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 about In His Own Image. With an Introduction by Shane Leslie
(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 about The Rose Garden of Persia
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 about John Halifax, Gentleman
[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 about Poems of... Selected and Arranged, with Notes, by J.R. Tutin
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 about A Cigarette-Maker's Romance
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 about Songs of a Sussex Tramp
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 about The Graces, or Literary Souvenir
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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 about The Lily of St. Erne. The Yellow Diamond. [with] DUNN, Sara. Blanche Fleming. [with] McDERMOTT,...
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 about Poems to Pavlova. With... illustrations of Madame Pavlova in her most famous dances
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 about One is One
Milan: Fratelli Treves, 1898. Second thousand. 8vo. (iv), 288 pp. A fine contemporary unsigned binding in the Arts and Crafts style of red full crushed morocco, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered to one panel, the others with ornate gilt decoration featuring an elaborate flower and leaf motif with surrounding... More about La Citta Morta. Tragedia di
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 about Diary and Letters of... (1778-1840). As Edited by her niece Charlotte Barrett. With Preface and...
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 about Play Me Fair
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 about Aphorismes Civill and Militarie: Amplified with Authorities, and Exemplified with Historie, Out...
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1791. Two volumes, volume I first edition, volume II third edition, 4to, xii, 212, (1), 212-214, 126, (ii); (iv), ix, (i), 197, (1) pp, directions to the binder slip bound in at the end of volume I. Frontispieces and 18 plates. Some minor spotting, but... More about The Botanic Garden. A Poem, in Two Parts. Part I. Containing the Economy of Vegetation. Part II....
[London]: The Cayme Press, 1930. Limited edition, no. 31 of 500 copies, signed by the Author, 8vo, (viii), 54, (2) pp. Frontispiece and 6 illustrations, with a presentation inscription on the fly leaf "To Betty and Teddy, this little book, not a little of which was written at Downside and... More about The Guardsman and Cupid's Daughter, and other Poems. The Decorations by John Austen
London: Heinemann, (1971). First edition, 8vo, 157, (1) pp. Inscribed from the author on the title page "Red and Louise - something butterfly-light for you to read in the garden...". Cloth, d.w., some faint marks, a very good copy. More about Nobody Answered the Bell
(New York: Doubleday & Company, 1954). First American edition, 8vo, 251, (1) pp. Inscribed from the author on the fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., spine faded, edges browned and with light wear. More about The Painted King
London: Heinemann, (1969). First edition, 8vo, (viii), 199, (1) pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Cloth, d.w., very slightly browned, otherwise near fine. More about Print of a Hare's Foot. An Autobiographical Beginning
London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1858. 4to, xvi, 42, (2), lxviii pp, portrait frontispiece and 16 plates, 2 in colour, foxing to last few leaves, binding a little loose but sound, original cloth, gilt illustration on upper cover, spine and edges a little faded. A 14th century French poet and contemporary of Chaucer. More about The Ancient Poem of... Entitled le Pelerinage De L'Homme. Compared with the Pilgrim's Progress of...
London: W. Collins Sons & Co., (1926). Limited edition, no. 174 of 250 copies signed by the author, 8vo, 357, (1) pp. Attractive contemporary bookplate, slightly later inscription to fly leaf. Original lined backed boards, spine with mild browning, morocco label with an old repair. More about The Connoisseur, and other stories
(London): Faber and Faber, (1963). First edition, 8vo, cxliv, 592 pp. Coloured frontispiece and black and white illustrations by Barnett Freedman. Cloth, d.w. with neat strengthening to the reverse, to the spine ends and top of the lower flap, slight sunning of spine. More about Love
London: Published for the Proprietor by Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1853. "New edition". Small 8vo. (iv), 176 pp. Publisher's blindstamped brown ribbed cloth, gilt lettered to the spine. Fading to the spine and extremities of the boards, the former also with slight loss to the head and foot, else a.... More about Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
London: John Russell Smith, 1859. First edition, 8vo, (iii)-viii, 464 pp, bound without the half title. Frontispiece portrait, light foxing at the beginning and end, marbled endpapers and edges. Contemporary calf, double gilt rules, gilt spine with a black label, some light rubbing to edges, very good. More about The Life and Times of Daniel De Foe: with Remarks digressive and discursive
London: George Routledge and Sons, [1880s]. 8vo, 566, (10 advertisement) pp. Engraved illustrations, presentation inscription preserved from the previous binding and tipped in at the front dated 1886. Bound in recent ("MXM" to the foot of the spine) scarlet morocco, a.e.g., blind stamped border and rules with gilt decoration, a.... More about The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. With... illustrations by J.D. Watson