London: Faber and Faber, 1948. First edition (first printing). Hardcover. 430pp. Pages clean, endpapers tanned, no inscriptions or marks. Firm, in the original binding of pale blue cloth, spine title gilt. Boards clean, corners almost sharp, spine faded and dulled, ends puckered. A good copy of the first printing. More
London: Methuen, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. xv, [3], 203, 8 (adverts). First owner's neat name to endpaper. [A nice jacketed copy, but with a printing error: the openings at pages 48/49, 54/55, 58/59, 62/63 are blank! There is quite a thorough synopsis of the matters dealt with in each chapter..... More
London: George Routledge and Sons, n.d. [c.1875?]. Dalziel. Hardcover. [iv], 119pp, [5] adverts. With a colour frontis by Dalziel and monochrome illustrations in the text. At some time the book was given paper covers, and where these were folded in they have tanned the endpapers. Contemporary birthday gift inscription to..... 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
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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
