Half leather binding of this children's magazine, Volume 9 edited by Barnardo, the founder of the home for destitute boys and girls. With b/w illustrations plus colour plates. 8vo. Rubbing and cracking to edges and joints. Tanning to page edges but content [more...]
'Taken from the Best English and German Sources'. Complete with 18 colour plates by A. Bichard. Quarter leather. large 4to. Leather is rubbed and disintegrating. Joints cracked. Light foxing to page edges. Contents otherwise sound. Fair. [more...]
Handsome art-deco style binding of Galsworthy's epic history of a newly-monied family and their progress through British high society. Printed on fine paper, contains all three books and two interludes: The Man of Property (1906); Indian Summer of a Forsyte ( [more...]
Half leather school edition Swedish-English Dictionary with descriptions and explanations in English. 8vo. Hinges starting to split but binding holding. Rubbing to edges. Contents clean. Fair+ [more...]
Half leather school edition Swedish-English Dictionary with descriptions and explanations in Swedish. 8vo. Rubbing to edges. Contents clean. Fair/good [more...]
Fourteenth edition of the Scottish Poet Pollok's final and most successful work, a blank verse epic on a religious theme. Handsome full leather binding with Inner dentelles, and gilt decoration to cover. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Rubbing and bumping to e [more...]
Leather prize binding of Scott's historical novel set during the crusades. Westminster City school crest to cover and bookplate to ffep. Decorated end-papers. Marbled page edges. Rubbing to leather. Foxing to front-matters but contents clean. Binding tig [more...]
With colour maps and b/w images within the text. Half leather with marbled boards with matching marbling to end-papers and page edges. Some rubbing to edges. Previous owner's inscription to ffep. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
Handsome full leather prize binding. Charming guide to outdoor pursuits, including games, sports and wildlife. With numerous b/w images plus plates. Marbled end-papers with matching marbling to page edges, Inner and outer dentelles. Front board detached, r [more...]
Pleasant red leather collins edition of Dumas' novel. With frontisportrait. Top edge gilt. Complete with slipcase. 12mo. Slight sunning, rubbing and fading to spine. Contents crisp and clean. Very good overall. [more...]
Pleasing Oxford edition. Padding leather covers, rounded corners, gilt to page edge and gilt dentelles to inner boards. Marbled endpapers. Some rubbing to top and bottom of spine but otherwise clean and bright. Good/very good overall. [more...]
'Choisis et mis en ordre par A. Pichon. Avant-propos de Léon Robert.'. Half leather. Marbled end-papers and matching marbled page edges. Rubbing to spine and edges. Contents clean and binding tight. Good condition. [more...]
Oxford India Paper Dickens edition of his great (and only) historical novel and his accessible history of England for younger readers. With sixteen illustrations by Phiz and four by Townsend. Full leather. Top edge gilt. Gilt decoration to spine. Marbled [more...]
Handsome leather binding of Longfellow's poems, including his translations, ballads, song of Hiawatha. Gilt decoration to cover, inner dentelles, all edges gilt. Nicely printed in double columns with gothic headings. Some slight sunning to spine. Rubbing to [more...]
Guide to church service, describing what is occurring and what one ought to do and say. Small 32mo. (110x70mm) full calf leather with gilt page edges. Marbled endpapers. Leather is worn, binding fragile. Burn mark/residue to corner of endpaper and rear endp [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...]
Handsome special quarter leather edition of Disraeli's novel featuring Talwyn Morris's iconic art deco floral design in gilt to spine. With b/w illustrations by Claude A. Shepperson plus introduction. No date but c.1900. 8vo. ( 200x145mm) [xxii+vii] 432pp. [more...]
Miniature (100x65mm) bible meant to be used on active service. With colour illustrations and suggested passages to be read in quiet moments. Leather-like cloth. Mild shelfwear. Light marking to page edge. Previous owner's name to front-pastedown. Otherwise [more...]
Pleasant half leather (publishers?) binding. Floral decoration to spine. Marbled edges with matching marbled end-papers. With a frontispiece of Gordon Browne and colour and b/w plates. No date but c. 1900. 8vo. Rubbing to edges, Tearing to top of spine. [more...]
Pleasant half leather (publishers?) binding. Floral decoration to spine. Marbled edges with matching marbled end-papers. With a frontispiece by Gordon Browne and colour and b/w plates. No date but c. 1900. 8vo. Rubbing to edges, Contents clean and bindi [more...]
