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Parry and Co. London. 1852. FIRST EDITION. 3 volumes. 8vo. (7.2 x 4.4 inches). Title,299; Title,318; Title,312pp. Library stamps of South African Public Library on first and last pages of text. Previous librarians note "Title entry" in red ink to the title page of volume one. A few creases to..... More
George Allen. London. 1894. FIRST HUGH THOMSON EDITION. 8vo. (8 x 5.6 inches). Fully illustrated throughout with 101 fine engravings by Thomson. A bright, clean copy finely bound in recent full purple morocco, spine with five raised bands, the compartments ruled, lettered and decorated with gilt. Single ruled gilt border..... More
George Allen. London. 1898. FIRST HAMMOND EDITION. 8vo (7.4 x 5.1 inches). Fully illustrated with 86 beautiful line engravings throughout. Finely bound in recent full tan morocco. Spine with five raised bands. Red title label ruled and lettered in gilt. Compartments ruled and decorated with centre tools in gilt. Gilt..... More
Sidgwick and Jackson, Ltd. London. 1911, 1911. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Pages are remarkably crisp, clean and fine throughout. Publishers binding variant A of dark green cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine. Blind ruling to the spine and front board. The cloth on the spine has mottled and has lighter..... More
Gibbings and Company. London. 1906. Large 8vo. (10.3 x 6.8 inches). Illustrated with decorative title page, full colour frontis, each page of the verse text within decorative borders printed in green and and 4 fine full colour plates by Brangwyn. A clean and tight copy with lovely wide margins, in..... More
Hutchinson. London. 1984. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Signed by Burgess on the title page. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper with colour illustrations by Alastair Taylor. More
Cassell. London. 1961. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. 8vo. (8.8 x 5.8 inches). Illustrated with 6 maps & 31 fascinating mono photographs taken during the war. Fine copy in recent fine leather binding of full red morocco, spine with five raised bands, gilt. Single gilt ruled border to boards. Top edge gilt..... More
McClelland & Stewart. Ltd. Toronto, Canada. 1956-58. LIMITED EDITION SET. Four volumes. First Canadian Editions. 8vo. --- Each volume one of 350 presentation copies signed by the Publisher, John McClelland, on a bound in sheet at the start of each volume and presented to the same recipient, who worked at..... More
Cassell and Company Ltd. London. 1956-58. FIRST EDITIONS. Four Volumes. Complete. 8vo. (9.8 x 6.4 inches). Finely bound in recent full red morocco. Spines with raised bands, the compartments ruled lettered and decorated with Rampant lion device, all in gilt. Single gilt ruled border on boards. All edges gilt. A...... More
George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. London.,1933-38. FIRST EDITIONS. FOUR VOLUMES. Each volume with maps, plans, facsimiles and portraits. Volume one has a small stain along the very edge of the page for the first 286pp of the book, at its worst marking in about 2 milimetres onto the page..... More
Cassell & Co. ltd. London. 1948-54. FIRST EDITION. Six 8vo volumes. Illustrated throughout with maps and plans, many folding. Some minor spotting to the first 3 pages of the first volume otherwise a fine, clean set, finely bound in recent full red morocco leather, spines with raised bands, gilt. Spine..... More
Baynard Press. London. 1940. FIRST EDITION. Printed stapled wraps. 16pp. A very good copy, with a neat ink stamp; Council of the County of Aberdeen, Education Committee - to the top of the front cover and a few small light marks to the wraps, otherwise this is a nice clean..... More
Cassell and Company Ltd.London.,1925. FIRST EDITION. TWO VOLS. Large 8vo. (29 cms x 23 cms). Mono plates throughout. Publisher blue cloth, gilt. Both volumes have a small indent to top of front board. Near fine, bright copies in the original dustwrappers. Both wrappers have loss to top of spines and..... More
Chapman & Hall. London.,1870. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (9 x 6 inches). Bound from the original monthly parts, published between April and September 1870. Publishers original blue-green printed wrappers and most of the adverts are bound in. Illustrated with a portrait frontis, which has one small chip to the outer edge..... More
Eyre and Spottiswoode and William Clowes. London. Circa 1870's. 48mo. (3.6 x 2.5 inches). Embroidered Dos a dos binding with floral design to both boards in silk and coloured threads. Spines with simple white floral designs. White silk endpapers. All edges gilt. Boards a bit bowed and some wear to..... More
Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. New York. 1934. REPRINT DULAC EDITION. Large 8vo. (9.6 x 7.4 inches). Finely illustrated with 12 fine full page coloured plates by Edmund Dulac. A fine and clean copy, finely bound, for Asprey of London, in full dark blue morocco leather. Spine with five raised..... More
John Rylands Library. Manchester. UK. 1993 - 1997. THREE VOLUMES. Bound for presentation to Churchill's Daughter Mary Soames. ----- FIRST EDITION of first and third work, second edition of second work. 4to and 8vo. Programme for the Churchill: What the papers say exhibition of 1997, and prospectus for the Rylands..... More
W. Mitchell & co. London. 1875. First Edition. 8vo.(9.7 x 6.2 inches). iv, 43pp. 8 folding maps, plans and charts at the rear, some colour printed and finished by hand. Complete. In the original publishers brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to the front board. New plain cloth spine. Brown..... More
Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 1923. FIRST EDITION. 1st printing. Octavo. (8.3 x 5.8 inches). Illustrated with 12 full page mono plates by the author. A bright and clean copy finely bound in recent full black morocco leather. Spine with five raised bands, the compartments ruled and lettered in gilt..... More
Jonathan Cape. London. 1964. FIRST U. K EDITION. 8vo. Fine copy in a near fine, price clipped full colour dustwrapper. Publishers beige patterned endpapers. Top edge stained yellow. Wrapper designed by Hans Tisdall. More
Wm. Wilson, No. 6 Dame Street, the corner of Palace Street, Dublin. 1780 - 81. DUBLIN PIRATED EDITION. Three volumes. 8vo. (8.8 x 5.4 inches). Vol.1. Cancel title page (1780), contents leaf, advert leaf, (dated 15th march 1779), 3-536pp. --- Vol 2.. Cancel title page (1781), contents leaf, 1-496,(p496 incorrectly..... More
Oxford University Press. 1948. NEW EDITION. 8vo. (7.5 x 5.3 inches). Eight full page colour plates, and several line drawings in the text, by A. E. Jackson. A fine clean copy. Finely bound in mid twentieth century half red morocco leather binding. Spine with five raised bands. Compartments lettered in..... More
R. Moncrieffe. Dublin. 1774. THREE VOLUMES. Third edition, corrected. 8vo. (8.5 x 5.4 inches). Contemporary full tan calf. The spines with five raised bands. Compartments with double gilt ruled lines and gilt stamped centre decorations. Red and green labels ruled and lettered in gilt. Top of one and the bottom..... More
Bickers & Son. London.,1907. Reprint of edition that was originally published in 1880. 8vo. Illustrated with twelve full page mono plates. A very good copy in a lovely early fine leather binding by Bickers & Son. Full dark blue calf. Spine with raised bands, each with gilt piping. Compartments double..... More
Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans. London. 1841 - 2. FIRST EDITION. 3 vols. Illustrated throughout each volume with frontis and vignette wood engravings by the Author. Sadleir writes in his bibliography of 19th Century fiction that Taffrail, the writer of sea stories, informed him that Marryat himself drew the..... More