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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
The Winchester Edition of the Novels [Works] of Jane Austen. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Emma, Lady Susan and The Watsons.
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1911-1912. [English Literature] COMPLETE LEATHER-BOUND WINCHESTER EDITION. Twelve volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 34cm). With a portrait frontispiece to first volume, and title pages printed in red and black with a vignette 'JA' monogram. Recently bound in tan half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to..... More
The Winchester Edition of the Novels [Works] of Jane Austen. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Emma, Lady Susan and The Watsons.
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1911-1912. [English Literature] COMPLETE LEATHER-BOUND WINCHESTER EDITION. Twelve volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 34cm). With a portrait frontispiece to first volume, and title pages printed in red and black with a vignette 'JA' monogram. Elegantly bound in navy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and..... More
The Winchester Edition of the Novels [Works] of Jane Austen. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Emma, Lady Susan and The Watsons.
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1911-1912. [English Literature] COMPLETE WINCHESTER EDITION. Twelve volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 34cm). With a portrait frontispiece to first volume, and title pages printed in red and black with a vignette 'JA' monogram. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spines. Top edges gilt..... More
Jane Austen's Sanditon: A Continuation by her Niece, Together With "Reminisces of Aunt Jane."
Chicago: The Chiron Press, 1983. [Literature] FIRST EDITION, limited to 500 copies of which this is number 198. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.lii [4] 183 [3]. With four black and white illustrations, including a frontispiece. White quarter leatherette, blue paper over boards. Typographic paper label to spine. With the typographic..... More
Avedon: Photographs 1947-1977.
New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. [Fashion Photography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (37 x 28cm), unpaginated, with 162 black and white photographs. SIGNED and dated in the year of publication by the photographer in black ink to title page. Publisher's glossy photographic paper-covered boards. With the original clear..... More
The Islanders: An Introduction.
London: Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art and Koenig Books, 2010. [Art and Philosophy Exhibition Catalogue] SECOND EDITION. Quarto (32 x 23cm), pp.164. With a mixture of colour and black and white illustrations. Publisher's grey leatherette over boards, with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. Maps to endpapers..... More
Onomatopoeia: The Port.
London: Koenig Books, 2010. [Art and Philosophy Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 23cm), pp.79 [1]. Illustrated in black and white throughout. Publisher's brown paper over boards, with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. Spine sunned, with some light wear to boards. Very good. An early publication..... More
War Storm.
London: Orion, 2018. [Young Adult Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 662 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to preliminary leaf. Publisher's navy cloth with metallic blue titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Sarah Nichole Kaufman, priced at £12.99. 'Signed by the Author'..... More
Practical Observations on the Nature and Treatment of Marasmus, and of those Disorders allied to it, which may be strictly denominated Bilious.
London: Printed for Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1818. First Edition. Small 4to; pp. x, (2), 256. Publisher's blue paper covered boards, a little stained and rubbed; grey paper spine chipped and frayed; original paper title label chipped and rubbed; edges untrimmed. Internally sound and clean. A very good copy of..... More
The Life and Times of Richard the First, Surnamed Coeur-de-Lion, King of England.
London: Printed for Thomas Tegg, 1840. [English history] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (15 x 10cm), pp.xvi; 366. With an engraved, tissue-guarded frontispiece. Contemporary red half morocco, borders gilt-ruled, nonpareil marbled paper over boards. Gilt titles, gilt tooling, and raised bands to spine. Nonpareil marbled endpapers, matching marbled edges. Offsetting..... More
Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1870. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, a later edition. Quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.[12]; 268. With frequent wood engraved vignettes by the Patons. Contemporary green full morocco by R. and A. SUTTABY of London, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and gilt..... More
The Wind in the Wood.
London: Hollis and Carter, 1952. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[10]; 143; [1]. With twelve chromolithographic plates including a frontispiece by the author, and wood engraved vignettes to chapter headings. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine and upper board, illustrated dust-jacket priced at 18s. net..... More
For Your Eyes Only: The James Bond Dossier. Official Film Poster Magazine.
London: Phoenix Publications Ltd., 1981. [Film Poster] ORIGINAL POSTER-MAGAZINE. Folded, approx. 30 x 21cm; open 84 x 60cm. US 'one sheet' format, with articles on the film, books, author, and producers to reverse, priced at 75p. Very light wear to folds. Fine. More
For Your Eyes Only. Official Souvenir Brochure.
London: Phoenix Publications Ltd., 1981. [Film promotion] Magazine format (30 x 20cm), pp.[16]. Introduced by Roger Moore, with a brief biography of Ian Fleming. Illustrated throughout with colour photographs. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, stapled twice. Some minor handling; very good. Published to accompany the hit James Bond film based on..... More
Bacon's Essays and Colours of Good and Evil, with Notes and Glossarial Index by W. Aldis Wright, M.A.
Cambridge and London: Macmillan and Co., 1865. [Philosophy] FINELY BOUND, the third edition thus. Small octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.[2] xxxii; 388 [2]. In a later binding of brown full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and gilt and blind decoration to boards, dated August 1930 in pencil..... More
Head Kid.
London: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2018. [Children's Humour] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 14cm), pp.[2] 384. SIGNED by the author in black ink to preliminary signature leaf. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Blue patterned endpapers. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Lenton, priced at £12.99. A fine..... More
Pigsticking, or Hog-Hunting. A Complete Account for Sportsmen and others.
London: Harrison and Sons, 1889. FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.211; [1], imprint; [16], advertisements. Bound in publisher's blue-black cloth, titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board, sepia floral endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Illustrated throughout by the author, depicting the techniques and tribulations..... More