Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1880-1. 8vo. 8 volumes in 7, set. Contemporary half vellum, gilt, over red and black marbled boards. Dark blue leather labels, gilt, at the top of each spine. All edges marbled and matching endpapers. Wood-engraved illustrations in the first five volumes and vignettes.....
London: The Bodley Head, 1971-79. 8vo. 6 vols, set. Reprints (including four revised volumes). First published in this uniform edition 1958-63. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt. All but volume 3 have the bookseller's label of Galignani in Paris towards the bottom edge of the front pastedown. Price-clipped d/ws are.....
London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1946. Small folio. Limited edition. Number 216 from an edition of 750 copies. Original green buckram lettered in gilt and with a sailing ship emblem on the upper board. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Designed, produced, and published by Christopher Sandford at the Golden Cockerel.....
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1926. 4to. First edition. Original paper-covered boards. Colour frontispiece. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Spine a bit tanned. Light foxing to spine and edges of boards. Ink presentation inscription on flyleaf, 'To Harold with all good wishes from Percy V. Bradshaw, Christmas.....
Cambridge: The Limited Editions Club, 1951. 8vo. Bound volume of proof lithographs only, containing colour lithograph frontispiece, 2 title pages, and 58 colour lithograph illustrations, many printed recto and verso. Original quarter black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, cream boards, top edge gilt, with slipcase. Spine slightly mottled. Slipcase with.....
London: William Heinemann & The Bodley Head, 1974-94. 8vo. 22 volumes, set. 9 first editions thus, the rest reprints. Original green cloth, gilt. Most top edges green. Jackets designed by Michael Harvey. Contents clean and fine. Vol. 8 has been bound upside down. Tiny stain to the top part of.....
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1936. 8vo. First edition. Original red cloth, gilt. Red endpapers. Spine worn at both ends and with a split down the back joint. Patchy fading and darkening to covers. Corner tips a bit rubbed. Small neat ink ownership repeated on the free endpaper, the next blank.....
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1947. 8vo. First edition. Original black cloth, silvergilt. Top edge slightly spotted. Endpapers browned as usual. Unclipped d/w is very slightly foxed, dulled on the spine, and has a single short closed tear to the head of the spine. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper. A.....
London: William Heinemann, 1940. 8vo. First edition. Original yellow cloth lettered in red. Slightly rolled spine is punctured in the middle. Covers slightly rubbed and dulled. Endpapers browned as usual with pencil ownership rubbed out on fly. Very light foxing to first and last pages. Very good +.
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1919-20. 8vo. 37 volumes, set. Limited edition of 500 sets, signed by the author in volume 1. Original navy cloth, with gilt oak and acorn design to the spines and a gilt oak and acorn roundel with Hardy's initials to each upper board. Top edge.....
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1926-7. 12mo. 26 volumes (set?). Publisher's navy limp calf leather, gilt. Top edges gilt. Silk marker ribbons. Just the tiniest amount of rubbing to the spines of a few volumes, otherwise in very fine condition. Many of the marker ribbons are frayed and some are.....
London: Constable, 2003. 8vo. First edition. Original black hardcovers, silvergilt. Jacket design by Nick Castle. Signed by the author in blue ink on the title page. Fine in fine d/w. Mick Herron's debut novel is also the first of four to feature Zoë Boehm, private investigator. When a neighbouring house.....
Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1931. Tall 8vo. 2 volumes, set. Limited editions. #1199 of 1450 and #903 of 1300, respectively. Bound on flexible back in full tan niger morocco with cloth joints, gilt. Bottom and fore-edge untrimmed, top edge trimmed and gilt. Marbled endpapers. Printed in Monotype Cochin and Jan.....
Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1931. Tall 8vo. 2 volumes, set. Limited editions. #1144 of 1450 and #542 of 1300, respectively. Bound on flexible back in full tan niger morocco with cloth joints, gilt. Bottom and fore-edge untrimmed, top edge trimmed and gilt. Marbled endpapers. Printed in Monotype Cochin and Jan.....
London: Oxford University Press, 1960-77. 8vo. 8 volumes, set. First editions. Original green cloth, gilt. The cloth of the 5 volumes published in the 1960s is a different colour to that used for the 3 volumes from the 1970s. They were published out of sequence. Some very slight rubbing to.....
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962-5. 8vo. 12 volumes, set. First impressions of volumes 3 & 5-12. Volumes 1 & 2 are third impressions. Volume 4 is a second impression. Original grey cloth, gilt. Top edges stained purple. The fly of volume 7 is stuck to the front paste down. Volume 6.....
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962-4. 8vo. 12 volumes, set. Volumes 1 & 2 are second impressions, the rest are first impressions. Original grey cloth, gilt. Top edges stained purple. Volumes 1 & 2 have very slight staining to the foot of the spine. Lacks the colourful d/ws. Near fine. The standard.....
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1907-13. 8vo. 24 volumes, set. First editions. Original green buckram with lettering and floral design in gilt to the spines and a gilt embossed floral roundel on the front boards. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Tissue-guarded photogravure frontispiece to each volume by Alvin Langdon Coburn.....
London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1934-6. 8vo. 4 volumes, set. Original red cloth, gilt. Top edges stained red. Engravings by Eric Gill. Contents clean and without ownership marks. D/w spines uniformly darkened. A couple of tiny nicks. Volume 2 has a jacket from the leather edition. Fine in.....
London: Country Life, 1918. Folio. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Top edge gilt. Marbled paper endpapers. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and with a tipped-in, water-colour frontispiece by George S. Elgood. Covers a little rubbed. Frontispiece mount is rather foxed. Near fine. Sundials, pergolas, bridges, loggias, treillage.....
London: Macmillan & Co., 1894 & 1895. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. First editions. Original blue cloth, gilt. Dark green endpapers. All edges gilt. The Jungle Book illustrated by J.L. Kipling, W.H. Drake and P. Frenzeny. The Second Jungle Book illustrated by J. Lockwood Kipling. The Jungle Book is slightly cocked.....
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1965 & 1962. 8vo. The Jungle Book was first published in 1894, The Second Jungle Book in 1895. This volume binds two reprints from the 1960s together. Full crushed red morocco, gilt, by Hatchards. Elephant's head motif, gilt, on upper board. Raised bands on spine.....
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1961. 8vo. First published in quarto in 1902. Reprint. Full crushed red morocco, gilt, by Hatchards. Raised bands on spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Illustrated by the author. Spine faded with small patch of discolouration at the tail, otherwise fine. How the Leopard got.....
London: Macmillan and Co., 1919-23. 12mo. 28 volumes (of 37). Publisher's limp red calf leather, gilt. Top edges gilt. Silk marker ribbons. Some volumes illustrated. Just a little rubbing to the spine ends on some volumes. Contents clean. No ownership marks. Near fine. The missing volumes are A Book of.....
London: Harvill Secker, 2012-2018. 6 volumes, set. First UK editions, first impressions. Original hardcovers. Volume 6 has a silk marker ribbon. Mint in d/ws. Time to make your own mind up about this opinion-dividing sequence? Lots of time.