- Category = Classics,Modern First Editions,Performing Arts,Poetry,Pre First World War
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The Wife Hunter, by the Moriarty Family
Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1838. First edition. An uncommon Irish novel, written by William J. O'Neill Daunt under the pseudonym Moriarty. Two volumes. ( Red cloth spine, and cream card boards. A little fading to the labels on the spine, and slight rubbing to the boards only. Internally clean and tidy, but the text block is quite darkened. Adverts to the front of Volume 1.
18), 198, 191 (i). pages. 130 x 100 mm (5 x 4 inches).Book ID: 1860More details Price: £300.00 -
Titus Groan
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946. First edition, in second impression dust jacket (as is often stated). Bound in red cloth, Wartime economy paper. 438 pp. 220 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches).
Condition: Original cloth boards are in a clean condition, with just some sun fading in places. Neat previous owner's details to FFEP. The dust jacket is not price clipped (shows 18 shillings), and is marked 'second impression'. The jacket is slightly marked in places, being a pale colour, and the spine is a little darkened. The edges have a few tiny chips. Overall, in a very good condition. Now held in removable protective archival sleeve.
Book ID: 2325More details Price: £150.00 -
Titus Groan
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946. First edition in 2nd impression dust wrapper. Wrapper is clean but somewhat darkened. A little chipping to the spine. Owner's name stamp to the front end paper. Book itself is clean, but on wartime economy paper. 438 pages. 220 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 3168More details Price: £120.00 -
To The Last Man
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1950. Reprint, in original illustrated dust jacket. 256 pp. 190 by 130 mm (7½ by 5 inches).
Condition: Dust jacket has 'coffee cup' stain to front, and toning to endpapers. Overall in a good condition.
Book ID: 2080More details Price: £10.00 -
Twelve Summer Poems of 1962. A limited, signed copy
Edition: First Edition
London: Privately printed: 1962. A lovely copy of this privately printed collection of poems. Spotless yellow card wrappers (now protected in a translucent glassine wrapper). One of ten copies numbered and signed by Sitwell for friends. This is copy 1/10. Internally clean and tidy throughout.
Book ID: 1981More details Price: £48.00 -
Twin Sombreros
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1952. Reprint, in original illustrated dust jacket. 288 pp. 190 by 130 mm (7½ by 5 inches).
Condition: Toning to endpapers, otherwise in a very good condition.
Book ID: 2079More details Price: £10.00 -
Ulysse. Traduction française intégrale de Auguste Morel, assisté par Stuart Gilbert entièrement revue par Valery Larbaud e l'Auteur.
Paris: Gallimard. Softback covers. Third edition printed in October 1930. 3,000 copies - unnumbered. Text in French. Covers and pages age toned, but all in a very good condition. Some pages uncut at top edge. 870 pages. 210 x 145 mm (8¼ x 5¾ inches). Couvertures souples. Troisième édition imprimée en octobre 1930. 3000 exemplaires - non numérotés. Texte en français. Couvertures et pages vieillies, mais le tout en très bon état. Certaines pages non coupées en haut. 870 pages. 210 x 145 mm
Book ID: 2644More details Price: £120.00 -
Ulysses Complete and Unexpurgated
New York: Modern Library, 1946. A decent copy of this First Thus (US edition of the complete edition). Hardback. Dust wrapper is in good clean condition with a little bumping and edge wear and a few small closed tears to the edges. Slight marking to the white areas of the rear panel. The book itself has a little bumping to the head of the spine and corners. Neat and clean throughout the book. xvii, 768 pages.
Book ID: 3350More details Price: £50.00 -
Vathek Conte Arabe précédé de Beckford ou le Démon de Fables par G. Jean-Aubry
Edition: First Thus
Book ID: 1885More details Price: £580.00 -
Vier Winter-Vertellingen
Amsterdam: GA van Oorschot, 1963. First Thus (Oorschot). In the series 'De Witte Olifant'. Original title: 'The Acrobat and other stories'. 210 pp. White cloth binding and dust jacket. Wrapper is in good, unclipped condition, with a touch of darkening and edgewear only. Slight lean to the book. Internally in good clean condition. 210 by 140mm (8¼ by 5½ inches).
Book ID: 3678More details Price: £25.00 -
Vivien, illustrated by Gustave Doré
London: Edward Moxon & Co, 1867. First edition. Original blue buckram with gilt titles and design to the front board. The boards have been strengthened to the corners and spine with an archival tape. Clean but with a touch of rubbing to the edges, a little marking to the rear panel. Half title, title, 9 full page illustrations. The text is mainly clean and tidy, with darkening to the half title. Some light foxing throughout. An attractive copy. This was later published as part of the "Idylls of the King". [6], 49, [1]. pp. 430 x 310 mm (17 x 12¼ inches).
Book ID: 2827More details Price: £250.00 -
Voyages Extraordinaires: L'île à Hélice
Book ID: 2617More details Price: £350.00 -
Vue intérieure du théâtre hollandais, a la représentation de la tragédie de Gysbert d'Amstel, Sujet national.
Amsterdam: Magazin des Arts au Dam No.1, 1815. Original sepia aquatint under cream passe-partout. Taken from the book: Nouvelle statistique historique d'Amsterdam, by E. Maaskamp, and published in 1815. In very good condition. 180 x 205 mm (7 x 8 inches). Aquatinte sépia originale sous passe-partout crème. Tiré du livre : Nouvelle statistique historique d'Amsterdam, par E. Maaskamp, et publié en 1815. En très bon état. 180 x 205 mm
Book ID: 3002More details Price: £50.00 -
Wordsworth's Poems for the Young With fifty illustrations by John Macwhirter and John Pettie and a vignette by J. E. Millais. Engraved by the Dalziel brothers
London: Alexander Strahan & Co, 1863. Nice copy of this first issue. decorated and blind stamped boards. A touch of handling. There is some light white staining to the boards. Brown end papers with gift inscription. Attractive work with engravings throughout. A light foxing intermittently throughout. 92 pages +10 page ads. 195 by 155mm (7¾ by 6 inches).
Book ID: 2426More details Price: £50.00