Pleasant half leather binding of the first edition of Irving's Tales of a Traveller, a collection of essays and short stories written by his Geoffrey Crayon persona - responsible for the Sketch Book and Bracebridge Hall. Less well received than his previous w [more...]
Striking Folio Society edition of Borges' singular collection of short stories and essays. Including the Garden of Forking paths, The Library of Babel, Death and the Compass and others. By a variety of translators. With colour illustrations by Neil Packer. [more...]
24 volumes bound as 8. Nice set of Chamber's miscellany 'containing a choice selection of interesting and instructive reading for the old and the young.' Featuring hundreds (thousands) of short stories, poems and articles on a variety of subjects. Rather di [more...]
Charles E. Lauriat Company; Charles Scribner' Sons 1903
Complete seven volume of Turgenev's works, containing his great novels, including Father's and Sons, On the Eve, Rudin and Virgin Soil, plus his shorter works including The Diary of a Superfluous Man and A Sportsman's Sketches. A lyrical translation. Top edge [more...]
Charming volume of short writings and aphorisms by the author of Friends in Council. Subjects vary from perennial issue to specifics of the time, such as the French Claque and the need to rehabilitate the reputation of st. George. Fine leather binding. Full [more...]
Charming deluxe leather edition of three of Kipling's dog stories: Thy Servant a Dog; Toby Dog and The Great Play Hunt. Features b/w illustrations by G. L. Stampa throughout. Blue mottled leather wth gilt decoration and titling. Inner dentelles, all edges [more...]
Classic Gentleman's magazine, with art, short stories, profiles on Sugar Ray Leonard, a previously unpublished piece Wonder of wonders; Music writing on Elvis and Maria Callas; Ralph Stein on touring cars and more. Rakish in the extreme. Some rubbing and she [more...]
Pleasant half leather binding of Stevenson's collection of six short stories, most on the theme of morality and greed. Gilt decoration and raised bands to spine. Marbled end-papers. Top edge gilt. Fore-edge rough cut. Slight sunning to spine. Rubbing to [more...]
Lively, generously illustrated edition of the 1001 Arabian Nights and its associated stories, include Sinbad and Ali Baba. Decorative cloth with beveled edges. All edges gilt. With numeorus b/w in text illustrations plus colour plates by Thomas. B. Dalziel. [more...]
Collected editions of Sunday Chimes, a christian magazine intended for Sunday School pupils. With News articles, poems and short stories. With b/w images and artwork. No date but c.1908. Some interesting pieces on the Boer War and the famine in India. Spi [more...]
Nicely produced collection of Andersen's fairy stories with b/w full page illustrations by Charles & William Heath Robinson. Pictorial covers. Toning and fading to spine. Rubbing and bumping to edges with small tear to top of spine. Cracking and weakening [more...]
Stanhope Press for John Sharpe, Suttaby, Evance and Fox, Taylor, Hessey 1812
Printed at the Stanhope Press. Neat edition featuring both volumes of Gay's fables, the second only appearing 1738, six years after his death. Featuring 68 fables told in rhyming verse, these satirical pieces take aim at the politics and society of Gay's tim [more...]
Green cloth/cranford style edition of Irving's follow-up to his wildly popular The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon. Bracebridge Hall employs a similar format, consisting of loosely connected stories from his pseudonym Crayon who has installed himself at an Eng [more...]
Quarter leather binding EX-LIBRARY copy of the Lambs' great renderings of the stories of Shakespeare. With an introduction by Andrew Lang and b/w illustrations by Robert Anning Bell. Tags removed but stamps and such to ffep and front pastedown. Spine cocked [more...]
Literary magazine featuring poetry and short stories, including Florence Warden's The Secret of Princess Paul. With advertisements to front and rear. Paper covers are rubbed and cracked around spine. Rear cover detached and in two pieces but complete. Conten [more...]
Pleasing Folio Society edition of eleven choice Sherlock Holmes stories, selected by Joe Whitlock-Blundell and including The Scandal in Bohemia, The Speckled Band and The Devil's Foot amongst others. With b/w illustrations by Francis Mosley and an introductio [more...]
Delightful collection of stories about bears, taken from around the world and retold for children. With colour plates by Edwin Noble. Cloth spine with pictorial covers. Rubbing and bumping to edges and covers. A few small nicks and marks. Contents clean a [more...]
39th year. Gilt decorated pictorial cloth covers with beveled edges. All edges gilt. Features numerous tissue guarded colour illustrations. Various markings and rubbing to covers. Binding a little slack but contents generally clean. Good overall. [more...]
Striking Folio Society edition of conrad's 1909 short story plus six others . With illustrations by Francis Mosley. Introduction by Jeremy Harding. Blue cloth with silver and black design. Complete with slipcase. Some mild shelf-wear and rubbing to slipcase [more...]
Attractive Heron edition of Maupassant's selected works. Each volume contains a novel (Bel Ami, une Vie, Fort Comme la Mort, Pierre et Jean - All in English, despite the French Titles) plus several short stories. Decorative green cloth. Volume 1 has a tear [more...]
