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 Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett Volume III Krapp's Last Tape. With a revised text. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by James Knowlson.
London: Faber and Faber, 1992. Royal 8vo. First edition. Original black cloth, gilt. In slipcase as issued. With facsimiles of the author's production notes. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
William Blake's Writings. Volume I: Engraved and Etched Writings; Volume II: Writings in Conventional Typography and in Manuscript. Edited by G. E. Bentley, Jr.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1978. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. Original navy cloth, gilt. Top edges lightly foxed. Unclipped d/ws uniformly slightly faded and tanned. Near fine in near fine d/ws. Originally published at £65. The first edition of Blake's Writings to be based upon the editor's personal examination of each.....
The Pilgrim's Progress. From this World to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a Dream.
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1956. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1902. First published in two parts in 1678 and 1684. Original quarter blue polished morocco over blue cloth boards, gilt. Top edge gilt. Silk marker ribbon. Patterned paper endpapers. In cloth-covered slipcase. Boards.....
The Pilgrim's Progress. From this World to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a Dream.
London: Grant Richards, 1903. Pott 8vo. Second impression. First published in The World's Classics in 1902. First published in two parts in 1678 and 1684. Original burgundy cloth, gilt. Covers a little rubbed at edges. Blind stamp of W. H. Smith and neat ink presentation on fly. Very good. #12.....
Hudibras. Edited with an Introduction and Commentary by John Wilders.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1967. 8vo. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Portrait frontispiece. Spine just a little faded and with some very light spotting to the top edge. Pencil ownership of Christopher Hill on fly, with scattered pencil lines in the margins and pencil notes on both sides of.....
The Complete Miscellaneous Prose. Edited by Andrew Nicholson.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. 8vo. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Pencil note on fly, 'William St. Clair, Oxford DNH Weekend July 1992 Dept National Heritage'. Scattered pencil marginalia by William St. Clair and notes on the rear endpapers. Near fine. From the library of William St. Clair (1937-2021), the.....
Horizon. A Review of Literature and Art.
London: Horizon, January 1940 - January 1950. 8vo. 20 volumes, 121 issues, (together with the Index to issues 1-108 but without the special number of 1945 'La Littêrature anglaise pendant la guerre') set. Paper bound magazines. Black and white, and occasional colour, plates. The usual light tanning or foxing to.....
The Story of Burnt Njal. Translated from the Icelandic.
London & New York: Everyman's Library (larger format). J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd & E. P. Dutton & Co, 1960. 12mo. Reprint. Original black cloth, gilt. Unclipped d/w is slightly tanned on the spine, a little dust-soiled, and has a nick to the top edge of the front panel.....
The Speeches of Charles Dickens. Edited by K. J. Fielding.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1960. 8vo. First edition. Original dark navy cloth, gilt. Unclipped d/w is a bit faded on the spine, dust-marked and rubbed along the top edge. There's a neatly repaired very short tear, with ink lettering, to the top edge of the back panel. Near fine in.....
Don Juan and Regency England.
Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1990. 8vo. First edition. Original blue cloth, gilt. Pencil ownership of William St. Clair on the fly. Near fine in near fine d/w. From the library of William St. Clair (1937-2021), the distinguished historian and author.
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.
Weatherland. Writers & Artists under English Skies.
London: Thames & Hudson, 2015. 8vo. First edition. Original blind-stamped, pale blue hardcovers. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Fine in fine d/w.
The Saga of Grettir the Strong. Edited with Introduction, Notes and Indexes by Peter Foote.
London & New York: Everyman's Library (larger format). J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd & E. P. Dutton & Co, 1968. 12mo. Reprint. Original burgundy cloth, gilt. Wrapper illustration by Eric Fraser. Publisher's decimal price sticker on front flap. Fine in fine d/w.
Our Exagmination Round His Factification For Incamination Of Work In Progress. With Letters of Protest by G. V. L. Slingsby and Vladimir Dixon.
London: Faber and Faber Limited, [1929]. 8vo. First UK edition using sheets printed in France in May 1929. Original turquoise cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Covers just a little rubbed and marked. Large bookplate, of Norman Nicholson, on the front pastedown. Ink presentation, 'Best wishes for Xmas 1936.....
A Guide to Proust.
London: Chatto & Windus and The Hogarth Press, 1983. 8vo. First edition. Original blue hardcovers, gilt. Jacket design by Enid Marx. Fine in fine d/w. A companion to the revised translation of Proust's masterpiece by Terence Kilmartin which was published by Chatto & Windus in 1981. There are section on.....
Macmillan Pocket Leather Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling. (Actions and Reactions; Barrack Room Ballads; A Book of Words; Captains Courageous; The Day's Work; Debits and Credits; Departmental Ditties; A Diversity of Creatures; The Five Nations; From Sea to Sea and other sketches, volume I; From Sea to Sea and other sketches, volume II; The Jungle Book; The Second Jungle Book; Just So Stories; Kim; Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides; Letters of Travel 1892 – 1913; Life's Handicap; The Light that Failed; Limits and Renewals; Many Inventions; The Naulahka: A Story of West and East; Plain Tales From The Hills; Puck of Pook's Hill; Rewards and Fairies; The Seven Seas; Soldiers Three, and other stories; Something of Myself; Songs from Books; Stalky and Co.; Traffics and Discoveries; Wee Willie Winkie; The Years Between).
London: Macmillan and Co., 1919-37. 12mo. 33 volumes. Publisher's limp red/burgundy leather, gilt. Top edges gilt. Silk marker ribbons. Some volumes illustrated. Most volumes have a little wear to the spine ends. No ownership marks except for a neat ink presentation on the fly of Something of Myself, 'To Willie.....
The Complete Works of Walter Savage Landor. Edited by T. Earle Welby and Stephen Wheeler.
London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd, 1927-36. Royal 8vo. Limited edition of 525 sets, of which 500 were for sale in England and America. Original maroon buckram, gilt. Top edge stained red, others untrimmed. Frontispiece illustrations. Slight fading to the lower half of the spine of volume 1 where the d/w.....
The Works of Sir Thomas Malory. Edited by Eugene Vinaver.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1947. 8vo. 3 volumes, set. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed and partially unopened. Endpapers very slightly foxed. Dust-wrappers on volumes 1 & 2 are unclipped. Near fine in near fine d/ws.
The Works of Sir Thomas Malory. Edited by Eugene Vinaver.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1947. 8vo. 3 volumes, set. First editions. Original navy cloth, gilt. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Each volume has 'Glasgow 1947' and the ink ownership and round blind stamp of J. Farquhar Maclay on the fly. The ownerships are over some Tippex (presumably a previous owner's.....
The Rehearsal Transpros'd and The Rehearsal Transpros'd - The Second Part. Edited by D. I. B. Smith.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1971. 8vo. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Light foxing to edges and endpapers. Unclipped d/w is faded on the spine, a little dust marked and has a couple of nicks. Near fine in very good + d/w.
The Works of Thomas Nashe. Edited from the original Texts by Ronald B. McKerrow. Reprinted from the original edition with corrections and supplementary notes edited by F. P. Wilson.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1958. 8vo. 5 volumes, set. First published between 1904-10 in a limited edition of 750 copies. Revised, reprint. Original green cloth, gilt. Price-clipped d/ws are a little rubbed and slightly tanned on the spines. Near fine in near fine d/ws. Uncommon. A nice, clean set.
Miscellaneous Verdicts. Writings on Writers 1946-1989.
London: William Heinemann, 1990. 8vo. First edition. Original blue hardcovers. Fine in fine d/w.
Under Review. Further Writings on Writers 1946-1989.
London: William Heinemann, 1991. 8vo. First edition. Original black hardcovers. Ink ownership on fly. Pages browned (as usual, owing to poor quality stock). Near fine in fine d/w.
Lives of the Novelists. With an Introduction by Austin Dobson.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1906. Pott 8vo. First impression in this series. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Top edge stained blue. Silk marker ribbon. Spine slightly skewed and covers a bit marked. Neat ink ownership on fly. Very good +. #94 in The World's Classics. This must have.....