Pretty Creatures.
London: Duckworth, 1929. 12mo. First edition thus. First published by Ernest Benn in 1927. Original navy cloth, gilt. Fine in fine d/w. No.47 in The New Readers Library series. A lovely copy.
London: Duckworth, 1929. 12mo. First edition thus. First published by Ernest Benn in 1927. Original navy cloth, gilt. Fine in fine d/w. No.47 in The New Readers Library series. A lovely copy.
London: Duckworth, 1927. 12mo. First edition thus. First published by Cobden-Sanderson in 1925. Original navy cloth, gilt. Clipped d/w is faded, marked and rubbed with tiny loss, with a tear down the back joint and the lower third of the spine detached. Fine in good + d/w. No.2 in The.....
London: Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd, 1949. 8vo. First edition thus. Original black hardcovers, gilt. Covers slightly marked. Corner tips gently pushed. Endpapers tanned with some marking to the rear pastedown. Very good. The Collected Uniform Revised Edition of the Works of William Gerhardi No.7.
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1908-9. 8vo. 24 volumes, set. First editions. Original green buckram with lettering and floral design in gilt to the spines and a gilt embossed floral roundel on the front boards. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Tissue-guarded photogravure frontispiece to each volume by Alvin Langdon Coburn.....
London: The Cresset Press, 1964. 8vo. Second impression. First published by the Cresset Press in 1947. Original navy cloth, gilt. Top edge stained blue. Jacket design by Zelma Blakely. Fine in fine d/w.
London and Glasgow: Blackie & Son Ltd, [1963]. 8vo. First edition thus. Original red cloth, gilt. Frontispiece by Fritz Wegner. Jacket design by Faith Jaques. Fine in fine d/w. From the series Chosen Books, 'which aims to provide exciting reading for children over ten and also to give them an.....
London: Turnstile Press, 1951. 8vo. Second impression. Original terracotta cloth, gilt. Jacket design by Charles Mozley. Fine in fine d/w. The first English translation of the author's last novel. A lovely copy.
London: John Lehmann, 1951. 8vo. First edition thus. Original red cloth, gilt. Jacket illustrated by John Minton. Fine in fine d/w. #21 of The Chiltern Library series. A lovely copy.
London: John Lehmann, 1948. 8vo. First edition thus. Original blue hardcovers, gilt. Jacket illustrated by John Minton. Fine in fine d/w. #18 of The Chiltern Library series. A lovely copy.
London: John Lehmann, 1947. 8vo. First edition thus. Original red cloth, gilt. Jacket illustrated by John Minton. Line running down the front board. Near fine in fine d/w. #7 of The Chiltern Library series. A lovely copy.
London: John Lehmann, 1947. 8vo. First edition thus. Original red cloth, gilt. Jacket illustrated by John Minton. Fine in fine d/w. #6 of The Chiltern Library series. A lovely copy.
London: John Lehmann, 1950. 8vo. First edition thus. Original black cloth, gilt. Jacket and illustrations, including a frontispiece facsimile of the title page of the first issue of April 1870, by Luke Fildes. Unclipped d/w is a little faded on the spine with slight rubbing to the ends and corner.....
London: John Lehmann, 1950. 8vo. First edition thus. Original blue hardcovers, gilt. Jacket illustrated by Philippe Jullian. Unclipped d/w slightly faded and tanned on the spine and with a tiny nick to the bottom edge of the front panel. Fine in near fine d/w. #36 of The Chiltern Library series.....
London: John Lehmann, 1948. 8vo. First edition thus. Original green cloth, gilt. Jacket illustrated by Ronald Searle. Cloth faded on the spine. Unclipped d/w is a little tanned on the spine. Near fine in near fine d/w. #19 of The Chiltern Library series. A very nice copy.
London: John Lehmann, 1952. 8vo. First edition thus. Original blue hardcovers, gilt. Jacket illustrated by Ronald Searle. Small rectangular mark to the top of the front board from old sellotape unnecessarily applied to the back of the unclipped d/w. Near fine in near fine d/w. Part of The Chiltern Library.....
London: John Lehmann, 1951. 8vo. First edition thus. Original blue hardcovers, gilt. Jacket illustrated by Ronald Searle. Unclipped d/w is very slightly faded on the spine. Fine in fine d/w. #34 of The Chiltern Library series. A very nice copy.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946, 1950, 1959. 8vo. First editions. Titus Groan is in a 'Second Impression' dust-wrapper. Original red cloth, gilt. Title page headpieces and d/ws by the author. Titus Groan: Covers a little faded. Hatchards label to the front pastedown. Unclipped jacket, (with reviews on the front flap.....
London: Edward Arnold, 1922. 8vo. First edition. Original orange cloth lettered in black. With seven full page illustrations by Gilbert James. Spine ends and corner tips slightly rubbed. A little shaken. Bookplate on verso of front free endpaper. There are tears to pp.137-40 running from the fore edge into the.....
London: Cornucopia Press, 1990. 4to. Signed, limited edition. #288 of 300 numbered copies. Original green cloth with inset pink paper labels to spine and upper board. Top edge gilt. Original clear acetate wrapper. Two short closed tears to the top edge of the back panel and a tiny chip to.....
London: Oxford University Press, 1966. Pott 8vo. First thus. Translation first published in 1960. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Jacket illustration by John Bratby. D/w price-clipped with decimal sticker. Fine in fine d/w. #611 in The World's Classics. Uncommon.
London: Oxford University Press, 1975. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1949 (as 'Four Tales'). Original dark navy cloth, gilt. Jacket design by William Stobbs. Unclipped d/w just a little rubbed at the extremities. Fine in near fine d/w. #518 in The World's Classics.
London: Oxford University Press, 1931. Pott 8vo. First edition thus. First published in magazines in 1860. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Slight shelf lean and extremities lightly rubbed. Some foxing to the endpapers and a small blue triangle to the bottom corner of the flyleaf. Very good. The scarcest.....
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1946. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1938 in two volumes. First one volume impression on India paper. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Spine lettering slightly dulled and marked. Flyleaf lightly foxed. Near fine. #462 in The World's Classics...
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1946. Pott 8vo. First impression in The World's Classics. First published in 1882-3. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Spine lettering a bit dulled. Neat ink ownership on fly. Near fine. #503 in The World's Classics. Uncommon.
London: Oxford University Press, 1959. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1907. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Jacket illustration by Lynton Lamb. Fine in fine d/w. #140 in The World's Classics.