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London: Richard Bentley, 1866. Second edition. vi, 302pp; (ii),263pp, +16 adverts. Pastedowns bear Malone armorial bookplates, with some adhesion damage to the Vol II endpaper. Faded 'Downing' ownership name on title pages. Laid in, clipping of a 1947 letter to the Sunday Times, recommending Emily Eden's 'vivid and humorous letters from India' for inclusion in the World's Classics series. Some browning or soiling affecting some pages at the front of each vol, little elsewhere. In the original bindings of red cloth, ruled in blind, spines titled in gilt, and with gilt decorations on spines and upper boards. Some soiling, corners bumped, spine ends fraying a little. A good firm set, gilt bright, and a delightful read. Very Good.

Price: £145.00

M.J. Backwell, Castletown, Isle of Man, n.d. (c.1910). Good firm copy with damaged boards. Probable first edition. Parallel text. xiii, 265pp, with a guarded portrait frontis and two other portrait plates. Ownership name on endpaper, blotted onto pastedown, with small bookseller's sticker. Contents clean and firm with minor fore-edge foxing. In original binding of green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front and Manx medallion on front. Extremities slightly knocked. The boards have damp damage, spoiling their colour towards the fore-edge (see photo). G-

Price: £25.00

London: Faber and Faber, 1930. First edition. 278pp, with two illustrations. Light pencilled inscription from author's relative on front free endpaper. Minor foxing to prelims and early part of the book; faint crease to upper corner of first 20 pages. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked. Some pronounced foxing to closed fore-edge. Top edge green. In the original binding of red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, clean, bright and firm. Spine ends slightly rounded, tiny knock to one corner. In protected unclipped green pictorial dustwrapper: spine darkened with loss of 3mm at the head, upper joint chipped at head, scuffing and chips along lower joint. Back panel has small soil mark: otherwise front and back panels clean and complete. Nice copy of a scarce book. VG+ in VG dust-jacket.

Price: £165.00

London: Methuen, 1939. First edition. xii, 140pp, with 8 plates and several genealogies, including 3 foldouts. Biography, on the eve of the second world war, of the leading figure in the 19thC movement for Jewish emancipation, Lord Mayor of London, and inventor. Contents very clean, foldouts crisp. In the original binding of brown cloth, spine titled in gilt: clean and firm, with slight puckering at spine ends, and three short scratches next to the lower joint. Very Good.

Price: £48.00

Sudbury: The Yard Press, 1999. Reprint. xvi, 324pp, illustrated. Contents very fresh and clean. 8.25 x 5.75 ins, large format paperback with pictorial covers. Bright and clean. Near-Fine. Near Fine.

Price: £35.00

London: Viking, 1999. First general edition. 157pp, beautifully produced, with many illustrations, some in colour. Follows the limited edition of 300 printed by the Fleece Press. Signed by Ronald Blythe on the title-page. Unread, unmarked copy. 'Paul and John Nash, Dora Carrington and Christine Kuhlenthal met at the Slade School .....' The book is based upon Blythe's find of a tin trunk of letters this extraordinary group of friends had written to each other since just before the First World War and throughout the 1920s. Quarto, in the original navy cloth-textured binding titled in silver, clean, bright and firm. The protected unclipped pictorial dustjacket has some very minor soiling, and the top edge is slightly knocked. Fine in near fine dust-jacket.

Price: £30.00

Fish Hoek, South Africa: Amani Press, 2007. First edition. x, 566pp, printed on glossy paper and illustrated in colour and monochrome. Half-title inscribed by author. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked. Fairly large format paperback (22 x 15 cms), with pictorial covers. There are small knocks at the ends of the upper joint, and a 4cms tear to the top end of the hinge: this has been made good with archival tape to discourage it from extending. Otherwise a very fresh clean firm copy. Very Good+.
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Price: £50.00

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2010. First edition, first printing. (xii), 339pp, illustrated with photographs. Contents fresh and unmarked, appears unread. In the original purple cloth-textured binding titled in silver, clean, bright and firm, corners sharp, with very slight compression of the spine ends. In the spectacular protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket, bright and clean, with a slight crease at the top of the back panel. Lovely copy. Near Fine in near fine dust-jacket.

Price: £28.00