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Literature
The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. [Crime / Mystery] FIRST EDITION in book form. Large octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii; 190 [34]. With 12 wood engraved illustrations after Fildes, as well as a steel engraved frontispiece and vignette title page. Publisher's green cloth, recently re-backed with the original cloth spine laid..... More
The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. [Crime / Mystery] FIRST EDITION, bound from the original parts. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii; 190 [36]. With 12 wood engraved illustrations after Fildes, as well as a steel engraved frontispiece and vignette title page. One original light blue wrapper bound in at rear. Publisher's..... More
The Christmas Books. [A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Battle of Life and The Haunted Man in] The Works of Charles Dickens.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1843-1848. [Festive Ghost Stories] ALL FIRST EDITIONS, each with an associated letter tipped-in. Five volumes, octavo (19 x 13 x 10cm). Publisher's red cloth covers (brown cloth for 'Carol') with gilt blocking and gilt edges. [1] A Christmas Carol: FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, FIRST STATE, with..... More
Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail and Exportation.
London: Chapman and Hall, no date [circa 1895]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (22 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 624 [2]. With 40 engraved plates by Browne, including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Contemporary green half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and textured green..... More
Little Dorrit.
London: Chapman and Hall, no date [circa 1895]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (22 x 17cm), pp.[2] xiv; 625 [3]. With 40 engraved plates by Browne, including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Contemporary green half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and textured..... More
Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty.
London: Chapman and Hall, [1841]. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, bound with unaltered stereotype sheets from the original triple-decker; an unrecorded variant. Octavo (26 x 17cm). With textual engravings by George Cattermole and Hablot K. Brown ('Phiz'). Smith's later issue with Piccadilly address shown on an undated title page. In our copy..... More
Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1847. [Classic literature] FIRST CONTINENTAL EDITION. 3 volumes. Small octavo (16 x 12 x 6cm), pp.[vi]; 352; pp.[vi]; 316; pp.[x]; 366; [2] blank. Contemporary tan quarter calf binding, titled in gilt to red label on spine, raised bands to spine, marbled paper covered boards, marbled endpapers, speckled..... More
Master Humphrey's Clock. To which are added Papers by Mr. Yellowplush.
Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1841. [Literature] CONTINENTAL EDITION. Two volumes, octavo (22 x 13cm), pp.[vi]; 323; [iii], blank; pp.[viii]; 131; [ii], blank. Contemporary red quarter calf binding, title labels and decorative gilt to spine, raised bands, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers and boards. The continental edition, published a year after..... More
Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings, The Extra Christmas Number of All The Year Round, for Christmas, 1863.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1863. Octavo., 240 x 165mm., pp.48. Publisher's blue paper covers. Some expected toning and wear to cheap magazine paperstock. Owner name to margin. Fragile covers mostly complete, chipped and split at spine, disbound. A rare survival. More
The Old Curiosity Shop.
London: Chapman and Hall, [1841]. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, bound with unaltered stereotype sheets from the original triple-decker; an unrecorded variant. Octavo (26 x 17cm), 228 leaves, Page 2 is numbered 2-38, p.47 numbered 47-79, p.96 numbered 96-102, p.224 blank, as per Smith, p.307 reverts to number 1 (not in Smith)..... More
The Posthhumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Containing a faithful record of the perambulations, perils, travels, adventures and sporting transactions of the corresponding members.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1842. [Literary clasic] FIRST TAUCHNITZ EDITION. 2 volumes. Duodecimo (16 x 11cm), pp.[viii]; 430; [4]; pp.[4]; 427; [1]. Tan quarter calf binding with marbled paper, lettered in gilt to spine, raised bands on spine, marbled endpapers. Pictorial frontispiece with tissue guard in volume one. Occasional spotting otherwise..... More
Oliver Twist; Or, The Parish Boy's Progress. By "Boz". In Three Volumes.
London: Richard Bentley, 1838. [Classic Literature] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the suppressed 'Fireside' plate and with with 'Boz' on the title pages. Three volumes, Small octavo, illustrated with 24 plates by Cruikshank. Complete copy with both half-titles (not required for vol.III), advertisement leaf following text of vol I, initial..... More
The Adventures of Oliver Twist. Or, The Parish Boy's Progress.
London: Chapman and Hall, n.d. (c. 1880). LARGE PAPER ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Very large octavo (29x22cm); pp. xvi, (1), 506. With 24 illustrations by Cruikshank from the original plates, tipped-in on to grey boards. Bound in recent half speckled calf with red and green title labels to spine, marbled boards, top..... More
Dombey and Son.
London: Chapman and Hall, n.d. Octavo. Bound in contemporary half red calf over marbled paper boards, red and green labels, raised bands and gilt decoration to spine; all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Binding shows well, with a little rubbing. Evidence of page removed from prelims. Internally clean and free from..... More
Deliverance.
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970. [American Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[10] 278. Publisher's cream cloth with green titles to spine and upper. Top edge green; green endpapers. With the black and green dust-jacket designed by Paul Bacon Studios. Gently toned throughout. Price torn from jacket flap..... More
Deliverance.
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970. [American Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[10] 278. Publisher's cream cloth with green titles to spine and upper. Top edge green; green endpapers. With the black and green dust-jacket designed by Paul Bacon Studios priced at $5.95. A lovely fine copy in..... More
Death of a Chancellor.
London: Constable, 2005. [Crime Fiction]. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, SIGNED by the author. Octavo (22 x 14cm). Pp.[vi]; 313; [1], blank. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in pictorial dustjacket. A fine, unread copy. A Lord Francis Powerscourt detective novel, set in the late Victorian period. More
Further Poems of Emily Dickinson.
London: Martin Secker, 1929. [Poetry] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xx; 208. Publisher's green cloth with printed paper title label to spine. Top edge navy. With the plain dust-jacket, titled in green and priced at 10/6. A lovely crisp, clean copy. Jacket toned, with rubbing and chipping to..... More
Behind the Crimson Blind. Another Adventure of Sir Henry Merrivale.
London: William Heinemann, 1952. [Crime Mystery] FIRST UK EDITION, EX LIBRIS ANTHONY LEJEUNE. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[4] 283 [1]. With a bookplate detailing provenance to flyleaf. Publisher's black cloth with titles now oxidised to a light green colour. Cream endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Stein, priced at 10/6..... More
The Shrine of Death.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1886. [Macabre] LIMITED EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.160. With illustrated majuscules, vignettes and headpieces. Number 75 of just 150 copies in this edition, printed by Unwin Bros., Ludgate Hill. Expertly bound in a suitable sombre full black oasis morocco in the..... More
The Great Spy Race.
London: Michael Joseph, 1968. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.208. Blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, in Richard Chopping-esque pictorial dust-jacket designed by Broom Lynne. Top edge a little dusty, spine a shade toned else a clean, fine copy. Typical 'sixties James Bond cash-in, complete with a...... More
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Enos Leptou Mazi [One Minute's Together].
Athens: Ikaros Publishing, January 1999. [Greek Poetry] THIRD PRINTING. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.66 [6]. All text in Greek. Heavily inscribed with notes in black ink to fly-leaf. Publisher's red soft covers. Light rubbing to covers; near fine. A collection of poetry first published in September 1998. More
Out of Africa.
New York, NY: Random House, 1938. [Africa] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo, pp.[4] x; 389 [5]. Recent green half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and green cloth over boards. Top edge gilt; fore-edge untrimmed. Gently toned throughout, as usual. A clean copy in an attractive new binding. Very..... More
A View of Ancient Laws Against Immorality and Profaneness; Under the following Heads; Lewdness; Profane Swearing, Cursing, and Blasphemy; Perjury; Prophanation of Days devoted to Religion; Contempt or Neglect of Divine Service; Drunkenness; Gaming; Idleness; Vagrancy, and Begging; Stage-Plays and Players; and Duelling. Collected from the Jewish, Roman, Greek, Gothic, Lombard, and other Laws, down to the middle of the Eleventh Century.
Cambridge: Printed for Corn. Crownfield, 1729. [Law] FIRST EDITION. Folio (39 x 28cm), pp.[34] 351 [3]. Printed with very generous margins, and the original Latin or Greek of the Laws discussed on the right-hand side of the commentary. Recently re-bound in brown speckled half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles..... More
Austin Dobson: An Anthology of Prose & Verse.
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1922. [Miscellany] FINELY BOUND FIRST THUS. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] xxii; 174 [6]. With a half-tone photographic portrait of the author, and a facsimile reproduction of his bookplate. Contemporary blue half morocco by RAMAGE of London, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to..... More