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...]
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...]
Nicely produced Classics Club edition of Chekhov's selected short stories, including the Shooting Party and the Black Monk, with an introduction by Lucy M. Cores. Grey cloth with Gilt decoration and titling, top edge tinted. Mild rubbing to gilt on spine, [more...]
Nicely produced Classics Club edition of Turgenev's iconic novel. Grey cloth with Gilt decoration and titling, top edge tinted. Smudge/mark to fore-edge, else crisp and clean. Very good. [more...]
Pleasant collins clear type edition of Thackeray's Great novel. In soft red leather. Complete with slipcase and frontispiece. Top edge gilt. Rubbing to edges of slipcase. Some wear to spine. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
Fascinating volume featuring various forms of literature, including excerpts from novels, poetry, short stories, Newspaper articles, surveys and more, that tell the story of Hungary's political development from Nazi occupation up to 1965. With numerous b/w im [more...]
'Being a narrative excerpted from the chronicles of Urbino during the dominion of the High and Mighty Messer Guidobaldo da Montefeltro.' Neat leather-bound uniform edition of Sabatini's 1907 historical novel. Some bumping and rubbing to edges. Previous owner [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 leather edition of Stevenson's historical novel set during the Jacobite uprising. Dark leather covers with gilt titling and design. Top edge gilt. Rubbing to extremities. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Signature to ffep. Conten [more...]
Charming cloth edition of Goldsmith's 1766 novel from Dent's English Idylls series, featuring elaborate gilt decoration and 25 colour plates by C. E. Brock. Light green cloth. Top edge gilt. Fore edge rough cut. Decorated end-papers. Previous owner's inscri [more...]
Nice edition of Dickens' novel. Top edge gilt. Decoration to spine. With b/w illustrations. Rubbing to edges. Marking to spine. Some splitting to inner hinge. . Binding sound. Good. [more...]
Pleasant quarter cloth binding of Scott's historical novel. With b/w illustrations. Marbled edges. Previous owner's label to front pastedown. Binding sound and contents clean. Good. [more...]
With b/w illustrations . No date but c. 1900. Rubbing to edges, especially to top and tail of spine. Mild sunning to spine. Previous owner's name to front pastedown.. Tanning to page edges. Contents sound. Good. [more...]
