Baudelaire. Prince of Clouds.
New York and London: Paddington Press, 1976. 8vo. First edition. Original red hardcovers, gilt. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
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The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes. 37 short stories plus a complete novel, comprising The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of the Baskervilles; reproduced from the original publication in The Strand Magazine with the classic illustrations by Sidney Paget.
Secaucus, New Jersey: Castle, [1981?]. 8vo. First edition thus. Original brown hardcovers. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
The Business of Books. Booksellers and the English Book Trade 1450-1850.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007. 8vo. First edition. Original black hardcovers, gilt. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
Voltaire. The Universal Man.
Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2005. 8vo. First edition. Original black hardcovers, gilt. Black and white photographic plates. D/w spine slightly faded. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
Evelyn Waugh. A Biography.
London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994. 8vo. First edition. Original black hardcovers, gilt. Black and white photographic plates. D/w spine slightly faded. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
Rabelais.
London: Duckworth, 1979. 8vo. First edition. Original black hardcovers, gilt. Ink annotations on end papers. Marginal notes and underlining to the Preface and first two chapters in ink and pencil. Very good + in near fine dust-wrapper. Uncommon.
When the Going was Good.
London: Methuen, 1991. 8vo. Reissue. First thus. First published in 1946. Original black hardcovers, gilt. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. Selections from the author's travel writings published between 1929 and 1935.
Ninety-Two Days.
London: Methuen, 1991. 8vo. Reissue. First thus. First published in 1934. Original black hardcovers, gilt. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. Travels in British Guiana in 1933.
Remote People.
London: Methuen, 1991. 8vo. Reissue. First thus. First published in 1931. Original black hardcovers, gilt. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
Labels. A Mediterranean Journal. With an Introduction by Kingsley Amis.
London: Methuen, 1991. 8vo. Reissue. First thus. First published in 1930. Original black hardcovers, gilt. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
Childhood Memories and other stories. Translated by Stephen Parkin. Foreword by Ian Thomson. Edited by Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi and Alessandro Gallenzi.
Richmond: Alma Classics, 2013. 8vo. First edition. Original black hardcovers. Mint in dust-wrapper.
Thomas Hardy. The Time-Torn Man.
London: Viking, 2006. 8vo. Second impression. Original purple hardcovers, gilt. Black and white photographic plate sections. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
Charlotte Bronte. A Life.
London: Viking, 2015. 8vo. First edition. Original black hardcovers, gilt. Silk marker ribbon. Colour photographic plate sections. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
Stendhal.
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc. 1997. 8vo. First US edition. First published in UK in 1994. Original burgundy and ochre hardcovers, gilt. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham.
London: John Murray, 2009. 8vo. First edition. Original green hardcovers, gilt. Black and white photographic plate sections. Mint in dust-wrapper.
To Keep the Ball Rolling. The Memoirs of Anthony Powell. 1. Infants of the Spring 2. Messengers of Day 3. Faces in my Time 4. The Strangers All are Gone.
London: William Heinemann, 1976-82. 8vo. 4 volumes, set. Volume 1 is a second impression, the others are first impressions. Original dark grey hardcovers, gilt. Black and white photographic plate sections. Volume 1 has a neat ink ownership on the fly. D/w spines uniformly very slightly faded with light shelf wear...
Journals. 1982-1992.
London: William Heinemann, 1995-7. 8vo. 3 volumes, set. First editions. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt. Black and white photographic plate sections. Mint in dust-wrappers. Begun when a novel had become stuck, these journals make interesting companions to the four volumes of autobiography.
Under Review. Further Writings on Writers 1946-1989.
London: William Heinemann, 1991. 8vo. First edition. Original black hardcovers. D/w faded on spine (as usual). Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
Miscellaneous Verdicts. Writings on Writers 1946-1989.
London: William Heinemann, 1990. 8vo. First edition. Original blue hardcovers. D/w slightly faded on spine (as usual). Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
The Novel of the Century. The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Miserables.
London: Particular Books, 2017. 8vo. First edition. Original sand hardcovers, gilt. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
Leonard Woolf. A Life.
London: Simon & Schuster, 2006. 8vo. First edition. Original burgundy hardcovers, gilt. Black and white photographic plate sections. Mint in dust-wrapper.
Charles Nodier. Pilot of Romanticism.
Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1964. 8vo. First edition. Original blue cloth, gilt. D/w a little rubbed and nicked at edges. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
In Tearing Haste. Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor.
London: John Murray, 2008. 8vo. Second impression. Original blue hardcovers, gilt. Black and white photographic plate sections. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
Trollope on the Net.
London: The Trollope Society, 1999. 8vo. First edition. Original blue hardcovers, gilt. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Mint in dust-wrapper.
The Disinherited. A Story of Love, Family and Betrayal.
London: Bloomsbury, 2014. 8vo. First edition. Original cream hardcovers, gilt. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Top corner tips pushed. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper.