Collected Works & Sets
Traveller's Prelude; Beyond the Euphrates; The Coast of Incense; Dust in the Lion's Paw. [A Complete set of Freya Stark's four-volume Autobiography].
London: John Murray, 1950; 1951; 1953; 1961. [Travel Autobiography] COMPLETE FIRST EDITIONS, First Impressions. Octavo (23 x 15 x 13cm), pp.xii; 346; pp.xiii; 341; pp.xiii; 287; pp.xii; 297. Each with a green sketch-map and numerous black and white photographic plates. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and gilt..... More
Traveller's Prelude; Beyond the Euphrates; The Coast of Incense; Dust in the Lion's Paw. [A Complete set of Freya Stark's four-volume Autobiography].
London: John Murray, 1950; 1951; 1953; 1961. [Travel writing] COMPLETE LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Octavo (23 x 16 x 14cm), pp.xii; 346; pp.xiii; 341; pp.xiii; 287; pp.xii; 297. Recently re-bound in green half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. All edges lightly trimmed. Crisp..... More
Traveller's Prelude; Beyond the Euphrates; The Coast of Incense; Dust in the Lion's Paw. [A Complete set of Freya Stark's four-volume Autobiography].
London: John Murray, 1950; 1951; 1953; 1961. [Travel writing] COMPLETE LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Octavo (23 x 16 x 14cm), pp.xii; 346; pp.xiii; 341; pp.xiii; 287; pp.xii; 297. Recently re-bound in green half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and the original green cloth over boards, with facsimile signatures..... 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
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
The Works of W. Thackeray. Including: Vanity Fair, Pendennis, Barry Lyndon, etc.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1869, 1886. 24 volumes. Octavo. Contemporary dark green half morocco by Riviere, with gilt titles and elaborate gilt decoration to spines in 3 compartments; light green cloth boards with gilt rule; top edges gilt; marbled endpapers. With illustrations by the author. Spines evenly faded to..... More
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 Poetical Works of James Thomson. Comprising all his Pastoral, Dramatic, Lyrical, and Didactic Poems, and a few of his Juvenile Productions. With a Life of the Author by the Rev. Patrick Murdoch, D.D., F.R.S. and Notes by Nichols.
London: William Tegg and Co, 1849. [Poetical works] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.[72] 676 [2]. Nine illustrations including portrait frontispiece. Dark green full calf, gilt titles on red label to spine, with gilt decorations to spine, raised bands, and wide decorative border in gilt and blind..... More
The Writings of Henry David Thoreau.
Boston, MA and New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906. FINELY BOUND. Twenty volumes, octavo (20 x 14 x 61cm). The Walden Edition. Handsomely bound in contemporary dark blue half morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and ornate tooling to spine, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. All volumes illustrated..... 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
The Strand Magazine, volumes I to VI. [The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, etc.]
London: George Newnes, 1891-1893. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Six volumes. Large octavo (24 x 18 x 25cm). Illustrated throughout. Original magazine parts bound in half-yearly volumes. Publisher's cyan cloth with titles in black and gilt to spines, and in black with the 'Strand' street scene to uppers. All edges speckled..... More
The Strand Magazine, volumes I to XII. [The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, etc.]
London: George Newnes, January 1891 to December 1896. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. 12 volumes. Large octavo (25 x 17 x 50cm). Illustrated throughout. Original magazine parts bound in half-yearly volumes. In contemporary green half calf, with gilt titles to red labels, gilt and blind ruling to spines, and matching textured..... 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
[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
The Masque [6 volumes]: The Old Vic King Lear; Designs for the Theatre by Rex Whistler Parts 1 and 2; Oscar Wilde and the Theatre; The Masque of Christmas; Notes on the Verse Drama.
London: The Curtain Press, 1946-1948. [Theatre notebooks] FIRST EDITIONS. Six volumes. Octavos (19 x 12cm), pp.16; pp.20; pp.24; pp.36; pp.40; pp.40. Many colour and halftone illustrations throughout each issue. All with the original paper covers, staple-bound, with ads imprinted to cover interiors. All six books are protected by the pink..... More
[Navarre Society Illustrated Classics]. The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick. Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Sonne Pantagruel, Together with the Pantagrueline Prognostication, the Oracle of the Divine Bacbuc, and response of the bottle, Hereunto are annexed the Navigations unto the Sounding Isle and the Isle of the Apedefts: as likewise the Philosophical cream with a Limosin Epistle. [and] The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. [and] The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, Prince of Adventurers and the most indomitable of Lovers. [and] The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Translated into English from the Authentic Text of M. le Roux de Lincy, with an Essay upon the Heptameron by George Saintsbury, M.A., also the Original Seventy-three full-page Engravings Designed by S. Freudenberg, and One hundred and fifty head and tail pieces by Dunker. [and] The History of Don Quixote of the Mancha Translated from the Spanish of Miguel de Cervantes by Thomas Shelton, reprinted from the First Edition, 1612-1620, with a new preface by F.J. Harvey Darton, and Illustrated with two portraits, eighteen plates and facsimiles of the original engraved titles. [and] The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and The Confession of the New Married Couple.
London: Privately Printed for the Navarre Society, 1921-1923. [Private Press Classics] SIX LIMITED EDITION TITLES, collected in fourteen volumes. Octavo (24 x 16 x 65cm). All text in English. Each volume with various engraved illustrations, title pages printed in two colours. Each set strictly limited and printed on fine laid..... 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
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
'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
'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 f.e.p. Some spotting to text block else a fine copy in a clean, bright wrapper. Contains the text of the..... More
John Welcome. 'Best' anthologies, each with content from Ian Fleming [group]. Comprising Best Motoring Stories, Best Gambling Stories, Best Secret Service Stories 1-3, Best Spy Stories.
London: Faber and Faber, 1959-1967. [Literary anthology series] FIRST EDITIONS, 7 volumes, octavos (21 x 14cm). Publisher's cloth hardcovers in illustrated dust-jackets (one softcover first). Three with discreet ink names, one is price-clipped, two re-priced by the publisher. Some minor nicks/rubs to jackets. Generally a very good, presentable set. Bibliographer..... More
Best Motoring Stories.
London: Faber and Faber, 1959. [Driving anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.215. Publisher's red cloth in illustrated dust-wrapper priced at 15s. Contents clean, no inscriptions. A fine copy in a very good jacket, with one chip to the top edge of the front panel. Shows well. Contains 'James..... More
The Works, In Natural History, of the Late Rev. Gilbert White, A.M. Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. Comprising the Natural History of Selborne; The Naturalist's Calendar; And Miscellaneous Observations, Extracted From His Papers. To Which Are Added, A Calendar and Observations, By W. Markwick, Esq. F.L.S. In Two Volumes.
London: J. White of Fleet Street, 1802. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Octavo, pp. vii; 392; 300. Bound in original brown card boards, spine in green cloth, red title label to spine, blank endpapers. In very good condition, considering age, with general age toning and discolouration to boards and leather, some 'bubbling'..... More
[Lives of the Rakes and Dandies]. Madame de Pompadour, Five Fair Sisters, The Fascinating Duc de Richelieu, A Fair Conspirator, The Women Bonapartes, The Brood of False Lorraine, Rival Sultanas, The Pearl of Princesses, The Hand of Léonore, A Gallant of Lorraine, Unruly Daughters.
London and New York, NY: Harper and Brothers; London: Hutchinson and Co.; London: Methuen and Co., Ltd.; London: Eveleigh Nash Company; London: Hurst and Blackett, Ltd., 1904-1925. [Biography] FINELY BOUND COLLECTION. Eleven titles bound as fourteen volumes, octavo (22 x 15 x 62cm). Finely bound by Fox in red straight..... More