London: Bradbury and Evans, 1855-1857. First Edition in original parts. (20 Parts published in 19). Housed in a custom made silk solander box with leather labels. All plates present including the dark plates and the Frontispiece and Vignette Title. Includes Rigaud for Blandois at Part 15 (ten times as per... More about Little Dorrit
London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. First Edition. Full calf. Octavo (20.8 x 13cm), pp. viii, 190, 14 illustrations including portrait frontispiece and vignette title-page, 2pp tipped in front wrapper of the original Part V of Edwin Drood, August 1870. Handsomely bound in full tan polished calf with five raised bands... More about The Mystery of Edwin Drood
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. Full calf. Octavo (20.9 x 13cm), pp. xi, 624, 40 illustrations by Phiz including the vignette title page. Handsomely bound in full tan polished calf with five raised bands to the spine, tooled and gilt blocked panels, title panel in slightly darker tan and author... More about Bleak House
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857. First Edition in book form. Full calf. Octavo (21 x 13.5cm), pp. (2) blank, xiv, 625, (2) blank, 40 illustrations by H.K. Browne including the vignette title page and eight dark plates. All internal flaws present as called for by Smith. Handsomely bound in full... More about Little Dorrit
London: J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1950. First Thus. Octavo, uniformly bound by Karen McGuire in half leather over blue boards, blind tooled borders, gilt devices on the spines and lettering in gilt on red leather title and author panels, new cream endpapers. Pride and Prejudice, pp. v, (1), 337, 16... More about The Works of Jane Austen; Illustrated by Charles E. Brock
London: Jarrold and Sons, n.d. Cloth. New edition. Green cloth and gilt with black border, a.e.g., floral eps, Stacy Norwich binder’s sticker, colour frontis, (8), 257pp, (4) publisher’s advertisements. Head and food of spine a little tender. Otherwise fine. “Miss Strickland was the first woman to force an entry into..... More about Historical Tales of Illustrious British Children
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970. First Edition. Octavo, 23.5 x 15.5cm, xxiv, 280pp, ill., green cloth covered boards with lettering in gilt on the spine, blue dustjacket with photo illustration and lettering in white. Some light scratches on the top board, jacket just a little worn at the head... More about Love in Earnest ; Some notes on the Lives and Writings of English 'Uranian' Poets from 1889 to 1930
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1934. Edition limited to 1250 for sale in England. Unnumbered copy. Octavo (24 x 16cm), (4) blank, 217pp, (3) blank, original green cloth boards with lettering in black on the spine, protected in a cover that preserves the inside folds of the original jacket (rest... More about November
Hong Kong: [Robert Chatterton Wilcox], 1886. Hardcover. [Privately printed] Octavo (192 x 134 mm.), [4] 445 pp., half bound in green leather with cloth covered boards, 5 false raised bands, decorative gold roll along edges of leather and top and bottom of spine, gold rules beside raised bands, decorative endpapers... More about Lettice Thornelow; A Tale of the Midlands during the Civil War
London: Methuen, 1915. First. Hardcover. Octavo (197 x 140 mm.), vi 336 [4](advertisements) 31(advertisements) pp., cloth with gold tooling on spine in pictorial dustjacket. Very good in poor dust jacket, edges foxed, offsetting on endpapers, foxing on pages close to boards, dustjacket rear spine-fold split, edges chipped, particularly along top... More about Bealby; A Holiday
London: Vizetelly. front of shop above lit behind glass. Hardcover. Octavo (255 x 182 mm.), [2] 123 [2] pp., bookplate on front pastedown (J. Laurence Brown with motto Floreat Majestas), quarter cloth with boards covered in a decorative gold-embossed paper. 'Of the present volume there have been printed: 150 copies... More about The Temple of Gnidus; Followed by Cephisa and Cupid, and Arsaces and Ismenia
New York: Macmillan, c. 1918. New illustrated edition. Cloth. Octavo (212 x 148 mm.), xxii [8]221 pp., ill., cloth with gold blocked decoration on front board, fore and bottom edges uncut. Near fine, one ffep browned, ink owner’s signature and date on the other. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), generally regarded as... More about Gitanjali and Fruit-Gathering