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...]
Neat collins edition of Charlotte Bronte's classic. In a limp faux-leather cover with gilt titling. Top edge gilt. Some light shelfwear. Previous owner's inscription to ffep. Contents clean and prim. Good+ condition overall. [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...]
From the Yale Editions of Boswell's Private papers: Boswell's journal, written during a year in London whilst 22, that was only found much later and published in 1950. Interesting for containing his first meeting with Samuel Johnson and for the recorded conve [more...]
Charming cloth edition of Goldsmith's 1766 novel from Dent's English Idylls series, featuring elaborate gilt decoration and 25 colour plates by C. E. Brock. Light green cloth. Top edge gilt. Fore edge rough cut. Decorated end-papers. Previous owner's inscri [more...]
Attractive Collins edition of Dickens' classic, specially bound by the Chaucer Press. Faux-leather boards with ample gilt design and titling. Decorated endpapers, sewn headband. Slight tanning to page edge and minor shelfwear and bumping. Slight indent/scr [more...]
Attractive Collins edition of Dickens' classic, specially bound by the Chaucer Press. Faux-leather boards with ample gilt design and titling. Decorated endpapers, sewn headband. Slight tanning to page edge and minor shelfwear. Clean and tight. Very good/n [more...]
Handsome leather edition of Stevenson's memoir of his immigrant experiences in America describing his arrival in New York and his journey to San Francisco. Fine paper edition. Red leather covers with gilt titling and design. All edges gilt. Decorated endpa [more...]
Handsome leather edition of Stevenson's historical novel set during the Jacobite uprising. Dark leather covers with gilt titling and design. Top edge gilt. Rubbing to extremities. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Signature to ffep. Conten [more...]
Collections of short stories of O. Henry, american master of the short story. With frontispiece. Faux leather blue cloth. Contents clean and tight. Good/very good. [more...]
Neat collection of Stevenson's memories and elegiac portraits of people he knew, linked, he claims, in a way that reveals himself. Fine paper edition. Bound in full leather with decorated end-papers. All edges gilt. Some rubbing to spine and extremities bu [more...]
Handsome 16mo. leather edition of Stevenson's first collection of essays. Fine paper edition. Red leather covers with gilt titling and design. All edges gilt. Decorated endpapers. Rubbing to extremities, top of spine. Previous owner's bookplate to front [more...]
Pleasant quarter cloth, Novel Library edition of Dickens' classic. With an introduction by Bernard Shaw. Decorative paper to boards. Some rubbing and bumping to edges. Contents clean and sound. Good+ [more...]
Handsome edition featuring thirteen short stories of Doyle's great detective, including The Dancing Men. Quarter cloth with decorated boards. b/w illustrations throughout. Very Good condition. [more...]
Handsome edition featuring Doyle's most famous Sherlock Holmes adventures. Quarter cloth with decorated boards. b/w illustrations throughout. Very Good condition. [more...]
Handsome collins edition of Kingsley's historical novel, concerning Francis Drake and adventures on the high seas. Limp red leather with gilt decoration to spine, top edge gilt. With b/w illustrations by G. C. Hindley. No date but c. 1930. Sunning to spin [more...]
Pleasant red cloth collins edition of Stevenson's historical novel set during the Jacobite uprising. With b/w illustrations by J. K. Maxton. No date but c. 1950. Lean to spine. Rubbing to edges. Contents clean and binding sound, Good. [more...]
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