"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: 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
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