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...]
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...]
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...]
Folio Society edition of de Rojas' great novel published in 1499 and considered the first renaissance work in Spanish. With b/w illustrations by Dodie Masterson. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has some heavy toning. Very light toning to spine. Previous [more...]
Volume II of the Dent Everyman edition of Shelley's work. Including his epic poem, the Revolt of Islam, plus his drama and translations. Sunning and marking to spine. Tanning to page edges, else clean and sound. 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...]
