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...]
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...]
Impressive Folio Society edition of Kipling's 1895 sequel to the Jungle book, continuing the tale of Mowgli in a series of short stories. Featuring the striking illustrations of Edward Detmold, redone in colour by David Eccles. Complete with slipcase. Some [more...]
Deluxe leather edition of Dickens' final unfinished novel together with his own entirely delf-written periodical, Master Humphrey's Clock, a plethora of short stories. Elaborate gilt design to spine and cover. Silken bookmarker, decorated end-papers. Top edg [more...]
Collection of Short Stories set in Blyton's Fairyland. Dust jacket has some rubbing to edges with small tears to top and tail of spine. Tanning to page edges. But contents otherwise clean and binding tight. Good. [more...]
Library edition of Kipling's series of interlinked fantasy short stories concerning the machinations of Puck, the oldest old thing in England. Dust-jacket has tears and bumping with minor loss. Foxing to page edge. Previous owner's signature to ffep. But cl [more...]
Early Folio Society edition of Boccaccio's renaissance compendium of short stories. With illustrations by Buckland-Wright. Complete with Dust-jackets. Decorative cloth boards. Some water damage to rear cover of volume 1, affecting rear free end-papers and [more...]
Colour annual featuring short stories, comics, jokes, puzzles and artwork. Tanning to pages. Previous owner's inscription. With ads to rear. Cloth spine. Good condition. [more...]
Pleasant red cloth macmillan edition of Walpole's 1915 collection of short storiesl. Some light rubbing to edges. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
Compact volume of some of the best Russian short stories. Including Gogol's Christmas Eve; Dostoevsky's A Nasty Story; The Queen of Spades and more. Mild rubbing to edges. Small mark to top page edge. Previous owner's blank bookplate. Contents clean and t [more...]
Charming edition of Dickens' enduring Christmas Tale. Featuring 8 of John Leech's original illustrations. 12mo. No date but c. 1950. Rubbing to edges of DJ. Mild foxing to fore-edge. Dj is price-clipped. 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...]
Decorative Folio Society edition of this collection of six short stories/novellas by Turgenev. Including Diary of a Superfluous man, Mumu, Asya, First Love, King Lear of the Steppes and The Song of Triumphant Love. With b/w illustrations by Elisa Trimby. Co [more...]
Second printing of Kipling's collection of short stories, including The Ship that Found herself - an intriguing piece that sympathizes with the machines that powered the Empire and the industrial revolution. Top edge gilt. Some rubbing and light marking to s [more...]
120th edition of the Ambit literary magazine. Featuring poetry, prose and artwork from a variety of contributers including Ken Cox, Fleur Adcock, Edwin Brock, Michael Foreman and more. Dust-jacket has some toning and shelfwear. But contents are clean and p [more...]
115th edition of the Ambit literary magazine. Featuring poetry, prose and artwork from a variety of contributers including Mathew Sweeney; Sam Burnside; Sydeny Bernard Smith and more. Dust-jacket has some toning and shelfwear. But contents are clean and pr [more...]
121st edition of the Ambit literary magazine. Featuring poetry, prose and artwork from a variety of contributers including Robert McAulay; Prosper Dowden; Ken Cox and more. Dust-jacket has some toning, marking and shelfwear. But contents are clean and prim [more...]
116th edition of the Ambit literary magazine. Featuring poetry, prose and artwork from a variety of contributers including Robert McAulay; Martin Bax; Charles Shearer and more. Dust-jacket has some toning, marking and shelfwear. But contents are clean and [more...]