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...]
Charming, and interesting, edition of Fitzgerald's final novel on morality and psychoanalysis. Text is in English but introduction and notes are in Russian. Attractive gilt design and titling to black covers. Decorated endpapers. Without dust-jacket. A fe [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...]
Leather prize binding of Scott's historical novel set during the crusades. Westminster City school crest to cover and bookplate to ffep. Decorated end-papers. Marbled page edges. Rubbing to leather. Foxing to front-matters but contents clean. Binding tig [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...]
Pleasant binding of Bronte's enduring novel. With an introduction by Clement K. Shorter. No date but c. 1910. Blue cloth with gilt decoration to spine. Top edge gilt. rubbing to edges. Foxing to page edges. Previous owner's mark to ffep. Stain to corne [more...]
Oxford India Paper Dickens edition of his great (and only) historical novel and his accessible history of England for younger readers. With sixteen illustrations by Phiz and four by Townsend. Full leather. Top edge gilt. Gilt decoration to spine. Marbled [more...]
Handsome Heron Literary Heritage edition of Fielding's great comic novel. Complete in two volumes. In blue faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. Decorated end-papers. With b/w illustrations and introduction. In crisp fine condition. [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...]
Biography of the Writer Hugh Walpole, written by his colleague and friend. With b/w images and maps to end-papers. No dust jacket. Marking and rubbing to green cloth boards. Toning and fading to spine. Light foxing to fore-edge. Contents clean and binding [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...]
Pleasant half leather (publishers?) binding. Floral decoration to spine. Marbled edges with matching marbled end-papers. With a frontispiece by Gordon Browne and colour and b/w plates. No date but c. 1900. 8vo. Rubbing to edges, Contents clean and bindi [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...]
