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...]
32 volumes of the 36 Volume set of Charles Dickens' collected works (Missing Barnaby Rudge I, A Child's History of England, Miscellaneous Papers I & II) Attractive green leatherette covers with gilt lettering and design. Raised bands. Decorative endpapers. [more...]
Terrific late 19th century facsimile of the 1669 third edition of L'Estrange's retelling of Aesop's fables. 4to. [L] 476pp. With a life of Aesop, alphabetical index of fables and a preface by the Author. Also includes the fables of Abstemious, Poggius and o [more...]
Charming deluxe leather edition of three of Kipling's dog stories: Thy Servant a Dog; Toby Dog and The Great Play Hunt. Features b/w illustrations by G. L. Stampa throughout. Blue mottled leather wth gilt decoration and titling. Inner dentelles, all edges [more...]
Collected editions of Sunday Chimes, a christian magazine intended for Sunday School pupils. With News articles, poems and short stories. With b/w images and artwork. No date but c.1908. Some interesting pieces on the Boer War and the famine in India. Spi [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...]
Three volumes of Gorky's most popular stories and novels including the short stories of Through Russia and his novel The Spy, also called The Life of a Useless Man, a dark satirical piece on an informer in Tsarist Russia. Elaborate gilt decoration and titling [more...]
Quarter leather binding EX-LIBRARY copy of the Lambs' great renderings of the stories of Shakespeare. With an introduction by Andrew Lang and b/w illustrations by Robert Anning Bell. Tags removed but stamps and such to ffep and front pastedown. Spine cocked [more...]
Terrific volume featuring eleven Japanese folk-tales and romances and over 30 full page colour illustrations. Stories include The Badger Haunted Temple and the Spirit of the Lantern. Covers are rubbed and bumped at extremities, with some light markings to re [more...]
Colour annual featuring short stories, comics, jokes, puzzles and artwork. Tanning to pages. Previous owner's inscription. With ads to rear. Cloth spine. Good condition. [more...]
Terrific Folio Society volume featuring writing on the theme of the English Christmas from a variety of sources, from the middle ages to the present day, chosen by Geraldine Beare. With illustrations by John Holder. Features work from J. R .R Tolkien, Ben Jo [more...]
100th edition of the Ambit literary magazine. Featuring J. G. Ballard's innovative short story Answers to a questionnaire. Artwork by Peter Blake among others. Poetry by Carol Ann Duffy and more. Dust-jacket has some toning and shelfwear. But contents are [more...]
Nice copy of Kipling's collection of humorous tales including Pig and The Legend of Mirth. With 23 full page b/w illustrations by Reginald Cleaver. 8vo. 512pp. With ads to rear. Dust-jacket has some bumping and small tears to edges. Previous owner's inscr [more...]
Deluxe leather edition of Dickens' final unfinished novel together with his own entirely delf-written periodical, Master Humphrey's Clock, a plethora of short stories. Elaborate gilt design to spine and cover. Silken bookmarker, decorated end-papers. Top edg [more...]
'The Greatest Masterpieces of Russian Literature' indeed. Attractive Heron edition of Gorky's short stories. In red faux-leather with wonderful gilt tooling. Decorated endpapers, sewn headband, silken bookmarker. With original illustrations by Lola Fieldi [more...]
Handsome Heron edition of some of Oscar Wilde's most popular stories, including The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Canterville Ghost and 12 more. Rich blue faux-leather covers. Introduction by John Guest and a number of b/w illustrations. Contents neat and cle [more...]
Handsome Heron edition of Gogol's classic Russian novel. Though unfinished Dead Souls is an outstanding work that traces the arc of the conman Chichikov, who travels around the Russian countryside buying and selling the dead serfs. In red faux-leather with [more...]
Nice edition of the popular Uncle Remus stories with b/w illustrations by A. B. Frost. Dust jacket is price clipped with small tears and rubbing to edges. Contents clean. Binding tight. Very good overall [more...]
Folio Society edition of Du Maurier's collection of longer short Stories, published as Not After Midnight. With colour illustrations by Helen Smithson. Some light shelfwear and marks to slipcase. Contents clean and prim. Very good condition. [more...]
