"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka

London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. [English Literature] FIRST EDITION. First issue text with 'pricipal' for 'principal', page 115 of volume II, line 38. Two volumes. Octavo, pp.[2] xii; 320 [2]; pp.[2] viii; 309 [3]. With 40 engraved plates by Stone, including a frontispiece to each volume. Complete with the half-titles..... More
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1959. [Wood Engraving] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.[2] xliv; 355 [3]. A large collection of over 1000 wood engravings by Gibbings. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt device to upper. Top edge green, and green endpapers. With the..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1913]. [Metaphysical Poetry] FIRST BULL ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto, unpaginated. With 29 very fine tipped-in colour plates, including a frontispiece, by Rene Bull. Also blue border decorations and vignette illustrations to every page. Recently bound in brown half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1956. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.24. With five colour plates and six line drawn illustrations by Bawden. Publisher's colour illustrated paper covered boards, with the matching dust-jacket, priced at 10/6. Some offsetting to endpapers, otherwise internally clean. Wear to extremities and some..... More
Indianapolis, IN: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1900. [American Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION, an advance copy. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[10] 419 [13]. With five black and white illustrated plates and a colour frontispiece, all by Yohn. Publisher's light blue cloth with black and gilt titles, as well as decoration in white..... More