First edition. A. Millar, London. 1762. Bound in full tan calf, raised bands to spine with gilt type to contrasting red title-piece. 230 pages. Extremities sl. rubbed with some wear to spine ends; overall a very good copy. View More...
Chatto & Windus, London. 1934. First edition. Hardback NO DW. Original black cloth, gilt. Board extremities a little worn and rubbed o/w contents are very clean and fresh. View More...
Chatto and Windus, London. First edition thus. 1994. Hardback with DW. Large thick 8vo. Illustrated. Wrapper bumped and spine is sunned. A nice clean copy. View More...
Jonathan Cape, London. 1997. First edition, second printing. Hardback with DW. SIGNED presentation copy from the author. A lovely clean and fresh copy. View More...
Hutchinson, London. 1923. First edition. Hardback, no DW. Green cloth, black lettering. 256 + 40pp of publisher's adverts at rear. "With the Publisher's compliments" stamped to title page. Boards are very slightly partially faded and a little rubbed, with small tear to head of spine. Ex-Daily Sketch Library, with stamp to fore-edge.and paper label to tail of spine. Upper board a little warped. Pages browned o/w contents clean with no inscriptions. A nice copy of a SCARCE book. View More...
George Allen and Unwin Ltd. London. 1958. First edition. Hardback with DW. Wrapper spine sunned and wrapper is grubby and foxed in places. Pages slightly browned but overall a nice clean copy. View More...
John Burton. Falmouth. Pocket reprint. [1860] 24mo. 5 x 3.5 inches. 311 pages including dictionary of the Cant language. Frontis., vignette to title and 4 plates of animals to rear. Decorated blue/grey cloth, sl. spotted. Endpapers browned and pages occasionally foxed. A clean and sound volume. The Life and Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew was first published in 1745. Although it states that the contents were "noted by himself during his passage to America" and it is likely facts were supplied by Carew, the author was probably Robert Goadby, a printer in Sherborne, Dorset, who published an... View More...
Jonathan Cape, London. 1960. Hardback with DW. Ownership inscription to front end paper. Wrapper spine is sunned and bumped with brown stains to lower. Page edges browned but overall a nice clean and sound copy. View More...
Reprint. The Sunday School Union, London. nd (c1905).NO DW. Olive-green cloth with decorations in black to lower board and type plus floral illustrations in yellow, light green, black and pink to spine and upper. Frontis. 255 pages. Extremities sl. rubbed; inscription to front free end-paper. Pages tanned to margins. View More...
First edition in English. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, London. 1862. Hardback, NO DW. Maroon cloth, gilt type and decorative device to spine. 357 pages. Spine sl. sunned, extremities sl. rubbed; previous owner's name to title-page. View More...
First edition in English. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, London. 1863. Maroon cloth, gilt type and decorative device to spine. Frontis. with tissue guard. 468 pages + 32 pages publisher's list. A little battered with damage externally to upper hinge at foot; remains of label to front paste-down, front free end-paper partially detached; small annotation concerning Lady Wallace to first page of Preface. View More...
C. Plummer. Doncaster. 1782. First edition. A Contemporary and Locally Printed response to the death of the Marquis who was, at that time, Yorkshire's most important resident. Twice Prime Minister and, for his time, a fair landlord who mangaed his estates in Ireland well. A slim volume - the original 30 pages have been bound with 18 blank pages before the title and with ten at rear. Full patterned calf, with a modern reback and new marbled endpapers. Pages browned with occasional light foxing otherwise a clean and useful copy of a scarce item. View More...
Half-bound in dark tan calf, marbled boards, gilt lettering to contrasting black calf labels and pretty gilt decorations to raised bands to spine. 470pp. Text in French. Extremities sl. rubbed with a little light scratching to spine. VG View More...
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London. 1990. Hardba ck with DW. xxxvi + 616 pages. B/w photograph plates. Index. V. sl. shelf-wear to wrapperwhich has v. sl. sunning to spine; bookplate to front paste-down end-paper. View More...
