London: Longmans, 1967 & 1970. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. First editions. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt. Black and white plates. D/w of The Normans in the South is price-clipped and has slight rubbing along the top edge. Fine in near fine dust-wrappers. The first full account in English of...
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: Allen Lane (The Penguin Press), 2002. 8vo. 6 volumes, set. Firsts thus. Original black cloth, gilt. The slipcase has just a little rubbing to extremities. Fine in fine dust-wrappers. Each volume has a separate translator (Lydia Davis, James Grieve, Mark Treharne, John Sturrock, Carol Clark and Peter Collier, &...
Glasgow: The University Press, Glasgow, for The Limited Editions Club, 1938. 8vo. 6 volumes, set. Limited edition. #1393 of 1500 sets. Decorated cloth in two slipcases with paper labels as issued. Illustrated with colour lithographs and drawings by Barnett Freedman. The first and last volumes lack the fragile glassine jackets...
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: John Murray, 1984. 8vo. Reprint. First published in 1947 by Jonathan Cape. Original red cloth, gilt. D/w faded on spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. A day by day account of the occupation of the author's Italian estate by German forces as the Allies moved north towards them.
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...
Church Hanborough, Oxford: Hanborough Parrot, 1990. Folio. Limited edition. No. 91 of 170 copies signed by the author. Original marbled cloth with paper spine-label and inset title piece with vignette to front board. Colour and black and white reproductions of illustrations by John Nash, Thomas Lowinsky, Hester Sainsbury, Edward Wadsworth...
Headington, Oxford: The Inky Parrot Press, 1985. 4to. Limited edition. No. 50 of 360 copies signed by the illustrator. Patterned paper-covered boards in matching slipcase. Illustrated endpapers. Designed by Dennis Hall. Illustrated by Wilton Priestner. Spine slightly tanned, otherwise as new. Strange, disturbing line drawings decorate almost every page and...
London: Collins, 1986. 8vo. First edition. Original brown cloth, gilt. D/w spine faded (as usual). Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946, 1950 & 1959. 8vo. Three volumes, set. First editions, first impressions. Original red cloth, gilt. D/ws and illustrations by the author. Titus Groan: Neat ink presentation, dated Easter 1946, on fly. D/w worn at head of spine with tanning to spine and parts of front...
London: Chatto and Windus in association with Cassell and Company, William Heinemann and Longmans Green and Company, 1911-12. 8vo. 25 volumes, set. Limited edition. Number 1490 of 2060 sets. Original red cloth, gilt. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Tissue-guarded frontispiece to each volume. Spines uniformly slightly faded. A few corners...
London: The Bodley Head, 1978. 8vo. First edition. Original dark green cloth, gilt. Jacket by Michael Harvey. Very slight lean to spine. Light foxing to edges of text block. Small mark on front paste down where green cloth dye has come through. D/w faded on spine as usual. Near fine...
London: The Bodley Head, 1978. 8vo. First edition. Original dark green cloth, gilt. Jacket by Michael Harvey. D/w slightly faded on spine as usual. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. First issue with The Bodley Head roundel on title page. Uncommon.
London: William Heinemann, 1955. 8vo. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Slight bubbling to cloth on front board. D/w tanned to spine with small loss to the head and tail. Tips rubbed. Back panel slightly marked and dust-soiled. Near fine in very good + dust-wrapper.