Charming selection of Japanese folk tales, retold by Grace James. Includes 38 stories featuring Green Willow, The Singing Bird of Heaven. The Flute, The Tea kettle amongst others. With 40 marvellous colour illustrations by Warwick Goble, each tissue guarded a [more...]
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...]
'Giving an account of every town and village in the western division of the county, a description of every Church (whether in use now or in ruins, and a short account of the old castles, monasteries, halls and other buildings, also containing allusions to all [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...]
Illustrated edition of the popular Ingoldsby Legends, a collection of often humorous tales involving ghosts, witches, historical figures & mysteries that draw on, a frequently send up, existing legends. With 24 tipped in full colour plates, 12 tinted plates an [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...]
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...]
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...]
Red leather india paper edition of Dickens' later Christmas themed short stories written in collaboration with writers such as Wilkie Collins and Elizabeth Gaskell. Includes Mugby Junction, The Holly Tree, The Haunted House and others. With b/w illustrations [more...]
With the christmas issue of 1887 bound in a rear. With pull out fronispiece in colour. Plus other colour pull outs of flags and historical scenes. With numerous b/w illustrations within the text. Half leather. 4to. With hospital library stamp to front pas [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. No date but c. 1920. Light marking and toning to decorative covers. [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...]
Nicely produced volume featuring e complete Sherlock Holmes stories with the original illustrations from the Strand Magazine. Contains A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear and all the collections of short [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...]
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...]
Issues no. 380 to 403 plus christmas issue. Half leather with marbled boards. Rubbing and wear to leather with portion missing from top of spine. Tanning to page edges but contents clean and tight. Good. [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...]
Scarce first paperback edition of Tolkien's fascinating essay on fairy stories and their value, these points then illustrated by the short story Leaf by Niggle. Previous owner's protective tape to corners. previous owner's name to front pastedown. Toning to [more...]
Collection of Lewis' essays on literature and his own writing, plus three short stories and part of his unfinished novel. Dust jacket has some toning to spine and mild shelf-wear. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
