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Collected Works & Sets
The Works of William Shakespeare, Edited, with a Scrupulous Revision of the Text, by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke.
London: Bickers & Son [etc.], 1869. [Dramatic Works] FINELY BOUND SET. Complete in four volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] liv; 725 [3]; pp.[8] 730 [2]; pp.[8] 700 [2]; pp.[8] 751 [3]. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the Bard to volume I. Contemporary tan full polished calf by BICKERS..... More
The Leopold Shakespeare. The Poet's Works in Chronological Order, from the text of Professor Delius, with "The Two Noble Kinsmen" and "Edward III.," and an Introduction by F.J. Furnivall.
London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin & Co., no date [circa 1880s]. [Shakespeare's Works] FINELY BOUND, with illustrations. The thirty-second thousand. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[4] cxxviii; 1056 [2]. With a frontispiece etching of the Bard, and frequent in-text wood engravings. Contemporary tan full calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to..... More
The Works of Shakespeare. The Larger Temple Shakespeare.
London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1910-1921. [Shakespeare] FINELY BOUND SET, later impressions thus. Complete in twelve volumes. Octavo (19 x 14 x 48cm). With a colour portrait frontispiece of the Bard to volume I, and occasional black and white plates and in-text wood engravings throughout by various artists. In contemporary..... More
![Item #57101 [Bell's Shakespeare]. [Romeo and Juliet; All's Well that Ends Well; The Winter's...](https://harringtonbooks-co-uk.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/57101.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593449275)
[Bell's Shakespeare]. [Romeo and Juliet; All's Well that Ends Well; The Winter's Tale; Love's Labour's Lost; Tempest; Titus Andronicus; As You Like It; Measure for Measure; Antony and Cleopatra; Midsummer-Night's Dream; King Lear; Othello; Cymbeline; Much Ado about Nothing; Julius Caesar; Comedy of Errors; Timon of Athens; King John; Merry Wives of Windsor; Richard II; Richard III; King Henry VIII; Hamlet; Taming of the Shrew; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Twelfth-Night, or, What You Will; Troilus and Cressida; Macbeth; Coriolanus; Henry V; Henry IV, parts I and II; Henry VI, parts I, II and III; Names of the Original Actors in the Plays of Shakspeare, by Will. Shakspeare: Printed complete from the Text of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Steevens, and revised from the last Editions.
London: John Bell [and] John Cawthorn, 1784-1807. [Shakespeare] JOHN BELL EDITION, later printings, mixed issue. 36 of 38 volumes. Duodecimo in half-sheets (16 x 10cm). Most volumes dated 1788 or 1803, with just a few intersectional exceptions. All volumes with two engraved title pages of varying dates ranging from 1784..... More
![Item #60148 The Library Shakspeare [Shakespeare]. William SHAKESPEARE](https://harringtonbooks-co-uk.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/60148.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1631377046)
The Library Shakspeare [Shakespeare].
London: William Mackenzie, no date [1873-75]. [Dramatic Works] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Complete in three volumes. Quarto (32 x 27cm), pp.[6] 396 [2]; pp.[6] 406 [2]; pp.[6] 476 [2]. With a full-page engraved plate for each play, nine very fine coloured plates, including a frontispiece to each volume, and very..... More
Tales of Science and Sorcery.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1964. [Cosmic Horror] FIRST EDITION, limited printing. One of 2500 copies. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[6]; 256; [2]. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, grey endpapers, illustrated dust-jacket by Frank Utpatel. Previous ownership bookplate to pastedown, light spotting to top edge of textblock..... More
![Item #61767 A Series of Unfortunate Events [Complete]. The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room, The...](https://harringtonbooks-co-uk.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/61767.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1657211460)
A Series of Unfortunate Events [Complete]. The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room, The Wide Window, The Miserable Mill, The Austere Academy, The Ersatz Elevator, The Vile Village, The Hostile Hospital, The Carnivorous Carnival, The Slippery Slope, The Grim Grotto, The Penultimate Peril, The End, and The Unauthorized Autobiography.
London: Egmont, 2001 to 2006. [Children's Fantasy] COMPLETE UK FIRST EDITIONS. 14 volumes. Octavo (19 x 13 x 28cm). With in-text illustrations by Helquist. Volumes 5, 7, and the autobiography complete with wrap-around bands. Volume 8 with the dust-jacket. All in publisher's colour paper-covered boards illustrated by Helquist. Light wear..... More
The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin, accurately revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-Plates; with Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory, by John Hawkesworth.
London: Printed for C. Bathurst, C. Davis [etc.], 1755. [Literature] FINE CONTEMPORARY BINDING. In six volumes. Quarto (27 x 23 x 28cm), pp.[4]; 44; xviii; 184; [2], viii; 286; [2]; pp.[6]; 232; [4]; 182; [2]; pp.[4]; vi; iv; 192; [6]; 253 [3]; pp.[10]; 318; [2]; ii; 237; [3]; pp.[6]; 258;..... More
![Item #70207 The Tales of Tchehov [Chekhov]: The Darling; The Duel; The Lady with the Dog; The...](https://harringtonbooks-co-uk.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/70207.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1731518224)
The Tales of Tchehov [Chekhov]: The Darling; The Duel; The Lady with the Dog; The Party; The Wife; The Witch; The Bishop; The Chorus Girl; The Schoolmistress; The Horse-Stealers; The Schoolmaster; The Cook's Wedding; Love, and Other Stories; The Cherry Orchard; Three Sisters, and Other Plays; The Wood Demon. From the Russian by Constance Garnett. Introduction by Edward Garnett. St. Martin's Library Edition.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1916-1926. [Russian Literature] LEATHER-BOUND COLLECTION, First Impressions Thus. Complete in 16 volumes. Octavo (16 x 11 x 29cm). Recently re-bound in navy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to burgundy labels on spines, and matching cloth over boards. Top edges gilt, others lightly trimmed. Rubber..... More
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The Tales of Tchehov [Chekhov]: The Darling; The Duel; The Lady with the Dog; The Party; The Wife; The Witch; The Bishop; The Chorus Girl; The Schoolmistress; The Horse-Stealers; The Schoolmaster; The Cook's Wedding; Love, and Other Stories; The Cherry Orchard; Three Sisters, and Other Plays. From the Russian by Constance Garnett. Introduction by Edward Garnett. St. Martin's Library Edition.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1916-1923. [Russian Literature] LEATHER-BOUND COLLECTION, First Impressions Thus. Complete in 15 volumes. Octavo (16 x 11 x 29cm). Recently re-bound in navy half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spines, and matching cloth over boards. Top edges gilt, others lightly trimmed. Crisp, clean copies in..... More
The Death of Oenone, Akbar's Dream, and Other Poems.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1892. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[8] 111 [1]. Publisher's green cloth, with gilt titles to spine. Internally clean, some light bumping to boards corners and spine. Near fine. Poems from a Poet Laureate. More
![Item #39727 Les Romans [The Novels]. Jerome THARAUD, Jean](https://harringtonbooks-co-uk.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/39727.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1614440280)
Les Romans [The Novels]
Paris: Librairie Plon, 1920-1927. 15 volumes; 8vo. Text in French. Superb contemporary binding by Levitsky in half brown morocco with four raised bands, gilt titles and extra gilt to spines, marbled boards and end papers, top edges gilt. A very attractive set. LIMITED EDITIONS, printed on "Hollande Van Gelder" paper..... More
The Writings of Anthony Trollope. Collector's Edition.
Philadelphia, PA: Gebbie and Company, 1900. [Complete Works] FINELY BOUND LIMITED EDITION SET. Complete in 30 volumes. Octavo (22 x 16 x ). Each volume with a frontispiece and three further illustrated plates. Number 5 of just 250 sets thus. Finely bound by HADDON and Co. in black full crushed..... More
The Pic Nic Papers. By Various Hands.
Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1841. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8] 367 [3]. Publisher's blue quarter morocco, with gilt titles to spine and brown cloth over boards. All edges speckled red. With a loosely inserted etching of 'The Pic-nic' at rear. Bound by Birdball and Son..... More
Present-Day Prose.
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1928. [Prose anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 244. Publisher's pink paper wraps, with red titles to spine and covers. Untrimmed edges. Includes prose from sixty-three authors. Heavy toning to spine, and some wear and marks to front cover. Very good. Including pieces by..... More
![Item #62674 [Woburn Books Collection]. A Wedding Morn; Portrait of The Misses Harlowe; The Apple...](https://harringtonbooks-co-uk.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/62674.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1670669059)
[Woburn Books Collection]. A Wedding Morn; Portrait of The Misses Harlowe; The Apple Disdained; The Man who Missed the Bus; The Male Impersonator; Alice and the Lost Novel; Fame; The Goldfish Under the Ice; A Ghost in the Isle of Wight; Triall by Armes.
London: Elkin Mathews and Marrot, 1928-1929. [Collection of Short Stories] SIGNED BY AUTHORS. Ten volumes. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.50 [2]; [2] 26 [2]; 31 [1]; 32; 28 [4]; [2] 27 [3]; 40; [2] 26 [4]; 30 [2]; 30 [2]. Publisher's paper to boards, titles and illustrations in various colours..... More
![Item #70832 The Spy's Bedside Book [three variant copies of the first impression]. An Anthology...](https://harringtonbooks-co-uk.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/70832.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1737394271)
The Spy's Bedside Book [three variant copies of the first impression]. An Anthology edited by Graham Greene and Hugh Greene.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. [Spy Anthology] FIRST EDITION, bibliographer's copies. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 256 [2]. With occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth, green cloth or cream cloth, each lettered in silver to spine, illustrated dust-wrappers priced at 15s. All three without ink inscriptions, jackets lightly worn with a...... More
The Spy's Bedside Book. An Anthology edited by Graham Greene and Hugh Greene.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. [Spy Anthology] FIRST EDITION, second printing. GRAHAM GREENE'S PERSONAL COPY, SIGNED, with additional signed letter of provenance. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 256 [2]. With occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in silver to spine (at least three colours were used), illustrated dust-wrapper. A fine..... More
The Spy's Bedside Book. An Anthology edited by Graham Greene and Hugh Greene.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. [Spy Anthology] FIRST EDITION. SIGNED & INSCRIBED by Hugh Greene to his former boss. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 256 [2]. With occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in silver to spine (at least three colours were used), illustrated dust-wrapper. Presentation note in blue ink..... More
Strayers from Sheol.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1961. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION THUS, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[6]; 186. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrated dust-jacket by Gary Gore with the printed price of $4.00 to front flap. Grey endpapers. Bumping to cloth at front joint, blue..... More
The David Walliams novels. Comprising The Boy In The Dress, Mr. Stink, Billionaire Boy, Gangsta Granny, Ratburger, Demon Dentist, Awful Auntie, Grandpa's Great Escape, The Midnight Gang, Bad Dad, The Ice Monster, The Beast of Buckingham Palace, Code Name Bananas, Gangsta Granny Strikes Again!, and SpaceBoy.
London: Harper Collins, 2008-2022. [Children's humour books] FIRST EDITIONS. Octavos (22 x 14 cm). 15 volumes, SIGNED to title page in The Boy in the Dress. Various illustrators. Publisher's glossy pictorial hardcovers in illustrated dust-jackets. No owner names or inscriptions, very light handling and wear. Jacket rear flap activity cut..... More
A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland; with Lists of their Works. Enlarged and Continued to the Present Time, by Thomas Park.
London: Printed for John Scott, 1806. [Literary Reference] FINELY BOUND SET, a new edition. Complete in five volumes. Octavo (22 x 14 x 19cm). With an engraved frontispiece, and numerous engraved portraits of featured authors to each volume. Very fine contemporary straight-grained panelled green morocco, with extensive tooling in both..... More
Sword of Honour. The Trilogy which includes: Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, and Unconditional Surrender.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1955-62. [Military saga] FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, SIGNED by the author. 3 volumes. Octavo, pp.314, 335, 311. Navy blue cloth hardcovers, titles in gilt to spine, top edges tinted blue, in original jackets designed by Val Biro. In the publisher's pictorial slipcase adverting the set for sale..... More
![Item #66423 'A Game of Bridge At Blades' [Moonraker] in Best Gambling Stories. John WELCOME, Ian...](https://harringtonbooks-co-uk.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/66423.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1701536898)
'A Game of Bridge At Blades' [Moonraker] in Best Gambling Stories.
London: Faber and Faber, 1961. [High stakes anthology]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.215. Publisher's cloth hardcovers in illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 16s. Some minor toning to text block and endpapers, old bookplate fallen away (tiny traces), jacket chipped to crown. A very good copy. Contains the text of..... More
![Item #66648 'A Game of Bridge At Blades' [Moonraker] in Best Gambling Stories. John WELCOME, Ian...](https://harringtonbooks-co-uk.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/66648.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1702314921)
'A Game of Bridge At Blades' [Moonraker] in Best Gambling Stories.
London: Faber and Faber, 1961. [High stakes anthology] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.215. Publisher's cloth hardcovers in illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 16s. Autographed in black ink to front free endpaper. Some spotting to text block else a fine copy in a clean, bright wrapper. Contains the text..... More