Tolstoy. A Russian Life.
London: Profile Books, 2010. 8vo. First edition. Original purple hardcovers. Black and white photographic plate section. Mint in d/w.
London: Profile Books, 2010. 8vo. First edition. Original purple hardcovers. Black and white photographic plate section. Mint in d/w.
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.....
Oxford: The Clrendon Press, 1963. 8vo. Reprint. First published in 1938. Reprinted lithographically from corrected sheets of the first edition. Original green buckram, gilt. Price-clipped d/w has a few small tape repairs. Fine in very good + dust-wrapper.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1937. 8vo. First edition. Original terracotta buckram, gilt. Top edge stained red. Unclipped d/w a bit rubbed at edges, with small loss to spine ends and corner tips. Near fine in very good + dust-wrapper.
London: Faber and Faber for the Shenval Press, 1947. 8vo. Second impression. First published in 1946. Original grey cloth. Illustrated throughout in black and white. D/w spine slightly rubbed at the top and with a very short closed tear to the top edge of the front panel. Fine in near.....
London: Grant Richards, 1904. 16mo. 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.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1906. 16mo. 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 split.....
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1906. 16mo. 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.
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.....
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.....
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.....