Forewords and Afterwords. Selected by Edward Mendelson.
London: Faber and Faber, 1973. 8vo. First edition. Original quarter green cloth with beige paper-covered boards, gilt. Fine in fine d/w. A nice copy.
Essays
The Advancement of Learning and New Atlantis. With a Preface by Thomas Case.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1906. Pott 8vo. First impression in The World's Classics. Original green cloth, gilt. Covers dulled and marked. Edges spotted. Contents clean. Very good. #93 in The World's Classics.
Essays.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1904. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in this series in 1902. Original 'half-circuit' parchment, gilt. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Covers dulled, rubbed and worn. Bookplate on front pastedown. Good. #24 in The World's Classics. This binding variant sold for 2s 6d. Uncommon...
J. G. Ballard the first twenty years. With contributions by Brian Aldiss; Michael Moorcock; Ian Watson; Peter Linnett; James Goddard; David Pringle; John Carnell and James Ballard.
Hayes: Bran's Head Books Ltd, 1976. 8vo. First edition. Original pale blue paper covers. Illustrations by Carol Gregory. Signed on the title page in blue ink by J. G. Ballard. Front cover lightly foxed. Slight foxing to fore edge and prelims. Near fine. Ballard contributes an Introduction to the bibliography.....
Horae Subsecivae; Rab and his Friends and Other Papers. With an Introduction by Austin Dobson.
London: Oxford University Press, 1907. Pott 8vo. First thus. Original green cloth, gilt. Silk marker ribbon. Covers very slightly marked and rubbed. Endpapers lightly foxed. Very good. #118 in The World's Classics.
The Anatomy of Melancholy. Edited by Thomas C. Faulkner, Nicolas K. Kiessling & Rhonda L. Blair. With an Introduction by J.B. Bamborough. Commentary by J.B. Bamborough with Martin Dodsworth.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1989-2000. 8vo. 6 volumes, set. Volumes 1, 2, 4 & 6 are first impressions. Volume 5 is a second impression. Volume 3 (first published in 1994) is a reprint from 2000. First published in 1621. Original navy cloth, gilt. Contents clean and without ownership marks or.....
Jane Austen. Facts and Problems. The Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1948.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1948. 8vo. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Price-clipped d/w is tanned on the spine. Fine in near fine d/w.
Selected Essays.
London: Faber and Faber, 1961. 8vo. Fourth impression of the third enlarged edition (1951). First published in 1932. Original brown cloth, gilt. Neat ink ownership on the top corner of the flyleaf. Unclipped d/w has parallel scuff marks to the middle of the spine and a hint of rubbing to.....
English Traits and Representative Men.
London: Grant Richards, 1903. Pott 8vo. First impression in this series. Original green cloth, gilt. Spine tanned and with a nick to the cloth at the top. Blind stamp of a Cardiff bookseller to the fly. Very good. #30 in The World's Classics. Issued before Oxford University Press took over.....
English Traits and Representative Men.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1911. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1903. Original green cloth, gilt. Silk marker ribbon. Endpapers slightly foxed. Near fine. #30 in The World's Classics.
The Strength of Poetry.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. 8vo. First edition. Original dark navy hardcovers, gilt. Fine in fine d/w. The Oxford Professor of Poetry 1994-1999 lectures on subjects including Wilfred Owen, Seamus Heaney, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, W. H. Auden and Philip Larkin.
American Critical Essays XIXth and XXth Centuries.
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1940. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1930. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Top edge stained blue. Silk marker ribbon. Spine slightly faded. Several essays have underlining in red pencil. Very good. #354 in The World's Classics.
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. Very slight foxing to the fore edge. Price-clipped d/w is tanned on the spine. Near fine in near fine d/w.
Lectures on the English Comic Writers. With an Introduction by R. Brimley Johnson.
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1935. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1907. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Top edge stained blue. Silk marker ribbon. Spine slightly faded. Neat coloured pencil ownership on fly. Near fine. #124 in The World's Classics.
Selected Essays of William Hazlitt 1778 : 1830 (The Nonesuch Press Compendious Series). Edited by Geoffrey Keynes FRCS.
London & New York: The Nonesuch Press & Random House, 1930. 8vo. First edition. Original olive green buckram with bevelled boards, gilt. Top edge stained yellow. Spine and edges of boards faded. Neat ink ownership on fly. Very good +.
Sketches and Essays.
London: Grant Richards, 1902. Pott 8vo. First impression in this series. Original dark green limp lambskin, gilt. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Spine a bit rubbed with a 1 inch tear at the foot. Neat ink ownership on fly. Very good. #15 in The World's Classics.
Sketches and Essays.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1907. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in this series in 1902. Original quarter parchment, gilt, with leather label on the spine. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. A bit rubbed with small loss to the label. Very light foxing to the endpapers. Very good. #15.....
Sketches and Essays.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1907. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in this series in 1902. Original 'Sultan-red' limp leather, gilt. Top edge gilt. Near fine. #15 in The World's Classics. The 'Sultan-red' limp leather binding is notoriously fragile and copies in nice condition are hard to come by.....
Sketches and Essays.
London: Grant Richards, 1903. Pott 8vo. Second impression in this series. First issued in 1902. Original green cloth, gilt. Near fine. #15 in The World's Classics. Issued before Oxford University Press took over the series.
Sketches and Essays.
London: Grant Richards, 1902. Pott 8vo. First impression in this series. Original green cloth, gilt. Spine a little dulled and tanned. Endpapers lightly foxed. Very good. #15 in The World's Classics. Issued before Oxford University Press took over the series.
Sketches and Essays.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1912. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in this series in 1902. Original green cloth, gilt. Silk marker ribbon. Covers a bit dulled. Endpapers slightly foxed. Very good +. #15 in The World's Classics.
Winterslow. Essays and Characters Written There.
London: Grant Richards, 1902. Pott 8vo. First impression in this series. Original dark blue buckram. Paper label, printed in black, ruled in red, on spine. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Covers a bit rubbed. Spine label tanned and with parts missing. Initial letters towards the foot of the spine and.....
Winterslow. Essays and Characters Written There.
London: Henry Frowde, [c.1905]. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in this series in 1902. Original 'Sultan-red' limp leather, gilt. Top edge gilt. Covers just a bit rubbed. '20' inked to top corner inside. A little foxing to the prelims. Very good. #25 in The World's Classics. The 'Sultan-red' limp leather.....
Winterslow. Essays and Characters written there.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1906. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1902. Original green cloth, gilt. Top edge gilt. Silk marker ribbon. Spine dulled. Slight foxing to edges. Very good +. #25 in The World's Classics.