London: Published at the Punch Office, 1847. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo. 20 hand coloured plates plus illustrations in the text, some light marginal browning. Original gilt titled brown cloth, spines slightly sunned, that to volume I a little worn. More about The Comic History of England. With... etchings, and... woodcuts by John Leech
(Brighton: Snake River Press), 1992. Limited edition, no. 10 of 20 copies, signed by the author, folio, (8) pp. Full page etching signed by the artist. Unbound as issued, still in the original tissue wrapping, this creased and with some loss, otherwise fine. More about The Serpent. Poem by... Etching aquatint by Lynne Gibson
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1983. First edition. 8vo. (vi), 185, (1) pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped. Slight yellowing to the edges of the text block, a minor mark to the lower panel of the jacket, an excellent copy overall. More about The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
Paris: Hours Press, 1930. Limited edition, no. 12 of 150 copies signed by the author, 4to, (viii), 31, (1) pp. Small booklabel to paste down. Original blue morocco backed patterned boards, designed by Elliott Seabrooke, some light rubbing and marks. More about This Chaos
London: J. and R. Tonson, 1741. Third edition thus, four volumes, 4to. Frontispiece and an engraving above the dedication plus 6 pages of medals at the end of volume I and a few more in the text. Some worming at the beginning and end of each volume, armorial bookplates of... More about The Works of
London: Macmillan & Co., 1886. First edition thus, 8vo, (xii), 82, (2) pp. Frontispiece and 50 illustrations, some light foxing. Original gilt decorated dark green cloth, spine ends bumped otherwise a lovely copy. More about Days with Sir Roger de Coverley. A reprint from the Spectator. (Illustrated by Hugh Thomson
Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1920. First edition, 8vo, 148 pp. Original cloth, sunned with a couple of small patches of wear to the outer edge of the upper cover. More about The House of Dust. A Symphony
London: Richard Bentley, 1840. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 439, (1) pp. Later nineteenth century red half morocco over matching cloth boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to one panel and decorated to the others, endpapers and all edges marbled, old pictorial bookplate of a Reginald Dalton Pontifex to... More about The Tower of London. A Historical Romance. Illustrated by George Cruikshank
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (1978). First edition, 8vo, 206 pp. Signed by the Author on the title page. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, top edge with some creasing. More about A Rude Awakening
London: Rivingtons, 1859. Third edition. 8vo. 429, (1) pp. Original dark green blindstamped cloth, gilt lettered to the spine. Spine slightly faded and some loss of colour to the upper board, else very good. More about The Poetical Works of... Dean of Canterbury
London: Jonathan Cape, (1984). First edition, 8vo, 368 pp. Cloth, d.w., price clipped, otherwise an excellent copy. More about Money. A Suicide Note
Lewes: J. Richards, 1882. Sole edition, 8vo, (viii), 76 pp. Most of the fly leaf torn out. Original gilt titled red cloth, spine slightly sunned, some minor marks. More about Midsummer Idylls, and other poems
London: Hutchinson's Universal Book Club, 1954. 8vo. 346, (2) pp. Publisher's red cloth, black lettered to the spine, dust jacket,. Neat old reinforcement to the edges of the jacket, small tear without loss to the lower panel, a little rubbing and soiling. More about Private Life of an Indian Prince. A Novel by
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London: Printed by T. Wright... 1801. Small 8vo, viii, 155, (5 advertisement) pp. 5 wood engraved plates, dated 1797, marbled endpapers and sides. Contemporary half morocco, light rubbing to extremities, spine with gilt bands and a maroon label. A rousing success on its original publication in 1766, although Anstey never... More about The New Bath Guide: or, Memoirs of the B-N-R-D [Blunderhead] Family. In a Series of Poetical...
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1882. First edition, 8vo, (viii), 364 pp. Marbled endpapers. Finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in red full morocco, gilt rules, spine with raised bands, slightly sunned, a.e.g., a lovely copy. Wolff 170. Sadleir 57. More about Vice Versa. Or a Lesson to Fathers
London: J. Limbird, 1832. 8vo, (x), 556 pp. Frontispiece plus engravings in the text, which is printed in double column. Contemporary half calf, black spine label, marbled sides with some wear, otherwise a very good copy. Translated by Antoine Galland, whose edition first appeared, in French, in the early 18th century. More about The Arabian Nights' Entertainments: Consisting of one thousand and one stories
Cantabrigiae: Deighton Bell, 1870. Fourth edition thus, 8vo, (ii), 51-104 pp. Interleaved with blanks containing a good quantity of notes, marbled endpapers. Contemporary half calf, gilt spine with a black label, some mild rubbing, very good. More about Aristophanis Equites. In usum scholarum edidit Hubertus Holden
London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd, 1926. First edition thus, one of 3,000 copies. Large 8vo. xxii, (iv), 177, (1) pp. Publisher's maroon cloth, gilt lettered to the spine with a blindstamped illustration of Buddha to the upper board, early pictorial bookplate of a Lilian McNeill to the front... More about The Light of Asia. A New Edition with Illustrations by Hamzeh Carr. Introduction by Sir E....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1950). 8vo, (ii), 253, (1) pp. Cloth, very mild browning to spine and edges, d.w. with some creasing and minor tears to edges, very minor loss to the top of the spine and top of the lower wrapper. First published by the Gnome Press in... More about I, Robot
(London): Faber and Faber, (1941). First English edition, 8vo, 188 pp. Cloth, with some browning to edges, d.w. with some soiling and loss to extremities, some old tape strengthening to the reverse. First published two months earlier in America as "The Double Man". Bloomfield and Mendelson A24b. More about New Year Letter
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London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1882. 8vo. x, 364 pp. Later cream buckram, gilt lettered to the spine. Frontispiece portrait and a facsimile letter. Spine darkened and with some light wear to the ends, horizontal stain to the gutter between pp. 74 & 75, else a decent copy. Written by... More about A Memoir of Jane Austen... [and] Lady Susan by Jane Austen
Cambridge University Press, (2005). First edition, 8vo, xxx, 467, (1) pp. Black and white illustrations. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. More about Jane Austen in Context
Cambridge University Press, (2005). First edition thus, 8vo, lxxvii, (iii), 600 pp. Frontispiece, very slight creasing to the outer edge of the first few leaves. Cloth, d.w., near fine. More about Emma. Edited by Richard Cronin and Dorothy McMillan
London: Richard Bentley, 1856. Small 8vo. (iv), 424 pp. Contemporary tan half calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered to one panel and richly decorated to the others, endpapers and all edges marbled. Frontispiece and engraved title, both dated 1833. The head of the upper joint neatly... More about Mansfield Park. A Novel
Cambridge University Press, (2005). First edition thus, 8vo, lxxxvi, (ii), 738 pp. Frontispiece. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. More about Mansfield Park. Edited by John Wiltshire