Handsome volume from the Active service series. With colour frontispiece. Some foxing to page edges. Bumping to edges. Contents clean and tight. Good+ [more...]
Charming collection of quotes by Dickens chosen for each day of the year. With a frontisportrait. Previous owner's inscription to front blank. Contents clean and binding tight. Good [more...]
Elegant edition of Thackeray's first full novel with various later smaller pieces. From the new century library. Decorative cloth with blind-stamped design to cover and gilt to spine. Top edge gilt. Mild bumping and rubbing to edges. Very light foxing to p [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...]
Neat leather-bound uniform edition of Sabatini's 1912 collection of short stories. Some bumping and rubbing to edges. Previous owner's blind-stamped name to ffep. Contents clean and sound. Good+ [more...]
No date but c. 1900. Minerva library of Famous books edition of Carlyle's complex novel. An early example of meta-fiction in which a reviewer grapples with a curious philosophical text. Together with his essays of heroes and heroism. Plus a critical introd [more...]
Decorative red cloth. With tissue guarded photogravure frontispiece. Some mild wear to covers. Previous owner's name to ffep. Light foxing to page edges, tanning within, else clean and tight. Good. [more...]
No date but c. 1920. Account of English food, cooking and culinary culture. With b/w illustrations. Fore-edge rough cut. Toning to DJ, with some small closed tears. Some small marks to orange boards. Previous owner's name to ffep. Contents clean and tigh [more...]
From the Oxford Trollope Crown Edition. With illustrations by T. L. B. Huskinson. Lacks DJ. Slight sunning to spine. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
From the Oxford Trollope Crown Edition. With b/w images of contemporary documents. Lacks DJ. Slight sunning to spine, mild bumpng to edges. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
From the collected edition of Huxley's works. Mild shelf-wear and rubbing to edges. Very light foxing to end-papers, contents clean and tight. Very good overall. [more...]
First edition of the Waugh's historical novel concerning the mother of Contantine the Great and the adoption of Christianity in the Roman/Greek empire. No DJ. Some light wear and bumping to covers. Light toning within, else clean and tight. Good [more...]
The comedic stories of an British ex-army officer, sent to serve as Resident Magistrate in Ireland around the turn of the century. A new edition. With b/w illustrations by E.O Somerville. Rubbing and wear to edges, small closed tear to top of spine. Previou [more...]
More comedic stories of an British ex-army officer, sent to serve as Resident Magistrate in Ireland around the turn of the century. A new edition. With b/w illustrations by E.O Somerville. Rubbing and wear to edges, With some fraying to top of spine. Previo [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...]
