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...]
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...]
'The Greatest Masterpieces of Russian Literature' indeed. Attractive Heron edition of Turgenev's wonderful novel together with Liza. In red faux-leather with wonderful gilt tooling. Decorated endpapers, sewn headband, silken bookmarker. With original illu [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...]
Pleasant Heron edition of Stevenson's complex short novel, written with his step-son Lloyd Osbourne, along with Island Nights' Entertainment. Bound in brown faux-leather with elaborate gilt decoration. With decorated endpapers. No date but c.1970. Introduc [more...]
Nice edition of Dickens' novel. Top edge gilt. Decoration to spine. With b/w illustrations. Rubbing to edges. Marking to spine. Some splitting to inner hinge. . Binding sound. Good. [more...]
Pleasant quarter cloth binding of Scott's historical novel. With b/w illustrations. Marbled edges. Previous owner's label to front pastedown. Binding sound and contents clean. Good. [more...]
Pleasant red cloth macmillan edition of Walpole's 1915 collection of short storiesl. Some light rubbing to edges. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
With b/w illustrations . No date but c. 1900. Rubbing to edges, especially to top and tail of spine. Mild sunning to spine. Previous owner's name to front pastedown.. Tanning to page edges. Contents sound. Good. [more...]
Handsome volume from the Active service series. With colour frontispiece. Some foxing to page edges. Bumping to edges. Contents clean and tight. Good+ [more...]
