London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1897. Two octavo volumes : (I) pp. xx, 511 (including appendices) 14 illustrations, portraits and plans as called for : (II) pp. xii, 522 (including index), 64 (publisher's advertisements) 17 illustrations, portraits, plans and folding map as called for : rebound in three quarter dark..... More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1866. Ocatvo : collated and complete in 8 uniform volumes : polished tree calf with foliate gilt borders, five raised bands to spine with contrasting green and red title/author panels and the others elaborately gilt tooled : gilt stamping to the edges adn turn-in... More
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Melbourne: Text Publishing, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo : pp.[6] 255 [3] (blank) : green endpapers : original cloth-backed boards, silver lettering to spine. Signed by Bail on the title page. A fine first printing. The novel won the Miles Franklin and the Commonwealth Writer's Prize. Newspaper review clipping from..... More
London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo : pp. [xii], [306] [2] (adverts) : original green decorated boards : top edge green, other edges uncut. Light scattered foxing. Inscribed by the author for Lady Helen Hamilton in December 1924. First and very scarce novel by..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1903], 1903. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Octavo : 288p. : original green illustrated boards with black lettering. Uniform Edition printed in the U.K. for the U.S. market in the same year as the U.K. first edition. Attractive bookplate (The Heathcotes) on front endpaper and small..... More
London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover : pp. vii, [316] : original green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Neat bookseller's (W. H. Smith & Son, London) small blind-stamp on front free endpaper; slight bumping to head and tail of spine; top edge dust toned with two..... More
London | Philadelphia: T. Fisher Unwin | J. B. Lippincott Company, 1899. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Octavo : pp. [viii] 330 [2] (blank) : title page printed in red and black : original dark green cloth : gilt lettering in gilt borders on spine : top edge gilt : other..... More
London: The Religious Tract Society, 1907. J. Finnemore. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo : [240]p., [16]pp adverts. : frontispiece : two other black and white plates : top edge gilt : original pictorial boards with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Head and tail of spine bruised; corners lightly abraded;..... More
New York: New Amsterdam Book Company, 1899. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Octavo : pp. xvi, 338 : original blue boards with dark blue lettering. First American edition printed in the UK with T. Fisher Unwin at base of spine. Light wear to extremities; shaken. Miller/Macartney, p.57 (and A. Grove Day..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company [1914?], 1914. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Octavo : pp. [iv] 307 [9] (blank) : original green illustrated boards. Partly autobiographical novel set in the South Seas and regarded the best of his novels; "...a rattling account of what a young man of energy and alertness..... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo : vii, [332]p., [12]pp adverts. First Colonial Edition. Green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Stamp of M. Martin Lending Library on a few pages, endpapers browned, edges spotted, light flecking. With what appears to be Louis Becke's signature on rear endpaper..... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1894. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo : 220pp. : original maroon boards with gilt lettering and decorations to spine : author's facsimile signature on title page : top edge dyed, other edges speckled. Attractive bookplate for a John Stanton on front endpaper. Title is trimmed with some..... More
London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1789. First Edition. Quarto : pp. [ii] [ii] [3]-6 [ii] [viii] i-x [8] [4] 298, lxxiv [2] (advertisements) : first state engraved title, stipple-engraved portrait of Phillip by W. Sherwin after F. Wheatly, and 53 further plates, plans and charts (7 folding; 55 plates in..... More
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n.p. n.d. Quarto : 119pp. : in half morocco slipcase : Sept. 30, 1904; A.L.S. 2 pages : To R.W. Gilder. The original autograph manuscript of London's ground breaking story about boxing. The manuscript is heavily corrected throughout in London's hand showing considerable evidence of re-writing. The first page is..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2024. First Edition. Hardcover (27.5 x 18.5cm) : pp. [10] 86 [2] (colophon) : nine boxwood engravings : letterpress on mold made paper : silk spine over paper covered boards with paper label to spine : matching silk covered slip case : signed..... More
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2003. Softcover (29.5 x 20.5cm) : pp. [xii] [364] : b&w photos, illustrations and charts : photo illustrated covers. Top edge lightly dust-toned; minor wear to tail of covers; slightly wavy. More
Printed by C.P.O. H. L. Boyd in H.M.A.S. Canberra in Australian Waters, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover : [24]pp. : original tan wrappers, red lettering and illustrations on front, red design on rear : illustrated title page : illustrated throughout in red, black and white. Attractively bound in beige cloth..... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo : two volumes in one : pp. xvi, 312, iv, 310 : polished calf, ornately decorated in gilt with raised bands, marbled edges and endpapers. Inscription dated 1863 from Charles Edward Buckland to George John Barry (on his..... More
London: Robt. A. Thompson & Co., Ltd., 1897. Hardcover. Octavo : pp. xiii, 354 : red three quarter calf, marbled boards : five raised bands : gilt lettering and designs : marbled endpapers and all edges marbled : frontispiece portrait : black and white illustrations. Publishers' preface dated 1st March..... More
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1858. F'cap octavo : pp. [xlviii] 340 : frontis portrait and 4 full page plates with loose tissue guards : blue silk ribbon : chocolate brown endpapers : all edges gilt : elaborately blocked leather boards with bevelled edges and gilt lettering : five raised..... More
London: Saunders and Otley, 1846. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Demy octavo : pp. [646], 8 (adverts.) : frontispiece, 27 other engraved plates : green vertical rib-grained cloth : gilt lettering and decorations on spine. Owner signature and neat annotation referring to later edition on f.f.e.p.; several pages carelessly opened; plates..... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1915. Reprint. Crown octavo : pp. viii, 312 : printed endpapers : top edge gilt : brown silk bookmark : suede covers with yapp edges, letters and ornamentation blocked in dark brown : original box with half title design repeated on the lid. The lid to..... More
London: Methuen, n.d. [1908]. First English Language Edition. F'cap octavo : pp. [viii] [222] : 6 colour plates including frontis : all edges gilt : polished green calf with double ruled gilt borders and floral ornaments in the corners : five raised bands : gilt lettering, rules and flower ornaments..... More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Crown quarto : pp. viii, 114, [ix-x] (Memoir title, verso blank) xi - lxxvi [2] (blank, printer's colophon) : original green cloth with gilt decoration and lettering, top edge gilt, others uncut, frontispiece portrait with facsimile signature. Numbered edition of 500 copies..... More
