Search Results: Library Sets from Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA

London: Pickering and Chatto 1890. Small 8vo. 4 volumes. viii, 503; [5], 523; [5], 591; [5], 575 pp. Maroon cloth with paper title labels on the spines, top edge gilt. Pages uncut. Illustrated throughout by S. L. Wood. Some general wear and marking, particularly rubbing and chipping to the top and bottom of the spines. Some damage to paper title labels on spines and repair to spine. Some wear to hinges. Some folded corners but internally clean. This is a heavy set and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. . Good. Cloth. 1890.

London: Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd 1947. 8vo. 4 volumes. xiii, 873; vii, 827; vii, 796; vii, 747 pp. Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spines; top edges gilt. Slight rubbing to spine ends, occasional minor marks and creases to boards. Slight foxing to endpapers and bookplates of David Lindsay Bankes to front pastedowns. A good literary set of the Arabian Nights. . Very Good. Gilt Lettered Spine. 1953.

London: H. S. Nichols & Co. 1894. Large 8vo. In 12 volumes complete. Bound in original, gilt decorated, black cloth with top edge gilt. Gilt fresh and bright with slight bumping to extremities, light wear in a few cases. Light spotting to some edges. Published in 1894 three years before the illustrated edition and shortly after Lady Burton edition, the 1st Nichols Edition, restored elements of the story Lady Burton had omitted. This is a heavy set and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. . Near Fine. Gilt Decorated Cloth. First Editions Thus. 1894.

New York: Bigelow, Brown & Co., Inc. N.d. [c. 1900]. 8vo. Complete in 6 volumes. Edition De Luxe. Publisher's full cloth with paper title labels to spines. Top edge gilt. Some dampstaining & marks to boards of vol. VI. One label slightly chipped. Occasional light foxing. Attractive bookplate to front pastedowns. Frontis to each volume. A VG set. This is a heavy set and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. . Very Good. Cloth. Deluxe Edition. 1900.

London: Cassel, Petter, and Galpin (1865-8). 4to. Four volumes. Original publisher's gilt decorated, blind stamp cloth. Scarce in original boards. Slight marks to the boards with wear to spine ends, particularly volumes 1 and 2. Bindings generally firm with wear to the hinges of volumes 4 and 1 and webbing exposed. Some scattered spotting throughout the volumes and with foxing to parts of Volume 1. Extensive illustrations throughout in black and white. Owner's name in ink to the front endpapers, dated 1865-8. . Very Good. Gilt-decorated Cloth. 1865.

London: The Gresham Publishing Co. (circa 1910). 8vo. 5 Volume set. Blue decorative cloth binding in an arts and crafts style. Some marks to the covers and sunning to the spines. Slight lean to the binding and generally internally clean with slight spotting to the extremities. Each volume is illustrated in black and white and with introductions by William Keith Leask, W. A. Brockington and Charles E. Beckett. This is a heavy item and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. . Good. Decorative Cloth. 1910.

London: George Bell and Sons 1905. 16mo.Illustrated. In 12 volumes complete. Publisher's original red cloth with elaborately gilt-decorated spines. Top edge gilt. Spine cloth faded but gilt bright. Slight rubbing & wear to spines of 2 volumes. Minor spotting to the fore-edges. Boards clean and unfaded. Internally clean. Original illustrated title-pages to each play. With 463 illustrations by Byam Shaw. All bindings firm. An attractive set in VG condition. Originally published as single plays between 1899 and 1902, the publisher Bell represents the 39 volumes her as 12, using the original illustration by Byam Shaw. This is the edition that the Easton Press based their edition on in the 1990s. . Very Good. Gilt Decorated Cloth. 1905.

London: The Zodiac Press 1949 / 1950. 8vo. In 6 volumes, mixed editions. Publisher's original cream & brown patterned hardbacks with gilt titles to spines. Top edges burnished red-brown. Minor sunning and a few spots to the spines, and fading to ends. Binding firm, light spots to prelims and/or fore-edges, else internally clean. A nice set of Trollope's series of novels set in the fictional county of Barsetshire (supposedly based on Somerset), often considered his finest work. This is a heavy set and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. . Very Good. Decorated Boards. 1962.

London: The Folio Society 1999-. 8vo. All in English. 6 volumes. Various coloured cloth spines over the same colour boards with gilt decoration to front boards, the first two volumes listed in their own individual decorated slipcases, the latter four in one slipcase. All in fine condition. All illustrated by various artists. . Fine. Decorative Boards. 1999.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1875, 1870, 1871. 8vo. 10 volumes. Half light brown calf over marbled boards, with raised bands, red and green title labels, gilt lettering and decoration to spines; marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Rubbing to bottom edges of boards and a few minor scratches and marks to leather, occasional slight rubbing to boards. Bookplates to front pastedowns. Internally clean across all the volumes. Author portrait frontispiece in volume I. A nice library set of almost all of Disraeli's works: published in 1870/71, this is complete in 10 volumes - in 1880, Endymion was published and in 1881 added as a supplementary volume to the collected set. Disraeli was one of the most pouplar authors of his day, as well as being twice Prime Minister, the first person of Jewish heritage to hold the office. Contains: Lothair. Coningsby, or The New Generation. Sybil, or The Two Nations. Tancred, or The New Crusade. Venetia. Henrietta Temple: A Love Story. Contarini Fleming: A… Read More

London: Rupert Hart-Davis 1962-1964. 8vo. Twelve volumes. Bound in green-gray cloth with burgundy title labels. Slight darkening and rubbing to the spine and minor marks to some boards. Volume 1 is slightly bumped in the corner. All clean and bright internally. Title pages printed in red and black. This is a heavy set and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. . Very Good. Cloth. First Editions. 1962.

London: The London Printing and Publishing Company, Limited N.d. [c. 1880]. 4to.Illustrated. 3 volumes bound as 6. Comedies. Tragedies. Histories. xxxvi, 288; xi, 289-640; [v], 306; x, 306-586; xi, 318; vii, 318- 641, xxxvii-lxxi, xvi pp. Full blue cloth with elaborate gilt- and blind stamped decorations, illustrations and lettering to boards and spines - some chipping to the spine and marking to the basesall edges gilt. Light spots throughout and occasional offsetting (mainly to tissue guards, which shows they've worked!). Engraved frontispiece to every volume and engraved title page to every odd numbered book. Many tissue-guarded full page and in-text engravings by Kenny Meadows. All bindings firm. Extensive supplementary materials: glossaries, biography, notes, criticism, etc. An attractive VG set. This is a heavy set and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. . Very Good. Gilt Decorated Cloth. 1880.

London, United Kingdom: Pickering & Chatto Publishers 1998. 8vo. 4 volumes. pp. (1)xlix., 458 + (2)vii., 574 + (3)vii., 563 + (4)vii., 629. A fine set, issued without jackets. This collection of H G Wells's correspondence draws on over 50 archives and libraries worldwide, including the papers of Wells's daughter by Amber Reeves. The book contains over 2,000 letters, a few are business - to publishers, agents and secretaries - but the majority are more personal. Wells's private correspondence extends from letters to President Franklin Roosevelt, and Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and A J Balfour to persons such as "Mark Benney", who wrote novels based on his life in the slums and his time in prison. There is correspondence too with his many female friends and lovers, among them, Rebecca West, Eileen Power, Gertrude Stein, Marie Stopes, Lilah MacCarthy, and Dorothy Richardson. For example, a letter from Moura Budberg, with whom Wells had a long-standing affair, which… Read More

London: Cambridge University Press 1985. 8vo. 5 volumes. xxix, [2], 702 pp.; xxxiii, [6], 603 pp.; xxix, [3], 523 pp.; xxxiii, [3], 711 pp.; xxix, [3], 705 pp. All volumes bound in black cloth with a green stamped title label and gilding to spine, in green printed dustjackets. Binding firm in all volumes, and cloth boards clean and unworn. Dustjackets clean across all volumes with very minor marking and wear to corners; overall in uniform condition aside from a small marked and worn area with small holes to the tail of the spine on volume 4. Endpapers illustrated with family trees. Internally all clean and bright. Illustrated throughout in black and white, all volumes with a frontispiece. The first five volumes of an ongoing project by Cambridge University Press to publish Darwin's letters. . Very Good. Cloth. 1985.

London: Chapman and Hall, Limited 1899. 8vo. Five volumes. Full gilt decorated, black calf binding with all edges marbled for Macmillan & Bowes. Cambridge University prize binding with heraldic device to the front boards and spine. Slight sunning to the spine and wear to the extremities. Minor marks to the some of the boards. Binding firm and internally fresh and bright, each volume illustrated with two black and white plates. No ownership marks. This is a heavy set and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. . Very Good. Full Calf - Prize Binding. 1899.

London: The Folio Society 2005; 2009; 2011. 8vo. Still shrinkwrapped. 3 volumes. Colour pictorial boards in a grey slipcases. As new, untouched set. With illustrations by Roman Pisarev. The original 'Eagle of the Ninth' trilogy, some of the most celebrated and widely read historical adventure novels written for children in the 20th century, set in Roman Britain. . As New. Decorated Boards. 2010.

London: Chapman and Hall (circa 1870s). 8vo. Three volumes. Hatchards red, half morocco binding, with top edge gilt and gilt lettered spine. Leather bright with some staining and sunning to the boards, and minor wear to the joint of the second volume. Some staining to the bottom corner of the leaves of the second volume, not affecting the text. Otherwise bright with occasional pencil marks, including to the title page. Owner's plate to the front pastedown. Part of the series Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works. This is a heavy set and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. . Very Good. Half Morocco. 1870.

Dublin: James Duffy & Sons 1878. Small 8vo. 10 volumes. Half brown calf over dark brown boards with raised bands, black title labels and gilt borders and lettering to spine; all edges speckled red. Marks and scratches to bindings. Light spotting throughout some volumes but generally quite internally clean. Occasional black & white illustrations. A nice library set. Bindings 18.5 cms tall. . Very Good. Half Calf. Sixth Edition. 1878.

London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1956 / 1957 /1958. Large 8vo. 4 volumes. First editions 1956 to 1958. An attractive set. Recently bound in full dark red morocco, with raised bands, gilt lettering and decoration to the spine. Top edge gilt. Some spotting to the foredge, mainly to volume one affecting some of the front end papers. Otherwise clean and bright with no ownership marks. Illustrated with black and white maps. None of the usual foxing, Woods A138(a). . Near Fine. Full Morocco. First Editions. 1956.

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press 1992. 8vo.Facsimile. 6 volumes. Blue hardbacks with gilt lettering to spines. One or two minor marks to boards. Internally clean and bright. 1992 reissue of 1888 edition; the book was originally written by Edward, Earl of Clarendon, an advisor to both Charles I and Charles II. One of the most significant histories of the 1642-to-1646 English Civil War, it was the first detailed account from a key player in the events it covered. Written at first as a defence of Charles I, it was extensively revised after 1667 and became far more critical and frank, particularly in its assessments of his contemporaries. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1992.