London: Chatto and Windus, 1967-71. Reprint of Uniform Edition first published in 1957. Twelve hard cover volumes, individual vol. size 18.8 x 12.5 cm, duodecimo (twelvemo), pale blue cloth, red and gilt spine titling, blue tops, frontispiece etching and other etchings to each volume, illustrated by Philippe Jullian, colour dust..... More
Sydney: Angus & Robertson Limited, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover octavo (18.5 x 15cm), pp. (8), (138), [2, publisher’s advertising]; green cloth covered boards with black lettering on the spine, black lettering and illustration on the front cover, illustrated endpapers. Head, tail, joints and edges all gently rubbed with light patches of..... More
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1934. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover octavo (18.8 x 12.6cm), pp. 312 + 8 pages of advertising; beige cloth covered boards with embossed red lettering and detailing to the spine, front and back cover, top edge dye (red), lacks dust wrapper. Head and tail of spine, joints..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, [n.d. circa 1920s]. Hardcover 4mo (24 x 16.5cm), pp. [2, blank], ix, [1, blank], 305, [3, blank], richly illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith, illustrated endpapers, black line drawings throughout + 12 tipped in colour illustrations; orange cloth covered boards with embossed black lettering on the..... More
Leipzi: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1913. Date Published: Edition: Complete in two volumes, both softcover octavo (16.3 x 11.8cm), Vol. 1: pp. 286, [2], Vol. 2: pp. 253, [3] + 32 pages of advertising; paper wraps with black borders and lettering, publisher’s advertising endpapers. Vol. 1: chips to head and tail, nibbling to..... More
St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1978. First Edition. Octavo (21.5 x 14.5), pp. x, 269, [1, blank]; navy cloth covered boards with lettering in contrasting orange and white on the spine, orange endpapers, illustrated dust wrapper designed by Christopher Mc Vinish featuring reproduction of Max Watters’ The Blue House. Tail..... More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1956. First Edition. Octavo (20.30 x 13 cm), pp. [6], 207, [3, blank]; blue cloth covered boards with lettering in navy on the spine, illustrated dust wrapper. Head and tail of spine gently bruised; top and bottom edges toned; edges of text block lightly foxed, top edge..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [1930?]. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp. 320; blue cloth covered boards with black embossed lettering, illustrated dust wrapper. Head, tail and edges lightly rubbed with a few small patches of wear; corners gently bruised; mild wear towards spine on front board and along..... More
London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1958. First Edition. Octavo (19.5 x 12.5cm), pp. [6], 186; green cloth covered boards with lettering in gilt on the spine, dust wrapper illustrated by Victor Reinganum. Spine a touch faded; slight contact with water has led to colour loss (10-20mm patch) at base of spine..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1986. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover 16mo (22.2 x 14cm), pp. 324; black cloth covered boards with lettering in gilt on the spine, dust wrapper featuring illustration by Fred Marcellino and author’s photograph by Jerry Bauer. Tail of spine and top corners very gently bruised; gilt mostly bright; edges..... More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1958. Signed First Edition. Octavo (20.5 x 13 cm). [4], 144pp; blue cloth with silver lettering in illustrated dust wrapper, inscribed by author. Dimple to the head of spine; bottom front corner gently bruised; edges a little sunned with four small patches of nibbling; edge of text..... More
London, New York, Toronto: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1948, 1949, 1952. Reprint. Complete in three volumes protected in custom made box. Three quarter polished calf over matching boards (18.5 x 12cm), five raised bands with gilt lettering in title panel and decorations to the other panels, t.e.g., marbled endpapers..... More
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1875. First British Edition. Hardcover octavo (19 x 14cm), pp. vii, 310, [2, blank] + 40 pages of advertising with illustrated frontispiece and plates; 50 illustrations; later binding, red morocco with gilt spine. Spine darkened and brittle with use; head and tail faintly rubbed..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1956. First Edition. Octavo, pp (viii), 214, (ii). light blue boards with lettering in gilt on the spine, illustrated paper jacket. Corners are lightly bumped and with light foxing to the edges of the leaves. The jacket is price clipped, a little edgeworn and with a 1cm..... More
London: Printed for J. Tonson, and sold by W. Taylor at the Ship in Pater-noster-row, 1712. Reissue of 1709 Edition. Octavo (198 x 125mm). [12], 1-174, 179-235, 238-482pp (text is continuous even though pagination is not), six plates including frontispiece (lacking one plate). Bound in brown calf, banded with contrasting..... More
Andoversford: The Whittington Press, 1976. Deluxe Limited Edition. Octavo, 200 x 153mm. [8], 35, [5] pp. Bound in maroon calf, banded spine with gilt lettering, gilt decoration to front board, gilt internal borders in a matching maroon cloth slipcase. Marbled endpapers, top edge gilt and deckled edges. Numbered and signed..... More
Montreal and London: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1975. Super octavo (26.2 x 18.4 cm), 192 pp. Contents, Preface, Abbreviations, Introduction (I: The Illness and the Occasion; II: Medication and Metaphysics; III: Seventeenth-Century Copies; IV: The Editions; V: The Text), Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, Commentary, Selective Bibliography. Bound in red cloth quartered..... More
Reynold A. Nicholson, Editor and Translator, The Mathnawí of Jalálu’ddin Rúmí (Cambridge, UK: Gibb Memorial Trust, first edition 1926, this edition reprint 2001), octavo, three volumes (Books 1 and II, 419 pages; Books III and IV, 496 pages; Books V and VI, 529 pages), hardcover, black cloth with gilt spine..... More
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New York: Ace Books, 1953. The Ace Double First Edition (D-15). First edition of Burroughs' first novel. Trade paperback, 16.3 x 10.6cm, pp.149 (Junkie) 4 (Ads) 169 Narcotic Agent. A clean, bright copy. Now considered a classic of the Beat generation, Junkie was first published as a trade paperback intended..... More
London Toronto Bombay Sydney: George G. Harrap & Co., 1939. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 327pp., tan cloth covers, blue lettering to spine. Lacks dust jacket. A very good copy of White's first novel. Hubber and Smith C1a. Happy Valley is the first published novel by Australia's only Nobel Laureate..... More
London: The Bodley Head. Various bindings. Thirty-five facsimile volumes in twenty-eight slipcases designed by Mitsumasa Anno. The facsimiles were produced by the Japanese specialists, Holp Shuppan, matching the paper, colour printing, and binding of the original editions produced in England in the 18th and 19th centuries. This set is fine..... More
London and Melbourne: Ward, Lock and Co., Limited, n.d. [1916]. First thus. Octavo (215 x 155mm). (xvi), 19-332pp. Endpapers, frontispiece plus 43 coloured plates as called for illustrated by Margaret W. Tarrant. Recent binding by Karen McGuire; gilt decoration including heart, club and rose detailing in homage to the subject..... More