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La Divina Commedia. Dante Alighieri

La Divina Commedia. Or The Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri in Italian & English. The Italian text edited by Mario Casella of the University of Florence with the English version of H. F. Cary and 42 illustrations after the drawings by Sandro Botticelli.

Alighieri, Dante

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1928. 4to. Limited edition. #781 of 1475 copies. Rebound in full tan niger morocco, gilt, by Henry Sotheran, apparently to match the publisher's binding on the set of Shakespeare's Works (1929-33) which was another highlight of the Nonesuch Press. Top edge gilt. New endpapers. Double page...

Price: £950.00

La Divina Commedia. Dante Alighieri

La Divina Commedia. Or The Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri in Italian & English. The Italian text edited by Mario Casella of the University of Florence with the English version of H. F. Cary and 42 illustrations after the drawings by Sandro Botticelli.

Alighieri, Dante

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1928. 4to. Limited edition. #419 of 1475 copies. Original orange-stained vellum, gilt. Top edge gilt 'on the rough', others untrimmed. Double page illustrations from Botticelli's drawings in Berlin and Rome. Spine faded, as usual. Boards unwarped and contents clean. Near fine.

Price: £675.00

The Marches. Andrew Allott

The Marches. The New Naturalist Library #118.

Allott, Andrew

London: Collins, 2011. 8vo. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Jacket design by Robert Gillmor. Mint in dust-wrapper.

Price: £40.00

The Schirmer Inheritance. Eric Ambler

The Schirmer Inheritance.

Ambler, Eric

London: William Heinemann, 1953. 8vo. Continental paperback edition. Spine slightly faded else near fine in wrapper. Part of the Star Editions chosen from different publishers to represent British and American writing and printed for distribution on the Continent of Europe only. Signed on the title page and dated April 1984.

Price: £15.00

British Orientalists. A. J. Arberry

British Orientalists.

Arberry, A.J.

London: Collins, 1943. First edition. Decorated paper boards in dust-wrapper. Illustrated with 8 plates in colour and 20 illustrations in black and white. D/w slightly rubbed and dust-soiled with a small tear on the bottom edge of the front panel. Near fine in very good + dust-wrapper. Britain in Pictures #37.

Price: £15.00

Craftsmanship in Competitive Industry. C. R. Ashbee

Craftsmanship in Competitive Industry. Being a Record of the Workshops of the Guild of Handicraft, and some deductions from their twenty-one years' experience.

Ashbee, C. R.

Campden & London: The Essex House Press, 1908. Crown 8vo. First edition. Original cloth-backed paper-covered boards. Paper label on spine. Half-tone illustrations throughout. Cocked. Corners worn. Bump to top edge of back board. Covers rubbed and toned. Some foxing to the label. Contents clean. Very good +.

Price: £225.00

Dust over the Ruins. Helen Ashton

Dust over the Ruins.

Ashton, Helen

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1935. 8vo. First edition. Original black cloth lettered in green. Spine-faded, slightly dust-soiled and rubbed d/w has a portion missing from the front panel. With ringed pencil mark to front panel. Near fine in very good dust-wrapper. From the Victor Gollancz archive.

Price: £40.00

Interlunar. Margaret Atwood

Interlunar.

Atwood, Margaret

London: Jonathan Cape, 1988. 8vo. First UK edition. Original wraps. Fine.

Price: £15.00

Northanger Abbey. Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey. With an Introduction by Michael Sadleir.

Austen, Jane

London: Oxford University Press, 1958. 16mo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1930. First published in 1818. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. D/w by Heather Standring. D/w rubbed at extremities with nicks and creasing along the top edge. Near fine in very good + dust-wrapper.

Price: £13.00

The Novels of Jane Austen. Jane Austen

The Novels of Jane Austen. The Text based on Collation of the Early Editions by R. W. Chapman. With Notes, Indexes and Illustrations from Contemporary Sources.

Austen, Jane

Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1926. 8vo. 5 volumes, set. Second edition. (First, large paper, edition 1923). Original burgundy buckram, gilt. Black and white plates throughout each volume. Very light wear to the heads of the spines. Near fine. Chapman established the authoritative texts for the 20th century and was enormously...

Price: £200.00

The Novels of Jane Austen. Jane Austen

The Novels of Jane Austen. The Text based on Collation of the Early Editions by R. W. Chapman. With Notes, Indexes and Illustrations from Contemporary Sources.

Austen, Jane

Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1967. 8vo. 6 volumes, set. Third edition. (First, large paper, edition 1923). Original blue leather, gilt. Top edges gilt. Silk marker ribbons. Black and white plates throughout each volume. Each volume is rubbed at extremities. Volumes 3, 4 & 5 have been pulled at the head...

Price: £600.00

Women of the World (Pirelli Calendar 1997). Richard Avedon

Women of the World (Pirelli Calendar 1997).

Avedon, Richard

UK: Pirelli, 1996. Calendar. Complete. Presented loose in slipcase with hanging slider. Colour and black and white photography. Signed by the photographer on the first image. As new.

Price: £250.00

Billy Baldwin Decorates. Billy Baldwin

Billy Baldwin Decorates. A book of practical decorating ideas.

Baldwin, Billy

New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972. 4to. First edition. Original grey cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white (many of the photographs by Horst). John Cornforth's bookplate (by Reynolds Stone) on front paste down. Inscribed to John Cornforth "Merry Christmas. A new year...

Price: £75.00

Billy Baldwin Remembers. Billy Baldwin

Billy Baldwin Remembers.

Baldwin, Billy

New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. 4to. First edition. Original grey cloth. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. John Cornforth's bookplate (by Reynolds Stone) on front paste down. Inscribed by the author to John Cornforth "with boundless admiration" on half-title. Blind embossed round ownership on title-page...

Price: £75.00

Anthony Powell. Michael Barber

Anthony Powell. A Life.

Barber, Michael

London: Duckworth Overlook, 2004. 8vo. First edition. Original black hardcovers. Black and white photographic plate section. Mint in dust-wrapper.

Price: £12.00

Behind the Image. Susan Barnes

Behind the Image. - Profiles.

Barnes, Susan

London: Jonathan Cape, 1974. 8vo. First edition. Original brown cloth, gilt. The essay on Lord Boothby has corners folded down and highlighting in blue and black ink. D/w creased on spine and faded. Very good + in very good + dust-wrapper. From the library of The Right Honourable The Lord...

Price: £15.00

Tolstoy. Rosamund Bartlett

Tolstoy. A Russian Life.

Bartlett, Rosamund

London: Profile Books, 2010. 8vo. First edition. Original purple hardcovers. Black and white photographic plate section. Mint in dust-wrapper.

Price: £20.00

Down the River. H. E. Bates

Down the River.

Bates, H. E.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1937. 4to. First edition (with second state dust-wrapper). Original navy cloth, gilt. With 83 Engravings on Wood by Agnes Miller Parker. Slightly foxed d/w with some rubbing along edges and a very short closed tear to the top edge of the upper panel. Fine in near...

Price: £75.00

Down the River. H. E. Bates

Down the River.

Bates, H. E.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1937. 4to. First American edition. Original textured navy cloth. With 83 Engravings on Wood by Agnes Miller Parker. D/w a bit scuffed to spine and with a small patch of abrasion to the bottom corner of the back panel. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.

Price: £55.00

Through the Woods. H. E. Bates

Through the Woods. The English Woodland - April to April.

Bates, H. E.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1936. 4to. First edition. Original rust red cloth, gilt. With 73 Engravings on Wood by Agnes Miller Parker. Spine slightly faded. Corner tips and the head of the spine pushed. Neat ink presentation on fly dated Christmas 1942. Near fine.

Price: £25.00

All Strange Away. Samuel Beckett

All Strange Away.

Beckett, Samuel

London: John Calder, 1979. 8vo. First edition. Original puce hardcovers, gilt. D/w faded on spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.

Price: £20.00

Breath and other shorts. Samuel Beckett

Breath and other shorts.

Beckett, Samuel

London: Faber and Faber, 1971. 8vo. First edition. Original flapped wraps. Fine.

Price: £15.00

Eh Joe & Other Writings. Samuel Beckett

Eh Joe & Other Writings.

Beckett, Samuel

London: Faber and Faber, 1967. 8vo. First edition. Original red cloth, gilt. Price-clipped d/w with publisher's revised price sticker (£1.00 NET) a little rubbed along top edge. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.

Price: £40.00

Eleutheria. Samuel Beckett

Eleutheria. (Eleuthéria). A play in three acts. Translated from the French by Michael Brodsky.

Beckett, Samuel

New York: Foxrock, Inc., 1995. 8vo. First edition. Original blue hardcovers, gilt. D/w faded on spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.

Price: £15.00

First Love. Samuel Beckett

First Love. Translated from the original French by the author.

Beckett, Samuel

London: Calder & Boyars, 1973. 8vo. First edition. Original pink hardcovers. D/w faded on spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.

Price: £25.00

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