New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. First edition, 8vo, xiv, (ii), 159, (3, 5 advertisement, 1) pp. Inscribed from the author on the fly leaf with a rough drawing of a plant and butterfly, the recipient's signature alongside and with a long quote from a review neatly written out by... More about The Congo, and other poems. With an introduction by Harriet Monroe
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1918. 8vo, x, 127, (2, 5 advertisement) pp. Inscribed from the author on the fly leaf, dated 1919, and with a further inscription underneath from four years later, including a poem that carries onto the verso. Original decorative orange cloth, spine slightly browned. More about The Chinese Nightingale, and other poems
London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1967-69. First editions. Three volumes. 8vo. Publisher's rust cloth, gilt lettered to the spines, dust jackets. Black and white illustrations. A little light edge wear to the jackets, a very good set. More about The Autobiography of... 1872-1914. 1914-1944. 1944-1967
London, Bombay, Sydney: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1935. First edition. 4to. 141, (3) pp. Publisher's cloth backed pictorial boards, dust jacket replicating the same design, neat presentation inscription to first free endpaper. 32 photographic illustrations. Small losses to the spine ends and corners of the jacket plus a.... More about People in China
[N.p.]: The Ernest Press, 1992. First English translation, limited edition, no. 5 of 300 copies. Publisher's maroon cloth, gilt lettered to the spine and upper board, all edges gilt. Illustrated in black and white throughout. An excellent copy. More about In the High Mountains. Translated by Olwyn Grimshaw... Original German Issue in 1889 Edited by R....
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1843. First edition. Large 8vo. x, 424, (4) pp. Recent plain cloth, gilt lettered to the spine. 9 lithographic plates, 9 "topographic sketch" maps over another 9 plates plus a full page map to the front of the book and the striking large folding map... More about Travels Through the Alps of Savoy and Other Parts of the Pennine Chain. With Observations on the...
Lewes: Published by J. Richards, 1863. 8vo, (vi), 58 pp. Frontispiece and 5 illustrations in the text. Original printed wrappers, edges with mild wear, some minor soiling. First published 1846. Scarce. More about Chronicles of Pevensey, With Notices Biographical, Topographical, and Antiquarian; for Visitors
Kathmandu: Ratna Pustak Bhandar, 1976. Reprint. Two volumes bound in one. (ii), xxvi, 362, (2), 363; 2-363, (1) pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt to the spine, map endpapers. Sketch map of the whole country plus three larger maps of "The Valley" and the eastern and Western divisions along with three... More about Nepal
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1954-55. First edition, second impression, three volumes, 8vo. Folding red and black maps at the end of each volume plus a full page map near the beginning of "The Fellowship of the Ring", "The Two Towers" with a contemporary bookplate with a manuscript inscription... More about The Lord of the Rings. The Fellowship of the Ring. The Two Towers. The Return of the King
Richmond: Printed and Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1923. First edition. 8vo. (ii), 80, (2) pp. Publisher's blue cloth backed patterned boards, paper spine label, early ownership inscription of an Alice Sanger to the front free endpaper. Some tanning and wear to the covers, else... More about Pharos and Pharillon
(London): John Lehmann, 1948. First edition thus, 8vo, 121, (1) pp. Black and white illustrations. Loosely inserted is a typed letter signed from Ayrton to his fellow artist and novelist Denton Welch. Cloth, d.w., slightly browned with some chipping to the top edge. The letter, undated but with the envelope... More about The Unfortunate Traveller, or the Life of Jacke Wilton... illustrated by Michael Ayrton, with an...
Cambridge University Press, (2012). First edition thus, 8vo, cxii, (xii), 870 pp. Frontispiece and 3 illustrations. Cloth, d.w., fine. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf. More about The Years. Edited by Anna Snaith
Cambridge University Press, (2011). First edition thus, 8vo, lxxix, (i), 312 pp. Frontispiece and one other illustration. Cloth, d.w., fine. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf. More about Between the Acts. Edited by Mark Hussey
Cambridge University Press, (2011). First edition thus, 8vo, cxvii, (i), 456 pp. Frontispiece and one other illustration. Cloth, d.w., fine. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf. More about The Waves. Edited by Michael Herbert and Susan Sellers. With research by Ian Blyth
Cambridge University Press, (2015). First edition thus, 8vo, ciii, (i), 378 pp. Frontispiece and one other illustration. Cloth, d.w., fine. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf. More about Mrs. Dalloway. Edited by Anne E. Fernald
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo. Cloth, d.w.'s, light wear to spine ends otherwise very good. Volumes VII and VIII of the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson. More about Johnson on Shakespeare. Edited by Arthur Sherbo with an introduction by Bertrand H. Bronson
London: Secker & Warburg, 1953. First edition, 8vo, 238 pp. Cloth, spine slightly rubbed, d.w. with some light soiling and browning. More about Letters to Milena. Edited by Willi Haas. Translated by Tania and James Stern
Oxford University Press, (2011). First edition thus, 8vo, xliv, 612 pp. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. More about Prose Writings. A Selected Edition. Volume II - England and Wales. Edited by Guy Cuthbertson and...
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., (1977). Seventh printing, 8vo, xxxiv, (ii), 884 pp. Cloth, d.w. price clipped with light bumping to the foot of the spine. More about The Variorum Edition of the Works of... Edited by Peter Allt and Russell K. Alspach
Edinburgh: W.P. Nimmo, Hay, & Mitchell, [c.1885]. Large 8vo, vi, 684 pp. Portrait frontispiece and engraved title, slightly foxed, printed in double column, prize label of the Cambridge Local Examination board to paste down. Contemporary calf, gilt spine, ruled borders and device, rebacked retaining the original, slightly dull, backstrip, light... More about The Works of... Translated by William Whiston
[n.p., n.d.]. 8vo, xii, 583, (1) pp. Frontispiece, illustrations in the text, and 2 folding maps in a pocket at the end. Recent half cloth, marbled sides. A modern facsimile of the 1885 first edition, without publisher or date. More about Through Masai Land: A Journey of Exploration among the snowclad volcanic mountains and strange...
New York: The Viking Press, 1939. First American edition, 8vo, (iv), 628 pp. Contemporary bookplate to paste down, some loss to the inner edge of the blank preceding the half title. Gilt titled buckram, d.w. with some marks and a little loss to the spine ends. More about Finnegan's Wake
London: Douglas Cleverdon for the Arcadia Press, (1972). Limited edition, no. 45 of 85 copies signed by Ayrton from a total edition of 100 copies, oblong folio, xii, 69, (3) pp. 15 illustrations. Original gilt titled green quarter morocco, t.e.g., cloth slipcase with some light marks, otherwise fine. More about Femmes / Hombres. With... etchings by Michael Ayrton
(Santa Fe): Arena Editions, (2001). First edition, oblong folio, 187, (1) pp. Black and white photographic illustrations. Cloth, d.w., slight fading of spine otherwise an excellent copy. More about Sacred Places. Essay by Clark Worswick
Glasgow: William Maclehose, 1943. First edition, large 8vo, 79, (1) pp. Inscribed from the author on the fly leaf. Cloth, d.w. soiled with some loss to the spine. More about The Hidden Path. Poems 1922-1942. With a drawing by Michael Ayrton