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The Vox Edition of the Works of Jane Austen.
London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1933-4. [Classic Literature] FIRST VOX ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13 x 21cm), 7 volumes. With colour plates and in-text black and white illustrations by Maximilien Vox. Prefatory letter, in French by Maximilien Vox and an introduction by Emile Legouis. Publisher's patterned grey cloth..... More
The works of robert burns. Illustrated by an Extensive Series of Portraits and Authentic Views. With a Complete Life of the Poet: An Essay on his Genius and Character, by Professor Wilson. Numerous Notes, Annotations, and Appendices.
London: Blackie and Son, 1866. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Two volumes. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.cclxxvi; iv; 149; [1]; pp.xx; 412. With a total of 83 engraved plates by various artists, including a frontispiece and vignette title page to each volume, and a facsimile example of Burns' handwriting..... More
Killer In The Rain. Being: Killer in the Rain; The Man who liked Dogs; The Curtain; Try the Girl; Mandarin's Jade; Bay City Blues; The Lady in the Lake; No Crime in the Mountains. With an Introduction by Philip Durham.
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1964. [Crime stories] FIRST EDITION (stated). Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.394. Publisher's blue cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper designed by Rob Howard, priced at $5.50. Contents and page edges clean, jacket with a little edgewear and a crease to the spine panel, neat tape reinforcement to..... 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
An Aubrey Beardsley Lecture. With an Introduction and Notes by R. A. Walker and some Unpublished Letters and Drawings.
London: R. A. Walker. 1924. [Art criticism] LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER. Octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.103; [1]. Publisher's blue cloth, black leather title square with gilt to spine. Top edge gilt, others left untrimmed. Number 145 of 500 copies printed, of which 450 were for sale, signed by..... More
Borrhomeo the Astrologer. A Monkish Tale.
Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1985. [Strange Tale] LIMITED EDITION. Large Octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.35 [1]. This is number 52 of 150 copies thus. Simple cream card with blue textured jacket. Plain paper title label to upper. A little light wear to covers. Near fine. This short story was published..... More
The Autobiography of Arthur Machen.
London: The Richards Press, 1951. [Autobiography] FIRST EDITION WITH ASSOCIATED LETTERS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.308. Publisher's red cloth titled in gilt to spine, top-edge red, photographic frontispiece of author, two further photographic plates. Loosely tipped in are three associated items; A letter from Morchand Bishop to News Chronicle journalist..... More
Out of the Smoke; Into the Smother; The Sword and the Blossom,
London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, 1963, 1968. [Wartime trilogy] FIRST EDITIONS, COMPLETE. Three volumes, octavo (23 x 15 x 10cm), pp.xv; [5]; 310; [2]; pp.xiv; [2]; 290; [2]; pp.xx; 266. Publisher's cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jackets. Illustrated throughout. With an introduction to the first volume by van der..... More
The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books, 1566-1910. A Catalogue.
Toronto: Toronto Public Library, 1975. CORRECTED EDITION. In two volumes. Octavo. pp. xxiv, 562; xii, 563-1138. With occasional illustrations, many in colour to volume one. In publisher's pictorial green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Green end-papers. A fine copy. First published in 1958, and reprinted with corrections in 1966..... More
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