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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
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 about THE WORLD CRISIS. -- THE AFTERMATH. -- THE UNKNOWN WAR. 1911-1918. Abridged and revised with an...
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 about THE NOVELS. Six Volumes; Sense and Sensibility. - Pride and Prejudice. - Mansfield Park. - Emma....
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 about ENGLISH FAIRY TALES. Retold by Flora Annie Steel
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
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 about STORIES FROM RUSSIA, SIBERIA, POLAND, AND CIRCASSIA. Beautifully illustrated
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 about LETTERS FROM THE HON. HORACE WALPOLE, TO THE REV. WILLIAM COLE. And others; from the year 1745,...
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 about THE WORKS. The White Company; Micah Clarke; The Refugees; Rodney Stone; The Adventures of...
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 about THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES
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 about THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
Methuen & Co. Ltd. London. 1920. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.2 inches). Portrait frontis and five line diagrams within the text. 8pp publishers adverts at back of book. There is some offsetting to the blank endpapers, and foxing to a few pages, including the title page, and the... More about RELATIVITY. The special and the General Theory. A popular exposition. Translated by Robert W....
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 about PHANTASTES. A Faerie Romance
Hurst and Blackett, Successors to Henry Colburn. London. 1863. THIRD ENGLISH EDITION. Three volumes. 8vo. (8 x 5.4 inches). Some foxing to just a few pages but overall very good throughout. Original publishers purple cloth bindings. Spines lettered and decorated in gilt, boards with blind-stamped decorative borders. Pale green endpapers... More about LES MISERABLES
Nicol and Cadell. London. 1785. ATLAS VOLUME ONLY, FOR Cook's THIRD VOYAGE. Elephant folio. (22.5 x 16.5 inches). Total of 62 engraved plates and charts in folio volume. ----- Lacking the two fold out plates but includes the scarce 'The death of Captain Cook' plate, published separately in 1785, the... More about THE THIRD VOYAGE OF CAPTAIN COOK. ---- ATLAS VOLUME ONLY. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean....
Bradbury & Evans. London. 1855. FIRST EDITION. Folio. (22 x 15.4 inches). Illustrated with 51 full page plates, all nature-printed in colour by Bradbury & Evans under the direction of Henry Bradbury, each with a tissue paper guard. Extra illustrated with several blank leaves bound among the text and with... More about THE FERNS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. Nature-printed By Henry Bradbury
Edward Moxon & Co. London. 1866. TWELFTH EDITION. 8vo. (6.8 x 4.2 inches). Finely bound contemporary full dark green morocco binding. Decorative flower and leaf design to the top and bottom of both boards and a single gilt ruled border to the centre. Board edges with gilt ruling. Spine with... More about MAUD, AND OTHER POEMS
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 about KIM
J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. London. 1930. Reprint of 1898 edition. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.7 inches). Fully illustrated with 12 colour plates and 90 line drawings. Finely bound in mid twentieth century full tree calf by Riviere and son. Boards with decorative gilt border. Spine has five raised bands... More about THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS. Or Mirth and marvels. By Thomas Ingoldsby esquire
Arthur L. Humphreys. London. 1911. FIRST PRINTING OF THIS EDITION. Small 8vo. (5.9 x 4.7 inches). viii/64pp. Illustrated with 6 fine miniature sepia plates, not by Blake, pasted in. Printed on Waldorf laid paper. Capital letters printed red. In fine clean condition throughout. Fine binding in the 'Arts & Crafts'... More about SONGS OF INNOCENCE
John Lane The Bodley Head. London. 1933. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo (8.5 x 6.9 inches). Fully illustrated with a full colour frontis and 75 line drawings by Heath Robinson. Some small patches of light foxing to a few pagers, mostly to the margins, otherwise a very good copy in a.... More about THE INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES OF PROFESSOR BRANESTAWM
Chapman & Hall. London. 1870. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. 8vo. (8.8 x 5.8 inches). Bound from the original monthly parts, published between April and September 1870. Illustrated with a portrait frontis and 12 full page plates by S. L. Fildes. With 40 pp of publishers adverts at the back... More about THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. With Illustrations
George Routledge and Sons. London 1882 - 1883. TWO VOLUMES IN ONE. 8vo. Text in double column. Neat previous owners name written in pencil to the top of each title page. Some foxing to the title pages and fore edge but overall clean and well preserved. Off white coated endpapers... More about FRANKENSTEIN. Or, The modern Prometheus. Bound with; the life and adventures of Peter Wilkins. A...
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1909. FIRST DULAC EDITION. 1st issue. Large 4to. (11.1 x 8.8 inches). 20 mounted colour plates on thick art paper, framed with decorative border design. Each plate covered with printed tissue paper guard. Decorative endpapers. Lovely bright copy in original full white cloth with elaborate gilt... More about THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM
George Allen. London. 1894. FIRST HUGH THOMSON EDITION. 8vo. (8 x 5.6 inches). Fully illustrated throughout with 101 fine engravings by Thomson. A bright, clean copy finely bound in recent full purple morocco, spine with five raised bands, the compartments ruled, lettered and decorated with gilt. Single ruled gilt border... More about PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. With a preface by George Saintsbury
Macmillan and Co. London. 1899. EARLY THOMSON EDITION. 8vo. (7.4 x 5.2 inches). 40 full page line illustrations by Thomson. Blank endpapers a little spotted but the text pages are clean throughout. Publishers salmon coloured cloth with elaborate floral decoration to front board and spine in dark red. Spine and... More about EMMA. With an introduction by Austin Dobson