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: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, [c.1930-38]. 12mo. 24 volumes (of 30). Reprints. The uniform, pocket edition. Original red cloth, gilt. Top edges gilt. Spines faded. Some volumes have light foxing to the edges and endpapers. John Macnab has a dampstained back cover and an ink ownership on the fly.....
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: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1914. 8vo. First edition. Original green woven cloth, gilt. Top edge trimmed, others untrimmed. With 'METHVEN' to foot of spine, cancelled title page dated 1914 tipped-in, "Narcissus" with closed quotation marks in the list of books by the same author, and advertisements at the rear.....
London: William Heinemann, 1903. 8vo. First edition. Original dark grey woven cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and with a life buoy device in gilt on the upper cover. Publisher's blind-stamped 'WH' monogram on rear board. Top edge trimmed, others untrimmed. First issue with two pages of press opinions.....
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1937-8. 8vo. 25 volumes, set, including the plate and Nonesuch Dickensiana. #237 of 877 sets. Publisher's vari-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.....
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.....
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: 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, 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.....
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: 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 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.
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Berlin: S. Fischer, Verlag, 1913. 12mo. Second printing (Zweite Auflage) following 60 signed copies of which 50 were for sale. Quarter vellum-like paper spine over marbled paper boards with a Prussian blue spine label lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Silk marker ribbon. Tiny loss to one corner of the.....
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. This copy is in the US dust-wrapper. Illustrated by Edward Bawden. Jacket and 43 illustrations in the text.....
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946. 8vo. First edition, first impression. Original red cloth, gilt. Title page headpiece and d/w by the author. Neat ink ownership on fly. D/w tanned to spine, with a short closed tear to the bottom edge of the back panel and some trivial loss to the.....