Tolstoy. A Russian Life.
London: Profile Books, 2010. 8vo. First edition. Original purple hardcovers. Black and white photographic plate section. Mint in d/w.
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The Life of Captain James Cook.
London: The Hakluyt Society, 1974. Crown 8vo. First edition. Original navy buckram, gilt. Top edge stained blue. With 51 illustrations (4 in colour) and 5 maps. Presentation label on the flyleaf. D/w faded on the spine with some rubbing to the extremities and a couple of very short closed tears.....
Life of Johnson 1709-1784. Edited by George Birkbeck Hill. Revised and Enlarged Edition by L. F. Powell.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1971-5. 8vo. 6 volumes, set. Reprints. Volumes 1-4 originally printed in 1934. Volumes 5 & 6 first printed in 1950. Original maroon cloth, lettered in gilt. D/ws uniformly faded on spines. The heads of the spines of volumes 1-3 have several nicks. Near fine in very.....
Montrose. With an Introduction by Keith Feiling.
London: Oxford University Press, 1957. Pott 8vo. First thus. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Silk marker ribbon. Slight spotting to top edge. Unclipped d/w has a hint of rubbing and a tiny nick at the head of the spine. Near fine in near fine d/w. #555 in The World's Classics.....
The Life of a Sailor.
London & Edinburgh: Richard Bentley and Bell & Bradfute, 1850. 12mo. New edition. #120 in Bentley's Standard Novels series. First thus. Original stamped brown cloth, gilt to spine. Yellow endpapers promoting the series. Two pages of advertisements for the Parlour Bookcase and the Railway Library at the back. Tissue-guarded, steel-engraved.....
The Life of Charlotte Bronte. With an Introduction by Clement Shorter.
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1924. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in this series in 1919. Original green cloth, gilt. Silk marker ribbon. Spine dulled. Very good +. #214 in The World's Classics.
The Spirit of the Age or Contemporary Portraits.
London: Grant Richards, 1904. Pott 8vo. First impression in this series. Original 'half-circuit' parchment, gilt. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Spine and covers a bit dulled. Near fine. #57 in The World's Classics. This binding variant sold for 2s 6d. Uncommon.
Life and Letters of John Keats.
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1951. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1931. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Top edge stained blue. Silk marker ribbon. A few scattered marginal marks. Near fine. #364 in The World's Classics.
Lives of the English Poets. With an Introduction by Arthur Waugh.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1906. Pott 8vo. 2 vols, set. First impressions in this series. Original 'half-circuit' parchment, gilt. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Both spines a bit dulled. Volume 1 has an ink stain to the top of the front cover and volume 2 has a short.....
Lives of the English Poets. With an Introduction by Arthur Waugh.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1906. Pott 8vo. 2 vols, set. First impressions in this series. Original green cloth, gilt. Top edges gilt. Silk marker ribbons. Neat ink ownerships on endpapers. Fly removed from volume II. Near fine. #83 & #84 in The World's Classics.
The Life of William Morris. With an Introduction by Sir Sydney Cockerell.
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1950. Pott 8vo. First impression in this series. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Spine tanned and gilt dulled. Some foxing to the endpapers and the bookplate of William Hazelton on the front pastedown. Very good +. #521 in The World's Classics.
Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More 1745-1833.
London: R.B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1834. 8vo. 4 volumes, set. First editions. Later cross-grained maroon full morocco with titles to spines and 'R.H. More' signature in gilt to each front board. Top edges gilt. Covers very slight rubbed at edges. Ink presentation inscription dated 1873 to half-title of volume.....
Capability Brown. With an Introduction by Christopher Hussey.
London: Faber and Faber, 1975. 4to. New edition. First published in 1950. Original green cloth, gilt. Illustrated with sections of black and white, and a few colour, photographic plates. D/w price-clipped. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. A completely rewritten account of the master of English landscape gardening and still the.....
Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers. A Selection from the Letters of Lord Byron's Daughter and Her Description of the First Computer. Narrated and Edited by Betty Alexandra Toole.
Mill Valley, California: Strawberry Press, 1992. 8vo. First edition. Original maroon cloth, gilt. Fine in fine d/w. From the library of William St. Clair (1937-2021), the distinguished historian and author.
The Lives of John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker, George Herbert & Robert Sanderson. With an Introduction by George Saintsbury.
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1927. Pott 8vo. First impression in this series. Original green cloth, gilt. Silk marker ribbon. D/w foxed, tanned on the spine, and with small loss to the spine ends and corner tips. Near fine in very good d/w. #303 in The World's Classics. 'Globe'.....
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.....
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