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
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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
Novels. Jane Eyre. Shirley. Villette. The Professor. Wuthering Heights. Agnes Grey. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Wood Engravings by Simon Brett, Howard Phipps, Peter Reddick, George Tute, Peter Forster, Harry Brockway, Ian Stephens.
London: The Folio Society, (1998). Seven volumes, 8vo. Wood engraved illustrations. Original green silk-covered boards, spines slightly sunned otherwise an excellent set. 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
Wuthering Heights.
London: The Fraser Press, 1970. No. 22 of 1,560 copies. 8vo. 360, (2) pp. Contemporary green full morocco, gilt rule and lettering across all three sides, marbled endpapers, pictorial bookplate to the front pastedown, top edge gilt, . Spine and the upper edge of the lower board faded to brown..... 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
The Next Big Thing.
London: Viking, 2002. First edition. 8vo. (iv), 246, (1) pp. Publisher's red cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, signed by Brookner on the title page. Slight bumping to the jacket, else very good. 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
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
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
Poems of... Containing Dramatic Lyrics, Dramatic Romances, Men and Women, Pauline, Paracelsus, Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day, Sordello and Dramatis Personae.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1909. 8vo, viii, 696 pp. Portrait frontispiece. Original quarter vellum, t.e.g., gilt flowers to the spine, some light soiling otherwise very good. 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
The Story of the Circle of Chalk. A Drama from the Old Chinese. Translated by Francis Hume. With Illustrations by John Buckland-Wright.
Emmaus: The Rodale Press, [1954]. "Story Classics edition", no. 894 of 2,000 for the US market (there were another 1,000 for Great Britain). 8vo. 124, (4) pp. Publisher's black cloth backed yellow cloth boards, spine lettered in silver with a matching illustration to the upper cover, all edges red, slipcase..... 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
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
Camilla: Or, a Picture of Youth.
(Bath: Cedric Chivers, 1966). Five volumes, 12mo. Cloth, d.w.'s, that to volume III with a small tear to the upper wrapper, otherwise an excellent set. First published in London in 1796, this facsimile edition faithfully reproduces the original layout of the novel. "She was, in some degree, a model to..... More
Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay. As edited by her niece Charlotte Barrett.
London: Bickers and Son, 1876. Four volumes, 8vo. Armorial bookplates of Duncombe Park, Yorkshire. Original gilt titled maroon cloth, spines slightly sunned with mild rubbing to ends. More