Privately Printed, 1929. Limited edition, no. 524 of 1,000 copies, large 8vo, 97, (1) pp. Original linen boards, spine and edges browned. More about Some Limericks. Collected for the use of Students, & ensplendour'd with Introduction,...
London: The Folio Society, (1994). Second printing thus, five volumes, 8vo. Black and white illustrations. Original pictorial cloth with the five spines showing a silhouette of Holmes, an excellent set. More about The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The Memoirs of... The Return of... His Last Bow. The Case-Book...
London: George Newnes, 1902. First edition, 8vo, (viii), 358, (2) pp. Frontispiece and 15 plates by Sidney Paget. Contemporary inscription to paste down, armorial bookplate and a faint blind stamp to fly leaf, later inscription to fly leaf verso. Original gilt and black decorated red cloth, spine slightly faded with... More about The Hound of the Baskervilles
London: Griffith, Farran, Browne & Co., [c.1898]. 8vo, (x), 340 pp. Frontispiece, prize label to paste down and prize stamp to title verso, both dated 1898. Original pictorial cloth, some minor rubbing, very good. More about Among the Zulus. The Adventures of Hans Sterk. South African hunter and pioneer. With...
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1894. Eleven volumes, 8vo. Numerous black and white illustrations. Original printed wrappers, spines worn with some tears and loss, held in two later folding cloth boxes, label partially removed from the inside of one. An uncommon run of this periodical, the volumes for January to... More about Trilby). Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Nos. 524-534
London: W. Collins Sons & Co., (1925). First edition, 8vo, (iv), 310, (6 advertisement) pp. Signature and ink stamp to fly leaf. Original cloth, spine ends bumped, very good. More about The Finger-Post
London: W. Collins, (1928). First edition, 8vo, (viii), 274, (2, 4 advertisement) pp. Owner's signature to fly leaf, upper hinge slightly tender but sound. Original cloth, rubbed, small label of the Newcastle printers and booksellers Mawson, Swan & Morgan to the upper cover. Scarce. More about Brighton Beach
London: W. Collins, Sons & Co., (1928). First edition, 8vo, (vi), 239, (1, 8 advertisement) pp. Contemporary inscription to the fly leaf. Cloth, spine and edges faded, d.w., spine dull. More about Puff Paste
London: Chatto & Windus, 1894. First edition, 8vo, viii, 200, 32 advertisement pp, frontispiece and 46 black and white illustrations, partly unopened, small W.H. Smith blind stamp to fly leaf, patterned endpapers, original decorative blue cloth, rubbed, spine a little sunned. More about Vernon's Aunt. Being the Oriental Experiences of Miss Lavinia Moffat
London: Cassell, (1969). First edition, 8vo, (x), 486 pp. Double page map, small Foyles label to foot of paste down. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, a fine copy. More about Pawn in Frankincense
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956. First edition. 8vo. 255, (1) pp. Publisher's green cloth, silver lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped (18s) and with a "Book Society Choice" label priced at "16s" affixed on top. Wear with loss to the edges of the jacket, slightly less so to... More about My Family and Other Animals
London: Cassell and Company, (1935). First edition. 8vo. (viii), 374 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, dark blue lettered to the spine (reading "Pied Pipers of Love"), early bookseller's ink stamp to the front free endpaper - "Warton's Value". A little spotting to the first and last few leaves, spine fading, some... More about Pied Piper of Lovers
London: Secker & Warburg, (1995). First English edition, 8vo, (xii), 513, (3) pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, an excellent copy. More about The Island of the Day Before. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver
Edinburgh: Printed at the University Press by T. and A. Constable, [1926]. Sole edition. 8vo. xiv, 192 pp. Publisher's cream cloth backed orange patterned boards, printed title label to the upper cover, slightly later ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. Frontispiece and 11 plates, some in colour, including a.... More about Atalanta's Garland. Being the Book of the... 1926
London: Workshop Press, (1972). First edition. 8vo. 36 pp. Printed green card stapled covers. Excellent condition. More about Selected Poems of... With a Foreword by Norman Hidden
(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 about Pollen. A Novel in Black and White
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 about The London Apprentice, and the Goldsmith's Daughter of West Chepe; a Tale in the Times of Bluff...
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 about Adam Bede
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 about 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 about Felix Holt. The Radical
New Haven: Yale University Press; London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1954. First edition. 8vo. Publisher's grey buckram, blue gilt lettered spine panel, dust jacket. Fading to the jacket spine with a little light edge wear, very good overall. More about The George Eliot Letters. Edited by Gordon S. Haight... Volume II 1852-1858
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, [c.1900]. 8vo, (x), 486 pp. A couple of leaves slightly carelessly opened to the fore edge, marbled endpapers. Bound by Denny in contemporary half calf, t.e.g., gilt decorated spine with Art Nouveau style tooling, spine a little sunned, some mild rubbing. More about The Mill on the Floss
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1873. 8vo, (iii-viii), 535, (1) pp, bound without the half title. Frontispiece, some light foxing, marbled endpapers, sides and edges. Contemporary dark blue half morocco, spine sunned and slightly rubbed. More about Romola
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 about Silas Marner, the Weaver of Raveloe. By the Author of "Adam Bede", "The Mill on...
London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1924. First edition, 8vo, 46 pp. Original decorative wrappers, lightly browned, spine with some cracking and mild loss, but still sound. The Hogarth Essays, first series, no. 4. Gallup A7. Woolmer 43. More about Homage to John Dryden. Three Essays on poetry of the seventeenth century