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...]
Charming volume of short writings and aphorisms by the author of Friends in Council. Subjects vary from perennial issue to specifics of the time, such as the French Claque and the need to rehabilitate the reputation of st. George. Fine leather binding. Full [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...]
Classic Gentleman's magazine, with art, short stories, profiles on Sugar Ray Leonard, a previously unpublished piece Wonder of wonders; Music writing on Elvis and Maria Callas; Ralph Stein on touring cars and more. Rakish in the extreme. Some rubbing and she [more...]
Handsome special limited edition of Boccaccio's The Decameron. Printed for the Navarre Society, although their name does not appear anywhere. No. 174 of 1000 copies. quarter cream cloth with green boards. Top edge gilt. Printed on special laid paper with [more...]
Edinburgh Edition. A nice full leather binding of the popular Ingoldsby Legends, a collection of often humorous tales involving ghosts, witches, historical figures & mysteries. With fifty illustrations by Cruikshank, Tenniel, Leech et al. Blue calf with gilt [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...]
Stanhope Press for John Sharpe, Suttaby, Evance and Fox, Taylor, Hessey 1812
Printed at the Stanhope Press. Neat edition featuring both volumes of Gay's fables, the second only appearing 1738, six years after his death. Featuring 68 fables told in rhyming verse, these satirical pieces take aim at the politics and society of Gay's tim [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...]
39th year. Gilt decorated pictorial cloth covers with beveled edges. All edges gilt. Features numerous tissue guarded colour illustrations. Various markings and rubbing to covers. Binding a little slack but contents generally clean. Good overall. [more...]
Literary magazine featuring poetry and short stories, including Florence Warden's The Secret of Princess Paul. With advertisements to front and rear. Paper covers are rubbed and cracked around spine. Rear cover detached and in two pieces but complete. Conten [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...]
Two volumes (of four) from Knight's compendium of short pieces and extracts from some of the world's greatest writers. Including Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Ammianus Marcellinus, Rousseau, Goethe, Dryden, Coleridge and many more, including some now obscure author [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...]
Second edition of Lang's collection of essays on contentious events from history. Includes the case of Elizabeth Canning, The Cardinal's necklace and the appearance and murder of Kaspar Hauser, alleged to be an abducted crown prince. Fascinating stories. W [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...]
