First Edition. 96 pp. 7cm x 9.5cm. Green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Chromolithographic frontsipiece and title page. All edges gilt, rubbed and faded. Boards worn and slightly crinkled, gilt rubbed. Former owner sticker on front pastedown. Hinges cracked, but internally very clean. View More...
First Editions -- 1923-1932. In 7 volumes. Light blue cloth spines with white title labels and marbled boards. Large paper limited editions -- only 1000 sets produced; includes all six novels by Austen and two volumes of her letters which were produced later, 1796-1809 and 1811-1817. All illustrated with plates. Heads and tails of spines a little rubbed with a small split at the head of Pride and Prejudice. Uncut and internally clean. A lovely set in great condition. Uncommon in such nice condition, and to have all seven matching. View More...
ix, 315 pp,. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering and illustration to the front board. Some discolouration and wear of the spine. Very light wear to the corners of the boards. Part of the Golden Hind series of books which focused on historical figures such as John Smith and Walter Raleigh. View More...
225,[1], [6 pub. cat.] pp. First edition with a hand written card from Yeats in front, signed with his monogram. Green publisher's cloth with gilt lettering to the spine and front board. Top edge gilt. Spine faded and some marks to the spine and boards. Some pencil notes on 'list of illustrations'. 12 colour plates by Jack B. Yeats. In addition to hand written card attached to front paste-down, this was Mrs C. Lawson-Tancred's copy, identified by an inscription to her. She owned a number of Yeat's oil paintings. View More...
First edition. 506 pp plus 8 page publishers catalogue at rear. Green publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Slightly loose binding and some marking on the spine and boards. View More...
In 3 volumes. xxxiii, 298; (iv), 327; (iv), 371, 3 pp., Brown full calf binding with black title labels and dulled gilt decorated spine. Binding is marked with water marks to the lower half of the boards and rubbing to the spine, small sticker mark to the first volume. Wear to the hinges, particularly to the first volume. Owners plate to the front paste down of each volume and minor scattered spotting. First edition, first issue as per Worthington with two half-titles in each volume as called for. Three pages of adverts at rear of volume 3. View More...
Bentley's Standard Novels. viii, 471, (2) pp. Publisher's original blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt decoration & lettering to spine. Cracking to outer hinges. Minor rubbing to spine ends. Internally clean. Frontis engraving. Publisher's list on endpapers. View More...
2 volumes, 1889 and 1893. xxiii, 400, 3; xxxi, 423, 6 pp. Red cloth with gilt borders and lettering to spines and gilt illustrations to boards; all edges gilt. Both volumes have slanted bindings and faded spines; volume I has marks to boards, wear to hinges, and a small split to the rear joint. With 45 black & white illustrations by Hary Furniss in each volume. View More...
First Edition. 128 pp. Gilt stamped hardback with illustrated jacket. A book of 105 photographic plates in duotone, including famous photo of Ghandi's funeral pyre. With introduction by Yves Vequaud and foreword by Satyajit Ray. One tiny tear to bottom edge of jacket. Otherwise clean and bright throughout. View More...
First Edition. 32 [+18 plates] pp. Bound in recent half dark red morocco over marbled boards, with raised bands, gilt devices, green title label and gilt lettering to spine. In fine condition inside and out. Panels from the original jacket are bound at the rear. A lovely meditation on the importance of relaxation in the face of stress, and the essentiality of art and creative expression to the human spirit. 18 colour illustrations of Churchill's paintings; The first edition to be published as a single volume. View More...
4 volumes. First editions 1956 to 1958. An attractive set. Recently bound in full dark red morocco, with raised bands, gilt lettering and decoration to the spine. Top edge gilt. Some spotting to the foredge, mainly to volume one affecting some of the front end papers. Otherwise clean and bright with no ownership marks. Illustrated with black and white maps. None of the usual foxing, Woods A138(a). View More...
First illustrated edition. In 4 volumes complete. Publisher's full blue buckram with red leather title label. All internally clean. A near fine set with just a little minor marking to the boards and slight rubbing at spine. Internally clean. 'The Nobel Prize in Literature 1953 was awarded to Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values." ' (Nobel Prize Website). This is a heavy set and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. View More...
In 4 volumes. All volumes are first editions, published 1956 to 1958. Recently bound in half maroon morocco over red boards. Raised bands to spines with gilt devices & lettering. Spotting on vol. 1 title page, else a very nice set. This is a heavy set and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. View More...
First abridged edition. xviii, 1033 pp. Bound in dark blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to the spine. In its original illustrated dust jacket, which is slightly worn to the edges and spine. Binding is firm. Internally in excellent condition, clean and bright with no visible foxing or yellowing. View More...
4 volumes, all first editions. xvi, 640 pp.; xviii, 684 pp.; xviii, 818 pp.; xviii, 918 pp. A gift set, these were the only four volumes published at the time of presentation. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in half red morocco over red cloth boards, with gilt details. Five raised bands with gilding to spine. All edges gilt. High quality marbled endpapers. Illustrated throughout with maps, diagrams and letters, including some which fold out. In all volumes the boards and bindings are in excellent condition, with only very minor marking to the reverse of vol. 4. All volumes are internally very... View More...
First Editions. 7 volumes, 1941 to 1946. Bound in a recent half maroon morocco with over red boards, raised bands and gilt lettering and decoration of rampant lions in compartments; top edges gilt. Some scattered foxing, else a fine clean set. A few lines pencil underlined in Into Battle, with a comment in the margin. Into Battle is the first issue. Photographic plates. Collection of Churchill's speeches made throughout the Second World War. View More...
xiii, 317, x pp., Limited Edition. Red quarter morocco binding with gilt lettered spine. Some sunning to the head of the boards and minor marks. Internally clean and bright and illustrated throughout in black and white. With original pamphlet 'At Browning's Grave' by Alfred Foreman 1899, bound to the rear. Number 9 of 57 copies printed. View More...
viii, 406, 6 pp. Red illustrated boards. Slant to binding, a few minor marks but boards bright. Spots to fore-edge and prelims but otherwise internally clean. This is the later issue binding. Illustrated throughout in black & white by Gordon Browne. View More...
120 pp. Pictorial boards. Very slight wear to head & foot of spine. Neat ink inscription and owner name. One corner price-clipped. Colour illustrations throughout. Very fresh and clean VG copy. View More...
vi, 374, 4 pp., First edition, First issue. Publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettered spine. Some wear to the boards with fraying to the spine ends and corners. Small split to the head of the rear joint. Some wear to the hinges with webbing exposed. Spotting to the endpapers, otherwise internally clean. Publisher's catalogue bound to the rear. Illustrated with both 21 wood engravings and 8 heliotype plates. Darwin's third major work of evolutionary theory , it built off the ideas of his 1867 leaflet "Queries of Expression". First edition, First Issue with all of the point referred to ... View More...
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