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London, etc: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1913. First edition thus. xvi, 478pp, +8 adverts: with a portrait. Oxford World's Classics vol clxxv (175). With an introduction by Clement Shorter. Contents clean. In the original green cloth ruled in blind, spine titled and decorated in gilt, clear but rather dulled. Clean and firm, with minimal blunting of extremities. Very Good.

Price: £30.00

[c.1880]. Assumed first publication, taken from a periodical. Naval story set in Ireland. 128pp + 4 chromolithograph illustrations, with advertisements in monochrome on the versos. Contents very clean, tall octavo, 8.25" x 5.25", in new brown buckram binding with front board ruled in blind and spine lettered and ruled in gilt. Near Fine.

Price: £48.00

John F. Shaw & Co., London, n.d. [1900 ?]. Edition unknown, but appears to be c.1890-1910. 128pp, with a colour frontis. Lacks front free endpaper, rear free endpaper browned. Some foxing to verso of frontis, but hardly shows on highly-coloured picture. Pages grey, with a drawing at the head of each chapter. A few minor soil or foxing marks, contents generally very good. In the original textured grey-green paper-covered boards decorated and titled in navy with an oval pictorial onlay of the same illustration as the frontis (gentleman accosted by boy with flowers). Lower joint scuffed with a small repair. Picture bright, binding clean and firm, with very slight knocks and scuffing to extremities. VG. [Scarce title, not on Copac.]

Price: £90.00

London: Routledge, 1914. Second impression. (viii), 200pp. Restored worn copy. Page edges browning, with some light soiling and foxing. Title page bears two ownership names, one of which has been blacked out with marker. The final page has been professionally restored as it was found split and with a patch of text torn away: this has been replaced, with only three letters still partly missing - and its quite clear what they were. In the original red cloth, upper board titled and decorated in blind, and both boards fairly bright and clean. Rebacked, firm, with new endpapers, and the original spine laid down. However, this is very dulled and darkened, and is scarcely legible. G.

Price: £60.00

London: Secker and Warburg, 1939. First edition, first printing. xii, 314pp. First owner's dated name in pencil on ffep, and corner crease to first few pages. Quite a lot of foxing, but this is mostly peripheral and light, and the pages are otherwise unmarked. Endpapers good, text block firm, top edge red, closed fore-edge foxed. In the original black cloth, spine lettered in red. Spine ends slightly rounded, small mark to lower board, tiny scuff to head of lower joint, otherwise clean and firm. No jacket. Good copy of the scarce first printing. VG.

Price: £60.00

London, Gollancz, 1941. First edition. With DUSTJACKET. 206pp. Neat 1941 gift inscription on front free endpaper. Contents otherwise very clean and unmarked. In the original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Some pale spotting to lower left of upper board. Extremities slightly knocked with small scuff to one corner. In the protected first edition yellow dustjacket printed in black and purple, with the inner flaps blank and the lower panel with only the printer's name at one corner. Some soiling, top edge knocked, and with a 4mm triangular chip at base of upper joint: slight fraying and tiny chips at the other extremities. Scarce in dustwrapper. VG/ G+.

Price: £85.00

Random House, New York, 1949. US First edtion ("First Printing" stated). SIGNED COPY in scuffed binding. (vi), 244pp. First blank leaf inscribed: "To de Beer/ with all the best from/ Sax"(written '$ax') signed in blue ink. Contents clean. Original paper-covered boards, firm and clean but scuffed: edges rubbed, upper corners knocked (affecting pages), spine ends rounded, quite a lot of scuffing to spine ends, joints and surface. Gilt decoration with author and publisher on the spine are a little lost against the background, but the gilt on black title label and black bands are bold and unaffected, as is the small design on the front. G.

Price: £120.00

George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London, 1955, 1955, 1955. These are, respectively, the 4th, 2nd, and 1st impressions of the first editions of these titles. 423pp (i); 352pp; 416pp. At the top edge of the verso of the half title of the last volume is neatly written in ink: "The Lord of the Rings: translated from the Red Book." Otherwise all are devoid of inscriptions and the contents are very clean. The maps to each volume are crisp, though one has a tiny repair where it joins the page. Top edge of the text block of the first volume is red. They are in handsome new craftsman bindings of red Victorian cloth, blind ruled on the front, gilt-ruled at the spine ends and with gilt-lettered black labels. A beautiful set in a binding you might dare to handle.
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Price: £750.00

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1959. First US edition. 318pp. Faint discoloration to bottom margin of pp10 &11, otherwise contents very clean and unmarked. In the original black cloth-textured binding, with the skull in blind with gilt coins in the eye sockets on the front, and the spine lettered in gilt: very slight blunting to the spine ends, otherwise all very bright, clean and sharp. The protected unclipped Chopping dust-jacket has one 1cm closed tear to the back panel, a 2mm closed tear to base of spine, and tiny scuffs with loss at the extremities. Pictorial upper panel has two thin black marks at base and the leading edge is darkened; the spine is slightly darkened, and the lower panel is soiled. Upper joint slightly scuffed, and some mostly very slight knocking and darkening to the top edge. Overall appearance: slightly darkened, otherwise very good, with only minor wear. Very nice copy. Near Fine in very good dust-jacket.

Price: £350.00

Sythoff, Leyden / Heinemann, London, 1963. First thus. 265pp. A volume in the Bibliotheca Neerlandica series. Contents very clean. Closed edges of text block slightly browned. In original blue cloth lettered in gilt: fresh, firm and clean, with very slight knock to one corner. In protected unclipped (unpriced) pictorial dustjacket. Fresh and clean, with scuffs to extremities. Near-Fine/ VG.

Price: £48.00