1765. London: W. Griffin, 1765. 12mo, vii, (viii), (1)-236, (2, ads) pp. Title page with engraved vignette. Contemporary calf, rebacked, covers gilt-ruled, backstrip with gilt rules and raised bands, lacking label. First and final pages with some marginal staining, binding a little worn, especially at tips, monogram bookplate of Annie... More
1900. New York: McClure’s Magazine, Vol. XVI, No. 2, December 1900 to Vol. XVII. No. 6. October 1901. 8vo, various pagination, the portions of the magazine covering the complete serialization extracted and bound, including illustrations, in half red crushed morocco with marbled paper boards, gilt ruled, backstrip pannelled with title... More
1852. London: Smith, Elder, & Company, 1852. 3 vols. 8vo, 344; vi, 319; vi, 324 pp. Publisher’s fine ribbed cloth with printed paper labels on backstrip, white endpapers, blanks preceding the half titles of vols. 2 and 3. Without ads. Each vol. hinges cracked and separating, some signatures loose, boards... More
1913. London: Macmillan and Co., Limted, 1913. 8vo, (iv), 436, (1, announcement), (1, blank), (2, ads), (2, blank) pp. Photogravure frontispiece. Unopened. Blue cloth, covers with horizontal blind rules, backstrip ruled and lettered in gilt. Author’s inscription on front free endpaper, gift inscription to titlepage, bookplate to front pastedown. Monogram... More
1835. London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, MDCCCXXXV [1835]. 8vo, (xii), (1)-216 pp. Uncut in the original drab paper boards, white paper label. 1.5cm chip from head of backstrip and a small section rubbed white at foot, label soiled but just legible, boards clean, a few light spots to the first... More
1922. London: William Heinemann, 1922. 8vo, xvi, 1104 pp. Folding genealogical chart following the dedication. Original green cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, upper cover with blind-ruled border, gilt title and decorative stamp, lower cover with Heinemann windmill blind-stamp, top edge stained green. Foot of backstrip turned in slightly, a few... More
1853. London: Bradbury and Evans, October 1853 - August 1855. 8vo, 24 parts in 23, with etched titles, frontispieces, 44 etched plates, 43 wood-engraved vignettes, and 76 wood-engraved initials, all by Doyle; original yellow printed wrappers, all more or less worn at edges and heels, plates uniformly aged. Enclosed in... More
1945. New York: Random House, 1945. 8vo, 128 pp. Original lilac boards, lettered in violet and cream, name in ink on front free endpaper, original unclipped dust-jacket, toned and with light edgewear. § Fourth printing. A satyrical, fictionalized account of Isherwood's work on the screenplay for the 1934 film, Little... More
1939. New York: G.P. Putnam and Sons, 1939. 8vo, vi, 312 pp. Original blue cloth, original unclipped dust-jacket, Faded patch at the foot of the backstrip, dust-jacket faded and with edgewear. § Sixth edition in the sixth printing of the dust-jacket, original published as a stand alone novel, The... More
1958. New York: G.P. Putnam and Sons, 1958. 8vo, (viii), 677 pp. Original blue, gilt-stamped cloth, in original unclipped dust-jacket. A very good copy in a toned and edgeworn dust-jacket. § Later printing in a third printing of the dust-jacket. A slightly revised collection of the first three parts of... More
1923. New York: Scribner’s, 1923. Folio, xii, 99, (1, colophon) pp. With woodcuts in the text throughout by H.W. Willard. Original decorated cloth and printed paper label in a matching slipcase. Label chipped, slipcase lightly worn else a fine, unopened copy. § Number 372 of 380 copies. Printed by John Henry Nash. More
1914. Ryton, Dymock, Gloucester: February, April, August, December 1914. 8vo, 4 vols.: [1]-59; (3), [60]-108; (4), 109-152; 153-203, (7, index) pp. Original blue printed wrappers. Spines a little darkened. No. 1 lightly soiled and edgeworn, wrapper detached; No. 2 very good with some faint creasing; No. 3 very good with... More
1892. London: Printed and issued by Charles Whittingham & Co at the Chiswick Press MDCCCXCII [1892]. 8vo, xlii, 216 pp. Portrait frontispiece of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, facsimile of the 1594 title page. Original quarter vellum over drab boards, backstrip lettered in red, small book-shaped ticket of Foyles, Charing... More
1916. London: Elkin Matthews, Cork Street, M CM XVI [1916]. 12mo, 40 pp. including final leaf of ads. Original brown wrappers printed in black. Partly unopened, occassional light spotting, minor edgewear to the wrappers, glue securing textblock spine to wrappers beginning to fail, otherwise a clean and very good copy... More
1900. East Aurora, NY: Roycroft Press, 1900. 8vo, untrimmed, unpaginated. Title page and each stanza with gilt-ruled borders filled with elaborate, hand-colored Art Nouveau designs. Three quarter brown morocco with marbled paper boards, backstrip ruled and lettered in gilt. Pages with traces of the usual offsetting from the gilt, marbled... More
