London: Frances Lincoln, 2012. 4to. First edition. Original aubergine hardcovers, gilt. Photographs by Fritz von der Schulenburg. Illustrated throughout in colour. One small bump to the bottom edge of the rear board. Near fine in fine d/w.
London: Stacey International, 2012. 4to. Revised edition. First thus. Original red hardcovers. Illustrated throughout in colour. One top corner slightly pushed. Unclipped d/w slightly faded on the spine. Near fine in near fine d/w. Originally published in the 1970s, this is a thoroughly revised edition with much better colour photography.....
New Haven and London: Yale University Press for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 1995. 4to. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Book stamp on the flyleaf (private collection). Unclipped d/w faded on the spine. Fine in near fine.....
New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with English Heritage, 2009. 4to. First edition. Original Royal blue hardcovers, gilt. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Fine in fine d/w.
London: Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd, 1955. 12mo. Second impression of the Pocket Edition (first issued in 1947). First published in 1907. Original green cloth, gilt. Top edge stained green. Signed by the author on the title page. The unclipped d/w is tanned on the spine, with a faint stain over.....
London: William Heinemann, 1955. 8vo. First edition. Original red cloth, gilt. Jacket designed by 'Biro'. The unclipped d/w is worn at the corner tips with rubbing to the folds and small loss to the spine ends. Near fine in very good d/w.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1940. 8vo. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Jacket design by James Arnold. Faint foxing to the endpapers. The unclipped d/w (10s. 6d.) is slightly rubbed at the extremities and a little dust-marked. Near fine in near fine d/w. Collected letters, articles, sketches and profiles for The.....
London & New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1896. 8vo. First edition. Original dark green cloth, gilt lettering and decoration to spine and front board. All edges gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, full page illustrations, head and tail pieces and numerous other illustrations in the text. Boards with some scattered tiny.....
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1956-1966. 8vo. 41 volumes. First (only?) impressions of this uniform edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Approximately half the volumes have a top edge stained green. Heavy Weather & Louder and Funnier have neat ink presentations to the top edge of the flyleaf. The jackets are a little.....
London: Secker & Warburg, 1997-1998. 8vo. 20 volumes, set. Original blue cloth (the colour specified by Orwell). Lettered in silver. Silk marker ribbons. Fine in fine d/ws. "Publication of The Complete Works of George Orwell is a unique bibliographic event as well as a major step in Orwell scholarship. Meticulous.....
London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1972. 8vo. First edition. Original grey hardcovers, silvergilt. Jacket design by Michael Hasted. Jacket price crossed through. Fine in fine d/w. 'A novel about how a 'welfare state' might easily cope with the super-dense populations of the year 2021[!]. The characters are occupants of 334 East.....
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968. 8vo. First edition. Original grey hardcovers, gilt. Jacket design by Ken Reilly. Fine in fine d/w. The American author's third book, (published in the US as Fun with Your New Head in 1971), and second collection of short fiction.
London: Century in association with Goldsboro Books, 2013. 8vo. 3 volumes, set. Signed, limited, first editions. Each one numbered 8 of 500 copies. Original illustrated hardcovers. In paper-covered slipcases as issued. Two of the slipcases have short splits to the top part. The books are fine. A highlight of recent.....
London & New York: Petersburg Press, 1977. Square 8vo. First edition. Original grey paper-covered boards with label inset to the front. Twenty colour etchings by the artist. The unclipped d/w is slightly rubbed at the spine ends and corner tips. The spine is a little tanned. Fine in near fine.....
Edinburgh: Graeme Murray Gallery, 1981. Small 8vo. First edition. Limited to 1000 copies. Square, stapled booklet in brown jacket printed with the title in black on the front cover. Photographs taken by Hani Latif. Colour frontispiece and numerous black and white images, some folding. Faint crease to the bottom corner.....
Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd, 1992-2001. Large 8vo. 3 volumes, set. Volume 1 is the second edition from 2001 (originally issued in 1989 by Nicholas Kingsley's own imprint), the others are first editions. Original hardcovers, gilt. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Fine in fine d/ws. 'Three volumes.....
London: The Basilisk Press, 1976. Folio & 4to. 4 volumes, set. (3 quarto volumes and 1 folio). Limited edition facsimiles. #488 of 515 sets (of which 500 were for sale). Quarter red morocco with marbled boards, gilt, housed in individual slipcases within a brown box. The paper has been specially.....
London: Phaidon Press, 1980. 4to. Limited edition. #444 of 445 copies. A facsimile of the first publication in 1803. Quarter brown calf over brown cloth boards. Leather label to spine. Raised bands, gilt. Marbled end papers. Top edge gilt. In brown cloth slip case, as issued. 38 tissue-guarded plates, some.....
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1974]. 4to. First edition. Original navy cloth, with gilt lettering to the spine and front board. Illustrated throughout with colour and black and white photographs by Slim Aarons. Contents clean with no ownership marks. The unclipped d/w is slightly faded on the spine and.....
London: Methuen Children's Books Ltd, 1973. 8vo. Signed, limited edition. #192 of 300 numbered copies, signed on the limitation page by Ernest H. Shepard. Publisher's full, blue morocco binding by Zaehnsdorf with five raised bands. Three spine compartments are lettered in gilt, the others feature blind-tooled decorations of Winnie-the-Pooh. Christopher.....
London: Methuen Children's Books, 1971. 8vo. Signed, limited edition. #246 of 250 numbered copies, signed on the limitation page by Ernest H. Shepard. Publisher's full, green morocco binding (by Zaehnsdorf?) with five raised bands. Three spine compartments are lettered in gilt, the others feature blind-tooled decorations of Toad, Mole and.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1999. 8vo. Limited edition. #20 of 325 copies (of which 25 were reserved for the author). Signed on the limitation page. Original quarter rust cloth, printed in black with gilt lettering on the spine, over cream paper boards. In the publisher's slipcase of matching rust cloth.....
London: Secker & Warburg, 1968. 8vo. 4 volumes, set. First editions. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Top edges spotted. Unclipped d/ws are uniformly slightly faded on the spines. Near fine in near fine d/ws. Comprising Vol. 1 An Age Like This 1920-1940; Vol. 2 My Country Right or Left.....
London: Cassell & Co. Ltd, 1939. 8vo. First edition. Original illustrated paper boards printed in red and black. Fifteen colour lithographs, one double page, by Edward Ardizzone. Re-backed with original spine laid down. Spine a little dulled. Covers partially tanned and with a few small scattered marks. Remains of adhesive.....
London: Oxford University Press, 1970-71. 8vo. 6 novels in 5 volumes, set. First editions thus. Original red cloth, gilt. Sense & Sensibility has a bookplate on the flyleaf. Two volumes have price-clipped d/ws. Three d/ws are rubbed at the spine ends and corner tips. All d/ws are slightly faded on.....