London: Blackie & Son, n.d. First or early edition. Hardcover. 224pp, with five colour plates, including the frontis. Plates and pages clean and unmarked. Front free endpaper neatly removed, gutter made good. Some foxing to half title, and rear free endpaper tanned. c.19.5x14cms, in the original quarter binding of grey..... More
Cambridge: The Oleander Press, 2009. Paperback. [viii], 131pp, [ii]. Unread copy, pages fresh like new. Gray was Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, which provides the settings for these supernatural stories, which were first published by Heffer in 1919. c.22x14cms, in the original pictorial grey card covers, clean and square like..... More
![The Works of Edgar Allan Poe. Complete in 5 vols. [ie: ten 'volumes', bound in five books]. Edgar...](/pictures/thumb/19140110.jpg?v=1609271495)
London: Jarrold & Sons, n.d. [1914]. [Presumed only printing of this edition.]. Hardcover. A very handsome set, looks 100 years younger than it actually is. Greenough's 1914 Introduction is followed by Maria Clemm's Preface to the 1849 edition; then there are James Russell Lowell's notice of Poe's Life and Works..... More
London: William Tegg, n.d. [c.1870]. A New and Complete Edition. Hardcover. xxxiv, [ii], 486, [2], [4] adverts. Many engravings in the text. Inner joints discreetly repaired. A few pages circa p333 have some foxing to the margin. p.xiii/xiv has an edge repair, and there is a little damage to the..... More
![The Fables of Aesop. [Signed Limited Edition]. Edward J. Detmold](/pictures/thumb/19097110.jpg?v=1542314768)
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. Ltd Edn, #146 of 750 signed copies. Contents, including the 25 plates, fresh and fine. Endpapers slightly tanned, rear pastedown bubbling slightly, and small (5x1.5cm) brown stain to edge of rear endpaper, the adjacent page slightly affected. No names or marking. Top..... More
London: Griffith and Farran, 1870. First edition. Hardcover. viii, 376pp, plus the 4 plates. Attractively produced, with head- and tail- pieces. Contents generally bright and clean, with minor soil marks or foxing to some pages, including the title page. Marbled endpapers, front pastedown with some loss of surface apparently due..... More
