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
Los Angeles: The Press in the Gatehouse, 1973. Minature book (7 x 5.4cm or 2 3/4 x 2 1/16 inches); unpaginated (12pp comprising; 2 blanks, title page with etching of a laughing green frog, blank, 4pp text, 4 blanks) ; soft green wraps bound with white string. Near fine, the..... 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
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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
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [i-viii] ix-xv [blank] 1 [2] 3-250 [6 blank] ; Brown cloth covered boards with cream decorative border and text : Spine with cream bands and lettering : Illustrated dust jacket by Frank C. Papé on cover and publisher's..... More
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1928. Frank C Pape. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [ii-xii] xii [xiii] xiv-xxv [1 blank] [1-2] 3-359 [360] : LACKS pp. iii & iv : Illustrated throughout including 11 plates : Endpaper maps : Dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and illustration..... 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
St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover 16mo (23.5 x 15.5cm); pp. [12], 401, [3, blank]; peach leather spine; beige marbled paper covered boards; metallic blue lettering on the front cover and borders either side of the spine; deckled fore edge; beige textured endpapers; opaque rice paper..... More
St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2000. Advance Reading Copy - August 2000. Softcover (22.7 x 15.3cm); pp. [12], 401, [3, blank]; grey wraps with black text, white panel on front cover, 6 x 5.8 cm black and white illustration on rear. Minor spine lean, fore edge appears flush so this..... 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: The Folio Society, 2005. Second Folio edition. Hardcover in slipcase : pp. [2, Half title] [i-iv] v-xvii [xviii-xx], 1 - 593 [594] : 76 illustrations : Introduction by John Mullan : Dark red endpapers : top edge gilt : silk bookmark : (series binding) quarter drak red morrocco over..... 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
Leipzig: BernhardTauchnitz, 1863. Copyright edition. vellum. Small octavo : two volumes bound in one : pp.vi + 328+ vi + 310 (2, blank) : bound in full vellum decorated in elaborate gilt : all edges gilt, concealing a fine fore-edge painting : foliate printed endpapers with label of G. Brogi..... 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), paper covered boards show evidence of insect damage..... 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 light nibbling along top bottom edges, chipped and abraded paper label, mustard yellow eps, 161pp. Billy Jones’s signature spiral on ffep and at p.160, minor..... 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. Top edge of lower board gently nibbled, bottom edge of both..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974. Hardcover : Volume One : pp. [i-xvii] xviii-lxxxiv, [1-3] 4-522 [523-524] : Frontispiece plate 'Hogarth's Portrait of Fielding' (1762), Photograph Bodleian Library : Volume Two : pp. [i-xi] 524-1080 : Map page, 'A Geography of Tom Jones' : 6 pages of plates : Dark grey cloth..... More
London: Cambridge University Press, 1942. Second Edition. Softcover (18.5 x 12.5cm), pp. (28); beige wrapes with lettering and border on the front cover in purple. Head and tail of spine chipped; spine has browned and is a touch brittle with age; edges of text block gently dust toned; wraps a little..... More