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Leonard Smithers. London. 1896. LIMITED EDITION. 4to (10.3 x 8.1 inches). One of 25 numbered copies printed on Japanese vellum. The title-page is printed in red and black. Illustrated with 7 full page plates and two illustrations within the text by Beardsley. Original publishers pictorial vellum gilt binding with design..... More
Macmillan and co. London. 1894 + 95. FIRST EDITIONS. Two volumes. 8vo. With illustrations by J. L. Kipling, W. H. Drake and P. Frenzeny. A remarkably clean and fresh set with absolutely no foxing or marking in either volume, they book look unread. Original blue cloth with gilt illustrations to..... More
Leonard Smithers and Co. London. 1899. FIRST EDITION. One of only 100 large paper copies, printed on Dutch hand made paper, numbered and signed by Oscar Wilde. Small 4to.(8.4 X 6.3 inches). Original light purple cloth with gilt lettering to the spine and decorative designs by Charles Shannon in gilt..... More
John Lane at The Sign of The Bodley Head. London. 1894. FIRST EDITION. One of just 50 large paper copies printed on hand made paper. Small 4to.(8.4 X 6.3 inches). Original buckram with gilt lettering to the spine. Attractive floral designs by Charles Shannon in gilt to the spine and..... More
Leonard Smithers and Co. London. 1899. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to. (8.4 x 6.3 inches). One of 100 large paper copies, printed on Dutch hand made paper, numbered and signed by Oscar Wilde. Original publishers pale purple cloth with both boards and spine lettered and decorated with designs by Charles Shannon..... More
Astolat Press. Leopold B. Hill. London. No date. circa 1910. FINE BINDING BY BUMPUS. 16mo. (5 x 4 inches). 90pp. Illustrated with a mono frontis of G. F. Watts' Love and Life, with a tissue guard. Fine full dark brown morocco, spine with raised bands. Compartments ruled in black and..... More
The Golden Cockerel Press, London. 1945. FIRST GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS EDITION. 4to. (12.3 x 7.1 inches). Two volumes bound as one. Limited edition, this being number 61 of 500 numbered sets, beautifully printed in Perpetua types on Arnold mould-made paper. Wood engraved title page vignettes by John Buckland-Wright, collotype portrait..... More
J. M. Dent and Co. London. 1907. FIRST PRINTING OF THIS REVISED AND ENLARGED RACKHAM EDITION. 4to. (10.3 x 8 inches). Fully illustrated with 24 tipped in colour plates, each with a printed tissue guard, 12 tinted full page plates and and 66 line drawings throughout the text. Some minor..... 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
Longmans, Green, and Co. London. 1898. FIRST EDITION of Churchill's rare first book. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.3 inches). Later state with the errata slip at the front of the book and publishers adverts dated 3/98. Frontispiece portrait and 6 maps. One of the folding maps is frayed to the blank..... More
Longmans, Green & Co. London. 1899. FIRST EDITION. Two volumes. 8vo. (9.3 x 6.5 inches). Portrait frontis of Viscount Cromer in volume one, and Lord Kitchener in volume two. Illustrated throughout with 56 mono plates, mostly by Angus McNeill of the Seaforth highlanders, and 34 maps, 20 of these fold..... More
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
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
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 & Co. Ltd. London. 1918. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. (8.5 x 7.1 inches). Sixteen full page colour plates, each with a printed tissue guard, and 42 black and white illustrations throughout the text. Finely bound in recent full red morocco, with five raised bands to the spine. Compartments ruled..... 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
John Murray. London. 1903 (1917). THE AUTHOR'S EDITION. 12 volumes, complete. Limited edition of 1000 sets, numbered and signed by Arthur Conan Doyle in Volume one, The White Company. Illustrated with 24 full page plates, by Arthur Twidle (20), Sidney Paget (1), B. West Clinedinst (1), and W. B. Wollen..... More
William Heinemann Ltd. London. 1951. FIRST EDITION. 3 VOLUMES. 8vo. (8 x 5.6 inches). Fine set in recent leather bindings of full red morocco, spines with five raised bands, the compartments ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt. Twin black labels, gilt. Top edges gilt. A finely bound, bright, clean set..... More
