Special limited edition of Aesop's fables illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Limited to the 1450 copies, signed by the illustrator, of which this is number 121. White buckram cloth with gilt titling. With an introduction by G. K. Chesterton. With 13 full page [more...]
The complete 36 Volume Heron Centennial set of Charles Dickens' collected works. Bound in rich green faux-leather 'kidron' cloth with gilt lettering and design. Raised bands. Decorative endpapers. Frontis portraits. Silken ribbon-markers. A general introd [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...]
Marvellous quarter leather Folio Society edition featuring many myths and legends of Celtic original or interest. Including sections on King Arthur, various saints and those stories concerning the Welsh, Irish and Scottish. With tremendous gilt raised full c [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...]
Charming Folio Society edition of Mary and Charles Lamb's enduring prose adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, first published in 1807. Though intended for younger readers, the fairy-story style renderings have a timeless appeal. With an introduction by Kather [more...]
Particularly bright expanded edition of The Arabian Nights featuring 28 tipped in full page colour illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Decorated orange boards and decorated end-papers. 8vo. some very light sunning to spine. Foxing to small part of fore and top [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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
