Impressively produced edition of Cervantes' landmark work intended to echo the epochal 1780 Spanish edition by Joaquin Ibarra, using Smollett's 1755 translation. Featuring 22 engravings by Bromley after Spanish masterworks by Carnicero and Barranco. With a [more...]
Scarce volume written and illustrated by the great Belgian artist, describing, characteristically weird islands and their eerie denizens. With colour frontispiece and numerous b/w illustrations within. With maps to end-papers. 8vo. 210pp. Toning to spine. [more...]
Nicely bound set of Dickens' works, complete in 20 volumes. Containing of course: David Copperfield; Nicholas Nickelby; Bleak House; Pickwick Papers; Little Dorrit; Our Mutual Friend, Martin Chuzzlewit; Oliver Twist & Hard Times; Sketches by Boz & The Christ [more...]
Limited edition Gregynog Press edition of selected autobiographical writings by Shaw. Number 103 of 300. Full leather binding designed by artist Paul Nash, with art deco style initials to front and rear cover. Printed on handmade paper by Arnold and Foster, [more...]
Handsomely bound by Riviere & Son, first edition of Bates' version of the King James Bible, arranged to be read in a more narrative, literary fashion. With 2 double page colour maps to rear, showing Syria and Palestine and the Mediterranean Basin. With an intr [more...]
Nicely rebound copy of James' hefty but readable history of Britain, from the earliest period to the present time. six volumes bound as three. With numerous excellent b/w plates, portraits and fold-out maps bound in at the start of each division. With signif [more...]
Striking Folio Society edition of Borges' singular collection of short stories and essays. Including the Garden of Forking paths, The Library of Babel, Death and the Compass and others. By a variety of translators. With colour illustrations by Neil Packer. [more...]
Handsomely rebound by Riviere and So. First edition of Bates' version of the King James Bible, arranged to be read in a more narrative, literary fashion. With 2 double page colour maps to rear, showing Syria and Palestine and the Mediterranean Basin. With an i [more...]
Elegant edition of Austen's 1814 novel. With numerous b/w illustrations by Hugh Thomson and an introduction by Austin Dobson. Bound in blind-stamped, floral patterned cloth. Fore-edge rough cut. 8vo. Some bumping and rubbing to edges. Some light tanning [more...]
Imposing Folio Society edition of Dostoevsky's great novel. With b/w illustrations by Harry Brockway and an introduction by Stephen Tumin. Quarter cloth with illustrated cloth covered boards. Complete with slipcase. Some toning and mild shelf-wear to slipc [more...]
Complete set of Trollope's great Barsetshire series of novels written between 1855 and 1867. These Zodiac editions were published between 1947 and 1949, some are first impressions, others second. In publisher's patterned cloth with gilt labels to spine. 8vo [more...]
Charming special edition of Shakespeare's Works, bound in publisher's lambskin with decorative floral design to spines. With introductory essays and glossary. Full leather. Top edge gilt. Frontis-portraits. Small 8vo. (185x135mm) light marking and scratch [more...]
Generously illustrated edition of Dickens' short story, with colour plates plus smaller b/w illustrations within the text done by J. C. Beard. 4to. Pictorial covers. Backstrip missing. Heavy rubbing to edges. Previous owner's name to half-title. Occasiona [more...]
2nd impression of the first UK edition of Schaefer's classic western novel. Dust jacket has some very small chips and closed tears to edges. Mild foxing to top edge. Bumping to edges. Previous owner's name to front pastedown. Contents clean and tight. Ve [more...]
Splendid edition of Dickens' enduring classic, published under the Folio Society's special Folio Press imprint. Featuring a facsimile of Dickens own (and the only) manuscript of the text, written in his hand and showing his alterations, printed on the recto. [more...]
Striking first Folio Society edition of Hugo's epochal novel. Decorative cloth with grey canvas front cover. Illustrated with somewhat macabre two colour lithographs by Charles Keeping. With introduction and footnotes. 8vo. (250x160mm) Complete with slipcas [more...]
Impressive Folio Society edition of Montaigne's essays. Appearing in the later half of the 16th century, the essays explore the human condition and the limits of knowledge whilst addressing a variety of topics profound and mundane. Featuring the 1603 transla [more...]
Complete works of the 17th century dramatist. Full leather with gilt decoration and titling to spine. Marbled end-papers. Frontisportrait. Severe rubbing and wear to spines and joints. Front board of volume II detached. Others starting, one with previous [more...]
Imposing Folio Society of Meyrink's wildly successful 1914 novel on the nature of Ghetto life and Jewish mysticism. With b/w illustrations by Vladimir Zimakov and an introduction by Iain Sinclair. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has some mild shelf-wear. [more...]
Handsome Folio Society edition of Paul Scott's great quartet of historical novels, tracing the decline and collapse of British rule in India during WWII and its aftermath. With colour illustrations by Finn Campbell-Notman. Bound in cloth with a design by the [more...]
