The Journals of George Eliot. Edited by Margaret Harris and Judith Johnston.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. First edition. Original green hardcovers, gilt. Fine in fine d/w. Uncommon.
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The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to William Temple. Edited, by permission of Sir Edward Parry and of his publishers Messrs. Sherratt and Hughes, Ltd., and Messrs. J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd., by G. C. Moore Smith.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1959. 8vo. Reprint. First published in 1928. Original navy buckram, gilt. D/w a bit tanned, especially on the spine, and with two nicks to the top edge of the front panel. Fine in near fine d/w.
A Writer's Diary.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1969. Fifth impression. First published in 1953. Original orange hardcovers, gilt. Jacket design by Vanessa Bell. D/w a little dust-marked and tanned on the spine. Near fine in near fine d/w. A nice copy.
Letters of Wallace Stevens. Selected and edited by Holly Stevens.
London: Faber and Faber, 1967. 8vo. First edition. Original terracotta cloth, gilt. Top edge stained blue. Top edge faded. Unclipped d/w a little rubbed at the extremities. Near fine in near fine d/w.
The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. 1708-1762. Edited by Robert Halsband.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1966-1967. 8vo. 3 volumes, set. Volumes 1 and 2 are second impressions, volume 3 is a first impression. Original maroon buckram, gilt. The jacket spines of volumes 1 and 2 are faded. All d/ws just a little rubbed in places and with some light dust-marking. Near.....
The Diaries of John Ruskin 1835-89. Selected and Edited by Joan Evans and John Howard Whitehouse.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1956-9. 8vo. 3 volumes, set. First editions. Original navy buckram, gilt. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Spines and boards of first two volumes rather faded and a little rubbed at extremities. There's a mark on the spine of volume 1. Very good.
The Letters of Charlotte Bronte. 1. 1829-1847; 2. 1848-1851. Edited by Margaret Smith.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1995 & 2000. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. Volume 1 is a first edition. Volume 2 appears to be a second impression judging by the number string. Original navy cloth, gilt. Financial Times review loosely inserted into volume 1. Fine in fine d/ws. Very uncommon.
The Journal of William Beckford in Portugal and Spain 1787-1788. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Boyd Alexander.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954. 8vo. First edition. Original maroon cloth, gilt. Top edge stained red. Portrait frontispiece and eight further plates. Ink ownership on fly. Price-clipped d/w tanned on the spine. Near fine in near fine d/w.
Life at Fonthill 1807-1822. With Interludes in Paris and London. From the Correspondence of William Beckford. Translated and Edited by Boyd Alexander.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. 8vo. First edition. Original blue cloth, gilt. Portrait frontispiece and nine further plates. Contents clean. Price-clipped d/w with tiny loss to spine ends and corner tips and tanning to the spine. Near fine in very good + d/w.
The Diary of a Country Parson. 1758-1802. Edited by John Beresford.
London: Oxford University Press, 1926-31. 8vo. 5 volumes, set. Volume 1 is a third impression (first published in 1924); volume 2 appears to be a first impression but the d/w spine states 'second impression'; the remaining three volumes are all first impressions. Original black cloth with paper labels to spines.....
A Writer's Notebook 1854-1879 and Uncollected Writings. Edited by Joseph Wiesenfarth.
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1984. 4to. Second impression. First published in 1981. Original green cloth, gilt. Spine faded. Contents clean. Near fine.
The George Eliot Letters. Edited by Gordon S. Haight.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press and Oxford University Press, 1954-78. 8vo. 9 volumes, set. First editions. Volumes 1-6 published in 1954; Volume 7 in 1955; Volumes 8 & 9 in 1978. Original dark grey cloth, gilt. Volume 1: Ink ownership on fly. Tape residue on endpapers and d/w.....
The Diaries. 1. Ancestral Voices; 2. Prophesying Peace; 3. Caves of Ice; 4. Midway on the Waves; 5. A Mingled Measure; 6. Ancient as the Hills; 7. Through Wood and Dale; 8. Deep Romantic Chasm; 9. Holy Dread; 10. Beneath a Waning Moon; 11. Ceaseless Turmoil; 12. The Milk of Paradise.
London: Chatto & Windus, Faber and Faber, and John Murray, 1975-2005. 8vo. 12 volumes, set. First editions (except Beneath a Waning Moon which is a second impression). Original hardcovers, gilt. A little foxing the top edges, especially of the first four volumes. D/ws unclipped. Near fine in near fine d/ws.....
Notes from Walnut Tree Farm. Edited by Alison Hastie and Terence Blacker.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 2008. 8vo. First edition. Original decorated boards.
Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien. A selection edited by Humphrey Carpenter with the assistance of Christopher Tolkien.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1981. 8vo. First edition. Original brown cloth, gilt. Top edge stained brown. The rear free endpaper has been glued to the rear pastedown for some reason. The unclipped d/w has had a sticker removed from the front flap which has left a trace of adhesive.....
The Diary of Samuel Pepys. Edited by R. C. Latham & W. Matthews.
London: Bell & Hyman, 1983. 8vo. 11 volumes, set. Reprints except for the last two volumes. Original green buckram, gilt. Top edges stained green. All but the last volume have a bookplate on the flyleaf. Just a little rubbing to the extremities of some jackets. Near fine in near fine.....
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