The Black Book.
Paris: The Olympia Press, (1959). Second edition, small 8vo, 301, (3) pp. Paperback, d.w. with rubbing to extremities, very good. More
Literature
The Ikons, and other poems.
London: Faber and Faber, (1966). First edition, 8vo, 48 pp. Cloth, d.w., price clipped, some mild browning otherwise very good. More
Mountolive. A novel.
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. First edition, 8vo, 320 pp. Cloth, d.w., with a couple of small scuffs near the foot of the spine and light browning to the edges of the flaps and the lettering of the spine, but overall an excellent copy. More
Selected Poems of... With a Foreword by Norman Hidden.
London: Workshop Press, (1972). First edition. 8vo. 36 pp. Printed green card stapled covers. Excellent condition. More
Hwiangerddi. Detholiad Gyda Rhagymadrodd gan Hazel Walford Davies wedi ei Ddarlunio gan Jac Jones.
Tregynon: Gwasg Gregynog, 1995. Limited edition, no. 190 of 250 copies. Thin 4to. (ii), 66, (5) pp. Publisher's cornflower blue cloth, red lettered to the spine and with a silver flower design extending round all sides, the original promotional broadside flyer loosely inserted, being much taller than the book it..... More
Pollen. A Novel in Black and White.
(London): Denis Archer, (1933). First edition, 8vo, xii, 312 pp. Frontispiece and black and white illustrations by the author, later bookplate. Original orange cloth, corners bumped, mild rubbing to spine ends. More
The London Apprentice, and the Goldsmith's Daughter of West Chepe; a Tale in the Times of Bluff King Hal.
London: W.S. Johnson, [1852]. First edition, three volumes bound in one, large 8vo, viii, 244, 248, 230 pp. Full page engraved illustrations, text printed in double column, some foxing, later signature to front blank, marbled endpapers. Later half calf, green cloth sides, green spine label, some light rubbing otherwise a...... More
Adam Bede.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, [c.1900]. 8vo, (x), 486 pp. Marbled endpapers. Bound by Denny in contemporary half calf, t.e.g., gilt decorated spine with Art Nouveau style tooling, outer edge of the covers with faint damp staining, top edge of the lower cover with some scuffing. More
Felix Holt. The Radical.
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood, 1866. First edition. Three volumes. 8vo. Bound without the half titles and publisher's advertisements. Contemporary burgundy half calf over marbled boards, all edges marbled, 19th century bookplates of a Thomas S. Cree to the front pastedowns, volume I with a later gift inscription. Some mild..... More
Felix Holt. The Radical.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, [1870s]. 8vo, (viii), 430 pp. Second title and 6 plates, marbled endpapers, sides and edges. Contemporary dark blue half morocco, spine sunned with mild wear. More
The Works of... Scenes of Clerical Life. Adam Bede. The Mill on the Floss. Silas Marner [including] The Lifted Veil and Brother Jacob. Romola. Felix Holt. Middlemarch. Daniel Deronda. Impressions of Theophrastus Such. Poems. [and] CROSS, J.W. George Eiiot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals Arranged and Edited by Her Husband...
New York: Merrill and Baker, [c.1895]. Illustrated Cabinet Edition. Twenty four volumes. 8vo. Contemporary tan half calf over marbled boards, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered red and olive labels, marbled endpapers with the pictorial bookplates of Jean Chisholm and Francis Edwin Drake to the front pastedowns, top edges gilt..... More
Silas Marner, the Weaver of Raveloe. By the Author of "Adam Bede", "The Mill on the Floss", and "Scenes of Clerical Life".
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1861. First American edition, 8vo, 265, (1, 22 advertisement) pp, endpapers marked, in the original cloth, slightly worn, ends of spine torn with minor loss. More
Murder in the Cathedral.
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1935. First edition. 8vo. 87, (9) pp. Publisher's purple cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, early ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. Dust jacket with some wear and tear to the edges with occasional small losses, else a decent copy. More
Social Distinction: or Hearts and Homes.
London: J. & F. Tallis, [c.1850]. Three volumes, 8vo. Frontispieces, engraved titles and 25 plates, a few spots. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt decorated dark blue morocco, a.e.g., spines lightly rubbed with slight loss to the tops of volumes II and II. More
South Wales Echo. With an Introduction by David Blamires.
London: Enitharmon Press, 1973. Limited edition, one of 400 copies, 4to, xx, 22, (4) pp, coloured frontispiece tipped in, from a painting by Judith Shackleton, Errata slip loosely inserted, inscribed from the Author on the half title with a quote from John Donne below, original orange wrappers, a fine copy..... More
Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists. Comprising twelve unabridged essays by Irving, Lamb, De Quincey, Emerson, Arnold, Morley, Lowell, Carlyle, Macaulay, Froude, Freeman and Gladstone.
London: Bickers and Son, 1886. Second edition, 8vo, (x), 395, (1), 4 advertisement pp. 12 portrait plates, being tipped in photographs, prize label of the Southfield Institution, Auchtermuchty. Original gilt decorated cloth with bevelled edges, a.e.g., one small mark otherwise a handsome copy. The photographs including 6 woodburytypes by the..... More
The Treatises of... on Goldsmithing and Sculpture.
[London]: Printed by (C.R. Ashbee) at the Guild's Press at Essex House, 1898. Limited edition, no. 344 of 600 copies, 4to, xiv, (ii), 164, (4) pp. 11 plates with tissue guards plus 7 diagrams in the text and a press device at the end. Original green buckram, spine and edges..... More
An Address Delivered by... on the Opening of the New Buildings of the Campden School of Arts and Crafts.
(Campden: Essex House Press, 1904). Limited edition, one of 50 copies, 8vo, 11, (1) pp. One woodcut illustration. Original cream buckram, title to upper cover, some light foxing, small mark to one corner, a very good copy. Tomkinson 52. More
Diary and Correspondence of... To which is subjoined The Private Correspondence between King Charles I and Sir Edward Nicholas, and between Sir Edward Hyde... and Sir Richard Browne. Edited from the original Mss. at Wotton by William Bray.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1859. Four volumes, 8vo. 45 plates, booklabels of Edward Newton. Contemporary half calf, marbled sides, red morocco labels, spines a touch dull otherwise a very good set. More
Memoires for my Grand-son.
London: Nonesuch Press, 1926. No. 917 of 1,250 copies. Small 8vo. xii, (ii), 104, (2) pp. Publisher's limp parchment, gilt lettered to the spine and blind ruled to the covers, the circular armourial bookplate of a Stanley William Sykes to the front pastedown. A few light marks to the binding..... More
"And So to Bed." A comedy in three acts.
London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1927). First limited edition, no. 2 of 200 copies signed by the author, 8vo, (x), 140 pp. Inscribed from the author to his second wife, the actress Mary Grey, on the fly leaf. Original buckram, t.e.g., spine browned with some old ink addition to the gilt..... More
The Roadmender. Illustrated by E.W. Waite.
London: Duckworth & Co., (1920). 8vo, (x), 121, (1) pp. 8 coloured plates, one with a small tear, marbled endpapers. Bound in contemporary tree sheep, gilt borders, gilt spine, t.e.g., a couple of minor marks otherwise an attractive copy. More
The Violins of Saint-Jacques. A Tale of the Antilles. Decorations by Robin Ironside.
London: John Murray, Andre Deutsch, 1958. Third impression. 8vo. 139, (1) pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, price clipped. A handful of black and white illustrations. A little wear to the edges of the jacket with a few discreet tissue repairs on the verso, else..... More