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By: 'Grock'
Price: £45.00
Publisher: London, William Heinemann Ltd 1931: 1931
Edition: First Edition
Book number: 46854
Condition: Very Good
viii, 276 pp., illustrated in b/w. A couple of marks to rear board. Slight spotting to edges. View more info
By: Abbot, Charles D.; Wyeth, N. C.
Price: £25.00
Publisher: New York and London, Harper & Brothers, Publishers 1925: 1925
Edition: First Edition
Book number: 30116
Condition: Very Good
250pp. 38 b&w and 7 colour illustrations (most of these are full-page plates, some of the b&w are in-text illustrations). Very nicely typeset, in a slightly folksy American style. A lot of lightish foxing to colour frontispiece and title page, some lighter foxing immediately before and after. A few spots of light foxing in the text and along the fore-edge and a tiny bit of grubbying to very bottom corner, but otherwise nice and bright. Grey paper jacket quite grubbied and very chipped along the head, with some losses and is a bit speckled; spine is a tad rolled. Affectionate biography of the m... View more info
By: Adams, Morley
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Jarrold and Sons [1913]: 1913
Book number: 54160
Condition: Good
262 pp, gilt lettered blue cloth, illustrated in b/w, foxing to some pages, some pencil notation in text and name in ink on f.e.p. View more info
By: Aikin, Lucy
Price: £95.00
Publisher: London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown 1819: 1819
Edition: Third Edition
Book number: 55460
Condition: Very Good
Two volumes. xvi, 488; vii, 522 pp. Contemporary calf with blind-stamped borders to front & rear boards. Recently rebacked in brown calf with black leather title labels. All edges marbled. Boards marked & rubbed. New endpapers. Bookplate to front endpapers. Foxing to prelims. Frontis portrait. View more info
By: Allen, Fred
Price: £60.00
Publisher: U S A, Little Brown & Co 1955: 1955
Edition: Reprint
Book number: 45719
Condition: Very Good
240 pp, illustrated in b/w, dustwrapper has faded spine, a presentation by Fred Allen to film critic David Lewin. View more info
By: Anon
Price: £150.00
Publisher: London, Paris & New York, Cassell, Petter & Galpin c. 1880: 1880
Book number: 49410
Condition: Very Good
In six volumes. 160 pp each volume. Original publisher's blue cloth with decorative gilt design to front boards and spines. All edges gilt. Yellow endpapers. Wear to spines at head & foot. Each volume contains 20 short biographies and a colour tissue-guarded chromolithograph of a Victorian worthy. Internally very clean. Gilt bindings bright. A VG set. View more info
By: Anon [Hempel, Christian Friedrich]
Price: £300.00
Publisher: Bremen, Nathanael Saurmann 1743: 1743
Book number: 60758
Condition: Very Good
517, (11) pp. Later half calf over black cloth. Raised bands to spine with gilt panels and red leather title label. All edges red. Later marbled endpapers. Engraved portrait frontispiece. Title in black and red. Woodcut ornaments. Genealogical folding tables. Small ink mark to one leaf. One table inscribed. Binding firm. Text in German. Burkhard Christoph Graf von Münnich was a German general who became a field marshal and political figure in the Russian Empire. He was the major Russian Army reformer and founder of several elite military formations during the reign of Anna of Russia. Scarce... View more info
Price: £45.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., Limited 1905: 1905
Edition: Reprint
Book number: 60202
Condition: Very Good
xxvii, 463 pp. Contemporary full red calf. Raised bands to spine with gilt panels and brown leather title label. Prize binding with gilt school devices of Mary Datchelor Girls' School, Camberwell, to front board and prize bookplate to front pastedown. Marbled endpapers. Boards clean. Internally clean. In VG to Near Fine condition. View more info
By: Athill, Diana
Price: £15.00
Publisher: London, Granta Books 2002: 2002
Book number: 59795
Condition: Good
Uncorrected proof. 161 pp. Publisher's printed yellow wrappers. Covers creased and marked. Internally clean. View more info
By: Atkins, John
Price: £22.50
Publisher: London, Calder and Boyars 1971: 1971
Edition: Reprint
Book number: 58112
ISBN: 0714507156
Condition: Very Good
394 pp, some notation in ink on a few pages, slight creasing to dustwrapper edges. 0714507156 View more info
By: Aubrey, John
Price: £125.00
Publisher: London, Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown 1813: 1813
Edition: First Edition
Book number: 54771
Condition: Very Good
Three volumes (Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 in two parts). xxiii, 304; 352; 353-668 pp. Ex-library copies with usual markings. Quarter brown cloth over boards. Gilt lettering to spines. Boards covered in clear laminate. Internally clean. 'The whole now first published from the originals in the Bodleian Library and Ashmolean Museum, with biographical and literary illustrations.' Bindings firm. View more info
By: Austen Leigh, J. E. and Jane Austen
Price: £40.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., Limited 1906: 1906
Book number: 60541
Condition: Very Good
ix, 364, (4) pp. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Boards clean. Internally clean. Frontis portrait. Includes 'The Watsons' and 'Lady Susan.' View more info
By: Bair, Deirdre
Price: £24.00
Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape 1978: 1978
Edition: 1st UK Edition
Book number: 59869
ISBN: 0224014617
Condition: Good
736 pp, illustrated in black and white, a name and pencil notes to front end paper, dustwrapper has creases and small tears. 0224014617 View more info
By: Baldwin, Oliver
Price: £45.00
Publisher: London, Grayson & Grayson 1932: 1932
Edition: Second Impression
Book number: 54761
Condition: Very Good
244 p. Original orange cloth with lettering in black to front board & spine. Slight fading to spine. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally clean. Know as Viscount Coverdale, and son of conservative PM Stanley Baldwin, he was a Labour MP for many years. He was openly homosexual. View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Philadelphia and London, J.B. Lippincott Company 1903: 1903
Book number: 33929
Condition: Good
xi., 460 pp., illustrated in b/w, top edge gilt, includes letter from the author, pinned to f.e.p no less. Binding loosening slightly, a touch of wear, bit of spotting to spine. View more info
By: Bishop, Morris
Price: £75.00
Publisher: Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A., Indiana Univ Press 1963: 1963
Book number: 45157
Condition: Very Good
399 pp. Tan half calf over cloth. Spine gilt. Top edge gilt. Previous owner's gilt initials to lower corner of front board. Scattered pencil notations, especially to rear endpapers. View more info
By: Boswell, James
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Griffin, Bohn and Co 1862: 1862
Edition: New Edition
Book number: 33497
Condition: Very Good
xii., 580 pp. light foxing to extremities, and a little mottling to the boards, but a bright clean copy View more info
By: Boswell, James
Price: £575.00
Publisher: London, John Murray 1835: 1835
Book number: 21591
Condition: Very Good
10 volumes. Bound in a marbled burgundy calf by Ramage. Top edge gilt, marbled boards and endpapers. Armorial bookplate of Algernon Borthwick of Woodcote House. A very attractive set with an olive green title label to each volume, and extra gilt to the spines. Some rubbing to the boards. The text blocks are clean, but there is some foxing and offsetting to the frontispieces and engraved titles. View more info
By: Boswell, James
Price: £250.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., Limited 1912: 1912
Edition: Reprint
Book number: 54513
Condition: Very Good
In 3 volumes. Dark green half morocco over green cloth. Raised bands to spines with gilt panels & lettering. Top edge gilt. Title pages in red & black. From Macmillan's Library of English Classics. Clean copies. No ownership names. Bindings clean and bright. View more info
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By: Boswell, James ; Augustine Birrell (edited)
Price: £400.00
Publisher: London, Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd 1906: 1906
Book number: 5225
Condition: Fine
6 volumes, small 8vo. Bound in an attractive tan calf by Ramage. Top edge gilt, marbled boards and endpapers. A very attractive set with extra gilt to the spines, and a small olive green volume number label to each volume. 17.5 cms tall View more info
