Collection of short stories by Miller and other authors on edifying, often rural theme. With b/w illustrations and titles. Decorative cloth. Prize plate to front pastedown. Rubbing to joints. Tanning within, else clean and tight. Good+ [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...]
Collection of fairy-tales and nursery rhymes, retold though a framing device. Complete with 8 stylish colour plates by Gladys Peto. Fore-edge rough cut. no date but c. 1920. 4to. Splitting to front and rear joints. Sunning to spine. Rubbing and bumping t [more...]
Compact, 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 12 full colour plates by Rackham plus b/w [more...]
Collection of verse, short stories and articles, particularly descriptions of Spain and Gibraltar. With 24 (of 27) finely engraved plates including portraits and landscapes. Handsome leather binding with gilt decoration. All edges gilt. 8vo. Mild rubbing t [more...]
Collection of Children's stories with Peto's iconic, stylish illustrations, with some colour plates plus b/w images within the text. No date but c. 1900. 4to. Rubbing and wear to edges. Mild spotting and mark to fore-edge. Lacks free end-papers. Binding s [more...]
The Collected issues of The Girl's Own Paper from October 1885 to August 1886, including the special Christimas issue of 1885 and summer issue for 1886. With colour frontispiece and numeorus b/w plates and illustrations, including fold outs. Hefty 4to in bro [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...]
The Collected issues of The Girl's Own Paper from October 1893 to September 1894, including the special summer issue for 1894. With frontispiece and numeorus b/w plates and illustrations. Hefty 4to in red cloth. Nick/tear to spine. Marking to edges. Some t [more...]
First edition. From the Iris series. With b /w illustrations by Newcombe. Gilt decoration to covers. Top edge gilt. Spine slightly cocked. Some toning and marking to covers. Tanning and light spotting within, binding sound. Good overall. [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...]
Collection of Children's stories with Peto's iconic, stylish illustrations, with several colour plates plus b/w images within the text. No date but c. 1930. 4to. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown. Rubbing and bumping to edges. mild foxing to [more...]
No date but c. 1900. Scarce collection of short stories and verse from a variety of contributers, with b/w and colour plates from various illustrators. 4to. Some mild rubbing to covers. Foxing to page edges and occasionally within. Good overall. [more...]
No date but c. 1950. Collection of stories based on traditional pantomimes, performed by animals here. With bright colour and duotone illustrations throughout. Illustrated end-papers. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Mild tanning within, else clean and soun [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...]
Nicely produced volume featuring the 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 sho [more...]
Nicely produced collection of 11 Japanese tales, including Momotaro (Little Peach Boy), The Two Frogs and the Wonderful Tea Kettle. With colour illustrations by Richardson in a japanese style. illustrated end-papers. 8vo. Some rubbing and bumping to edges. [more...]
Charming collection of stories including Rose Fyleman's Why Pigs have Curly Tales and the Rhyming Prince, The Story of Doctor Doolittle by Hugh Lofting and others. Illustrated throughout in b/w and colour by Seredy. First edition in a variant binding. Decora [more...]
Splendid Folio Society edition of some of the greatest English, American and Russian short stories by its most celebrated practitioners, including D. H. Lawrence, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Irving Washington, Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twai [more...]
Impressive set of Maugham's collected short stories, Complete with slipcase Slipcase has some light shelf-wear. Volumes are clean and prim. Very good. *Due to size and weight, extra shipping fees may apply to overseas orders* [more...]
