Handsome edition featuring Doyle's most famous Sherlock Holmes adventures. Quarter cloth with decorated boards. b/w illustrations throughout. Very Good condition. [more...]
Half leather library binding with silk moire paper to boards. EX-Military-Library with numbers in gilt to spine. Library rules to front pastedown. Rubbing to leather. with loss to top of spine. Binding stout and contents clean. Fair/good overall. [more...]
First uniform edition of Kipling's collection of short stories. Top edge gilt. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Tanning and slight spotting to fore-edge. Binding sound and contents clean. Fair/good. [more...]
Attractive Heron edition of London's perennially popular short describing a dog's return to the wild. With 8 other stories including John Barleycorn and the Mexican. From the 'Books that have shaped Man's thinking' series. Quarter cloth with elaborate gilt [more...]
Everyman's library volume no. 958. Contains England my England, The Woman who rode away and others. DJ is toned to spine, with small tears. Foxing to page edges. Contents clean and binding sound. Good. [more...]
Selection of lively retellings of historical events. Some light foxing to page edges. Mild bumping to edges. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
Collection of stories for Children by the author of the Secret Garden. With b/w illustrations. Neatly rebacked with original covers laid down. Occasional light spotting within, else clean and tight. Good. [more...]
No date but c. 1930. Collection of short stories, illustrated throughout in b/w and colour, with colour plates. 4to. Foxing to page edges and within. Toning to covers. Mild marking to spine. Binding sound. Good. [more...]
Handsome red leather edition of Stevenson's final completed work, also known as South Sea Tales, a collection of short stories. With gilt titling and design. Top edge gilt. Mild rubbing and bumping to edges, with slight loss to top of spine. Contents cl [more...]
Second impression. Also containing Wunderkind; the Jockey; Madame Zilensky And the King of Finland; the Sojourner; a Domestic Dilemma; a Tree, a Rock, a Cloud; Reflections in a Golden Eve; The Member of the Wedding. No DJ. Toning to spine, light marking to c [more...]
Collection of amusing and risque anecdotes and stories from notable raconteurs - a simulated stag party to which you are invited. With stylish b/w and duo-tone illustrations. DJ is torn with loss to flaps and edges. Tanning to page edges but contents clean [more...]
Splendid Folio Society volume of selected short stories that appeared in the Strand Magazine. Including The Stolen Body by H. G. Wells; Tickets, Please! by D. H. Lawrence; The Standard of Living by Dorothy Parker. Twenty-five stories in total. With illustra [more...]
No date but c. 1970. From the Heron Centennial edition of Dickens' Works. Collection of Dickens' journalism and articles plus three pieces of shorter fiction. With b/w illustrations by F. Walker and an introduction. Green faux leather cloth with gilt decor [more...]
No date but c. 1970. Heron Centennial edition of Dickens' final unfinished novel together with his own entirely self-written periodical, Master Humphrey's Clock, a plethora of short stories. Elaborate gilt design to spine and cover. Silken bookmarker, decor [more...]
Collection of short stories. Uniform edition. Dust jacket has toning and some small tears, tanning and rubbing to edges. Bookseller's small sticker to front pastedown. Very light foxing to fore-edge. Good. [more...]
Twenty one of Kipling's best short stories, Contains Beyond the Pale, The Brush-wood boy and more. With b/w illustrations by Ian Ribbons. complete with slipcase. Slipcase has some toning and rubbing to edges. Toning to spine. Contents clean and tight. G [more...]
Handsome edition of Weyman's 1901 collection of short stories. Red cloth with gilt decoration, Top edge gilt Some light bumping and rubbing to edges. Contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Splendid Folio Society volume of selected crime stories that appeared in the Strand Magazine. Including How the Brigadier came to the Castle of Gloom by Arthur Conan doyle; The Lost Legion by Rudyard Kipling; Mirage by W. Somerset Maucgham; The News in Englis [more...]
Folio Society edition of Saki's terrific short stories selected by John Letts. With drawings by Osbert Lancaster. Complete with slipcase. Some toning to spine, light shelfwear to volume and slipcase. Previous owner's sticker to ffep. Contents clean and prim [more...]
