Attractive Heron edition of Maupassant's selected works. Each volume contains a novel (Bel Ami, une Vie, Fort Comme la Mort, Pierre et Jean - All in English, despite the French Titles) plus several short stories. Decorative green cloth. Volume 1 has a tear [more...]
Scarce with Dust jacket. A collection of stories, illustrated throughout in colour by Haywood, fore-edge painter extraordinaire. Slight loss to top and tail of DJ at spine. Previous owner's name in pencil to ffep. Contents clean and binding sound. Good+ [more...]
First UK edition of Le Guin's well received collection of short stories on the theme of visiting different planes of reality. Complete with striking DJ. Some mild bumping to edges of DJ. Contents clean and prim. near fine. [more...]
7. Sonderheft der "Woche". With numerous colour plates. Some bumping to egdes, mild marking to covers. Contents clean and binding sound. Good. [more...]
Nicely produced and illustrated edition of Andersen's Fairy stories, Complete with 6 colour plates plus b/w decorations within the text. Reprint. 4to. Illustrated paper coverered boards are rubbed to edges with tears to spine and loss to top. Foxing to pa [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...]
The twelve monthly issues of The Prize for 1901 bound together Each issue comes with a charming colour frontispiece, and numerous b/w illustrations throughout, along with poems and stories for children. Bound in blue patterned cloth. Clean and tight. Very [more...]
Deluxe leather edition of Dickens' final unfinished novel together with his own entirely delf-written periodical, Master Humphrey's Clock, a plethora of short stories. Elaborate gilt design to spine and cover. Silken bookmarker, decorated end-papers. Top edg [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...]
Early Folio Society edition of Boccaccio's renaissance compendium of short stories. With illustrations by Buckland-Wright. Complete with Dust-jackets. Decorative cloth boards. Some water damage to rear cover of volume 1, affecting rear free end-papers and [more...]
Facsimile edition of the 1931 Gargoyle press edition. With b/w erotic illustrations by Francis Heuber. A collection of short stories. DJ has some very light bumping to edges. Otherwise crisp and clean. Near fine. [more...]
No date but c. 1930. Duo-tone and b/w illustrations throughout. Previous owner's name to front pastedown. Some rubbing and bumping to edges. Contents clean and sound. Good. [more...]
Collection of short stories and articles, printed in different colours, with colour illustrations. 4to. Foxing and toning within, one signature loose. Fair. [more...]
No date but c. 1945. Striking colour illustrations by Haywood, accompanied by animal stories by St. Vincent. Oblong 4to. Mild wear to edges. Previous owner's name to ffep. Contents clean and tight. Good+ [more...]
Nice red cloth edition of Kipling's Stalky and Co., an episodic novel based on the author's schooldays. Top edge gilt. Some bumping and rubbing to edges. Contents clean and sound. Very good+ A nice copy. [more...]
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...]
No date but c. 1947. Collection of whimsical short stories featuring anthropomorphic animals, with b/w and colour illustrations by Alfred Kerr. 4to. Toning and marking to covers. Previous owner's label to ffep. Tanning within. Fair. [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 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...]
Colour annual featuring short stories, comics, jokes, puzzles and artwork. Tanning to pages. Previous owner's inscription. With ads to rear. Cloth spine. Good condition. [more...]
