'Twixt Land and Sea Tales.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1912. "Copyright Edition". Small 8vo. Contemporary patterned boards, gilt lettered maroon spine label. Very good. More
Literature
The Works of... Almayer's Folly. Tales of Unrest. An Outcast of the Islands. The Nigger of the Narcissus. Typhoon. Lord Jim. The Inheritors. Youth. Romance. Nostromo. The Mirror of the Sea. A Personal Record. The Secret Agent. A Set of Six. Under Western Eyes. 'Twixt Land and Sea Tales. Chance. Victory. The Shadow Line. Within the Tides. The Arrow of Gold. The Rescue. Notes on Life and Letters. The Rover. Suspense. Tales of Hearsay.
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
Claim Claim Claim. A book of Poems with... prints by Ronald King.
(Guildford: Circle Press, 1969). Limited edition, no. 147 of 250 copies, 4to, (52) pp, including 3 translucent leaves and one yellow leaf, 6 coloured illustrations - one double page, original green wrappers, a fine copy. 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
The Hundredth Story of A.E. Coppard. With Engravings by Robert Gibbings.
(Waltham Saint Lawrence): The Golden Cockerel Press, 1931. Limited edition, no. 814 of 1,000 copies, 8vo, (iv), 57, (3) pp. 4 wood engravings plus the press device below the colophon. Green quarter morocco, t.e.g., patterned boards designed by Tirzah Garwood, spine faded to brown otherwise very good. Chanticleer 74. Kirkus 39. Fabes p36. More
Nixey's Harlequin. Tales by...
London: Jonathan Cape, (1931). First edition, 8vo, 296 pp, advertisement for Coppard's "Fares Please!" tipped in at end, a few spots to fly leaf, otherwise a very good copy in the original cloth backed "harlequin" boards, d.w., lightly soiled, spine browned, small piece missing at foot of spine. More
Rummy. That Noble Game Expounded in Prose, Poetry, Diagram and Engraving by... and Robert Gibbings. With an Account of Certain Diversions into the Mountain Fastnesses of Cork and Kerry.
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Printed & published at the Golden Cockerel Press, 1932. Limited edition, one of 1,000 copies. 8vo. (iv), 49, (7) pp. Publisher's green cloth, black lettered on the spine, illustrated dust jacket. Wood engraved illustrations. Both jacket and cloth spines darkened, the former fragile with a split along... More
Sharpe's Revenge. Richard Sharpe and the Peace of 1814.
London: Collins, (1989). First edition, 8vo, 348 pp. Marginal browning throughout. Cloth, d.w., price clipped, a very good copy. More
In His Own Image. With an Introduction by Shane Leslie.
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, (1924). 8vo, lx, 421, (1) pp. Slightly later bookplate and owner's inscription to front endpapers. Original gilt and blind titled cloth, spine slightly sunned, very good. First published 1901. More
The Rose Garden of Persia.
(London & Edinburgh): T.N. Foulis, [1913]. First edition, small 8vo, (x), 188, (4) pp. Decorative title and 15 coloured plates, including 4 from paintings by Frederick Gardner, slightly later inscription to paste down. Original gilt and black decorated red cloth, d.w. with a further coloured illustration to the upper wrapper... More
Poems by... Edited by the Rev. John Newton, with the Life of the Author, by the Rev. David M'Nicoll.
Liverpool: Caxton Press, [c.1815]. 8vo, 622 pp. Frontispiece and 11 plates, some foxing, particularly to the plates, marbled endpapers, contemporary inscription to front blank. Contemporary black morocco, a.e.g., gilt spine and borders, some light rubbing. More
John Halifax, Gentleman.
London: Hurst and Blackett, [c.1896]. 8vo, iv, 439, (1) pp, marginal browning, Prize label of Holmwood, Bexhill, on paste down, dated 1896, marbled endpapers and sides, contemporary green half calf, cloth sides, gilt school arms to upper cover, spine sunned with gilt bands and red morocco label, some light rubbing. More
Poems of... Selected and Arranged, with Notes, by J.R. Tutin.
[N.p]: Printed for private circulation, 1887. Limited edition, no. 204 of 250 copies signed by the editor. 8vo. xii, 85, (1) pp. Original dark blue cloth, paper spine label. The spine just a trifle rubbed, an excellent copy. More
A Cigarette-Maker's Romance.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1890. Small 8vo, 271, (1) pp. Marbled endpapers, sides and edges, attractive armorial bookplate. Contemporary black half calf, gilt spine, some mild rubbing. Todd & Bowden 2680a. More
Lyrical Verse from Elizabeth to Victoria.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1896. 8vo. x, 451, (1) pp. Contemporary Arts and Crafts style binding of green half morocco over lighter green cloth, spine flat with ornate gilt decoration incorporating three panels featuring a central rose motif circled with leaves and gilt bosses, in between one panel is lettered... More
Songs of a Sussex Tramp.
Steyning: The Vine Press, 1922. Limited edition, no. 219 of 600 copies from a total edition of 620, 8vo, (ii), xiii, (i), 25, (3) pp. Partly unopened, with three pieces of ephemera loosely inserted - a 4 page prospectus for "Lillygay", a single leaf general press advertisement and a folded... More
The Graces, or Literary Souvenir.
London: Hurst, Robinson & Co., [1824]. 12mo, xii, 312 pp. Frontispiece, two engraved titles and a plate, with some foxing, contemporary inscription to fly leaf verso. Contemporary gilt and blind decorated red calf, a.e.g., gilt spine with a black label, some mostly light wear and a couple of marks. A.... More
![The Lily of St. Erne. The Yellow Diamond. [with] DUNN, Sara. Blanche Fleming. [with] McDERMOTT, P. The Lost Earl. [with] THOMPSON, A.W. The Violet and the Rose. CROW Mrs, Louisa.](/pictures/thumb/10400.jpg?v=1446579218)
The Lily of St. Erne. The Yellow Diamond. [with] DUNN, Sara. Blanche Fleming. [with] McDERMOTT, P. The Lost Earl. [with] THOMPSON, A.W. The Violet and the Rose.
London: John Dicks, Office of "Bow Bells" [n.d., 1870s]. Five works in one volumes, 8vo, 118, 119, (1), 118, 118, 128 pp, with wood engraved plates by Louis Huard, Richard Huttula and J. Abbott Pasquier, binder's blind stamp to fly leaf, contemporary half morocco, marbled sides, green morocco spine label... More
Poems to Pavlova. With... illustrations of Madame Pavlova in her most famous dances.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1913. First edition, 8vo, 62 pp. 8 photographic plates, partly unopened, later inscription to fly leaf. Original green cloth, decoration in white to the upper cover, slightly rubbed, otherwise very good. More
One is One.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1951. First edition, 8vo, x, 76 (2) pp. Inscribed on the fly leaf from the Author, and with loosely inserted three autograph letters from her to the same recipient as well as a couple of newspaper cuttings, a printed invitation to a party at her house... More
Diary and Letters of... (1778-1840). As Edited by her niece Charlotte Barrett. With Preface and Notes by Austin Dobson.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1904. Six volumes, 8vo. 19 portraits, 45 views, 7 facsimiles and 4 plans and maps. Original red cloth, spines a little faded, some light marking to covers. More
Play Me Fair.
London: Michael Joseph, (1956). First edition, 8vo, 287, (1) pp. Handsomely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in dark blue full morocco, a.e.g., spine sunned otherwise near fine. More
Aphorismes Civill and Militarie: Amplified with Authorities, and Exemplified with Historie, Out of the First Quarterne of Fr. Guicciardine.
London: Printed by M. Flesher for Robert Allot, 1629. Second edition. 4to. (viii), 339, (1), 61, (3) pp, including front and rear blanks. Contemporary full calf, spine with raised bands, renewed period style red gilt lettered label, modern bookplate to the inner cover along with a much older inscription, another... More