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Cambridge: Deighton, Bell & Company, 1973. Limited edition of 500 copies of which 100 bound in full morocco and four hundred in buckram. This is an unnumbered copy from the 400 in buckram. Hardback. xiv, [xvi - xvii], 1 - 48, [4]pp. Top edge gilt. Label to spine. Book designed by Sebastian Carter & printed by him and Will Carter at the Rampant Lion Press, Cambridge. Printed on mould-made paper from J. Barcham Green of Maidstone. Binding by John P. Gray & Son of Cambridge. Introduction by Isabel Rivers. Notes to text at rear. Prose polemic from 1644 opposing licensing and censorship. This is an ex-library copy. Lacking slipcase. Book in good condition. A little light marking to boards. Front endpapers bear the usual scars of library tickets etc being removed. Front paste down has a 'withdrawn' sticker from East Sussex County Library. Rear free end paper has a small library ticket wallet towards lower edge. Faint pencil note to blank preceding half-title. Library Dewey decimal… Read More

London: Odhams Press Ltd, c1940. Undated c1940. Hardback. 460pp. Mottled brown cloth with blind stamped design to front. Gilt to spine. Top edge tinted brown. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Illustrations to both front and back of jacket which presumably show characters from novels in this series by Odhams. Portrait frontispiece of the author. One of Trollope's best-loved books in a very nice edition. Book in very good condition. Just a very slight amount of spotting to text block edges. Some minor marks to free endpapers which look like offsetting from the jacket. Dust jacket very good. Unclipped. Very minor edge wear only.

London: Folio Society, 1987. F. W. Pailthorpe. Folio Society 1987. Hardback. xix, 610pp. Original green slipcase. Quarter green cloth with gilt to spine. Orange boards with floral motif, orange endpapers and orange top edge. Illustrations by Charles Keeping. Introduction by Christopher Hibbert. Book in fine condition. Slipcase very good - slight surface marking and a small scuff to one side. A heavy book but no additional shipping costs to UK post codes.

London: Folio Society, 1987. F. W. Pailthorpe. Folio Society 1987. Hardback. xix, 610pp. Original green slipcase. Quarter green cloth with gilt to spine. Orange boards with floral motif, orange endpapers and orange top edge. Illustrations by Charles Keeping. Introduction by Christopher Hibbert. Book in very good condition. Faint soiling to text block fore and bottom edges. Also, what appears to be a very small pen mark to bottom edge. Previous owner's printed bookplate to front pastedown. Slipcase near fine with minor surface marking only. A heavy book but no additional shipping costs to UK post codes.

London & New York: Frederick Warne & Co Ltd, 1923. First edition in this format limited to 250 copies, this being no 33. Hardback. viii, [1 - 10], 11 - 313pp. Green cloth boards with gilt decoration to upper board and to spine. Top edge gilt. Dust jacket. The Fables decorated with 68 wood engravings from drawings by William Harvey. Book in very good condition. A little rubbing to extremities of spine. Light marking to upper board. Dust jacket good. Not price marked so unclipped. A little edge wear. Nick to top edge of front and small closed tear to upper edge of rear at hinge. Corners chipped and spine discoloured. Jacket in a protective sleeve.

London: Folio Society, 1992. Hardback. Fine/Slipcase in good condition. John Aubrey (edited by Richard Barber). Folio Society, London, 1992 (seventh printing). Book condition: near fine and has an unread feel. Very clean and sound. Original slipcase in very good condition with a little light scuffing here and there. Brief Lives is one of the strangest books - if indeed this collection of notes, excerpts, gossip and dry facts can be called a book - to have achieved literary fame. Aubrey himself was equally strange in his way: a gentleman with a learned turn of mind, yet little formal education, a lover of books and manuscripts, yet almost penniless, a would-be scholar who loved wprldly company as much as that of serious men, who spent the last twenty years of his life living in other people's houses, on the run from his creditors. The text in this edition has been modernised in spelling and Aubrey's abbreviations have been expanded. A fascinating and intriguing read.

London: Vintage Classics, 2000. All four paperback volumes in this series. All published in 2000. Vol. 1: 536pp; Vol. 2: 533pp; Vol. 3: 280pp; Vol. 4: 563pp. No jackets (as issued). Volume 1 includes stories that move from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. It also includes the famous story "Rain" - the tragic story of a narrow-minded missionary and a prostitute. Volume 2 take the reader from Malaya to America and England, and includes some of Maugham's most famous tales: "Flotsam and Jetsom", the story of an old woman trapped for years in a loveless marriage and "The Man with the Scar". Volume 3 contains the celebrated series about a secret service agent in the First World War. Accountable only to "R", the spy Ashenden travels all over the Continent on assignments which entangle him with such characters as the traitor Grantley Caypor, the passionate Giulia Lazzari, and the sinister "hairless Mexican". Volume 4… Read More

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1909. Hardback. Good/No dust jacket.. John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1909. Book condition: good. Very minor bumping to corners and a little shelf wear to head & tail of spine Spine a little discoloured. Binding sound. Internally some tanning to end papers and a little spotting here and there. Contents page has a tear ro inner top corner which has ben repaired with sellotape. Page edges untrimmed with some soiling. Yellow cloth covers with black illustration & title to front, similar to spine.

London: Folio Society, 1961. Hardback. Very Good/No slipcase. Mervyn Peake. Folio Society, London, 1961. Book condition: very good. Some light shelf wear and some slight marking mainly to rear board. Internally clean & unmarked. No slipcase. Illustrated by Mervyn Peake.

London: Chapman Hall, 1880. Hardback. Very Good/No dust jacket.. Chapman & Hall, London, 1880. Binding by Zaehnsdorf. Book condition: very good. A little rubbing to head of spine and top edges. Slight loss to contrasting leather segments on spine for title & author. Attractive chestnut coloured half Morocco binding with ruled gilt insets and gilt decoration to spine. Five raised bands to spine. A little cracking to leather hinge at lower regions of spine/rear board. Top edge gilt bright & clean. Marbled endpapers with a little light spotting. Small area of loss to p21/22 of publisher's ads at rear. Some light spotting here and there. 460pp. Advertisements to rear - one of which has lost a diagonal piece across lower corner. A delightful edition of The Duke's Children.

London: Anthony Blond, 1969. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Erté. Anthony Blond, London, 1969. First edition in this format. Book Condition: very good - virtually free of shelf wear and with very little sign of use. Dust Jacket Condition: very good and unclipped. Esmeralda is the country girl and Ermyntrude lives in London. Edwardian young ladies fresh from school and resolved to discover for themselves the forbidden mysteries and in these letters they tell all. Lytton Strachey's entertainment, written for the private relish of his circle, is as dainty, fresh and giddy as it was when it reduced the Bloomsbury set to heaps of giggles. Included are seventeen delightful two-colour illustrations by Erté, who also designed the dust jacket. Forty-seven pages. Red buckram covers with gilt vignette decoration to front and gilt titling to spine. The book also has an introduction by Michael Holroyd.

London: The Folio Society, 1993. Folio Society, 1993. First published in book form in 1879. Hardback. xvii, 169pp. Green cloth spine over grey boards. top edge tinted green. Slipcase. Introduction by Maeve Binchy. Illustrations by Elisa Trimby. Book in near fine condition and unread. Slipcase near fine with only very minor surface marking.

London: Folio Society, 1967. This edition was originally published in 1954. Reset edition 1965. This is a second impression from 1967. Hardback. xi, 330pp. Slipcase. Drawings by Nigel Lambourne. Book in very good condition. Some colour fade to spine. Slipcase very good. A little surface marking only.

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1912. Hardback. Good/No dust jacket.. John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1912. Book condition: good. Very minor bumping to corners and light shelf wear to head & tail of spine. Spine a little discoloured. Binding sound. Internally some tanning to end papers and a little staining to upper edges of paste downs. A litle light spotting here and there. Page edges untrimmed and hence a little soiled. Yellow cloth covers with black illustration and titles to front and to spine.

London: Folio Society, 1997. Llewellyn Thomas. Folio Society, 1997 (first published in book form in 1872). Hardback. xiv, 160pp. Dark red cloth binding over cream boards. Top edge tinted red. Slipcase. A delightful edition of this wonderful book with an introduction by Anthony Juckes. Illustrated by Val Biro. Book in near fine condition and unread. Slipcase near fine with only the slightest surface marking and a very narrow band of sun-bleaching to one open edge.

London: Folio Society, 1997. Llewellyn Thomas. Folio Society, 1997 (first published in book form in 1872). Hardback. xiv, 160pp. Dark red cloth binding over cream boards. Top edge tinted red. Slipcase. A delightful edition of this wonderful book with an introduction by Anthony Juckes. Illustrated by Val Biro. Book in near fine condition. Very slight soil mark to rear fly leaf. Slipcase in very good condition.

London: The Caxton Publishing Company. , Undated. Hardback. 364pp. Publisher's original green cloth binding. Blind stamped thistle design to upper board and similar to spine which also has gilt titles. Colour frontis plus black and white illustrations. No jacket. Book in good condition. Boards a little rubbed and worn at extremities of spine, some slight marking/soiling. Very minor bumping. Some toning to endpapers and adjacent pages but otherwise very clean and bright internally. Frontis lacking tissue guard.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1899. First edition. Hardback. Good/No dust jacket.. Howard Pyle & his pupils. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1899. First edition. Two volume set. Book condition: good. Vol II is a little faded and shows more signs of wear than its companion which we would probably grade very good. Both volumes are a little bumped at the corners (II more than I). Text block bindings sound save for three consecutive pages (39-40 plus illustration) which are loose in Vol II. Blue cloth with gilt motif to fronts and gilt decoration and titles to spines. Top edge gilt. Voume I has a colour miniaure frontispiece by Lillie V. O'Ryan whilst Vol II has similar by Sharpless. Both volumes are profusely illustrated by Howard Pyle & pupils in b&w. This famous historical romance is set before and during the American Revolutionary War. It narrates the struggle of the colonies to gain their freedom and the struggle of the hero, Jack Brereton, to win the heart of the heroine,… Read More

Paris: L'Edition D'Art H. Piazza, 1919. Limited edition of 500 copies, this one is not numbered. Hardback. 215pp. Contemporary blue leather over marbled paper boards. Gilt to spine. Original covers bound-in. Colour frontispiece by Leon Carre. Text printed in black within decorative blue borders. Text in French. Book in good condition. A little rubbing to leather and to corners and edges. Some light spotting throughout.

Paris: Editions Spes, 1928. Hardback. 220, (2)pp. Bound in contemporary leather over patterned paper boards. Marbled end papers. Original covers bound-in. Silk page marker. Text in French. Book in good condition. Generally a little rubbed. Lower corners of boards somewhat bumped. Some sporadic spotting throughout, most apparent to prelims and fly leaves.