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Macmillan and Co. Ltd. London. 1910. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.3 inches). Four full page mono plates by Frank Craig. Fine early twentieth century leather binding. Full burgundy calf, the spine with five raised bands, each with wavy line design in gilt. Compartments ruled and decorated in gilt. Light... More
Hatchards, Piccadilly. London. 1882. Small 8vo. (5.2 x 3.7 inches). Contains only a dozen or so names in the dated sections. A very good copy in an attractive early hand painted vellum binding. Blue, green and gold used to paint on emblems to the front board and spine. Decorative light... More
Hatchards, Piccadilly. London. 1879. Small 8vo. (4.8 x 3.6 inches). Contains scores of signatures in the dated sections, mostly members of the Huth family. Tipped in signatures of Queen Isabella II of Spain and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (the Mother of Queen Mary) and also four 19th century postage... More
Macmillan and co. Ltd. London. 1901. REPRINT OF 1896 ILLUSTRATED EDITION. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.3 inches). Illustrated with 40 full page mono plates by Hugh Thomson. A bright and clean copy bound, for Hatchards of Piccadilly, in early half burgundy calf, spine with a single raised band, dotted in gilt... More
Constable & Company Limited. London. 1934. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. (9.9 x 7.1 inches). Illustrated title page with a fine wood engraving by John Farleigh. Inscribed by Shaw to the film and stage Actress Joyce Bland. There is a presentation inscription, not in Shaw's hand, on the front free endpaper... More
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
Frederick Warne and Co. London. 1902. FIRST TRADE EDITION. 16mo. (5.6 x 4.4 inches). First state of the text with "wept big tears" on page 51. Illustrated with colour frontis, line vignette of a bunny on the title page and 30 fine colour plates by the Author throughout. A very... More
Macmillan and Co. Ltd. London. 1910. FIRST COLONIAL EDITION. 8vo. (7.2 x 5 inches). Four full page mono plates by Frank Craig. Issued by Macmillan's Colonial Library, with the note that this edition is intended for circulation only in India and the British Colonies. Publishers green paper wraps, lettered and... More
Macmillan and Co. Limited. London. 1941 and 1944. Three volumes. The rare Three-Volume, War time, Macmillan Abridged Reprint Edition in Dust Jackets. First and third volumes are the first Macmillan issues, the second is a 1944 reprint of the 1941 Macmillan issue. Illustrated throughout all 3 volumes with folding maps... More
Macmillan and Co., Limited. London. 1926. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. 8vo. (9.1 x 5.9 inches). Twelve full colour plates and 31 mono wood block illustrations as head and tail pieces. Neat previous owner inscription, dated 1927, to the front blank paste down endpaper. Finely bound in an attractive early craft binding... More
The Waverley Book Company, Ltd. London. No date. Circa 1910. SIX VOLUMES. ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS. 8vo. (7.2 x 5 inches). Illustrated with 14 full page colour plates, 10 scenes from the books (artist unknown) plus two portraits and views of Austen's burial place and Chawton Cottage. Very good clean and bright... 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 floral design and lettering to the front board and spine, all in gilt. Yellow printed Peacock design endpapers. All edges gilt. Aside from... More
George Allen. London 1894. FIRST THOMSON EDITION. 8vo. (7.3 x 5 inches). Beautifully illustrated throughout with 101 fine line engravings by Thomson. Neat previous owner two line presentation inscription, dated December 1894, with another name below, dated 1918, on the front blank free endpaper and there are just a few... More
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
T. Nelson and sons. London. 1853. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7 x 4.6 inches). Frontis, vignette on extra title page and four full page engraved plates, each with a tissue guard. Aside from a couple of small water marks to the frontis and title pages this is a bright copy in... 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
Chatto and Windus, London. 1908. FIRST PRINTING OF THIS EDITION. 8vo. (8.9 x 6.4 inches). Complete with thirteen colour plates, each with a tissue guard, and 24 half tone plates, reproducing early illuminated manuscript illustrations and paintings. The front pastedown endpaper has an attractive previous owner's bookplate. Front blank free... More
Little, Brown and Company. Boston. 1951. FIRST EDITION. First printing. 8vo. (7.8 x 5.4 inches). Neat ink stamp on the bottom of one page (7505th Hospital Group Base Library), affecting a few letters of the bottom line of text but mostly in the margin, otherwise a very clean copy throughout... More
Baynard Press. London. 1940. FIRST EDITION. Publishers printed stapled wraps. 16pp. Neat previous owner names to the front cover otherwise very good indeed. Staples a bit rusted but still firm. Overall a very good copy of this fragile pamphlet. Housed in a felt lined clamshell box with black morocco spine... More
Methuen and Co. London. 1926. FIRST EDITION. Illustrated throughout with wonderful line drawings by E. H. Shepard. Very faint offsetting mark to decorative map endpapers where the dustwrapper ends, and a small neat previous owners name, dated 1926, on the front blank free endpaper, otherwise a fine, bright copy in... More
Leonard Smithers. London. 1898. FOURTH EDITION. Tall 8vo. (8.8 x 5.7 inches). A light stain to the bottom margin of one page, otherwise a very good example which has been finely bound in attractive half red morocco by Zaehnsdorf of London. Spine with raised bands, the compartments ruled in blind... More
Cassell. London. 1961. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. 8vo. Originally published as a part of Churchill's great four volume work; A History of the English speaking peoples- Vol.4. The great democracies, in 1958. This is the first printing of this history in its own right. Illustrated with 6 maps & 31 fascinating... More
Chatto & Windus. London. 1892. New Edition. 2 volumes bound in one. Small 8vo. (5.3 x 3.5 inches). This edition is made up of volumes 5 and 6 of MacDonald's Works of fancy and Imagination. Finely bound by Riviere in early full dark green morocco. Spine with raised bands, the... More
Hodder & Stoughton Limited, London, for the Boots Pure Drug Company, Ltd, Notttingham. 1932. CENTENARY EDITION. 4to. (10.1 x 8.1 inches). Finely illustrated with 12 mounted full colour plates, each with a printed tissue guard, and dozens of line drawings throughout the text and along top of text pages. A.... More
