Reprint of the charming appian story, with illustrations and decoration by Richard B. Ogle. No DJ. Toning and wear to covers. Remains of sticker to front cover. Mild tanning to page edges. Contents clean and binding sound. Good overall. [more...]
Jaunty Folio Society edition of Swift's enduring 1726 satire. With illustrations by Edward Bawden. Complete with slipcase. Spine is sunned with slight marking. Some shelf-wear and toning to slipcase. Contents clean and bright. Good overall. [more...]
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...]
Green faux leather covers with ornate gilt design. Sewn headband and silken marker. Some fading to gilt on spine. light rubbing to extremities of covers but interiors are clean and unread. Good+ [more...]
Neat Odhams edition of Defoe's classic novel. With frontis-portrait. Red cloth with gilt titling. Faint spotting to fore edge, else clean and tight. Good+ [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...]
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...]
