Special Limited Folio Society of Melville's epic 1851 novel. Featuring Rockwell Kent's iconic b/w illustrations from the 1930 Lakeside Press edition. Limited to 1750 copies, of which this is number 797. Bound in black leather and blocked in silver after a de [more...]
Impressively produced edition of Cervantes' landmark work intended to echo the epochal 1780 Spanish edition by Joaquin Ibarra, using Smollett's 1755 translation. Featuring 22 engravings by Bromley after Spanish masterworks by Carnicero and Barranco. With a [more...]
Scarce volume written and illustrated by the great Belgian artist, describing, characteristically weird islands and their eerie denizens. With colour frontispiece and numerous b/w illustrations within. With maps to end-papers. 8vo. 210pp. Toning to spine. [more...]
Nicely bound set of Dickens' works, complete in 20 volumes. Containing of course: David Copperfield; Nicholas Nickelby; Bleak House; Pickwick Papers; Little Dorrit; Our Mutual Friend, Martin Chuzzlewit; Oliver Twist & Hard Times; Sketches by Boz & The Christ [more...]
Limited edition Gregynog Press edition of selected autobiographical writings by Shaw. Number 103 of 300. Full leather binding designed by artist Paul Nash, with art deco style initials to front and rear cover. Printed on handmade paper by Arnold and Foster, [more...]
Nicely rebound copy of James' hefty but readable history of Britain, from the earliest period to the present time. six volumes bound as three. With numerous excellent b/w plates, portraits and fold-out maps bound in at the start of each division. With signif [more...]
Stylish Folio Society edition of Proust's modernist masterpiece. Complete in six volumes, containing all seven volumes of the cycle: Swann's Way, Within a Budding Grove, the Guermantes Way, the Fugitive, Time Regained, the Captive, Sodom and Gomorrah. With p [more...]
Impressive edition and binding of Stowe's pioneering novel on the conditions of slavery. With over 150 b/w illustrations. Full leather. All edges gilt. Marbled end-papers. Outer dentelles. 8vo. 392pp. Rubbing to spine and fading to gilt decoration. M [more...]
Elegant edition of Austen's 1814 novel. With numerous b/w illustrations by Hugh Thomson and an introduction by Austin Dobson. Bound in blind-stamped, floral patterned cloth. Fore-edge rough cut. 8vo. Some bumping and rubbing to edges. Some light tanning [more...]
Charming special edition of Shakespeare's Works, bound in publisher's lambskin with decorative floral design to spines. With introductory essays and glossary. Full leather. Top edge gilt. Frontis-portraits. Small 8vo. (185x135mm) light marking and scratch [more...]
Generously illustrated edition of Dickens' short story, with colour plates plus smaller b/w illustrations within the text done by J. C. Beard. 4to. Pictorial covers. Backstrip missing. Heavy rubbing to edges. Previous owner's name to half-title. Occasiona [more...]
2nd impression of the first UK edition of Schaefer's classic western novel. Dust jacket has some very small chips and closed tears to edges. Mild foxing to top edge. Bumping to edges. Previous owner's name to front pastedown. Contents clean and tight. Ve [more...]
Centenary edition of Carroll's enduring classic featuring the illustrations of Hudson. Complete with 12 colour plates, plus decorated initials and illustrations within the text. 4to. Sunning to spine and covers. Foxing to page edges. Contents clean and so [more...]
Complete works of the 17th century dramatist. Full leather with gilt decoration and titling to spine. Marbled end-papers. Frontisportrait. Severe rubbing and wear to spines and joints. Front board of volume II detached. Others starting, one with previous [more...]
Splendid vellum binding of Chaucer's works. Done by John Bumpus (but doubtless outsourced) with elaborate gilt decoration to spine and leather labels. Inner and outer dentelles. Marbled end-papers. Page edges tinted yellow. Printed in double columns. Con [more...]
Handsomely rebound Oxford Illustrated edition of Dickens' novel that satirises the british class system and its institutions such as the debtors prisons. Complete with the 40 b/w illustrations by Phiz, From the Oxford New Illustrated Dickens series. Half red [more...]
Glorious limited edition of Balzac's humourous short stories in the style of the Decameron, appearing in 1832, 1833 & 1837. Bound in half cloth with decorative paper to boards. Fore-edge rough cut. With two tone illustrations by Barton. Limited to 2050 cop [more...]
Handsomely rebound Tusitala edition of Stevenson's enduring adventure. Half leather with raised bands and gilt decoration to spine. Marbled end-papers. Top edge gilt. With a map as frontispiece. 12mo. Previous owner's inscription to fly-leaf. Mild foxin [more...]
'Orne de figues'. Early edition (possibly first, possibly a pirated copy) of Fromaget's controversial 1742 novel that was banned immediately. Purporting to be a historical document published in Constantinople (hence a lack of bibliographic information), Le C [more...]
First reprint, in the same format as the 1934 first edition. Wall's second Blinky Bill story, with b/w illustrations throughout. 4to. Rubbing to edges with cracking to joints. Bumping to edges. Light foxing to page edges. Contents clean and sound. Good. [more...]
