London: Harper and Brothers, 1899. Small 4to. First edition. Original cloth binding with onlays. Illustrated throughout with colour plates by the artist. Both boards a little damp-stained towards the top of the spine. Covers a bit dust-soiled and marked. Original gutta percha binding has deteriorated leaving some of the pages.....
London & New York: George Routledge and Sons, [1886]. Landscape 4to. First edition. Original red cloth backed pictorial boards. Block edges stained red. Dark blue endpapers. Illustrated with 20 colour plates. Spine with partial splits to the cloth and very small loss but the hinges are firm. Light wear to.....
London: William Heinemann, 1898. Large 4to. First edition. Library Edition. Original vellum spine with pictorial vellum covers. Top edge stained red. Front cover illustration of the Bus Driver and twelve full page colour lithographs. Spine a bit dulled. Boards browned, a little bumped, rubbed at edges and with small loss.....
London: William Heinemann, 1898. 4to. First edition. Ordinary edition. Original cloth spine with illustrated paper boards. Paper edges stained red. Twenty-six full page colour lithographs. Cloth dulled. Boards rubbed at edges. Endpapers rather foxed. Contents clean and fresh. Very good +. 'A was an Artist' is a self-portrait and B......
London: William Heinemann, 1898 [1897]. 4to. First edition. Ordinary edition. Original cloth spine with illustrated paper boards. Twelve full page colour lithographs. Spine dulled and rubbed at ends. Covers worn at edges. Lightly foxed endpapers split but hinges still firm. Offsetting to text pages, as usual, from the plates. Very.....
London: The Shenval Press Ltd, 1958-9. 4to. 3 issues. #1-3 (of 12). Original illustrated hardcovers. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Spines and edges a little tanned. The head of the spine of #3 has short splits. Each volume has a subscription form loosely inserted and #1 has.....
London & New Castle: The British Library & Oak Knoll Press, 2013. 4to. First edition. Original green hardcovers, gilt. Illustrated in colour throughout. Fine in fine d/w. 'Michael Twyman has spent a lifetime studying aspects of printing, and is the first to consider chromolithography from a global standpoint. In particular.....
London: Pavilion Books, 1996. 4to. First UK edition (first published in America in 1994). Original laminated illustrated boards. Illustrated in colour throughout. Fine.
London: Perpetua Books, 1955. Royal 8vo. First edition, second impression (before publication). Original black cloth, gilt. Illustrated in black and white throughout. Unclipped d/w is slightly tanned on the spine and with just a hint of rubbing to the extremities. Fine in near fine d/w. A lovely, fresh copy.
London: Perpetua Books, 1959. Royal 8vo. First edition. Original black cloth, gilt. Illustrated in black and white throughout. Unclipped d/w is slightly tanned on the spine and with a nick to the foot. Fine in near fine d/w. 'The horror story with a 'U' certificate'! A lovely copy.
London: News Chronicle, 1953. Royal 8vo. First edition. Original beige rexine covers in d/w. Illustrated in black and white throughout. Neat ink ownership on fly. Unclipped d/w is rubbed along the edges, with tiny loss to the spine ends and corner tips, has a small ink mark to the front.....
London: The Saturn Press, 1950. Royal 8vo. First edition. Original royal blue cloth, gilt Illustrated in black and white throughout. Spine ends just a little rubbed. Neat ink presentation to front pastedown mostly hidden under the front flap. Unclipped d/w is tanned on the spine, with small loss to the.....
New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1959. Royal 8vo. US edition. Second impression. Original quarter black cloth, lettered in white, with red paper-covered boards Illustrated in black and white throughout. Neat ink ownership on fly. Unclipped d/w is faded on the spine, with slight rubbing and dust-marking and with a......
London: Perpetua Books, 1960. Royal 8vo. First edition. Original black cloth, gilt. Illustrated in black and white throughout. Neat ink ownership on fly. Unclipped d/w is very slightly faded on the spine. Fine in near fine d/w.
London: Perpetua Books, 1956. Royal 8vo. First edition. Original black cloth, gilt. Illustrated in black and white throughout. Neat ink presentation on fly. Unclipped d/w is tanned on the spine and with slight rubbing to the extremities. Near fine in near fine d/w. Over 150 drawings including the two undertakers.....
London: Penguin, 1960. 8vo. First edition. Original printed wraps. Illustrated throughout by Ronald Searle. Fine.
London: John & Edward Bumpus Ltd, 1914. 8vo. Limited edition. #48 of 100 copies. Original red cloth, lettered on the spine and with ruling and a repeated fleur-de-lys motif in gilt to the front board. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Illustrated with 39 photogravures from negatives by the author. Spine.....
London: Allen Lane (The Penguin Press), 2002. 8vo. 6 volumes, set. Firsts thus. Original black cloth, gilt. Fine in fine dust-wrappers. Each volume has a separate translator (Lydia Davis, James Grieve, Mark Treharne, John Sturrock, Carol Clark and Peter Collier, & Ian Patterson). The first new translation into English since.....
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1928. 4to. Limited edition. #209 of 1475 copies. Original orange-stained vellum, gilt. Top edge gilt 'on the rough', others untrimmed. Double page illustrations from Botticelli's drawings in Berlin and Rome. Front board slightly warped by the vellum shrinking. Spine partially faded. A few light marks to.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1963. 8vo. First edition. Original green cloth, lettered in red on the spine. Black and white photographs throughout. Unclipped d/w is slightly rubbed at the spine ends and corner tips and has tiny loss to the head of the spine. There is a light scratch to.....
Wimborne Minster: The Dovecote Press, 2005. 4to. First edition, third impression. Original navy cloth, lettered in gilt. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Mint in d/w. Privately published memoirs by the man who restored the Hotel Lambert in Paris and who held there one of the great balls.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1957 & 1966. Crown 8vo. 3 volumes, set. Original grey buckram, gilt. Top edges stained blue. Unclipped d/ws are uniformly slightly tanned on the spines. Volume 1 has a couple of nicks to the top edge of the back panel. Fine in near fine d/ws. An.....
London: Oxford University Press, 1974. 16mo. Reprint. Three volumes in one. First printed in the World's Classics in 1922-3. A revised translation was issued in 1933. It was reissued in a one volume edition on India Paper in 1941. Original burgundy cloth, lettered in gilt. Silk marker ribbon. Price-clipped d/w.....
London: Heinemann, 1973. 8vo. First edition. Original red cloth, gilt. Wrapper design by Broome-Lynne. Fine in fine d/w. The eleventh volume of 'A Dance to the Music of Time'.
London: Heinemann, 1966-75. 8vo. First editions of volumes 3 & 4. Volume 1 is a second impression in the same year as publication. Volume 2 is a second impression from 1975 (originally 1968). The d/w of volume 1 is from about 1975, with reviews of all four novels on the.....