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Our Mutual Friend. Charles DICKENS, Marcus STONE

Our Mutual Friend.

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870), [STONE, Marcus, illustrator].

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

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The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings, with some recollections by the artist. Robert GIBBINGS,...

The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings, with some recollections by the artist.

GIBBINGS, Robert (1889-1958), [EMPSON, Patience, editor], [BALSTON, Thomas, introduction].

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

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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Omar KHAYYAM, Edward FITZGERALD, René BULL

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

KHAYYAM, Omar (1048-1131), [FITZGERALD, Edward, translator], [BULL, René, illustrator].

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

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Crusader Castles. T. E. LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward

Crusader Castles.

LAWRENCE, T.E. [Thomas Edward] (1888-1935).

London: The Folio Society, 2010. [Near East Archaeology and Architecture] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (22 x 17cm), pp.xiv; 226. Heavily illustrated with sketches and black and white photographs. Publisher's blue cloth with black and silver titles and decoration to spine, and further decoration to upper. Black endpapers. With the navy..... More

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The Sixpence that Rolled Away. Louis MACNEICE, Edward BAWDEN

The Sixpence that Rolled Away.

MACNEICE, Louis (1907-1963), [BAWDEN, Edward, illustrator].

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

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Alice of Old Vincennes. Maurice THOMPSON, F. C. YOHN

Alice of Old Vincennes.

THOMPSON, Maurice (1844-1901), [YOHN, F.C., illustrator].

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

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Adrian Harrington began trading in 1971, as part of Harrington Brothers in the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's fashionable King's Road. He moved to Kensington Church Street in 1997, and in 2014 Adrian relocated to the historic Hall's Bookshop in Royal Tunbridge Wells, occupying the first floor of this iconic building near The Pantiles area of the town. Hall's remains on the ground floor offering an exceptional range of quality used books.

Adrian Harrington Rare Books deal in a wide selection of literature, modern first editions, leather bound library sets, children's and illustrated books and fine and rare antiquarian and old books in all fields. We also offer a full and expert bookbinding and restoration service.

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