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Watership Down

By: Adams, Richard

Price: £750.00

Publisher: London, Rex Collings 1972: 1972

Seller ID: 57826

ISBN: 0901720313

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Near Fine

viii, 413 pp. Recently bound in a lovely full brown morocco. Raised bands to spine with gilt decoration & lettering. All edges gilt. New endpapers. Internally clean. Folding map at rear. A handsomely bound copy of this classic. 0901720313
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Gamage's Christmas Bazaar 1913 being a facsimile reprint of the 1913 Christmas catalogue of A.W. Gamage Ltd of Holborn, London, with some pages form the 1911 General Catalogue

By: Adburgham, Alison (Intro)

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Vermount, David & Charles Inc 1974: 1974

Seller ID: 62445

ISBN: 0715366084

Binding: Publisher's Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Facsimile reprint in publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Minor foxing to the spine inscription in ink on first free endpaper. Very good dustjacket. VG/VG. 0715366084
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Fairy Tales and Legends By Hans Andersen

By: Andersen, Hans Christian

Price: £125.00

Publisher: London, Cobden-Sanderson 1935: 1935

Seller ID: 61063

Binding: Decorative Boards

Condition: Good

viii., 470 pp. Red cloth with cream rococco decoration, green decorated endpapers and gilt lettering. Whistler line illustrations throughout. Some wear to the cloth, but a good solid copy with a previous owner's name in the Ex Libris space on the front pastedown. Edges burnished red. Binding a bit skewed.
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The Novels of Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice. Sense and Sensibility. Persuasion. Northanger Abbey. Mansfield Park. Emma. In ten volumes

By: Austen, Jane and with introduction by R. Brimley Johnson

Price: £950.00

Publisher: London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1925: 1984

Seller ID: 58292

Binding: Half Morocco

Condition: Very Good

In 10 volumes complete. Publisher's dark blue half leather over blue cloth. Gilt decoration and lettering to spines. Top edge gilt. Minor rubbing to spines. No ownership names. Scattered light foxing. With colour illustrations to each volume. All bindings firm. A VG set.
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Mrs. Beeton's Household Management : A Complete Cookery Book With Sections on Household Work, Servants' Duties...Carving and Trussing...Table Decoration...

By: BEETON, Isabella (Edited by)

Price: £95.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co. N.d. [1920's]: 1920

Seller ID: 60396

Binding: Half Morocco

Condition: Good

xvi, 1680 pp. Contemporary half morocco over blue cloth. Raised bands to spine with gilt devices and lettering. Patterned endpapers. Boards stained & marked. Outer joints split at head of spine. Reinforced inner hinges. Nursery section and index bound beyond endpapers, but complete. Scattered light foxing. With 32 colour-plates and 700 illustrations. Plates complete. Binding firm.
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Image for The Book of Household Management; Comprising information for the Mistress, Housekeeper, Cook, Kitchen Maid, Butler etc.......Also, sanitary, medical, and legal memoranda; With a history of the origin, properties, and uses of all things conected

The Book of Household Management; Comprising information for the Mistress, Housekeeper, Cook, Kitchen Maid, Butler etc.......Also, sanitary, medical, and legal memoranda; With a history of the origin, properties, and uses of all things conected

By: Beeton, Mrs Isabella (edited by)

Price: £400.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock, and co. 1878: 1878

Seller ID: 43153

Binding: Publisher's Morocco

Condition: Good

circa 1878 new edition, revised and corrected. Three hundred and first thousand. pp. half title with advert on verso, frontis, xl, plate list, verso advt, [4] adverts printed in red and black, 1139, 12 (adverts) printed in red and black, 16 pp. publisher's catalogue, a further 12 pp. publishers catalogue. 12 coloured lithographic plates in totalYellow endpapers, with adverts printed in red and black. Bound in the publishers gilt decorated red morocco with green cloth boards. There is a 3 cm split at the head of the spine, and a 1 cm split at the base of the spine, with general wear along h...
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100 Cocktails : How to Mix Them

By: Bernard

Price: £60.00

Publisher: London, W. Foulsham & Co. Ltd. 1958: 1958

Seller ID: 63233

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good

96 pp. Original card wraps with colour pictorial wrapper. Jacket chipped & edgeworn. Internally clean.
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Boswell's London Journal : 1762-1763. The Yale Editions of The Private Papers of James Boswell

By: Boswell, James and edited by Frederick A. Pottle

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London, William Heinemann Ltd. / Studley Press 1951: 1951

Seller ID: 63156

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Very Good

xiii, 370 pp. Publisher's full black morocco with gilt decoration to front board & spine. Top edge gilt. Studley Press deluxe leather binding. Boards clean. Internally clean. No ownership marks. Folding map.
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Christmas Carols Old and New

By: Bramley, Henry Ramsden and John Stainer, editors

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Novello and Company, Limited N.d. [c. 1900]: 1900

Seller ID: 60609

Binding: Gilt Decorated Cloth

Condition: Very Good

184, (2) pp. Original gilt-decorated dark green cloth. Bevelled boards. All edges gilt. Slight rubbing to spine ends & corners. Internally clean. Music and words throughout.
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The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke : With a Memoir

By: Brooke, Rupert

Price: £60.00

Publisher: London, Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd. 1922: 1922

Seller ID: 62954

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Near Fine

clix, 160 pp. Contemporary dark brown full leather with gilt head of Rupert Brooke to front board. All edges gilt. Gilt turn-ins. Ink owner's inscription to front pastedown. Internally clean. Frontis and one additional portrait.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [and] Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

By: Carroll, Lewis

Price: £395.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., Limited 1927: 1927

Seller ID: 53230

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Fine

x, 300 pp. Recent full red morocco with large gilt White Rabbit device to front board. Raised bands to spine with gilt Alice devices and lettering. Top edge gilt. New endpapers. Original red cloth cover bound in at rear. Internally very clean. No ownership names. No foxing. With 92 illustrations by John Tenniel, including eight in colour.
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The Hunting of the Snark. An Agony, in Eight Fits

By: Carroll, Lewis

Price: £95.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., Ltd. 1898: 1898

Seller ID: 57878

Binding: Gilt-decorated Boards

Condition: Very Good

xi, 84 pp. Elaborately gilt-decorated red cloth. All edges gilt. Light wear to extremities and to head & foot of spine. Foxing to extremities. Early ink name to verso of front endpaper. With nine illustrations by Henry Holiday. Gilt covers bright. A VG copy.
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Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

By: Carroll, Lewis

Price: £350.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., Limited 1885: 1873

Seller ID: 60434

Binding: Gilt Decorated Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

56th thousand [xi.], 224, (3) pp. With 50 illustrations by John Tenniel. Publisher's original gilt-decorated red cloth. All edges gilt. Some bumping to the corners, but a splendid copy in the original binding.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [and] Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. In two volumes

By: Carroll, Lewis

Price: £600.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co, 1907 / 1908: 1907

Seller ID: 62509

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Fine

Two volumes in slipcase. 204; 232 pp. Recently bound in full red morocco. Raised bands to spines with gilt lines & lettering. Top edges gilt. New endpapers. Housed in a felt lined, red cloth covered slipcase. No ownership marks. With forty-two illustrations in the first volume and fifty in the second by John Tenniel. Splendid little pair.
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The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer [Kelmscott Chaucer]

By: Chaucer, Geoffrey

Price: £1,150.00

Publisher: London, Folio Society 2002: 2002

Seller ID: 59988

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Near Fine

Facsimile edition. Copy No. 796 of an edition of 1000 copies. ii, 554 pp. Bound in cream Nigerian goatskin to a decorative gilt binding design from a copy bound by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson at the Doves Bindery in 1900. In a cloth clamshell box with leather title label to spine. Includes an essay by William S. Peterson reprinted to accompany the edition. A handsome copy of arguably one of the most beautiful books produced in England. The book is in fine condition, but sadly the solander box has a mark where some wax has sat on the blue paper. This does not effect the book at all.
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The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side

By: Christie, Agatha

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Published for The Crime Club by Collins 1962: 1962

Seller ID: 63256

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. 256 pp. Publisher's orange boards with black lettering to spine and in original price clipped dust wrapper. Jacket has a long tear from the bottom edge of the front panel, and some short tears and bumps to the head and tail of the spine, and small portions of loss to the corners. Boards clean. Internally clean. No ownership names.
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes

By: Conan Doyle, A.

Price: £1,600.00

Publisher: London, George Newnes, Ltd. 1905: 1905

Seller ID: 49015

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Near Fine

403, (4) pp. First edition. Bound in blue full calf with five raised bands and gilt panelled spine. Bound by Bayntun's of Bath. Blue cloth slipcase. Leather title labels to spine which is slightly faded, but uniformly, and barely noticable because of the amount of gilt. All edges gilt. Gilt leather doublures and marbled endpapers. Illustrations by Sidney Paget. A Fine and handsome copy.
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A.B.C of Cookery

By: Cottington Taylor, D. D.

Price: £60.00

Publisher: London, Good Housekeeping Magazine 1929: 1929

Seller ID: 63189

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

256 pp. Publisher's green cloth in decorative pictorial dust wrapper. Jacket edgeworn & spine darkened. Old cellotape repairs to jacket on verso. Cloth bright. Internally clean.
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Matilda

By: Dahl, Roald

Price: £295.00

Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape 1988: 1988

Seller ID: 62494

ISBN: 0224025724

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

240 pp. Publisher's red boards with gilt lettering to spine and in pictorial dustwrapper. Jacket bright. Two corners bumped affecting jacket and boards. Ink owner's name to front pastedown. Internally clean. Jacket not price-clipped. Illustrated throughout by Quentin Blake. 0224025724
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Christmas Books. Master Humphrey's Clock. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Oxford India Paper Edition

By: Dickens, Charles

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall, Limited and Humphrey Milford N.d. [1930's]: 1930

Seller ID: 60607

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Very Good

483, 135, 287 pp. Publisher's dark green full leather with gilt decoration & lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. In the original clear acetate wrapper. Head of spine chipped. Boards clean. Internally clean. No ownership names.
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