Bohn's standard Library edition. Beveled edges. Some marking to covers. Mild rubbing to edges. Previous owner's name blind-stamped to ffep. Light foxing to page edges, else clean. Good. [more...]
Pleasant edition of Defoe's Journal of the Plague year, a fictional account of the plague in london. With a frontispiece featuring the title of a Bill of Mortality that interested Defoe. With an introduction by Louis Landa. Mild shelf-wear to covers. Conte [more...]
Quarter leather binding EX-LIBRARY copy of the Lambs' great renderings of the stories of Shakespeare. With an introduction by Andrew Lang and b/w illustrations by Robert Anning Bell. Tags removed but stamps and such to ffep and front pastedown. Spine cocked [more...]
Handsome special quarter leather edition of Disraeli's novel featuring Talwyn Morris's iconic art deco floral design in gilt to spine. With b/w illustrations by Claude A. Shepperson plus introduction. No date but c.1900. 8vo. ( 200x145mm) [xxii+vii] 432pp. [more...]
Pleasant half leather (publishers?) binding. Floral decoration to spine. Marbled edges with matching marbled end-papers. With a frontispiece of Gordon Browne and colour and b/w plates. No date but c. 1900. 8vo. Rubbing to edges, Tearing to top of spine. [more...]
From the Kingston Library series. With colour illustrations. No date but c. 1900. All edges gilt. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Binding sound and contents clean. Good+ [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...]
Collection of sketches describing notable French archetypes and professions, extracted from the writings of notable French authors and illustrated throughout with engravings from a variety of French sources. Reprint. 8vo. Publisher's original cloth. Lacks [more...]
From the Oxford Trollope Crown Edition. With illustrations by Hughes Blair Stanton. Lacks DJ. Slight sunning to spine. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
From the Oxford Trollope Crown Edition. With illustrations by Lynton Lamb. Lacks DJ. Slight sunning to spine, small marks to edge. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
From the Oxford Trollope Crown Edition. With illustrations by Hector Whistler. Lacks DJ. Very Slight sunning to spine. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
No date but c. 1915. Decorative leather Collins edition of Ballantyne's adventure novel. With sepia toned illustrations by J. E. Sutcliffe. Complete with slipcase. Top edge gilt. 12mo. Some bumping to edges, light toning and creasing to spine. Bumping [more...]
From the Tauchnitz collection of British and American Authors, copyright edition. No. 4798. Neatly rebound in blue cloth with leather label to spine. 12mo. We have many more similarly bound Tauchnitz editions. Some light wear to covers. Slight marking to f [more...]
Pleasant half leather (publishers?) binding. Floral decoration to spine. Marbled edges with matching marbled end-papers. With a frontisportrait by the author and colour and b/w plates. No date but c. 1900. 8vo. Rubbing to edges with tearing to tail of spi [more...]
Early, perhaps first, edition of Henty's popular tale of a young Dutch sailor contending with Malaysian pirates during the period of Dutch rule in the region. With b/w illustrations by J. Jellicoe. Pictorial green cloth. Some mild bumping and rubbing to edg [more...]
Handsome Heron Collector's edition of Ambler's 1969 spy thriller. Red faux leather cloth with elaborate gilt design. Large 8vo. Some light rubbing to edges. faint foxing to page edges. Contents Clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
Scathing collection of comical verse and literary quotes that could mercilessly be applied to Benjamin Disraeli, as well as quotations from the man himself. With b/w illustrations. Produced by Abel Heywood, the radical publisher and mayor of Manchester. Mil [more...]
Strikingly illustrated accounts of childhood in the Netherlands. With numerous colour illustrations throughout. 4to. Heavy rubbing to spine, with fraying. Light spotting and toning to cover. Toning within, binding sound. Good. [more...]
