Novel by Novel examination of the morality and ethics revealed in Eliot's works. With beveled edges. Rubbing to edges. Occasional pencil underling within. With newspaper clippings pasted down to rear end-paper. Occasional spotting within. Contents tight. [more...]
Pleasant publisher's quarter leather binding of Dickens' beloved novel. With 24 b/w illustrations by George Cruikshank. Rubbing and wear to leather spine, small portion missing from title label. Volume otherwise clean and tight. Good. [more...]
First English edition of the esteemed Russian/soviet novelist's account of a child and his village in post war Russia, called Serioja originally. Dust jacket is toned with small tears to top spine. Contents clean and binding tight, Good. [more...]
Handsome quarter leather Franklin library edition of Fielding's novell. With marbled end-papers. All edges gilt. Illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson. Elaborate gilt design to spine and covers. Some marking to covers. Some mild shelf-wear, otherwise Crisp and [more...]
Neat collins edition of Charlotte Bronte's classic. In a limp faux-leather cover with gilt titling. Top edge gilt. Some light shelfwear. Previous owner's inscription to ffep. Contents clean and prim. Good+ condition overall. [more...]
Handsome Heron edition of Du Maurier's collection of shorter pieces, including, The Birds, which would go to inspire Hitchock's film. Orignally called Apple Tree: A Short Novel and Several Long Stories but the success of the Birds and its film adaptation caus [more...]
Illustrated edition of Marryat's 1832 novel, describing the adventures of a press-ganged sailor. With tissue guarded frontispice and b/w illustrations by Sullivan. Some staining and toning to cover. Foxing to end-papers. Tanning within. Previous owner's n [more...]
Charming, and interesting, edition of Fitzgerald's final novel on morality and psychoanalysis. Text is in English but introduction and notes are in Russian. Attractive gilt design and titling to black covers. Decorated endpapers. Without dust-jacket. A fe [more...]
Handsome art-deco style binding of Galsworthy's epic history of a newly-monied family and their progress through British high society. Printed on fine paper, contains all three books and two interludes: The Man of Property (1906); Indian Summer of a Forsyte ( [more...]
Handsome Heron edition of Joyce's complex 1916 novel that preceded Ulysses, describing the maturation of Stephen Dedalus. Brown faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. Decorated endpapers. B/w illustrations. . Foxing to top and fore edge. Smal [more...]
Attractive brown leatherette Heron edition of Capote's 'non-fiction novel' on the murders of the Clutter family in 1959. Lavish gilt design and titling. Foxing to top and fore edge. Small marks to free-endpapers (tape residue from a previous owner's protec [more...]
Leather prize binding of Scott's historical novel set during the crusades. Westminster City school crest to cover and bookplate to ffep. Decorated end-papers. Marbled page edges. Rubbing to leather. Foxing to front-matters but contents clean. Binding tig [more...]
Pleasant red leather collins edition of Dumas' novel. With frontisportrait. Top edge gilt. Complete with slipcase. 12mo. Slight sunning, rubbing and fading to spine. Contents crisp and clean. Very good overall. [more...]
Reprint, with date code x.147. Rubbing to edges of DJ with small tears. Toning to DJ. DJ is price-clipped. Mild bumping and toning to edges of volume. Contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Handsome edition of Howitt's 1836 novel. With colour frontispiece. All edges gilt. Decorative cloth covers. No date but c. 1900. Tanning to page edges. Contents clean and tight, Very good. [more...]
Collection of short stories and articles, complete with six colour plates (frontispiece bound in later) and numerous b/w illustrations. With a christmas special bound in at the rear, as well the Boy's Diary, an account of sporting results in private schools [more...]
Illustrated edition of Locke's 1906 novel. With 16 colour illustrations by Jean Dulac. 8vo. Rubbing and bumping to edges with mild marking to covers. Toning to end-papers. Tanning to page edges. Contents sound. Good. [more...]
Nicely produced collection of Carroll's Alice stories, Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass; plus poems The Hunting of the Snark and Phantasmagoria plus a biography and Carroll's letters. All featuring the original illustrations by John Tenn [more...]
No date but c. 1900. From the Moxon's Popular Poets series. Decorative cloth binding of Moore's collected verse, including Lalla Rookh, The Two-penny postbag etc. Beveled edges, all edges gilt. Decorated end-papers. With frontispiece and b/w illustrations [more...]
Handsomely produced limited edition. With colour and b/w illustrations by Jean de Bosschere in his peculiar style. Number 2630 of 3000 copies. Fore-edge rough cut. 8vo. (Interesting) Toning to covers and spine. Rubbing to edges, with closed tear to top of s [more...]
