Collected Works & Sets
Four James Bond anthologies. Dr. No; The Man with the Golden Gun; Licence Renewed; Win, Lose or Die; Nobody Lives For Ever.
Sundial Publications for St. Michael; The Reader's Digest Association Ltd; Guild Publishing, 1966-89. 4 separately published works, octavo. Original boards in a number of colours. With dust jackets. A very good set indeed in like dust jackets. First editions, first impressions, of four anthology titles containing some of Fleming's original..... More
Three US Bond Omnibuses. [Gilt-Edged Bonds; More Gilt-Edged Bonds; Bonded Fleming].
The Macmillan Company; The Viking Press, 1961 & 1965. Together three works, large octavo. Gilt-Edged Bonds: Original original black blue-cloth-backed boards, spine and cover lettered in silver. With dust jacket. More Gilt-Edged Bonds: Original black cloth, spine stamped in gilt, top edge red. With dust jacket. Bonded Fleming: Original black-cloth-backed..... More
Zero Minus Ten. Tomorrow Never Dies. The Facts of Death. High Time to Kill. The World Is Not Enough. Doubleshot. Never Dream of Dying. The Man With The Red Tattoo. Die Another Day (Complete James Bond novels).
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1997-2002. [Spy novels] FIRST EDITIONS. A COMPLETE SET of the entire series of Raymond Benson's James Bond novels. Nine volumes, octavos, approx 24 x 24 x 16cm. Publisher's hardcover cloth in illustrated dust-jackets. Housed in an archival fleece-lined slipcase. No inscriptions or price clipping. All volumes..... More
First US editions of the James Bond continuation novels. License Renewed; For Special Services; Icebreaker; Role of Honor; Nobody Lives For Ever; No Deals, Mr. Bond; Scorpius; Win, Lose or Die; Brokenclaw; The Man from Barbarossa; Death is Forever; Never Send Flowers; SeaFire; Cold Fall.
Richard Marek Publishers; Coward McCann & Geoghegan; G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1981-1996. 14 works, octavo. Original paper-backed boards, spines lettered in gilt, silver and metallic colours, coloured endpapers. With dust jackets. A very good set, front free endpaper removed from one work, Death Is Forever, in like dust jackets. First..... More
The James Bond Collection. Licence Renewed; For Special Services; Icebreaker; Role of Honour; Nobody Lives For Ever.
London: Swordfish, an imprint of Orion Publishing Group, 2011. [Spy novels] LIMITED BOX SET. Quality hardback re-issues of the first Jonathan Cape editions (1981-6) featuring the same dust-jacket artwork. FIRST EDITIONS thus, with a full strike-line number sequence. Octavo, five volumes in publisher's illustrated red card slip-case, showing the original..... More
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1782-88. [Late Antiquity] COMPLETE QUARTO EDITIONS. First volume 'New Edition', vols II-III 'Second Edition', final three volumes are First Editions. Complete in six volumes. Quarto (29 x 23 x 31cm), pp.xx; 704; pp.[12] 640; pp.[12] 640; pp.[4] xvi; 620; pp.[12] 684; pp.[14]..... More
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1788-1789. [Late Antiquity] COMPLETE QUARTO EDITIONS. First three volumes 'New Edition', final three volumes are First Editions. Complete in six volumes. Quarto (29 x 23 x 31cm), pp.[4] xx; 704; pp.[14] 640 [2]; pp.[14] 640 [2]; pp.[6] xvi; 620 [2]; pp.[14] 684..... More
Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire. With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, Composed by Himself: Illustrated From His Letters, With Occasional Notes and Narrative by John Lord Sheffield. A New Edition, with Considerable Additions.
London: John Murray, 1814. [Literature] LEATHER-BOUND SET. Octavo (23 x 14 x 18cm). Complete in five volumes. With a frontispiece portrait and other engraved illustrated plates. Contemporary binding of deep purple/dark brown full morocco. Spines gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, gilt border to boards, and coated yellow endpapers..... More
Remarks on Forest Scenery, and Other Woodland Views. By the Late William Gilpin, A.M. Edited by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Bart.
Edinburgh: Fraser and Co. North Bridge, 1834. [Nature] ATTRACTIVE LEATHER-BOUND SET. Two volumes. Octavos (20 x 13cm), pp.viii; 368; pp.[2]; 344. With numerous tissue-guarded engraved plates and a non tissue-guarded frontispiece to either volume. Recently re-bound in brown half-calf, nonpareil marbled paper over boards. Gilt titles, blind decoration, and raised..... More
The Works of H. R. Haggard. [Consisting of] Pearl-maiden, Cleopatra, Allan Quartermain, Marie, Nada the Lily, Margaret, Elissa, Black Heart and White Heart, Child of Storm, The Spirit of Bambatse, She, Morning Star, Eric Brighteyes, Montezuma's Daughter, Lysbeth, The People of the Mist, The Wanderer's Necklace, Heart of the World, Jess, Swallow, [and] King Solomon's Mines.
New York, NY: McKinlay, Stone and Mackenzie, no date [circa 1900]. [Literature] Authorised Edition. 20 volumes; octavo. With frontispiece illustrations, title pages printed in two colours. Elegantly bound in recent burgundy half morocco with matching cloth sides, gilt titles and decoration to spines, top edges gilt. Contents clean with no..... More
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. Containing the Antient [Ancient] and Present State of it, Civil and Ecclesiastical; Collected from public Records, and other the best Authorities, both Manuscript and Printed: and Illustrated with Maps, and Views of Antiquities, Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, etc.
Canterbury: Printed for the Author, by Simmons and Kirkby, 1778-1799. [Kentish history] FIRST EDITION. In four volumes. Folio (41 x 26cm), pp.[4]; xii; clii; 580; 42; [2]; pp.[4]; 817; [1]; 72; pp.[4]; ii; 765; [1]; 51; [3]; pp.vi; 788; 46; [2]. Complete with all 167 copper engraved illustrations, including county..... More
O. Henry Authorised Edition. [Complete Works of O. Henry].
New York, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co. for Review of Reviews Co., 1913. COMPLETE WORKS. 12 volumes. Octavo (19 x 14cm). With a frontispiece to each volume. Publisher's red leatherette with gilt titles to spines and gilt monograms to upper boards, brown monogrammed endpapers, top edges gilt. Some volumes with..... More
The Works of W.H. Hudson. [incomplete set].
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1922-1923. [Natural History] FINELY BOUND COLLECTION. 19 of 24 volumes. Octavo (23 x 16 x 69cm). One of just 850 sets thus. In contemporary navy half crushed morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, and matching cloth over boards. Top edges gilt..... More
The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen. Copyright Edition.
London: William Heinemann, 1906-1910. [Literature] FINELY BOUND BY ZAEHNSDORF. Eleven volumes, octavo (19 x 14 x 37cm). Beautifully bound by Zaehnsdorf in contemporary deep blue half morocco over marbled boards, gilt and leather onlays to spines. Top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Internally fine. Binding lightly handled. A sumptuous presentation of..... More
The Naval History of Great Britain, from the Declaration of War by France, in February 1793, to the Accession of George IV, in January 1820. A New Edition, with considerable Additions and Improvements, including Diagrams of all principal Actions.
London: Harding, Lepard, and Co., 1826. [History] New Edition. Six volumes, all folding tables present. Octavos (23 x 14 x 25cm) pp.L; [2]; 568, pp.vi; [2]; 568, pp.[2]; vi; [2]; 533; [5], pp.[2]; v; [3]; 539; [3], pp.[2]; vi; [2]; 581; [5], pp.[2]; vi; [2]; 740; [4]. Bound in half..... More
The Works of Samuel Johnson.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Coöperative Society, no date [circa 1900]. [Collected Works] THE NEW CAMBRIDGE EDITION. Complete in 16 volumes, bound as eight. Octavo (23 x 16cm). Each volume with a black and white frontispiece and two further illustrated plates. Number 150 of 500 sets thus, SIGNED by the New York..... More
Everything's Eventual. 14 Dark Tales.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2002. [Short stories] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[16]; 416. Publisher's red cloth, black titles to spine, black endpapers, dust-jacket with printed price £17.99. Toning to textblock, else internally clean. Bumping to upper board corners, minor rolling to spine, light creasing to dust-jacket edges..... More
The Jungle Book; The Second Jungle Book; Just So Stories; Rewards and Fairies.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1924; 1926; 1926; 1924. [Literature] VINTAGE EDITIONS, pocket editions rare in dust-jackets. Four Volumes uniformly bound. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[4]; vi; [2]; 276, pp.[8]; 299; [1], pp.[8]; 219; [1], pp.[4]; xii; 338; [2]. Limp red leather binding with gilt tooling to fronts and spines, gilt..... More
The Bombay Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling. [Set of writings / novels / poems including: The Jungle Book, Kim, Wee Willie Winkie, Just So Stories, Captain Courageous, Rewards and Fairies, Stalky and Co, Puck of Pook's Hill, Rewards and Fairies, etc.]
London: Macmillan and Company, 1913-1938. LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED by the author in volume I to half title. Complete in 31 volumes; large octavo (25 x 132cm). Finely bound in deep red half morocco, raised bands and gilt rules to spines, matching cloth sides, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Printed from..... More
[The Millennium series:] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; The Girl Who Played with Fire; The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest; The Girl in the Spider's Web; The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye; The Girl Who Lived Twice [together with] My Friend Stieg Larsson.
London: MacLehose, 2008-2019. [Crime novel series] FIRST UK EDITIONS, Larsson's trilogy originally published by Norstedts Förlag in the Swedish language (2005-7), Lagercrantz titles are all UK SIGNED limited editions by Goldsboro. 7 volumes, octavo. Publisher's hardcovers of various colours, with photographic dust-jackets. No inscriptions, contents clean. Showing a little minor..... More
[Smiley vs Karla trilogy] Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, [together with]; The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1974, 1977, 1980 [November 1979]. [Espionage thriller] ALL FIRST EDITIONS. Three volumes complete, uniform octavos (22 x 14 x 11cm). Publisher's blue and black hardcovers lettered in gilt, purple topstain to first volume, peach-coloured endpapers to first volume, Hong Kong/China map endpapers to second volume (the..... More
A History of England in the Eighteenth Century. Cabinet Edition.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899-1901. [British History] FINELY BOUND SET, the Cabinet Edition, new impressions. Complete in seven volumes. Octavo (18 x 13 x 23cm). In contemporary green half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, and lighter green cloth over boards. Top edges gilt, and..... More
A Christmas Book. An Anthology for Moderns.
London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1928. [Christmas stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xix; 320 [2]. With in-text illustrations and music transcriptions by A.C. Harradine, as well as a colour frontispiece. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Top edge tinted red. With the dust-jacket illustrated..... More
The Great Profundo and Other Stories.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1987. [Short stories]. DEDICATION COPY. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.143;[1]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Dedication to author's daughter Ciara, inscription reads: 'with love, Next year will be better, Dad, 21. Oct. 87.' Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With..... More
The Works [authorised by The Morris estate]. The House of the Wolfings; Architecture, Industry and Wealth; The Volsunga Saga; Three Northern Love Stories; Homer's Odyssey; The Aeneids of Virgil; Grettir the Strong; Hopes and Fears for Art; Signs of Change; The Roots of the Mountians.
London: [Kelmscott] Chiswick Press For The Trustees of The Late William Morris, by Longmans Green and Co., 1901. [Literature/Essays] LIMITED EDITION, finely printed in two colours in the Golden Type of Kelmscott Press. Eight volumes. Quarto (29 x 21cm), bound in publisher's blue linen-backed boards, printed paper title labels to..... More