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— Oscar Wilde

See below our stock of Charles Darwin First Editions and fine bindings.
London: John Murray, 1871. [Evolutionary science] FIRST EDITION, Second state. Two volumes, octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.424; pp.476. Bound without adverts in contemporary green half morocco, gilt, with matching cloth sides, marbled edges and endpapers. Contents very clean, same neat ink name (Dutton) to each half title, binding gently aged..... More
London: John Murray, 1885. [Evolutionary science] SECOND EDITION, revised and augmented (nineteenth thousand). Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 693; [1], blank. With in-text black and white illustrations. Bound in original green cloth with gilt titles to spine, ruled to covers in blind, coated dark brown endpapers. Discreet ownership (1887), contents..... More
London: John Murray, 1904. [Science and Nature] POPULAR EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 397 [3]. With 21 engravings, and seven black and white photographic plates. Including the preface to the second edition of 1889. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and titles and decoration in black to..... More
London: John Murray, 1909. Octavo. Bound in green cloth, with gilt titles to spine, and dark green panelling and design to front board. Includes Christmas gift insert and review slip. Stain to front board, and some spotting to edges. Occassional spots in text, mostly to prelims, but largely clean, including..... More
London: John Murray, 1892. [Evolutionary science] Sixth Edition, Forty-third thousand. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xxii; 432. Bound in publisher's green buckram, lettered and trimmed in gilt to backstrip, blind-stamped borders, pale blue floral-patterned endpapers. Ink name to first blank (dated 1894), second name to flyleaf, contents very clean, some browning..... More
London: William Pickering, 1986-1989. [Science / Evolution] THE COMPLETE WORKS, Pickering Masters Series. Octavo, 29 volumes. Handsomely bound in dark green half morocco over green cloth boards, raised bands and gilt titles to spine, top edges gilt. The complete works in 29 volumes edited by Paul H. Barrett and R...... More
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, and London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1871. [Evolution] CONTEMPORARY REVIEW. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.36 of advertisements; 16 of advertisements; ii; 302; [20 of advertisements]. Publisher blue printed wraps, yellow paper spine with cream paper title label. Partially unopened, some sporadic light spotting and..... More
London: Putnam, 1932. [Rugby Short Stories] FIRST EDITION, first state binding. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 303 [1]. With the errata slip to contents page. Publisher's green cloth with orange titles to spine and upper. Spotting and toning to edges, endpapers and preliminaries. Tobacco-scented. Moderate wear to cloth; spine heavily..... More