; 17-34; pp.64; 361-484; 65-82; pp.84; 487-628; 85-118; pp.48; 105-212; 49-64. Liberally illustrated in black and white throughout. Publisher's..... More
Punchard's Agency [and] Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest [and] The British Campaign in France [and] Uneasy Money [and] The Man-Trap [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume 53, numbers 315, 316 and 317
London: George Newnes, March to May 1917. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Three magazines. Octavo (27 x 19cm), pp.50; 209-312; 51-58; pp.50; 313-416; 51-58; pp.40; 417-512; 41-48. Liberally illustrated in black and white throughout. Publisher's blue paper covers, titled in red and navy, and priced at 7d. Presented in a navy..... More
General View of the Agriculture of Hertfordshire. Drawn Up for the Consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement.
London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1813. FINELY BOUND, Second Edition. Octavo, pp.xix; [1]; 236; [2]. With 9 engraved plates, 2 folding, and a large coloured folding map showing soil types over the county. Recently re-backed in brown half calf, to style with original marbled boards and using original..... More
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