Fantastic limited special Folio Society edition to celebrate the centenary of the publication of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, in 1908. Illustrated, designed and overseen by acclaimed artist Charles Van Sandwyk. Limited to 1000 copies of which t [more...]
'The Works of John Milton in verse and prose, printed from the original editions with a life of the Author by the Rev. John Mitford.' Imposing set of Milton's works, complete in eight volumes. 8vo. Full leather with raised bands, compartments, blindstamping [more...]
Handsome matching set of Folio Society Trollope Volumes. Most 2nd. printings published c. 1999. Quarter cloth binding with decorated boards. All with slipcases. Featuring b/w illustrations by a number of artists including Alexy Pendle, Llewellyn Thomas, Fr [more...]
Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press 1937
Imposing half leather rebinding of the first edition of Virginia Woolf's The Years, the last novel published in her lifetime. Describing the life of a family over a 50 year period and exploring the social and economic roles of women. Marbled paper boards, ra [more...]
Handsome early edition of Barrie's classic children's tale featuring Peter Pan and the Darling Children. Third printing (in the same year and in the same format as the first edition) of the 1911 novelization of Barrie's stage play Peter Pan that debuted in 19 [more...]
24 volumes bound as 8. Nice set of Chamber's miscellany 'containing a choice selection of interesting and instructive reading for the old and the young.' Featuring hundreds (thousands) of short stories, poems and articles on a variety of subjects. Rather di [more...]
The complete Set of the Heron edition of Hardy's works in seventeen volumes (an additional non-uniform volume of poetry was sometimes included). Green leatherette cloth bindings with terrific gilt decoration. Featuring maps of Wessex to endpapers. With b/w [more...]
Special quarter leather Folio Society edition of Dickens' novel. Modeled on the famous Nonesuch edition. Featuring the original illustrations by Phiz. Introduction by Andrew Davies. Top edge gilt. With Slipcase. 8vo. Slipcase has some bumping and shelfw [more...]
Handsome binding of Goethe's great verse play. The first of Goethe's Faust play featuring the material of the legend of Johann Faust, though full of the authors own invention. Half red leather with raised bands and gilt to spine. Marbled end-papers with mat [more...]
Early Tauchnitz edition of Eliot's historical novel set in Florence during the Renaissance. TWO volumes bound as ONE. Half leather. Marbled boards with marbled endpapers and matching marble to page edges. raised bands. Leather has various wear and scratche [more...]
Selection of adventure themed novels including Prester John; The Coral Island; King Soloman's Mines; The Last of the Mohicans; Tom Sawyer & Tom Brown's Schooldays. Bound in full vellum with gilt decoration. Top edge tinted. In display case, which is just a [more...]
Small 16mo. Full leather, tree calf binding of Falconer's significant nautical poem describing a beleaguered ship and its fate. With b/w illustrations and a fold out diagram of a ship. Patrick O'Brian re-used some of Falconer's verse in his naval stories. G [more...]
Special quarter leather Folio Society edition of Dickens' novel. Modeled on the famous Nonesuch edition. Featuring the original illustrations by Fred Walker. Introduction by D. J. Taylor. Top edge gilt. With Slipcase. 8vo. Volume is crisp, clean, in f [more...]
Handsome fine full leather binding of Moore's poem and prose tale of illicit love in 17th century Mughal India, written in 1817. Gilt decoration to spine and covers, raised bands. Gilt to page edges. Inner dentelles. Condition: Light rubbing and marking to c [more...]
Pleasant 12mo. edition of Mansfield Park with an introduction by Austin Dobson and b/w illustrations by Hugh Thomson, one of the most renowned illustrators of Jane Austen's work. Red cloth with gilt decoration and titling. Previous owner's neat inscription. [more...]
Special quarter leather Folio Society edition of Dickens' great novel. Modeled on the famous Nonesuch edition. Featuring the original illustrations by Phiz. Introduction by Katheryn Hughes. Top edge gilt. With Slipcase. some very light sheflwear to slipca [more...]
Two volume RUSSIAN LANGUAGE edition of Dostoevsky's short stories and shorter novels. Contains Poor People/Poor Folk, White Nights, Mr. Prokharchin, The Village of Stepanchikovo, Uncle's Dream, The House of the Dead, The Gambler and A Gentle Creature. Pleasi [more...]
Charming, and interesting, edition of Fitzgerald's final novel on morality and psychoanalysis. Text is in English but introduction and notes are in Russian. Attractive gilt design and titling to black covers. Decorated endpapers. Without dust-jacket. A fe [more...]
Four volumes of the famous Percy Anecdotes, a collection of stories and facts that would enable a poseur to appear well read and interesting in company. Volumes 2, 3, 7 and 9 featuring the topics of Hospitality, The Bar, Youth, George III, Genius, Shipwreck, [more...]
Impressive Folio Society edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson, the landmark biography of Dr. Johnson called "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature". Bound in quarter cloth. Complete with slipcase. Some very light shelfwe [more...]
