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Printed for F. Style. London.,1739. FIRST, AND ONLY, EDITION. 8vo. Front wrapper, ii,28pp. Lacking the half title but with the rare printed front wrapper (showing the price of Six Pence) laid down and bound in. Text complete. Top edge of pages have been cut and gilded, the others are untrimmed..... More
Macmillan and Co. London. 1897. FIRST HUGH 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. Fore and..... More
The Falcon Press. London. 1946. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. (8.5 x 6.3 inches). Illustrated with six full page plates: mono photo portrait frontis, 2 drawings by Gregorio Prieto and 3 plates by Baudelaire, including 2 self portraits. Illustrated endpapers, with line drawings by Prieto, bound in at front and rear..... More
Ward Lock & Bowden,1896. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece and five plates with tissue guards. Attractive publisher's blue cloth, bevelled boards, edges uncut, gilt lettering and decorations on spine. Frontispiece is reproduced, stamped in gilt on whole of front cover. Front hinge cracked, some spotting and darkening to edges and endpapers, otherwise..... More
Faber and Faber Limited. London. 1947. FIRST ARDIZZONE EDITION. 8vo. (8 x 5.3 inches). Illustrated with 119 drawings by Ardizzone. A fine clean copy. Finely bound in mid twentieth century half red morocco leather binding for Zaehnsdorf of London. Spine with five raised bands. Compartments decorated and lettered in gilt..... More
Methuen & Co. Ltd. London. 1911. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.5 x 5.2 inches). A Fine copy Finely bound by Bayntun (Riviere) in full red calf. Boards with double gilt ruled border with floral corner pieces. Spine with five raised bands,each with wavy gilt line. Compartments double ruled and decorated in..... More
Chapman and Hall. London. 1850. FIRST CHEAP EDITION, with a new preface written by Dickens expressly for this edition. 8vo. Illustrated with wood engraved frontis of steam ship leaving port, by C. Stanfield.Finely bound in nineteenth century half green calf. Spine with raised bands. Compartments with rules and jagged lines..... More
The Athenaeum Society. New York. No date. circa 1910. THIRTY VOLUMES. Complete. 8vo. Illustrated throughout. A clean and fine set which has been beautifully bound, by the Harcourt Bindery, in contemporary half brown morocco. Spines with raised bands. Ruled, lettered and decorated with floral design, all in gilt, and small..... More
Bradbury and Evans. London,1848. FIRST EDITION, Bound from the parts.8vo. Extra illustrated with the two sets, of 4 and 8,seperately published engravings by Hablot K. Browne, featuring portraits of Edith, Little Paul, Florence and Alice. The second series shows full length portraits of the other leading characters, Dombey, Miss Tox..... More
John Murray. London. 1927. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.4 x 5 inches). A fine clean copy throughout. Finely bound, by Zaehnsdorf for Asprey and Co, in recent full black morocco. Spine with five raised bands, each with gilt wavy lines. Compartments ruled and lettered in gilt. Boards with gilt ruled border..... More
Faber & Faber Limited. London. 1939. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo.(8.8 x 6.6 inches). 45pp. Finely bound in recent full red morocco leather, single gilt ruled border on boards. Spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. A fine copy of this classic book in an attractive leather binding. Only 3005 copies..... More
Jonathan Cape. London. 1963. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.2 inches). The Authors first novel. Neat three line inscription (interestingly from a J. Fowles, but not the author) on the front blank endpaper, otherwise a very good copy in a very good dustwrapper with some light rubbing to the extremities..... More
Archibald Constable & Co. London.,1895. FIRST EDITION. Publishers presentation copy with their blind stamp on title page. 8vo.(7.1 x 4.5 inches). vi,113pp. Previous owners name, dated 1905, on the front free endpaper. Publishers original grey paper covered boards with new green calf spine, raised bands, gilt. Overall very good. ---..... More
Methuen & Co. Ltd. London. 1931. FIRST EDITION with Ernest Shepard illustrations. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.3 inches). Aside from some brown marking to one page, this is generally a very good copy, illustrated throughout with Shepard`s beautiful line drawings. Finely bound in recent full dark green morocco leather binding, spine..... More
Longmans, Green and Co. London 1939. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Illustrated with ten mono photos, nine of which were taken by the Author, and a colour printed map to the endpapers. A fine and bright copy of the book in publishers second state binding with black lettering to the spine. Neat..... More
Osgood McIlvane and Co. London. 1891. FIRST EDITION. Three volumes. 8vo. (7.1 x 4.8 inches). 1st issue points in all three volumes. Complete with half titles. Finely bound, by Bayntun-Riviere, in full dark green crushed Morocco bindings. Spines with raised bands, dotted in gilt. Compartments decorated, ruled and lettered in..... More
Hamish Hamilton. London. 1980. FIRST EDITION. 4to. (11.3 x 9.2 inches). Limited edition. One of 100 copies, numbered and signed by Michael Foreman on the title page and with a numbered and signed original etching loosely inserted. This copy number 1 of the book and etching. Illustrated in full colour..... More
John Lane The Bodley Head. London.,1936. FIRST BRITISH EDITION. Large 8vo.(10.3 x 7.9 inches). ONE OF 900 COPIES printed on Japon Vellum paper. This copy number 597, from a total edition of 1000 copies. xvi,768 pp(including blank leaves). Finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, for Heritage Bookshop of Los Angeles..... More
Macmillan and Co. Ltd. London. 1901. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Ten mono plates by J. Lockwood Kipling. Very good copy in the original publishers dark red cloth. Front board with circular gilt elephant device. Spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Some minor rubbing to edges and some foxing to the..... More
Macmillan and Co. Ltd. London. 1910, 1910. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8.1 x 5.6 inches). Four full page mono plates by Frank Craig. Fine leather binding of recent full red morocco, the spine with raised bands, ruled and decorated in gilt. Twin black labels, gilt. Single gilt ruled border on boards..... More
J and R. Tonson. London. 1761. NEW EDITION. Three 4to volumes. (11.9 x 9.6 inches). Vol.1. lxxix, xxii,491pp; - Vol.2. 460pp, 116pp indexes; - Vol.3. 690pp, iipp index. (2 of the last 2 leaves, 4T & 4Ti have been bound in. One in the correct place at the end of..... More
Oxford at the Clarenden Press. 1910. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. xxiv, 872pp. Finely bound in an early Oxford binding of half dark green morocco. Spine with five raised bands, each with three gilt dots, compartments with line ruling and elaborate flowers decoration running up the spine, in gilt. Green cloth on..... More
John Lane The Bodley Head. London. 1896, 1896. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. 8vo. (7.8 x 5.2 inches). Dated 1896 but actually published in 1895. WBeautifully illustrated with nearly 100 line drawings by Robinson. 16pp publishers catalogue at end, dated 1895. Finely bound in recent full dark green morocco, spine with five..... More
Rodwell and Martin, London. 1818. FIRST EDITION. 4to. (12.7 x 10.1 inches). iv, 259pp. Tear to the top outer corner margin of the note page, after the title page, and well away from the text, otherwise a very good uncut copy in publishers original paper covered boards. Some gatherings still..... More