First UK edition of Crichton's bestselling novel about a Victorian train robbery. Some light bumping and shelf-wear to DJ. Contents clean and prim. Very good. [more...]
Handsome Half leather binding of Goldsmith's works. Marbled boards. Top edge gilt. Rubbing to extremities and top of spine. Very sparse foxing to fore-edge. Binding tight and contents clean. Good. [more...]
Pleasant decorated green cloth edition of Dickens' novel. With b/w illustrations done for the Household edition. Rubbing and bumping to extremities, especially top and tail of spines. Light marking to cover. Occasional mild spotting within. Good. [more...]
Nicely rebound illustrated edition of Scott's 1820 historical Waverley novel. From the Dryburgh edition of Scott's collected works, B/w illustrations by john Williamson. Half leather with marbled boards, with matching marbling to end-papers and page edges. [more...]
Nicely rebound illustrated edition of Scott's novels from his Tales of My Landlord series. From the Dryburgh edition of Scott's collected works, B/w illustrations by Walter Paget and Lockhart Bogle. Half leather with marbled boards, with matching marbling [more...]
Nicely rebound illustrated edition of Scott's two Waverley novels. From the Dryburgh edition of Scott's collected works, B/w illustrations by Godfrey C. Hindley. Half leather with marbled boards, with matching marbling to end-papers and page edges. Some m [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 special quarter leather edition of Kingsley's historical adventure novel, featuring Talwyn Morris's iconic art deco floral design in gilt to spine. With b/w illustrations byWilliam Rainey and an introduction by William Keith Leask. No date but c.190 [more...]
Impressive Hatchards half leather binding of Stevenson's collection of thoughtful essays, featuring the title piece on romance and the sexes and the wistful 'A Plea for Gas-Lamps'. Red half leather, gilt rules to cover. Top edge gilt. Raised bands to spine. [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...]
Novel by Novel examination of the morality and ethics revealed in Eliot's works. With beveled edges. Rubbing to edges. Occasional pencil underling within. With newspaper clippings pasted down to rear end-paper. Occasional spotting within. Contents tight. [more...]
Four volumes of the famous Percy Anecdotes, a collection of stories and facts that would enable a poseur to appear well read and interesting in company. Volumes 2, 3, 7 and 9 featuring the topics of Hospitality, The Bar, Youth, George III, Genius, Shipwreck, [more...]
First English edition of the esteemed Russian/soviet novelist's account of a child and his village in post war Russia, called Serioja originally. Dust jacket is toned with small tears to top spine. Contents clean and binding tight, Good. [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...]
Illustrated edition of Marryat's 1832 novel, describing the adventures of a press-ganged sailor. With tissue guarded frontispice and b/w illustrations by Sullivan. Some staining and toning to cover. Foxing to end-papers. Tanning within. Previous owner's n [more...]
Handsome art-deco style binding of Galsworthy's epic history of a newly-monied family and their progress through British high society. Printed on fine paper, contains all three books and two interludes: The Man of Property (1906); Indian Summer of a Forsyte ( [more...]
Pleasant red leather collins edition of Dumas' novel. With frontisportrait. Top edge gilt. Complete with slipcase. 12mo. Slight sunning, rubbing and fading to spine. Contents crisp and clean. Very good overall. [more...]
Reprint, with date code x.147. Rubbing to edges of DJ with small tears. Toning to DJ. DJ is price-clipped. Mild bumping and toning to edges of volume. Contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Nicely produced collection of Carroll's Alice stories, Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass; plus poems The Hunting of the Snark and Phantasmagoria plus a biography and Carroll's letters. All featuring the original illustrations by John Tenn [more...]
