The Novel of the Century. The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Miserables.
London: Particular Books, 2017. 8vo. First edition. Original sand hardcovers, gilt. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
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English Inns.
London: Collins, 1944. 8vo. Third impression. Decorated paper boards in dust-wrapper. Illustrated with 8 plates in colour and 24 illustrations in black and white. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. Britain in Pictures #67.
Unholy Trinity.
London & High Wycombe: J. M. Dent & Sons for Hague & Gill Ltd, 1938. 8vo. First edition. Original sewn printed wraps in envelope. Set in Gill's Bunyan type. Illustrations by Denis Tegetmeier. Fine in fine envelope. Eleven short essays by Eric Gill are accompanied by 11 pictures by Denis.....
Collected Essays.
London: The Bodley Head, 1969. 8vo. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Top edge stained pink. Jacket design by Michael Harvey. Back board slightly warped. Neat ink ownership on fly. Unclipped d/w is slightly tanned on the spine and has a little wrinkling at the corner tips. Near fine in.....
The Lost Childhood and other essays.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1951. 8vo. First edition. Original buff cloth, gilt. Top edge stained red. D/w faded on spine, worn at edges, lightly soiled and chipped at corner tips and head of spine. Near fine in very good + dust-wrapper. A selection of literary criticism.
Ways of Escape.
London: The Bodley Head, 1980. 8vo. First edition. Original dark green cloth, gilt. Top edge stained green. Jacket by Michael Harvey. Unclipped d/w is rather tanned and faded on the spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. A companion to A Sort of Life, these are reflections on his life of.....
British Soldiers.
London: Collins, 1944. First edition. Decorated paper boards in dust-wrapper. Illustrated with 8 plates in colour and 25 illustrations in black and white. Light dust-soiling to top half of back panel of d/w. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. Britain in Pictures #50.
A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Being an essay extended from "My Skirmish with Jolly Roger"
London: Mandrake Press Ltd, 1930. 8vo. First edition. Original blue cloth. D/w slightly faded on spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
Our Village. Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery.
London: Whittaker, Treacher, & Co, 1828-32. 12mo. 5 volumes, set. Mixed editions. First published between 1824 and 1832. Volume 1. fifth edition, 1830; volume 2. new edition, 1829; volume 3. third edition, 1828; volume 4. first edition, 1830; volume 5. second edition, 1832. Uniform black half-leather over marbled boards, gilt.....
Essays and Poems and Simplicity, a Comedy. Edited by Robert Halsband and Isobel Grundy.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1977. 8vo. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. D/w price-clipped and very slightly faded on the spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 8vo. First edition. Original hardcovers. Mint. The novelists featured range from Daniel Defoe to William Golding.
Emile ou de l'Education (Émile ou de l'éducation).
Amsterdam: Jean Neaulme (Néaulme), 1765. Small 8vo. 4 volumes, set. Early edition. First published in 1762. Quarter green morocco, gilt, with marbled paper boards. Five engravings as called for. Spines a bit faded and scuffed. Tips rubbed and a little pushed. Scattered light foxing throughout. Very good +. First published.....
A Study of the Prose Works of John Donne.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1924. 8vo. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Folding frontispiece facsimile of a letter by John Donne. Spine ends a bit pushed and covers dulled. Preliminaries a bit foxed. Very good +.
English Public Schools.
London: Collins, 1945. First edition. Decorated paper boards in dust-wrapper. Illustrated with 8 plates in colour and 30 illustrations in black and white. Ink ownership on fly. Back panel of d/w has short strip of abrasion and is tanned. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper. Britain in Pictures #90.
The Boston Athenaeum - Bicentennial Essays.
Hanover and London: The Boston Athenaeum (distributed by University Press of New England), 2009. 4to. First edition. Original brown cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in colour. D/w slightly faded on the spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. Brochures about the Club and its painting and sculpture collections are loosely inserted. Uncommon.....
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