New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2001. First Edition. General Editor Vincent B. Leitch, edited by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John McGowan, Denean Sharpley-Whiting and Jeffrey J. Williams. Single volume of xxxviii 2,624 pages, First Edition, first printing on thin Bible (scritta) paper..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. Special edition. No 36 of 50. Signed by the author. Octavo, 320pp, top edge gilt, the rest untrimmed. Blonde leather, gilt title on green leather label to spine. Leather has minor marks and is aged to a pale yellow. Top of the label and bottom right..... More
London: G. Routledge and Co., 1851, 1852. Volume bound in ¼ brown leather, binding tight, leather corners, lozenge pattern on spine with gilt rules and raised bands, gilt on black leather titles, marbled (combed) paper boards slightly abraded, a little fraying at edges, faded marbled edges of text pages, 616..... More
New York: Three Sirens Press, n.d. [1930s]. The Illustrated Editions Series. Small ocatvo (21.2 x 13.5cm), pp. 114 [2], 5 full page illustrations by Norman Lindsay (including frontispiece) and several in text line drawings; green cloth covered boards with lettering in gilt and gilt design to top board and spine..... More
Sydney: Juss Publishing Company, n.d. Paperback, (sewn sheets in paper covered card covers) (18.5 x 12.5cm), pp. viii, 10-406; illustrated card covers. Spine is age toned and creased and paper is lifting along the front joint; internally the leaves are just a little toned. This is the sequel to Looking Backward..... More
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Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2001, 2002. c: 8pp (including covers), foxed; Black Sparrow Press Checklist and Order Form Spring/Summer 2002: one sheet with four folds to create DL sized document, fine; Black Sparrow Press Checklist and Order Form Current and Forthcoming Titles: single sheet folded four times, very good..... More
Cloth. Apple green cloth, paper label on top board, original glassine wrapper in good condition, tan eps, unpaginated (October 1974 – September 1975). Underlining, parentheses and marginalia by Billy Jones. Very Good. More
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1858. First thus. Pp. xxviii, 50, twenty-three fine wood engravings after designs by Birket Foster, John Tenniel and others. Full brown morocco with gilt borders, lettering and dentelles, all edges gilt, bookplate of G. & N. Ingleton, Ingleton Catalogue sticker No. 8960. Joints and corners..... More
London: John Murray, 1813. Half leather. Octavo, (8) Comprising 2 blank, half title, 1 blank, title page, 1 blank, Dedication, 1 blank, Contents, lv, (1) Blank, 525pp, (1) Errata, (4) Blank. Rebound in half leather with cloth boards, original bookplates and ownership inscription re-mounted. The blanks and half title are..... More
London: Privately printed for the Navarre Society, n.d. Complete in two volumes, octavo, pp. xix (1) 332, xiii (1) 404; 16 plates by Louis Chalon reproduced and coloured by hand ( nine in vol 1, seven in vol 2); red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spines; tan dustwrappers..... 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
St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover octavo (22 x 14cm), pp. 296, [8, blank]; black cloth covered boards with lettering in silver on the spine; silver dust wrapper with lettering in black and pink devices designed by Coe Uttinger; The Weekend Australian newspaper clipping of a...... 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
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New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1903. Thomas Rowlandson. A New Edition. Small octavos (17.5 x 10.6cm); uniformly bound in red cloth covered boards with paper labels to the spines, top edges gilt, and plain endpapers. The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque: (8) 265 (1); with..... More
London: Vizetelly. 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, with two sets of the Plates (in..... More
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
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
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
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 Bladois at Part 15 (ten times as per..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First Edition in book form. Octavo, pp. xvi, 609, 43 illustrations by Seymour and "Phiz" plus frontis and vignette title in first states, with 32 further illustrations by Thomas Onwyn (75 illustrations in total). Lacks half-title and Buss plates, the Seymour plates are a mix..... 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
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1991. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. One of 400 cloth trade copies. Occasional marginalia (Jones’s signature spiral). Original glassine wrapper a little tender at the head of the spine. Cloth spine with slightly chipped paper label (no loss), dark orange eps, 351pp. Light foxing to edge..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1988. First Thus. One of 400 cloth trade copies. Original glassine wrapper slightly wrinkled. Cloth spine over illustrated boards with chipped and abraded paper label, mustard yellow eps, 161pp. Billy Jones’s signature spiral on ffep and at p.160, minor underlining. Foxing to edges of the..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1983. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. One of 500 cloth trade copies. Original glassine wrapper a little creased, top board a little abraded at the foot. Cloth spine with paper label. Lime green eps, 266pp. Lightly foxed. More
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