Early Folio Society Edition of Defoe's thoughtful adventure story about the Castaway Robinson Crusue. Tremendous linocuts by John Lawrence. Leather label to spine. Previous owner's neat bookplate to front pastedown. Slipcase has some mild shelfwear. Very f [more...]
Interesting edition of Defoe's Journal of the Plague year, a fictional account of the plague in london. With a facsimile of the title page of the first edition. Red cloth with decoration to spine. Toning to covers. Tanning to page edges. Cracking to front [more...]
Pleasant Thomas Nelson edition of Austen's novel. Red cloth boards. DJ has rubbing and small tears to edges. Previous owner's inscription to ffep. Contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Decorative Folio Society edition of this collection of six short stories/novellas by Turgenev. Including Diary of a Superfluous man, Mumu, Asya, First Love, King Lear of the Steppes and The Song of Triumphant Love. With b/w illustrations by Elisa Trimby. Co [more...]
Pleasant edition of Stevenson's romantic historical adventure. Red cloth with gilt decoration. Top edge gilt. Tissue guarded frontispiece. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Contents clean and tight. Good+ [more...]
No date but c. 1920. Pleasant red leather edition of Scott's historical novel. With b/w illustrations. Top edge gilt. Sunning, rubbing and wear to spine with slight loss to top. Contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Reprint of the charming appian story, with illustrations and decoration by Richard B. Ogle. No DJ. Toning and wear to covers. Previous owner's name to half-title. Contents clean and binding sound. Good overall. [more...]
The story of extravagant and parasitic Delaney siblings wherein Du Maurier employs some innovative narrative techniques. Summer green faux leather covers with ornate gilt design. Original illustrations by Christopher Bradley. Sewn headband and silken marker [more...]
Attractive Heron edition of Maugham's novel loosely based on the life of Paul Gauguin. Faux quarter leather with rich red cloth and elaborate gilt tooling. Large crease to cover but contents are untouched. Unobtrusive stamp to end papers and slight bumping [more...]
Interesting edition of W. Somerset Maugham's novel of literary memory and the veracity of biography. Text in english with Russian notes and introduction. Some shelfwear, rubbing and slight markings to cloth boards. Previous owner's signature. Contents are [more...]
Handsome but well-traveled edition of Goldsmith's miscellaneous works including The Vicar of Wakefield and She Stoops to Conquer. All edges gilt. Leather with decorated spine and title. Rubbing to extremities of spine with a little loss. Crease to cover. [more...]
Pleasant Heron edition of Stevenson's great adventure novel . Bound in brown faux-leather with elaborate gilt decoration. With decorated endpapers. No date but c.1970. Introduction by Rae Jeffs and illustrations by Michael Heslop. Light bumping and rubbin [more...]
Handsome edition of Romains two novels concerning Verdun: The Prelude and The Battle. With pull out map. Top edge coloured red. Some light foxing to fore-edge but contents clean and tight. Very good condition. [more...]
First edition of Sapper's Collection of short stories concerning world war one and the battle at Ypres. Spine is toned. Rubbing to extremities. But binding holding sound, contents clean. Fair overall. [more...]
From the Tauchnitz collection of British and American Authors, copyright edition. No. 4771. Neatly rebound in blue cloth with leather label to spine. 12mo. We have many more similarly bound Tauchnitz editions. Some light wear to covers. A couple of pages l [more...]
Handsome Heron Literary Heritage edition of R. D. Blackmore's historical romance. In blue faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration and decorated end-papers. With b/w frontisportrait and introduction. Very slight bump to corner, otherwise crisp and c [more...]
Handsome Heron Literary Heritage edition of Defoe's pseudo-autobiography of the life of Moll King. In blue faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration and decorated end-papers. With b/w illustrations and introduction. Some very light shelf-wear and rub [more...]
Nice edition of Dickens' novel. Top edge gilt. Decoration to spine. With b/w illustrations. Rubbing to edges. Some splitting to inner hinge. Publisher's advert tipped in with some offsetting. Binding sound. Good. [more...]