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Oxford at the Clarenden Press. 1924, 1924. Reprint. 8vo. (6.8 x 4.5 inches). Finely bound in attractive full limp vellum binding. Spine lettered in gilt. School arms for St. Paul's School, London, stamped in gilt on front board. Gilt stamped statue bust on the rear board. Marbled endpapers with a...... More
Methuen & Co. Ltd. London. 1926, 1926. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.2 inches). Illustrated throughout with beautiful line drawings by E. H. Shepard. Decorative map endpapers. A neat previous owner address has been blind stamped to the front blank endpaper and there are a few minor marks to a...... More
George Allen & Unwin Ltd. London. 1961, 1961. THREE VOLUMES. Large 8vo. (9 x 5.9 inches). Early printings. 11th/8th/7th impressions of first editions. Each volume with fold out map at end. Publishers red cloth, spines gilt. Top edges dyed red. A remarkable, fine set. Pages clean and bright in all..... More
Hodder & Stoughton, Limited. London. 1957, 1957. 8vo. Bright, clean copy finely bound in mid twentieth century full red morocco leather binding by Morrell. Spine with raised bands, each with gilt piping. Spine compartments ruled and lettered in gilt. Ronald Knox's Monsignor coat of arms with the motto "Lux in..... More
Hodder & Stoughton. London. No date. (1924), 1924. NEW EDITION. Small 4to. (9.6 x 6.7 inches). Fully illustrated throughout with 16 tipped in colour plates, pictorial title page, plus 25 full page and 100 smaller line drawings. A hint of browning to the blank endpapers but generally a very clean..... More
Hodder & Stoughton Limited. London. 1928, 1928. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.4 x 5.1 inches). A fine bright copy in publishers original blue cloth with printed paper labels on front board and spine. In the scarce original dustwrapper, lettered in blue and red. The wrapper is near to very good with..... More
Oliver & Boyd. Edinburgh. 1833, 1833. SECOND EDITION. 8vo. (6.9 x 4.5 inches). Folding map and nine engravings by Jackson. A clean copy in original publishers brown cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. Yellow coated endpapers. Inner hinges cracking. Some gatherings still unopened. Spine a bit rubbed and with some..... More
Adam and Charles Black. London. 1905, 1905. NEW EDITION, reprinted with minor alterations in December 1905, shortly after the first printing of October the same year. 4to. (9 x 6.6 inches). Fully illustrated with fifty three colour plates. each with a printed tissue guard, and ninety mono illustrations. A fine..... More
Macmillan and Co. Limited. London. 1894, 1894. The Peoples edition. Twenty-third thousand. 8vo. (7.3 x 4.9 inches). Illustrated with fifty line illustrations by John Tenniel. Some foxing to the plain tissue paper guard over the frontispiece and a few minor spots throughout but overall a very clean and bright copy..... More
Orion Books. New York. 1991, 1991. FIRST EDITION, with bookplate signed by the author. 8vo. (9.2 x 6.3 inches). x, 310pp, including an index. A printed red and blue bookplate stuck onto the front free endpaper states that this is a special autographed copy and it has been signed by..... More
Baynard Press. London. 1940, 1940. FIRST EDITION. Printed stapled wraps. 16pp. (9.5 x 6 inches). Some minor creasing otherwise this is a very near fine, bright, crisp and clean copy throughout. Overall a much better copy than is usually found of this fragile pamphlet. ---- Housed in a felt lined..... More
Hodder & Stoughton Limited. London. 1928, 1928. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.4 x 5.1 inches). A fine bright copy in publishers original blue cloth with printed paper labels on front board and spine. In the scarce original dustwrapper, lettered in blue and red. The wrapper is near fine with just a...... More
Rebel not taken publishing, London. 2018, 2018. FIRST EDITION. One of 1,000 copies, numbered and signed by Osborne and Reichardt and with each artist's embossed stamp beneath their signature. Large 8vo. (9.8 x 7 inches). 172pp. Beautifully printed and illustrated throughout in full colour alongside essays and descriptions from multiple..... More
Weidenfeld and Nicolson. London. 1968, 1968. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8.6 x 5.7 inches). Illustrated with 19 half-tone photographic plates, including six pages reproducing Watson's letter to Max Delbruck, telling of the Double Helix, and 11 diagrams within the text. A very bright, clean copy. Original dustwrapper with one small chip..... More
Weidenfeld and Nicolson. London. 1968, 1968. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8.6 x 5.7 inches). Illustrated with 19 half-tone photographic plates, including six pages reproducing Watson's letter to Max Delbruck, telling of the Double Helix, and 11 diagrams within the text. A very good copy with previous owner's name and date (May..... More
Longmans, Green, and Co. London. 1872 - 74, 1872. FIRST EDITION. Three volumes. 8vo. (8.8 x 5.8 inches). Previous owner armorial bookplate (Isaac Holden, politician and inventor of a wool-combing machine, who received a Baronetcy in 1893) and also ink name and address stamped to the front blank free endpapers..... More
The Folio Society. London. 1978, 1978. FIRST PRINTING OF THIS EDITION. 8vo. (8.8 x 5.7 inches). Finely illustrated by Virgil Burnett with full page frontispiece and 75 head pieces, printed in red. A fine copy in a fine unique leather craft binding. Full mid brown morocco. Front board with blue..... More
Cassell & Co. ltd. London. 1948-54, 1948. SIX VOLUMES. FIRST EDITIONS, 1st impressions. 8vo. (8.6 x 5.8 inches). Illustrated throughout with maps and plans, many folding. A near fine, bright set of books with some neat annotation to a handful of pages in volume one. Publishers black cloth with gilt..... More
Printed by R. Tullis, for A. Constable and Co. Edinburgh. 1804, 1804. TWO VOLUMES. 6mo. (7.32 x 4.3 inches). Vol.1; xii, 287pp - Vol.2; iv, 275pp. Bound in contemporary full tree calf with gilt ruling and red morocco volume numbers and title labels to spines. Trinity College Dublin arms in..... More
Oxford University Press. London. 1938, 1938. NEW EDITION. 8vo. (7.9 x 5.4 inches). 22, 590pp. Colour frontispiece of Vauxhall, by Thomas Rowlandson, and 13 mono plates. A fine clean copy throughout. Finely bound in recent full tan morocco by Bayntun of Bath. Raised bands with gilt dotted lines on the..... More
Longmans, Green and co. London. 1887, 1887. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.2 inches). Illustrated with 20 mono plates engraved on wood by J. Cooper from drawings by C. H. M. Kerr. A very good copy bound in early twentieth century half dark green morocco, spine with raised bands, gilt..... More
Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to The Medici Society Ltd. London. 1920, 1920. FIRST 2 VOLUME EDITION. Small Crown 4to. (9.3 x 6.8 inches). xxx, 439; xxii, 531 pp. Originally issued as four slim quarto volumes in a limited edition in 1910-11, this is the first issue in this format and..... More
Longmans, Green & Co. London. 1907, 1907. FIRST EDITION. First printing. Large 8vo. (8.5 x 6.4 inches). Colour frontis, 22 full page mono plates and hundreds of small engraved vignettes to the margins of the text pages, all by E. Caldwell. This is the scarce first issue with the margin..... More
No place. No date. Circa 1870, 1870. ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPT. Oblong 8vo. (9.4 x 5.5 inches). Longfellow's popular eearly poem, An April day, written in a neat hand on 12 thick paper leaves. Ten of the leaves are beautifully illustrated in watercolour by an unknown but very skilled artist. Bound in..... More
William Heinemann Ltd. London. 1953, 1953. FIRST EDITION. 3 VOLUMES. 8vo. (8 x 5.5 inches). Each volume with a new preface by Maugham, described by Raymond Toole Stott, Maugham's bibliographer, as containing "important material of biographical and bibliographical interest". Each volume comprises three of Maugham's most widely read novels. A...... More