London: Faber and Faber, 1952. 8vo. Second edition. No indication in text that this is a revised version of the 1938 first edition. Original green cloth. Black and white photographs throughout. Unclipped d/w. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. The only part of Scotland covered by this series. The second state jacket.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1960. 8vo. First edition. Original orange cloth. Erratum slip tipped in. Black and white photographs throughout. Price-clipped d/w a little faded and rubbed to spine ends and corner tips. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper. The first edition but in the second state dust-wrapper with "Pilot.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1971. 8vo. First edition. Original blue cloth. Colour frontispiece. Black and white photographs throughout. A little rubbing to bottom edges of the boards. D/w a bit rubbed with small loss to spine ends and corner tips. Very good + in very good + dust-wrapper.
London: Faber and Faber, 1971. 8vo. First edition. Original terracotta cloth. Colour frontispiece. Black and white photographs throughout. Price-clipped d/w is worn with small loss at the spine ends. Near fine in very good dust-wrapper.
London: Faber and Faber, 1975. 8vo. Second impression. First published in 1971. Original terracotta cloth. Colour frontispiece. Black and white photographs throughout. Price-clipped d/w slightly faded on the spine and with the laminate lifted from the bottom corner of the front panel. Near fine in very good + dust-wrapper.
London: Faber and Faber, 1963. 8vo. First edition. Original bright green cloth. Colour frontispiece. Black and white photographs throughout. Price-clipped d/w just a little rubbed at spine ends and corner tips. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
London: Faber and Faber, 1976. 8vo. New edition. First published in 1963. Original green cloth, gilt. Black and white photographs throughout. D/w price-clipped with Faber price-sticker. Contents clean. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
London: Faber and Faber, 1982. 8vo. New edition. First published in 1963. Original paperback covers. Black and white photographs throughout. Cover photograph of 'St. Davids Cathedral and the Bishop's Palace ruins' by Edward Piper. Spine faded, a little edge rubbing and a bit of creasing to the bottom corner of.....
London: William Heinemann & The Bodley Head, 1974-94. 8vo. 22 volumes, set. 9 first editions thus, the rest reprints. Original green cloth, gilt. Most top edges green. Jackets designed by Michael Harvey. Contents clean and fine. Vol. 8 has been bound upside down. Tiny stain to the top part of.....
Westerham, Kent: Hurtwood Press in association with The Tate Gallery, 1983. Folio. First edition. Limited edition of 300 copies of which this is number 148. Signed by John Piper on the limitation page. Original marbled cloth binding by Smith Settle. Gilt to spine. Printed on French rag paper at Westerham.....
Buckingham: Barracuda Books Limited, 1984. Folio. Facsimile edition. First edition published in 1927. Original half red morocco and cream calf, gilt, with raised bands and a black leather spine label. Gilt design of Sir Christopher Wren to the centre of the front board. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Separate buckram.....
London: The Basilisk Press, 1976. Folio & 4to. 4 volumes, set. (3 quarto volumes and 1 folio). Limited edition facsimiles. #301 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: John Murray, 1967. 8vo. Limited edition. No. 92 of 100 copies. Quarter white buckram, gilt, with marbled-paper boards in matching marbled-paper slipcase as issued. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Signed on the limitation page. Illustrated in line and colour by the author. With extra, loosely-inserted, black and white illustration.....
London: Secker & Warburg, 1958. 8vo. First edition. Original brown cloth, gilt. Jacket designed by Michael Ayrton. D/w tanned on spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. A much better jacket than is usually the case with this underrated novel.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1967. 8vo. First edition. Original tan cloth, gilt. Jacket design by Marty Stein. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. 'Over sixty years of English are contained in this gigantic panorama, for Angus Wilson has gone in his own individual way in search of time lost, the alleged golden.....
London: Secker & Warburg, 1973. 8vo. First edition. Original navy hardcovers, gilt. D/w tanned on spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1961. 8vo. First edition. Original tan cloth, gilt. Jacket design by Graham Bishop. D/w tanned on spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
London: Methuen, 1953. Oblong 8vo. First edition. Original printed paper boards with the design duplicated on the dust-wrapper. With spoof errata slip as issued. D/w and illustrations throughout by Philippe Jullian. A little spotting to the top edge. D/w rubbed and a bit tanned with some small loss to the.....
London: James Barrie, 1955. 8vo. First edition. Original black cloth. Small stain to bottom of fore edge. Neat ink ownership, dated 1956, on fly. D/w a little rubbed and tanned with a couple of nicks. Near fine in very good + dust-wrapper. A collection of 27 ghost stories with contributors.....
London: Secker & Warburg, 1957. 8vo. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. D/w faded on spine, rubbed along edges and with small loss and a couple of nicks to the top edge. Near fine in good dust-wrapper. The author's third collection of short fiction.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1958. 8vo. First edition. Original brown cloth, gilt. Jacket designed by Michael Ayrton. Cloth slightly stained at foot of spine. 'John Braine 1958' scrawled in ink across the title page. D/w tanned and stained, especially on the back panel. Very good + in good - dust-wrapper.....
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1971. Tall 8vo. Limited edition. #64 of an edition of 1500 copies. Signed on the limitation page by Edward Ardizzone and the designer-printer Joseph Blumenthal. Original half black cloth, gilt, with marbled paper boards. In marbled paper slipcase with paper label. With 35 illustrations.....
Cambridge: The University Press, Cambridge, for The Limited Editions Club, 1951. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. #671 of a Limited Edition of 1500 copies. Decorative cloth boards. Top edges gilt. Slipcase with paper label. Illustrated with auto-lithographs by Barnett Freedman on 225 separate stones printed at The Curwen Press. Books and.....
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1876. 8vo. 8 parts in 4 volumes, set. First edition, first issue. Contemporary half red morocco, gilt, with marbled paper boards. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. All volumes slightly cocked with rubbing to spine ends and pushed corner tips. Small loss to the.....
London: Country Life, 1914. 4to. First edition. Original red buckram, gilt. Coloured frontispiece tipped in and tissue-guarded. Spine and half of the front board slightly faded. Bottom corners pushed. Neat ink ownership dated 1934 on fly. 'Contents' and 'List of Illustrations' section at the front shows some wrinkling from damp.....