Literature
An Anthology of War Poems. Introduction by Edmund Blunden.
London: W. Collins Sons & Co., (1930). First edition, 8vo, 191, (1) pp. Browning to endpapers only. Original cream cloth, paper spine label, d.w. with browning and some light wear to extremities. More
The Abundant Dreamer.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1989). First edition, 8vo, (vi), 297, (1) pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Cloth, d.w., some very mild rubbing to edges, a near fine copy. More
The Revolution.
London: Cassell, (1969). First edition, 8vo, (vi), 184, (2) pp. Inscribed from the author on the fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, some light browning and soiling. More
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. By Acton Bell.
Oxford: The Shakespeare Head Press, 1931. Limited edition, one of 1,000 copies, 2 volumes 8vo. 5 plates by Jack Hewer. Original gilt titled orange cloth, fine. More
The Complete Poems of Charlotte Brontë. Edited by Clement Shorter. Now for the First Time Collected, with Bibliography and Notes, by C.W. Hatfield.
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, (1923). First edition. 8vo. xxii, 243, (1) pp. Publisher's blue cloth backed grey boards, gilt lettered to the spine. Some mild rubbing to the extremities, else very good. More
Villette. Introduction and Notes by Gilbert Phelps.
London: Pan Books, 1973. 8vo. xxvi, 500, (2) pp. Contemporary green quarter morocco over matching cloth sides, spine with gilt ruled raised bands, gilt lettered direct to one panel, patterned endpapers. Very good. More
Shirley. A Tale by Currer Bell. A New Edition.
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1860. Small 8vo, iv, 534 pp. Contemporary signature to fly leaf verso, some minor ink spots to the title, marbled endpapers, sides and edges. Contemporary dark green half calf, gilt and blind stamp decorated spine, maroon spine label, an attractive copy. First published 1849... More
The Collected Poems... with a Memoir.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1921. Ninth impression. 8vo. clx, 160 pp. Contemporary tan half calf by Ramage, matching cloth sides, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to one panel and decorated to the others, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. 2 photographic portrait plates. Very good. More
Poems by...
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Limited, 1930. Thirty-sixth impression. Small 8vo. 93, (3) pp. Publisher's black cloth, printed paper spine label, a spare tipped in on the recto of the rear free endpaper, dust jacket, original ownership inscription dated 1932 to the front free endpaper. Light spotting to the jacket, slight..... More
Cometh Up as a Flower. An Autobiography.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1867. Small 8vo, (3)-388 pp, bound without the half title. Contemporary half calf, marbled sides, some minor rubbing. More
The Immortality of the Soul. A Poem. Translated from the Latin of... by William Hay.
London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1754. First edition thus, small 4to, viii, 40 pp. Some light foxing, old signature to title. Recent black quarter calf, marbled boards. A celebrated work first published in the same year as "De Animi Immortalitate". Browne's meagre output is not matched by his reputation; Johnson..... More
The Last Ride Together. Illustrations by Frederick Simpson Coburn.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1906). First edition thus, 8vo, (24) leaves, printed on rectos only. 6 plates with captioned tissues plus vignettes to each leaf. Original decorative light blue ribbed cloth with bevelled edges, a.e.g., upper cover with light soiling, a very good copy. More
In Clover and Heather.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1890. Limited edition, no. 88 of 250 copies signed by the author, large 8vo, ix, (i), 198, 2 pp. Bookplate. Original quarter vellum, gilt spine, slightly dull and marked. More
Mr. Standfast.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1919. First edition, 8vo, 412 pp. Occasional light foxing, contemporary pencilled inscription to front blank. Later green quarter calf, spine faded to brown, red spine label. More
My Early Adventures During the Peninsular Campaigns of Napoleon.
Boston: James Loring, 1834. Second edition. Small 8vo. 202 pp. Original cloth, rebacked preserving almost all of the original spine with its paper label. Upper half of front free endpaper cut, some foxing and staining to the front and rear, else a decent copy. A novel for children, first published..... More
Abba Abba.
London: Faber & Faber, (1977). First edition, 8vo, 127, (1) pp. Owner's small ink stamp to the fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., slight fading to spine, very good. More
A Clockwork Orange.
London: Heinemann, (1982). 8vo, (viii), 195, (1) pp. Cloth, d.w. with some rubbing and creasing, spine slightly sunned. More
Mozart and the Wolf Gang.
London: Hutchinson, (1991). First edition, 8vo, (vi), 148 pp. Signed on the title page by the author. Cloth, d.w., spine sunned otherwise very good. More
Time for a Tiger.
London: Heinemann, (1979). 8vo, (vi), 213, (3) pp. Cloth, d.w., a little worn to extremities. More
Heaven's Prisoners.
London: Century, a Mysterious Press Book, (1988). First edition, 8vo, (viii), 292 pp. Marginal browning throughout. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, slight sunning of spine. More
Evelina. Or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance in the World.
London: J.M. Dent, 1901. Two volumes, 12mo. 7 plates. Original gilt titled green cloth, spines a little dull, ends bumped, t.e.g. More
Some Poems by... Illuminated and Lettered by Frances Richards...
(London): The Enitharmon Press, 1976. Limited edition, no. 58 of 250 copies, 4to, (44) pp. Illustrations throughout. Cloth, d.w., spine and edges faded otherwise very good. More
The Works of... with a series of authentic pictorial illustrations, marginal glossary, numerous notes, and appendixes: also the Life of Burns, by J.G. Lockhart; and Essays... by Thomas Carlyle and Professor Wilson. Edited by Charles Annandale.
London: Blackie & Son, 1888. Five volumes, 8vo. Two portrait frontispieces and 54 plates, plus a double page facsimile plate of hand-writing, a later owner's brief inscription to the fly leaf verso in volume I. Original gilt and black decorated red cloth, a.e.g., spines sunned, ends a little bumped otherwise..... More
[Arabian Nights]. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. A Plain and Literal Translation... [with] Supplemental Nights... with Notes Anthropological and Explanatory by.
Privately Printed by the Burton Club, [c.1900]. Sixteen volumes, 8vo. Frontispieces with captioned tissues. Original gold and silver decorated cloth, t.e.g., mild rubbing to the spines of volumes 8, 9 and 10 otherwise a handsome set. More