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Macmillan and Co, Limited. London. 1902. Reprint. Small 8vo. (6.1 x 4.2 inches). Neatly hand written in ink on the last six blank leaves at the end of the book, is all of Arnold's poem, The buried life, otherwise a fine and clean copy throughout. Finely bound by Riviere in... More about SELECTED POEMS. The Golden Treasury series
Macmillan and Co. London. 1896. FIRST THOMSON EDITION. 8vo. (7.8 x 5.3 inches). 40 full page line illustrations by Thomson. Finely bound in recent full tan morocco, single gilt ruled border on boards. Spine with five raised bands, the compartments ruled and decorated in gilt. Red title label, gilt. Top... More about EMMA. With an introduction by Austin Dobson
Macmillan and co. Ltd. London. 1904. EARLY THOMSON EDITION. 8vo. (7.8 x 5.4 inches). Illustrated with 40 full page line drawings. Publishers original burgundy cloth with decorative blind stamped floral design to both boards, the front board lettered and ruled in gilt. Spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Page edges... More about EMMA. With an introduction by Austin Dobson
George Allen. London. 1894. FIRST THOMSON EDITION. 8vo. (7.5 x 5.2 inches). Beautifully illustrated throughout with 101 fine line engravings by Hugh Thomson. A lovely clean copy in fine early binding, by Relfe Brothers of London, of full dark blue calf. Spine with raised bands, decorated with gilt Greek key... More about PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. With a preface by George Saintsbury
The Condé Nast Publications Ltd in association with Collins. London. 1969. FIRST EDITION. Folio. (14.3 x 11.2 inches). Fully illustrated throughout with mono photos. Ex Vogue Library copy, elaborately inscribed by David Bailey, with doodles and drawings to three pages. On the (purple paper) front free endpaper is a small... More about GOODBYE BABY AND AMEN. A Saraband for the Sixties
New Directions. Norfolk, Connecticut. 1942. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (9 x 6.1 inches). One of only 2000 copies printed. Fine in publishers pale blue boards with black lettering to the front. In the original pale blue dustwrapper with price ($1.00) still intact to inner front flap. Just a hint of fading... More about POEMS
John Lehmann. London. 1950. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8 x 5.3 inches). A fine copy finely bound in recent full dark blue morocco leather. Spine with five raised bands, compartments lettered, ruled and decorated in gilt. Red title label, gilt. Single gilt ruled border to boards. Top edge gilt. A Fine... More about THE SHELTERING SKY
A Fullarton & Co, Edinburgh & London.,Circa 1870's. TWO VOLUMES of Byrons Works with a Life and Illustrative Notes by William Anderson Esq. including 65 steel engravings. Near fine with v. good + contemporary binding, half dark green calf with decorative gilt design, contrasting marbled boards, raised bands with full... More about THE WORKS OF LORD BYRON. With Notes and Illustrations in Two Volumes
Lewis Carroll society of North America.New York.,1977. FIRST EDITION.LIMITED EDITION.Copy number 557 of 750 copies.Contains facsimiles of the Galley-proofs for this section of the book,never published prior to this edition.Facsimile also included of the letter from Tenniel to Dodgson that led to this passage being dropped from the book.Fine copy..... More about THE WASP IN A WIG. A "suppressed" episode of Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice...
Longmans, Green and Co. London. 1900. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.8 x 5.3 inches). Illustrated with four maps, three of them fold out, & four plans in the text. Publishers advert leaf and 32pp catalogue, dated 10.99, at the end of text. A little foxing to the first three pages otherwise... More about LONDON TO LADYSMITH. Via Pretoria
Cassell and Company. London. 1941-61. FIRST EDITIONS. 12 VOLUMES. 8vo. (8.7 x 5.6 inches). Complete set of the war time and the post war speeches. Clean and bright throughout. Finely bound in recent leather bindings of full dark blue morocco. Spines with raised bands. Compartments ruled and decorated with Rampant... More about WAR SPEECHES & POST WAR SPEECHES. Into Battle.; The Unrelenting struggle.; The End of the...
Eyre & Spottiswoode. London.,1933. FIRST CHEAP EDITION. (Actually the second cheap edition. An edition was published in 1915. This is the first printing of Churchill`s new introduction. The book is reprinted from the plates of the 1902 edition. See Woods A2(d).) Illustrated with 22 maps and plans. Some minor foxing... More about THE RIVER WAR. An account of the reconquest of the Soudan
John Lane, The Bodley Head. London.,1905. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.1 inches). Portrait frontis (from a drawing by Rothenstein), photo portrait of Dowson and initial letter, plus four fine full page illustrations by Beardsley, reproduced from the 1899 edition of The Pierrot of the Minute. Two neat previous owners... More about THE POEMS OF ERNEST DOWSON. With a memoir by Arthur Symons. Four illustrations by Aubrey...
Caves Book Co. Taipei Taiwan China. 1964. PIRATED EDITION. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.4 inches). 336pp. No publisher on title page, just the date year printed on the verso and a stuck in paper label of Caves Book Co. on rear blank free endpaper. The title page has the title, author... More about YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
Printed by Henry Hill Limited, for Douglas Cleverdon. Bristol. 1930. LIMITED EDITION. 8vo. (8.2 x 5.2 inches). One of 350 copies, numbered and signed by Powys. Publishers green and white decorative paper covered boards with black buckram spine, lettered in gilt. A fine copy with the original prospectus loosely inserted... More about UNCLE DOTTERY. A Christmas Story. With two wood engravings by Eric Gill
Macmillan & Co, Limited. London.,1911. Edition deluxe, limited to 150 copies. 4to (11.5 x 9.1 inches). Illustrated with 32 full colour plates mounted on brown thick paper, each with a printed tissue guard. Top edge gilt, the others untrimmed. Fine Two-Tone blue leather binding of recent full mid blue morocco... More about STORIES FROM THE PENTAMERONE
Methuen. London.,1937. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR "For Ron & William / Rubein/ James Hanley" on the front free endpaper. Near fine, bright copy internally. Publishers oatmeal cloth with small amount of fraying to top and bottom of spine. Small stain to bottom of spine spreading onto the... More about GREY CHILDREN. A study in Humbug and Misery (in South Wales
Blackie & Son Limited.London.,1902. FIRST EDITION.12 mono illustrations by Wal Paget.Original green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board along with military illustration.Neat ink inscrption dated 1913 facing Preface.Minor rubbing and small split,without loss,to top of spine.Well presented copy.Very good.:. More about AT THE POINT OF BAYONET. A Tale of the Mahratta War
Sceptre Press, Frensham, Surrey. 1970. LIMITED EDITION. (7.9 X 5.2 inches). 12pp. One of 26 copies, lettered and signed by Ted Hughes, from a total edition of just 100 copies (the other 74 numbered but unsigned). A small crease to the bottom corner of the the printed white wraps otherwise... More about A CROW HYMN
Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. New York. No date. circa 1936. Reprint. Large 8vo (8 x 6.2 inches). Colour frontis and dozens of mono illustrations, some full page, throughout. A bright and clean copy in mid twentieth century fine leather binding of half dark blue morocco. Spine with five raised... More about THE TWO JUNGLE BOOKS. With illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling, C.I.E., and W. H. Drake
Printed by Abraham Miller and Roger Daniel for Thomas Underhill.London.,1650. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION.4to.(11.1 x 7.9 inches).Two works in one..xii(including booksellers advert leaf and general title page),272,24pp index and errata.--viii,292,xvipp index and errata.Each work also with its own title page.Three gatherings loose and with page edges sitting proud.Loss to margin,not affecting..... More about CRITICA SACRA. In two parts:The first containing Observations on all the radices,or primitive...
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 about THE HISTORY OF IRELAND. From the Invasion of Henry II. With a preliminary Discourse on the...
Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.London.,1855. FIRST EDITION, THE AUTHORS SCARCE FIRST BOOK. 8vo. Presentation copy from MacDonald to Rev. Charles Kingsley. Inscribed on the title page "The Reverend Charles Kingsley, with much honour from George Macdonald". Original publishers brown morocco-grain cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, boards with thick-and-thin border..... More about WITHIN AND WITHOUT. A Dramatic Poem
macmillan and Co.Limited.London.,1933. FIRST EDITION.8vo.A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper with one small (0.5 inch) closed tear to the top of front panel and small area of loss (0.1 inch) to top of spine.---"There is a sense in which,paradoxical as it may seem,Britain may be in greater danger..... More about RECONSTRUCTION. A plea for a national policy
Heritage Imprints. New York.,1954. Reprint. Originally published in 1938. 8vo. ( 9.4 x 6.3 inches). Fine, clean copy in fine leather binding by Maurin. Full dark blue morocco, spine with five raised bands, each with gilt piping. Compartments ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Double gilt ruled borders on boards... More about THE ROMANCE OF LEONARDO DA VINCI. Translated from the Russian by Bernard Guilbert Guerney and...