Swift, readable history of english literature from Chaucer to the victorian era. With b/w images. Quarter leather with gilt decoration. Complete with slipcase. slipcase has some rubbing and toning. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Toning and light marking t [more...]
Neat Nelson edition of Eliot's enduring novel. With b/w frontispiece. Blue cloth with blind-stamped decoration. No date but c. 1920. Bumping and rubbing to edges. Previous owner's name to ffep. Tanning to page edges. Good overall. [more...]
Weyman's 1895 historical novel. Red cloth . Some light bumping and rubbing to edges with chipping to tail of spine. No date but c. 1940. Contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Nice red leather edition of Kipling's first, semi-autobiographical novel of unrequited love. Top edge gilt. Some light rubbing to edges with slight loss to top of spine. Toning to covers. Contents clean. good condition. [more...]
Nice red leather edition of Kipling's Stories. Top edge gilt. Some light rubbing to edges with slight loss to top of spine. Toning to covers. Contents clean. good condition. [more...]
Folio Society edition of de Rojas' great novel published in 1499 and considered the first renaissance work in Spanish. With b/w illustrations by Dodie Masterson. No Slipcase but with protective wrapper. Some light shelf-wear to edges but contents crisp and [more...]
Handsome Folio Society edition of these humorous vignettes from the Life of Roger de Coverley, an 18th century country gentleman, taken from The Spectator Magazine, illustrated with wood engravings by Rochard Shirley Smith. No slipcase but with protective wra [more...]
From the Britain in Pictures series. With colour plates and b/w illustrations. DJ has toning and staining with tears with loss to edges. Spotting to edges and end-papers and occasionally within. Binding sound. Good. [more...]
Letters wrtten by the 17th century aristocrat to her husband, poliican and diplomat Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet. First published in 1888. They tell of the final two years of their fraught courtship before their marriage in 1654, describing their romance [more...]
Examines American literature from 1900 when european modernism began to take hold. A range of contributers analyze the changing face of american writing, taking in Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein to the writers of the 1960s and onwards, like Kurt Vonnegut and P [more...]
Wordworth edition of Johnson's allegorical fable about happiness, written in a week to pay for his Mother's funeral. Some light shelfwear but contents crisp and clean. Good/very good overall. [more...]
