Handsome Heron edition of Priestley's novel on duelling civil servants. Blue faux-leather cloth covers with elaborate gilt decoration. Decorated endpaper and b/w frontispiece. Very faint foxing to page edge. A previous owner's protective dust jacket has le [more...]
A detailed study of Tennyson's work. Leather bindings with gilt decoration to spine. Top edge gilt. Rubbing to edges, Toning to spine and covers. Contents clean and bindings sound. Good. [more...]
Pleasant collins clear type edition of Thackeray's Great novel. In soft red leather. Complete with slipcase and frontispiece. Top edge gilt. Rubbing to edges of slipcase. Some wear to spine. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [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...]
Printed un double columns with b/w illustrations within the text plus b/w and colour plates and fold out colour maps. Quarter leather with marbled page edges. 8vo. Previous owner's stamp to ffep. Rubbing and fraying to cloth. Occasional foxing within. Bi [more...]
Printed un double columns with b/w illustrations within the text plus b/w and colour plates and fold out colour maps. Quarter leather with marbled page edges. 8vo. Previous owner's stamp to ffep. Rubbing and scruffs and marks to covers. Occasional foxing [more...]
Printed in double columns with b/w illustrations within the text plus b/w and colour plates and fold out colour maps. Quarter leather with marbled page edges. 8vo. Previous owner's stamp to ffep. Rubbing and light marking to covers. Occasional foxing with [more...]
No date but c. 1920. Pleasant red leather edition of Scott's historical novel. With b/w illustrations. Top edge gilt. Sunning, rubbing and wear to spine. Contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Pleasant blue faux-leather edition of Ainsworth's novel. Previous owner's name to ffep. Very light bumping to edges. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [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...]
Comprehensive survery of English poetry from the 16th century to the present day, from Spenser to Seamus Heaney. Nice quarter faux-leather binding. Some mild shelf-wear. Else clean and prim. Near fine, [more...]
From the uniform edition of Barrie's plays. Handsome blue leather edition of Barrie's comedy. Top edge gilt. Marbled end-papers. Rubbing to edges . Foxing to page edges. Contents clean and sound. Good+ [more...]
The second volume of the deluxe leather edition of Dickens' classic novel. Elaborate gilt design to spine and cover. Silken bookmarker, decorated end-papers. Top edge gilt, sewn headband. Features illustrations by Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne). Some light ru [more...]
No date but c. 1920. Pleasant red leather edition of Scott's historical novel. With b/w illustrations. Top edge gilt. Sunning, rubbing and wear to spine with slight loss to top. Contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Charming and compact biography of this 'Man of Destiny', from the Men of Destiny Series. Dark blue leatherette cloth with extravagant gilt titling and design. Some shelfwear with light tanning to page edges otherwise bright with prim, Very good. [more...]
Attractive Heron edition of Maugham's novel loosely based on the life of Paul Gauguin. Faux quarter leather with rich red cloth and elaborate gilt tooling. Large crease to cover but contents are untouched. Unobtrusive stamp to end papers and slight bumping [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 but well-traveled edition of Goldsmith's miscellaneous works including The Vicar of Wakefield and She Stoops to Conquer. All edges gilt. Leather with decorated spine and title. Rubbing to extremities of spine with a little loss. Crease to cover. [more...]
