London: The Hogarth Press, 1980. First Edition. Bell, Anne Olivier. McNeillie, Andrew. The Diary of Virigina Woolf. 1980. First Edition. 384 pp. End papers decorated with map design of central London. Nearly fine dust jacket with minor shelf weath to head and tail of jacket spine. "In the years covered.....
London: John W. Parker, 1857. Whatley, Richard D.D. Bacon s Essays with Annotation. 1857. Third Edition. A fine book from the library of Sir John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minster of Canada. Rebacked with genuine cloth and new, old paper label. Professionally restored and in good condition. Original endpapers bear.....
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1996. First Edition. A rare find, Christian Symbols offers readers access to more than one hundred images from the history of christianity, drawn by Rudolf Koch. Previously published as a folder of images, Arion Press had the collection bound and produced in 1996. Designed as a......
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970. First Edition. Böll, Heinrich. Adam and The Train. 1970. Two books in one. First Edition. Hardcover with price-clipped jacket. "In these two short novels, classic in their powerful simplicity. Böll depicts the ultimate disintegration and chaos of war, the suffering and despair of ordinary men struggling.....
New York: Viking Press, 1982. First Edition. King, Stephen. Different Seasons. 1982. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 527 pp. "If these tales turn out to have an interlacing of nightmarish elements after all, the reason is not the occult, but twentieth-century humanity's apparent determination to return to the Dark Ages.....
New York: Macmillan, 1920. First Edition. Stephens, James. Irish Fairy Tales. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt title design and illustration of hunter with dogs. 318 pp. 16 full page colour illustrations, protected with tissue guards. A handsome depiction of some of Ireland's most loved tales.....
New York: Macmillan, 1972. First Edition. Adams, Richard. Watership Down. 1972. Hardcover with dust jacket. 429 pp including "lapine glossary". Sound binding. Embossed owners stamp on title page. "Watership Down is a picaresque saga of the maverick band who set out, against all odds, on a quest for a new.....
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1977. First Edition. Tolkien. J.R.R. The Silmarillion. First Edition. 365 pp. Illustrated with attached fold-out map verso. "The Silmarillion is the central stock of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative writing, a work that he could not publish in his lifetime because it grew with him. It's origins.....
New York: Abbeville Press, 1979. Translated by Peter Motteux. Illustrated by Salvador Dali. Abbeville Press. New York. 1979. Reprint of the 1924 edition, illustrated by Salvador Dali. The classic tale replete with full page colour illustrations, as well as black and white designs throughout. 587 pp. Red cloth boards, illustrated.....
London: George Bell and Sons, 1892. Revised Edition. Full Red Morocco. (FORE-EDGE PAINTING.) Herbert, George. The Poetical Works. Frontispiece. 8vo, contemporary full red morocco gilt-stamped Sherborn School prize binding by Bickers & Son, spine lettered in gilt in compartments, all edges gilt, spine tips and raised bands rubbed, abraded school.....
Edinburgh: Call and Inglis, C1880. Full Brown Morocco extra gilt. (FORE-EDGE PAINTING.) Crabbe, George. The Poetical Works. 162 x 100 mm. Engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title vignette, and 8 engravings on steel. 8vo, contemporary full brown pebbled morocco gilt extra, spine gilt tooled in compartments, all edges gilt; glue residue.....
London: Suttaby, Evance and Hutchings, 1811 - 1812. Full Paste-Grain Morocco. THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM SOMERVILLE Park Thomas F.S.A. Published London Suttaby, Evance and Hutchings. 1811 – 1812 [FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. Somerville, William. The Poetical Works. 2 volumes bound in 1. Engraved frontispieces. 12mo, contemporary full green paste-grain morocco, covers decorated with gilt urn.....
London: Chatto and Windus, 1876. New Edition. Full Hard Grain Morocco. [FORE–EDGE PAINTING]. CREASY, Edward, sir (1812–1878). Memoirs of Eminent Etonians, with an inscription by an Eton scholar and great nephew to Jane Austen. London: Chatto and Windus, 1876. 8vo. Illustrated with full-page plates including frontispiece. Presentation binding in full.....
London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. First Trade Edition. Seven Pillars of Wisdom Lawrence, T.E (1935) First Trade Edition 320.00 USD SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM Lawrence T. E Published by London Jonathan Cape 1935 Jonathan Cape, London, 1935. Buck- ram. Condition: Good Plus. First Trade Edition. Brown cloth binding with crossed swords and quote" the sword also means clean-ness.....
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1974. First Edition. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Le Carré, John Hodder and Stoughton. London. 1974. First Edition. Tipped in signature of author. The first novel in Le Carré’s Karla trilogy, reunities readers with British Intelligence Office George Smiley. Contrary to popular spy novels of the day, Le Carré brings.....
London: Jonathan Cape, 1984. First Edition. Role of Honour Gardner, John. Jonathan Cape. London. 1984. First Edition. The fourth installment of Gardner’s Bond franchise. Everyone’s favourite secret agent is drawn into the world of digital danger in this tech-forward take on the classic spy caper. Role of Honour caused a schism between readers.....
London: Jonathan Cape, 1968. First Edition. Colonel Sun Markham, Robert [Amis, Kingsley] Jonathan Cape. London. 1968 The first continuation of the James Bond series, following the death of Ian Fleming. While attributed to Robert Markham, this name is a pseudonym for novelist, poet and critic, Kinglsey Amis. Amis was famously critical of the.....
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. First Edition. You Only Live Twice Fleming, Ian Jonathan Cape. London. 1964 First Edition, Second Impression. Original dust jacket, held in protector. The last Fleming novel published before his death, the same year. Serialized by The Daily Express and Playboy Magazine. You Only Live Once is the.....
Canada: Macmillan, 1957. Facsimile of First Edition. Kerouac, Jack. On the Road. 1957. Facsimile of the First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. "After World War I a certain group of restless, searching Americans came to be called "The Lost Generation". This group found its truest voice in the writings of.....
London: Faber & Faber, 1971. First Edition. Plath, Sylvia. Crossing the Water. 1971. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Complete with original purchase receipt from Harrod's of London in 1971. "In this volume Ted Hughes has collected a number of poems written by Sylvia Plath in the transitional period between.....