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, facsimile wrappers from the original parts. Illustrated throughout, mostly from the original plates or blocks which were...
London: George Bell and Sons, 1906. 12mo. 8 volumes, set. Navy half morocco over navy cloth, gilt, by Bickers & Son, Leicester Square. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Marbled endpapers. Tissue-guarded frontispiece photographic portrait of the author in The Warden. Slight discolouration to the cloth of both boards of Barchester...
London & New York: G.P. Putnam's, 1927. 8vo. First edition. Original navy buckram, gilt. Illustrated with thirty black and white plates. Fading to spine and edges of boards. Very small ink ownership on fly. This influential study, by the owner of Scotney Castle and architectural editor of Country Life, includes...
London: Macmillan, 1938. 8vo. 8 volumes, set. Limited edition. One of 630 sets. First complete edition. Original red buckram, gilt. Top edges gilt. Silk marker ribbons. Very, very slight fading to the spines. A fine set. The first publication of Greville's Memoirs caused outrage in 1874 for the intimate account...
[London] & New York: The Nonesuch Press & Random House Inc. 1929-33. 8vo. 7 volumes, set. #818 or 1050 copies. Full tan niger morocco ruled and lettered in gilt. Raised bands on spines. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Minor worm damage to the bindings of volumes 1, 2 and 5...
London: Constable, 1947. 8vo. Limited edition. #6 of 25 copies signed by the author and specially bound. Full maroon morocco by Bayntun (Riviere) of Bath. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Colour lithograph frontispiece by John Piper with tissue guard. Hinges and corner tips a little rubbed. Some marks and slight...
London: Cornucopia Press, 1990. 4to. Signed, limited edition. #245 of 300 numbered copies. Original green cloth with inset pink paper labels to spine and upper board. Top edge gilt. Original clear acetate wrapper. Three short closed tears to the top edge of the acetate jacket. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper...
London: John Murray, 1973-1994. 8vo. 13 volumes, set. Volumes 1 & 2 are second impressions, the rest are first impressions. Original red cloth, gilt. Top edges stained red. Frontispiece illustrations to all but the Index volume. All volumes are signed 'John Murray' on the title page. The d/ws are price-clipped...
London: Williams & Norgate Ltd, 1951. 8vo. First edition thus. First published in 1768. Original black cloth, gilt. Portrait frontispiece. Spine of d/w slightly faded. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
London: David Nutt, 1914. 8vo. First edition. Original quarter white cloth, lettered in red, over maroon paper boards. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. 'Foyles' label on front paste down. Ink presentation inscription on fly dated 1948. Spine slightly soiled and faded. Corners pushed. Very good +. The text of the...
London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1956-8. 8vo. First editions. Volumes 1 & 2 published in 1956, volume 3 in 1957 and volume 4 in 1958. Original maroon cloth, gilt. Top edges stained pink. All volumes have the bookseller's label, 'Kingstons Ltd Rhodesia' on the front paste down. The d/ws are...
London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1929. Small 4to. Limited edition. #686 of 750 copies. Buff cloth, lettered in grey on spine and front board. Printed at the Curwen Press on handmade paper. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. In original acetate wrapper and black card slipcase with label. Seven full page...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965. 8vo. First edition. Original red cloth, gilt. Black and white plates. Price-clipped d/w is slightly faded on the spine as usual. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
London: Oxford University Press, 1931. 16mo. First edition thus. First published in magazines in 1860. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Neat ink ownership on fly. Near fine. The scarcest of the World's Classics Trollopes. It was never reprinted and there was no attempt to publish a second series of stories.
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...
London: Country Life, 1939. Large 8vo. First edition. Original quarter green cloth over pictorial boards. Illustrated from cover to cover by the author. Boards a little rubbed and marked with slight wear to tips and spine ends. Ink inscription on fly. Title page somewhat browned. A few pencil letters rubbed...
Wilton: Michael Russell, 1984. 8vo. First edition. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt. Portrait frontispiece in black and white. Light spotting to top edge of text block. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
London: Hutchinson, 1966. 4to. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Photographs (in colour and black and white) by the authors and A. Costa. Bookplate on half title. Ink ownership and presentation inscription by Reresby Sitwell (with A. Costa signing in pencil) at Renishaw (the Sitwells' Derbyshire seat) on 15th October...
London: The Cresset Press, 1960. 8vo. Second impression. This edition first published in 1947. Original blue cloth, gilt. Top edge stained blue. Illustrated with wood engravings by Claire Oldham. Offsetting to endpapers from previous protection of d/w. Near fine in fine dust-wrapper. A lovely copy of this portable edition of...
London: HarperCollins, 2014. 4to. Hardcover in slipcase. Both boards and slipcase designed by Paul Smith so that sliding the book in and out animates the illustration (changing the traffic light from red to green, for instance). As new in shrink wrap.
London: Chatto & Windus, 2000. 8vo. First edition. Original black cloth. Signed by the author in black ink on the title page. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
London: Alan Ross Ltd, 1965. 8vo. First edition. Original black cloth, gilt. very slight foxing to edges of text block and prelims. D/w price-clipped and tanned on the spine, but in much better state than is often the case. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper. Incomplete at the time of...
London & Toronto: The Bodley Head (Canada) Ltd, 1969. 8vo. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Jacket by Stephen Russ. D/w price-clipped. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. This edition was printed in London for the Canadian market. A lovely copy.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1980. 8vo. First edition. Original grey cloth. Jacket design by Craig Dodd. Author photograph on back cover by Jerry Bauer. Signed by author on title page in black ink. D/w price-clipped with new price sticker. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. The themes and setting of Metroland are returned...
London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1968. Limited edition. No. 37 of 200 numbered copies (and 10 out of series), signed by the author and the artist on the limitation page. Original quarter navy buckram, spine titled in gilt, purple cloth sides with bevelled edges and acetate dust-jacket. Top edge stained...