Nice half leather binding of Butler's satirical novel describing a peculiar imaginary land and sending up victorian culture and politics. Fifth edition. Top edge gilt. Raised bands. Gilt decoration to spine. small 8vo. [xviii] 324pp. Rubbing to extremiti [more...]
Terrific 4to. volume featuring cartoonist David Low's great two page colour images of a modern imagining of Hogarth's Rake's Progress. Here our Rake invests in the movies, goes to the track, is thrown out of his hotel etc. With wry descriptions by Rebecca Lo [more...]
Folio Society edition of James' humourous memoirs. With b/w illustrations by Yann le Bec. With slipcase. Slipcase has some very very light shelfwear. In fine condition. [more...]
Handsome Folio Society edition of Sitwell study of the eccentric, a subject she knew well. Quarter cloth with decorated boards. Illustrations by Roland Pym. Complete with slipcase. A few spots of foxing to page edge and minor shelfwear, else a clean, tight [more...]
A rather charming Folio Society compilation of accounts of christmas spent abroad. From a whole range of authors: from artists, explorers and diplomats; from locations spanning the entire planet. With retro style full colour illustrations by Paul Slater. I [more...]
A selection of sketches, essays and short stories by Mark Twain, chosen by Roy Blount Jr. In fetching shiny silver cloth. With illustrations by Rod Waters. Complete with slipcase. In fine condition. [more...]
A selection of sketches, essays and cartoons by the American wit James Thurber, selected by Michael J. Rosen. In fetching shiny silver cloth. Complete with slipcase. In fine condition. [more...]
A selection of 'plums' chosen by Joe Whitlock Blundell from the writings of P. G. Wodehouse. Features entire stories such as A Crime Wave at Blandings and Uncle Fred Flits By and seven other, plus a selection of short excepts and quotes from Wodehouse on a va [more...]
Leather edition of Thackery's book of snobs, a series of satirical pieces first published in Punch. RUbbing and cracking to hinge. But binding holding firm, contents clean. Fair condition. [more...]
Handsomely bound and printed second edition of this satirical diary of world war one. Quarter cloth with leather label. fore edge rough cut. With b/w illustrations by M. Watson Williams. Decorated initials and devices throughout. Small tear to top corner [more...]
Nice stout edition of the Pickwick Papers containing 43 b/w illustrations by the original illustrators: Robert Seymour, Robert William Buss and Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne). Blue cloth covers are lightly rubbed, bumped and marked. Light spotting within but g [more...]
8vo., 240pp, Hardback, no DJ, London Education Book Company, no date but c.1930. Volume 16 (of 20) from the New Punch Library. Humourous sketches and writing on the theme of travel with illustrations by popular Punch artists such as George Morrow and Bert [more...]
8vo., 240pp, Hardback, no DJ, London Education Book Company, no date but c.1930. Volume 18 (of 20) from the New Punch Library. Humourous sketches and writing on the theme of Sport and such with illustrations by popular Punch artists such as Frank Reynolds [more...]
8vo., 176pp., Hardcover with DJ, Robson Books, London, 1982 Collection of essays and musings by the humourist and Punch assistant editior Alan Coren. Book and Dustjacket in fine condition. [more...]
Quirky edition of Delafield's autobiographical novel. Pictoral covers and an introduction by Jilly Cooper. Some slight sunning to spine but otherwise clean and tight. Complete with slip-case. Good/very good. [more...]
Economic wartime edition of Edward Lear's nonsensical verse. With copious b/w illustrations throughout. Previous owner's inscription to ffep. Bright and clean. Very good condition. A nice copy. [more...]
Called his most ambitious novel since Fight Club, Pygmy is cult author Palahniuk's tale of a diminutive secret agent who leaves his totalitarian homeland to inflitrate the US as a foreign exchange student. Written in the stunted english of the agent nicknamed [more...]
A rather charming Folio Society compilation of accounts of christmas spent abroad. From a whole range of authors: from artists, explorers and diplomats; from locations spanning the entire planet. With retro style full colour illustrations by Paul Slater. C [more...]
Satirical look at the start of the second world war, written in a biblical style. Very light foxing to fore-edge. Contents clean. Good condition. [more...]
Charming Folio Society edition of short story master, Saki's best tales. With b/w illustrations by Roger Fereday. Complete with slipcase. In fine condition. [more...]
