No date but c. 1920. Illustrated edition of these three Tales from the (expanded) Arabian Nights, seemingly adapted from Gilbert's translation. With colour illustrations and b/w drawings within the text Light marking and toning to decorative covers. Tannin [more...]
Nicely produced centenary edition of Kipling's 1909 collection of interlinked short stories. Red cloth with gilt elephant motif to cover. DJ has some toning and rubbing and wear. Previous owner's name and a Kipling themed label pasted down to ffep. Content [more...]
Nicely produced centenary edition of Kipling's unfinished 1937 auto-biography. Red cloth with gilt elephant motif to cover. DJ has some toning and rubbing and wear with small tears. Previous owner's name and a Kipling themed label pasted down to ffep. Cont [more...]
Pleasant Quarter leather Folio Society edition of Chacuer's canterbury Tales, done into contemporary verse by Coghill. The first printing. Illustrated by Woodcuts by Edna White. Decorated end-papers. Complete with slipcase. Mild shelf-wear to slipcase. Ru [more...]
First edition. With Galignani bookseller label to front pastedown and previous owner's name. Rubbing to edges of DJ. Tanning to page edges, else clean and tight. Good+ [more...]
First edition. Tears to DJ with loss to spine and rear cover, with previous owner's tape repair. Mild tanning to page edges, else clean and tight. Good overall. [more...]
Handsome Heron edition of Priestley's novel on duelling civil servants. Blue faux-leather cloth covers with elaborate gilt decoration. Decorated endpaper and b/w frontispiece. Very faint foxing to page edge. A previous owner's protective dust jacket has le [more...]
Fascinating ruminative exploration of the art of translation that examines effective examples and those that miss the mark. Dust jacket has some minor shelf-wear and bumping and is price-clipped. Previous owner's inscription to ffep. But otherwise crisp and [more...]
A children's novel intending to recount life in 12th century Britain as well as give a portrait of Robin Hood as a key figure in the creation of the Magna Carta and for freedom in England. With frontispiece. Spine is sunned. Mild foxing to page edges but co [more...]
Pictorial cloth covers. With b/w illustrations. Tanning to page edges, Rubbing to edges with small tears to top and tail of spine. Binding sound and contents clean. Good. [more...]
Pleasant collins edition of Lever's exciting 1841 war story. With b/w illustrations by Lawson Wood. No date but c. 1950. Mild rubbing and bumping to edges. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
Nicely produced Classics Club edition of Chekhov's selected short stories, including the Shooting Party and the Black Monk, with an introduction by Lucy M. Cores. Grey cloth with Gilt decoration and titling, top edge tinted. Mild rubbing to gilt on spine, [more...]
Nicely produced Classics Club edition of Turgenev's iconic novel. Grey cloth with Gilt decoration and titling, top edge tinted. Smudge/mark to fore-edge, else crisp and clean. Very good. [more...]
Pleasant collins clear type edition of Thackeray's Great novel. In soft red leather. Complete with slipcase and frontispiece. Top edge gilt. Rubbing to edges of slipcase. Some wear to spine. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
First edition of this collected volume of Ruth Rendall's short crime stories, taken from her short story collections, including 1976's The Fallen Curtain. Some toning to DJ. Contents bright and clean. Very good. [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 leather edition of Stevenson's historical novel set during the Jacobite uprising. Dark leather covers with gilt titling and design. Top edge gilt. Rubbing to extremities. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Signature to ffep. Conten [more...]
