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SPATER, George & Ian Parsons.
A Marriage of True Minds. An Intimate Portrait of Leonard & Virginia Woolf 1977
£40
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt, dust jacket. Photographic frontispiece and photos throughout text. Spine of dust jacket slightly faded, an... Read more
ARISTOPHANES.
A metrical version of the Acharnians the Knights and the Birds, 1840
£475
First Edition of Frere's sparkling translations of three of Aristophanes' eleven surviving plays. The book was printed on the government printing press in Malta where Frere had...
Quarto, in 3 parts. Contemporary dark green half hard-grain morocco, marbled sides, spine lettered gilt and with gilt ornaments in compartments, top edge gilt. Printed... Read more
MONTAGU, Victor Alexander, Rear-Admiral, The Honourable.
A Middy's Recollections 1853-1860. 1900
£75
Originally published 1898. Montagu served in the Crimea and the Second China War before service with the Naval Brigade of HMS Pearl in India.
Octavo, original red cloth, title in black to upper board and spine. Photogravure portrait frontispiece and one other similar portrait, 6 half-tone plates. A little... Read more
(RACKHAM, Arthur) SHAKESPEARE, William.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. 1908
£2,750
Limited edition of 1000 numbered copies signed by Rackham.
Quarto. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in blue morocco, titles and decoration to spine, pictorial title block to front board, single rule to board, inner... Read more
(RACKHAM, Arthur) SHAKESPEARE, William.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. 1908
£1,950
First edition, first impression. Limited edition of 1000 numbered copies signed on the limitation leaf by Rackham.
Quarto. Original full vellum, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and front cover gilt, brown endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece and... Read more
(RACKHAM, Arthur) SHAKESPEARE, William.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. 1908
£875
First US trade edition.
Octavo. Contempoary black half morocco, titles and elaborate decoration to spine, black cloth boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With forty... Read more
[ROBINSON, W. Heath] SHAKESPEARE, William.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. 1914
£350
First US edition, originally published in the UK in the same year.
Tall quarto. Original blue cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and upper board in red and green. Tipped-in colour frontispiece and 11 plates, 32 engraved... Read more
(RACKHAM, Arthur) SHAKESPEARE, William.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. 1977
£275
First edition thus. Rackham and Hewitt were commissioned to do this manuscript in 1928 by The Spencer Collection, New York Public Library. This is the first UK edition of the...
Quarto. Finely bound by Asprey in blue half morocco, titles and decoration to spine in compartments, raised bands, matching cloth boards, marbled endpapers, gilt... Read more
(RACKHAM, Arthur) SHAKESPEARE, William.
A Midsummer-Night's Dream. 1908
£2,500
Signed Limited Edition. One of 1000 copies of which this is number 532 signed by Rackham.
Quarto. Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf in brown morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, pictorial title block to front board, roll to turn-ins, marbled... Read more
LEES-MILNE, James.
A Mingled Measure. 1994
£110
First Edition, First Impression.
Octavo. Original green boards, titles to spine in gold. With the pictorial dust jacket. An excellent copy in the nicked dust jacket. Read more
WEST, Jessamyn.
A Mirror for the Sky. 1948
£250
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the half-title, "For Agnes Farquar, with much affection – Jessamyn West".
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine in black, pictorial endpapers, green top-stain. With the dust jacket. Slight fading to edges of boards and ends of... Read more
LAWRENCE, D. H.
A Modern Lover. 1934
£175
First Edition, First Impression.
Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Foxing to edges, otherwise a nice tight copy in lightly foxed dust jacket. Read more
WELLS, H. G.
A Modern Utopia. 1905
£1,000
First Edition, First Impression. Inscribed by the author 'To Pinnie, april 10th 1905' M. C. Robbins, also known as Pinnie, was H. G. Wells' mother in law from his second marriage in...
Octavo. Original red boards, titles to upper board and spine gilt. Endpapers browned, edges lightly rubbed and spine faded. Read more
WARNER, Sylvia Townsend.
A Moral Ending and Other Stories. 1931
£85
First edition, first printing. Signed and numbered by the author on the limitation leaf. With a note stating that though the Furnival Books are now published by Joiner & Steele,...
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt. Woodcut frontispiece. Very light spotting to endpapers, an excellent copy. Read more
CHRISTIE, Agatha.
A Murder is Announced. 1950
£75
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. A little faded at the ends of the spine. An excellent copy in the rubbed, creased, and... Read more
CHRISTIE, Agatha.
A Murder is Announced. 1950
£35
First US edition, first printing. Originally published in the UK in the same year.
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine in gilt and white, "Red Badge detective" emblem to upper board gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the... Read more
DOBSON, William T.
A Narrative of the Peninsular Campaign 1807 - 1814 Its Battles and Sieges. 1897
£125
First published in 1889. A handsomely bound copy.
Octavo (208 ×134 mm). Contemporary blue calf, burgundy morocco label, elaborate decoration to spine in compartments separated by raised bands, roll to boards with... Read more
PAUL, ELLIOT.
A Narrow Street. 1942
£95
First edition.
Octavo. Original red buckram, spine lettered in gilt, with dust jacket. Slight rubbing at extremities, spine a little faded, one or two spots to edges, dust jacket... Read more
(BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY)
A New and General Biographical Dictionary; 1798
£2,500
First thus. An excellent set in a handsome, perhaps provincial, contemporary binding. All front pastedowns with the ownership of S. Brough, dated 1804, and the armorial bookplates of...
15 volumes, octavo (208 × 121 mm). Contemporary streaked calf, flat spines, black morocco title-pieces to the second compartment, red morocco roundel... Read more
THOREAU, Henry David.
A new English-German and German-English Dictionary; 1834
£22,500
Thoreau's copy of a standard contemporary German-English dictionary, signed by him "Henry D. Thoreau" on the first binder's blank after the front free endpaper. His ownership likely...
2 volumes bound in one, thick octavo (216 × 133 mm). Contemporary American trade binding of streaked sheep, the second spine compartment faintly lettered in blind... Read more
RENDELL, Ruth.
A New Lease of Death. 1967
£750
First Edition, First Impression. The author's third novel.
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine a little bumped, dust jacket nicked to corners and rubbed to the edges. Read more
CARVER, Raymond.
A New Path to The Waterfall. 1989
£125
Limited edition of 200 copies signed by Tess Galagher.
Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, titles and decoration to spine and front board, original pictorial endpapers, top edge stained blue. Housed in the original burgundy... Read more
FULLER, William O.
A Night with Sherlock Holmes. A Paper Read Before the 12mo Club. 1929
£475
First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 200 numbered copies. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "To Hon. Frederick Hale with high regards of W....
Octavo. Original japon backed brown boards, titles to boards gilt. Binding lightly rubbed, wear to corners, contents toned. A very good copy. Read more
BETJEMAN, John.
A Nip in the Air. 1974
£375
First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 175 numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation leaf.
Octavo. Original yellow cloth, titles to spine gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. A fine copy. Read more
SYMONS, Arthur (ed.)
A Pageant of Elizabethan Poetry. 1906
£150
First edition.
Octavo. Original artificial quarter vellum over black boards, spine lettered in red, top edge gilt others uncut, grey coated endpapers, with dust jacket. Frontispiece... Read more
