Fetching gilt and green cloth binding in the 'Cranford series' style. Illustrated throughout by Charles Brock in b/w. All edges gilt. Previous owners name to ffep. Dusty staining to covers and bumping to edges. Occassional light spotting to front matte [more...]
Impressive Folio Society edition of Barbero's examination of the life and rule of Charlemagne and the influence of the Carolingian Empire. With decorative cloth binding. Maps to endpapers and colour images. narrow 8vo. With slipcase. Some mild shelf-wear [more...]
Handsome quarter leather Franklin library edition of four of Ibsen's key works. With marbled end-papers. All edges gilt. Illustrations by Tony Eubanks. elaborate gilt design to spine and covers. Some mild shelf-wear, else crisp and clean. Near fine. [more...]
Handsome quarter leather Franklin library edition of a selection of 29 essays, chosen by Mortimer J. Adler . With marbled end-papers. All edges gilt. Illustrations by Carol Wald. elaborate gilt design to spine and covers. Some mild shelf-wear, else crisp [more...]
Handsome quarter leather Franklin library edition of Fielding's novell. With marbled end-papers. All edges gilt. Illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson. Elaborate gilt design to spine and covers. Some marking to covers. Some mild shelf-wear, otherwise Crisp and [more...]
Neat collins edition of Charlotte Bronte's classic. In a limp faux-leather cover with gilt titling. Top edge gilt. Some light shelfwear. Previous owner's inscription to ffep. Contents clean and prim. Good+ condition overall. [more...]
Splendid Folio Society Edition of Defoe's epistolary account of his travels through Britain, first published between 1724 and 1727 as A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain. With numerous b/w and colour images and an introduction by the editors. Seco [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...]
Handsome Heron edition of the first novel to feature Lord Ramage and set during the French Revolutionary Wars. Red faux-leather cloth with gilt decoration and decorated end-papers. Mild foxing to top edge. Small marks to free end-papers (caused by tape resi [more...]
Handsome Heron edition of Wouk's pulitzer prize winning novel set during world war 2. Brown faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. Decorated endpapers. B/w illustrations. . Foxing to top edge. Small marks to free-endpapers (tape residue from [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...]
Faux leather with gilt design. Silken marker, decorated endpapers and frontis portrait of Mitchell and illustrated with b/w stills from the film. Gilt fading to spine. Contents bright and sound. Good+ [more...]
Tremendous Folio Society edition of Carroll's nonsensical poem, featuring lavish b/w illustrations throughout by Quentin Blake. Pictorial cloth covers. Complete with slipcase. Spine is sunned, as is common, and slipcase has some shelf-wear and marking. Mil [more...]
Nicely produced edition of Eliot's first published work, a series of stories on a clerical theme with 6 b/w illustrations by Chris Hammond. Some toning to spine, rubbing to edges, Very slight bowing to boards, previous owner's blind-stamped name to ffep. Bi [more...]
Handsome Heron edition of Priestley's novel on duelling civil servants. Blue faux-leather cloth covers with elaborate gilt decoration. Decorated endpaper and b/w frontispiece. Very faint foxing to page edge. A previous owner's protective dust jacket has le [more...]
Charming, and interesting, edition of Fitzgerald's final novel on morality and psychoanalysis. Text is in English but introduction and notes are in Russian. Attractive gilt design and titling to black covers. Decorated endpapers. Without dust-jacket. A fe [more...]
Handsome leather edition of Stevenson's memoir of his immigrant experiences in America describing his arrival in New York and his journey to San Francisco. Fine paper edition. Red leather covers with gilt titling and design. All edges gilt. Decorated endpa [more...]
Handsome leather edition of Stevenson's historical novel set during the Jacobite uprising. Dark leather covers with gilt titling and design. Top edge gilt. Rubbing to extremities. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Signature to ffep. Conten [more...]
Glossy, hefty Folio Society volume detailing the seven wonders of the Ancient world, the seven wonders of the medieval world and so on. Complete with numerous full page colour images. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has some light shelfwear. volume crisp [more...]
Charming cloth edition of Goldsmith's 1766 novel from Dent's English Idylls series, featuring elaborate gilt decoration and 25 colour plates by C. E. Brock. Light green cloth. Top edge gilt. Fore edge rough cut. Decorated end-papers. Previous owner's inscri [more...]
