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: 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 plus the separately issued index to the first 10 issues. Large 8vo. Each either 48 or 56 pp. Original decorative wrappers, a small batch of Bloomsbury and Charleston related ephemera is loosely inserted, including postcards, flyers, guides, etc. plus issue no. 10 of the..... More
Richmond: The Charleston Trust, 1985-1989. 13 issues, 8vo. Well illustrated, occasionally in colour. Held in contemporary bespoke green faux-leather binders, separately produced index to the first 20 issues also included, in two parts - one part inserted into issue 20. Scarce in anything like this quantity. More
San Marino: Huntington Library Press and Tokyo: Yushodo Co. Ltd., 1997. Folio. (484) pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine and upper board. The original manuscript reproduced in black and white throughout, the first page of the Knight's Tale in colour acting as the frontispiece. An excellent copy..... 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
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: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1912. Fourth edition. 8vo. xviii, (ii), 182, (2) pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine and upper board, top edge gilt. Very good. More
Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith [and] London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company Limited, 1908. First edition. 8vo. 329, (3) pp. Publisher's blue cloth, black lettered to the spine, also to the upper board in the style of the lettering to the title page. Slight sunning to the spine, some light..... More
Paris: Chez Madame Nyon, Calixte Volland and Barbou, 1807. Seventeenth edition, 12mo, viii, 413, (1) pp. Marbled endpapers and edges. Attractively bound in contemporary tree sheep, gilt spine with wear to foot, maroon label. More
Francofurti [Frankfurt]: Typis & Impensis Joannis Pressii, 1653. Three volumes, 8vo. Armorial bookplate of James Ibbetson (1717-1781), Archdeacon of St. Albans, in volume III with his inscription to the fly leaf in volume I and his bookplate mostly removed opposite, other 18th and 19th century inscriptions to fly leaves. Contemporary..... More
London: Hutchinson, (1953). First edition, 8vo, 87, (1) pp. Inscribed from the author on the fly leaf, and with an autograph letter from him loosely inserted, on Ministry of Education stationery blind stamped with his home address advising on which poets to read - "How about concentrating on Andrew Young..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, (1987). First edition, 8vo, 221, (1) pp, signed by the Author on title, cloth, pictorial d.w., a fine copy of Clarke's first book. More
London: Thorsons, 1997. 8vo. (xiv), 177, (1) pp. Publisher's red cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, inscribed on the half title "follow your destiny, Paulo Coelho". An excellent copy. The first edition in English was published in 1993 by Harper San Francisco and was first published in the..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1972. Reprint. 8vo. (xii), 243, (1) pp. Publisher's red cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, top edge black, dust jacket, later gift inscription to the half title. Wear to the top edge of the upper and lower panels of the jacket, else very good. The first British..... More
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1966. 8vo. 76 pp. Paperback. Some light wear to the extremities, a few minor marks to the white lower cover, else very good. First published in 1956. More
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1971. 8vo. 80 pp. Paperback. Just a little light wear to the extremities, fading to the spine, else very good. First published in 1966. More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1973. First British edition, paperback issue. 8vo. 93, (3) pp. Publisher's card covers, early gift inscription to the half title. Just a little light wear to the extremities, tanning to the white covers, else very good. First published in 1961. The first British edition was published simultaneously..... More
Otley: Woodstock Books, 2002. Facsimile edition, large 8vo, (x, viii), xi, (i), 225, (1), xi, (i), 275, (1), vii, (i), 75, (1) pp. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. Originally published by the Paris publishers Galignani in 1829, this was the first collected edition of both Keats and Shelley... More
London: The White Owl Press, 1931. Limited edition, no. 185 of 210 copies printed on handmade paper and signed by the author. 62, (2) pp. Publisher's black full suede, gilt lettered to the spine, gilt and green Art Deco design to the upper board, top edge gilt, the others untrimmed..... More
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1912. "Copyright Edition". Small 8vo. Contemporary patterned boards, gilt lettered maroon spine label. Very good. More
London: The Gresham Publishing Co., 1925-28. Medallion edition, twenty-two volumes, 8vo. Each volume with a frontispiece, many photographic, some light foxing to early leaves in most volumes, a handful of upper hinges with minor cracking. Original gilt titled blue cloth, mild rubbing to spine ends, otherwise a good bright set..... More
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1864. Second edition thus. 8vo. (ii), xxiv, 262, (2) pp. Recent marbled boards, paper spine label. Title page and last leaf browned, the former with some tissue repairs, else very good. This translation was first published the previous year. More
London: Ward, Lock & Co., [c.1890]. 8vo, (iii)-xxxviii, 431, (1, 10 advertisement) pp. Marbled endpapers. Later blue half morocco, very good. More
(Lewes): The Book Guild Limited, (1991). First edition, 8vo, 220 pp. Small piece cut from the corner of the fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, mild bumping to spine ends otherwise a fine copy. More