Charming collection of stories including Rose Fyleman's Why Pigs have Curly Tales and the Rhyming Prince, The Story of Doctor Doolittle by Hugh Lofting and others. Illustrated throughout in b/w and colour by Seredy. First edition in a variant binding. Decora [more...]
French translation with colour and b/w illustrations by Jourcin. Faux-leather cover. Rubbing to edges. Bumping to corners. Tanning to page edges. Light spotting. Good overall. [more...]
Brooding Folio Society edition of Dostoevsky's great novel. With b/w illustrations by Charles Keeping. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has some rubbing and wear commensurate to age. Mild shelf-wear to volume, faint mark to spine. Contents clean and tight. [more...]
Handsome special quarter leather edition of Eliot's novel featuring Talwyn Morris's iconic art deco floral design in gilt to spine. With b/w illustrations by T. H. Robinson plus introduction. No date but c.1900. 8vo. ( 200x145mm) [xi] 438pp. Rubbing to leat [more...]
Nicely produced translation of Apuleius' 2nd century AD novel. With colour frontispiece and 10 b/w and colour plates by Jean de Bosschere in his inimitable style, plus further decorations within the text. 8vo. Sunning to spine. Tanning to page edges, else [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...]
Fetching gilt and green cloth binding in the 'Cranford series' style. Illustrated throughout by Charles Brock in b/w. All edges gilt. Previous owners name to ffep. Dusty staining to covers and bumping to edges. Occassional light spotting to front matte [more...]
First edition of the first part of Carroll's last novel. With 46 b/w illustrations by Harry Furniss. All edges gilt. Covers are variously toned and marked. Rubbing to edges with slight fraying to top of spine and joints. Some occasional spotting within, bu [more...]
No date but c. 1900. From the Moxon's Popular Poets series. Decorative cloth binding of Campbell's collected verse, including The Battle of the Baltic, Pleasures of Hope etc. Beveled edges, all edges gilt. Decorated end-papers. With frontispiece and b/w il [more...]
Handsome world's classics edition of Trollope's novel from his Chronicles of Barsetshire series. In publisher's blue quarter leather binding. Blue cloth to boards, top edge gilt. 12mo. Mild shelf-wear and rubbing to edges. Light tanning within, else conten [more...]
Handsome world's classics edition of Trollope's novel from his Chronicles of Barsetshire series. In publisher's blue quarter leather binding. Blue cloth to boards, top edge gilt. 12mo. Mild shelf-wear and rubbing to edges. Light tanning within, else conten [more...]
Impressive set of Maugham's collected short stories, Complete with slipcase Slipcase has some light shelf-wear. Volumes are clean and prim. Very good. *Due to size and weight, extra shipping fees may apply to overseas orders* [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...]
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...]
Scarce, amusing, and somewhat meta, novel on the effects of someone's memoirs. First edition. Rubbing to edges. Foxing to page edges, mild foxing and toning within. Good. [more...]
Adventure story for younger readers based on Daniel Defoe's novel. With b/w illustrated and colour frontispiece and title page, with decorated initials. small 8vo. Spine slightly cocked. Mild rubbing and bumping to edges. Light tanning to page edges. Con [more...]
First edition. From the Methuen Colonial Library. Methuen catalogue to end-papers. previous owner's name to ffep. Some tears to page edges where they were cut. Tanning to edges. Good overall. [more...]
Reprint of Sitwell's novella, a ghost story concerning an elderly couple and a new house. No DJ. With the bookplate of George Lane-Fox. Marking to covers. Tanning to edges. Binding tight. Good. [more...]
'Edition de luxe'. Deluxe edition of Ainsworth's historical novel with b/w illustrations by George Cruikshank. Half leather with marbled end-papers and matching marbling to page edges. 8vo. No date but c. 1890. Spine toned. light rubbing to extremities. [more...]
