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Hardcover. 8vo. 2 volumes in blue faux leather with gilt spine titles. Publication details unknown, books packaged together in the publisher's shrinkwrap. New. More
Hardcover. 8vo. 2 volumes in blue faux leather with gilt spine titles. Publication details unknown, books packaged together in the publisher's shrinkwrap. New. More
Toronto: The Palladium Office, 1839. Hardcover. Fifth edition. 12mo. 224pp. Half black leather over marbled boards, gilt spine lettering and gilt library stamp of The Parliamentary Library of Canada to spine foot, ex-library, with markings on t. p., light foxing throughout, newer endpapers, lacking the front endpaper, hinges split, binding..... More
London: The Atlantis Press, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 224pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, no dust jacket. Spine faded and the ends lightly bumped, a couple of very small spots to the rear endpapers, and a very short tear to the fore-edge of the title page, but a clean..... More
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1958. Soft cover. Soft Cover. [280 x 220mm]. 55pp. Introduction by Osbert Lancaster. Teal card covers with black lettering. Creasing and chipping to spine. Corners slightly worn. Some colour fading around spine and top edge. A clean and tight copy. More
London: J. M. Dent, 1913. Hardcover. 12 volumes. 12mo. In the black cloth boards with gilt spine lettering, front boards stamped in blind. All volumes clean and unmarked and the bindings tight and square. Nice set. More
London: Cassell & Co., 2000. Hardcover. Small Quarto. Green cloth, gilt spine titles, pp. [xxii], 1298. "For the Millennium Edition of Brewer's the entire existing text has been revised and updated and over 1,000 new articles added." - dj flap. Nice, clean copy with only a fade to the spine..... More
Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 1981. First US Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Pp. 232. Lavishly illustrated, mainly in black & white. Original black cloth, gilt spine, d/w. Neat ink signature on flyleaf and remainder stamp to bottom edge otherwise a very good copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. A detailed and fully illustrated..... More
London: Reeves and Turner, 1905. Ninth Edition. Hardcover. Tall Octavo. Ninth Edition, Extended and Enlarged, and with the Addition of 260 New Date Letters and Marks, and a Bibliography. Pp. xlviii, 299, [16] ads. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations, fold-out plate. Original gilt-stamped brown cloth, with gilt arms of the Goldsmiths' Company..... More
Amsterdam: Bijzondere Collecties, Universiteit Van Amsterdam, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Fine copy in a fine copy. More
London: John Murray, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Thick Octavo. Pp. vi, 829, [2] ads. Illustrated with 3 black & white plates of coins and 1 colour plate of vases, plus over 1100 textual illustrations. Original rib grain cloth, gilt spine, no d/w. Minor wear to extremities, but overall a near..... More
Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Light bumping to upper corners and spine head, clean throughout, in a fragile dust jacket which is chipped at the corners and spine ends, with a split along the front flap fold. A Clean and tight copy..... More
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910. Hardcover. 12mo. 214pp. Quarter pig skin with gilt spine lettering over brown cloth boards. Light rubbing to spine ends and board corners. Clean throughout and binding tight and square. Circa 1910. Everyman's Library. More
London: Oxford University Press, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, very near fine, clean and tight, in a price clipped dust jacket virtually without wear. More
Windsor: Ford Motor Company of Canada Limited, 1940. First Edition. Softcover. 12mo. 201 pp., illus. Service manual. Bound in card covers with maroon cloth spine. Finger soiling (grease) on fore-edge, dust soiling to first page, some staining to covers and spine is loosened and torn at head and foot of..... More
Windsor: Ford Motor Company of Canada Limited, 1947. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8vo. 206 pp. Bound in reddish brown card covers with printing in black on front cover. Some age toning to pages, spine is wrinkled, back cover is creased at lower left corner. Still a very nice copy of..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1966. Hardcover. 4to. xxxvi, 646pp. Third printing of the third edition. No dust jacket. Navy clothwith gilt lettering to the spine. Two faint splashes and light soiling to the boards, text clean throughout and the binding tight and square. A good clean copy overall. More
London: Charles Bravos, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Bumped upper corners and spine head, clean and unmarked throughout, illustrated with black and white photographs. Dust jacket with a few small tears and wrinkles along the upper edges. More
London: Martin Brian & O'keeffe, 1972. Hardcover. Signed. Small 8vo. Clean throughout, dust jacket spine sunned else a fine copy. More
New York: Ivison & Phinney, and G.P. Putnam & Co., 1857. Revised edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Pp. xxiv, 631, [3] - Explanation of the Plates, [1] - publ. advert. 6 inserted plates of line-art. Sympathetically rebound in quarter black leather over boards with the original blind-stamped brown cloth laiddown, 5 raised..... More
London: J. & J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, J. & B. Sprint, et al. 1727. First UK EDITION. Full Leather. Thick Quarto. Unpaginated. Complete with half-title, title in red and black, text printed in triple columns. Contemporary sprinkled calf, spine densely gilt in compartments between raised bands, morocco label, gilt. Extremities..... More
W. H. Adams, 102 Adelaide St., Brisbane. Softcover. No date, c. 1940. 16mo. 64 pp. Brown printed wrappers twice stapled at the spine. Light wear to the edges and small chips at the spine ends, tear in spine at bottom staple, clean throughout. More
Oxford University Press, 1960. Hardcover. Second edition, 1960 printing. Dark blue cloth, gilt lettered, small price sticker ghost to paste-down, clean throughout and the binding tight and square. Dust jacket with light edge-wear. More
Dublin: Printed for Thomas Ewing, 1775. The Fourth Edition, Revised By Author. Full Leather. Stout Quarto. 2 volumes. 26 cm x 20 cm in 4's, unpaginated. Original calf full-leather binding, rebacked with 5 raised bands and two gilt-stamped leather spine labels, newish endpapers, engraved bookplate to front pastedown of both..... More
London: Printed for J. Johnson, et al. 1806. The Ninth Edition; Corrected and Revised. Hardcover. Quarto. In Two Volumes, quarto. Unpaginated. Complete with half-titles and engraved frontis portrait by Heath after Sir Joshua Reynolds. Text printed in three columns. Contemporary half calf over marbled paper boards, spine with gilt-rules and..... More
London: Constable, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 289p. White boards with black lettered spine, very lightly bumped at head and heel of spine, else a clean and as new copy. More