With b/w illustrations by Alfred Pearse . No date but c. 1900. Mild rubbing to edges. Prize plate to front pastedown. Contents clean and tight. very good. [more...]
Nicely produced edition of Dickens' novel with his travel writing, based on the household edition with new illustrations by F. Barnard. Red cloth with beveled edges. Top edge gilt. General wear and bumping to covers. foxing to fore-edge and front matter. [more...]
Handsome limp leather edition of Dickens' novel; from the Nelson's New Century Library. Top edge gilt. With a tissue guarded frontispiece. No date but c. 1910 Some rubbing and toning to covers. Sunning to spine. Contents sound and tight. Good. [more...]
From the Uniform Edition. Leather binding with gilt decoration. Top edge gilt. Rubbing to edges, light wear to spine. Contents clean and tight, Good+ [more...]
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...]
Later, generously illustrated edition of Lever's 1859 novel, a somewhat sympathetic portrayal of a working class con man's ascent through British society. With 44 b/w illustrations by Phiz. Full leather with gilt decoration to spine. Marbled end-papers with [more...]
First edition, first printing of Pratchett's Discworld novel, in which conman Moist Von Lipwig tales over the royal mint. Some very mild shelf-wear to edges of DJ. Contents clean and tight. Very 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...]
Striking Folio Society edition of this 2004 translation of Chekhov's 1884 novel, with colour illustrations by Francis Mosley. Complete with slipcase. In crisp, fine condition. [more...]
No date but c. 1890. Pleasant edition of Swift's selected works, including Gulliver's Travels, A Tale of a Tub etc. plus satirical verse and prose. With b/w maps. 8vo. Light bumping to edges. Faint marking to fore-edge. Contents clean and sound. Good. [more...]
No date but c. 1900. From the Moxon's Popular Poets series. Decorative cloth binding of Pope's collected verse, including The Dunciad, The Rape of the Lock etc. Plus some of his translations (excluding the Iliad & Odyssey). Beveled edges, all edges gilt. Dec [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...]
'The Greatest Masterpieces of Russian Literature' indeed. Attractive Heron edition of Turgenev's wonderful novel together with Liza. In red faux-leather with wonderful gilt tooling. Decorated endpapers, sewn headband, silken bookmarker. With original illu [more...]
