"Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon. "
— Bertolt Brecht

London: Fisher, Son and Co., no date [1843]. [Literature] ILLUSTRATED Three volumes, octavo (21 x 14 x 8cm). Brown half calf over brown cloth sides, gilt titles on darker brown calf squares to spine. Each volume with an engraved frontispiece and half title page plus another twenty-five plates spread between..... More
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
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
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
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1833. [English Literature] FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION of the novels, also the first single volume edition of each title. Small octavo (16 x 11 x 15cm), two illustrations per volume being an engraved frontispiece and vignette title. With printed series title to each volume, bound without..... More
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 re-bound in tan half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to..... More
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 re-bound in navy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and..... More
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
London: Richard Priestley, 1822. FINELY BOUND. Quarto (32 x 26 x 28cm). Bound in contemporary diced tan calf, gilt titles on black calf squares to spine, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece engraving of Bishop Patrick to volume I, folding map of the Holy Lands in volume V. Bookplate of..... More
London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1893. [Romantic fiction] FINELY BOUND. Three volume edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[18] 343 [3]; pp.[10] 361 [3]; pp.[8] 358 [2]. Green half calf, blue and gilt flowered paper over boards and endpapers, gilt titles and decorations to spine, gilt ruling to boards, top..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1929. [Short Stories] FIRST THUS. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[10] 745 [3]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Toning to textblock edges, pencil ownership inscription, light spotting to preliminaries, else internally clean. Wearing to edges, more so spine and board corners, shaken in binding, light..... More
London: Souvenir Press (Educational & Academic) Ltd, 1973. [Latin American literature] FIRST BRITISH EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.144. Publisher's grey cloth with black titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Peter Vos, price-clipped, re-priced with a label to £5.95. Minor toning to textblock top edge, otherwise internally clean and crisp..... More
London: The London Printing and Publishing Company, no date [circa 1850's]. [Christian Spirituality] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (28 x 20cm), pp.[6] 670 [4]; pp.[6] 1300 [2] cxxxvi [4]. With 31 steel-engraved plates, each with a tissue guard, including a frontispiece to each volume and a...... More
San Francisco: Johnck and Seeger, 1930. [Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[10]; 64; [6]. Publisher's blue quarter cloth, grey paper over boards, blue titles to upper. Untrimmed pages. Photogravure frontispiece of Burton by illustrator. Inscribed by author in black ink to frontispiece. Minor spotting throughout, sunning to..... More
London: John Murray, 1866. [Romantic Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[16] 827 [3]. Finely bound by HAYDAY in full black morocco, gilt titles and decorations to spine, gilt panelled decoration to boards, raised bands, all edges gilt, gilt dentelle turn ins over plain endpapers. With an engraved frontispiece..... More
London: Cassell and Company, 1932. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 19cm), pp.[xvi]; 193; [3]. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine and upper, decoration to upper, top edge tinted black. Illustrations throughout. Occasional spotting to textblock edge, a neat ownership inscription to front endpaper in black ink..... More
London: Cassell and Co., 1948-1954. [Military history] LEATHER BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Complete in six volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 27cm), pp.xv; 640; pp.xvii; 684; pp.x; 818; pp.xviii; 917; pp.xviii; 673; pp.xviii; 716. With numerous maps and plans, some folding. Elegantly bound in deep red half crushed morocco, with raised..... More
London: Cassell and Co., 1948-1954. [Military history] LEATHER BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Complete in six volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 27cm), pp.xv; 640; pp.xvii; 684; pp.x; 818; pp.xviii; 917; pp.xviii; 673; pp.xviii; 716. With numerous maps and plans, some folding. Elegantly bound in red half morocco, with gilt lion tooling..... More
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1923-31. [Military history] SMARTLY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS, a complete set. Six volumes. Octavo (24 x 16 x 29cm), pp.[8]; 536; pp.557; [3]; pp.292; pp.x; 293-589; [1]; pp.474; [2]; pp.368. With errata slips, illustrated with black and white plates and folding maps. Bound in navy half morocco with..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., 1908. [Military] FINE PRIZE BINDING, new and revised edition. Three volumes uniformly bound. Octavo (22 x 14 x 10cm), pp.[2]; xxxviii; 314; [2], pp.[2]; vi; 415; [3], pp.[2]; vi; 348; [2]. Red full calf with gilt tooling to boards and spines, lettered in..... More
London: Trübner and Co., 1873. [Military] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Three volumes in one. Quarto (22 x 18), pp.xx; 164, pp.iv; 210, pp.iv; 182. Portrait frontispiece, a few small illustrations within the text. Bound in full navy blue crushed morocco, titled in gilt to spine, marbled endpapers, gilt-tooled dentelle to turn-ins..... More
New York, NY: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1920. [Literature] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Complete in 24 volumes. Octavo (22 x 16cm). Frontispiece photogravure to volume one, vignette 'Sundial' illustration to title page of each volume, which features text printed in two colours. Handsomely bound in half dark blue oasis morocco with..... More
New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, no date [circa 1895]. [American Literature] FINELY BOUND COMPLETE SET. 32 volumes, ctavo (22 x 15 x 96cm). Printed by the Knickerbocker Press. Each volume with a photogravure frontispiece reproducing illustrations by F.T. Richards. Contemporary tan half calf with gilt titles to contrasting red..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1900-1901. [Literature] ALL FIRST BROCK-ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS. 5 volumes, octavo (19 x 13 x 19cm). Abundantly illustrated with line drawing black and white full page plates. Finely bound in mid-green half calf with raised bands, gilt decoration, twin red title labels to spines; cloth boards; top edges..... More
London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, and The Bodley Head, 1893-1896. [Poetry] VOLUME ONE IS A LIMITED EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (19 x 12 cm), pp.[8] 104 [4]; pp.[8] 102 [16], publisher's advertisements. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt titles to spines, gilt titles and decoration to upper of volume two..... More