London: SPCK/ S.P.C.K./ Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1911. New Edition. Hardcover. [6], 3-48, xlix-liv, 200, 44, 8. Pages very clean and fresh, with a small ink underline on p.49 and another in the publisher's list at the back. Faint compression crease to text block at foot of spine. In... More
London: William Yapp, 1855. Presumed first edition. Hardcover. 104pp. Poems with celestial aspirations. Publishers' hand-coloured vignette to title page, with another hand-coloured emblem heading the first poem, at p.11. Ruled borders to text. Preface 'to the reader' by 'C.S.'. Contents clean with minimal signs of handling. A very few minor..... More
London: Kegan, Paul, Trench & Co, 1886. First edition. Hardcover. xii, 306pp. Text bright with occasional faint soiling or foxing. 1936 ownership name to front free endpaper, and faint crayon mark to corner of title page. In three-quarter blue morocco with patterned paper boards, browned spine with two raised bands... More
![The Oxford Sausage: or, Select Poetical Pieces, Written by the Most Celebrated Wits of the University of Oxford. Adorned with Cuts, Engraved in a New Taste, and Designed by the Best Masters. [BOUND WITH: The Modern Characters from Shakespear alphabetically arranged.]. T. first title: Warton, second title: Shakespeare, Lady Mary Dudley variously identified as Sir Henry Dudley, or Cutts Barton, Elizabeth Berkeley Craven.](/pictures/thumb/17641105.jpg?v=1542314647)
London: for J. Fletcher and Co [second title: E. Johnson], 1764 [second title: 1778]. First editions. Hardcover. viii, (9-) 203pp. pp i-iv have a small inner corner stains, and title page has 'Edited by T. Warton' in an early hand. Contents otherwise very fresh and clean; and, what is more... More
Manchester: Carcanet, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 628 pp. Contents clean and fresh and unmarked. Foxing flecks to closed fore-edge. In the original navy cloth-textured binding titled in gilt: clean, firm, and very bright, though has been bumped to the foot of the spine. In the protected unclipped patterned dust jacket... More
London: George G. Harrap, 1936. First Rackham edition. Hardcover. 256pp, with decorative endpapers, illustrations in the text, and the 12 colour plates with captioned guards. 1938 ownership name of Dorothy Forster to the first blank leaf. Contents entirely fresh (no foxing). Quarto, in the original binding of fine russet cloth... More
Simla: printed at the Station Press, 1867. First edition. Hardcover. [vi], ii, 116. Light verse from the Raj, including narratives of expat life, from the era which gave us Lewis Carroll and W.S.Gilbert. Text within ruled borders throughout. Many pages have some foxing or soiling. One or two lines amended... More
![The Works of Oliver Goldsmith. [spine title: Goldsmith's Miscellaneous Works, with Life, Notes and Index.] [Complete four volume set.]. Oliver Goldsmith: edited with, H B.](/pictures/thumb/18354120.jpg?v=1542314662)
London: Thomas Tegg & Son; Griffin - Glasgow; Tegg, Wise - Dublin, 1835. First printing of this edition. Hardcover. [vi], 325; x, 341; x, 341; vi, 346; plus a frontis to each vol. Ownership name to front pastedown of each, that in Vol 1 partially crossed out. Contents clean with... More
London: Addey & Co., 1853. First UK edition, and first illustrated edition. Hardcover. xxx, (ii), 144pp, with illustrations by Wehnert, Godwin, Hulme and Weir. Upper corner of initial blank leaf torn away. Foxing to frontis and tissue guard and some foxing or light soiling to a number of pages, with... More
London: Duckworth, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. 59pp. Pages clean, though slightly encroached upon by heavy fore-edge foxing. Slight spotting to first and last few pages, and tanning to front free endpaper, which bears an early gift inscription. In the original binding of blue cloth, spine titled in gilt: firm and... More
Toronto: The Musson Book Company (London Chatto & Windus), n.d. [c.1905]. Presumed first edition thus. Hardcover. x, 205pp: nicely printed, with rubricated title page. Undated early Canadian ownership name to front free endpaper. 17x11cms, with top edge gilt, silk bookmark fraying but present, and pastel marbled endpapers, in a light..... More
![The Plays of William Shakespeare, in Nine Volumes. [Miniature edition]. William Shakespeare.](/pictures/thumb/18251203.jpg?v=1542314660)
London: William Pickering, 1825. First edition thus. Hardcover. c.300pp per volume: each 3.5 x 2.1 ins / 9 x 5 cms. Previous owner's small green name label (5 x 20mm) on pastedown of each vol. Pages slightly cockled. Contents very clean with the rare odd minor brown spot. Top edges... More
![The Adorable Plot. Paintings and writings about garden allotments. [Signed copy]. Tessa Newcomb, Richard Mabey.](/pictures/thumb/20129010.jpg?v=1549307775)
Bristol: Sansom & Company, 2012. First edition. Paperback. 96pp, richly illustrated in colour. The title sounds as though this could be an anthology, but the paintings and, after the introduction, the writings, are all by Newcomb. Quarto glossy paperback, 27x21cms, in fresh, unread condition. Brings together her art, her sly... More
![The Man with Night Sweats. [Signed copy]. Thom Gunn.](/pictures/thumb/19926070.jpg?v=1542314980)
London: Faber and Faber, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. 88pp. Little-read copy (pages don't fall open) with faint tanning to page edges. Contents clean and unmarked: signed 'Thom Gunn' to upper corner of title page. In the original grey cloth-textured binding, clean and firm, corners sharp. Head of spine slightly blunted... More
![Nach der Natur. [Signed copy]. W G. Sebald: with, Thomas Becker.](/pictures/thumb/19888050.jpg?v=1542314968)
Nordlingen: Franz Greno, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 99 + [4] + photographs at front and back. Signed by Sebald on the title page. Contents fine. The green cloth binding is fine, extremities sharp (the rear bottom corner and the head of the spine are nearly sharp). The protected dust jacket... More
London: J. Sewell, 1787. First edition. Hardcover. iv, (5)- 464, [x], [2] adverts. With 17 of the 18 cuts and facsimiles called for (including the frontis, engraved title, and a foldout), lacking only the View of Albion Mill. This volume contains the issues from January to June. Contents clean and... More
