The twenty-four monthly issues of The Prize for 1911 and 1912 bound together Each issue comes with a charming colour frontispiece, and numerous b/w illustrations throughout, along with poems and stories for children. Rebound in neat brown cloth. Mild shelf- [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...]
With stylish colour illustrations by Anne Harriet Fish. Collection of verse and short stories. Mild staining to covers. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Half-title loosening. Contents clean and sound. Good. [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. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Foxing to page edges, title page and occasionally within. Previ [more...]
Conrad's collection of six stories from the Dent Collected edition of his work. DJ has rubbing to edges with small tears with very slight loss. Toning to spine. Foxing to page edges and front matter but contents clean and sound. Good. [more...]
Reprint. Jaunty edition of Tales from the Arabian Nights, derived from Galland's translation. Featuring 8 colour illustrations by Joan Kiddell-Monroe plus further b/w illustrations. Decorative endpapers and similar decorative cloth to boards. DJ has some ru [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...]
No DJ. Reprint. With colour plates and b/w illustrations by Adler. Collection of stories. Quarter cloth. Some toning and rubbing to covers. Contents clean and tight. Good+ [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...]
Handsome Heron edition of Du Maurier's collection of shorter pieces, including, The Birds, which would go to inspire Hitchock's film. Orignally called Apple Tree: A Short Novel and Several Long Stories but the success of the Birds and its film adaptation caus [more...]
Half leather binding of this children's magazine, Volume 9 edited by Barnardo, the founder of the home for destitute boys and girls. With b/w illustrations plus colour plates. 8vo. Rubbing and cracking to edges and joints. Tanning to page edges but content [more...]
No date but c. 1950. The second volume of stories featuring the mischievous cat. Illustrated throughout in Colour by Mary Kendal Lee. DJ has tears and creasing to edges with loss to top of spine. Small tear to top of spine. Price struck through with pen t [more...]
Collection of long and short stories and verse. Illustrated throughout with b/w and colour illustrations. 4to. Rubbing to edges, with toning and fraying to spine. Marking to rear cover. One small b/w illustration coloured in. Previous owner's inscription [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...]
Collection of short stories and articles, complete with six colour plates (frontispiece bound in later) and numerous b/w illustrations. With a christmas special bound in at the rear, as well the Boy's Diary, an account of sporting results in private schools [more...]
Scarce with Dust jacket. A collection of stories, illustrated throughout in colour by Haywood, fore-edge painter extraordinaire. Slight loss to top and tail of DJ at spine. Previous owner's name in pencil to ffep. Contents clean and binding sound. Good+ [more...]
First UK edition of Le Guin's well received collection of short stories on the theme of visiting different planes of reality. Complete with striking DJ. Some mild bumping to edges of DJ. Contents clean and prim. near fine. [more...]
7. Sonderheft der "Woche". With numerous colour plates. Some bumping to egdes, mild marking to covers. Contents clean and binding sound. Good. [more...]
Nicely produced and illustrated edition of Andersen's Fairy stories, Complete with 6 colour plates plus b/w decorations within the text. Reprint. 4to. Illustrated paper coverered boards are rubbed to edges with tears to spine and loss to top. Foxing to pa [more...]
Splendid Folio Society edition featuring some of the greatest American short stories by the most illustrious US authors. Includiing works by Jack London, John Steinbeck, Dorothy Parker. With b/w illustrations by Paul Gulla and an introduction by William Abrah [more...]
