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...]
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 decorative edition of Scott's lively somewhat apocryphal History of Scotland. Gilt design to cover. With engraved title page and tissue guarded frontispiece. Mild rubbing and bumping to edges. Light foxing and tanning to page edges. Else clean an [more...]
Neat leather-bound uniform edition of Sabatini's 1908 historical novel. Some bumping and rubbing to edges. Previous owner's blind-stamped name to ffep. Contents clean and sound. Good+ [more...]
Neat leather-bound uniform edition of Sabatini's 1908 historical novel. Some bumping and rubbing to edges. Previous owner's blind-stamped name to ffep. Contents clean and sound. Good+ [more...]
From the collected edition of Huxley's works. Mild shelf-wear and rubbing to edges. Very light foxing to end-papers, contents clean and tight. Very good overall. [more...]
Elegant Folio Society of Wilde's 1895 wildly succesful drawing room play. Bound in silk moire cloth, with decorated end-papers. Illustrated in colour by Cecil Beaton, with further b/w illustrations within the text. Lacks slipcase. Sunning to spine with f [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...]
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...]
Fascinating volume featuring various forms of literature, including excerpts from novels, poetry, short stories, Newspaper articles, surveys and more, that tell the story of Hungary's political development from Nazi occupation up to 1965. With numerous b/w im [more...]
'Being a narrative excerpted from the chronicles of Urbino during the dominion of the High and Mighty Messer Guidobaldo da Montefeltro.' Neat leather-bound uniform edition of Sabatini's 1907 historical novel. Some bumping and rubbing to edges. Previous owner [more...]
Pleasant edition of Doyle's ambitious 1895 epistolary novel. Toning to spine. Light marking to covers. Previous owner's name to ffep. Tanning and occasional light spotting within. Good overall. [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...]
