Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1959. Second Edition. Hardcover : pp. [4] 9-319 [5 blank] : burgundy cloth boards : argent to spine : faded brown dust jacket with drawing of running monk : jacket not price clipped. Very light fox marks to endpapers as well as first and last couple..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972 - 1975. Softcover : pp. [12] : 22 cream stapled booklets. A little age toned around edges. More
Niles, Illinois: Argus Communications, c. 1974. First Edition. Octavo (267 x 160 mm.), 559 pp. Cloth in colour dustjacket. Very good in good dust jacket, edges spotted, dj rubbed and scratched with chipping from upper and lower edges, now protected in plastic cover. A cult classic. Speculative fiction about a...... More
New York: Routledge, 2010. Softcover : pp. xxvi (2) 1006 (2, blank) : abundantly illustrated : top cover with a detail of Dante from Giotto di Bondone's fourteenth century fresco "Paradise". Very minor wear to edges of covers. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [1-4], 5-636 : Mustard paper boards : Beige cloth spine with lettering in black and grey : Olive dust jacket with lettering in black and white : Author portrait inside back dust jacket : Green dye top edge... More
Sydney: Ure Smith, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. vii [viii] 318 [2] : illustrated title page : bordeaux cloth boards : gilt to spine : colourful dust jacket designed by Frank Broadhurst with drawing by Lindsay : portrait of author on back by Harold Cazneaux : partial bookseller stamp..... More
New York: New Directions, 1980. First Edition, Second Printing. Softcover : pp. xiii (1) 143 (1, blank) : cover engraving, view of Jerez, Spain. Top edge toned; spray of marks to the fore edge of the block; underlining and marginalia by poet and artist Billy Jones. The first collection in..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [6] 7-312 [8 pages of publisher's advertisements] : blue cloth boards title and author in black : gilt lettering to spine : white dust jacket illustrated at front with list of authors novels to back : bookseller's sticker to front..... More
London: Sceptre, 2001. First Edition. Softcover : pp. 418 [419] : Illustrated covers mostly in blue with yellow and white lettering over red circle : Portrait of author by Gary Latham on inside front cover : Envelope loosley inserted containing card with hand written thank you note from author to..... More
London: G. Bell and Sons, 1926. Limited Edition. Hardcover : large paper edition : SIGNED by Shepard at the limitation page : pp. xxiv, 570 : 60 illustrations with captioned tissue guards and four maps of England in the 1660s to the endpapers : t.e.g. : other edges untrimmed... More
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover : pp [14] [2] 3-589 [5 blank] : family tree : black cloth boards : blind debossed lettering to front : small number in gilt to back at tail : gilt lettering and three decorated bands to spine : yellow endpapers : black..... More
London: Philip Lee Warner for the Medici Society Ltd, 1913. Hardcover : pp. [4 blank] [viii] ix [x] 1 [2] 146 [149] [5 blank] : [2 blank] [vi] vii [viii] 1 [2] 134 [139] [3 blank] : of this edition in the Riccardi fount number 11-eleven point face have been..... More
Melbourne: Macmillan, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [6] 111 [112] : richly illustrated : orange cloth boards with blind stamped title : gilt to spine : illustrated glossy silver grey dust jacket : Australian Society of Miniature Art (QLD) stapled booklet loosely inserted. Two pin size fox spots to..... More
London: Thames & Hudson, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [viii] [1] 367 [376] : illustrated throughout in various mediums : purple cloth boards : bold gilt lettering to spine : maroon dust jacket, illustrated. Top and fore-edge of block lightly foxed; edge of jacket verso a little age toned;..... 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
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1997. First Edition. Of 100 hardcover copies numbered and signed by the author this is 81. Original glassine wrapper in good condition. Cloth spine with paper label, dove grey eps, 260pp. Paper covered boards have been nibbled along top edge. More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1995. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Of 100 hardcover copies numbered and signed by the author this is 82. Original glassine wrapper in good condition. Cloth spine with paper label, dove blood orange eps, 240pp. The top edges of the paper covered boards show evidence of having..... More
Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1841. Second Edition thus. The Waverley Novels (complete 48 volumes) : uniformly bound in debossed cloth (except Vol XL which is a slightly different colour of cloth) : all volumes except the XLth published in Edinburgh 1841 by Robert Cadell with extra vignette titles published 1829 -..... More
London: Privately Printed for Members of the Society of Bibliohiles. First English Language Edition. Seven volumes comprising two novels, The Facetious Nights by Straparola (volumes 1-4, illustrated by Jules Garnier and E.R. Hughes, A.R.W.S.) and The Pecorone of Ser Giovanni (volumes 5-7, illustrated by E.R. Hughes, A.R.W.S.); trans. G.E. Waters;..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [vi] 314 [318] : faded brown cloth boards with title and border in gilt : dust jacket illustrated with black, orange and yellow design. Cloth rubbed and discoloured; slight lean; bookplate to front paste-down; shelf-wear; head and tail..... More
New York: Charles L Webster and Company, 1885. First American Edition. Octavo (22 x 16.5cm), 366pp., 173 illustrations; original green cloth covers double ruled with blocked illustration and lettering in dark green and gilt, gilt panel on spine with lettering in green, author and publisher names in gilt. with the..... More
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
Leipzi: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1913. Published the same year as the first 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..... More