English Idyll edition of Austen novel featuring Charles Brock's watercolor illustrations. Light green cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. Contains the complete 24 illustrations by Brock, his work for this series is widely considered the finest depictions o [more...]
Limited edition Gregynog Press edition of selected autobiographical writings by Shaw. Number 103 of 300. Full leather binding designed by artist Paul Nash, with art deco style initials to front and rear cover. Printed on handmade paper by Arnold and Foster, [more...]
'Orne de figues'. Early edition (possibly first, possibly a pirated copy) of Fromaget's controversial 1742 novel that was banned immediately. Purporting to be a historical document published in Constantinople (hence a lack of bibliographic information), Le C [more...]
Terrific example of the Fourth printing of Tressall's important political novel, published in 1914, three years after his death. Written as the seeds of socialism were beginning to take root in Britain and Labour MPs were first elected to parliament, The Ragg [more...]
First edition with first issue points present (elgble on p.19 etc.). With 40 b/w illustrations by Phiz including the 10 dramatic dark plates. 8vo. (215x145mm) [xvi] 624pp. Rebacked half leather with original gilt decorated spine (with small portion missing [more...]
Splendud half leather binding of Trollope's great Barsetshire series of novels written between 1855 and 1867, all six volumes bound as five. These Zodiac editions published between 1961 and 1972. Bound by Bayntun in half brown morocco with tan cloth. Top ed [more...]
Tremendous limited edition of the 1627 Chinese collection of stories, Hsing Shih Heng Yen (Common Tales to Rouse the World). Featuring five engravings from drawings by Eric Gill. Gill composed these images during the last week of his life and they were then [more...]
Eighteenth thousand. Early edition of the first illustrated edition of Stevenson's classic adventure story. This version features the map and 24 b/w illustrations from a variety of artists. 8vo. 292pp. With numerous advertisements to rear. Tissue guarded [more...]
Nicely produced, rare second printing of Post 's novel, a melange of historical fiction and arcadian fantasy, published before she found fame for her writings on etiquette. Quarter white cloth. top edge uncut. Some light shelfwear and bumping. Contents cle [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...]
Jaunty Folio Society collection of Waugh's satirical comedies. With colorful pictorial covers and colour full page illustrations plus b/w images throughout by John Holder. With an introduction by David Lodge. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has some infin [more...]
'A Reprint of the First Edition to which are added Mr. Boswell's corrections and editions'. Edited with new notes by Percy Fitzgerald. Preface by the editor and a Boswell Bibliography by H. R. Tedder. Boswell's epochal biography of Samuel Johnson, a work th [more...]
Splendid green cloth illustrated edition of Jane Austen's novel. With 20 colour images done by A. Wallis Mills. Illustrated end-papers. Gilt decoration and titling to covers with portrait. 12mo. (190x130mm) 236+245pp. Some rubbing and bumping to extremitie [more...]
Handsome full leather tree calf prize binding of Lytton's epic poem. Only published after his death, Lytton had worked on King Poppy for a number of years, re-writing it more than once. A melange of fable and fairy-tale, Lytton supplied marginal notes which [more...]
Second edition of Lytton's novel. Full leather with gilt decoration. Outer dentelles. Marbled end-papers, marbled page edges. Bound by Smyth & Co., Liverpool. Rubbing to extremities, some small marks to covers. Contents clean and bright. Binding tight. [more...]
Collected Essays of Goldsmith that first appeared in various journals and pamphlets. Calf leather binding. 12mo. 230pp. Rubbing to covers. Some cracking to spine. Some very light spotting within. Binding holding sound, contents clean. Good. [more...]
Handsome full leather tree calf prize binding of Lytton's novel, written under the pseudonym Owen Meredith. With Wellington college crest to cover. Inner and outer dentelles. Marbled end-papers with matching marbling to page edges. With unassigned prize b [more...]
Special limited edition of Morris' influential high fantasy novel that was admired and referenced by Tolkien and Lewis. A Facsimile of the 1910 Longmans edition. Full morocco leather binding. Number 25 of 50, signed by publisher. 8vo. Some slight rubbing t [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...]
'The Roots of the Mountains: Wherein is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale, Their Friends, Their Neighbors, Their Foemen, and Their Fellows in Arms'. Special limited edition of Morris' historical fantasy. A Facsimile of the 1913 Longmans editi [more...]
