London: Cassell and Company Ltd, [1937]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket, recent custom cloth slipcase; [6],257pp. Jacket verso restored by previous owner -- backed in archival tissue with rather extensive color touchups to external margins, the whole quite cockled from exposure to glue -- with evidence..... More
London: Lovell Reeve & Co., 1866. "A Fac-Simile Reprint." Quarto; publisher's brown blind-embossed pictorial cloth, upper cover stamped in gilt, spine recently rebacked, top edge gilt; lxxxviii,[20],440pp.; illus. throughout; forty-four (44) leaves of plates numbered 1-63 (collated complete), text illus. throughout. Boards quite scuffed with shallow losses to corners, spine..... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1912. First American Edition. Large, thick octavo; publisher's blue pictorial cloth elaborately embossed in gilt, top edge gilt, housed in custom cloth slipcase; xii,[2],607,[1],[8](ads)pp.; thirty-two (32) leaves of color plates accompanied by tissue guards printed in red, pictorial endpapers. Moderate shelf wear to margins, textblock recased..... More
London: Johnson, 1968. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated price-clipped dust jacket, maroon topstain; vii,[1],184pp.; photographic frontispiece, illus. throughout. Ex-library (Rotnerham Public Library, UK) with rather extensive and yellowing interior markings, jacket extremities rubbed, especially at spine crown, with a couple closed tears, spine panel faded, light fingersoil to..... More
London: Printed for J. Wright, 1798. First Edition. Octavo, removed. [iv.], 117 pp., [3]. Includes terminal leaf of ads. Edgewear with tanning and rubbing to half title. Binding holding soundly and pages legible throughout. Pamphlet aimed at the "New Whigs" with attacks to contemporary targets such as the..... More
![Item #14482 All Roads to Sospel [U.K. title: Close All Roads to Sospel]. George Bellairs](/pictures/thumb/14482.jpg?v=1667769355)
New York: Walker and Company, 1981. First American Edition, with full numberline. Octavo; publisher's boards in white pictorial dust jacket with $9.95 price intact; 168pp. Light dust-soil and toning to jacket, minor shelf wear to extremities, brief foxing along gutters, else Very Good and sound overall. A Chief..... More
New York: Walker and Company, 1981. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in black pictorial dust jacket by Ernest Socolov; 192pp. General shelf wear to jacket extremities including brief shallow wrinkling along top margin of front panel, rear panel a bit dust-soiled, faint toning along gutter edges, otherwise a Very..... More
![Item #13864 Trilby: A Novel [Limited Edition]. George du Maurier](/pictures/thumb/13864.jpg?v=1660413328)
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1895. Large Paper Issue Limited to 600 copies of which this is no. 234. Large octavo; publisher's full decorative parchment stamped in gilt and light blue, top edge gilt, in custom cloth slipcase; viii,464pp.; photo-gravure portrait frontispiece (tissue guard), terra-cotta text illus. by the..... More
![Item #14504 Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life [Four volume set]. George Eliot](/pictures/thumb/14504.jpg?v=1667845822)
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1871-1872. First Edition in book form. Four octavo volumes. Bound in contemporary half morocco; five compartments to spine; lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers. Lacking half titles and errata. Uncorrected "viros nulli" to page 103, line 17 of volume II. Boards worn..... More
London: Henry Colburn, 1827. Second Edition. Two octavo volumes. 336 pp. 326 pp. + 10 pp. publisher's advertisements. Two hand-colored frontispieces, plate of Tauk Kisra, eight in-text woodcuts, and folding map of the author's route from Bussorah to Kizliar on the Borders of the Desert of Astrakhan with route in..... More
Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's black cloth stamped in red; [8],311pp. Binding rather crudely recased, light shelf wear, spine a bit cocked and cloth faded, small white soil spot to front cover, else Very Good, internally clean and sound..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1968. First U.S. Edition. Four octavo volumes. 574 pp.; 477 pp.; 435 pp.; 555 pp. Frontispiece to each volumes. Printed dust jacket, each with $10.00 price present. Dark blue boards stamped in gilt. Dust jackets lightly chipped at extremities with some..... More
New York: F.M. Buckles & Company, 1900. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 435 pages + publisher's advertisements. Red cloth stamped in gilt and black. Boards worn along extremities with brief exposure. Binding is sound and pages clean and unmarked. Overall a very good or better copy of this scarce..... More
New York: Home Publishing Company, 1893. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue decorative cloth, black and gilt titling; 283pp. Extremities a bit rubbed and spine slightly cocked and nudged at ends, light dust-soil, front hinge cracked but holding, else a Very Good, still quite presentable copy. One of the..... More
Menston: The Scolar Press Limited, 1973. Second Printing. Octavo; v + 468pp + Index, List of Plates, and Errata [all unpaginated, 13pp]. Fold-out frontispiece engraving of Selborne + second title engraved allegory + reproductions of six natural history images, for all of which the original 18th-century engravings were very fine..... More
![Item #13560 The Natural History of Selborne [Limited Edition, Signed by Illustrator]. Gilbert...](/pictures/thumb/13560.jpg?v=1658583561)
Ipswich, UK: The Limited Editions Club, 1972. Limited Edition of 1500 copies signed by John Nash, this volume out of series and labeled "Office Copy". Large octavo. 276 pp. Line drawings by Nash, many colored. Bound in calfskin over morning-glory patterned boards. Green topstain; light brown endpapers. Publisher's monthly newsletter..... More
New York: British Book Centre Inc., 1962. First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's boards in brown pictorial dust jacket; 253pp. Shelf wear to jacket extremities including tiny closed tear at top margin of front panel not approaching text, foxing to both panels and textblock extremities; About Very Good overall... More
![Item #6459 Brighton Rock: An Entertainment [Second Printing]. Graham Greene](/pictures/thumb/6459.jpg?v=1592591440)
New York: The Viking Press, 1938. Second Printing. Octavo. 358 pages. Black and salmon boards stamped in silver. Lacks dust jacket. Boards are frayed at top of spine and corners. Light soiling and fading to spine. Some general staining to front and rear panels. Binding is holding. Remnants..... More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1890. First Edition with publisher's advertisements in rear dated 30,000/3/90 at foot of p. 16. Octavo; publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth, black glazed endpapers; [8],312,16pp. Spine cocked with cloth quite toned, chipping at spine ends, most notably at crown, corners gently tapped, else Very Good, internally..... More
![Item #14662 Doctor Therne [Cover title: Dr. Therne]. H. Rider Haggard](/pictures/thumb/14662.jpg?v=1670286951)
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898. First Edition, First State with "issued" instead of "issue" on p. 96. Octavo; publisher's tan cloth, front cover lettered in brown, brown and gilt spine titling; viii,[2],253pp. Light soil to front cover very slightly affecting internal leaves, corners bumped, contemporary ownership signatures to front..... More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1905. First Edition with publisher's advertisements dated "10,000/9/04 - A.U.P." at bottom of p. 40. Thick octavo; publisher's blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt; xii,404,40pp.; frontispiece and twenty-four (24) leaves of photographs. Spine rather toned as is top third of upper cover, small chips..... More
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1887. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's red decorative cloth, front cover stamped in black, gilt-lettered spine, floral endpapers; viii,336,[8](ads)pp. Light shelf wear, spine slightly cocked and a shade faded with two faint spots from previously removed labels (presumably library markings); overall Very Good, internally clean and..... More
London: John Murray, 1918. First Edition, First State with misprints on pp. 55 and 210. Octavo; publisher's blue cloth, front cover and spine lettered in black; xii,328,[8](ads)pp. Light shelf wear to corners and spine ends, spine slightly cocked, foxing throughout, cut-out illustration, presumably from The Cornhill Magazine in which this..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's maroon cloth over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spine; [4],270,[2],12pp. Boards scuffed with some brief loss of marbled paper at extremities, textblock uniformly toned and brittle from poor paper quality, else Very Good and sound overall. Early Haggard..... More
![Item #13836 My Fellow Laborer & The Wreck of the "Copeland" [Limited Edition]. H. Rider Haggard](/pictures/thumb/13836.jpg?v=1660077324)
Cheltenham: Chris Coquet, 1992. First Thus, Limited to 100 cloth-bound copies of which this is no. 54. Slim octavo; publisher's blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 56pp. Front cover rather spotted and spine ends bumped else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy. Finely published reissue of two Haggard..... More