With b/w illustrations . No date but c. 1900. Sunning to spine. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Mild tanning to page edges. Previous owner's name and prize plate to front pastedown. Binding Sound, contents clean. Good. [more...]
Charming collection of quotes by Dickens chosen for each day of the year. With a frontisportrait. Previous owner's inscription to front blank. Contents clean and binding tight. Good [more...]
Elegant edition of Thackeray's first full novel with various later smaller pieces. From the new century library. Decorative cloth with blind-stamped design to cover and gilt to spine. Top edge gilt. Mild bumping and rubbing to edges. Very light foxing to p [more...]
No date but c. 1920. Pleasant red leather edition of Scott's historical novel. With b/w illustrations. Top edge gilt. Sunning, rubbing and wear to spine. Contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Pleasant blue faux-leather edition of Ainsworth's novel. Previous owner's name to ffep. Very light bumping to edges. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
No date but c. 1900. From the London edition of Thackeray's works, containing two novellas plus Thackeray's account of his travels across Europe to Egypt. With colour frontispiece and b/w illustrations. Sunning to spine. Rubbing to edges. Foxing to front m [more...]
Pleasant edition of Stevenson's romantic historical adventure. Black leather with gilt decoration Top edge gilt. Tissue guarded frontispiece. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Previous owner's inscription to ffep. Faint foxing to fore-edge. Contents clean an [more...]
Pleasant Collins Classics edition of Dumas' great historical adventure novel, the third part of 'The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later', a follow-up to the three musketeers. With frontisportrait. Mild shelfwear to DJ. Small date stamp to half-title. C [more...]
Second impression of the first edition of Ballard's semi-autobiographical account of his experiences in Shanghai during WW2. Some light toning to DJ. DJ has some bumping to edges and is price-clipped. Previous owner's name to ffep. Contents clean and tight [more...]
The second volume of the deluxe leather edition of Dickens' classic novel. Elaborate gilt design to spine and cover. Silken bookmarker, decorated end-papers. Top edge gilt, sewn headband. Features illustrations by Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne). Some light ru [more...]
No date but c. 1920. Pleasant red leather edition of Scott's historical novel. With b/w illustrations. Top edge gilt. Sunning, rubbing and wear to spine with slight loss to top. Contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Semi-autobiographical account of von Armin's attempts to integrate into German aristocratic life. Blue leather with gilt decoration. Top edge gilt. Rubbing to edges with small tear to top of spine. Contents clean and sound. Good. [more...]
Attractive Heron edition of Maugham's novel loosely based on the life of Paul Gauguin. Faux quarter leather with rich red cloth and elaborate gilt tooling. Large crease to cover but contents are untouched. Unobtrusive stamp to end papers and slight bumping [more...]
No date but c. 1910, attractive edition of Lytton's works. 8vo. Green cloth in a half-leather style with elaborate gilt to spine. b/w plates. Slight bumping to extremities. Minor foxing to page edge and endpapers but text-block is clean, binding sound. Goo [more...]
No date but c. 1910, attractive edition of Lytton's works. 8vo. Green cloth in a half-leather style with elaborate gilt to spine. b/w plates. Slight bumping to extremities. Minor foxing to page edge and endpapers but text-block is clean, binding sound. Goo [more...]
No date but c. 1910, attractive edition of Lytton's works. 8vo. Green cloth in a half-leather style with elaborate gilt to spine. b/w plates. Slight bumping to extremities. Minor foxing to page edge and endpapers but text-block is clean, binding sound. Goo [more...]
Interesting edition of W. Somerset Maugham's novel of literary memory and the veracity of biography. Text in english with Russian notes and introduction. Some shelfwear, rubbing and slight markings to cloth boards. Previous owner's signature. Contents are [more...]
Handsome but well-traveled edition of Goldsmith's miscellaneous works including The Vicar of Wakefield and She Stoops to Conquer. All edges gilt. Leather with decorated spine and title. Rubbing to extremities of spine with a little loss. Crease to cover. [more...]
