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The Readers Library Publishing Company Ltd. London.,1928. First Readers Library Film Edition. Small 8vo.6.7 x 4.2 inches. Page edges browned as usual but generally a very good copy in publishers burgundy cloth binding. Front board and spine lettered and elaborately decorated in gilt. Spine has oxidised resulting in the gilt..... More
The Nonesuch Press. London. No Date. 1927. FIRST EDITION. Large oblong 8vo. (10.2 x 7.7 inches). Finely illustrated with line drawing on the title page and 20 full page colour lithographs by Elinor Darwin accompanying the verses of Bernard Darwin. Original beige paper covered boards with wave, fish and border..... More
J.M.Dent & Sons. Ltd. London.,1939, 1939. First Edition of the author’s first book. Illustrated with 8 mono plates. Many copies were pulped during the war making this a scarce title. In a letter to a collector written in 1951 Davies reported having no spare copies of this book and that..... More
William Blackwood and Sons. Edinburgh and London.,1873/74. 2 WORKS IN ONE VOLUME. 8vo.(7 x 4.7 inches). x,166pp,iv,212pp. Clean copies in late nineteenth century binding of quarter white vellum with red leather label, lettered and ruled in gilt. Red cloth on boards. Binding a little marked but overall a very good..... More
Chatto and Windus. London. 1883, 1883. LIMITED EDITION. Large paper. One of 100 numbered copies, this No. 32. Large 8vo. (10.1 x 8 inches). xii, 563pp. Illustrated frontis and 39 engravings, printed proofs on fine India paper, mounted onto the pages. A clean and bright copy of this attractive edition..... More
Chapman and Hall. London. 1850. FIRST CHEAP EDITION, with a new preface written by Dickens expressly for this edition. 8vo. Illustrated with wood engraved frontis of steam ship leaving port, by C. Stanfield.Finely bound in nineteenth century half green calf. Spine with raised bands. Compartments with rules and jagged lines..... More
Leopold B. Hill. London. No date. circa 1910. Small 8vo. (3.5 x 2.4 inches). Finely bound in early twentieth century leather binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe of London. Full red calf. Spine decorated with gilt ruled lines, floral and bell centre pieces, lettering and gilt piping. Gilt ruled line border..... More
Chapman & Hall. London. 1886 - 87, 1886. NEW EDITIONS. The first three volumes are the first printing of these reprints using the original stereotype plates from the original First editions which were published between 1843 and 1848. The last two volumes are reprints from one year later, dated 1887.----..... More
Chapman & Hall. London. 1844. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (8.6 x 5.6 inches). Engraved title page with the pound sign before the numbers. Walter Smith's bibliography of the works of Charles Dickens states "There is no first state or priority of the illustration as has often been cited in catalogues". Fourteen..... More
Chapman and Hall. London. ND. 1870's. 1870. Volume from the Household edition. Large 8vo. (9.9 x 7.5 inches). Text in double column. Finely illustrated with Sixty two engravings, some full page. Attractive early leather binding of half black calf. Spine with raised bands, each with gilt floral design. Compartments ruled..... More
Chapman and Hall. London. ND. 1870's. 1870. Volumes from the Household edition. 2 volumes bound in one. Large 8vo. (9.9 x 7.5 inches). Text in double column. American Notes & Pictures from Italy are finely illustrated with eighteen engravings, some full page, by Frost and Thomson, The Uncomercial Traveller with..... More
Chapman and Hall. London. ND. 1870's. 1870. Volumes from the Household edition. 2 volumes bound in one. Large 8vo. (9.9 x 7.5 inches). Text in double column. Finely illustrated with Twenty Eight engravings, some full page, by Mahoney in Oliver Twist, Thirty four by Barnard in Sketches by Boz. Attractive..... More
Bradbury and Evans. London 1848. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8.6 x 5.8 inches). Bound without the half title otherwise complet,e with Errata leaf and all 1st state text points, including"Shewed" and "shew" on p.40, "capatin" on p.324, and "if" missing from p.426, among others. Also illustrated with 40 engraved plates by..... More
Chapman & Hall. London.,1870. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (9 x 6 inches). Bound from the original monthly parts, published between April and September 1870. Publishers original blue-green printed wrappers and most of the adverts are bound in. Illustrated with a portrait frontis, which has one small chip to the outer edge..... More
Bradbury and Evans. London,1848, 1848. FIRST EDITION, Bound from the parts.8vo. Extra illustrated with the two sets, of 4 and 8,seperately published engravings by Hablot K. Browne, featuring portraits of Edith, Little Paul, Florence and Alice. The second series shows full length portraits of the other leading characters, Dombey, Miss..... More
Chapman & Hall. London.,1840/41. FIRST EDITION. Three volumes bound into one. Large 8vo. (10.5 x 7.2 inches). Many pages spotted, mostly to margins and not heavily. A few pages with light stains to the page edges. Overall a very good copy in recent half tan morocco, raised bands, gilt. Brown..... More
Trigram Press. London. 1969. LIMITED EDITION. One of 100 numbered copies of the First edition, signed by Dine on the colophon. This limited edition was issued with an original screenprint loosely inserted but it is not present in this copy. Large 8vo. (10.7.6 inches). Colour printed frontis, with tissue guard..... More
R. Ackermann. London. 1823. SECOND EDITION, a re-issue of the 1817 edition. 8vo (9.9 x 6.6 inches). Illustrated with 24 fine hand-coloured, full page, aquatint plates, the colouring still strong and bright, by Thomas Rowlandson. The plates are generally on smaller leaves but all are complete with image and printed..... More
Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1967. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. A fine copy in publishers dark grey, black cloth backed, boards with gilt lettering to spine. In the original fine colour printed dustwrapper. More
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Smith, Elder and Co., London. 1915, 1915. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.4 x 5.2 inches). Illustrated with a mono frontispiece of Sherlock Holmes, by Frank Wiles. Some foxing, mainly to the first dozen or so pages, otherwise mostly bright throughout. Finely bound in recent half tan calf. Spine with five raised..... More
John Murray.London.,1923, 1923. FIRST EDITION. Mono illustrated frontispiece with portraits of three of Doyle's children. A very good copy. Previous owners name, dated Christmas 1923, on front free endpaper. Publishers plain grey paper covered boards with red cloth spine. Printed paper label, lettered in black. Label a bit rubbed but..... More
John Murray. London. 1927, 1927. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.4 x 5 inches). A fine clean copy throughout. Finely bound, by Zaehnsdorf for Asprey and Co, in recent full black morocco. Spine with five raised bands, each with gilt wavy lines. Compartments ruled and lettered in gilt. Boards with gilt ruled..... More
George Newnes, Limited. London. 1902, 1902. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.3 x 5 inches). Illustrated with sixteen mono plates by Sidney Paget. A little spotting to a few pages but overall a very good clean copy in recent leather binding of full tan morocco. Five raised bands to spine, which is..... More
Longmans, Green, and Co. London and Bombay. 1902, 1902. FIRST EDITION. Colonial Issue. 8vo. (7.4 x 5.3 inches). Illustrated with sixteen mono plates by Sidney Paget. Tisue guard to the frontispiece. A few of the plates are bound in different places than listed on the contents page but all are..... More
George Newnes, Limited. London. 1905, 1905. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.4 x 5.1 inches). viii, 404, 4pp of publishers adverts at rear. Illustrated with sixteen mono plates by Sidney Paget. Some light spotting to a few pages but overall a very good copy in recent leather binding by Sangorski and Sutcliffe..... More