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London: Ward and Downey, 1887. Second edition. [iv],152pp + (4) adverts. Contents otherwise very fresh and clean but for a small pale splash to the half title and a little silverfish damage to the edge of the last advert leaf. Top edge gilt. Recased in a simple late 20thC binding of blue buckram with grey endpapers and gilt title to spine. Bright clean copy. Very Good+.

Price: £38.00

London: Macmillan, 1897. First edition. xvi, 179pp, with a tissue-guarded frontis and text illustrations. Two ownership names to half-title, one being in ink, the other, boldly pencilled, is Dunsterville - thought to be Major-General L.C. Dunsterville, friend of Kipling, and known as Stalky. Faint brown foxing to many pages: contents otherwise clean and unmarked. In the original binding of smooth bottle-green cloth, spine ruled and titled in gilt, the front ruled in blind and decorated with an emblem in gilt, bright. Binding firm: extremities blunted, short split at head of spine; some very minor bubbling to cloth, and scuffed at lower corners. Good copy. VG.

Price: £50.00

London: William Rider and Son Limited, 1910. First edition. xii, 194pp, including a bibliography. Some toning to pages. First owner's busy notes cover endpapers, half-title, and other blank spaces, but have not invaded the margins or the text itself. Slightly shaken. 126 x 80mm, in the original binding of pearlescent blue cloth, spine and front board titled in gilt, circled on the front by an Ouroboros. Slight staining or soiling, spine blue faded, slight fraying to ends and to upper joint. Precedes the Pictorial edition printed the following year. Good+.

Price: £240.00

London: Bodley Head, 1917. First edition. viii, 144, +(4) adverts. With the author's affectionate 1917 inscription to his niece on front free endpaper. Title page rubricated, and all pages with ruled borders and large margins, pages uncut. A sceptical reader has left neat biro queries in the margins of several pages, and a few notes on the back free endpaper. Some browning to endpapers, minimal other foxing or marks. Top edge gilt. In the original three-quarter vellum binding titled in gilt, with pretty marbled boards. Some darkening and toning, and scuffs to the ends. Attractive copy. VG.

Price: £35.00

London: A. Lewis, 1929. First edition. 184pp. Contents clean and fresh. In the original binding of blue cloth ruled and with masonic emblem in blind, and titled in gilt. Firm and very bright, with a few small marks. Very nice copy. Very Good+.

Price: £32.00

i: Bombay, ii: Pondicherry: i: Sri Aurobindo Circle, ii: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, i: 1950, ii: 1954. i: 2nd edition, ii: Second impression. First Series: 387pp. Pencilled 1958 ownership name on front endpaper: contents otherwise very clean. In the original binding of bottle-green pebbled cloth: firm, with minor soiling and a knock to head of lower joint, feebly printed title now scarcely legible. Second Series: [viii], 547pp. Pages browned but pleasantly scented and otherwise clean. Chips to edges of p[vii-viii] and p1-2. In the original binding of pale blue cloth, clean and firm, slightly scuffed at some edges. A good pair. Very Good.

Price: £38.00

Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1971. First edition. [vi], 212pp. Ex-library copy, so the copyright page is stamped and the front free endpaper is prettily bedecked with labels and stamps. Contents very clean. Book knocked to upper fore-edge, denting edge of jacket and boards, and buckling the outer edges of the pages throughout. In the original binding of green cloth titled in gilt: unmarked, bright and firm. Small surface puncture to both front and back boards. In the protected green dust jacket. This is bright and clean, with two small marks to the front panel (one of which is a puncture), and slight darkening near the foot of the spine where a label was. Minor scuffs at extremities. Very nice ex-library copy with a knock. VG.

Price: £280.00

London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1976. First edition. xiv, 282pp. Faint vertical line to endpapers from edges of dust jacket. Contents otherwise very clean and unmarked. In the original blue cloth-textured binding titled in gilt, clean and firm, with very slight sunning to top edge, and very slight compression to base of spine. In protected unclipped dust jacket. Spine very faded (scarcely legible), otherwise bright and clean with minor edge scuffs and slight sunning to top of front panel. Very Good in VG- dust-jacket.

Price: £48.00