Poems. 1930-1940.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1940. First edition, 8vo, xiv, 263, (1) pp. Contemporary signature to fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, spine browned. More
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The Decameron of... Faithfully translated by J.M. Rigg. With an Illustrated Introduction and ... Drawings by Louis Chalon.
London: Privately Printed for the Navarre Society, 1921. Two volumes. 8vo. Publisher's cream buckram, gilt to the spines and upper boards, contemporary armorial bookplate of Sir Manson M. Beeton to the font pastedowns, top edges gilt, the prospectus for the work loosely inserted. 15 plates. Spines slightly tanned, a few..... More
Pictures of Purple People.
Newhaven: The Bolan Society, (1996). Limited edition, one of 500 copies, 4to, (40) pp. Pictorial boards, d.w., some very mild creasing otherwise fine. More
Henry James at Work.
London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1927. Second edition, 8vo, 34 pp. Original wrappers with a design by Vanessa Bell to the upper wrapper, spine and edges browned. The Hogarth Essays, first series, no. 3. Originally published in 1924. Woolmer 42. More
Boswell in Holland 1763-1764.
London, 1952. Limited edition, no. 951 of 1,050 copies. Large 8vo. xx, (ii), 428, (2) pp. Publisher's vellum backed dark blue buckram boards, gilt lettered black label to the spine, gilt crest to the upper cover, top edge gilt. Numerous illustrations including a folding map of Holland. Slight toning to..... More
Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763. Together with Journal of my Jaunt, Harvest 1762. Prepared for the Press, with Introduction and Notes by Frederick A. Pottle.
London: William Heinemann, 1951. Limited edition, no. 683 of 1,050 copies, large 8vo, xlii, 448 pp. Frontispiece and 20 plates, including 2 maps and several facsimiles. Original quarter vellum, t.e.g., buckram sides, light mark to the lower cover otherwise a handsome copy. More
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works, in chronological order; a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published...
London: Office of the National Illustrated Library, [1851]. Four volumes bound in two, 8vo. Frontispiece and engraved title to each volume, contemporary inscription to the fly leaf, marbled endpapers and edges. Contemporary burgundy calf, gilt spines with morocco labels, joints with some rubbing otherwise very good. More
365 Days. Edited by...
London: Jonathan Cape, (1936). First British edition. 8vo. 449, (1) pp. Publisher's sand cloth, blue lettered to the spine and upper board, dust jacket, not price clipped, contemporary ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. Slight wear to the head of the spine and corners, a little superficial soiling, otherwise..... More
Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun. Being the Tales They Tell about the Time When the Lord Walked the Earth Like a Natural Man. With Drawings by A.B. Walker.
London: William Heinemann, (1930). First English edition, 8vo, (viii), 295, (1) pp. Contemporary signature to paste down. Cloth, d.w. lightly soiled with some loss to the spine ends. More
The Book of Elizabethan Verse.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1908. First edition, 8vo, 823, (1) pp. Frontispiece and its tissue guard with some foxing, marbled endpapers, inscription to fly leaf. Original publisher's gilt decorated vellum, t.e.g., covers slightly bowed, spine with light soiling. More
The Transmutation of Ling. With... Designs by Ilbery Lynch.
London: Grant Richards, 1911. Limited edition, one of 500 copies. 4to. 80 pp. Publisher's gilt lettered and decorated brown cloth, top edge gilt. 12 black and white plates. Browning to each of the text pages opposing the plates from the intervening tissues guards, else a very good, bright copy. 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
Twenty-Four Hours.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1930. Limited edition, no. 85 of 500 copies signed by the author, 8vo, (x), 463, (1) pp. Striking silver foil endpapers, slightly rubbed. Original two tone cloth, mild darkening of spine, slipcase with rubbing to extremities. 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
Shirley. A Tale. By Currer Bell. A New Edition.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1857. Small 8vo. (iv), 534 pp. Near contemporary blue half morocco over matching cloth boards, spine with gilt ruled compartments, gilt lettered direct to one panel, an early ownership to the head of the title page, a slightly later press cutting regarding a fire at..... More
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[Novels]. Wuthering Heights. Jane Eyre. Shirley. Villette. The Professor. Agnes Grey. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Lithographs by [respectively] Marion Wilson, Anthony Colbert, Walter Hoyle, Clarke Hutton, Charles Keeping, Anthony Moore and Julian Trevelyan.
London: The Folio Society, 1964-70. Seven volumes. 8vo. Publisher's black quarter morocco, the spines decorated in gilt and either green, red or blue according with the respective authors with matching cloth sides, top edges black, the same contemporary ownership inscription to the front of each volume, slipcases. 8, 12 or..... More
The Collected Poems. With a Memoir by Edward Marsh.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, (1960). 8vo, clviii, 161, (1) pp. Two portrait plates, marbled endpapers. Handsomely bound by Bayntun in contemporary red full morocco, a.e.g., the poet's head in gilt to the upper cover, gilt spine with raised bands and blue and turquoise labels, faint rubbing to the ends of..... More
The Complete Poems of...
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1937. 8vo. (x), 165, (1) pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettering to the spine with the author's signature replicated in gilt to the upper board, dust jacket reproducing the same design. Portrait frontispiece. Some light wear to the edges of the jacket plus a scattering of..... More
Lorna Doone. A Romance of Exmoor. Illustrated by Gordon Browne.
London & Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, Ltd., [c.1911]. 8vo. (x), 634 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt to the spine and upper board, the latter also featuring a mounted colour illustration. Illustrated title page and a further 12 plates in colour plus numerous black and white illustrations. Just some light..... More
Phiz and Dickens, as they appeared to... with original illustrations by Hablot K. Browne.
London: James Nisbet & Co., 1913. Limited edition, no. 57 of 175 copies signed by the author, 4to, xiv, 320 pp. Frontispiece and 22 plates - 7 in colour, plus a facsimile letter, owner's ink stamp and a small closed tear to the fly leaf, upper hinge cracked but sound..... 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
Poems by... With introduction by Richard Garnett and illustrations by Byam Shaw.
London: George Bell & Sons, 1897. First edition thus, 8vo, (xx), 377, (3) pp. Black and white illustrations, small contemporary monogram to the fly leaf. Original gilt titled blind stamped green cloth, t.e.g., spine ends slightly bumped otherwise very good. The first book Shaw illustrated. More
The Poems of Robert Browning to be Sung Recited or Played at the Centenary Matinee Together with the Commemoration Ode by Alfred Noyes.
London: Published for the Poetry Society by J.M. Dent, [1912]. First edition. 8vo. 46, (2) pp. Publisher's cream cloth, gilt to the upper board. Frontispiece portrait. An attractive copy. Produced for the Robert Browning Centenary Matinee at the Royal Court Theatre May 10th, 1912. More