The Poems and Plays of Isaac Rosenberg. Edited by Vivien Noakes.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 8vo. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Fine.
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Hudibras. Edited with an Introduction and Commentary by John Wilders.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1967. 8vo. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Portrait frontispiece. Spine just a little faded and with some very light spotting to the top edge. Pencil ownership of Christopher Hill on fly, with scattered pencil lines in the margins and pencil notes on both sides of.....
The Letters of John Clare. Edited by Mark Storey.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1985. 8vo. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. In clear acetate jacket as issued. Fine.
The Collected Poems of John Clare. The Early Poems 1804-1822 (2 volumes); Poems of the Middle Period 1822-1837 (5 volumes); The Later Poems 1837-1864 (2 volumes). Edited by Eric Robinson, David Powell and P.M.S. Dawson.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1984-2003. 8vo. 9 volumes, set. A mixture of first and second impressions. Original navy cloth, gilt. Volume 5 is stamped 'University of Hull' on each edge of the text block and there is a small barcode on the front pastedown for Brynmor Jones Library [University of.....
The Works of William Congreve. Edited by D.F. McKenzie.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 2011. 8vo. 3 volumes, set. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Fine in fine d/ws.
The Light that Failed.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1930. 12mo. Reprint. Pocket edition. Original limp burgundy leather, gilt. Top edge gilt. Fine.
Limits and Renewals.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1932. 12mo. First edition. Pocket edition. Original limp burgundy leather, gilt. Top edge gilt. Silk marker ribbon. Fine.
The Naulahka. A Story of West and East.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1924. 12mo. Reprint. Pocket edition. Original limp red leather, gilt. Top edge gilt. Silk marker ribbon. Bookplate removed from front paste down. Near fine.
The Seven Seas.
London: Methuen and Co., Limited, 1929. 12mo. Reprint. Pocket edition. Original limp burgundy leather, gilt. Top edge gilt. Silk marker ribbon. Fine.
The Seven Seas.
London: Methuen and Co., Limited, 1918. 12mo. Reprint. Pocket edition. Original limp red leather, gilt. Top edge gilt. Silk marker ribbon. Fine.
The Jungle Book & The Second Jungle Book.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1924. 12mo. Reprints. Pocket edition. Original limp burgundy leather, gilt. Top edge gilt. Silk marker ribbon. With illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling, W. H. Drake and P. Frenzeny. Fine. A very smart set of the Jungle Books and an ideal gift.
Rewards and Fairies.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1924. 12mo. Reprint. Pocket edition. Original limp red leather, gilt. Top edge gilt. Silk marker ribbon. With four black and white illustrations. Fine.
The Arabs. A Puffin Picture Book.
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd, [1947]. Landscape 8vo. First edition. Original printed paper boards. Map endpapers. Printed at The Curwen Press. Illustrated by Edward Bawden with two double page colour spreads and numerous colour and black and white illustrations. Covers a bit faded, rubbed and marked. Small loss to spine. Very.....
Edward Bawden. The Penguin Modern Painters.
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd, 1946. Landscape 8vo. First edition. Original paper wraps. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Near fine. From the series edited by Sir Kenneth Clark.
The Hound of the Baskervilles. Introduction by Julian Symons.
London: The Folio Society, 1987. 8vo. First edition thus. Original illustrated black cloth. Frontispiece and five further lino-cuts by Edward Bawden. Just a hint of foxing to covers. Fine.
The History of Rasselas. Prince of Abyssinia. With an Introduction by Gilbert Phelps.
London: The Folio Society, 1975. 8vo. First edition thus. Original quarter navy cloth, gilt, with patterned paper boards. Top edge ochre. In yellow paper slipcase as issued. Seven colour lithographic plates by Edward Bawden. Spine faded. Near fine in slipcase.
Vathek. Translated with an Introduction by Herbert B. Grimsditch.
London: The Folio Society, 1958. Narrow 8vo. First edition thus. Translation first published in a limited edition by The Nonesuch Press in 1929. Original quarter black cloth, gilt, with patterned paper boards designed by Edward Bawden. In brown paper-covered slipcase as issued. Endpapers and eight colour lithographic plates by Edward.....
Life in an English Village. Sixteen Lithographs by Edward Bawden with an Introductory Essay by Noel Carrington.
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books (King Penguin), 1949. 12mo. First edition. Original patterned paper boards designed by Edward Bawden. 'The coloured illustrations in this book are from drawings made by the artist directly on to lithographic zinc plates. They are therefore originals and not reproductions of drawings made on paper.' With six.....
Gulliver's Travels to Lilliput and Brobdingnag.
London: The Folio Society, 1948. 8vo. First Folio Society edition. Quarter maroon cloth over marbled paper boards. D/w and illustrations by Edward Bawden. Slightly rubbed d/w has a large curved tear to the front panel (neatly repaired), a chip to the foot of the spine with a repair on the.....
Edward Bawden.
Loxhill: The Pendomer Press, [1980]. 4to. First edition (there was a de luxe edition of 200 copies). Original blue cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Small ownership label to front free endpaper. D/w rubbed at corner tips and spine ends. Near fine in very good +.....
Edward Bawden and his Circle. The Inward Laugh. Foreword by David Gentleman. Afterword by Hermione Lee.
Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 2007. 4to. First published in a limited edition by the Fleece Press in 2005. This is a revised and expanded trade edition. Original black cloth. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Fine in fine d/w.
The Inward Laugh. Edward Bawden and his circle.
Upper Denby: The Fleece Press, 2005. Large 4to. Limited edition. One of 750 copies (75 were not for sale). Original quarter brown/tan cloth, with paper spine label, with printed paper boards adapting Bawden's 'Pigeon and Clocktower' pattern. The publisher's prospectus is loosely inserted, with notes about changed dimensions and binding.....
Graf Zeppelin - Sein Leben - Sein Werk. Ein Zeppelin-Denkmal für das Deutsche Volk.
Charlottenberg, Berlin: Dr. Wilhelm Glass & Co. Verlag, [1929]. 4to. First edition. Original black cloth, gilt, with portrait medallion to front board. Text in German. Four colour plates, including the portrait frontispiece, and a large number of half-tone images throughout. Gilt on spine a bit dulled. Bottom corners rubbed. Small.....
The Novels of R. S. Surtees. Handley Cross; Hillingdon Hall; Hawbuck Grange; Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour; Ask Mamma; Plain or Ringlets; Mr. Romford's Hounds; Analysis of the Hunting Field; Jorrock's Jaunts and Jollities.
London & New York: Eyre & Spottiswoode and Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929-31. 8vo. 12 volumes, set. Limited edition. #256 of 976 (including 26 lettered A to Z). Later half brown morocco over light brown cloth with five raised bands, tan leather labels in two compartments on each spine and hunting.....
The Iliad and Odyssey. With Pope's translations from 1715.
Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1931. Tall 8vo. 2 volumes, set. Limited editions. #1199 of 1450 and #542 of 1300, respectively. Bound on flexible back in full tan niger morocco with cloth joints, gilt. Bottom and fore-edge untrimmed, top edge trimmed and gilt. Marbled endpapers. Printed in Monotype Cochin and Jan.....