FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD. With an introduction by Robert Cantwell by HARDY. THOMAS. Agnes Miller Parker, Illustrates

Chapman and Hall. London. ND. 1870's. Volumes from the Household edition. 2 volumes bound in one. Large 8vo. (9.9 x 7.5 inches). Text in double column. Finely illustrated with Twenty Eight engravings, some full page, by Mahoney in Oliver Twist, Thirty four by Barnard in Sketches by Boz. Attractive early leather binding of half black calf. Spine with raised bands, each with gilt floral design. Compartments ruled in gilt and decorated with blind stamped chain borders and floral centre tool. Red and olive morocco labels, ruled and lettered in gilt. Marbled paper on boards. Tan endpapers. Some offsetting to both free endpapers, probably a reaction to the glue used in the paste-downs. All edges speckled. Some minor rubbing to extremities but overall this is a lovely copy in a fine Victorian binding.

W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. London. No date. Circa 1920. Collins King's Classics edition. 8vo. Inscribed by Symons on the front free endpaper " To Dora Gordine from Arthur Symons November 14: 1928(?)". A very good tidy copy in publishers beige cloth with dark green label, lettered and with wavy line border, all in gilt, to the spine. Top edge gilt. Dora Gordine was a noted Estonian Sculptor who regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy and Leicester Galleries in London as well as shows at The Fine Art Society & The London Jewish Museum of Art. Symons was a great champion of her work. Reviewing one of her Leicester Galleries exhibitions in a 1938 edition of the Spectator, Symons wrote; 'Her profound sense of pure form in sculpture, heedless alike of realism and of exaggerated abstraction, is united with the subtlest delicacy of modelling, and these qualities combine to endow her bronzes with an abnormal power, an almost uncanny life, which only the sculpture of the greatest civilisations of the past has… Read More

Edward Moxon. London. 1848. NEW EDITION. Large 8vo. (9.5 x 6.4 inches). Text in double columns. Portrait frontis and extra title page with engraving of Christ's Hospital. A fine copy in an attractive early binding by W H Smith, of half brown morocco. Spine with raised bands. Compartments lettered, ruled and fully decorated in gilt. Green cloth on boards. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Spine a little darkened to edges but overall a lovely copy in a fine and very attractive early twentieth century leather binding. This volume contains the literary works, as well as the letters of Lamb.

Victor Gollancz Ltd. London. 1932. TWO FIRST EDITIONS. One is the hardcover cloth bound issue and the second is the paper issue. Small 8vo. (7.5 x 4.5, cloth bound volume, 7.3 x 4.3 - Paper bound). Both are Inscribed by Crankshaw, the paper volume to Theatre critic Kenneth Tynan, and dated 1956, the cloth bound to Crankshaw's brother in law, Ernest Carr, in 1932. Overall these are both very good copies in very good dustwrappers with minor toning to the spines. hb---- Bought, by me, direct from the estate of Crankshaw's widow, Clare.

Oxford at the Clarendon Press. London. 1913. REPRINT of the 1912 first edition. 8vo. (6.9 x 4.6 inches). India paper edition. xvi, 1023pp. A neat five line inscription on the front blank free endpaper, otherwise a clean copy throughout. In a fine early leather binding of half dark blue morocco, bound for Hatchards of Piccadilly. Spine with raised bands, each with gilt piping. Compartments double ruled and lettered in gilt. Blue cloth on boards. All edges gilt. Blue plain endpapers. Some offsetting to the edge of the endpapers, where the leather has touched the page, and just a hint of rubbing to the extremities, otherwise a near fine, beautifully bound, copy.

J.M.Dent and co. London.,1904. FIRST BROCK EDITION. 8vo. Illustrated throughout with colour title page and 24 full page colour plates. Finely bound in original publishers delux full vellum binding with spine and front board fully decorated and lettered in gilt. Decorative endpapers. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. A fine copy of this beautiful edition.:

Printed at the Apollo Press, Edinburgh, for John Bell.,1777. FIRST PRINTING OF BELL'S EDITION. 3 vols.6mo. (5.1 x 3.3 inches). Engraved portrait frontis in volume one. Each volume with extra illustrated title page. Beautiful contemporary bindings of full tree calf. Spines ruled and decorated in gilt. Red and green labels, gilt. Greek key design border on boards in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Fine, clean copies in fine quality eighteenth century bindings. Issued as part of Bell's Poets of Great Britain series.:

Cassell, Petter and Galpin. London. No Date.,circa 1870. Two volumes bound in one. Large 8vo. (10.5 x 8 inches). Fully illustrated throughout with fine wood engravings by the three artists. A very good copy in an attractive contemporary leather binding. Half black morocco. Spine with raised bands, each with gilt decoration. Compartments double ruled and lettered in gilt. Red title label, ruled and lettered in gilt. Morocco grained cloth on boards. Coated yellow endpapers. All edges gilt. A lovely copy.:

Chapman and Hall. London. 1850. FIRST CHEAP EDITION, with a new preface written by Dickens expressly for this edition. 8vo. Illustrated with wood engraved frontis of steam ship leaving port, by C. Stanfield.Finely bound in nineteenth century half green calf. Spine with raised bands. Compartments with rules and jagged lines and floral centre pieces, all in gilt. Red title label, gilt. Marbled paper on boards. Plain brown endpapers with a small book label of Mills Bookshop of London to the rear paste down endpaper. Some minor rubbing to binding and edges a bit bumped but overall a very good copy.

Henry Frowde. London. 1904. Frontispiece portrait. Contemporary binding of 1/4 vellum with gilt roses and branches along the spine length. Tan morocco title label with gilt, lettering, ruling and leaves. Smaller label has "Oxford" within gilt ruling. Beige cloth on boards. Top edge gilt. Previous owners five line inscription from1919, written neatly in ink on front free endpaper. .A very good, bright copy.