Reprint, with date code x.645. Rubbing to edges of DJ with slight loss to corners. Toning to DJ. DJ is price-clipped. Mild bumping and toning to edges of volume. Contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
No date but c. 1950. With colour illustrations by Leonard Huskinson. Decorative covers, illustrated end-papers. No DJ. Mild sunning to spine. Light foxing to page edges. Contents clean and tight. Good/very good. [more...]
Faux leather with gilt design. Silken marker, decorated endpapers and frontis portrait of Mitchell and illustrated with b/w stills from the film. Gilt fading to spine. Contents bright and sound. Good+ [more...]
No date but c. 1920. Illustrated edition of these three Tales from the (expanded) Arabian Nights, seemingly adapted from Gilbert's translation. With colour illustrations and b/w drawings within the text Light marking and toning to decorative covers. Tannin [more...]
Nicely produced centenary edition of Kipling's 1909 collection of interlinked short stories. Red cloth with gilt elephant motif to cover. DJ has some toning and rubbing and wear. Previous owner's name and a Kipling themed label pasted down to ffep. Content [more...]
Nicely produced centenary edition of Kipling's unfinished 1937 auto-biography. Red cloth with gilt elephant motif to cover. DJ has some toning and rubbing and wear with small tears. Previous owner's name and a Kipling themed label pasted down to ffep. Cont [more...]
First edition. With Galignani bookseller label to front pastedown and previous owner's name. Rubbing to edges of DJ. Tanning to page edges, else clean and tight. Good+ [more...]
First edition. Tears to DJ with loss to spine and rear cover, with previous owner's tape repair. Mild tanning to page edges, else clean and tight. Good overall. [more...]
Handsome decorative edition of Scott's lively somewhat apocryphal History of Scotland. Gilt design to cover. With engraved title page and tissue guarded frontispiece. Mild rubbing and bumping to edges. Light foxing and tanning to page edges. Else clean an [more...]
Neat leather-bound uniform edition of Sabatini's 1908 historical novel. Some bumping and rubbing to edges. Previous owner's blind-stamped name to ffep. Contents clean and sound. Good+ [more...]
Neat leather-bound uniform edition of Sabatini's 1908 historical novel. Some bumping and rubbing to edges. Previous owner's blind-stamped name to ffep. Contents clean and sound. Good+ [more...]
From the collected edition of Huxley's works. Mild shelf-wear and rubbing to edges. Very light foxing to end-papers, contents clean and tight. Very good overall. [more...]
Elegant Folio Society of Wilde's 1895 wildly succesful drawing room play. Bound in silk moire cloth, with decorated end-papers. Illustrated in colour by Cecil Beaton, with further b/w illustrations within the text. Lacks slipcase. Sunning to spine with f [more...]
Handsome Heron edition of Priestley's novel on duelling civil servants. Blue faux-leather cloth covers with elaborate gilt decoration. Decorated endpaper and b/w frontispiece. Very faint foxing to page edge. A previous owner's protective dust jacket has le [more...]
Fascinating ruminative exploration of the art of translation that examines effective examples and those that miss the mark. Dust jacket has some minor shelf-wear and bumping and is price-clipped. Previous owner's inscription to ffep. But otherwise crisp and [more...]
A children's novel intending to recount life in 12th century Britain as well as give a portrait of Robin Hood as a key figure in the creation of the Magna Carta and for freedom in England. With frontispiece. Spine is sunned. Mild foxing to page edges but co [more...]
Pictorial cloth covers. With b/w illustrations. Tanning to page edges, Rubbing to edges with small tears to top and tail of spine. Binding sound and contents clean. Good. [more...]
Pleasant collins edition of Lever's exciting 1841 war story. With b/w illustrations by Lawson Wood. No date but c. 1950. Mild rubbing and bumping to edges. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
