Handsome edition of Weyman's 1891 historical novel. Red cloth with gilt decoration, designed to match the 1911 edition of his works by Smith, Elder & Co and Longmans, Green & Co. Some light bumping and rubbing to edges. Contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Kipling's collection of humorous tales including Pig and The Legend of Mirth. With 23 full page b/w illustrations by Reginald Cleaver. 8vo. 512pp. With ads to rear. Previous owner's inscription to ffep. Sunning/toning to covers. Rubbing to joints with te [more...]
Charming Folio edition of Stevenson's first published work. Written to secure independence from his parents and a future with the woman he loved, Travels with a Donkey is a pioneering work of travel writing. Detailing Stevenson's journey through the curious [more...]
Du Maurier's colourful history of her family since the early 19th century including, of course, her father George DuMaurier. Summer green faux leather covers with ornate gilt design. Sewn headband and silken marker. Some light rubbing to extremities of cove [more...]
Handsome Heron Literary Heritage edition of Thackeray's great social novel. In blue faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration and decorated end-papers. With b/w illustrations and introduction. Mild shelfwear. Small dent to spine. Previous owner's st [more...]
Delicate Folio Society edition of Ihara Saikaku's 1686 collection of love stories, entitled Women who loved Love. Bound in green artificial silk. Illustrated with wood engravings by Mark Severin. Decorated end-papers. Lacks slipcase. Toning to spine, spli [more...]
No date but c. 1950. Unofficial sequel to the d'Artagnan stories, appearing in 1883, after Dumas' death but published under his name. Green leatherette with slipcase. Previous owner's name to ffep, cracking to front hinge. Fair. [more...]
No date but c. 1950. Pleasant Collins edition of Wells' science fiction novel. In red faux-leather. With frontisportrait. Some mild shelf-wear, cracking to front hinge. And tanning to edges, else clean and tight, Good overall. [more...]
Pleasant decorative blue cloth edition of Craik's popular archetypal Victorian novel of 1856. With frontispiece and b/w illustrations by Holgate. No date by c. 1900. Mild rubbing and bumping to edges. Heavy tanning to page edges. Prize plate to ffep. Good [more...]
Called his most ambitious novel since Fight Club, Pygmy is cult author Palahniuk's tale of a diminutive secret agent who leaves his totalitarian homeland to inflitrate the US as a foreign exchange student. Written in the stunted english of the agent nicknamed [more...]
Attractive Heron edition. Scarlett leatherette boards with gilt titling and design, decorated endpapers and silken bookmarker. Fading to gilt on spine. Interior is clean and unread. Good overall. [more...]
Nice edition of Raleigh's biography and critical appraisal of Wordsworth. Top edge gilt, printed on thick paper, probably intended for a leather rebinding. Some light foxing. Some instances of pencil underlining. Otherwise clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Striking Paperback edition of Lawrence's controversial novel. Page edges tanned. Some marking to fore-edge. creasing to spine, rubbing and shelfwear. But binding sound and contents clean. Fair/good [more...]
Early Folio Society edition of Thompson's popular semi-autobiographical novel of her childhood in Juniper Hill, which spawned two sequels, forming the Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy. With b/w images. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has some rubbing to edge [more...]
Pleasant edition of Trollope's Barsetshire novel. Red leather with top edge gilt. Tear to front joint but binding holding. Light foxing to fore-edge. Contents clean. Fair+ [more...]
Nice little volume featuring fifteen specially commissioned forewords by prominent writers on significant books published by The Folio Society. Includes Phillip Pullman on The Anatomy of Melancholy; Helen Dunmore on Anna Karenina; John Sutherland on Slaughter [more...]
Handsome Heron Literary Heritage edition of Butler's provocative social novel. In blue faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration and decorated end-papers. With b/w illustrations and introduction. Very light shelfwear. Contents prim and clean. Very g [more...]
Early Folio Society edition of Thompson's popular semi-autobiographical novel of her childhood in Juniper Hill, which spawned two sequels, forming the Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy. With b/w images. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has some marking and spi [more...]
Pleasant illustrated edition of Dickens' last, unfinished novel. No date but c. 1950. Rubbing and wear to spine. Binding sound, contents clean. Good. [more...]
