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.....
London: Secker & Warburg, 1986. 8vo. First edition. Original burgundy cloth, gilt. Top edge of text slightly foxed. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. Signed by the author on the title page.
Milsons Point, NSW, Australia: Knopf, 2005. 8vo. First Australian edition. Original grey cloth. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1937-8. 8vo. 24 volumes, set, including the plate. #51 of 877 sets. Publisher's coloured buckram. Black leather title labels. Edges untrimmed. Top edges gilt. Engraved title vignettes and plates. Illustrated throughout, mostly from the original plates or blocks which were then dispersed with the sets. This.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1962. 8vo. Signed, limited edition. First edition in one volume. Original orange buckram decorated in black and gilt. Top edge gilt. In publisher's clear acetate jacket and black and gold paper-covered slipcase. Spine slightly faded as usual. Slipcase worn at extremities but sound and firm. Near.....
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1876. 8vo. 8 parts in 4 volumes, set. First edition, first issue. Contemporary half red morocco, gilt, with marbled paper boards. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. All volumes slightly cocked with rubbing to spine ends and pushed corner tips. Small loss to the.....
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: The Bodley Head, 1970-79. 8vo. 11 vols, set. 4 volumes are first editions thus, the others are second impressions. First published 1967-74. Original teal cloth, lettered in gilt. Volumes 1 and 8-11 have price-clipped d/ws with a blue tint, the other d/ws are off-white. The d/ws of volumes 8-10.....
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 & 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: 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.
London: The Arthur Press, 1930. 4to. First edition. Limited edition. #204 of 750 signed and numbered copies. Original white orange cloth lettered in blue on the spine. With designs by the author. Corners pushed and spine tanned. Pencil ownership of [Lady] Sybil Cholmondeley 1930 on flyleaf. Very good +. A.....
London, Toronto & New York: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd & E.P. Dutton & Co. Ltd, 1928. 4to. First edition of this illustrated edition. First printed in 1751. Original blue cloth, gilt. Illustrated by Edward Bawden. Jacket and 43 illustrations in the text. D/w chipped at head and tail of.....
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946, 1950 & 1959. 8vo. Three volumes, set. First editions. Recently rebound in full maroon leather, gilt. With marbled endpapers. In cloth-covered slipcase. Illustrations by the author to title pages of the first two volumes and a frontispiece to the last. Slight foxing to fore edge.....
London: Heinemann, 1966-75. 8vo. First editions except for volume 2 which is a second impression from 1975. The d/w of volume 1 is from about 1975, with reviews of all four novels on the back panel, and was produced for a smaller book. Original hardcovers, gilt. The d/ws of volumes.....
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege for Oxford University Press, 1948-54. Crown 8vo. 11 volumes, set. Firsts thus. First published between 1864 and 1880. Original brown buckram, gilt. Issued in powder blue slipcases in two volumes, except for The Duke's Children. With illustrations by Lynton Lamb, T.L.B. Huskinson, Blair Hughes-Stanton, Hector Whistler and.....
Stratford-upon-Avon: The Shakespeare Head Press, 1929. Crown 8vo. 14 volumes, set. Limited edition of 525 sets. Original green buckram, gilt. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Gilt lettering dulled on spines. Each volume has the armorial bookplate of Hall of Otterburn, Northumberland and a Henry Sotheran label on the front paste.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1952-1955. 8vo. 3 volumes, set. First editions. Original navy cloth, gilt. Top edges stained blue. Jackets designed by Biro. Men at Arms: Small Foyle's label on rear pastedown. Price-clipped d/w is a bit faded on the spine with small loss to the tips and spine ends.....