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BELLOC, Hilaire.
Verses and Sonnets. 1896
£625
First Edition First Impression of the author's first book. Apparently part of the edition was recalled after Mrs Belloc recognized some portrait or other of aspects of her life in...
12mo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmd. With the original unprinted tissue dust jacket. A little browning to the... Read more
WHITE, T. H.
Verses. 1962
£1,500
First Edition, Sole Printing. One of just 100 numbered copies signed by the author. This copy additionally has the author's signed presentation inscription to the verso of the title...
Octavo. Original japon-backed red boards, titles to spine gilt, top edge gilt others untrimmed, marbled endpapers. With the unprinted acetate dust jacket. Frontis... Read more
DE CAMPOS, Haroldo, & Roman Jakobson.
Versuchbuch Galaxien. Rot No. 25. 1966
£475
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the title page "To prof. Roman Jakobson, with all my respect and best regards, Haroldo de Campos, Sao Paulo Brazil...
Duodecimo. Original white wrappers printed in red and black. Wrappers very lightly rubbed with a small abrasion to the front panel. An excellent copy. Read more
SEBALD, W.G.
Vertigo. 1999
£225
First UK Edition, First Impression.
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the dust jacket. Read more
OSBORNE, John.
Very Like a Whale. 1971
£50
First edition, first impression, casebound issue.
Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket. Read more
BAMFORD, Francis & Viola Bankes.
Vicious Circle. The case of the missing Irish Crown Jewels. 1965
£25
First edition. Mystery of the theft of the Irish regalia in 1907. From the library of eminent crime historian Jonathan Goodman.
Octavo, original blue boards, title in silver to the spine, in dust jacket. 8 plates, full-page plan to the text. Book ticket of Jonathan Goodman to the front free... Read more
GREENE, Graham.
Victorian Detective Fiction. 1966
£475
First edition, first impression. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Glover, Carter and Greene.
Large octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the dust jacket very slightly faded at the... Read more
BURKE, Thomas.
Victorian Grotesque. 1941
£150
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to upper board and spine in black. With the pictorial dust jacket. An exceptional copy in the dust jacket. Read more
BURKE, Thomas.
Victorian Grotesque. 1941
£125
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to upper board and spine in black. With the pictorial dust jacket. An excellent copy in the somewhat worn dust jacket. Read more
[Julia Margaret Cameron] WOOLF, Virginia & Roger Fry .
Victorian Photographs of Famous Men & Fair Women. 1926
£1,500
First edition, first impression. One of 450 copies numbered by the Woolfs in purple ink. Published 28 October 1926, 710 copies were printed, the unnumbered balance with a cancel...
Quarto. Original vellum-backed pink paper boards, titles to spine gilt. With 25 photographic plates after Cameron. Small bookplate. Boards rubbed and marked with some... Read more
[CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de.]
Vida, y Hechos del ingenioso caballero Don Quixote de la Mancha, 1777
£2,500
A pleasant reprint of the 1771 Ibarra edition.
4 volumes, octavo (174 × 117 mm). Contemporary sheep dyed in imitation of tree calf, red morocco labels, circular green morocco numbering-pieces, smooth spines... Read more
HALLAM, Henry.
View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages. 1868
£225
Twelfth edition. An attractively bound library set.
3 volumes, octavo (215 × 130 mm). Contemporary tan calf, spines elaborately gilt in compartments, green and brown morocco labels, marbled endpapers and edges.... Read more
HALLAM, Henry.
View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages. 1837
£150
Seventh edition. An attractively bound copy.
3 volumes, octavo (215 × 134 mm). Contemporary diced tan calf, black morocco labels, tooling to spines in compartments, roll to boards and twin rule in blind,... Read more
HALLAM, Henry.
View of The State of Europe During The Middle Ages. 1846
£125
Ninth edition.
2 volumes, octavo (215 × 135 mm). Contemporary tan calf, two morocco labels brown and green, elaborate tooling to spines in compartments, raised bands, rules to... Read more
HENLEY, W. E.
Views and Reviews. Essays in appreciation. Literature. 1890
£150
First Edition. With the author's presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, "7/8/90 J.P.B from W.E.H." The recipient was the Marquis Penderel di Boscobel whore armorial...
Octavo. Original green cloth, paper title label to spine. Title label severely rubbed with some loss otherwise a very good copy. Read more
RICH, Captain E. T.
Views of the Bazar Valley Field Force, 1908, [1908]
£3,875
From the time of the end of the Tirah campaign in 1897-8 the Zakka Khel Afridis had "...remained the persistent enemies of tranquility and progress. Numerous raids in British...
Landscape quarto. Album leaves loose, housed in a blue cloth drop-back box, title - "Photographs" - from the original album mounted on the upper panel. 93 gelatine... Read more
SASSOON, Siegfried.
Vigils. 1935
£125
First trade edition, first impression. Originally published in a limited edition in 1934.
Octavo. Original purple cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Spine a little faded, a few... Read more
BURTON, Richard F.
Vikram and the Vampire. 1870
£1,750
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in burgundy morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, twin rule to turn-ins, dark green... Read more
WAUGH, Evelyn.
Vile Bodies. 1930
£17,500
First edition, first impression. Waugh's second novel and one of the hardest to find in dust jacket.
Octavo. Original black and red snakeskin patterned cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the Waugh designed dust jacket. Housed in a crimson quarter morocco solander box... Read more
[GALSWORTHY, John; as] SINJOHN, John (pseud.)
Villa Rubein. 1900
£575
First Edition, First Impression, First State Binding. The author's third book. Laid into this copy is a group of letters regarding this copy from the offices of Doubleday in New York...
Octavo. Original pink cloth, white paper title labels to upper board and spine printed in black. Housed in a quarter green morocco slipcase. Some mild spotting to the... Read more
[GALSWORTHY, John] SINJOHN, John.
Villa Rubein. A Novel. 1900
£250
First edition, first impression. Sinjohn was the early pen name of the Nobel Prize winning John Galsworthy, author of the Forsyte Saga.
Octavo. Original red cloth, white labels to spine and cover, in red cloth case with gilt titles. Rubbing and fading to boards and case, some spotting early and late,... Read more
[BRONTE, Charlotte.] BELL, Currer.
Villette. 1857
£250
Third edition. First single volume edition issued as a 'New edition', part of the Smith Elder series of 'Standard Works' four years after the first edition.
Small octavo. Contemporary brown half calf with marbled boards, burgundy label to spine with titles and decoration to spine gilt. Bookplate to pastedown, owner's name... Read more
PYNCHON, Thomas.
Vineland. 1990
£4,750
First edition, first printing one of just two copies specially bound by the publishers for presentation. One copy was for the author and the second example for Pynchon's editor Ray...
Octavo. Full burgundy morocco, device to upper board and titles to spine gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Fine. Read more
DEIGHTON, Len.
Violent Ward. 1993
£75
First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 120 copies signed by the author on the half-title.
Octavo. Original brown morocco quarter-calf, marbled boards, titles to spine gilt. Very faint rubbing to corners. An excellent copy. Read more
(THOMSON, Virgil) HOOVER, Kathleen and John Cage.
Virgil Thompson. His Life and Music. 1959
£275
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Virgil Thomson on the front free endpaper, "For Leland and Mary Hazard from old times loved ones, Virgil, Pittsburgh, May 12, 59". Leland...
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine in green. With the dust jacket. 16 pages of illustrations from photographs. Spine titles a little dulled, lower corner... Read more
