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London: Printed by A. Strahan... for Joseph Butterworth and Son, 1827. Sixth Edition. xvi, 797pp. Some browning to endpapers and to a few openings. Slightly cockled and with barely discernible tide stains and occasional dustiness to edges, but contents otherwise very clean and in good order, text block firm. In full 19thC calf, ruled in blind, with five raised bands, heavily scuffed, some splitting to joints, boards firm, and with perhaps later bright spine label. Scarce in the original: nice copy. Very Good.
[Heavy Item]

Price: £85.00

London: Stevens and Haynes, 1878. First edition. xxxvi, 730, (2), 48(adverts). Title page soiled, with some browning, and with address stamp and early ownership name in ink at head. Early owner's neat observations in ink on a few pages. Pages browning slightly, contents otherwise clean. Original brown advert endpapers. Text block firm, closed edges slightly soiled. In the original purple-brown pebble cloth boards ruled in blind, with recent black cloth spine ruled in blind and lettered in gilt. Good copy of a title very scarce in first edition. VG+.

Price: £180.00

[The Toynbee Trust]: J.M.Dent & Co, London, 1907. First Edition. xviii, 243pp +(i). Partially unopened. Front free endpaper removed. Some foxing to uncut fore-edge and to first and last pages, contents otherwise clean. Top edge gilt. In original navy cloth with emblem in blind on front, and spine lettered in gilt. Clean, bright and firm, head of spine pulled, slightly knocked. A rare, compassionate and precise account of the functioning of the law as experienced by the populace of the time. VG. Scarce.

Price: £120.00

London: The New Age Press, November 1916 - April 1917. First editions. Stapled newspapers, 24pp per issue, each 13 x 8.75 ins. Some fraying at the spines, and some edges a little bent, but a complete and generally clean set, from a collection which has been wrapped up in parcels for 60 years. In addition to the regular and pseudonymous authors, the contributors here include G.K.Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw, Havelock Ellis, H.G.Wells, G.D.H.Cole, Herbert Read, Allen Upward, Upton Sinclair, Oliver St. John Gogarty, John Mavrogordato and Ruth Pitter, as well as Hilaire Belloc, whose essay on 'The Present Position and Power of the Press' spans 8 issues. [n.b. we have more issues of The New Age from 1913-1916] Very Good.
[Heavy Item]

Price: £140.00

London: Danel O'Connor, 1921. First edition. xii, 270; viii, (273)-532. With many plates, including some foldout, a tissue-guarded colour frontis to each volume, and pictorial endpapers. Title pages and guards yellowed, and a little occasional foxing elsewhere, contents otherwise clean and unmarked. Vol II front endpaper joint split but glued and firm. Quarto, top edges gilt, in the original bindings of blue cloth, boards ruled in blind, spines titled in gilt, bright. Spine ends puckered and scuffed, scratch to upper board of Vol II, minor surface marks: nice firm set. Very Good.
[EXTRA Heavy Item]

Price: £85.00

London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1926. First edition. xii, 124, + 16 adverts. Early ownership name and slight soiling to front free endpaper: contents otherwise clean. In the original binding of burgundy fine pebble cloth, ruled in blind and titled in gilt: boards bright with some soiling, spine very dulled, but legible. Firm, corners good: good copy. VG.

Price: £45.00

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

Cambridge: Bowes & Bowes, for the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. 1936 & 1951. First editions. (viii), 41pp; and (viii), 57pp. Illustrated with drawings and folding plans. Some foxing to endpapers and neat ownership name. Trivial foxing to one or two pages, otherwise all very fresh and clean. In contemporary green buckram, spine titled in gilt and slightly faded, boards firm and clean. Very Good+.

Price: £48.00

London: St Botolph Publishing Co, 1946. First Edition. 111pp. 'In this book I shall try to describe the far-reaching transformation of morals and manners through which we are now passing, and I shall venture to look forward a little into the future to see where it is likely to lead.' The great futurologist gets to grips with the world post-war. Slight foxing to endpapers and slight bubbling to pastedowns: contents otherwise clean: printed on thin paper, slightly cockled. In original binding of light blue cloth printed in black, clean and bright, with minimal signs of wear. Printed green dustjacket is browned in places, and, being slightly taller than the book, the top edge is knocked and frayed, with some minor chips. Near Fine in VG- dust-jacket.

Price: £38.00

London: Harrap, 1963. First edition. 319pp, illustrated with photographs. 1964 ownership name on front free endpaper. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked. In the original green cloth-textured binding, spine titled in gilt on black: clean, bright and firm, with base of spine and front bottom corner slightly blunted. Slight sunning to head of spine where jacket chipped. In the protected unclipped dustwrapper, very bright to front and spine, with 1cm chip to head of spine by head of lower joint. Lower panel rather soiled. Scuffs to corners and small soil mark to front. Nice copy. Very Good in VG dust-jacket.

Price: £55.00