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...]
First edition, first issue in book form, with first state points (100£ etc.) The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit appeared in serial form from January 1843 to July 1844 and, despite Dickens' positivity towards the work, the story was not financially s [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...]
Impressive, special Folio Society edition of Trollope's The Duke's Children, first published as a serial in 1879. The first edition to feature the full text, reconstructed by Steven Amarnick. Limited to 1980 copies, of which this is 854. Bound in half leath [more...]
Striking edition of Leo Tolstoy's short stories designed and illustrated by Roman Pisarev. With an introduction by John Sutherland. Complete with slipcase. Sealed in publisher's shrink-wrap, as new. *Due to size and weight extra shipping fees may apply t [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...]
First edition, first printing of Powell's second novel from his A Dance to the Music of Time sequence. Lacks DJ. Some sunning to spine, light marking and rubbing to covers. Faint foxing/smudge marks to fore-edge. Tanning to page edges. Binding neat and sq [more...]
The complete set of Folio Society editions of Durrell's Alexandria Quartet (Justine (2008); Balthazar (2009); Mountolive (2009); Clea (2009). First published between 1957 and 1960, this edition uses the revised 1962 version. Illustrated with b/w photographs o [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...]
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...]
Striking First Folio Society edition of Bulgakov's great, posthumously published novel that first appeared in a censored for in 1957 before later being published in its entirety, featuring the text of Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's 1997 translation. [more...]
Elegant Folio Society edition of Tolstoy's enduring novel. With splendid colour illustrations by Angela Barrett. Quarter cloth with illustrated covers. Complete with slipcase. Sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap. As new. [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...]
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...]
