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...]
French drawings of the 19th century. With numerous b/w images and descriptions of the artists. Text in french. Quarter leather. 4to. Rubbing and toning to leather. Contents clean and tight. Good. *Due to size and weight, extra shipping fees may apply t [more...]
Elegant edition of Sismondi's great history of the Italian City States, completed in 1818. Recast and supplemented in the light of new research by Boulting, with a biography of Sismondi. With leather label to spine. Mild bumping to edges. Contents clean an [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...]
Handsome Heron edition of Du Maurier's collection of shorter pieces, including, The Birds, which would go to inspire Hitchock's film. Orignally called Apple Tree: A Short Novel and Several Long Stories but the success of the Birds and its film adaptation caus [more...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
Rakish little leather edition of Fitzgerald great translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Green leather with gilt decoration. All edges gilt. Previous owner's copious notes to front matter up to half title. Rubbing to edges of spine with slight loss. [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...]
Collection of short stories and articles, complete with six colour plates (frontispiece bound in later) and numerous b/w illustrations. With a christmas special bound in at the rear, as well the Boy's Diary, an account of sporting results in private schools [more...]
Tremendous Quarter leather edition of Folio's Golden Treasury featuring poems and song from the 16th century to the 20th. With b/w engraving by a variety of artists. With slipcase. In fine condition. [more...]
