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By: Charles Dickens
Price: £10.00
Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall:
Seller ID: 81439
Green leather binding, one of The Works of Charles Dickens in Twenty Volumes. 803 pages. Forty illustrations by Phiz. Gilt text and patterns on the spine, faded to a greeny brown. Slight scuffing on corners and spine end, small indentation on front board otherwise in good condition. Top edge faded gilt, slight foxing on edge. Internally the book is clean. View more info
By: Charlotte Brontë
Price: £40.00
Publisher: London, J M Dent & Sons Ltd: 1922
Seller ID: 81440
Blue half leather binding by Bayntun. Crest of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in gilt on front board. 244 pages. One of the series "The Novels of Charlotte, Emily & Anne Brontë". Spine decorated in gilt, ribbed, title panels in red, blue leather faded/sunned. Hinge ends and corners slightly scuffed. Top edge gilt, faded. Pages are rough cut and browned. Marbled endpapers with inscription: Gerald Bourne, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Geographical Tripos Part I, June 1925. Text block is clean and free of foxing. Tissue paper covering frontispiece is intact; all illustrations a... View more info
By: Charlotte Brontë
Price: £185.00
Publisher: London, J M Dent & Sons Ltd: 1922
Seller ID: 81441
Second issue, with type reset. Blue half leather binding by Bayntun. Crest of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in gilt on front board. 457 pages. One of the series "The Novels of Charlotte, Emily & Anne Brontë". Spine decorated in gilt, ribbed, title panels in red, blue leather faded/sunned, scuffed. Hinge edges, hinge ends and corners scuffed. Top edge gilt, a little faded. Pages are rough cut and browned. Marbled endpapers with inscription: Gerald Bourne, June 1925; slightly foxed, browned along edges. Text block is clean and free of foxing. Tissue paper covering frontispiece is ... View more info
By: Charlotte Brontë
Price: £115.00
Publisher: London, J M Dent & Sons Ltd: 1922
Seller ID: 81442
Blue half leather binding by Bayntun. Crest of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in gilt on front board. 462 pages. One of the series "The Novels of Charlotte, Emily & Anne Brontë". Spine decorated in gilt, ribbed, title panels in red, blue leather faded/sunned, scuffed. Hinge edges, hinge ends and corners slightly scuffed. Top edge gilt, a little faded. Pages are rough cut and browned. Marbled endpapers with inscription: Gerald Bourne, June 1925; slightly foxed, browned along edges. Text block is clean and free of foxing. Tissue paper covering frontispiece is intact; all illustrat... View more info
By: Charlotte Brontë
Price: £160.00
Publisher: London, J M Dent & Sons Ltd: 1922
Seller ID: 81443
Blue half leather binding by Bayntun. Crest of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in gilt on front board. 509 pages. One of the series "The Novels of Charlotte, Emily & Anne Brontë". Spine decorated in gilt, ribbed, title panels in red, blue leather faded/sunned, a little scuffed. Top edge gilt, a little faded. Pages are rough cut and browned. Marbled endpapers with inscription: Gerald Bourne, June 1925; slightly foxed, browned along edges. Text block is clean and free of foxing. Tissue paper covering frontispiece is intact; all illustrations are intact. Twelve coloured illustrations... View more info
Price: £375.00
Publisher: London, Longmans Green & Co: 1883
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 81772
Condition: Very good
First edition in three volumes. Quite an uncommon Victorian triple decker and an entertaining novel, revolving around the assassination of Tsar Alexander II and the activities of Russian nihilists. The books are reasonably firmly bound in the publisher's yellow cloth, lettered and decorated in black, the corners and spine ends are slightly bumped and rubbed and the cloth is a little marked. The text blocks are slightly toned and foxed with a neatly written name and address to the front pastedown of volume one and a small ownership stamp to the front endpaper of each volume, they are cracked... View more info
By: Dickens, Charles
Price: £12.00
Publisher: MacMillan & Co,: 1924
Seller ID: 71190
Condition: Very Good Condition
1924 reprint. The book is tightly bound. Original green cloth in good condition; corners and spine ends a little scuffed. Page edges slightly browned. Light spotting on endpapers, text block clean, free of markings and foxing. View more info
By: Dylan Thomas
Price: £12.00
Publisher: London, J M Dent: 1955
Seller ID: 81911
Third impression in a dust jacket. The book is tightly bound. Dust jacket is complete, scuffed and chipped along the edges with a 2 cm closed tear at the top of the spine and another on the rear; browning along the edges; unclipped showing 10s 6d . Top edge is greyed. Internally the book is clean, free of markings and foxing. View more info
By: Eric Linklater
Price: £10.00
Publisher: London, The White Owl Press: 1933
Seller ID: 81926
Condition: Fair
Second impression May 1933, first published April 1933. Boards a little bowed, grubby, edges scuffed. Page edges browned and foxed. Light foxing throughout the book. The. Book is firmly bound, some looseness along the internal gutter between title page and text block. Previous owner's name on endpaper. View more info
By: George Gissing
Price: £650.00
Publisher: London, Smith Elder & Co: 1891
Seller ID: 81773
Condition: Very good
Second edition in three volumes, bound in the publisher's dark green cloth, there are two pages of ads to the rear of volume 1. A rather gorgeous early edition of Gissing's most famous work. Slightly bumped and rubbed to the extremities, with some fading to the spines. The text blocks are a little foxed and toned, with a small bookplate to the front paste-down of each volume. View more info
By: H. G. Wells
Price: £75.00
Publisher: Paris, Société DV Mercvre De France: 1905
Seller ID: 82010
Condition: Good
5th edition re-cased in a handsome binding. The book is tightly bound, the boards are clean. Edges are browned. The paper is browned; text block is clean, free of markings and foxing. View more info
By: Henry James
Price: £22.00
Publisher: London, Folio Society: 2006
Seller ID: 81721
The book has pictorial boards and is in a black slipcase. Introduction by Frances Wilson with illustrations by Philip Bannister. The book is unread and in very good condition; spine is a little sunned/faded. The slipcase is fully intact with only minor shelf wear. View more info
By: Jane Austen
Price: £22.50
Publisher: London, Oxford University Press: 1930
Seller ID: 71143
Condition: Very Good Condition
The World's Classics Series, small book in green binding. Hardcover (Original Cloth) in very good condition. No Dust Jacket. Introduction by Michael Sadlier. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner's annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact, scuffed along edges and corners. Gilt text on spine in good condition. Edges browned and marked. The ribbon is broken but still in the book. View more info
By: Jane Austen
Price: £135.00
Publisher: London, MacMillan: 1904
Seller ID: 81859
New edition issued in 1904. Frontispiece and tissue intact. Bound in publishers original red cloth, some marks. Spine faded/sunned. Gilt top edge faded; edge rough cut and browned. Original floral endpapers. Spotting and browning to other endpapers; text block is mainly clean, free of markings and foxing. View more info
By: Jane Austen
Price: £40.00
Publisher: London, MacMillan & Co: 1904
Seller ID: 81860
A Memoir of Jane Austen by her nephew J E Austen Leigh + Lady Susan & fragments of 2 other unfinished tales by Jane Austen. New edition issued in 1904. Frontispiece and tissue intact. Bound in publishers original red cloth, some marks. Spine faded/sunned. Gilt top edge faded; edge rough cut and browned. Original floral endpapers. Spotting and browning to other endpapers; text block is mainly clean, free of markings and foxing. View more info
By: Jane Austen
Price: £120.00
Publisher: London, MacMillan: 1904
Seller ID: 81862
New edition issued in 1904. Frontispiece and tissue intact. Bound in publishers original red cloth, front board marked. Spine slightly cocked, faded/sunned. Gilt top edge faded; edge rough cut and browned. Original floral endpapers. Spotting and browning to other endpapers; text block is mainly clean, free of markings and foxing. View more info
By: Jules Verne
Price: £325.00
Publisher: London, Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington.,: 1876
Seller ID: 81991
An early edition of this classic Verne adventure, a much slimmer and and more fragile volume than those that preceded it, presumably the reason why so few survive. An uncommon Victorian softcover edition of Verne's classic tale. The book is reasonably firmly bound in the original grey card wraps. Which are slightly grubby and creased with some loss to the spine ends and minor chips to the front and rear covers. The text block is slightly toned, foxed and dusty. View more info
By: Leon Tolstoi
Price: £480.00
Publisher: London, Elliot Stock: 1885
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 81990
First edition. Translated from the Russian by Constantine Popoff. A rarity, particularly in the original cloth. The book is reasonably firmly bound in the publisher's brown cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine, the boards are slightly rubbed and bumped with some minor tears to the cloth. The text block is slightly foxed and toned with some neat writing to the title page, cracking at points and a faintly stamped "D" to the rear endpaper, it retains the tipped in compliments slip. View more info
By: Mark Twain
Price: £42.00
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1884
Seller ID: 81665
A new edition contemporaneously bound in leather, 338 pages + 1 page of the works of Mark Twain published by Chatto and Windus. The book is firmly bound. The red leather has faded to brown on the spine and front cover. The corners are scuffed otherwise in good condition. The edges were a mottled red but the top edge is now greyed. Booksellers label on the endpaper, previous owner's signature on the title page and again on the first page of Chapter 1, this time giving the date as June 1884. Occasional foxing but the text block is clean, free of markings and foxing. View more info
By: MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Odhams Press: 1930
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 81973
First Thus edition in a dust jacket. No date given in book. The books are tightly bound. The dust jacket on volume 1 is complete with only minor shelf wear; volume 2 has more extensive damage at the spine ends and also the front left corner. Internally the books are clean, free of markings and foxing. View more info
