London: Hamish Hamilton, 1977. 8vo. First UK edition. First published in France in 1942. Original black hardcovers, gilt. Jacket design by Sally Davies. Front endpapers browned. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1977. 8vo. First UK edition. First published in France in 1942. Original bright blue hardcovers, gilt. D/w faded on the spine and a bit tanned. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1976. 8vo. First UK edition. First published in France in 1951. Original scarlet hardcovers, gilt. Jacket design by Annie Bennett. Paper browning (cheap stock). D/w faded along the spine.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1974. 8vo. First UK edition. First published in France in 1953. Original scarlet hardcovers, gilt. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1971. 8vo. First UK edition. First published in France in 1960. Original bright blue hardcovers, gilt. Price-clipped d/w with decimal price sticker. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1970. 8vo. First UK edition. Original bright blue hardcovers, gilt. Jacket design by Bernard Higton. Price-clipped d/w is a bit rubbed along the top edge. Near fine in very good + dust-wrapper. New England in a blizzard.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1961. 8vo. First UK edition. First published in France in 1959. Original scarlet hardcovers, gilt. Jacket design by P. Youngman-Carter. Foxing to edges of text block. Ink ownership, dated Christmas 1961, on fly. D/w faded on spine, foxed on back panel, with rubbing to corner tips and.....
London: Macmillan and Co, 1876. 8vo. First edition, first issue. Original buff cloth printed in black with designs by Henry Holiday. All edges gilt. Black endpapers. With nine illustrations by Henry Holiday. Spine tanned with slight fraying to the cloth along the rear joint. Boards also lightly tanned. Blindstamp for.....
London: Oxford University Press, 1929-75. 16mo. 37 titles in 42 volumes. The complete Oxford World's Classics edition. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Silk marker ribbons. Five pre-war volumes in d/ws and five post-war volumes in illustrated jackets by Lynton Lamb. A mixed set. About a third of the volumes have.....
London: Oxford University Press, 1942. 16mo. 3 volumes, set. Reprints. First published in The World's Classics in 1922-3. Revised translation first printed in 1933. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Top edges stained blue. A few faint white marks to the boards of volume 1. A near fine set. #233-5 in.....
London: Collins, 1978. 8vo. First edition. Original red cloth, gilt. Book a bit cocked. Unclipped d/w is a little faded on the spine. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper. A love letter to a city devastated by war, and a masterpiece.
Amsterdam: Jean Neaulme (Néaulme), 1765. Small 8vo. 4 volumes, set. Early edition. First published in 1762. Quarter green morocco, gilt, with marbled paper boards. Five engravings as called for. Spines a bit faded and scuffed. Tips rubbed and a little pushed. Scattered light foxing throughout. Very good +. First published.....
Florence: Privately Printed for Subscribers by G. Orioli, [1937]. 8vo. First edition. Limited edition of 300 numbered and signed copies but this inscribed on the limitation page, 'Review copy with G. Orioli's compliments'. Issued in paper covers, this copy has been rebound in blue cloth without the original covers. Cloth.....
London: The Arthur Press, 1930. 4to. First edition. Limited edition. #204 of 750 signed and numbered copies. Original white orange cloth lettered in blue on the spine. With designs by the author. Corners pushed and spine tanned. Pencil ownership of [Lady] Sybil Cholmondeley 1930 on flyleaf. Very good +. A.....
Eton: Eton College, 1990. 8vo. Limited edition. #104 of 626 copies. Two volumes, quarter brown leather with green paper-covered boards in matching slipcase with paper label. Top edges gilt. Volume 1 describes the original 'Little Book' and how it came to be filled with poems written out by their poets.....
London: Thames & Hudson, 1972. 4to. First edition. Original black cloth, silvergilt. Illustrated throughout in black and white. D/w top edges very slightly rubbed. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. 120 photographs taken between 1947 and 1967 in countries including China, Japan, India, Iran, Burma, Indonesia and Mongolia.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1977. 8vo. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Map endpapers and frontispiece. Black and white photographic plate sections. Bottom corner tip very slightly pushed. Light scoring to top edge of text block. Near fine.
London: Constable and Company Limited, 1965-72. 8vo. First impressions in this uniform edition. The novels are in black cloth, the autobiography is in olive cloth, gilt. Black and white photographic plate section in A Backward Glance. Jackets designed by Graham Bishop. The d/ws of the novels are worn in places.....
London: Oxford University Press, 1964. 8vo. First edition. Original maroon cloth, gilt. Colour frontispiece. D/w rubbed with small loss at top corner tips and the head of the spine. Fine in very good + dust-wrapper. Uncommon.
London: Oxford University Press, 1967. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. First editions. Original blue grey cloth, gilt. Volume 1 includes a full reproduction of the drawings in the twelfth-century Pillow Book Scroll. Volume 2 includes folding genealogical tables, drawings and maps. D/ws price-clipped. Fine in fine d/ws. Volume 2 is a......
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962-4. 8vo. 12 volumes, set. Volumes 1 & 2 are second impressions, the rest are first impressions. Original grey cloth, gilt. Top edges stained purple. Volumes 1 & 2 have very slight staining to the foot of the spine. Lacks the colourful d/ws. Near fine. The standard.....
New Haven & London: Published for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 2004. 4to. First edition. Original black cloth, gilt. Photography by William Curtis Rolfe. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. 'Nearly every British architect of note.....
London: HarperCollins, 1995. 8vo. First edition. Paperback issue (simultaneous with the hardcover edition). Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Small faint stain to fore edge and half title. Bottom corner of the back cover slightly creased. In non-adhesive clear covering. Near fine. 'The New Naturalists reveals for the.....
London: Picador, 1995. 8vo. First UK edition of this translation. Original half black cloth with black paper-covered boards. Jackets and slipcase designed by Chip Kidd and Barabara de Wilde. Mint in slipcase.
London: Collins, 1990. 8vo. First edition. Original black hardcovers, gilt. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. Set in Cambridge in 1912, this is as wryly amusing as any of the author's other wonderful novels. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1990. The cover image is taken from a piece of stained glass.....