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Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail and Exportation.
London: Chapman and Hall, no date [circa 1895]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (22 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 624 [2]. With 40 engraved plates by Browne, including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Contemporary green half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and textured green..... More
Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail and Exportation.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. [Classic Literature] FIRST EDITION, Mixed Issue. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xviii; 624 [2]. With 40 engraved plates by Phiz, including a frontispiece and vignette title. Lacks the half-title. Contains most first issue points, but 'Birds-Eye' is hyphenated in the Contents. Contemporary tan half calf, with..... More
Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail and Exportation.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. [Classic Literature] FIRST EDITION, Mixed Issue. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xviii; 624 [2]. With 40 engraved plates by Phiz, including a frontispiece and vignette title. Extra-illustrated with later engraved plates by Chapman and Hall, depicting Little Paul, Florence, Edith and Alice. Lacks the half-title. Contains..... More
The Novels [Works] of George Eliot. Adam Bede; The Mill on the Floss; Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life; Felix Holt; Romola; Middlemarch; Daniel Deronda.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, no date [circa 1890s]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND SET, mixed printings from a New Edition. Complete in eight volumes, bound as seven. Octavo (19 x 14 x 22cm), pp.[2] viii; 466 [2]; pp.[2] xii; 486 [2]; pp.[2] vi; 158; viii; 330 [2]; pp.[2]..... More
Cent Proverbes. Texte par Trois Tetes dans un Bonnet. Nouvelle Edition Revue et Augmentee pour le Texte par M. Quitard.
Paris: Garnier Freres, Libraires-Editeurs, no date [circa 1870]. [Surrealist Humour] FINE HAND-COLOURED PLATES, a New Edition. Quarto (27 x 19cm), pp.[6]; 551; [3]. With many in-text illustrations, as well as 50 fine hand-coloured plates by Grandville, including a frontispiece. All text in French. Finely bound in black half calf with..... More
Un Autre Monde. Transformations, Visions, Incarnations, Ascensions, Locomotions, Explorations, Peregrinations, Excursions, Stations, Cosmogonies, Fantasmagories, Reveries, Folatreries, Faceties, Lubies, Metamorphoses, Zoomorphoses, Lithomorphoses, Metempsycoses, Apotheoses, et autre Choses.
Paris: H. Fournier, Libraire-Editeur, 1844. [Surrealism] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.[6] 295 [3]. All text in French. Extensively illustrated with wood engravings by the author throughout, including a frontispiece and decorated title page, as well as 36 hand-coloured plates. Recent quarter brown morocco with gilt titles and decoration..... More
General Gordon: The Christian Hero.
London and Felling-on-Tyne: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., no date [1908]. [African Colonial Wars] FINELY BOUND, a later edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] viii; 369 [3]. A stamp at rear suggests a printing date of April 1908. Contemporary red full calf by RELFE BROS of London, with gilt titles..... More
The Ingoldsby Legends, or, Mirth and Marvels.
London: Richard Bentley, 1842-1847. [Strange Tales and Humour] FIRST AND EARLY EDITIONS, volume I a third edition, volumes II and III first editions. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xii; 339 [1]; pp.x; 288; pp.viii; 364. With a total of 18 engraved plates, including a frontispiece to volume..... More
The Looking-Glass War.
London: Heinemann, 1965. [Spy Thriller] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[12] 246. Elegantly hand-bound in half red morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, with matching cloth over boards and top edge gilt. A crisp, clean copy in an attractive new leather binding. Follow-up to the Edgar-winning..... More
[Smiley vs Karla trilogy]: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Honourable Schoolboy; Smiley's People.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1974, 1977, 1980 [November 1979]. [Espionage Trilogy] COMPLETE LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Three volumes. Octavo (22 x 14 x 11cm), pp.350, pp.532, pp.328. Bound in red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards, top edges gilt, and with the original..... More
Direadh I, II and III.
Frenich and Foss: Kulgin Duval and Colin H. Hamilton, 1974. [Scottish Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (31 x 22cm), pp.[2] 52 [4]. Number 22 of just 200 copies SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page at rear, and printed in Dante type on Magnani paper. Publisher's red..... 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
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