Hanover, N.H: Ediciones Del Norte, 1983. Soft Cover. 8vo. Translated by Paula Sharp. Original title "La insurrecion." Paperback. 247 p.p. Damp staining to fore edge, spine, and rear cover, wear and bumping to corners, crease and scuff to front cover. Ink ownership inscription to half title. The Insurrection is an... More about The Insurrection
London: The Amalgamated Press Limited/The Fleetway House. Hard Cover. 8vo (medium). [n.d., ca. 1925]. Scarce set in VG condition. Quarter bound in black morocco with blue cloth boards. Gilt lettering and decoration to spine compartments. Red speckled fore and tail edges. General index to volume VII. Ex-libris stickers to front..... More about Peoples of All Nations: Their Life Today and The Story of Their Past, By Our Foremost Writers of...
New York: D. Appelton & Company, 1879. Hard Cover. 8vo. 747 p.p. Green cloth boards with gilt and black stamped lettering and decoration to spine and front board, blind stamping to rear board. A.E.G. Beveled edges. Illustrated with ten engravings from drawings by eminent artists, with tissue guards. Boards rubbed..... More about The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Complete in One Volume
Toronto: New Press, 1973. Hard Cover. 8vo. 210 p.p. Eight unnumbere pages B&W photos. Pink cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Spine ends lightly bumped. Dust jacket has some bumping and wear to extremities. This is the unusual story of a woman who lived a double life. For five..... More about Strip!
Toronto: Doubleday, Doran & Gundy, Ltd., 1930. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo. 289 p.p. Black cloth boards with red stamped titling to front and spine. Top edge red. Spine ends and corners bumped, edges lightly chafed, a few scuffs to front board, crease to spine. Spine is titled. Illustrated dust... More about Jimmie Dale and the Blue Envelope Murder
London and Glasgow: Blackie & Son Limited. Hard Cover. 12mo. [n.d., ca. 1926? Originally published 1889]. 160 p.p. Orange cloth boards with black stamped lettering. Light chafing to spine ends, edges, and corners, light bumping to spine ends. Offsetting to endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket has a few chips to head... More about Joan's Adventures, At the North Pole and Elsewhere
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Soft Cover. 8vo. Oxford World's Classics. lvi, 507 p.p., [13 p.p. ads]. Paperback. Light rubbing to edges, long red scuff to rear cover, pages lightly tanned. This is the first anthology to gather British imperial writing alongside native and settler literature in English. Interweaving stories... More about Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918
New York: Arbor House, 1985. 1st American Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. First American edition with full number line; first published in Great Britain under the title "Orwell: The War Broadcasts." 304 p.p. Quarter bound in black and red cloth, with red and silver lettering to spine, title in blind to... More about George Orwell: The Lost Writings
London: Pluto Press, 1983. Hard Cover. 8vo. SIGNED with inscription by author to FFEP: "For Greg, I don't even have a copy of this edition. Love, Ariel. October 1991." vii, 146 p.p. Translated from the Spanish by Stephen Kessler. Black cloth boards with silver titling to spine. Lightly bumped at... More about Widows
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1944. Hard Cover. 18mo. Everyman's Library, No. 479. xxxiv, 370 p.p., [8]. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and blind device to front board. Spine ends bumped. Dust jacket has a few small chips, some wear to joints, closed tears to head and... More about The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1945. Hard Cover. 18mo. Everyman's Library, No. 455. xiii, 489 p.p., [8]. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering and blind device. Top edge brown. Spine heel bumped. Patterned endpapers. Dust jacket has sever chps and short teras, closed tear to front cover, a few small... More about The Peloponnesian War
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1943. Hard Cover. 18mo. Everyman's Library, No. 750. xvi, 301 p.p. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine. Rubbing to spine ends and corners. Dust jacket has sunning and damp staining to spine, sunning to edges of flaps, several large chips (especially to head of... More about Of the Nature of Things
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1948. Hard Cover. 18mo. Everyman's Library, No. 775. xvi, 535 p.p., [8]. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and blind device to front board. Bumping to corners, tail edge of boards, and spine ends. Top edge brown. Patterned endpapers. Dust jacket has a.... More about The Letters of Horace Walpole
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1957. Hard Cover. 18mo. Everyman's Library, No. 912, Fiction. File Copy. xiv, 299 p.p., [4]. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Light rubbing to spine ends, else fine. Dust jacket is sunned at spine, worn slightly at joints, bumped and rubbed at spine... More about The Turn of the Screw, The Aspern Papers
Oxford: Oxford at the Claredon Press, 1997. 2nd Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Special edition for Sandpiper Books Ltd. xii, 494 p.p. Black cloth boards with gilt titling to spine. Dust jacket has some light bumping to spine ends and edges of flaps, else fine. The first of Raby's two great... More about A History of Christian-Latin Poetry Fromt he Beginnings to the Close of The Middle Ages
New York: Villard Books, 1987. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. First edition, second printing. SIGNED with inscription by author "To the Crew, with appreciation and warmest wishes, Nicholas Gage, July 7/1991" to FFEP. [We can only assume this was the crew of "Eleni," the film of his earlier autobiographical work.]... More about Hellas: A Portrait of Greece
New York: Columbia University Press, 1977. Hard Cover. 8vo. xxxiv, 286 p.p., [3]. Twelve pages B&W poet portraits. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Rubbing and bumping to spine ends and corners. Dust jacket is price clipped, sunned to spine and edges, a few small chips to spine... More about Modern Hungarian Poetry
London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1896. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo (large). x, 377 p.p. Green cloth boards with gilt stamped lettering to boards and spine. Spine and edges of boards are darkened, spinee ends are bumped and rubbed, chafing to edges and boards. Roughly cut edges. Large tear... More about Lazy Tours in Spain and Elsewhere
Philadelphia: B. Lippincott Company, 1934. 1st American Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo. 288 p.p. Blue cloth boards with black titling to spine and front. Spine ends and corners are bumped and chafed, a few spots to front board, spine tilted. Colour illustrated dust jacket is cropped at corners of flaps (price... More about The Secret of Tangles: Another Case for Anthony Slade and Department X2
New York: Triangle Books, 1942. Hard Cover. 12mo. 306 p.p. Grey cloth boards with red stamped titling to spine. All edges red. Edges of boards are sunned and rubbed, spine ends bumped. Dust jacket is worn and creased at extremities, chipped at spine ends and corners, a few short tears... More about Turn on The Heat
Sussex, England: The Book Guild Ltd., 1997. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. 350 p.p. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Spine ends lightly bumped, else a bright, clean copy. Dust jacket is price clipped and lightly bumped at spine ends and rear flap at head. This thriller is... More about Legacy of Evil
New York: Harper Collins, 1993. 2nd Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. SIGNED with inscription by author: "For Lou, with all best wishes, Bernard Cornwell" to title page. 308 p.p. One B&W map at end of Part One. Quarter bound with red paper spine and grey paper boards. Title in gilt to..... More about Rebel
Toronto: Thomas Allen, 1917. Becher, Arthur E. 1st Canadian Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo. vi, [1], 485 p.p. Eight sepia toned plates, incl. frontis. Green cloth boards with gilt and orange stamped lettering and armorial vignette to front board and spine. Bumping and rubbing to spine ends and corners, rubbing to... More about Long Live the King!
London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1932. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo. xi, 25 p.p., [64 full-page photographs with facing descriptions]. Red cloth boards with blind publisher's device to front board and gilt lettering to spine. Top edge red. Dust jacket has some light soiling, a few small damp stains... More about Greek Cities
London and Newcastle-on-Tyne: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd. Hard Cover. 12mo. [n.d., ca. 1903 per the introduction]. The Scott Library. xxxviii, 321 p.p., [16 p.p. ads]. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering and tooled ruling and dentelle corners. T.E.G. Spine is sunned and bumped and rubbed at ends, light..... More about Renan's Marcus Aurelius. Translated With an Introduction, By William G. Hutchison