Pleasant Popular edition of Macaulay's great History of England. Complete in two volumes. Textured cloth. Marbling to page edges and matching end-papers. Previous owner's name to half-title. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Attractive two volume set of Dickens' classic. A facsimile of Dickens' favoured 1873 edition. Bound with quarter faux-leather and marbled end-papers. With original illustrations by phiz. Faint smudge to top edge, else bright and clean. Very good [more...]
Striking Folio Society edition of conrad's 1917 novella and Within the Tides, a collection of four short stories. With illustrations by Francis Mosley. Introduction by Alan Ross. Blue cloth with silver and black design. Complete with slipcase. In crisp fine [more...]
The Folio Society's 'second series' edition of Dickens' shorter, somewhat peculiar, 1854 novel. Illustrated in b/w by Charles Keeping. Bound in cream cloth decorated with Keeping's drawings. With an introduction. Complete with slipcase, decorated with Dick [more...]
Delightful Folio Society edition of Wodehouse's first full length novel featuring Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, in an updated quarter cloth binding. With black and white illustrations by Paul Cox. No Slipcase. Spine very slightly cocked. Clean and prim. Very [more...]
Quirky Folio Society edition of Johnson's 2008 explanation of ten significant and elegant experiments; describing the science, the scientist and the experiment itself, as well the context in which it took place. Includes Newton's exploration of colour and opt [more...]
Handsome quarter cloth edition of Trollope's innovative short novel; the author's only piece of speculative/dystopian fiction describing a British colony that has ordained that citizens must be euthanised at the age of 68. With b/w illustrations by Eliza Tri [more...]
Handsome quarter leather Franklin library edition of four of Ibsen's key works. With marbled end-papers. All edges gilt. Illustrations by Tony Eubanks. elaborate gilt design to spine and covers. Some mild shelf-wear, else crisp and clean. Near fine. [more...]
Handsome quarter leather Franklin library edition of a selection of 29 essays, chosen by Mortimer J. Adler . With marbled end-papers. All edges gilt. Illustrations by Carol Wald. elaborate gilt design to spine and covers. Some mild shelf-wear, else crisp [more...]
First Folio Society edition of Carcopino's 1939 account of the realities of life in Ancient Rome. Split into two sections, the first describes the material and moral background of the Roman Empire, the second details the specifics of daily life. With an intr [more...]
Handsome quarter leather Franklin library edition of Fielding's novell. With marbled end-papers. All edges gilt. Illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson. Elaborate gilt design to spine and covers. Some marking to covers. Some mild shelf-wear, otherwise Crisp and [more...]
Charming, and interesting, edition of Fitzgerald's final novel on morality and psychoanalysis. Text is in English but introduction and notes are in Russian. Attractive gilt design and titling to black covers. Decorated endpapers. Without dust-jacket. A fe [more...]
Handsome Heron edition of Joyce's complex 1916 novel that preceded Ulysses, describing the maturation of Stephen Dedalus. Brown faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. Decorated endpapers. B/w illustrations. . Foxing to top and fore edge. Smal [more...]
Attractive brown leatherette Heron edition of Capote's 'non-fiction novel' on the murders of the Clutter family in 1959. Lavish gilt design and titling. Foxing to top and fore edge. Small marks to free-endpapers (tape residue from a previous owner's protec [more...]
Splendid, generously illustrated Folio Society edition detailing the rediscovery of Pompeii and the effect it had on europe in the early 18th century. Issued without a slipcase but complete with glassine wrapper. Some light shelfwear, but otherwise bright, c [more...]
First printing From the Folio Society series of Shakespeare's complete plays. Illustrated with the designs of costumes by Audrey Cruddas and b/w images of decor and staging by Roger Furse. With an introduction by Laurence Olivier. Complete with Dust Jac [more...]
Stately Folio Society edition of Douglas' biography of William the Bastard of Normandy and the effects of his invasion of England. With an introduction by Roy Strong and Maps and colour images. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has some very minor shelfwear. [more...]
Handsome Heron Literary Heritage edition of Fielding's great comic novel. Complete in two volumes. In blue faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. Decorated end-papers. With b/w illustrations and introduction. In crisp fine condition. [more...]
Impressive Folio Society edition of Kipling's 1895 sequel to the Jungle book, continuing the tale of Mowgli in a series of short stories. Featuring the striking illustrations of Edward Detmold, redone in colour by David Eccles. Complete with slipcase. Some [more...]
The most amusing and/or exciting episodes extracted from Casanova's famous memoir. Lavish pictorial cover, full colour plates. Some light rubbing to edges. Contents bright and clean. Very good. [more...]
