Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, 6 George Street / London : Houlston & Wright. No Date [between 1857 and 1869]. First Printing. 12 mo, original publisher's green cloth decorated in blind & gilt, lettered in gilt on upper cover, decorated and lettered in blind on rear panel, spine panel decorated and..... More
London: Arthur H. Stockwell, Ltd., 29, Ludgate Hill, E.C. 4. No Date [1929]. First Edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, front panel lettered in gilt and bordered in blind, spine panel lettered in gilt. 80 pp., with six full page black & white plates inserted in the text (not included in..... More
Tyrnau: Typis Academicis Societatis Jesu. 1754-1755. First Edition, First Printing. First edition. 12mo. Five Volumes in Two; contemporary half calf over decorated paste boards, the spines ruled and titled in gilt on labels, all page edges dyed red. 268 + 264 pp (Books One and Two in the first Volume);..... More
Manchester: John Heywood, [1895]. First Edition, First Impression. Octavo, original colour pictorial wrappers, plain blue spine, rear panel with publisher's monogram in black. 182 pp. + [2] pp ads at rear. 19 cm. A "Shilling Shocker". Restored; both the front & rear cover have some minor restoration at the edges..... More
London: Selwyn & Blount Ltd, 1924. Signed, Limited Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, original grey boards with buckram spine, leather label on spine titled in gilt. Printed on fine handmade paper. 274 pp, colour frontispiece and 11 addition full-page black & white illustrations throughout the text. Issued in a limited edition of..... More
London & New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. First Edition, First Printing, Deluxe Issue. First edition, Deluxe Issue, limited to 500 hand numbered copies signed by both Lord Dunsany and Sidney Sime, of which this is number 396. Large Quarto. Quarter vellum spine with brown cloth boards with single gilt..... More
London: Centaur Press. 1934. First Edition. Octavo, original yellow buckram cloth titled in gilt on spine panel. Issued in a limited edition of 60 copies of which 50 are for sale; this copy unnumbered. 84 pp, frontispiece and two additional full-page plates by Easton printed on white coated paper. This..... More
London: Duckworth, 130. First Edition. Octavo, original black cloth titled in gilt on spine panel. 351 pp. Bookplate on front endpaper, along with the small ticket "From the Library of Ronald & Joan McNicoll". Very nice copy in a slightly chipped and frayed dust jacket, with the fragile purple lettering..... More
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Paris: Ernst Leroux, 1915 - 1932. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto. First separate editions of six items bound together, all with their original front & rear wrappers bound in. Contemporary red cloth binding with printed paper label on spine panel titled "La Tablette Tsong du Tcheou-Li / Giesler / 1915"..... More
United Kingdom: Starfire / Michael Staley, 1986-2010. First Editions. Quarto, original pictorial wrappers. 10 issues, a full run, comprising V1, N1 to V1, N5 & V2 N1 to V2, N4, plus ECPYROSIS, The Best of Starfire Volume One. Small, neat bookplates on the inner covers of the first three issues..... More
Pinner, UK: Private Libraries Association, 1985. First Edition, Deluxe Issue. Quarter Leather. Royal octavo, Quarter black morocco, grey cloth boards. Patterned endpapers. Top edge gilt. No. 47 of 110 numbered copies, specially bound, signed by Joan Hassall. pp lxiii, 161, [7] plates,numerous reproductions of Hassall's wood-engravings throughout with an additional..... More
Buckinghamshire, UK: Hague & Gill, 1948. First Edition Thus. Half-Leather. Small octavo, bound in half green morocco over green cloth boards, gilt titles on spine, hand-marbled endpapers. 76 pp. Five wood-engravings by Joan Hassall, two of which are full-page. Hand-made paper. With the bookplate "Ex Libris venerabilis conventus Fratvm B.V.M...... More
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Large crown octavo, original black cloth titled and decorated in gilt on spine. 3004 copies printed. 474 pp. Corners bumped, spine creased and dull, edges of spine and corners worn and chaffed. A good, sound copy only, in an..... More
Edinburgh and London: W. & A.K. Johnston, 1886. "New Edition" Hardcover. Octavo, original publisher's full brown cloth heavily blocked in black & gilt on front panel, block in blind on rear cover. With 20 tipped in double-page maps [all maps are on guards and can be laid flat without loss]..... More
Carbonnek [New York]: Privately Printed [Boni & Liveright]. 1923. Large crown octavo, original blue boards with vellum paper spine lettered and decorated in gilt and ruled in blind, blue endpapers, all edges untrimmed. [448] pp, a few line-drawings in the text. Issued in an edition limited to 1050 numbered copies..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1926. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original yellow cloth, printed paper label on spine panel, decorated endpapers. 186 pp + [2] pp publisher's ads for other works by Machen at rear. A REMARKABLE INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on the half title leaf..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1924. First Edition. Large octavo; original black cloth with blind ruled designs on front & back covers, green paper label on spine lettered in black, top edges trimmed and stained green, decorated green endpapers; in a black cardboard slipcase with printed label lettered in black..... More
London: Duckworth & Co., 1917. First Edition. Octavo, original light blue boards lettered in black on spine, lettered and ruled in black on front panel, publisher's device in black on rear panel. 190 pp + [1] pp ad at rear for Wright's Coal Tar Soap. Printed on cheap wartime paper..... More
No Place [Westport, Ct]: The Apellicon Press. 1930. First Edition. Crown octavo; original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. 47 pp, title page printed in black with a pictorial design in brown. Issued in an edition of only 200 copies signed by the author. Designed..... More
London: Constable & Co Ltd., 1941. First Edition. Small octavo, original dark blue cloth lettered in silver on spine, all edges trimmed. 258 pp., full colour frontispiece by Ardizzone on glazed paper. PRESENTATION COPY, with A Signed Inscription from the author dated the year of Publication: "Oliver Stonor / from..... More
Guernsey: Printed and Published by T.B. Banks & Co., Central Press. No Date [circa 1899-1900]. Ninth Edition. Original wrappers. Small octavo, original red wrappers printed in black. [46] pp., large folding map. many period ads and much local history. The original wrappers are fragile and chipping at the edges; the..... More
New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons. [1919]. 1919. First Edition, First Impression. Octavo, original red cloth stamped in gold on spine and front panel, all edges trimmed. 433 pp, + [4] pp of publishers notices at rear. Black & white frontispiece by Joseph Clement Coll. The first issue binding..... More
Stuttgart: J.F. Steinkopf, 1886-1887. First Edition, First Printing. Original Wraps. First Edition. Two volumes. Octavo [215 x 130 mm], original printed wrappers. Frontispiece portrait in Volume One. 432 + 634 pp., Index. Some mild chipping to spine tips, covers slightly crumpled, spines neatly glazed. A very good, clean copy. ¶..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., [1934]. First American Edition. Octavo, original black cloth lettered in gilt on spine panel. 180 pp., Index. Light foxing to top page edges, , a fine copy in a nice, near fine dust jacket with a few small chips and some light dust..... More
London: John Hamilton Ltd., Publishers. nd (1929). First Edition. Octavo, original red cloth lettered in black on spine and front panel. 253 pp. Upper corners very slightly knocked, light foxing to page egdes, a fine copy in the original pictorial dust jacket, slightly spotted on the spine panel, priced at..... More