Nice quarter cloth rebinding with marbled boards. With b/w illustrations by Phiz (Knight Hablot Browne). Rubbing and bumping to covers. Sunning to spine. Bindings sound and contents clean. Good. [more...]
Handsome edition of Lamb's 1833 collection of essays. From the works of Charles Lamb Series with b/w illustrations by C. E. Brock. Quarter cloth binding with gilt decoration. Top edge gilt. Fore edge rough cut. Rubbing to edges. Previous owner's inscript [more...]
Attractive two volume set of Dickens' classic. A facsimile of Dickens' favoured 1873 edition. Bound with quarter faux-leather and marbled end-papers. With original illustrations by phiz. Faint smudge to top edge, else bright and clean. Very good [more...]
Eighth impression of the 1937 children's adventure novel written by the two teenagers and illustrated by Whitlock. With colour maps to end-papers and an introduction by Arthur Ransome. Spine slightly cocked. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Previous owner's p [more...]
Collection of Lewis' essays on literature and his own writing, plus three short stories and part of his unfinished novel. Dust jacket has some toning to spine and mild shelf-wear. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
Issues no. 304 to 329 plus christmas issue. Half leather with marbled boards. Rubbing and wear to leather with portion missing from top of spine. Tanning to page edges but contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Handsome edition of Lamb's 1823 collection of essays. With the original engravings. Red morocco leather binding. All edges gilt. Rounded corners. No date but c. 1910. Some light marking to cover., Rubbing to edges. Scuff to front pastedown. Mild tanni [more...]
Striking Folio Society edition of conrad's 1917 novella and Within the Tides, a collection of four short stories. With illustrations by Francis Mosley. Introduction by Alan Ross. Blue cloth with silver and black design. Complete with slipcase. In crisp fine [more...]
Nicely produced reprint/facsimile of the 1917 Irish Texts society edition, Vol. XIX, edited from the Book of Lismore and other manuscripts. No date but c. 1984. Gaelic and English text side by side. With copious notes. Green cloth with gilt decoration. som [more...]
Pleasant illustrated edition of Defoe's massively successful ground breaking 1719 'novel' written from the point of view of a marooned mariner. With b/w illustrations and a colour frontispiece and colour plates. Maroon cloth with gilt decoration and tipped [more...]
Pleasant decorative edition of Austen's enduring novel. With colour illustrations by Ian Beck. Some very light toning to cover, mild rubbing to edges. Very faint foxing to page edges but contents bright and clean. Very good. [more...]
Handsome special quarter leather edition of Morier's somewhat fantastical novel set in Persia featuring Talwyn Morris's iconic art deco floral design in gilt to spine. With b/w illustrations by H. R. Millar plus introduction. No date but c.1900. 8vo. ( 200x [more...]
Red leather india paper edition of Dickens' novel. With b/w illustrations by Phiz. No date but c, 1900. Top edge gilt. Some toning to covers and spine. Rubbing to edges with some loss from top of spine. Contents clean and tight. Good [more...]
Pleasant half leather (publishers?) binding of Thackeray's novel, along with Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo; The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond; A Little Dinner at Timmins's. Floral decoration to spine. Marbled edg [more...]
Pleasant half leather (publishers?) binding of Thackeray's great historical picaresque. Along with other works: The Fatal Boots; Men's Wives; Sketches and Travels in London; The Little Travels and Roadside Sketches. Floral decoration to spine. Marbled edge [more...]
The Folio Society's 'second series' edition of Dickens' shorter, somewhat peculiar, 1854 novel. Illustrated in b/w by Charles Keeping. Bound in cream cloth decorated with Keeping's drawings. With an introduction. Complete with slipcase, decorated with Dick [more...]
Handsome decorative New Popular edition of Scott's lively somewhat apocryphal History of Scotland. Complete with the three series. Blind-stamped design to cover. Gilt to spine. Printed in double columns. Bumping to edges. Foxing to page edges. Contents [more...]
Handsome Half leather binding of Goldsmith's works. Marbled boards. Top edge gilt. Rubbing to extremities and top of spine. Very sparse foxing to fore-edge. Binding tight and contents clean. Good. [more...]
Pleasant decorated green cloth edition of Dickens' novel. With b/w illustrations done for the Household edition. Rubbing and bumping to extremities, especially top and tail of spines. Light marking to cover. Occasional mild spotting within. Good. [more...]
