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An Art Tour to Northern Capitals of Europe.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1873. [Russian and Scandinavian Museum Tour] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xii; 455 [3]. Contemporary dark brown half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and blind decoration to spine, and lighter brown cloth over boards, with a gilt institutional device to upper..... More
Problem Party.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1945. [Children's fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.214; [2]. Publisher's orange cloth, titles in green to spine, decorated front endpapers, dust-jacket designed by Tresilian with printed price of 8s. 6d. net. In-text illustrations by Tresilian. Spotting and toning to edges, cloth bumped..... More
David Attenborough: Life Stories.
London: Collins, 2009. [Natural History] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.224. Heavily illustrated in colour throughout. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'to Lottie | David Attenborough'. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and light green endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket..... More
Life on Air. Memoirs of a Broadcaster.
London: BBC Books, 2002. [Science and Nature / Television] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.384; with eight suites of photographic plates. Brown hardcovers in photographic jacket with printed price of £18.99 to front flap. A fine, fresh copy. The much-loved naturalist's reflections on a career in broadcasting. More
The Private Life of Plants. A Natural History of Plant Behaviour.
London: BBC Books, 1995. [Animal Behaviour] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.320. Illustrated with colour photographs throughout. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to half-title. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £17.99. A touch of light..... More
The Trials of Life. A Natural History of Animal Behaviour.
London: Collins / BBC Books, 1990. [Animal Behaviour] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.320. Illustrated with colour photographs throughout. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £16.95. A fine, as-new copy. The third in Attenborough's book and TV series..... More
A Living Memory: Hodder and Stoughton Publishers 1868-1975.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1975. [Publishing History] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.287 [1]. With eight double-sided black and white photographic plates. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to fly-leaf: 'for my good friend | A.J. Edgar | in gratitude for | your service, and in |..... More
Histoire des Diables de Loudun, Ou de la Possession des Religieuses Ursulines, Et de la condamnation et du suplice D'Urbain Grandier, Cure de la meme Ville. Cruels effets de la vengeance du Cardinal de Richelieu.
Amsterdam: Aux Depens de la Compagnie, 1740. [Huguenot History] EARLY EDITION. Octavo (16 x 10cm), pp.[8] 378 [4]. With a copper engraved frontispiece. All text in French. Contemporary speckled calf with raised bands, gilt titles and gilt decoration to spine. Marbled endpapers; edges speckled red. Recent repairs to head and..... More
Academic Graffiti.
London: Faber and Faber, 1971. [Illustrated Clerihews] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), unpaginated. 60 poems with an illustration by Sanjust to each facing leaf. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Sanjust, priced at £2.00. Light handling; a fine copy. More
About the House.
London: Faber and Faber, 1966. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, with the errata slip at p.7. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.94 [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green and pink dust-jacket, priced at 15s. South African bookseller's ticket to pastedown. The lightest of offsetting to endpapers. Spine..... More
Making, Knowing and Judging. An Inaugural Lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 11 June 1956.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1956. [Literary Criticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (23 x 15cm), pp.33 [3]. Publisher's plain typographic paper covers, sewn. Sewing broken; covers detached. Quite heavy wear, and a crease, to covers. Good. More
[Minor Works Collection]. Love and Friendship; The Memoir of Jane Austen; Volume the First; Volume the Third; Lady Susan; Sanditon; The Watsons.
1) London: Chatto and Windus; 2-7) Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1922-1951. [Literary Juvenilia and Fragments] MINOR WORKS COLLECTION. Seven volumes. Octavo (19 x 14 x 13cm). All in publisher's cream quarter cloth with light blue paper-covered boards, except 'Love and Friendship', which is in quarter red cloth with gilt..... More
Mansfield Park.
London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1950. [Literature] FIRST THUS. Octavo (19 x 13), pp.v; [1]; 414; [2]. 16 colour halftone plates including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrated dust-jacket designed by Charles E. Brock. Light toning to edges of textblock, rolling to spine, jacket..... More
The Novels and Letters of Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and Letters volumes I and II. The text based on Collation of the Early Editions by R.W. Chapman. With Notes, Indexes, and Illustrations from Contemporary Sources.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1923-1932. [Classic Literature] First Oxford Edition. Large Paper, limited to 1000 sets. Complete in seven volumes. Octavo (24 x 16 x 35cm), pp.[6] xiv; 429 [3]; pp.[2] xiv; 415 [1]; pp.[2] xiv; 567 [1]; pp.[2] xiv; 521 [1]; pp.[2] xiv; 252; 310 [2]. With a...... More
The Novels and Letters of Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and Letters volumes I and II. The text based on Collation of the Early Editions by R.W. Chapman. With Notes, Indexes, and Illustrations from Contemporary Sources.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1923-1932. [Classic Literature] First Oxford Edition. Large Paper, limited to 1000 sets. Complete in seven volumes. Octavo (24 x 16 x 35cm), pp.[6] xiv; 429 [3]; pp.[2] xiv; 415 [1]; pp.[2] xiv; 567 [1]; pp.[2] xiv; 521 [1]; pp.[2] xiv; 252; 310 [2]. With a...... More
The Novels of Jane Austen, in Ten Volumes: Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey and Persuasion; and Emma]. Edited by Reginald Brimley Johnson.
London: J.M. Dent and Company, 1895-97. [Classic Literature] COMPLETE SET, later impressions thus. Ten volumes. Octavo (18 x 12 x 20cm). Each volume with an engraved frontispiece portrait, and two or three other illustrations by William Cubit Cooke, and ornaments by F.C. Tilney. Publisher's light green cloth, with gilt titles..... More
The Vox Edition of the Works of Jane Austen.
London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1933-4. [Classic Literature] FIRST VOX ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13 x 21cm), 7 volumes. With colour plates and in-text black and white illustrations by Maximilien Vox. Prefatory letter, in French by Maximilien Vox and an introduction by Emile Legouis. Publisher's patterned grey cloth..... More
Pride and Prejudice.
London: The Folio Society, 2006. [Classic Literature] FIRST THUS, reset with new illustrations. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[2] xvi; 364 [2]. With seven colour illustrations by Puttiapipat, including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown quarter buckram, with gilt titles to a blue roundel on the spine, and illustrated paper over boards. Maroon..... More
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen. Juvenilia; Northanger Abbey; Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Emma; Persuasion; Later Manuscripts; Jane Austen in Context.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. [Classic Literature] COMPLETE SET, first editions thus. Nine volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 34cm), pp.lxx; 502 [4]; pp.lxvi; 354 [4]; pp.lxx; 500 [6]; pp.lxxii; 540 [2]; pp.lxxxviii; 738 [6]; pp.lxxx; 600; pp.lxxxviii; 392; pp.cxxx; 742; pp.xxx; 467 [7]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles..... More
Emma.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, [no date] c.1945. [Classic Literature] NELSON CLASSICS EDITION. Octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.[4]; 440; [6], publisher's advertisements. Publisher's cream cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrative dust-jacket with printed price of 1/6 to front flap. Top edge green. Some spotting and toning to edges of..... More
Mansfield Park.
London: George Routledge and Sons, no date [circa 1890]. [Classic literature] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 443 [7]. With an engraved frontispiece. Recently re-bound in tan half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to contrasting red and green labels, and further gilt decoration to spine. Marbled paper over..... More
The Novel Library Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility; Persuasion; Northanger Abbey; Mansfield Park; Emma.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1948-1952. [Literature] THE NOVEL LIBRARY EDITIONS. Three Volumes uniformly bound. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.[4] viii; 386; viii; 373 [5]; pp.[4] vi; 254; viii; 235 [5]; pp.[4] viii; 477 [1]; x; 496 [6]. Red half morocco with red cloth over sides, raised bands, gilt tooling and gilt..... More
Persuasion.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, [no date] c.1950. [Literature] NELSON CLASSICS EDITION. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[4]; 229; [1]; 4; [2]. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 4/- to front flap. Top edge green. Previous owner's name and dated in blue ink..... More
Pride and Prejudice.
London and Glasgow: Collins Clear-Type Press, c.1950. [Classic Literature] COLLINS POCKET CLASSICS EDITION. Small octavo (16 x 11cm), pp.[6] 439 [3]. With an engraved frontispiece by Elizabeth Jamieson and pictorial grey endpapers. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and small fountain motif stamped in blind to upper. With..... More
Sense and Sensibility.
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1886. [Literary Classic] Bentley's 'Standard Novels' edition. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.[xvi]; 331; [1], imprint. Engraved frontispiece illustration by Pickering. Publisher's dark brown cloth blind-stamped with heavy foliate border to covers, spine richly gilt with floral and armorial tooling, original price 2/6 gilt to spine..... More