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Classics Book Club. London. 1950, 1950. 8vo. (7.3 x 5.1 inches). Finely bound in half dark blue morocco. Spine with raised bands, the compartments lettered in gilt. Blue cloth on boards. Marbled endpapers. A fine and attractive copy of this classic adventure story. The leather binding is unsigned but is..... More
J. B. Lippincott Company. Philadelphia. Circa 1925, 1925. EARLY RACKHAM EDITION. Large 8vo. (9.7 x 6.8 inches). 4 full page colour plates and 16 line drawings throughout the text. Finely bound in late twentieth century half blue morocco. Spine with five raised bands. Compartments with double gilt ruled lines and..... More
William Reeves. London. No date. Circa 1925, 1925. CRAFT BINDING. 4to. (11.8 x 8.3 inches). 8pp of text in German. 173 full page mono plates illustrating people playing musical instruments through the ages, most of them women. Neat presentaion inscription on the front free endpaper presenting the book to William..... More
The Gresham Publishing Company. London. 1901, 1901. FIRST EDITION. Four large 8vo volumes. (9.2 x 7.1 inches). Illustrated throughout with portraits and views. A very good set in the beautiful decorative Art Nouveau style red cloth bindings designed by Talwin Morris. Front boards with gilt, dark green and light green..... More
The Three Mountaineers, Inc. (Asheville, North Carolina). USA 1939, 1939. Tall 8vo. (9.4 x 5.9 inches). 54pp. Scores of small line drawings by Tad Shell throughout the text. In an unusual hand painted wooden board binding. The boards are attached on metal hinges. The text pages sewn in with leather..... More
Macmillan and Co. Limited. London. 1914, 1914. SECOND SEPARATE ENGLISH EDITION. 8vo. (6.5 x 4.6 inches). A rare bibliographical variant, printed in black on white paper cover plus 4pp rather than than the dark burgundy ink on light grey or brown paper noted in the bibliography (Richards; A269 - note)..... More
NP. 1951, 1951. Oblong 4to. (11.5 x 7.9 inches). Beautiful calligraphic manuscript in red and black. Six leaves written on both sides on hand made paper, plus four blank leaves, all sewn in with red cord. In a fine leather binding of full dark brown morocco with bevelled edges to..... More
George Allen & Unwin. London. 1954 and 1955, 1954. FIRST EDITION, first printings of Volumes 2 and 3. The 1st volume is 1954 2nd impression, printed in a run of only 2500 copies, which is actually the first revised version of the text, due the printers dispersing the type after..... More
Gibbings and Company. London. 1901, 1901. FIRST BRANGWYN EDITION IN VERY RARE BRANGWYN DESIGNED LEATHER BINDINGS. TWO VOLUMES. Small 8vo. (5.6 x 3.5 inches). Illustrated with decorative half titles and title pages to both volumes, and portrait frontis in Volume one, all by Brangwyn. Original publishers delux tan lambskin leather..... More
Hodder & Stoughton. London. No Date. Circa 1918, 1918. EARLY DULAC EDITION. Large 8vo. (7.9 x 5.9 inches). viii,189p. Finely illustrated with 12 fine coloured plates by Edmund Dulac, tipped on to thick buff paper with a triple ruled brown border. Each plate with a printed tissue guard. Two plates..... More
George Bell & Sons. London. 1901, 1901. Reprint of the Second edition, revised and with new illustrations, originally published in 1898. 8vo. (7.9 x 5.3 inches). Fully illustrated throughout with dozens of full page and smaller illustrations in line. Attractive early leather binding by Riviere and Son for Henry Young..... More
Smith, Elder, & Co. London. 1899, 1899. TWO VOLUMES. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.6 inches). Portrait frontis engravings showing Browning as a young man (dated 1835) opposite the title page of volume 1, and as an old man (1881) for volume 2. Finely bound in contemporary full burgundy calf bindings. Spines..... More
Macmillan and Co. London. 1863, 1863. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. (8.1 x 6.4 inches). Second state, without with the L'Envoi poem leaf at the start of the book, which Kingsley had removed from all but the first few hundred copies issued. Two full page mono plates and 8 smaller engravings..... More
John Murray. London. 1929, 1929. REPRINT OF CHEAP EDITION, published just 3 months earlier. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.2 inches). Illustrated with 16 full page mono plates, one from a drawing of the discovery by Dr Edward A. Wilson, the rest from photographs. Illustrated map endpapers in the front. A very..... More
Thomas Nelson and Sons. London. 1902, 1902. EARLY EDITION. 8vo. (7.1 x 5 inches). Illustrated with 12 full page plates. Contemporary prize binding by Bickers & Son of full navy blue calf. Spine with raised bands, each with gilt piping. The compartments triple ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt. Gilt..... More
R. Miller. Old Fish Street, St. Pauls. London. - No date 1810, 1810. FIRST EDITION. 18mo. (5.5 x 3.7 inches). Complete with 56 fine hand coloured maps. Decorative lettered title page, index, 12pp Publisher's catalogue at the rear. Neat previous owner's name, dated 1833, on the title page, otherwise a...... More
Printed by W. Bulmer & Co. for G. Nicol. London. 1797, 1797. FIRST EDITION. Three volumes. Complete. - Two quarto text volumes (12 x 9.4 inches), and a folio atlas of plates (16.6 x 12.3 inches). ---- Both text volumes in contemporary full brown calf boards with decorative gilt borders..... More
Bell and Daldy. London. 1872, 1872. SECOND EDITION, Revised and corrected. 4to. (10.3 x 7.3 inches). Illustrated with one thousand three hundred engravings. Some foxing to the first and last couple of pages otherwise a clean copy throughout. One small tear to the bottom margin of the frontispiece, not affecting..... More
Cassell and Company Ltd. London. 1950, 1950. Fourth printing of this complete collected edition. Originally published in 1929 the book was re-set in 1947 to include The Scandal of Father Brown. 8vo. (8.4 x 5.6 inches). A fine clean copy in a fine leather binding by Bayntun of Bath. Half..... More
John Murray. London. 1960, 1960. Reprint. 8vo. (7 x 4.5 inches). Finely bound in late twentieth century beautiful full red calf by Bayntun bookbinder of Bath. Spine with five raised bands, each with decorative floral gilt roll. Compartments ruled and decorated in gilt. Black title label, gilt. Double gilt ruled..... More
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, And White, Cochrane and Co. London. 1814, 1814. THIRD EDITION. 8vo. (8.5 x 5.3 inches). Illustrated with 15 beautifully hand coloured plates, plus one real flower mounted onto the blank leaf opposite the title page. xxiii, 407pp, Publisher advert leaf. 15 full page plates..... More
Printed for William Thurlbourn. Cambridge. 1739, 1739. THIRD EDITION, CORRECTED. 8vo. (8.1 x 5.2 inches). A clean and fresh copy in an attractive contemporary full panelled calf binding. Spine with five raised bands. Title label ruled and lettered in gilt. Blind tooling around the lighter tan panels on both boards..... More
Longman, Rees, Cadell and Davies. London. 1803, 1803. SECOND EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS. 8vo. (8.6 x 5.5 inches). iii-xxvii, 523pp. Bound without half title but otherwise complete, with 13 engraved plates, all but two folding. A clean copy finely bound in recent half burgundy morocco leather. Spine with five raised bands..... More
Printed for Francis Coggan. London. 1706. 1706. Fourth year, of a total of 11 published, but complete in itself. 8vo. (7.8 x 5.1 inches). iv, 288pp, 72pp Appendix, 10pp Index. Two fold out plates, one the order of the battle of the confederate armies, 18th July 1705, the second a...... More
J. Scatcherd and J. Whitaker, B. Law, and G. and T. Wilkie. London. 1787, 1787. FOURTH EDITION. 8vo. (8.6 x 5.4 inches). Portrait frontis of Farley, plus 12 copper engravings of a bill of fare for each month of the year. Some light browning to a handful of leaves but..... More