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Large 8vo, 664 pp, with illustrations. Contemporary buckram, spine sunned, maroon morocco label. £50 Listing over 2,000 titles for sale.
First edition, 8vo, 319, (1) pp, a few spots, pictorial endpapers, original black cloth, slightly rubbed and marked. £40 r - Back to top
Large 8vo, (iv), 636 pp, portrait frontispiece and 12 plates, a few light spots to text leaves, contemporary red cloth, gilt spine, a few marks, spine ends and joints a little worn. £40
4to, (xvi), 52, (66) pp. 2 portraits, 60 pages of photographs and a folding map, a couple of margins soiled, original wrappers bound in, stained and marked. Plainly bound in half morocco. £125 Volume XIII of “Reports and Memoirs” edited by Giuseppe Tucci for the Instituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente.
First edition, 8vo, 29, (3) pp, signed by the Author on the title page, one of 200 copies bound in cloth from a larger edition of 1,000 copies, d.w., a fine copy. £40 Loosely inserted is a printed sheet, folded twice, containing a 6 part poem by Raine entitled “A Journey to Greece”, with the imprint “Sycamore Broadsheet 28”.
Limited edition, 122 of 145 copies, 12mo, (22) pp. Original wrappers, printed label, fine. £40
Limited edition, no. 155 of 450 copies, signed by the Author, large 8vo, (24) pp, frontispiece and a small wood engraving tipped in, paper wrappers, a fine copy. £40
8vo, viii, xi Subscribers List, (208), 6 Notes, (1 Errata, 1) pp. Printed in dialect on versos and in English on rectos, some spotting and mostly marginal marks, contemporary signature on paste down. Uncut in contemporary boards, very worn but sound, rebacked in modern calf, typed spine label. £75
Limited edition, one of 275 copies, 32mo - covers measuring 71 x 52 mm, being one single sheet folded concertina style and printed on one side only. 7 wood engravings by Kathleen Lindsley. Paper covered boards, slipcase, fine. £250 An extract from “By Fell and Dale”, published 1911.
Two volumes, small 8vo, (iii-iv), 416; (iii-iv), 404 pp, bound without the half titles. Some spots, bookplates, marbled endpapers and sides. Contemporary half calf, slightly worn, red and green morocco spine labels, volume II missing one label. £50 Todd & Bowden 709-10.
First edition, small 8vo, (ii), 485, (1) pp. 12 engraved plates, a few spots, marbled endpapers. Contemporary full calf, double gilt rules, “The College, Brixton Hill” stamped in gilt on upper cover, gilt spine with black label, minor rubbing else a very good copy. Scarce. £150 Wolff IV p19.
Seventh edition, 8 volumes, 12mo. 18th century bookseller’s label to paste down in volume I - Théophile Barrois, Paris. Contemporary calf, rather worn, green morocco spine labels, lacking one and with some loss to others, tops of spines with loss but otherwise a sound unsophisticated set. £225 First published in 1748 and also known as “Clarissa Harlowe”, this was the most successful of Richardson’s three novels and was translated almost immediately into several languages. Rousseau commented “...there is in no language a romance equal to or approaching ‘Clarissa’” (DNB).
Fourth edition, small 8vo, (viii), 205, (1) pp. Marbled endpapers, booklabel (“Milheugh”) to paste down. Contemporary tree calf with a border of gilt leaves to covers, rebacked in a lighter 20th century calf. £125 A Professor at Glasgow University who as “a student... had interested himself in the prosperous business of the brothers Foulis”, Richardson was widely respected by his peers and published essays on Shakespeare and an account of his time in Russia while in the service of Lord Cathcart as well as his own verse. Gaskell 588, stating “[?Third] issue, called the ‘fourth edition’, with the addition of The Indians”. First published 1774.
Limited edition, no. 46 of 500 copies, 8vo, 82 pp, illustration on title page, endpapers browned, cloth backed gold and black decorative boards with small cloth corner pieces to covers, some minor browning, otherwise a very good copy. £40
Limited edition, no. 230 of 300 copies, 4to, 33, (1) pp. Brown cloth, a fine copy. £400
Limited edition, no. 61 of 75 large paper copies, large 8vo, (x), 245, (1) pp. Unopened in the original cream buckram, soiled and browned. £75 The eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray, Ritchie knew pretty much everyone of literary note during her lifetime, and wrote many valuable biographical sketches, not least for the Dictionary of National Biography on its first appearance.
First edition, 8vo, 256 pp. Some light foxing. Original green cloth, spine dull, ends a little rubbed. £45 Including work by C. Day Lewis, Stephen Spender, Christopher Isherwood, W.H. Auden and John Lehmann. Woolmer 330.
First edition, 8vo, 102, (2) pp. Original blue boards printed in gold, spine faded. £40 Verse by 9 poets - W.H. Auden, Julian Bell, C. Day Lewis, Richard Eberhart, William Empson, John Lehmann, William Plomer, Stephen Spender and A.S.J. Tessimond. Hogarth Living Poets No. 24. Woolmer 306. Bloomfield and Mendelson B5. Handley-Taylor & d’Arch Smith B3. One of 600 copies.
4to, (ii), 34, (2) pp, engraved title and 6 plates, marbled endpapers, a fine copy bound by Grieve in blue full morocco, ends of spine slightly worn, small marks to upper cover, gilt ruled borders to covers, gilt spine. £150
First edition, 8vo, 67, (1) pp. Some light foxing, signature to fly leaf. Original printed lavender boards, spine and edges browned, spine rubbed. £40 Hogarth Living Poets No. 14. Woolmer 234. One of 400 copies.
First edition, 8vo, (viii), 502, (2) pp, double page map of Mars, cloth, d.w., light damp staining to top edge of both lower cover and wrapper. £150
Limited edition, one of 300 copies, 8vo, (viii), 34, (6) pp, small mark to fly leaf, an unopened copy in the original cloth backed boards, still protected by the original plain white wrapper, this browned and with some loss to the spine and bottom edge. £285 23 poems by 20 poets, including Yeats, Lady Gregory, L.A.G. Strong, Frank O’Connor and “A.E.” Wade p455.
8vo, 432 pp, with a frontispiece and engraved second title, later inscription on front blank, bound by Dutton and Compane in later half calf, marbled sides, ornately gilt spine with brown labels, some very minor rubbing, a near fine copy, t.e.g. £85
Second edition, 8vo, (vi), 198 pp, endpapers and blanks a little foxed, 2 leaves with tiny red flecks of red ink on top margin, otherwise a good clean copy in contemporary full calf, extremities worn, covers with gilt ruled borders, spine with delicate tooling, morocco label. £50 The second part was published in 1828.
Two volumes, 8vo. Engraved vignette illustrations in the text, occasional light foxing, marbled endpapers. Finely bound by Ramage in later full green morocco, gilt rule with a greek urn at each corner, spines sunned with raised bands, a.e.g. £300
Two volumes, square 8vo, xxvii, (i), 227, (1); xiii, (iii), 246, (2) pp. 20 plates, later inscription to both fly leaves, marbled endpapers. Bound for William Brown, Edinburgh, in contemporary blue half morocco, gilt spines, t.e.g., some minor rubbing, some marks to the boards otherwise an attractive set. £375 Including valuable notes by the Editor, and including the first publication of the sonnet “After the French Liberation of Italy”. Wellbeck II p697. Printed at the Astolat Press, Guildford.
Three volumes, each fourth edition, 12mo. 30, 24 and 24 fine coloured aquatints respectively, including the coloured title in volume I but lacking pp101-4 and one plate in the same, some occasional light foxing, marbled endpapers and edges. Uniformly bound in contemporary calf, double gilt rules, gilt spines a little worn, volume I lacking its labels. £125
Seven volumes, first deluxe editions, 8vo. Bound in red, light blue, green, purple, maroon, blue and black cloth respectively. Gilt edged and with a coloured illustration to the upper cover, the title and Rowling's signature are detailed in gilt as well. A complete set of all the first issues of the deluxe editions. Fine. £2000
RUSHDIE, Salman. Midnight’s Children. London: Jonathan Cape (1981). Second reprint, 8vo, 446 pp. Inscribed from the Author to the actress Carol Drinkwater on the title page. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, spine faded. £250 Winner of the Booker Prize, and subsequently the “Booker of Bookers” prize.
RUSHDIE, Salman. Shame. London (1983). First edition, 8vo, 287 pp, signed by the Author on the title, cloth, a fine copy in a fine d.w. £75
Nine volumes, including the Index volume, mixed editions, including first editions of volume V and the Index volume, 8vo. 17 plates, marbled endpapers, morocco bookplate lettered in gilt in volume I. Contemporary brown half morocco, cloth sides, spines - excepting volume I - a little sunned, t.e.g., a most attractive set. £700 “...one of the curiosities of literature. Its discursiveness, its garrulity, its petulance are amazing... [it] is full of passionate intensity; it abounds in forcible writing, and the ingenuity with which innumerable threads are knit together to enforce the author's economic principles is remarkable” (DNB). Wise I pp 177, 186.
First ‘ordinary’ edition, 2 volumes, 4to, 27 plates, including 4 facsimiles showing Ruskin’s handwriting, marbled endpapers, later brown half morocco, cloth sides, spine faded, t.e.g., a near fine copy. £375 Published at the same time as a ‘special’ edition bound in vellum and a ‘small’, i.e. 8vo, edition. Wise II p212.
RUST’HVELI, Shot’ha. The Knight in the Tiger Skin. Poem. (Translated by Majory Scott Wardrop... Illustrations by I. Toidze). Moscow: Progress Publishers 1977. Second printing, 8vo, 430, (2) pp. Portrait and 20 plates, decorative endpapers, inscriptions in English and Russian opposite title. Original cloth, but with brass casings fastened over the covers with decoration in relief, noted in one of the inscriptions as being designed by Koba Gouruli. A unique and unusual copy. £200
Limited edition, one of 150 copies, 8vo, (24) pp. Original patterned wrappers after a design by Eric Ravilious, printed label to upper cover, a fine copy. £40
Limited edition, no. 4 of 350 copies signed by the author, 8vo, (vi, 16, 2 blank) pp, a near fine copy in the original coloured patterned boards, spine faded. £150 See Woolmer 269 plus the illustration on p98, our copy being the early state noted with the comma after Leonard Woolf’s initial in the imprint. s - Back to top
First edition, 8vo, 304, 24 advertisement pp. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, edges with some creasing, very slight loss to top of spine. £40
First edition, 8vo, (vi), 57, (1) pp, some foxing to first and last few leaves, gilt titled two-toned cloth, very slight rubbing to spine ends. £45
First edition, 8vo, 325, (3) pp, free endpapers browned else a very good clean copy in the original orange cloth, d.w. browned with some tears, loss to top of spine, lower joint and some other small chips. £125 No second volume was ever issued. Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A29a.
First edition, 8vo, 317, (1) pp. A few spots, map to paste down, inscribed from the Author’s mother, Lady Sackville, on fly leaf. Original light green cloth, slightly rubbed otherwise very good. £150 Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A30a.
First edition, 8vo, 134, (2) pp. Cloth, d.w., price clipped, spine slightly sunned, otherwise very good. £60 “This book won the Heinemann Prize of £100 in 1946, which VSW spent on azaleas for Sissinghurst gardens.” Cross & Ravenscroft Hulme A.44a.
First edition, 8vo, 306 pp. Original green cloth, some light marking, spine a little sunned. £150 Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A10a.
Limited edition, no. 87 of 125 copies printed on Japon vellum, signed by both Author and Artist, square 8vo, (xii), 107, (1) pp. Frontispiece and 4 woodcuts, fly leaf, limitation leaf and frontispiece with a couple of creases. Original quarter vellum with some light discolouration, a few marks to the boards. £500 Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A13b.
First edition, 8vo, 282, (4 advertisement) pp, 16 plates, one plate printed on a slightly too-large sheet with the excess paper folded in, original cloth, d.w. browned and marked with loss to the top of the spine. £75 Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A32a.
First edition, small 8vo, 55, (1) pp. Slight staining to top of early leaves and the outside edge of the upper corners throughout. Original printed wrappers, slight loss to foot of spine. £50 Verse by 17 poets, selected by Vita Sackville-West. Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme B25.
Limited edition, one of 120 copies - this copy not numbered, signed by the Author, 8vo, (xiv), 436 pp, 9 plates and 4 maps - 1 folding, original cream buckram, spine and edges browned, lower corners worn, some marking, t.e.g. £300 Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A31b.
First edition, 8vo, 102, (2 advertisement) pp, a few spots, in the original linen backed paper boards, slightly browned and a little rubbed, paper labels on upper cover and spine. £100
Single sheet, 14½ x 7 inches, printed on both sides. 2 wood engravings, titles and imprint printed in red, with a horizontal fold crease and some minor marks, small hole to the top edge. £90 A scarce example of a St. Dominic’s Press broadside, not mentioned in Taylor and Sewell’s bibliography.
4to, 25-36 pp. One wood engraving. Original printed grey wrappers with a few minor tears, spine ends torn otherwise sound. Very scarce. £125 “A separate issue of part of the 1918 edition of ‘Saint George and the Dragon’” - Taylor and Sewell A33.
First edition, small 8vo, (iv), ix, (iii), 62, (2) pp. Wood engraving by David Jones to title page. Original cloth backed boards, wood engraving by Desmond Chute to upper cover, still with most of the original glassine wrapper, slight rubbing to corners otherwise an excellent copy. £125 Taylor & Sewell A173.
Limited edition, one of 500 copies from a larger edition of 600, 4to, [viii], 41, (2) pp. 8 small wood engravings by Philip Hagreen plus the press device by Eric Gill, light spotting to free endpapers only. Original linen backed boards, a near fine copy. £150 Taylor & Sewell A176a.
Fifth edition, small 8vo, (iv), 89, (5, 6 advertisement) pp. Two contemporary engraved devices and five 18th century engravings. One of the advertisements has a piece of dyed fabric tipped in. Original buckram backed patterned boards, slight browning to edges, a very good copy. £100 Taylor & Sewell A1d. Originally the first book Pepler printed, in 1916 in Hammersmith. This is the final edition published.
Limited edition, no. 438 of 450 copies, numbered and initialled by the Author on the title page, 12mo, (56) pp. 4 wood engravings by Mary Dudley Short. Cloth backed paper boards, one of the wood engravings repeated on the upper cover, covers spotted, light rubbing to extremities. £150 Containing 6 plays. Taylor & Sewell A174. Colophon dated 1928.
Second edition, 8vo, xx, 451, (1) pp, marbled endpapers and edges, Prize label of Tettenhall College, Staffordshire, contemporary full calf, gilt arms to upper cover, gilt spine with a black morocco label, some minor marks, else very good. £50 Subjects include Hazlitt, Moore, Hunt, De Quincey and Borrow.
First UK edition, 8vo, 252 pp. Very slight foxing to half title. Recently rebound in red full morocco, a.e.g., a handsome copy. £500
Second impression, 8vo, 76 pp, signature on paste down, some light spotting, original light blue boards, spine sunned, design on upper cover by Vanessa Bell. £60 Including work by Julian Bell and John Lehmann. Woolmer 189.
Limited edition, no. 400 of 1,500 copies, signed by the Illustrator, 4to, 163, (1) pp, black and white illustrations, L.E.C. monthly letter for October 1951 loosely inserted, quarter cloth, wood veneer boards, slipcase with some light marks otherwise fine. £45
First edition, large 8vo, 36, (4) pp. 7 coloured and 2 black and white illustrations. Cloth backed boards, very slight wear to spine ends. £40
First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, bound without the half titles and the advertisements at the end of volume III. One gathering loose in volume I, two pages in volume III detached, some foxing. Contemporary salmon half calf, marbled sides with some rubbing, gilt banded spines with compartments containing a blind stamped pattern, morocco labels, speckled edges, some light marks. £1100 Todd & Bowden 140Aa.
8vo, viii, 629, (1) pp. Portrait frontispiece, some spots, later inscription, marbled endpapers. Contemporary black morocco, blind stamped borders, a.e.g., inside gilt borders, some very minor rubbing otherwise an excellent copy. £45
Large 8vo, (iv), iv, 823, (1) pp. Engraved second title, rather foxed, and a folding facsimile letter, printed in double column throughout, marbled endpapers and edges, contemporary inscription to front blank, armorial bookplate of the King’s School, Canterbury. Contemporary full calf, rather rubbed and marked, slight loss to foot of spine, gilt arms to upper cover. £75
Holyrood edition, twenty-five volumes, 8vo. Coloured frontispieces and black and white plates in the text, by Warwick Goble, John Hassall and H.M. Brock among others, some light foxing to text leaves. Original gilt decorated blue cloth, some light rubbing, one spine with a small scratch otherwise a very good set. £225
Illustrated Cabinet edition, 48 volumes, 8vo. Frontispieces and numerous plates, one half title with a closed tear. Original blue cloth with gilt spines, t.e.g., some rubbing otherwise a very good set. £500
Small 8vo, 377, (1) pp, with a engraved vignette title, foxed, marbled endpapers and edges, with a Prize label dated 1860 on the paste down, finely bound in contemporary straight grained green morocco, gilt acorn, oak leaves and latin motto to covers, gilt spine with an orange morocco label. £40 Originally from a set of Works, the fly title has “Vol. XVIII” at foot.
Together 3 issues, small 8vo, occasional pencillings, first 2 issues in the original linen backed boards, third issue in original printed paper wrapper. £125 Popular selection of verse by Scottish poets edited by C.M.Grieve, perhaps better known under the pseudonym of Hugh MacDiarmid. The journal was described by one critic as “...the most important Scottish book that has appeared within recent years. It is arresting to the literary student because it shows that the Scottish mind is at last escaping from its Genevan prison-house into the wind-blown moors and stone-walled towns of life itself”.
First edition, square 8vo, 195, (1, 4 advertisement) pp, 18 full page illustrations, others in the text, a very good clean copy bound in the original pictorial boards, some rubbing, particularly to spine ends. £40
First edition, 8vo, 319, (1) pp, 12 plates, with a few spots, booklabel on fly leaf, contemporary green half calf, spine faded. £85
First edition, 8vo, 146 pp. 10 photographic plates with captioned tissues, contemporary inscription on fly leaf, binding slightly sprung but with nothing loose. Original gilt titled green ribbed cloth, photographic portrait of the Author to the upper cover, a few light marks, t.e.g. £75
First edition, 8vo, 122, (2) pp, errata slip tipped in, cloth, d.w., a fine copy. £65
Twelfth thousand, 12mo, (viii), 277, (1) pp, bound in contemporary dark green morocco, gilt title to upper cover, slight rubbing to extremities else a near fine copy. £75 A little used birthday book - only 7 names have been entered - with 3 days per page and verse from Shakespeare for each day opposite.
Limited edition, no. 100 of 394 copies, 4to, xxxii, (viii), 152, (2) pp. Press prospectus for the Shakespeare Head publication of Ovid loosely inserted. Unopened in the original cloth backed boards, paper labels on spine and upper cover, printed d.w. worn and torn along fold with loss, especially to lower wrapper, carefully repaired. £200 A finely printed edition of this little known work, of which only one copy survives, coming to light only in 1905. Franklin p233.
4to, (iv) pp, followed by 45 plates, each with tissue and leaf printed on recto only with a relevant quote from Shakespeare, some foxing of plates, mostly marginal, marbled endpapers and boards, contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed, gilt tooled spine. £95
Three volumes, 4to, black and white illustrations, quarter imitation leather, slipcase, a fine set. £45 Each play has a separate introduction, and the text is accompanied by illustrations from down the centuries, and explanations of the more obscure words.
SHAKESPEARE, William. Henry the Eighth. The text of the First Folio, with Quarto insertions, Edited and amended where obscure by Herbert Farjeon. Illustrated with wood engravings by Eric Gill. (New York: The Limited Editions Club 1939). Limited edition, no. 939 of 1,950 copies, 4to, (vi), 116, (2). 6 plates, bookplate, partly unopened. Original buckram backed patterned boards, t.e.g., slight browning to spine otherwise very good. £85
SHAKESPEARE, William. Henry the Fourth. Part I. Illustrated with lithographs in color by Barnett Freedman. Part II. Illustrated with water-colors by Edward Bawden. The text of the First Folio, with Quarto insertions, Edited and amended where obscure by Herbert Farjeon. (New York: The Limited Editions Club 1939). Two volumes, limited edition, part I no. 959 and part II no. 1,027 of 1,950 copies, 4to. 6 plates in each volume. Original cloth backed patterned boards, slight browning of spines - particularly volume I, otherwise very good. £175
Limited edition, no. 400 of 1,500 copies, small folio, xxxi, (1), 157, (1) pp, 24 coloured plates, an unopened copy, L.E.C. monthly letter for June 1951 loosely inserted, gilt decorated buckram, spine slightly darkened, slipcase a little rubbed, a very good copy. £50
Six volumes, 8vo. Portrait frontispiece in volume I, marbled endpapers, sides and edges. Contemporary half calf, gilt spines with green labels, some fading to spines otherwise a handsome set. £575 “The Riverside Shakespeare”. Jaggard p548.
Four volumes bound in two, 4to, with 28 portrait plates of Actors including Ellen Terry and Henry Irving in costume - 23 photographic, one plate torn with loss to top edge, some occasional light foxing, contemporary green half calf, red and black morocco labels, an attractive set. £125
Eight volumes, 8vo. Portrait frontispiece and 88 plates, including 2 per play, some generally light foxing, armorial bookplates of Robert Davison. Contemporary tree calf with some subtle restoration to the joints, spines of red morocco with gilt decoration in compartments, some light wear to extremities. A most unusual combination of binding styles. £1500 A set containing “the most charming engravings among any of the 18th century editions... [and which] remains a pleasant reading version” (Franklin p46). Jaggard p507. An edition first published 1787-91.
Six volumes, 8vo. Bookplate in three volumes, neatly removed from the other three, front and rear blanks foxed. Contemporary calf with an old reback, red spine labels, some wear, top part of lower joint of volume II with loss. £425 Jaggard p507.
SHAKESPEARE, William. Richard the Second. The text of the First Folio, with Quarto insertions, Edited and amended where obscure by Herbert Farjeon. Illustrated with wood-engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. (New York: The Limited Editions Club 1939). Limited edition, no. 1,032 of 1,950 copies, 4to, (vi), 98, (2). 6 plates, partly unopened. Original buckram backed patterned boards, t.e.g., a fine copy. £75
Three volumes, small 4to. Engraved titled in volume I and 66 plates, plus a 4 page facsimile of Shakespeare’s will and a plate showing his various signatures, one text leaf detached in volume III, front blank removed in volume I, marbled endpapers, Contemporary dark blue half calf, gilt banded spines with red labels, t.e.g., cloth sides with some marking. £200
India paper issue, 8vo, (viii), 525, (1) pp. Title page and small headings to each play by Reynolds Stone. Original dark green buckram, t.e.g., d.w. with minor wear to the spine ends otherwise a fine copy. £60
SHAKESPEARE, William. [The Works of...]. London: Allied Newspapers [c.1930]. Forty volumes, each measuring 2 1/16 x 1 3/8 inches, bound in the original black rexine, some spines dull, held on 3 shelves in the original angled wooden bookcase, a striking and well preserved set. £150 This set was given free to new subscribers. Welsh 6344.
Limited edition, one of 450 copies from a total edition of 606 copies, 4to, (lxxx), 89, (33) pp. 5 colour plates plus black and white illustrations at the end, signature to fly leaf. Original cloth backed boards, edges rubbed and browned. £85
SHAKESPEARE, William. [Works]. Love’s Labour Lost. The Two Gentlemen of Verona. The Comedy of Errors. All’s Well That Ends Well. Titus Andronicus. Romeo and Juliet. The Merchant of Venice. Henry VI. King Richard III. King Henry VIII. King John. King Richard II. A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The Taming of the Shrew. The Merry Wives of Windsor. As You Like It. King Henry IV. King Henry V. Much Ado About Nothing. Twelfth Night. Measure for Measure. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra. Coriolanus. Hamlet. Othello. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Pericles. Macbeth. King Lear. Cymbeline. The Tempest. The Winter’s Tale. Poems. Sonnets. London: The Vale Press 1900-1903. Limited edition, one of 310 sets, being thirty-nine volumes bound in fourteen, 8vo. Marginal decorations by Charles Ricketts to the first leaf and then to a selection of others in each work. Uncut in contemporary vellum with yapp edges, spines with gilt titles after the typography found within, some rubbing and discolouration of the vellum otherwise a very good set. £3000 A complete set of Charles Rickett’s Vale Press Shakespeare, rebound in a simple style redolent of many of the private press books of the era.
“Victoria edition”, three volumes, 8vo, marbled endpapers, sides, and edges, contemporary half calf, gilt spines with red and green morocco labels, a few light marks, upper joint to volume I starting. £175
SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works of... The text of the First Folio with Quarto variants and a selection of modern readings: edited by Herbert Farjeon. [London]: The Nonesuch Press 1929. Limited edition, no. 223 of 1,600 sets, seven volumes, 8vo. Finely bound in ochre full morocco, double gilt rules, a few marks to the covers of volume I otherwise a handsome set. £1200 A beautifully printed edition of Shakespeare’s plays, with alternate words and phrases from the various early editions printed throughout in the margins.
“Larger Temple Shakespeare”, 12 volumes, 8vo. Frontispiece in each volume - a couple in colour - plus a few other illustrations, including a folding panorama of London in 1616 in volume VI, one leaf with a marginal tear, some foxing to endpapers. Original green cloth, gilt spines, t.e.g., minor rubbing to spine ends otherwise a very good set. £275
“Édition de Luxe”, no. 98 of 1,000 large paper sets, fifteen volumes, 4to. Portrait frontispiece in volume I plus a plate at the beginning of each play and further illustrations in the text, armorial bookplates, with perhaps half the leaves still unopened, some browning and foxing to the endpapers and first and last leaves. Original grey cloth, paper spines labels slightly browned and soiled, one with some loss, volumes I and II with small abrasions to the spines otherwise a very good sound set. £1000
Three volumes, folio. Portrait frontispiece, engraved titles and 43 plates with tissues, damp staining to the lower margin of the plates, some light foxing, marbled endpapers. Contemporary maroon half morocco, cloth sides with some marks and a small label to the upper cover of volume III, gilt titled spines, a.e.g., a handsome set. £350 With the text in volumes I and II and a biography in volume III.
First edition, 2 volumes, 12mo, original green cloth, some slight rubbing otherwise very good. £40
Two volumes, large 8vo, frontispieces, 20 plates and black and white illustrations in the text, small bookplate and signature to front endpapers, original gilt decorated white cloth, some light soiling else a very good copy. £85
First edition, 8vo, (iv), 104, 2 advertisement pp, a very good copy, cloth backed boards, gilt lettered spine, a few marks. £50 Laurence A86a.
First edition, 8vo, (viii), 111, (5) pp, black and white illustrations, cloth, d.w., spine with very slight sunning. £40
Thirty-one volumes (of 33), no. 75 of 1,025 sets, 8vo, a very good set in the original green cloth, some light marking to spines. £400 Collecting the plays, poems, essays and criticism of this prolific writer. Another 2 volumes were published in 1938.
LOWELL, James Russell. The Biglow Papers. [with] [BROWNE, Charles F.]. Betsey Jane Ward [Better Half to Artemus], Hur Bok of Goaks... London [1866], 1864, [1866]. Three volumes in one, small 8vo, 200, xvi, 200, xvi, 192 pp, some foxing, bookplate of George Montgomery Traherne, contemporary half calf, marbled sides, a little rubbed, green morocco spine label. £85
Third American edition, small 8vo, 177, (1, 2 advertisement) pp. Signature on front blank of Edward P. Warren, dated 1882. Publisher’s advertisement slip laid in by title - the recto advertising “Vanity Fair”, some light foxing, one gathering loose. Original purple cloth, faded and marked, spine ends worn. £500 Edward Warren, (1860-1928), art collector and patron. As well as commissioning Rodin to sculpt “The Kiss” he acquired a superb collection of classical antiquities, many of which now reside in the Boston Museum and the Metropolitan Museum in New York. First published in London in 1818, the first American edition appeared in 1833.
First authorized edition, four volumes, 12mo. Portrait frontispiece and inscription on half title in volume I, bookplates of Julian Henry Charles Fane, diplomat and minor poet. Original green ribbed cloth, spines a little sunned, some light marking to covers, spine ends bumped with slight wear, but overall a well preserved set. £450 Containing Mary Shelley’s valuable notes, this set was published after various pirated editions had kept Shelley’s poetry in the public eye, and also includes hitherto unpublished lyrics from extant manuscripts.
8vo, xliv, 708 pp. Portrait frontispiece, marbled endpapers and edges, Prize label of Elizabeth College, Guernsey. Bound by Bickers in contemporary tree calf, gilt arms to upper cover, gilt spine with a green label, this sunned otherwise a handsome copy. £75
First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, with a frontispiece in each volume, small ink stamp on fly leaves, cloth, d.w.’s, spines and edges browned, prices clipped from upper flaps. £85 The first collection of Sheridan’s letters, including a quantity of material never before published.
Limited edition, one of 210 copies, 8vo, 70 pp. Titles, page numbers and colophon printed in red, 2 pages with ornate decorative borders by Ricketts, internally fine. Uncut in the original decorative paper boards, spine and inner parts of covers browned. £150
First ‘ordinary’ edition, no. 170 of 250 copies signed by the author, (12) pp, engraved title and 2 other wood engravings, a very good copy partly unopened in the original green paper boards, spine and top edge of covers faded, top of spine chipped, yellow paper label on upper cover. £40 Fifoot EA21b.
Limited edition, no. 55 of 275 copies signed by the Author, large 8vo, (vi), 20, (2) pp. Gilt titled buckram, d.w. spotted with slight loss to spine ends and corners. £125 Fifoot EA17.
Limited edition, no. 168 of 375 copies, large 8vo, (x), 60 pp. Frontispiece and vignette illustrations, free endpapers browned. Original red cloth, spine faded. £50 The only volume on which all three Sitwells collaborated. Fifoot EA10. Ritchie A8.
Limited edition, no. 102 of 165 copies signed by the Author, large 8vo, 99, (1) pp. Unopened in the original yellow buckram, d.w. soiled with loss to the top edge of the lower wrapper. £100 Fifoot OA12b.
SITWELL, Osbert. Left Hand Right Hand! The Scarlet Tree. Great Morning. Laughter in the Next Room. Noble Essences. An Autobiography by... London: Macmillan & Co. 1945-50. Five volumes, all first edition, 8vo. Frontispiece and 22 plates in each volume, volume I also with a folding genealogy, decorative endpapers, inscribed from the Author in volume II, four volumes with bookplates. Cloth, d.w.’s., top of d.w. to the first volume with tears and some loss to the top edge, otherwise a good set. £125
First edition, 8vo, viii, 288 pp. Small booklabel to paste down, signature to fly leaf. Original cloth backed patterned boards, slight wear to corners. £45 Fifoot OA15a.
First limited edition, no. 115 of 275 copies signed by the Author, large 8vo, (viii), 32 pp. Original cloth backed patterned boards, some light rubbing, small hole to spine. £50 Fifoot SA18. Ritchie A18.
First edition, small 8vo, (ii advertisement), x, 244 pp, frontispiece and engraved second title by Phiz, with the original gilt decorated red cloth covers bound in at the end, bound by Root and Son in later crimson half morocco, marbled endpapers and sides, slight wear to joints, otherwise a near fine copy, t.e.g. £90 Wolff 6402.
First edition, 8vo, (xiv), 496 pp, frontispiece, engraved second title and 28 plates, with marginal browning and light damp-staining to some plates, a few spots, modern bookplate on fly leaf, original blind stamped cloth, gilt vignette, slightly faded, on upper cover, neatly rebacked retaining the original gilt decorated backstrip. £80 Wolff 6403.
Large 8vo, viii, 503, (1) pp, title vignette and 21 steel engraved plates, internally fine, contemporary half morocco, a little worn. £60 First published in 1844.
Five works in one volume, all first editions, 16mo, viii, 104, 103, (1), viii, 112, (vi), 120, 107, (1) pp. Each work with a frontispiece and illustrations in the text, signature to front blank, bookplate of Samuel Henry Hamer, engineer and founder of the Halifax Antiquarian Society, marbled endpapers, sides, and edges. Contemporary dark green half calf, gilt spine with a maroon label, some light rubbing otherwise a very good copy. £200 An entertaining collection of satirical tales. Smith also wrote one further “Natural History” - of “Evening Parties” - as well as a host of other works including accounts of his ascent of Mont Blanc and of a voyage to Hong Kong.
Two volumes, 8vo, xii, 274; xiv, 242 pp, portrait frontispiece in volume I, with some minor foxing and browning, mostly marginal, contemporary black half calf, marbled boards, a little wear to joints and corners, red morocco spine labels. £75 First published by Bowdler in 1808, after Smith’s death in 1806 at the age of 29, this collection was a popular work - NSTC listing 16 editions before 1815.
8vo, (469)-479, (1) pp. Recent wrappers, title page replicated on upper cover. £75 An Irish judge and “disciple of Burke” (DNB), Smith composed many essays and pamphlets, the two brief works here being “The Rights of Water” and “The Hill of Government, a Vision”.
First edition, 2 volumes, 12mo, xvi, 296; iv, 280 pp, with the half titles, engraved frontispiece portrait of an elderly gentleman with an ear trumpet round his neck, bound for Hatchards in brown straight grained calf, matching cloth sides, gilt ruled spine in compartments, t.e.g. £95 Amusing collection of bon mots arranged alphabetically, with some 80 pp of verse at the end.
First edition, 3 volumes, 12mo, without the errata slip and the final 4pp of advertisements, inscriptions on titles, some stains (mostly from pressed flowers) and other marks, a number of leaves creased, contemporary half calf a little rubbed, morocco labels. £90 Sadleir 3110.
Three volumes, 12mo, (iv), 234; (iv), 244; (iv), 257, (1) pp, light foxing and marginal browning, signature on titles cut close to top margin, contemporary quarter calf, marbled sides, worn with loss to spines but sound, red morocco labels, each volume protected with a plastic covering stuck to the paste downs. £40 A pirated French edition published the same year as the first three London editions.
First edition, 8vo, viii, 249, (3) pp, frontispiece and 24 plates plus 20 further plates, “Slipper’s ABC of Fox-Hunting”, at the end, lacking the fly leaf and with some cracking to the upper hinge, original cloth, a few marks, spine a little darkened. £40 Cummins p256.
First edition, 8vo, (xiv), 320, (2 advertisement) pp, photographic portrait frontispiece, owner’s signature on fly leaf, original blue cloth, spine a little browned. £175 Sorley died at only 20 during the Battle of Loos and his posthumous collection “Marlborough and other Poems” (1916) became immediately popular.
First edition in English, two volumes in one, 8vo, (iv), 206, (ii), 234, (2) pp, bookplate, marbled endpapers, contemporary full morocco, spine ends and joints worn, a.e.g. £100 Sotheby was a friend of some of the great writers of the day, including Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott, and rates a mention in Byron’s ‘English Bards and Scotch Reviewers’, although he was more acclaimed in his lifetime as a translator than a poet.
Ten volumes, small 8vo. Frontispiece and engraved title in each volume, some with offsetting, foxing to front and rear blanks, marbled endpapers, sides and edges, armorial bookplates. Contemporary dark blue half calf, gilt spines with brown labels, spine a little darkened, some minor marks otherwise an attractive set. £750 A set first published in 1837.
Second edition, folio, vi, 361, (1) pp. Portrait frontispiece, offset onto the title, and 41 plates, 4 double page, some light foxing, light staining to a couple of plates, only just affecting the image on one, some edgewear to title with a few small repairs. Contemporary calf, some wear, handsomely rebacked with restoration to the corners, spine with gilt tooling retaining the original black label. £650 An “an agreeable book, owing to the urbanity of its old-fashioned scholarship” (DNB), the excellent plates show a range of classical sculptures and figures.
SPENSER, Edmund. The Shepheardes Calender [Shepherd’s Calendar]. Conteyning Twelve Æglogues proportionable to the Twelve Monethes... London: The Cresset Press 1930. Limited edition, no. 116 of 350 copies, small folio, (xxiv), 133, (3) pp. Coloured title and 12 coloured vignettes by John Nash. Original quarter vellum, coarse light green linen sides, a couple of light mark, t.e.g., later slipcase, a near fine copy. £300 Colvin 1.18.
Limited edition, no. 85 of 110 copies initialled by the publisher, 8vo, 22 pp, with a presentation inscription on the fly leaf from the publisher dated 1929, in addition the accompanying als. is loosely inserted - “...I doubt if I could find another copy of this little squib! Very few were done and none ever sold...”, original boards, spine and edges of covers faded. £50
Second edition, 8vo, (ii), 14 pp. Pages browned with some marginal chips and creasing. Bound in later limp marbled boards, a little rubbed. £80 A satire on the Whigs. With “Blackbird” spelt correctly in the first line. Foxon S681
Limited edition, one of 250 copies, signed by the Author, 8vo, (10) pp, cloth, d.w., a fine copy. £60
First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, bound without the half titles or advertisement leaves, a few spots, contemporary half calf, marbled sides, green spine labels, lacking parts on the spines of volumes I and II, some light rubbing otherwise a well preserved set. £150 Sadleir 3135. Wolff 6507.
Small 8vo, (iv), iv, 136 pp, engraved frontispiece portrait and 32 woodcuts in the text, repairs to hinges, inscription on fly leaf, contemporary calf, slightly worn and rebacked with the original red morocco spine label. £50 First published in 1750 and for many years attributed to Dodsley, although meanwhile 18th century translations into Spanish, Portuguese and Italian had correctly given Stanhope - the 4th Earl of Chesterfield - as the Author.
First edition, 8vo, (xii), 355, (1), 8 advertisement pp. Contemporary owner’s signature to fly leaf and title page, small marginal tear to the final text leaf. Original cloth with some marks and rubbing, spine ends slightly worn. £75
8vo, (xxx), 882, (30 Index) pp. Fine engraved frontispiece, modern inscriptions to front endpapers, bookplate. Contemporary vellum, yapp edges, spine with handwritten title and blindstamped decoration, some light soiling otherwise a very good copy. £175 A first century Roman poet, Statius “unquestionably shines in many respects when compared to other post-Augustans... his poetic expression is... richer on the whole and less forced, more buoyant and more felicitous, than is to be found generally in the Silver Age of Latin poetry” (Encyc. Brit.).
Second Edition, “revised and enlarged”, two volumes, 4to, cloth, d.w.’s with a few light marks, else fine. £200 With roughly 10,000 entries added to the 26,000 already present in the first edition, published in the 1920s. A major work of bibliography and the standard reference tool.
STEEL, Flora Annie. On the Face of the Waters. A Prince of Dreamers. Mistress of Men. London 1897, 1908, 1918. Three volumes, second edition; first edition; first edition, second impression respectively, 8vo, viii, 432, (32 advertisement); (xii), 348; (viii), 368, (4 advertisement) pp, some slight browning of endpapers, cloth, some rubbing, first two works with black and silver decorated upper covers, third work with spine browned and tears to ends. £225 The third work is a presentation copy from the Author inscribed “To Betty...” and with 6 lines of poetry below. A photograph of the Author in her garden is pasted onto the verso of the title, with her caption “It here was written”. Sadleir 3142. Wolff 6551, 6553.
First edition, 8vo, 83, (1) pp. Black and white illustrations, signature and bookplate to front blanks. Cloth backed boards, top edge slightly browned, d.w., not price clipped, some edgewear and browning, minor loss to spine ends. £40
First edition, 8vo, 279, (1) pp. Pencil signature of M.D[?].Stein on fly leaf. Original blue ribbed cloth, light damp-staining on lower portion of upper cover, ends of spine bumped. £750 A very scarce copy of Stein’s first published work.
Three volumes, 8vo, slight cracking of several hinges, bookplates, original russet cloth, spines and corners rubbed. £45 A series of essays first published in the 1870s on a host of writers, including Defoe, Scott, Walpole, Hazlitt, Wordworth, Macaulay, Brontë, Shelley and Coleridge.
First edition, 8vo, xii, 10-512 pp. Signature crossed out to fly leaf, some light browning throughout. Original cloth, gilt titles and vignette dull, spine ends a little worn with slight loss, corners bumped. £50
First edition, 8vo, xii, 250, (2) pp, a good clean copy in the original green cloth, faded. £40 Prideaux 36.
Thirty works bound in fifteen volumes, small 8vo. Twelve works with frontispieces. Black silk bookmarks and marbled endpapers, bookplates of Margaret Graham Hamilton. Bound by Hatchards in contemporary green half calf, t.e.g., gilt spines, sunned, a very good set. £375 A good collection of Stevenson’s works, uniformly bound and including all his major novels.
Twenty-third edition, 8vo, viii, 328 pp. Marbled endpapers and edges. Contemporary green calf, gilt borders and spine, gilt arms of Queen’s College, Taunton, to upper cover, maroon spine label with some wear otherwise very good. £40
First edition, 8vo, (viii), 289, (3), 32 advertisement pp. Original dark blue buckram with bevelled edges, t.e.g., slight fading of spine otherwise a near fine copy. £50 Prideaux 45
First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, xiv, 333, (3), 32 advertisement; x, 368 pp, portrait frontispieces and one other plate, a few spots at the front and back of each volume, inked price on front blanks, otherwise a very good unopened copy in the original green cloth, slight rubbing to spine ends. £40 Scottish classicist and educational reformer.
First edition, 8vo, 99, (1) pp. Signature to fly leaf. Buckram, d.w. with light rubbing to extremities, not price clipped. £45
Twenty-one volumes, large 8vo. Several volumes a little sprung with some loose gatherings or pages. Contemporary half calf, gilt banded spines with black labels, some general wear. £500
Small 4to, 300 pp, cloth, d.w., a fine copy. £40
Limited edition, no. 12 of 25 copies, signed by the Author, large 8vo, 74 pp, original gilt titled cream cloth, lightly browned, else a near fine copy. £40
8vo, (xvi), 578, with 17 hand coloured steel engraved plates plus a hand coloured vignette on the title and 30 wood engraved plates, 67 further wood engravings in the text, marbled endpapers, bound by Harrison and Sons in later red half morocco, red cloth sides, gilt motifs on spine, darkened, slight rubbing to joints and raised bands, t.e.g., a very good copy. £250
Five volumes, 8vo. 80 hand coloured plates in all, one gathering loose in “Ask Mamma”, marbled endpapers and sides. Finely bound in contemporary red half morocco, gilt spines, some very minor rubbing else a handsome set. £500
8vo, (ii, xiv), 398 pp, with 12 coloured and 8 black and white plates, numerous illustrations in text, 20th century bookplate, a very good copy in the original decorated red cloth, spine faded, title and illustration in gilt and black on upper cover. £50 A later 19th century edition of this classic work.
Two volumes, 8vo. 6 portraits and a facsimile plate, bookplates to both paste downs and fly leaves in both volumes. Cloth, very good. £40 A collection of letters to two women, Esther Johnson and Rebecca Dingley.
Three volumes bound in one, 12mo, 104, 112, 112 pp. Frontispieces to each part, two pages with a printing fault from a piece of thread having been laid across the text. Attractively bound in modern period style dappled calf, gilt borders and tooling to spine, red spine label, joints recently and almost imperceptibly repaired. £650 Teerink 321. Seemingly very scarce, ESTC listing only one copy.
First edition, 8vo, (xxviii), 269, (1) pp. Portrait frontispiece and 13 plates and facsimiles, signature of Ivon H. Price to fly leaf verso, who is thanked in the Preface, and inscribed “From the author” (ie Birkbeck) on the half title, later bookplate. Original gilt titled buckram, edges and spine faded, lower cover with some abrasion, t.e.g. £50
SWIFT, [Jonathan]. Voyages de Gulliver, dans des Contrées Lointaines. Edition Illustrée par Grandville. Paris 1838. Two volumes, 8vo, lxx, 279, (1); (iv), 319, (1) pp. Frontispiece in volume I and nearly 400 engravings in the text, some light foxing, marbled endpapers. Attractively bound in contemporary full calf, signed “Capé” at the foot of the spine of volume I, covers with triple gilt rules and blind stamped decorations, spines with gilt tooling and morocco labels, a.e.g., light rubbing to joints and edges else a very good set. £700 A finely bound edition of a famous book. Regarded as a forerunner of the surrealists and an influence on Lewis Carroll and John Tenniel, Grandville’s caricaturist’s style is well suited to the bizarre images that Swift’s satire calls up.
SWINBURNE, A.C. Pasiphaë. A Poem by... (London: Golden Cockerel Press 1950). Limited edition, no. 81 of 100 specially bound copies with an extra engraving, from a total edition of 500, 8vo, 40 pp. 7 copper engravings by John Buckland-Wright. Original purple vellum by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, gilt spine title and vignette to upper cover, some light rubbing, spine sunned, t.e.g. £375 “Correctly printed for the first time” from the manuscript. Cock-a-Hoop 185.
Limited edition, no. 550 of 1000 copies, small 4to, xx, 80, (4) pp, very good in the original cloth backed decorative boards, printed d.w. browned with loss to top of spine. £40
First collected edition, 6 volumes, 8vo. Partly unopened. Original black buckram, slight fading of spines, t.e.g., a near fine set. £80 Wise II p335.
8vo, (vi), 377, (1) pp, marbled endpapers, Prize label of Fettes College to paste down, contemporary blue calf, spine faded to brown, gilt roundel with a depiction of the school to upper cover, gilt spine with red label, t.e.g., a very good copy. £80 t - Back to top
First English edition, (viii), 200 pp. Neat inscription to fly leaf. Gilt titled blue cloth, d.w., spine slightly darkened, minor wear to top, a very good copy. £50
Two volumes, 32mo, 83 x 48 mm. Portrait frontispiece and engraved title in volume I, text in Italian throughout, marbled endpapers. Contemporary green calf, double gilt rules, gilt spines with red labels, a.e.g., some light rubbing and minor loss to one label otherwise an attractive set. £200 Keynes p91. One of the Diamond Classics series.
Second edition, 8vo, xx, 324 pp, frontispiece of Taylor’s silhouette, a little foxed, some other marks, binding cracked in prelims, later half calf, marbled boards, morocco label. £80 Jane Taylor, 1783-1824, prolific writer of children’s books and hymns.
Limited edition, one of 375 copies, this copy unnumbered, 8vo, 32 pp, hand coloured frontispiece plus 4 full page hand coloured illustrations, signed on the fly leaf by the Artist and the publisher, Hugh Macdonald, light browning to endpapers, cloth backed boards, browned and with edges worn. £50 First published c.1628.
First limited edition, one of 1,500 copies, 8vo, 68, (2) pp, 2 plates, internally a fine copy, unopened, parchment backed decorative boards, d.w. soiled and chipped with loss to upper wrapper. £45 Taken from an unpublished manuscript. “This play, in its unguarded freshness, shows us Tennyson the boy, and should help not a little to solve the enigma of Tennyson the man” (from Charles Tennyson’s Introduction).
First edition, 8vo, (viii), 261, (1) pp, contemporary signature to half title, neat repair to a small tear to upper margin of one leaf, not affecting text, bound in later green pebbled cloth, gilt titled spine, some minor rubbing, else a very good copy. £80 Wise 87.
Limited edition, no. 285 of 500 large paper copies, large 8vo, vi, 111, (1) pp, 5 plates, all of Tennyson, browning to endpapers only, else a very good copy bound in the original white cloth, some light marks, spine a little browned. £50 Published at the end of October, a few weeks after the poet’s death, although he was able to examine the proofs before he died. Wise 165.
First edition, 8vo, x, 98, (6 advertisement) pp, 20 coloured plates with captioned tissues, some foxing throughout to text leaves, small booklabel on paste down, original decorated cloth, extremities rubbed, t.e.g. £50 In two parts - Farringford and Aldworth. Inman 183.
First edition, 8vo, viii, 346, 6, 6, advertisement pp. Original cloth, a little rubbed, a very good copy. £110 “Frederick Tennyson was from the first overshadowed by the greater genius of his brother Alfred. His lyric gift was considerable, his poetic workmanship choice and fine, and the atmosphere of his poetry always noble. But he has remained almost unknown to the modern student of poetry...” (DNB).
First edition, 8vo, (x, 140) pp, with much mispagination as is usual, slight marginal browning, otherwise a fine copy bound in recent quarter calf, marbled sides, red morocco spine label. £50 Wise 8.
THACKERAY, Miss [later RITCHIE, Lady Anne]. The Village on the Cliff. Old Kensington. London: Smith, Elder and Co. 1892, 95. Two volumes, 8vo. Title vignettes, marbled endpapers and sides, inscribed from the Author in both volumes “Agatha Blyth from ATR 1887-1906”, small labels to foot of both paste downs. Contemporary dark green half morocco, gilt spines with some sunning and minor wear, t.e.g. £125 Two volumes originally from a 10 volume edition of “Works”.
Four volumes, small 8vo. Marbled endpapers, sides and edges, bookplates and signature to titles of James Malcolm. Later 19th century red half morocco, light rubbing to spine ends otherwise an attractive set. £80 Todd & Bowden 290d, 306d, 315b, 332c. Published the same years as the London first edition.
First edition, first issue, square 12mo, iii-viii, (ii), 9-40 pp, with the half title misbound after the preliminaries, with a plate of music and 11 etchings, several bound out of order, a couple of minor marginal tears, carefully repaired, original publisher’s green morocco with gilt titling and illustration after Cruikshank to upper cover, neatly rebacked with new endpapers, a little wear to edges and corners, a.e.g. £200 Dickens provided the Introduction and Notes. Cohn 243. The first issue has “vine” for “wine” in the fifth stanza.
First edition, second issue, square 12mo, (viii), 9-40 pp. One plate of music and 11 etchings, some light offsetting from the plates onto the text leaves. Original limp green cloth, gilt decoration to upper cover, minor wear to edges otherwise a very good copy. £450 Dickens provided the Introduction and Notes. A couple of cuttings from the Athenæum concerning the authorship are loosely inserted. Cohn 243.
First edition thus, 8vo, xlvi, (2), 402, (2 advertisement) pp. 48 plates and 2 other illustrations, slight cracking to lower hinge. Original gilt decorated cloth, minor rubbing to spine ends, a bright copy. £40 One of Macmillan’s “Cranford” series.
First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, (viii), 384; (ii), v-xii, 384 pp, without the half titles and with a leaf of the preliminaries from volume II bound in volume I, with engraved titles and 46 plates, light damp staining to a few plates in volume I, marginal foxing to plates in volume II, marbled endpapers, sides and edges, contemporary half calf, slightly worn, rebacked with original backstrips, black morocco spine labels, chipped. £75
First bound editions, two works in four volumes, each work 2 volumes, 8vo, bound without the half titles. Engraved second titles and 23 plates in each volume plus further illustrations in the text, foxing of plates, some browning of margins, presentation inscriptions on front blanks, marbled endpapers, sides and edges. Uniformly bound in contemporary red half morocco, some slight wear, gilt spines in compartments. £165 Shepherd 99. Wolff 6693.
[THACKERAY, William Makepeace]. Mrs. Perkins’ Ball. By M.A. Titmarsh. London: Chapman & Hall [1847]. First edition, 8vo, (ii), 46, (2) pp. Hand coloured pictorial title page and 21 hand coloured plates - one folding, each with a tissue guard, with the original wrappers bound in at the end. Beautifully bound by Zaehnsdorf in later maroon morocco, red silk endpapers and inside gilt borders, covers with gilt rules and cornerpieces, spine with further gilt tools and raised bands - a little sunned, a.e.g., a lovely copy. £500 Shepherd 75.
First bound edition, 8vo, viii, 380; viii, 375, (1) pp, engraved titles and 45 (of 46) plates, foxing to plates throughout, bound in later half vellum, red cloth sides, maroon morocco labels - slightly scuffed else an attractive binding. £70
8vo, xii, 672, (2) pp. Portrait frontispiece of Thackeray, some foxing, marbled endpapers and edges. Contemporary tree calf, gilt spine with a maroon label, some light wear to spine ends and minor rubbing to extremities. £50
Centenary Biographical edition, 26 volumes, 8vo. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations in each volume, some occasional light foxing. Original gilt titled blue cloth, t.e.g., a few marks otherwise a very good bright set. £400
Limited edition, no. 94 of 175 copies, signed by the Author, large 8vo, (30) pp. 3 coloured illustrations. Cloth, label on upper cover, a fine copy. £80
First edition, square 16mo, 66 pp. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, lower wrapper slightly browned, a very good copy. £300 Rolph B10.
First edition, 8vo, 254, (2) pp. Signature to fly leaf. Original green cloth, spine faded. £75 Rolph B6.
First edition, 8vo, 48 pp. Owner’s signature to fly leaf. Printed boards, d.w., not price clipped, spine browned, very good. £75
THOMAS, R.S. Destinations. With Illustrations by Paul Nash. (Shipston-on-Stour): The Celandine Press (1985). Limited edition, no. 151 of 300 copies, 8vo, (34) pp, with 3 coloured plates from paintings tipped in, tissue guards, cloth backed marbled boards, a fine copy. £200
Limited edition, no. 36 of 125 copies - one of 85 copies signed by the Author, 8vo, (16) pp. Marbled wrappers, a fine copy. £115
Limited edition, no. 50 of 75 copies, signed by both the Author and the Illustrator, 8vo, 36 pp. 12 full page illustrations - 6 in colour. Pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. £125
8vo, (xx), 556 pp. Cloth, d.w., price clipped, spine browned with minor loss to ends. £45
Large 8vo, (xx), 413, (1) pp, inscription and bookplate to front endpapers, free endpapers browned, original cloth backed boards, t.e.g., a very good copy. £48
Fifth edition, small 4to, viii, 81, (3) pp, title vignette and frontispiece by Laurence Housman, marbled endpapers and sides - the latter browned and spotted with a couple of marks, contemporary half morocco, a litle faded, spine with title, date at foot and gilt tendrils and flowers. £75
First edition thus, 8vo, xxii, 372 pp, engraved frontispiece plus 6 fine chromo-lithographs by Kronheim, a few spots, Prize label of the West of England Dissenters’ Proprietary School on paste down, in the original decorated cloth, lower cover dull, upper cover and spine heavily decorated in gilt with a coloured oval illustration set in to the upper cover, a.e.g. £75
First edition, 8vo, viii, 184, (8 advertisement) pp, original cloth, small mark to lower cover else a fine copy. £50
First edition, 8vo, 47, (1) pp, frontispiece, with small piece cut from corner not affecting image, some soiling and damp staining throughout, bookplate, modern quarter roan, marbled boards. £165 Foxon T269.
First edition, second impression, 8vo, 310, (2) pp. 5 plates, 4 in colour, plus 8 illustrations in the text, some very slight foxing, map endpapers, contemporary signature to top of fly leaf. Recently rebound in green full morocco, a.e.g., a handsome copy. £2250 The four colour plates first appeared in this impression, having been prepared for the first American edition which appeared a few months later. Hammond p15.
Second edition, eleventh, ninth and ninth impressions, 3 volumes, 8vo. Folding map in each volume, brief inscription in dwarf runes in two volumes. Cloth, d.w.’s, price clipped, one small blemish otherwise a very good set. £150
First edition, second impression, 3 volumes, 8vo. Folding red and black maps at the end of each volume, signature to the fly leaf of the first volume. Cloth, spines slightly sunned and marked, minor wear to the top of the lower joint of the first volume otherwise a good sound set. £600 Hammond A5a i-iii.
First Danish edition of "The Lord of the Rings", three volumes, large 8vo. Small stamp to fly leaves of volumes I and II. Card covers, volumes I and II with d.w.’s, all with some slight rubbing and small marks. £350 Hammond p390.
Limited edition, no. 838 of 1,025 copies, signed by the Author, 8vo, (x), 539, (1) pp. Frontispiece. Original buckram with bevelled edges, spine very slightly browned, t.e.g., slipcase, this with some marks otherwise near fine. £85 A renowned novel of the first World War.
Limited edition, no. 64 of 90 copies, 8vo, (24) pp, printed paper wrappers, a fine copy. £50 Loosely inserted is an unbound copy of the first edition of this Bibliography, published in 1979, along with a handwritten letter from Anderson dated 1986 and 2 leaves of typescript updating the list to 1989.
TREVELYAN, R.C. Polyphemus & other Poems. With Designs by R.E. Fry. London: R. Brimley Johnson 1901. First edition, square 8vo, (x), 56 pp. Illustration to title page plus 10 further illustrations, later signature to fly leaf. Original cloth backed boards, spine and top edge slightly browned. £125 Colbeck II p880.
First edition, 8vo, 79, (1) pp. Some spotting at the beginning and end, signature to paste down. Original marbled boards, paper labels, spine browned, ends a little worn. £60 Woolmer 311. One of 400 copies.
Three volumes in one, 8vo, iii-vi, 370, iii-vi, 350, iii-vi, 350 pp, lacking the half titles. Contemporary full parchment, covers gilt bordered, spine with raised bands, a few light marks otherwise a very good copy. £135 Published the same year as the first edition. Sadleir p44.
First edition, first issue, 2 volumes, 8vo, bound from the parts with the stabholes visible, bound with the half titles but not the advertisements. 40 plates, some foxing to early and late leaves, particularly at the end of volume II, marbled endpapers, sides and edges. Contemporary black half calf, gilt banded spines with red labels, some slight wear otherwise a very good set. £575 Sadleir 13.
Limited edition, no. 694 of 1,500 copies, signed by the Illustrator, 8vo, xxxii, 340, (4) pp, with 35 full page illustrations and smaller illustrations at the head of each chapter, plus 2 pages of facsimile manuscript, bound in blue denim, spine very slightly sunned, slipcase, rather worn with one end detached and repaired, overall a very good copy. £225
8vo, xxvi, 564, 32 advertisement pp, frontispiece and 313 illustrations in the text, upper hinge slightly cracked, owner’s name and address on fly leaf, original red cloth decorated in gilt and black, spine sunned, ends a little worn. £45 Published the same year as the 2 volume first edition.
First UK edition, 8vo, (2 advertisement, vi), 311, (1), 32 advertisement pp. Barely perceptible owner’s blind stamp to the fly leaf. Original gilt titled red cloth with black decoration, spine sunned, some marks otherwise very good. £60 The advertisements (at the end) are dated March 1893.
8vo, xvi, 495, (3), 32 advertisement pp. Frontispiece and black and white illustrations in the text. Original gilt titled red cloth with black decoration, spine sunned, small chip to the top of the spine otherwise very good. £75 The advertisements are dated October 1887.
Three volumes, each limited to 500 copies, 8vo, in the original printed card covers, numbers 1 and 2 with covers detached but in near fine condition, spines a little worn, held in separate cloth slipcases, number two with original printed label on side. £60 Including contributions from Joyce (pirated printings of his “Work in Progress”), Hardy, D.H. Lawrence and Verlaine. u - Back to top
First edition, 8vo, (vi), 316 pp. Booklabel, a few spots. Contemporary black half calf, red spine label, slight wear to top of spine. Scarce. £125 The Author’s second novel. v - Back to top
Small 4to, (x), 480 pp, with 43 plates and 3 maps, signed on the half title by the Author, original gilt decorated cloth, rubbed, t.e.g. £75
First English edition, 8vo, (viii), 292 pp. 24 black and white plates, some light foxing to text leaves. Original gilt titled dark blue cloth, coloured illustration to upper cover, lower cover with some damp staining, spine slightly sunned, light wear to top of upper joint. £275
Two works published in one volume, 8vo, xii, 222, viii, 179, (1, 4 advertisement) pp. Frontispiece illustration to each work, inscription dated Christmas 1894 to half title, further signature to fly leaf. Original gilt pictorial red cloth, a.e.g., some light marks and rubbing. £75 “Boys Golden Library” series.
8vo, 208 pp. Frontispiece and 8 full page illustrations, marbled endpapers, later inscription to front blank. Contemporary red calf, gilt and blind stamped borders, gilt spine, device of the Competitive College, Bath, to front cover, joints slightly rubbed, spine and edges a little darkened. £100
Seven loose sheets, folio. Title with a large coloured illustration by Chagall and 6 leaves of poetry with coloured illustrations. Original decorative folder, this held in its original cardboard case. Fine. £200 The six sheets contain poetry by Geoffrey Scott, George Barker and Frederick Johnston as well as verses from Greek and Chinese, plus illustration by Frans Masereel, Aristide Maillol, G. de Chirico, Raoul Dufy, G.G. Boehmer and Karl Walser.
Limited edition, one of 225 copies, 8vo, 33, (1) pp. Frontispiece by T.J. Bond, tailpiece by the Author. Original printed wrappers, some minor browning otherwise fine. £50
Three volumes, 8vo, with 16 plates in all, small contemporary inscription on paste downs, original red cloth, spine ends bumped, otherwise near fine copies. £45
Second edition, 12mo, 82, (2 advertisement) pp. Old signature and small blind stamp to title. Contemporary speckled calf, joints a little cracked, maroon label. £125 Foxon P418. Bishop of Alba, Vida’s work was first published in Paris in 1534. This translation first appeared in 1725.
8vo, 184 pp. Some occasional light foxing. Modern calf, black spine label. £400 A pirated printing of the first edition. French text. w - Back to top
Two volumes in one, small 8vo, 3-304, 3-288 pp, without the half titles, foxing to first and last leaves, bookplate, marbled endpapers, sides and edges, contemporary green half calf, corners worn, gilt spine, faded, in compartments with red morocco spine label. £40 Todd & Bowden 1563-4.
Three volumes, 8vo. Bound by Bayntun in later red half morocco, marbled sides, t.e.g., slight wear to foot of one joint otherwise a handsome set. £125
16mo (covers measuring 91 x 55 mm), (xx), 442 pp. Engraved frontispiece after Stothard, later inscription to front blank. Contemporary dark green full morocco, a.e.g., some light rubbing otherwise a very good copy. £250 Keynes p94. One of the Diamond Classics series.
First edition, 8vo, xii, 506 pp, with a frontispiece and 8 plates by Albert Sterner, 1 or 2 smudges, initials and some spotting on outer blanks, bound by Roffey and Clarke of Croydon in dark green half morocco, matching cloth sides, t.e.g. a very good copy. £45
Limited edition, no. 56 of 100 copies printed on Velin Arches paper, of a larger edition of 200 copies, large 8vo, (18, 2 blank) pp, fine in the original printed wrappers, sewn as issued. £75
Limited edition, no. 18 of only 30 copies printed on hand made paper, signed by the Author, small 4to, (viii), 107, (1) pp, with a frontispiece and 4 fine etched plates, further small etching on the title, plus at the end a folder containing loose copies signed by the Artist of the 5 plates plus the title page and a folding facsimile of the upper cover, a near fine copy uncut in the original vellum, a few marks, illustration, title and scrollwork borders to upper cover, t.e.g., held in the original white linen slipcase, soiled. £900
First edition, limited to 600 copies, 8vo, xiv, 212, (2) pp. 5 plates by Ricketts and one by W.B. Scott. Original gilt decorated cloth designed by Ricketts, t.e.g., ends of spine slightly bumped otherwise a near fine copy. £125 See Taylor, Art Nouveau Books, p74, for an illustration of the binding.
WATKINS, Vernon. Ballad of Mari Lwyd, and other Poems. London: Faber and Faber 1941. First edition, 8vo, 92 pp, signed on the title page by the Author, cloth. £80 The Author’s first book.
Limited edition, no. 668 of 750 copies signed by the Author, (vi), 50 pp. Coloured frontispiece. Original buckram with bevelled edges, gilt unicorn on upper cover, t.e.g., original clear glassine wrapper present, a fine copy. £325 Davis, Doyle et al XXXVI.
First edition, 8vo, 303, (1) pp. Map frontispiece. Original black and red marbled cloth, spine slightly sunned. £125 Davis, Doyle et al, VIII.
First edition, 8vo, (viii), 308, (2) pp. Original black and red marbled cloth, spine slightly sunned. £125 Davis, Doyle et al, XV.
First edition, 8vo, (iv), 88 pp. Coloured frontispiece, endpapers browned. Cloth, d.w., browned and spotted with slight loss to top of spine. £45 The frontispiece and dust wrapper are by John Piper. Davis, Doyle et al XXII.
First edition, 8vo, 252, (2) pp. Pictorial title page printed in red and black. Recently rebound in red full calf, a.e.g., a fine copy. £300
ANON. The Tenants at Tinkers’ End. A Tale. London 1855, [1855]. Two works bound in one volume, 12mo, 295, (1), (iv), 156 pp, both works with frontispieces, the first also with an engraved title, later half calf, marbled sides, gilt tooled spine, some light wear otherwise very good. £175 Wolff 7100 (first work), second work not listed. Neither works are in Sadleir. Only 2 copies of the second work could be located.
First edition, one of 660 copies, 8vo, 58 pp. Cloth, d.w. with a few minor marks otherwise fine. £100
First edition, 8vo, 29, (3) pp. Original printed boards, spine and edges slightly browned, otherwise very good. £40 Hogarth Living Poets No. 3. Woolmer 180. One of 500 copies.
First edition, 8vo, 238 pp, original printed boards, spine slightly sunned. £65 No. 17 in the Hogarth Living Poets series and including work by Blunden, Brooke, T.S. Eliot, Graves, Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Wilfrid Owen, Vita Sackville-West, Sassoon and two of the Sitwells. Woolmer 242.
First edition, 8vo, 574, (2) pp, coloured frontispiece, cracking of hinges otherwise good in the original blue blind stamped cloth, spine a little dull with rubbing to ends. £40 Thirty-three short stories - “all... that I care for anyone to read again...” (Introduction). G.H. Wells 41.
First edition, 8vo, 320 pp, light browning of free endpapers, in the original dark red cloth, spine ends rubbed. £45 G.H. Wells 86.
First edition, second issue, (viii), 342 pp, 12 illustrations, original blue cloth, spine ends rubbed with slight wear to the lower joint. £250 The second issue, with black lettering to the binding. Geoffrey H. Wells 18.
First edition, 8vo, viii, 304 pp, light browning to endpapers, cloth, d.w., torn and repaired, spine browned, with some old repairs present. £60 G.H. Wells 80.
First edition, 8vo, viii, 355, (1, 4 advertisement) pp, end papers lightly foxed, original cloth dull. £40 A collection of pieces on Socialism. Watkins 347. Wells Society 35. G. H. Wells 34.
First edition, 8vo, (viii), 328, (2) pp, slight cracking to hinges, W.H. Smith Subscription Library label to paste down, original red cloth, dull, spine a little faded. £100 G.H. Wells 15.
First edition, 8vo, (viii), 286, (10 advertisement) pp, a few light spots, signature to fly leaf, original blind stamped green cloth, extremities a little rubbed, t.e.g. £40 G.H. Wells 51.
First English edition, 8vo, (iv), 195, (1) pp. Small closed tear to top of half title, inscription to fly leaf. Original red cloth, spine faded. £100
First English edition, 8vo, (iv), 606, (10 advertisement) pp. Brief inscription to fly leaf. Original gilt titled blue cloth, blind stamped decoration, t.e.g., light rubbing to spine ends otherwise very good. £75
Eight works bound in one volume, 8vo, original wrappers bound in. Inscribed from the Author on a front blank, dated 1927, and with his initials added to the end of six of the works. Contemporary calf, title and crest in gilt to upper cover, gilt spine, red and green labels, a few light marks otherwise a fine and unique compilation. £85
First edition, small 4to, 150 pp, with 4 plates and 5 vignettes in the text, cloth, d.w. with some light marks and slight browning of spine. £45
8vo, 576 pp. Marbled endpapers. Contemporary tree calf, gilt spine with a red label, a.e.g., small patch of wear to the foot of the upper cover otherwise a handsome copy. £85
8vo, (24) pp. 12 coloured linocut illustrations plus one on the upper cover. Paper wrappers, a fine copy. £50
Third edition, 8vo, (iv), 363, (1) pp, signature and bookplate to front endpapers, original brown cloth, spine ends and corners bumped. £40
Sixth edition, one of 1,000 copies, 8vo, (iv), 31 leaves, printed on one side only. Endpapers browned. Original two-tone cloth, spine browned, some marks. £250 Mason 377. The last edition to appear without Wilde’s name on the title page.
First edition, 8vo, 151, (1, 40 advertisement) pp. Several brief inscriptions to fly leaf. Original gilt titled blue cloth designed by Charles Ricketts, spine slightly dull, ends a little worn, t.e.g. £125 Mason 388, calling for the advertisements to be dated March 1905, whereas in the present copy they are dated February.
8vo, (xvi), 132 pp, some foxing and spots, original cloth dull and marked, lower cover a slightly wrinkled. £80 Mason 597, noting that this edition, a pirated one, was limited to 250 copies only.
One of 1,000 copies, 8vo, (xii), 361, (1) pp. Some light foxing and occasional marginal damp staining. Original buckram with gilt titles and decoration by Charles Ricketts, browned and rather soiled, t.e.g., recased with new endpapers. £100 Mason 443. Published as part of the first collected edition of Wilde, it was the only volume published in Paris while the other 13 volumes were published in London by Methuen.
Pirated and limited edition, no. 213 of 250 copies, 8vo, (iv), 216 pp, bookplate, a very good copy in the original cream buckram, a little soiled, spine browned, top worn with a small loss. £50 Mason 607.
First edition, 8vo, 16 pp. Bound without the wrappers in slightly later blue calf, marbled endpapers, gilt rules and cornerpieces, gilt lettered spine, a.e.g., some light rubbing and discolouration to the spine otherwise a handsome copy. £500 Wilde’s first publication in book form, after Ravenna had won the Newdigate Prize for a poem written in heroic couplets on the subject of classical antiquities. Mason 301.
First edition, one of 500 copies, 8vo, (xiv), 154, (2), 14 advertisement, (2) pp. Lightly browned throughout, endpapers with some foxing, old signature (“Louie Dowson”) to fly leaf. Original lilac cloth, gilt title and decoration by Charles Shannon, rather dull and soiled. £850 Mason 364.
Limited edition, no. 187 of 260 copies signed by the Author, 4to, (viii), 102, (4) pp. Wood engraved frontispiece by Clare Leighton tipped in, a couple of spots. Partly unopened in the original blue buckram, t.e.g., spine and edges browned with some light scuffing. £50
Tall 8vo, x, 53, (1) pp. 36 coloured plates tipped in. Original gilt titled cloth, a few light marks otherwise very good, t.e.g. £45 Reproducing part of a 17th century Moghul manuscript.
First edition, 8vo, 317, (1) pp. Contemporary inscription to half title, later bookplate, occasional light foxing. Buckram, rather faded and with offsetting from the wrapper to the lower cover, d.w., price clipped, a little spotted and browned. £40 Matthews A21a.
First edition, 8vo, 315, (1) pp. 8 photographic plates, title and frontispiece foxed, later bookplate. Buckram, spine and edges faded and with offsetting from the wrapper to the upper cover and spine, d.w., price clipped, slightly soiled with a tear to the lower wrapper. £55 Matthews A20.
First edition, cheaper issue, 8vo, 235, (1) pp. 34 illustrations, 15 full page, small closed tear to the outer edge of the Contents leaf, bookplate. Cloth, d.w., spine and top edge faded with slight loss to the top of the spine. £40
First edition, large paper issue, one of 1,000 unsigned copies from a total edition of 1,100 copies, large 8vo, xii, 255, (1) pp. Some light spots to endpapers. Original buckram backed cloth, t.e.g., some minor marks, spine label with a little rubbing. £150 Matthews A8-1927b. The 100 signed copies were published a couple of months earlier.
Third edition, 8vo, (xvi), 398, (2) pp. 100 engravings in the text by Birket Foster, John Tenniel, J.E. Millais and many others, all engraved by the Brothers Dalziel, some mostly light foxing. Contemporary gilt decorated dark green morocco, a.e.g., some rubbing to extremities. £60 A varied selection including the work of 73 poets, including Byron, Shelley, Wordsworth, Beattie, Campbell, Rogers etc.
Four volumes in two, small 8vo, xxviii, 384, xiv, 428; xiv, 382, xii, 368 pp, with frontispiece portraits of Wilson, James Hogg, De Quincey and Lockhart, spotting to front blanks only, contemporary half calf, corners and spine ends a little worn, spines with red and black morocco labels. £60 Originally published in Blackwood’s Magazine between 1822 and 1835, the 39 dialogues published here comprise the issues entirely written by Wilson. An additional 32 were also published. “...a great conversationalist writing as he talked...” (DNB).
8vo, xxiv, 232 pp, portrait frontispiece, with 2 further portraits (not of the Author) tipped onto the rear endpapers, newspaper cutting and a 10 page pamphlet containing an Obituary of the Author, published in Gateshead in 1858, tipped in at the front, plus a booklabel and another couple of cuttings tipped in, upper hinge cracked, original cloth, top of spine worn. £40 First published in Gateshead in 1830. Including a 16 page Glossary of colloquial terms at the end.
First English edition, 8vo, 311, (1, 8 advertisement) pp. Light foxing to preliminaries, contemporary signature to fly leaf. Original blue cloth, slight sunning of spine. £80 McIlvaine A50b.
First edition, 8vo, 222 pp. Cloth, d.w. by Osbert Lancaster, not price clipped, slight creasing to top edge otherwise a very good copy. £60 McIlvaine A92a.
WOOLF, Henry. Poems. Privately Printed... at the direction of Mr. Harold Pinter [1966]. Limited edition, no. 48 of 200 copies, 8vo, (52) pp, signed on the half title by Pinter, original wrappers, slightly soiled, small bump to top of spine. £50 Lifelong friends, Woolf commissioned Harold Pinter’s first play, “The Room”, in 1957.
Five volumes, later impressions, 8vo. Numerous photographic illustrations. Cloth, d.w.’s, spine to first volume a little browned, some minor soiling, one upper flap price clipped, overall a very good set. £100
First English edition, 8vo, 223, (1) pp, cloth, slightly faded, d.w. with design in yellow and black by Vanessa Bell to upper wrapper, spine and edges browned. £145 Kirkpatrick A30b. First published in New York a week earlier.
Second impression, 8vo, 305, (1) pp. Original grey cloth, spine browned, paper label, slight rubbing to extremities. £100 Kirkpatrick A8a. The title reads “second edition”.
Five volumes, first American edition of volumes II, III and V, 8vo. Inscriptions to fly leaves of volumes I-IV. Cloth, d.w.’s price clipped otherwise a very good set. £250
Five volumes, volume I first reprint, others first edition, 8vo. Map endpapers. Cloth, d.w.’s with decoration by Duncan Grant, volumes II and V price clipped, a few spine ends with some minor creasing, small stain to the fore edge of volume I otherwise a very good bright set. £275
First edition thus, five volumes, 8vo. Cloth, d.w.’s, very slight creasing to volume IV otherwise a very good set. £425 Bringing together the pieces collected in the two Common Reader collections, The Death of the Moth, The Moment, The Captain’s Death Bed and Granite and Rainbow plus further material and extensive notes and commentary, and including the most recently published volume.
First edition, 8vo, 239, (1) pp. Light marginal browning throughout, brief inscription to fly leaf. Cloth, d.w. designed by Vanessa Bell with some light browning and marks, slight loss to top of lower joint. £110 Kirkpatrick A34.
First American edition, six volumes, 8vo. Numerous illustrations, inscriptions to fly leaves. Cloth backed boards, d.w.’s, price clipped, spines a little browned otherwise very good. £250
First edition, six volumes, 8vo. Numerous black and white illustrations. Cloth, d.w.’s, spines sunned, light browning to lower wrappers. £300
First edition, 8vo, 191, (1) pp, cloth, slight wear to the edge of the upper cover, pink d.w. with design by Vanessa Bell, a little loss to edges and to head of spine. £95 Kirkpatrick A29a.
First edition, 8vo, (iv), 538, (2 advertisement) pp. Marbled endpapers. Recently bound in full black morocco, gilt spine, t.e.g., held in a black cloth slipcase, a lovely copy. £650 Kirkpatrick A4a.
First American trade edition, 8vo, 333, (1) pp. 8 plates, light marginal damp-staining throughout. Original cloth, spine faded, further light staining to the outer edge of the lower cover. £85 Dedicated to and based upon the family of Vita Sackville-West. Three of the plates are photographs of her; another is of Angelica Bell at the age of 9. Kirkpatrick A11c.
First edition, 8vo, 329, (1) pp. 5 photographic plates, owner’s name and address to fly leaf, which is rather browned. Cloth, spine and edges browned, a couple of minor marks. £80 Kirkpatrick A23a.
Eight volumes, 8vo. Paperbacks, one corner a little creased otherwise fine. £100
WOOLF, Virginia. The Voyage Out. London: Duckworth & Co 1915. First edition, 8vo, (vi), 458, (4), 16 advertisement pp. A few light spots to the preliminaries. Recently rebound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco, gilt titled spine, a.e.g., a lovely copy. £1300 Kirkpatrick A1a.
First edition, crown 8vo, 28 pp. Original duck-egg blue paper wrappers, sewn as issued, illustration to upper wrapper by Vanessa Bell, spine and edge of wrappers a little browned, one crease to lower wrapper. £85 Kirkpatrick A20.
First edition, 8vo, x, 372, (2) pp. A few spots to the fly leaf. Cloth, d.w. designed by Vanessa Bell, price clipped, somewhat browned, very minor loss to spine ends, a well preserved copy. £150 Kirkpatrick A31a.
Limited edition, one of 500 copies signed by the Editor, 8vo, 205, (3) pp. 59 illustrations, including 7 facsimiles of letters plus wood engravings, coloured reproductions of paintings and pencil drawings by the Raverats. Cloth backed marbled boards, held in a slipcase with a separate, numbered, wood engraving, a fine copy. £200 Letters dating from 1920 to the early 1950s.
Two volumes, 8vo. Black and white illustrations and maps. Cloth, d.w.’s, a few minor marks otherwise fine. £40
First edition, 8vo, 288 pp. Faint contemporary inscription to fly leaf. Original cloth, spine and top edge of upper cover sunned. £40 x - Back to top
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First edition, 8vo, (viii), 47, (1) pp. A four page pamphlet, “Alterations in ‘Deirdre’”, printed November 1908, is loosely inserted at the end with light marking to the inner margin of the final page showing that it was once tipped in, a few light spots. Original quarter cloth, some rubbing and browning to edges, paper spine label browned and slightly worn. £100 Wade 69 & 70.
Limited edition, no. 508 of 1,000 copies, signed by the Author, 8vo, (x), 247, (1) pp. Frontispiece portrait with a captioned tissue. Original quarter parchment, paper spine label, slight bumping to extremities, otherwise an excellent clean copy still with its original d.w., this with browning to spine and edges, minor loss to spine ends and corners. £1000 Wade 133.
First edition, 8vo, (x), 181, (1) pp. Original green cloth, gilt spine title and vignette to upper cover, some minor marks and browning otherwise very good. £40
Limited edition, one of 500 copies, 8vo, (vi), 56, (2) pp. Woodcut by Robert Gregory, limitation and colophon printed in red, browning to free endpapers only. Original linen backed boards, spine and top edge browned, paper spine label, browned and slightly chipped, subtle repair to the lower half of the lower joint. £150 Wade 59 & p452. The fifth of only eleven books co-published by Yeats’ sister Elizabeth under this imprint, the press being renamed the Cuala Press in 1908.
Only two issues appeared. This issue includes, among other pieces, a poem (“In Holy Trinity, Sloane Street”) by John Betjeman and a short story (“The Enemies”) by Dylan Thomas.
Second edition, 2 volumes, small 8vo, (iv), 360; (iv), 366 pp, contemporary signature on front blank in volume II, marbled endpapers, sides and edges, contemporary half calf, corners and edges a little worn, gilt spine with black morocco labels. £75 z - Back to top
Seventeen works in twenty-eight volumes, 8vo, marginal browning to the rather cheap paper, some volumes with the bookplate of Herbert S. Adler, marbled endpapers, uniformly bound in blue quarter calf, some corners a bit bumped, otherwise a very good set. £400 |
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