The Name of the Rose.
London: Secker & Warburg, (1983). First English edition, 8vo, (vi), 502 pp. Map endpapers, contemporary inscription to fly leaf. Cloth backed boards, d.w., price clipped, spine sunned. More
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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
Rhymes in the West of England Dialect. By Agrikler. Also Rhymes by Outis.
Bristol: Leech and Taylor, 1872. Second edition, 8vo, (iv), viii, (ii), 94 pp. Foxing at the beginning and end. Later cloth, mild rubbing to extremities. 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
The Golden Lotus. A Translation, from the Chinese Original, of the Novel Chin P'ing Mei, by...
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972. Four volumes. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spines, dust jackets. Small, fairly inconspicuous tear to the foot of the jacket spine of volume IV, a very good set overall. The first translation into English of this masterpiece of Chinese literature, written..... More
The Composition of the Four Quartets.
London & Boston: Faber and Faber, 1978. First edition. 8vo. viii, (vi), 239, (1) pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket. Slight tanning plus a few marks to the jacket spine, a little light edge wear, very good. 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 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
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[The Four Quartets]. Burnt Norton. East Coker. The Dry Salvages. Little Gidding.
London: Faber and Faber, (1941-42). Four volumes, "East Coker" third impression, the others first impressions, 8vo, 16 pp each. Corner torn from the fly leaf in "Burnt Norton". Original printed wrappers with some browning to spines and edges, several staples slightly rusty, foot of spines with light wear, but overall..... 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
Essays - First Series. Second Series. Miscellanies - Embracing Nature Addresses and Lectures. Representative Men. English Traits. The Conduct of Life. Society and Solitude. Letters and Social Aims. Selected Poems.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1882. Nine volumes, small 8vo. Owner's signature to several front blanks. Original gilt titled cloth, spines slightly darkened with rubbing to ends. 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
The Passion-Flower Hotel.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1962). First edition, 8vo, 189, (1) pp. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, some mild foxing, head of spine worn. 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
The Strength of the Hills. An Autobiography. Illustrated by David Gentleman.
London: Faber and Faber, (1983). Limited edition, no. 13 of 25 copies signed by both Evans and Gentleman, 8vo, (vi), 180 pp. Black and white illustrations. Original buckram with a paper label, a fine copy. 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
"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
This I Say. Twelve Poems by...
(Hermitage, Newbury: Phoenix Press), 1966. First edition, 8vo, (20) pp. Printed wrappers, edges browned, slight loss to the foot of the spine. 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