London: Jonathan Murray, 1873. Eight volumes. Small 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spines, gilt device to the upper boards, early pencilled inscription to the front of volume I. Spines darkened, some wear to the extremities, occasional slight cracking to the hinges though all the volumes remain sound..... More
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1949. First edition thus, 8vo, lxxx, 297, (1) pp. Frontispiece, brief inscription to fly leaf. Cloth, d.w. price clipped with some browning and mild loss to spine ends. More
Oxford: At the New Bodleian, 1956. Limited edition, no. 66 of 100 copies, signed by Cary and the publisher, Herbert Davis, 8vo, (vi), 44 pp. Title vignette and 6 plates, 2 in colour. Original boards, paper label, spine sunned, corners bumped. More
London: Privately Printed for the Navarre Society, 1922. Two volumes. 8vo. xxxii, 484; viii, 505, (1) pp. Publisher's cream buckram, gilt to the spines and upper boards. 2 frontispiece portraits and 10 plates. Spines slightly tanned, a few minor marks, very good. More
Hanoviæ [Hanover]: Typis Wechelianis apud Cl. Marnium... 1608. 8vo, (x), 342, 191, (1) pp. Initial letter to page 91 partly coloured, some browning and foxing, last 2 gatherings with a light stain to the top corner, brief later inscriptions to the paste down. Contemporary vellum, covers slightly bowed, handwritten spine..... More
London: The Scolar Press, 1976. Limited edition, no. 436 of 500 copies. 4to. (8) pp. then (142) ff. Publisher's rough hessian, black lettered tan morocco spine label. An excellent copy. More
London: The Scolar Press, 1976. Limited edition, no. 434 of 500 copies. 4to. (176) pp. Publisher's rough hessian, black lettered tan morocco spine label. An excellent copy. More
London: The Scolar Press in association with The Pierpoint Morgan Library, 1976. Limited edition, no. 423 of 500 copies. 4to. (896) pp. Publisher's rough hessian, black lettered tan morocco spine label. An excellent copy. The only surviving complete copy of Caxton's edition. More
London: William Heinemann Ltd., [1929]. Limited edition, no. 111 of 250 copies for the UK market from a total edition of 530 copies. 8vo. (viii), vi, 201, (1) pp. Publisher's black buckram, gilt to the spine and upper board. Very good. An English translation of the work "Aria di Capri"..... More
London: Frederick Warne & Co. for the Anglo-Spanish Society, 1926. 8vo, (xvi), 710 pp. Numerous black and white illustrations. Original gilt titled buckram, spine sunned and slightly rubbed. More
London, 1808. Forty-four volumes (of 45), 12mo, lacking volume XII, or the seventh of ten volumes of the Spectator. 17 volumes with portrait frontispieces. Contemporary tree calf, gilt banded spines, sunned and with 12 volumes lacking their labels, all but 11 volumes also lacking their small roundels of green morocco..... More
London: William and Robert Chambers, [c.1860]. Two volumes. Large 8vo. xx, 811, (1); xvi, 815, (1) pp. Later red buckram, gilt lettered black spine labels, all edges marbled. Numerous illustrations in the text. Very good. More
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1870. 8vo, 476 pp. Marbled endpapers, sides and edges. Contemporary red half calf, gilt spine with a green label, mild rubbing and darkening to extremities, very good. More
The Charleston Trust, 1990-2001. Twenty-four volumes. Large 8vo. Each either 48 or 56 pp. Original decorative wrappers, with a small batch of Bloomsbury and Charleston related ephemera loosely inserted, including postcards, flyers, guides, etc. plus issue no. 10 of the Charleston Newsletter from March 1985. Occasional light wear to the..... More
Richmond: The Charleston Trust, 1985-1989. Six issues, 8vo, plus the separately produced part II of the index ("Index of Subjects") to the first 20 issues. A handful of illustrations, a few in colour. More
(London): Penguin Classics, (2009). First edition thus, 8vo, xxii, 436 pp. Black and white illustrations, inscribed from Ackroyd on the title page. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, some light spots. More
London: The Folio Society, 1990. First edition thus, large 8vo, (xiv), 496 pp. 5 coloured plates. Dark green quarter morocco, patterned boards, slipcase, a fine copy. More
Ilkley and London: The Scolar Press, 1974. Folio. (xiv) pp, (x), 383 ff., (2), (66), (42) ff. Publisher's green buckram, lettered in gilt and blind and with a gilt illustration to the upper board. Reproductions of the original woodcut illustrations. Some sunning to the spine plus a small white mark..... More
Horsham: Stuart Guthrie, (1937). Limited edition, one of 250 copies, small 4to, (vi), 25, (1) pp. Frontispiece. Original cloth backed boards, mild browning to the spine, an excellent copy still with its original tissue wrapper, this browned. With an introduction by John Cowper Powys. More
London: Collins, 1966. First edition. 8vo. 223, (1) pp. Publisher's blue cloth, silver lettered to the spine, dust jacket, price clipped. Slight tanning to the jacket, short old tape mark to the front free endpaper, very good. An omnibus edition of Christie's short stories including three each from the Poirot..... More
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1957. First edition. 8vo. 256 pp. Publisher's red cloth, black lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped. Neat old restorations to the spine ends and corners of the jacket, else very good. More
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1950. Fourth impression. 8vo. 286, (2) pp. Publisher's burnt orange cloth, black lettered to the spine, early gift inscription to the front free endpaper, dust jacket, not price clipped. Fading to the jacket spine, some general edge wear with a few neat old repairs..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1963. First US edition. 8vo. (x), 276, (2) pp. Publisher's grey cloth over red patterned boards, red lettering to the spine, dust jacket, price clipped. Some wear to the extremities of the jacket with occasional small losses, a few marks, the red lettering to..... More
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1956. First edition. 8vo. 256 pp. Publisher's red cloth, black lettered to the spine, small early inked initials to the head of the front free endpaper, dust jacket, not price clipped. Some slight wear to the corner tips of the jacket plus a neat..... More
London: Odhams Press, 1933. First edition. 8vo. 248 pp. Publisher's plum cloth, gilt spine very dull, dust jacket. The jacket worn and torn with losses, ghosts of old tape repairs on the verso jacket, since removed and now with more subtle tissue repairs, the cloth sound but faded in places..... More