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![Complete Novels of Jane Austen]. Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility; Mansfield Park;...](/pictures/thumb/59148.jpg?v=1617209045)
[Complete Novels of Jane Austen]. Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility; Mansfield Park; Emma; Northanger Abbey; Persuasion.
London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1904-1909. [Complete Novels] FINELY BOUND COLOUR PLATE EDITION, later printings. Complete in 10 volumes. Octavo (18 x 12 x 24cm), pp.xxxii; 163 [3]; pp.[6] 218 [2]; pp.x; 191 [3]; pp.[2] 210 [2]; pp.viii; 245 [3]; pp.[6] 249 [3]; pp.[2] viii; 245 [3]; pp.[6] 258 [2];..... More
Travels of a Consular Officer in North-West China.
Cambridge: at the University Press, 1921. [Travel and Diplomacy] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.[2] xiv; 215 [6]. With 29 double-sided black and white photographic plates, as well as a frontispiece, and two maps bound in. Also with the two folding maps loose in pouch to rear. In..... More
The Fox.
London: Bantam Press, 2018. [Spy Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 307 [7]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine and red endpapers. With the pictorial dust-jacket, priced at £20.00. Edges very slightly toned. A fine..... More
Apple Tree Yard.
London: faber and faber, 2013. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 348 [12]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's red cloth with silver titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £12.99. Edges very slightly toned, with a promotional sticker..... More
Friends in Council. A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon. First and Second Series.
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1886; 1879. [Philosophical Essays] FINELY BOUND, new editions. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] viii; 492; pp.iii-xii; 445 [3]. Lacking half-title to volume II. Contemporary brown full calf by RELFE BROS of London, with gilt titles to black label and further..... More
Demeter and Other Poems.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1889. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[2] vi; 175 [1]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. All edges untrimmed. Black ink ownership to first blank. Light toning throughout, and somewhat cocked. Spine toned, with moderate rubbing to cloth. Very good. A collection..... More
Locksley Hall Sixty Years After, etc.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1886. [Poetry and Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[8] 201 [3]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Edges untrimmed. Bookseller's blind stamp to fly-leaf. Light toning throughout, and somewhat cocked. Spine toned, with light rubbing to cloth. Very good. Including the title..... More
The Golden Treasury, selected from the best songs and lyrical poems in the English Language and arranged with notes. Revised and enlarged. First and second series.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. [Verse Anthology] FINELY BOUND. Two volumes. Octavo (16 x 11cm), pp.[16] 387 [5]; pp.[16] 279 [5]. With a vignette title page to each volume. Very fine contemporary red full crushed morocco by RIVIERE AND SON of London, with raised bands, gilt titles to spines, and..... More
![Chatham [and] Pitt. Twelve English Statesmen. Frederic HARRISON, Archibald Philip Primrose LORD...](/pictures/thumb/58789.jpg?v=1617209043)
Chatham [and] Pitt. Twelve English Statesmen.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906 and 1907. [British Political Biography] FINE PRIZE BINDING, later impressions. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] vi; 239 [1]; pp.viii; 301 [3]. Contemporary burgundy full calf for Berkhamsted School, with raised bands, gilt titles to orange label and further gilt decoration..... More
The Novels and Stories of T.F. Powys. Minority Pamphlet No. 3.
Cambridge: The Minority Press, 1930. [Literary Criticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (20 x 14cm), pp.34 [2]. With a loose leaf listing other publications, and another loose leaf folded twice, from 'The New Statesman and Nation' December 9, 1933, containing a short piece by Powys titled 'Jesus' Walk.' Publisher's grey paper..... More
Mungo's Mansion: A Play of Galway Life in Three Acts.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1946. [Irish Drama] UNCORRECTED PROOF. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 104. Plain grey paper covers. Light rubbing and handling to covers and edges. Near fine. More
The French Revolution: A History.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1889. [History and Philosophy] FINE PRIZE BINDING, a later edition. Three volumes bound as one. Octavo (17 x 13cm), pp.iv, 252; pp.iv; 260; pp.iv; 300 [2]. Contemporary red full calf for Clapham Middle School, with raised bands, gilt titles to green label and further gilt decoration..... More
Twelve Poems.
Belfast: Festival Publications, 1965. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, an early reprint. Octavo pamphlet (20 x 13cm), pp.[16]. Publisher's green card covers, showing advertisements for the first and second series of poetry pamphlets, including reprints, to back cover priced at 3s. Light wear to corners. Almost as-new. Mahon's very first publication... More
The Permanent Revolution.
London: Workers' International Press, 1940. [Marxism, Trotskyism, and Communist Revolution] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.[4] 218. Type-written and duplicated. Original blue cloth spine, hand-titled in red ink to labels, with plain green card covers. Some toning to edges and handling to covers. A few bumps to spine;..... More
The Thorough-Base Primer: Containing Explanations and Examples of the Rudiments of Harmony; with Fifty Exercises.
Boston, MA: James Loring, 1828. [Music] FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Duodecimo in half-sheets (15 x 10cm), pp.138. Publisher's red quarter morocco with gilt titles to spine, and pain pasteboards. Plain small bookplate to front pastedown. Black ink ownership to half-title. Light occasional spotting. Moderate wear to binding, with marks and stains..... More
Labour of Love.
London: Bloomsbury, 2017. [Drama] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[4] 120 [4]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's soft covers, priced by hand to sticker on back cover at £10.99. A fine, as-new copy. A political comedy from the writer of 'x+y' (2015)..... More
Wobbly Sounds: A Collection of British Flexi Discs. Four Corners Irregulars No. 6.
London: Four Corners, 2019. [Sound Recordings] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.160. Illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated soft covers, with illustrated endpapers, priced at £10. Also with a publisher's bookmark loose to preliminaries. A fine, as-new copy. More
The Soul of Man Under Socialism.
Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1905. [Political Essay] LIMITED EDITION. Small octavo (17 x 13cm), pp.[10] 90 [8]. One of just 600 copies finely printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper. Publisher's plain card boards with grey paper over. Black titles to spine, and red and black titles to upper. All..... More
![I am a Camera. [Cabaret]. A Play in Three Acts, adapted from the stories by Christopher...](/pictures/thumb/56079.jpg?v=1617209042)
I am a Camera. [Cabaret]. A Play in Three Acts, adapted from the stories by Christopher Isherwood.
London: Evans Brothers, 1954. [Drama] FIRST UK EDITION, PRODUCER'S COPY. Two volumes; one working copy, and one ring-bound 'Producer's Copy.' Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.94 [2]. With a black and white photographic frontispiece. Publisher's green paper covers with black titles to spine and front cover, priced at 5s. Producer's Copy..... More
Poeimata: Sappho's Erotic Feet.
Athens: Graphopress, 2004. [Greek Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.71 [7]. All text in Greek. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to fly-leaf, dated 8th October 2005. Publisher's soft covers with a newspaper from March 1985 loose at rear. Very light handling. Near fine... More
A New Map of the County of Kent, Divided into Lathes etc.,
London: Printed for C. Smith, 1827. VINTAGE MAP, seven miles to the inch, (48 X 53cm), being 12 segments backed onto linen, with details coloured in pink and green, and numbered references to Lathes and Hundreds. Folds into a contemporary green paper-coverd slipcase with a plain paper label (13 x...... More
![James Bond] 007 Magazine. February 2011. Ian FLEMING, Graham RYE, Jon, GILBERT, Edward,...](/pictures/thumb/59461.jpg?v=1617124056)
[James Bond] 007 Magazine. February 2011.
UK: 007 Magazine and Archive Ltd., 2011. Magazine format in pictorial glossy card wraps, stapled at spine. Pp.34. 'A Deluxe Limited Edition Publication' with colour photographs throughout. Fine / as new. Includes a tribute to the James Bond cover artist Raymond Hawkey by Edward Milward-Oliver, SIGNED by contributor Jon Gilbert..... More
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2004. [Fantasy] Signed First Edition. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[10] 782 [8]. SIGNED by both the author and the artist in black ink to title page. Contains several rather haunting illustrations, including frontispiece, by Portia Rosenburg. Publisher's white cloth with black titles to spine. With the white..... More
A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany.
London: Printed for the author, by W. Bulmer and W. Nicol, Shakspeare Press, and Sold by Payne and Foss, Longman, Hurst and Co., 1821. [Bibliographical Travel] FIRST EDITION. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (27 x 18cm), pp.[6] xxxii; 462; lxxx [2]; pp.[6] 555 [3]; pp.[6] 622; lxii [2].With a total..... More