London & New York: Constable & Co. Ltd and Gabriel Wells, 1924-34. 8vo. 10 volumes, set. Limited edition of 675 sets. Original plum cloth with black leather labels on the spies, gilt. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Portrait frontispieces. Spines a little faded. A few of the spine labels are.....
Oxford: Basil Blackwell for the Shakespeare Head Press, 1926. 8vo. 10 volumes, set. Limited edition of 1030 copies (of which 1000 were for sale). Original brick red buckram, gilt. Top edges gilt. The first and last volumes of Tom Jones have been knocked towards the top of the spines. Covers.....
Oxford: Basil Blackwell for the Shakespeare Head Press, 1926. 8vo. 7 volumes, set. Limited edition of 530 copies (of which 500 were for sale). Original red buckram, gilt. Top edges gilt. Spines uniformly faded. A few corners gently pushed. Light foxing to the fore edges. Contents clean. Near fine. Tristram.....
London: Secker & Warburg, 1946. 8vo. Third impression, October 1946. First published in August 1945 and reprinted the same month. Original blue cloth, lettered in white on the spine. Spine cocked and faded. A little light foxing to the top edge and endpapers. Neat ink ownership of Edward John Kenney.....
London: Chapman & Hall, [1948]. 8vo. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Top edge stained blue. Marbled endpapers. Illustrated by Stuart Boyle. Slightly cocked. Label on front pastedown for the Percy Pemberton Prize, Trinity College Cambridge. Neat ink ownership on verso of fly. Near fine. 'Mr Joyboy was waiting for.....
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. Small 8vo. 21 volumes, set. Reprints. First published (as the New Oxford Illustrated Dickens) in 1948. Original quarter maroon cloth over maroon paper-covered boards, silvergilt. With original illustrations by 'Phiz', George Cruikshank, etc. About half the volumes, the longer novels, are a bit sprung at.....
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1924. 12mo. Reprint. First published in the Wessex edition in 1912. Publisher's maroon limp calf leather, gilt. Top edge gilt. With a Map of Wessex. Boards slightly bowed. Spine ends just a little rubbed. Near fine. A nice copy.
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1925. 12mo. Reprint. First published in the Wessex edition in 1912. Publisher's maroon limp calf leather, gilt. Top edge gilt. With a Map of Wessex. Short split to the back hinge at the bottom of the spine. Near fine. A lovely copy.
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1924. 12mo. Reprint. First published in the Wessex edition in 1912. Publisher's maroon limp calf leather, gilt. Top edge gilt. With a Map of Wessex. Boards slightly bowed. Near fine. A lovely copy.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1919-23. 12mo. 28 volumes (of 37). Publisher's limp red calf leather, gilt. Top edges gilt. Silk marker ribbons. Some volumes illustrated. Just a little rubbing to the spine ends on some volumes. Contents clean. No ownership marks. Near fine. The missing volumes are A Book of.....
London: Oxford University Press, 1961. 16mo. Reprint. First published in this series in 1903. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Jacket illustration by Edward Ardizzone. D/w just a little rubbed and tanned. Fine in fine d/w. #40 in The World's Classics. A nice copy.
London: Oxford University Press, 1966. 16mo. Reprint. First published in this series in 1947. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Jacket illustration by Lynton Lamb. Edges lightly spotted. D/w slightly faded on the spine and a bit dusty and marked. Near fine in near fine d/w. #508 in The World's Classics.....
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1952. 16mo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1930. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Jacket illustration by Edward Ardizzone. D/w slightly faded on the spine, a bit rubbed and tanned and with a nick to the top edge of the front panel.....
London: Oxford University Press, 1970. 16mo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1926. First published in 1845. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Jacket illustration by Lynton Lamb. Edges lightly spotted. Neat ink ownership at the top of the front pastedown (mostly hidden by the d/w flap). D/w a......
London: Oxford University Press, 1964. 16mo. Reprint. First published in this series in 1906. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Jacket illustration by Lynton Lamb. D/w a little faded on the spine with very slight rubbing and a couple of tiny nicks to the top edge. Near fine in near fine.....
London: Oxford University Press, 1965. 16mo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1913. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Jacket illustration by Susan Einzig. D/w a bit tanned on the spine. Fine in near fine d/w. #178 in The World's Classics.
London: Oxford University Press, 1966. 16mo. First thus. Translation first published in 1960. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Jacket illustration by John Bratby. Edges lightly foxed. Neat ink ownership on fly. Price-clipped d/w is a little rubbed and marked. Very good + in very good + d/w. #611 in The.....
London: Oxford University Press, 1967. 16mo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1906 (with The Poems of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte). First impression in the World's Classics without the Poems in 1959. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Jacket illustration by Lynton Lamb. Price-clipped d/w with decimal sticker.....
London: Oxford University Press, 1957. 16mo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1949. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Silk marker ribbon. A 'Double' volume. Jacket illustration by Lynton Lamb. Endpapers tanned. Foxed d/w is a bit rubbed and has a nick at the top of the front panel.....
London: Oxford University Press, 1966. 16mo. 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, 1969. 16mo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1930. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Jacket illustration by Edward Ardizzone. Edges lightly foxed. D/w slightly tanned and faded on the spine with a small abrasion towards the top of the front panel. Near fine in.....
London: Oxford University Press, 1958. 16mo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics as The Cossacks and other Tales of the Caucasus in 1916 and the enlarged Tales of Army Life was first published in 1935. First published in Russia between 1852 and 1889. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Jacket.....
London: Oxford University Press, 1962. 16mo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1916. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Jacket illustration by Lynton Lamb. Price-clipped d/w is a bit tanned and rubbed. Near fine in near fine d/w. #209 in The World's Classics.
London: Oxford University Press, 1967. 16mo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1918 (revised translation 1939). First issued as a double volume in 1949. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Jacket illustration by Lynton Lamb. Edges slightly foxed. Price-clipped d/w is a little rubbed at the extremities and has.....
London: Oxford University Press, 1956. 16mo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1952. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Silk marker ribbon. A 'Double' volume. Jacket illustration by Lynton Lamb. D/w a little dusty and marked. Near fine in near fine d/w. #527 in The World's Classics.