Delightful, jaunty Folio Society edition of Wodehouse's best novels set at Blandings castle. Containing: Summer Lightning; Heavy Weather; Uncle Fred In The Springtime; Full Moon; Pigs Have Wings; Service With A Smile. With black and white illustrations by Pa [more...]
Pleasant half leather binding of the first edition of Irving's Tales of a Traveller, a collection of essays and short stories written by his Geoffrey Crayon persona - responsible for the Sketch Book and Bracebridge Hall. Less well received than his previous w [more...]
Handsome binding of Lover's lively, literary satire, featuring sketches of Irish life and society. With 24 tissue guarded illustrations on steel done by the author. Half leather rebind done by Morrell. Raised bands and floral decoration to spine. Gilt rul [more...]
Slick Folio Society edition of Vonnegut's 1969 masterpiece of postmodern sci-fi satire that attempts to parse the author's experiences during WW2, in particular the fire-bombing of Dresden. With an introduction by John Sutherland and colour illustrations by Jo [more...]
With numerous illustrations by George and Robert Cruikshank and others. A collection of various comic poems bound togther each with b/w illustrations. 12mo. Full leather. Labels missing from spine. Splitting to joints, binding starting. Contents clean. [more...]
Nicely produced Folio Society edition of Kingsley Amis' influential 1954 satire, charting and skewering the social change of the time. With colour illustrations by A. Richard Allen and an introduction by Joh Sutherland. Complete with slipcase. Some very l [more...]
Green cloth/cranford style edition of Irving's follow-up to his wildly popular The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon. Bracebridge Hall employs a similar format, consisting of loosely connected stories from his pseudonym Crayon who has installed himself at an Eng [more...]
Issues no. 380 to 403 plus christmas issue. Half leather with marbled boards. Rubbing and wear to leather with portion missing from top of spine. Tanning to page edges but contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Wodehouse's first Wrykin school story. Lacks DJ. Previous owner's name to front pastedown. Spine very slightly cocked. Whisper of foxing to top edge. Contents clean and tight. Good+ [more...]
Issues no. 304 to 329 plus christmas issue. Half leather with marbled boards. Rubbing and wear to leather with portion missing from top of spine. Tanning to page edges but contents clean and tight. Good. [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...]
Issues no. 404 to 429. Half leather with marbled boards. Rubbing and wear to leather. Tanning to page edges but contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Nice edition of Rabelais' works, primarily Gargantua and Pantagruel, translated into English. Features b/w illustrations by Frank C. Pape, including terrific, humourous plates as well as images and decorations within the text. large 8vo. Top edge tinted. [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...]
Humourous tales of animals in army barracks. Maroon cloth with gilt decoration. With b/w illustrations by Shepard. DJ is sunned to spine. Rubbed to edges. Toning to ffep. Very light foxing to fore-edge. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
Reprint of Cornford's influential 1908 pamphlet on University politics whose pessimistic advice would be applied to politics in general. Some light shelf-wear to DJ. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
Pleasant quarter cloth binding of Hood's humourous poems with b/w illustrations. Marbled boards. rubbing and wear to extremities. Offsetting to endpapers. Contents clean and binding tight. Good. [more...]
W. S. Gilberts beloved light verse featuring his own b/w illustrations. Elements from the poems would go on to inspire his work with Arthur Sullivan. Top edge gilt. Light marking to covers. Contents clean and tight. Good/very good. [more...]
Nicely produced selection of quotes and passages from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. With marbled end-papers and bookmarker. Printed in double columns. Clean and prim. In fine/as new condition. [more...]
First Edition. A second collection of humourous articles about military life that first appeared in Punch magazine. Some rubbing and tearing to top and tail of DJ spine. Light marking and toning to covers. Mild foxing to top edge. But contents clean and [more...]
