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.....
London: Waterstone and Company, 1985. 4to. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Fine in fine d/w. Subjects include Sir Roger Pratt, John Vardy and Ernest Newton.
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.....
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.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1967. 8vo. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Ink ownership on fly. Unclipped d/w is faded on the spine. Near fine in near fine d/w.
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.
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.....
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.
London: Oxford University Press, 1972. 8vo. First edition. Original red cloth, gilt. Colour and black & white photographic plates. Folding map at rear. Unclipped d/w slightly rubbed at extremities and with a tiny nick to the top edge of the back panel. Fine in near fine d/w.
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.....
London: Slightly Foxed Ltd, 2008-23. Small 8vo. 62 volumes, a run. Limited editions. Each volume is #286 of 2000 numbered copies. Original cloth, gilt. Silk marker ribbons. A few volumes are illustrated. All the original limited editions prior to #29, and some later volumes, are out of print and already.....
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.....