Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons. 1912. First Edition. Octavo, original grey cloth, gilt titles. 324 pp. + [4] pp ads + 64 pp publisher's catalogue bound in at rear, dated 3/12 There were two "issues" of this book with 2 different catalogues inserted, one with the catalogue dated..... More
London: Published by Seeley & Company, Essex Street, Strand, 1889. First Edition with These Illustrations. Folio, original royal blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. 124 pp., Title-page printed in red and black, the text is set in Caslon type and printed on hand-made paper. With 12 full-page photogravure plates..... More
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[London]: [Belgravia Magazine], [1872]. First Edition. Octavo, original blue pictorial cloth blocked and lettered in gilton spine and front panel; rear cover blocked in blind, coated yellow endpapers. pp [3] - 544. Edited by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, the Anonymous tale "My Grandfather's Ghost-Story" appears on pp 113-121 of this issue..... More
London: Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854. First Edition in English. Octavo, original red cloth decorated in blind on all covers, lettered in gilt on spine panels. 471 + 517 pp Index (a note at the end of Volume Two states that the Index has been placed at..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1908. First Edition. a. Octavo, original slate-blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on front cover. 57 pp., frontispiece portrait. Old ink name "G.K. McAdam Dec 1909" on a preliminary blank leaf. Affixed to the front paste-down (with a pin!) is a...... More
London: William Rider & Son, Limited, 8 Paternoster Row, E.C.4, 1923. First Edition in English. Octavo, original grey cloth lettered in gilt. 147 pp. Old ink name on front free endpaper. Pencil notes to margins of the text and the final two blank leaves and rear endpapers, large sections of..... More
New York: The Orion Press, [1960]. First Edition in English. Hardcover. Octavo, original black cloth stamped in red, yellow, white and grey. 233 pp. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket, tiny chips at edges, minor spine fading to red lettering. ΒΆ Originally published in Polish [as Rekopis..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Litd. 1951. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. Octavo, original red cloth titled in black on spine panel. 160 pp.Light foxing to page edges, a near fine copy in a nice clean dust jacket, faint light foxing and browing to edges, two tiny closed tears at folds, price..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1951. First Edition, First Impression. Octavo, original orange cloth titled in black on spine panel. 303 pp. Page edges a bit darkened, slight offsetting to endpapers; a very good,copy in the fragile dust jacket, the jacket browned along the spine somewhat dust-soiled, with a short closed..... More
London: S.O. Beeton, 248, Strand, W.C., 1865. First Edition. Small octavo, bound in half black calf over cloth boards, spine panel lettered and ruled in gilt. 371 + [2] pp. A pretty good copy with some interior stains from use; there is an old ink name on the half-title leaf..... More
Boston: H.M. Caldwell Co., [1905]. First Edition. Small octavo, original publisher's brown cloth, colour pictorial paper label affixed to front panel, illustrated with an image of a contemorary automobile. 99. One small discoloured area to lower edge of front panel; ink inscription on front free endpaper dated 1957; a very..... More
Vancouver: Raincoast Books / Bloomsbury, [2004]. First Canadian Printing of this Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original black boards, gilt titles to spine. 251 pp + [1] pp ads at rear. Correct first printing, with code 04 05 06 07 08 09 * 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2..... More
Vancouver: Raincoast Books / Bloomsbury, [2004]. First Canadian Printing of this Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original black boards, gilt titles to spine. 223 pp + [1] pp ads at rear. Correct first printing, with code 04 05 06 07 08 09 * 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2..... More
London: Macmillan and Co.,Limited, St. Martin's Street. 1911. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. Octavo, original grey cloth titled in gilt on spine and front panel, wra-around pictorial image by Robertson in blind on all covers, pictorial endpapers with the same image by Robertson in colours. 347 pp + [4] pp..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Thelesis Camp, OTO, 2004. First Edition. Octavo, original light peach pictorial wrappers, stapled at spine. 36 pp. A fine copy. Scarce. Cover art by Chumbley, the anonymous obituary for Chumbley runs 4 pages and reproduces 3 pieces of his artwork. Also included are many other articles of interest..... More
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Vancouver, BC: Raincoast Books, 1998-2000. Early Printings. Hardcover. A beautiful boxed set of early printings of the first three Harry Potter Books. Book One: First edition, fifth impression. Canadian issue, with the Raincoast imprint & "Printed and Bound in Canada by Friesens" on copyright page. 223 pp. Contains two errors..... More
London: Hutchinson & Co, (Publishers), Ltd., No date [1928]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, original gray-blue cloth titled and decorated in black, design of a hanged man swinging from a gibbet on front panel. Pictorial title page. 286 pp. Some interior foxing, mostly confimed to preliminary and terminal leaves;..... More
[Various Places: Friends of Arthur Machen, 2005-2012. First Editions. Octavo, original printed wrappers (card covers, pamphlets), stapled at spine. 12 issues, paginated 20 pp + 28 pp + 48 pp + 48 pp + 44 pp + 52 pp + 56 pp + 40 pp + 48 pp + 52..... More
New York: The Vanguard Press. 1942. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original speckled gray cloth titled in red on spine & front panel, top edges stained red. 283 pp. Front free endpaper neatly removed; some minor browning to spine panel, some minor spots to top page edges..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1908. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original green cloth titled in gilt on spine and front panel. 307 pp + [4] pp ads at rear. Title page printed in red and black. Heraldic bookplate of George H. Folger on front paste-down, with his signature and..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. First Edition, First Impression. Tall octavo, original copper-coloured boards with black cloth spine lettered in copper. 241 pp. The correct first edition, with "First Edition" on the copyright page; dust jacket also correct with the date 10/2006 at the base of the rear flap..... More
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock. [1947]. First Edition, First Impression. Octavo; original grey cloth lettered in red on spine and front panel. 365 pp. Neat clean (& small) ink name & date (1947) on front free endpaper, plus a later bookplate "Ex-Libris Christophori Gordon-Craig" on front paste-down. Minor tanning to..... More
London: Printed for Sherwood, Jones & Co., Paternoster Row, 1823. Second Edition, Improved and Very Considerably Enlarged, With Plates. Small octavo, contemporary calf with small blind decorated border and another line border in gilt, rebacked neatly with modern calf, contrasting red leather title label lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. 396..... More
London: Printed for S.A. and H. Oddy, Oxford Street, 1808. Octavo, two volumes, bound in contemporary tree-calf, the spines with four raised bands, gilt decorations in compartments, leather title labels lettered in gilt.434 + 483 pp, Notes, Index. Extra engraved title pages in both volumes; Vol. 1 an engraved frontispiece..... More
Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh; and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., London. 1822. First Edition. 12mo, bound in early 19th-century claf over marbled paper boards, the spine ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. 313 + 334 + 349 pp., bound without half-titles, but with 2 pp ads at..... More