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London: Newnes, 1894. First edition. [vi], 279pp, illustrated throughout by Sidney Paget, and with the famous frontis of the struggle at the Reichenbach Falls. A certain amount of soiling and foxing to the text, and a pale tide stain to the fore-edge margin, large at the prelims, then diminishing till it vanishes around p.120. All edges gilt, in the original binding of blue cloth over bevelled boards titled in gilt, and with the Strand Library vignette in black. Rebacked, with the spine relaid, and new endpapers. Spine dulled, upper board quite bright, with a few small marks and a pale cup ring. Good firm copy with some soiling to the text. Good.
[Heavy Item]

Price: £190.00

Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, 1974. First edition, first impression. 276, (4) adverts: with many illustrations in line by Pat Marriott. Slight puckering and faint browning to top edges of pages: but this is an unread copy, and the contents are otherwise very fresh and unmarked. Green and brown on spine slightly faded, and slight cockling to top edges: covers otherwise fresh, clean and bright, spine flat with no creasing. Very Good+.

Price: £40.00

London: Heinemann, 1962 to 1975. Five are reprints, the last seven are first editions. An internally extremely fresh and unmarked set in very fresh jackets (due to all except Books do Furnish a Room being unread); the red cloth spines are bright, with slight puckering to some spine ends, and the corners of the boards are sharp: but the edges of the boards of about half the set show some slight fading or loss of colour from damp (see photo). The protected Broome Lynne jackets are crisp, clean and complete with minimal signs of wear: that of vol i has a 6mm closed tear to the top edge of the rear panel, and that of vol xi has translucent pale marks to the rear panel. Reprint dates of first 5 vols: Vol i: 1969; Vol ii: 1967; Vol iii 1968; Vol iv: (1st reprint) 1964; Vol v: (1st reprint) 1969. The first edition dates of Vols vi - xii are 1962, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1975. Very Good in near fine dust-jacket.
[EXTRA Heavy Item]

Price: £1,450.00

London: T.Egerton for the first two titles, J.Murray for the remainder: 1813, 1817, 1817, 1816, 1818. Third, second, and first editions. A modest and beautiful set, with some browning and foxing to the pages, affecting chiefly the earlier titles. Sense and Sensibility: 2nd edn, 3 Vols, 1813. Printed for the Author and published by T Egerton. 306, 278, 294. Pride and Prejudice: 3rd edn, 2 Vols, 1817. Printed for T Egerton. 289, 311. Mansfield Park: 2nd edn, 3 Vols, 1816. Printed for J Murray. 360, 294, 354. Emma: 1st edn, 3 Vols, 1816. Printed for J Murray. 322, 351, 363, (i). Northanger Abbey and Persuasion; with a Biographical Notice of the Author. 1st edn, 4 Vols, 1818. Printed for J Murray. xxiv 300, 331, 280, 308. Ownership name in faded ink 'JH Calcott /1845' on one of the initial blanks in all vols. No half titles throughout. Endpapers marbled. Text block 7 x 4 ins, in bright half vellum with blue cloth boards, spines plainly titled and numbered in black: 7.2 x 4.3ins overall. Clean and firm, with few faint or minor marks, and small knock to head of one spine. Provenance of the collection in ink in various hands on the blanks at front of Vol I of Northanger Abbey, spanning the years from 1818, when it was purchased in Edinburgh, to 1949, when it was left to the late recent owner. The suitably undemonstrative binding done at Oxford in 1896. An exquisite collection. Very Good, bindings Near Fine.
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Price: £22,500.00

Hodder & Stoughton, London, n.d. [1920]. First edition. 320pp. Some fore-edge foxing, a few spots in text. Original binding of bright red cloth boldly lettered in black. Spine very slightly sunned, ends puckered, tiny nick at base, and faint ridge across spine centre. Clean, firm, bright copy. Scarce. VG. .

Price: £50.00

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1881. Copyright Edition. 288, 280pp. Complete in 2 vols. Faint soiling to first and last pages, more so to last page of first vol: contents otherwise clean. In matching contemporary dark brown quarter calf with 4 raised bands with gilt floral motifs, boards marbled crimson and brown. Light scuffs to edges, gilt bright, all firm. VG+.

Price: £65.00

Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1972. Reprint. 119pp, with illustrations by George Brook. Contents very fresh and clean and unmarked. In the original patterned blue boards, bright and clean, corners good. In the unclipped pictorial dust jacket. With three invisible short closed tears, and a 3mm chip to top leading corner: bright and clean, with a little minimal soiling, and very slight fading to spine. Hard to find good copies of this story. Lovely copy. Near Fine in very good+ dust-jacket.

Price: £32.00

Michael Joseph, London, 1954. A very fresh copy in dustwrapper. First printing of this edition. 206pp. Contents generally very fresh and clean. Inner margins of front free endpapers slightly browned, and very minor soil or stain marks to lower margin of some of the first few pages. Very faint beginnings of some fore-edge foxing. In original red cloth-textured binding with spine lettered in gilt: very sharp, bright and clean. In unclipped pale green dustwrapper: spine slightly faded and faint soiling to back panel, otherwise clean and bright. Near-Fine/ VG+

Price: £45.00

London: J.M. Dent and Company, 1895 - 1898. Some vols are first printings of this edition. Each subvolume is preceded by a printed title and a rubricated and decorated title, and has three plates, one of which is a frontis: plus the first volume has a portrait of Charlotte Bronte. Contents clean, with slight toning to pages. Top edges gilt. In new bindings of quarter pale buff cloth over thin slate blue boards, spines with printed paper labels. An attractive and readable set. Near Fine.

Price: £360.00

London: Reindeer Books, Hamish Hamilton, 1960. First edition. 125pp + (3) adverts: illustrated. Rather soiled book in lovely dustwrapper. Library stamps and some soiling to front free endpaper, and another stamp on copyright page: no other library marks or labels. Prelims also have indentations from erased child pencil writing. Occasional minor soiling throughout, and slight creases where corners were dogeared. In the original green textured binding lettered in gilt, clean, bright and firm, one corner knocked, other extremities blunted. In protected price-clipped pictorial dust jacket, very bright and clean, with small (3mm) nicks at ends of upper joint. VG- in VG+ dust-jacket.

Price: £22.00