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12 Books That Changed The World
Condition: Near fine in a near fine unclipped dust jacket.
Book ID: 2073More details Price: £10.00 -
A Book of Modern Ballads.
London: Hildesheimer & Faulkner, 1892. First edition. Brown cloth binding with gold and silver blocked design and titles to front. Fully illustrated with charming chromolithographs, some full-page. All edges gilt. Boards a little bumped and scuffed, pages age toned and with some foxing, but overall in good shape. Features poems by (among others) Rossetti, Swinburne, Browning, Shelley, Weatherly, and Gilbert.40 pp. 250 x 190 mm (9¾ x 7½ inches).
Book ID: 2497More details Price: £20.00 -
A Village Tragedy
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1889. Second edition. In original dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. 'The story is set between the deadly slums of London and the threatening fields, ponds and railway lines of the Oxfordshire countryside.' (Times Literary Supplement). 229 pp. 175 x 125 mm (7 x 5 inches).
Condition: Has a slight lean. Some moderate foxing throughout.
Book ID: 2099More details Price: £20.00 -
Age of Surrealism
London: Dennis Dobson, 1953. First GB edition. Published in hardback in original dust jacket. Russet cloth boards under jacket are clean. Dust jacket is light coloured so has some age toning and grubbiness. The first popularly written history of surrealism in art and literature which has appeared in Great Britain when it was published. Professor Fowlie deals in this book with the artists: Rimbaud, Lautréamont, Breton, Apollinaire, Cocteau, Eluard, Mallarmé, and Picasso. Previous owner's name and stamp to FFEP. Overall good copy. 203 pages. 220 x 150 mm (8¾ x 6 inches).
Book ID: 3547More details Price: £30.00 -
Amelia In four volumes
London: Harrison and Co, 1780. First Thus (Harrison & Co. edition). Four volumes bound as one. In quarter leather with mottled brown card boards. Contemporary titles and gilt rules to the spine. The binding is in good, sound condition, with a little bumping and rubbing only. Frontispiece and a further four engraved plates (five in total). Internally clean and tidy throughout, in very good condition. iv, 299 pages. 230 x 140 mm (9 x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 3340More details Price: £150.00 -
An Attempt to Determine the Chronological Order Of Shakespeare's Plays; The Harness Essay, 1877
London: Macmillan & Co, 1878. First Edition. Hard back book, in publisher's original burgundy cloth covers, gilt title to the spine. Ex-library copy. 220 pages of text. 175 x 120 mm (7 x 4¾ inches).
Condition: Usual library stamps and identifications. Boards are rubbed and a little soiled / darkened. Inside, there is an ink gift inscription dated 1881. Pages are aged. Overall a good copy of a scarce item.
Book ID: 2772More details Price: £20.00 -
Ar Fanc Siôn Cwilt: Detholiad o Ysgrifau Sarnicol
Llandysul: Gwasg Gomer, 1972. Argraffiad cyntaf. Prin. Llyfr clawr caled mewn siaced lwch wreiddiol. Llun blaen o Sarnicol. Mae rhai geiriau wedi'u tanlinellu mewn ar dudalen neu ddwy. 100 tudalen. Mewn cyflwr da. 220 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 3803More details Price: £30.00 -
Battles and Enchantments. Retold from Ancient Irish Literature
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922. Author signed, First Edition. In original blue cloth with gilt decoration to front board and title to spine. Original brown unclipped paper dust jacket. Dust jacket has some marks and is nicked to the head of the spine. Inside the book is clean, just basic shelf wear. Author signed dedication to FFEP. 168 pages. 200 x 145 mm (7¾ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 2093More details Price: £50.00 -
Cardboard Castle.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. First edition. No dust jacket. Orange boards faded to front and spine. Ex library, with a few stamps to front blank pages. Overall good reading copy. 311 pages. 195 x 130 mm (7¾ x 5 inches).
P.C. Wren is best known for his work Beau Geste. This story involves a woman, who thought herself a widow because her husband was officially declared dead, remarrying only to meet her 'dead' husband alive many years later. The invention of a fictional South-American country called Boruela, and its wicked dictator, only add to a strange plot.Book ID: 3868More details Price: £30.00 -
Cassandra: The Fam'd Romance. The Whole Work in Five Parts Written originally in French, and Now Elegantly rendred into English by Sir Charles Cotterell, Master of Ceremonies to His Late Majesty of Blessed Memory, and to our present Soveraign Charles II....
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1958More details Price: £320.00 -
Come to the War
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969. First American edition, first printing. Signed to the half-title by Thomas. In unclipped dust jacket, which states: Author of "The Virgin Soldiers." This was his fourth novel, and is set in Israel. Fine book in a a good dust jacket, with a small tear to the front of the dust jacket. This was the author's own copy. 254 pages. 220 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 2810More details Price: £20.00 -
Dombey and Son Dealings with the firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First issue / first edition. Bound in contemporary green half-calf over buckram boards. Gilt title on red morocco label, and gilt details to the spine and raised bands. Marbled endpapers. xvi, 624 [2]pp. 225 x 150 mm (8¾ x 6 inches). Some first issue points: vignette title with Captain Cuttle's hook on his left arm; p.XV line 2 no quotation marks around 'the Party'; p.14 ten lines from bottom 'aint' with no apostrophe; p.26 line 11 'fidgetty'; p.284 lines 5 and 6 from bottom 'Delight'; p.324 last line 'Captain' correctly spelled; and p.582 last line with no full stop.
Some not: Errata has 8 lines; Captain spelled correctly on p.324.Condition: Complete. Rubbing to edges and light marking to boards. Small marking to p.1. where it and xvi have once been slightly stuck together.
Book ID: 2070More details Price: £225.00 -
Driftkopje verloofd. Naar het Duitsch. Met platen.
Amsterdam: H.J.W. Becht, 1915. Beautiful Art Nouveau / Jugendstil cover design on cream percaline, by Cornelia van der Hart. Third edition of this 'story for girls'. With b/w illustrations by E.C. Leegstra, and text in Dutch. 274 pages. 235 x 15 mm (9¼ x 0½ inches).
Condition: Boards are a little darkened. Previous owner's name in neat ink handwriting to from blank endpaper. A very good book.
Book ID: 2654More details Price: £20.00 -
Gossip in a Library
Book ID: 2087More details Price: £25.00 -
Histoire des trois bossus de Besancon.
Scarce. First edition. Small chapbook / booklet with woodcuts to front and back covers. Undated but likely late 18th century or early 19th century. The story of three hunchback brothers from the Franche-Comté region, in the reign of Charles V. Sewn BindingHolding firm, in very good shape. 22 pages. 165 x 105 mm (6½ x 4¼ inches). Rare. Première édition. Petit chapbook / livret avec gravures sur bois sur les couvertures avant et arrière. Non daté mais probablement fin du XVIIIe siècle ou début du XIXe siècle. L'histoire de trois frères bossus franc-comtois, sous le règne de Charles V. Reliure cousue. Holding en très bonne forme. 22 pages. 165 × 105 mm
Book ID: 3817More details Price: £300.00 -
Iconographia Birgittina Typographica Birgitta och Katherina. I: Medeltida Bildtryck. Fascicles I & II.
Edition: First Thus
Book ID: 1049More details Price: £100.00 -
Into the Night Life (Promotional pamphlet)
Book ID: 2186More details Price: £200.00 -
Kritischer Kalender 1977. 27 lithographien von A. Paul Weber. 19 jahrgang [mit einer eigenhändig signierten Original-Farb-Lithographie].
München: F. Bruckmann KG, 1976. Hardback book with a tipped-in original colour lithograph (a donkey and a cactus) signed by the artist - Weber. Illustrated boards in good shape. Inside appears almost unread. Very goo / fine condition. Unpaginated. 230 x 200 mm (9 x 7¾ inches).
Book ID: 3749More details Price: £50.00 -
Les caractères de La Bruyère suivis des Caractères de Théophraste, traduits du grec par le même, précédés d'une notice sur La Bruyère, considéré comme écrivain et comme moraliste, par M. J. Simonnin. Tome I & Tome II
Paris: Emler Frères, 1829. First Edition. Two volumes, uniformly bound in lovely half red Morocco with gilt title to spines and red marbled boards. Bards lightly rubbed at corners only. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Contents have some areas of light to medium foxing. Overall a good set. Tome I: xxxvi, 366 pp. Tome II: 388 pp. 230 x 140 mm (9 x 5½ inches). Première édition. Deux volumes, reliés uniformément en beau maroquin demi-rouge avec titre doré aux dos et plats marbrés rouges. Bardes légèrement frottées aux coins seulement. Gardes et bords de pages marbrés. Le contenu présente certaines zones de rousseurs légères à moyennes. Dans l'ensemble un bon ensemble. Tome I : xxxvi, 366 pp. Tome II : 388 pp. 230 x 140 mm
Book ID: 3590More details Price: £100.00 -
Literary Blunders. A Chapter in the "History of Human Error"
London: Elliot Stock, 1893. Large paper edition. On of a small (but unspecified) number of copies on superior quality paper. Half leather. The spine has cracking to the edge of this, and across the back. Has been lightly repaired with archival glue. Green buckram boards. End papers are somewhat darkened, but the rest of the book is in good clean condition. xii, 226, [ii]. pages.
Book ID: 3348More details Price: £70.00