Winifred Bertram, and the world she lived in.
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
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The Charleston Magazine, Charleston, Bloomsbury, and the Arts. Issues 1-24.
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
Charleston Newsletter. Nos. 18-20, 22-24. April 1987 - December 1989.
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
The Canterbury Tales. Translated and Adapted by Peter Ackroyd. Illustrated by Nick Bantock.
(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
The Complete Works of... Edited by F.N. Robinson.
London: Oxford University Press, 1957. Second edition. Large 8vo. xliv, 1002 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket. Frontispiece portrait. Slight discolouration to the cloth, shadows of old jacket protector and repairs (both now removed) mostly now only visible on the verso, the repairs renewed with..... More
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The Works of... [with] A Companion Volume to the Kelmscott Chaucer.
(London: Basilisk Press, 1974-5). Two volumes, limited edition, no. B of 15 "not for sale" copies, from a total print run of 515 copies, folio, ii, (2), 554, (2); 146 pp. Volume I illustrated throughout with decorative borders, volume II with 34 illustrations and 85 facsimiles tipped in of Burne-Jones'..... More
Girl with a Pearl Earring
London: HarperCollins, 1999. First edition. 8vo. (vi), 248, (2) pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, signed by the author on the title page. Slight spine slant, light sunning to the jacket spine, else very good. More
The Hound of Death, and Other Stories.
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
Orationes Omnes: Perpetuis Notis Logicis, Arithmeticis, Ethicu, Politicis, Historicis, Antiquitatis, illustratæ per Joann. Thomam Freigium [Johann Thomas Freig].
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
The Letters to His Friends. With an English Translation by W. Gynn Williams... [Volume I: Books I-VI]. [Volume II: Books VII-XII]. [Volume III: Books XIII-XVI... plus] (...the Letters to Quintus). The Letters to Brutus with an English Translation by M. Cary...
London: William Heinemann Ltd; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1965. Three volumes. Small 8vo. Publisher's red cloth, gilt to the spines and upper boards, dust jackets to last two volumes, ownership inscription to the front of the first. Mild sunning and rubbing to the jackets, very good. Loeb Classical Library..... More
The Verrine Orations. With an English Translation by L.H.G. Greenwood... II. Against Caecilius. Against Verres: Part One, Part Two, Books I and II. II. ...Books III, IV and V.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1959, 1953. Mixed printings. Two volumes. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth, gilt to the spines, dust jacket to volume I only, contemporary ownership inscription to volume II only. Wear with small losses to the jacket, the covers of volume II faded and..... More
English Morning, and other poems. With a preface by Edith Sitwell.
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
2001. A Space Odyssey. Based on a screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke.
(New York): New American Library, (1968). 8vo, 221, (1) pp. Remains of a small owner's label to the paste down. Cloth, d.w. with some browning and light marks. Book Club edition. More
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. Illustrations by Portia Rosenberg.
New York: Bloomsbury, 2004. First US edition. 8vo. (x), 782, (8) pp. Publisher's black cloth, gilt lettered and decorated to the spine, dust jacket, signed by the author on the title page. 4 black and white full page illustrations. A lovely copy. More
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Dicta Sapientu[m]. The Sayenges of the Wyse Me[n] of Greece in Latin with the Englyshe Followyng, whiche are Enterpretate and Truely Castigate, by the Most Famous Maister Erasmus Rote...
Oxford: New Bodleian Library, 1961. Limited edition, one of 100 copies thus. 8vo. (32) pp. Publisher's brown boards, the board featuring a printed paper title label with gilt border. A few minor marks to the covers, foxing to the front and rear, else very good. Reprinted from the Huntington Library's..... More
Congo Song.
London: Collins, 1943. First edition, 8vo, 319, (1) pp. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, some mild soiling otherwise a very good copy. More
Beautiful Losers.
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
The Spice-Box of Earth.
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
The Poetical Works of... 1829.
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
No Traveller Returns.
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
The Law & The Lady. A Novel.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1875. First edition. Three volumes. 19th century blue cloth, spines with double gilt ruled compartments with gilt lettering to three of the panels, title page of volume II supplied from another copy, small old private owner's shelf labels to the front pastedowns. Slight foxing to a...... More
The New Magdalen. A Novel.
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1873. First edition. Two volumes. vi, 298; iv, 298 pp., bound without the publisher's advertisement to the rear of volume II. 19th century blue cloth, spines with double gilt ruled compartments with gilt lettering to three of the panels, small private owner's shelf labels to..... More
'Twixt Land and Sea Tales.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1912. "Copyright Edition". Small 8vo. Contemporary patterned boards, gilt lettered maroon spine label. Very good. More
The Lord Falcon. The Making of a Legend. (Volume I. The Repositors - Azon the Youth).
(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
Voices of Doom.
New York: St. Martin's Press; London: Robert Hale, 1980. First edition, British issue. 8vo. 190, (2) pp. Publisher's black cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped. Very good. The UK and US editions appear to have been published simultaneously, possibly from the same sheets, with both..... More