New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. 8vo. Reprint. First published in 1905. Original red cloth, gilt. Frontispiece and 7 further full page illustrations by Cyrus Cuneo (not in English editions). Spine worn with a little loss to the head. Corner tips rubbed. A few marks to the spine and the.....
London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1909. 8vo. First edition. Original pictorial blue cloth, gilt. Corner tips pushed and a bit rubbed. Circular mark on front board. Some foxing to prelims. Vertical crease to page 7 and pencil correction ('It' not 'Is') on page 15. Very good +. The last tale.....
London: Allen Lane, 1978. 8vo. First edition. Original petrol blue cloth, gilt. Jacket illustration by Peter Goodfellow. D/w has a short closed tear at the head of the spine and some trivial rubbing at the corner tips. Fine in very good + d/w. 'The setting is Africa: the eastern slope.....
London: Victor Gollancz Limited, 1938. 8vo. First edition. Original black cloth, gilt. Slight lean to spine and with a little rubbing to the spine ends and corner tips. Very light spotting to the fore edge. Rex Whistler-designed bookplate for The Book Society, signed by Daphne du Maurier, on front pastedown.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1931. 8vo. Signed, limited edition. #202 of 320 numbered copies. First illustrated edition (text first published in 1930). Original pictorial vellum. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Dust-wrapper, covers, endpapers and fifteen full page colour lithographs and numerous black and white illustrations by Barnett Freedman. Pages partially.....
London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1961. 8vo. Limited edition. (First published in 1937.) #5 of 70 copies (only 50 for sale). Signed on the limitation page by the Author and T. S. Eliot. Original blue buckram, gilt, in acetate jacket as issued. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece and the illustration facing.....
London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, [1938]. 8vo. First edition. Original red plastic comb binding with 'West Coast of Scotland' gilt. Four colour maps and black and white photographs throughout. 'Seventeen large photographs depicting Highland life and Scenery' in magenta tone. The comb is split towards the middle. Edges a bit.....
London: B.T. Batsford, [1938]. 8vo. First edition. Alternative binding. Original yellow cloth overprinted in red. The jacket reproduces the original photographic covers. Two coloured maps and numerous black and white photographs throughout. Advertisement for Shell on the Road at the rear by Edward Bawden. Unclipped jacket is a little dust-soiled.....
London: Faber and Faber, [1939]. 8vo. First edition, later issue. Original off white cloth, printed in black on the spine, over metal spiral binding. Four colour maps and black and white photographs throughout. 'Seventeen large photographs depicting Highland life and Scenery' in magenta tone. Unclipped jacket has a couple of.....
London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, [1938]. 8vo. First edition. Original red plastic comb binding with 'West Coast of Scotland' gilt. Four colour maps and black and white photographs throughout. 'Seventeen large photographs depicting Highland life and Scenery' in magenta tone. A tiny piece has been lost from the bottom of.....
London: Oxford University Press, 1960-77. 8vo. 8 volumes, set. First editions. Original green cloth, gilt. The cloth of the 5 volumes published in the 1960s is a different colour to that used for the 3 volumes from the 1970s. They were published out of sequence. Some very slight rubbing to.....
London: Chatto & Windus; The Hogarth Press and Oxford University Press, 1983. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. First edition. Original grey and mauve cloth, gilt. In black slipcase with paper label. The spine of volume 2 is slightly faded. Fine in fine slipcase. A lovely edition.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 2012-17. 8vo. 3 volumes, set. First editions. Original navy cloth, gilt. Mint in d/ws. This scholarly edition is the first time that Ford's co-authored works have been collected together. It also includes all his poems and prose before he became a dramatist.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1988. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Fine. The first scholarly edition of the works, including The Recruiting Officer and The Beaux Stratagem, since Stonehill's edition of 1930. The Irish-born actor and officer died in 1707 before he had turned thirty...
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1982-90. 8vo. 3 volumes, set. Original blue black cloth, gilt. The jacket of volume 1 is clipped and slightly faded on the spine. Fine in near fine d/ws. The first collected edition of Tennyson's letters remains the standard work. Uncommon as complete sets.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1927. 8vo. 4 volumes, set. Original red cloth. Top edges stained red. The cloth of volumes 3 & 4 is quite faded. There are splash marks on the top edge stain of volumes 1 and 3. Each volume has a tiny Blackwell's label to the bottom.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1953-61. 8vo. 4 volumes, set. Original red buckram, gilt. Top edges stained blue. All four volumes are quite foxed, especially the prelims and the edges of the blocks. Volume 1 has some old wormholes to the inner hinges. The top edge staining is mostly faded. The.....
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, [2002]. 8vo. 12 volumes, set. First published between 1965 and 2002. Seven volumes are third impressions, four are second impressions and one is a fourth impression. No dates are given for the reprints but publication of the set was completed in 2002. Original red buckram, gilt.....
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1979. 8vo. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Price-clipped d/w is a bit stained on the spine and has a couple of small marks. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
London: Jonathan Cape and The Book Society, 1949. 8vo. First edition. Original red cloth, gilt. Top edge stained red. Folding maps and black and white photographs including a swaggering portrait frontispiece. Corner tips and spine ends a little pushed. Bookplate on fly. Endpapers slightly foxed. Unclipped d/w has a few.....
Cambridge and London: Cambridge University Press (volumes 1-3) & A & C Black (volume 4) for the Hakluyt Society, 1955-74. 8vo. & portfolio. 6 volumes, set. Original navy buckram, gilt. Loosely inserted in volume 1 is a stapled pamphlet of Addenda and Corrigenda (1968). Loosely inserted in volume 3 part.....
London: The Hakluyt Society in association with The Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1988; 1992; 1997. Folios. 3 volumes, set. Original navy buckram, gilt. Volume 1 in green cloth-covered slipcase. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Ink presentation inscription by Andrew David (dated 15th Nov 1988) on the.....
London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), 1968. Folio. First edition. Original navy buckram, gilt. Silk marker ribbons. Thirty-six plates illustrating forty fishes. Jacket is a little rumpled along the top edge and has a few spots and marks. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. 'Whereas a certain amount has.....
London: John Murray, 1875. 8vo. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Folding map, frontispiece and nine further illustrations. Corner tips and spine ends pushed and a little rubbed. Ink ownership label to top corner of front pastedown. Contents clean and fresh. Near fine. A lovely copy of the uncommon first.....
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1919. 12mo. First US edition. Presentation inscription on the flyleaf: 'With all good wishes from the author, Daisy Ashford'. Original illustrated paper boards. Frontispiece of the author aged nine. Very slight pushing to the spine ends and corner tips. Author inscription in ink on.....