xv, 140pp. Numbered, limited edition. Pink cloth binding with tan leather title label. Top edge gilt with edges uncut. Boards clean with some sunning to the spine and edges. A reproduction of the original manuscript. Binding firm and internally fresh and bright. Some darkening to the decorated endpapers, rather comical colour illustrations of the Tudor and Stuart houses, by [Cassandra] C. E. Austen. Also includes a reproduction, about half size, from a page of the original mansuscript: Austen's introductory note to 'A History of England', also in the book. Number 73 of a limted run of 260, in... View More...
179 pp. Publisher's decorated blue cloth in slipcase. Slight marks to the slipcase. Minor bumping to the boards extremities. Cloth fresh and bright. Internally clean. No ownership names. Illustrated by Debra McFarlane. This is the 2013 reissue in a new, slightly smaller format. View More...
x, 126 pp. Original green cloth with gilt illustration to front board and gilt lettering to spine; endpaper maps. Slight wear to spine ends, joints and corners; minor lean to spine. Foxing to page edges throughout. Amusing bookplate to verso of ffep. With 24 tissue-guarded tipped in colour illustrations by Arthur Rackham - plate 5 is damaged at its inner edge. View More...
This is copy no. 193 of an edition limited to 375 copies signed by the author Joseph Conrad on the limitation leaf. 371 pp. Publisher's original gilt-decorated paper-covered boards. Top edge gilt. Clear acetate jacket. In custom Asprey's quarter morocco solander box with gilt panels and lettering to spine. Without the publisher's slipcase and paper jacket. From the library of Stanley Seeger with his bookplate to front pastedown and inside panel of box. Minor nick to front endpaper. Book and solander box in Fine condition. View More...
268 pp. Recently bound in half brick morocco over marbled boards. Raised bands to spine with gilt decoration & lettering. New endpapers. Minor spotting to text. A very good copy of this classic children's tale, contains the advice to Peter on how to be a cat 'when in doubt, wash '. View More...
xii, 974 pp. Publisher's full polished morocco with gilt lettering to spine. In original glassine wrapper and in slipcase. All edges gilt. Very clean copy. No ownership marks. View More...
541, (1) pp., Bound by David Chivers of Bath (father of Cedric Chivers) in half black morocco with cloth boards. Some marks to the fore-edge other wise clean and bright. Rubbed out pencil mark to the title page of former owner's name. With black and white illustrations. Advertisement of author's work to the rear. Uncommon. Library Hub records just BL & NLS. View More...
xii., 338, [10] pp. Bound in a recent half bugundy morocco with marbled boards. Gilt lettering and devices to the spine. New endpapers. Contains the poem ' If '. The top edge is the original gilt. View More...
xiii, 350 pp. brown cloth with gilt decoration and lettering to the spine and blind decoration to front board. Spine skewed and large crease to the rear board. Jacket is torn with loss to the corners at the head and tail. Previous owner's name on f.e.p. View More...
x, 100 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with decorative gilt design to front & rear covers and gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt; illustrations throughout by Ernest H. Shepard. A few marks to front board, with some wear to spine ends and corners. A little foxing to page edges and first and last pages, but otherwise internally clean. Pictorial endpapers are creased and have an ink owner's stamp. View More...
x, (ii), 100 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with decorative gilt design to front & rear covers and gilt lettering to spine; pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt. A few light marks, slight rubbing to spine ends, corners and rear joint. Occasional spots and offsetting to second free endpapers but generally internally clean. Illustrations throughout by Ernest H. Shepard. An early reprint published two years after the first edition. View More...
312 pp,. The green issue. Pale green cloth binding with red lettering to the spine, in green dustjacket. Head of the jacket is chipped with small tears and patches of loss. Minor scuffing to the rear. Some sunning to the binding, with stain to the tail of the spine and boards (not affecting text block). Slight marks to the fore-edge and darkening to the edges of the leaves. No ownership names. Binding variant not mentioned in the bibliography which doesn't use the lighter coloured endpapers at the rear, but has a rear pastedown that is the same paperstock as the text. View More...
In 2 volumes. xxvi, 636; xvi, 534 pp. Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to front boards & spines. Spotting to fore-edges. Internally clean. Cloth bright and fresh. Frontis portraits. With photogravures, coloured plates, panoramas, double-page plates, b&w plates and maps. All plates & maps complete. A nice clean set. View More...
Sandroyd School Prize Binding. vii, 340 pp. Brown Morrell tree calf binding with gilt school title to front board, and gilt decoration, raised bands, red and grey morocco title labels and gilt lettering to spine; top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Four colour plates and a map by John Cameron. Binding is in near fine condition, with minimal scratching to boards which also have a bit of a bow to them. Dent to the head of the spine. Front pastedown has remains of a bookplate that has been torn off. Spotting to page edges and scattered throughout. View More...
134 pp. Red calf boards and decorated endpapers by Sangorski and Sutcliffe and recent red morocco spine, on which is raised bands and gilt lettering and decorations; all edges gilt. 12 colour plates and beautiful black and white in-text illustrations throughout. Boards worn at edges and slightly scratched, but a lovely copy. View More...
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