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...]
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...]
Handsome red leather edition of Stevenson's final completed work, also known as South Sea Tales, a collection of short stories. With gilt titling and design. Top edge gilt. Mild rubbing and bumping to edges, with slight loss to top of spine. Contents cl [more...]
Decorative cloth edition of Kingsley's historical novel, concerning Francis Drake and adventures on the high seas. With b/w frontispiece. Elegant inscription to ffep. Rubbing and light bumping to edges. Toning to page edges, Good overall. [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...]
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...]
Handsome leather edition of Stevenson's second collection of literary essays, including pieces on Victor Hugo and Francois Villon. Red leather covers with gilt titling and design. Top edge gilt. Rubbing to extremities. Contents clean. Nice and tight. [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...]
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Jane Austen illustrated by Charles Brock or Hugh Thomson (The peacock edition)