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...]
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...]
A selection of short stories by the welsh novelist. A foreword by Michael Parnell. Some light shelfwear. Very light foxing to top-edge. Clean and tight. Good/very good condition. [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...]
Twenty one of Kipling's best short stories, Contains Beyond the Pale, The Brush-wood boy and more. In protective wrapper. Some mild shelf-wear. Contents clean and tight. Good/very good. [more...]
With previous owner's drawings and name to end-papers. Prize plate. Lack half-title. Rubbing and wear and toning to covers. Tanning to page edges. Contents otherwise clean. A readable copy of this scarce book. Poor/fair [more...]
Cheeky, special Reader's digest edition of Stevenson's classic adventure story. With b/w illustrations by Frank Godwin. Colour frontispiece. Quarter faux leather. Very faint spotting to top edge. Bump to top of spine. Contents clean and sound. Good [more...]
Reprint edition. Some rubbing and small tearing to edges of DJ. Tanning to page edges, Foxing to top edge. Contents otherwise clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Traveller's Library edition of Maurois' autobiographyl. Dj has toning, small tears and rubbing to edges with some loss, Light spotting to fore-edge. Some staining to rear cover and DJ. Contents clean and sound. Good overall. [more...]
Buchan's Richard Hannay novel. Rubbing to edges. Spine cocked. Foxing to page edges. Previous owner's name to ffep. Contents sound., Good overall, [more...]
Swift, readable history of english literature from Chaucer to the victorian era. With b/w images. Quarter leather with gilt decoration. Complete with slipcase. slipcase has some rubbing and toning. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Toning and light marking t [more...]
