From the Kingston Library series. With colour illustrations. No date but c. 1900. All edges gilt. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Binding sound and contents clean. Good+ [more...]
Impressive Folio Society edition of Kipling's 1895 sequel to the Jungle book, continuing the tale of Mowgli in a series of short stories. Featuring the striking illustrations of Edward Detmold, redone in colour by David Eccles. Complete with slipcase. Some [more...]
Deluxe leather edition of Dickens' travel writings. Elaborate gilt design to spine and cover. Silken bookmarker, decorated end-papers. Top edge gilt, sewn headband. Features illustrations by Maurice Grieffenhagen. Some light rubbing to extremities but cont [more...]
Deluxe leather edition of Dickens' final unfinished novel together with his own entirely delf-written periodical, Master Humphrey's Clock, a plethora of short stories. Elaborate gilt design to spine and cover. Silken bookmarker, decorated end-papers. Top edg [more...]
Three volume set of Boswell's Life of Johnson, a landmark in biography. No date but c. 1910. Previous owner's inscription to vol. one. Tanning to page edge. Some light sunning to spines. Content clean and tight. Good condition. [more...]
From the Tauchnitz collection of British and American Authors, copyright edition. No. 4798. Neatly rebound in blue cloth with leather label to spine. 12mo. We have many more similarly bound Tauchnitz editions. Some light wear to covers. Slight marking to f [more...]
Pleasant half leather (publishers?) binding. Floral decoration to spine. Marbled edges with matching marbled end-papers. With a frontisportrait by the author and colour and b/w plates. No date but c. 1900. 8vo. Rubbing to edges with tearing to tail of spi [more...]
Early, perhaps first, edition of Henty's popular tale of a young Dutch sailor contending with Malaysian pirates during the period of Dutch rule in the region. With b/w illustrations by J. Jellicoe. Pictorial green cloth. Some mild bumping and rubbing to edg [more...]
Handsome Heron Collector's edition of Ambler's 1969 spy thriller. Red faux leather cloth with elaborate gilt design. Large 8vo. Some light rubbing to edges. faint foxing to page edges. Contents Clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
Scathing collection of comical verse and literary quotes that could mercilessly be applied to Benjamin Disraeli, as well as quotations from the man himself. With b/w illustrations. Produced by Abel Heywood, the radical publisher and mayor of Manchester. Mil [more...]
Strikingly illustrated accounts of childhood in the Netherlands. With numerous colour illustrations throughout. 4to. Heavy rubbing to spine, with fraying. Light spotting and toning to cover. Toning within, binding sound. Good. [more...]
Generously illustrated edition of the Tales from the Arabian Nights, seemingly adapted from Gilbert's translation. With 48 colour illustrations by A. E. Jackson with illustrated end-papers. Tearing and loss to tipped in cover image. Toning and marking to co [more...]
Lavishly illustrated biography of Carroll that gives a through account of how his work, including especially Alice in Wonderland, was written, published and influenced. Features rare photographs and portraits as well as a plethora of illustrations from his bo [more...]
Illustrated edition of Thackeray's satirical fantasy novel. With 12 colour tipped in colour plates by J. R. Monsell and b/w illustrations within the text. Blue cloth boards with gilt titling to spine. Rubbing and fraying to spine. Cracking to inner hinge. [more...]
From the Tauchnitz collection of British and American Authors, copyright edition. No. 4904. Neatly rebound in blue cloth with leather label to spine. 12mo. We have many more similarly bound Tauchnitz editions. Previous owner's name to dedication page. Mis [more...]
From the Collins collection of British and American Authors, copyright edition. No. 219. Neatly rebound in blue cloth with leather label to spine. 12mo. We have many more similarly bound Tauchnitz editions. Some light wear to covers. Contents tanned. Good [more...]
