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...]
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...]
Nicely produced Classics Club edition of this selection of Plato's Dialogues, including the full 10 books of The Republic. With an introduction by Louise Ropes Loomis. Grey cloth with Gilt decoration and titling, top edge tinted. Some mild rubbing to gilt [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...]
Handsome early Folio Society edition of Charlotte Bronte's classic, jane Eyre. Quarter leather with elaborate design to spine. Cloth boards. With striking lithographs by Anthony Colbert. Complete with Slipcase. Mild Rubbing to leather. Faint foxing to for [more...]
Illustrated edition of Thackeray's satirical fantasy novel. With 12 colour tipped in colour plates by J. R. Monsell and b/w illustrations within the text. Blue cloth boards with gilt titling to spine. Rubbing and fraying to spine. Cracking to inner hinge. [more...]
From the Tauchnitz collection of British and American Authors, copyright edition. No. 4957. Neatly rebound in blue cloth with leather label to spine. 12mo. We have many more similarly bound Tauchnitz editions. Some light wear to covers. Previous owner's n [more...]
From the Tauchnitz collection of British and American Authors, copyright edition. No. 4491. Neatly rebound in blue cloth with leather label to spine. 12mo. We have many more similarly bound Tauchnitz editions. Some light wear to covers., spine very slightl [more...]
Charming cloth edition of Goldsmith's 1766 novel from Dent's English Idylls series, featuring elaborate gilt decoration and 25 colour plates by C. E. Brock. Light green cloth. Top edge gilt. Fore edge rough cut. Decorated end-papers. Previous owner's inscri [more...]
