Search Results: Fiction from Madoc Books

London: Chatto & Windus, 1910. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. The Fine Paper Edition. In white cloth, decorative gilt tooling, shelf wear. Spine, tooling and titles in gilt, edges brushed. Internally, pink marbled endpapers, half title present, titlepage text in red and black inks, (x), [2], [1], 2-212 pp, teg, remainder uncut, printed by Ballantyne & Co. Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. See ODNB. (166*108 mm).

London: Macmillan and Co.: Macmillan and Co., 1868. 1st Edition . Cloth. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. TENNIEL John 1820-1914. 2 vols as 1, 1868, 12th thousand, 42 illust & 1872, 1st ed, 1st issue, 50 illust's. VG. In contemporary full red calf, gilt & blind edge tooling, corners & edges brushed. Spine, decorative gilt tooling, raised bands, gilt titles & tooling to black calf label, joints brushed. Internally, half title, tissue guarded frontis, [12], [1], 2-192 pp, 42 illustrations (B&W). [1], [8], [1], 2-224 pp, 50 ilust + 1, marbled endpapers & text block edges, bookplate to fpd, fep (George David Leslie Melville), diagonal repaired tear to p33/34, Looking-Glass has the corrcted b on p21 indicating not 1st issue, tipped in newspaper clippings to verso fep & ffep, contemp ink dedication & anchor to half title, printed by R Clay, Son, and Taylor, Bread Street Hill. The Glass lacks a front blank & the half title, whilst the… Read More

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1932. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. TENNIEL John 1820-1914. (ROLLITZ Bruno - engraver). Limited Editions Club, 1932, signed by both Frederic Warde (publisher) & Alice Hargreaves (the original Alice). Near Fine, in the original red morocco, decorative gilt panelling to boards, spine with pictorial motifs after Tenniel & gilt titles, light rubbing to spine ends, otherwise fine. Internally, half title, frontis, title with vignette, [4], (v-xi), [1], [2] contents, [3], 4-182 pp, [1], [1], [1] limitation leaf, an edition limited to 1500 copies, small mark to lower cover (not detracting), a.e.g., signed by Frederic Warde (Typographer & binder) to limitation & Alice to leaf after half title. In the publishers printed red cloth slip case. (220*146 mm). Dodgson, was about 6 feet tall, slender, had either grey or blue eyes, wore his hair long, and 'carried himself upright, almost more than… Read More

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1932. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. TENNIEL John 1820-1914. (ROLLITZ Bruno - engraver). Limited Editions Club, 1932, Near Fine, in the original red morocco, decorative gilt panelling to boards, spine with pictorial motifs after Tenniel & gilt titles, light rubbing to spine ends, otherwise fine. Internally, half title, frontis, title with vignette, [4], (v-xi), [1], [2] contents, [3], 4-182 pp, [1], [1], [1] limitation, an edition limited to 1500 copies, signed by Frederic Warde (Typographer & binder). (221*145 mm). Dodgson, was about 6 feet tall, slender, had either grey or blue eyes, wore his hair long, and 'carried himself upright, almost more than upright, as if he had swallowed a poker'. He dressed customarily in clerical black and wore a tall silk hat, but when he took Alice and her sisters out on the river, he wore white flannel trousers and a hard white straw hat (A. and C.… Read More

London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1886. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. CARROLL Lewis . With Thirty Seven Illustrations by Carroll First edition, 1886, in the original publishers red cloth, gilt tooling & titles, lower board with the gilt mock turtle. Spine, faded, gilt titles. Internally, half title, [5], (vi-viii), [2], [2], [4], 95 pp, [1] Xmas Greeting, [1], [2] adverts, 37 illustrations (14 being full page), a.e.g., white endpapers, price crossed out on title, small ink owners name to fep (ELP Grant? 1919), faded to lower board edge. (188*122 mm). (Green -LC Handbook 194, p132p. Williams 52, p62-5).

London. New York.: William Heinemann. Doubleday Page & Co., 1907. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good +. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. RACKHAM Arthur 1867-1939. VG+, Ltd Ed, 1907 Rackham illustrated, 13 pls, complete. In quarter green cloth over green printed boards, gilt titles, corners a little bumped. Spine, gilt titles, edges bumped & worn. Internally, half title, limitation to verso, frontis, [4], (v-xi), [1=], 161 pp, [1], 13 pls (coloured & tipped in), lettered tissue guards, numerous illustrations within text, t.e.g, remainder uncut, an edition limited to 550 copies for the US and signed by the publisher Doubleday Page Co, bookplate to fpd (Francis Kettaneh) with off-setting to half title, printed endpapers, ink ownership signature to base fep. But a VG+ copy. (Folio, 228*282 mm). (Williams A5. Madan p215). With a poem by Austin Dobson. First published by Carroll with illustrations by Tenniel in 1865. The Alice books and The Hunting of the Snark have had… Read More

London:: Macmillan and Co., 1866. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. TENNIEL John 1820-1914. The second, first published edition, 1866 In the original publishers gilt red cloth, 3 circular lines containing a picture of Alice holding the Pig on the upper cover with the Cheshire Cat to the back cover, a little rubbed & soiled, cloth worn at some extremities. Professionally re-spined, old laid down, gilt titles. Internally, half-title, frontispiece, [10], [1], 2-192 pp, frontis, with tissue guard, + 42 illustrations by John Tenniel, a couple of short tears, some foxing, pale blue endpapers (earliest state), hinges with signs of repair, a.e.g. Housed in a custom red half morocco over red cloth drop-back- box, gilt titles to spine, gilt titles to morocco label to upper cover. (193*126 mm). (Crutch 46. Madan 33. Williams 10). A better than usual copy of Alice with an ownership inscription on half-title dated in the year of publication ( M.A. Watson… Read More

London: 186, Strand: Chapman and Hall, 1850. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. STANFIELD C.. In contemporary half calf over worn brown marbled boards, corners & edges bumped & worn, some blind tooling. Spine, worn, gilt tooling & titles. Internally, frontis, [5], (x-xiii), [1], [1], 2-175 pp, watermarks to frontis, upper joint cracked, printed by Bradbury and Evans, the Cheap Edition. (180*117 mm).

London: Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand.: Chapman and Hall, 1850. Cheap Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. STANFIELD C. CRUIKSHANK George. LEECH John.. The Cheap Edition, 1st Series, VG 1850, 1850, 1852. In red half calf, marbled boards, corners & edges lightly bumped & worn, some blind tooling. Spine, raised bands, decorative gilt tooling, edges bumped and worn, title in gilt to black calf label, joints worn. Internally, red marbled endpapers, text block edges marbled in red and blue, some light foxing to front and rear blanks. 3 stories each with a plate from the Cheap edition, 1st issue bound in 1, all printed by Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars. (179*123 mm). American notes for General Circulation, 1850, frontis by T Bolton, (v-xiii), [1], 175 pp, 1 pl, [1]. Sketches by Boz. Illustrative of every-day life and every-day people. With a frontispiece by George Cruikshank, Chapman and Hall, 1850, (v-xiv), [2], 303 pp, 1 pl, . Christmas… Read More

Clifford's Inn London EC: Werner Laurie. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. PARRISH Maxfield 1870-1966. Not dated but 1909, in colour printed blue cloth, gilt titles, corners bumped. Spine, gilt titles, edges bumped. Internally, half title, frontis, illustrated title, [4], (v-ix), [1], [2], 3-339 pp, 12 coloured illustrations, each with a captioned tissue guard, illustration to front cover marked, printed coloured endpapers, ink inscription to verso frontis (Ashbee 1911). (233*176 mm). Ten stories from the Tales of a Thousand and One Nights, including the well-known ones of Aladdin and the lamp, Ali Baba and the forty thieves, and Sinbad the sailor.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and T Cadell, 1823. Second Edition . Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 2nd ed, G, 1823. In quarter green cloth over contemporary green boards, corners & edges a little bumped & worn. Spine, printed title top paper label. Internally, [4], [1], 2-395 pp, [1] adverts, lacking fep & ffep, upper joint cracked but ties holding, ink initials to fpd, (pages 265-395 Gatherings of the West), printed by George Ramsey, first published in 1820/21 in Blackwoods Magazine, then the first edition published in Edinburgh in 1821, this edition in 1823 and then again in 1895. (FG Black 481). (183*108 mm). Galt, novelist, who in 1820 it started to publish in monthly parts The Ayrshire Legatees, his epistolary novel about the visit of the family of an Ayrshire minister to London to collect a legacy. For the first time Galt was drawing on his knowledge of life in the west of Scotland, his comic invention, and his exuberant… Read More

Edinburgh.: Ballantyne, Hanson & Co, 1879. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Thomas Bewick. In Three parts. 1 Fables extracted from Dodsley's. 2 Fables with Reflections in Prose and Verse. 3 Fables in Verse. VG, Edition de Luxe, in white vellum with gilt tooling, titles an red and black inks, woodcut within red borders, light shelf wear. Spine, gilt tooling and titles. Internally, no inscriptions, [8], (vii-xl), 384 pp, 10 pls (including 3 portraits) numerous wood cuts and illustrations, watermarked John Dickinson and Co, with red-line borders, privately printed for subscribers, an edition limited to just 100 copies, vellum slightly marked, t.e.g., others uncut, with the 4 page prospectus. A lovely production. A reissue of the edition of London, 1871. 4º; with new portraits, and the addition of the supplementary illustrations. (281*223 mm).

London: 11, Bouverie Street: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. G, 1st ed, 40 pls. In half calf over contemporary worn marbled boards, new tips. Re-spine, retaining the original, raised bands, gilt titles to red calf label, faded gilt tooling. Internally, frontis, [5], (viii-xvi), [1], 2-624 pp, 40 pls (inclusive of frontis & eng tp), bound without the half title, with 3 of the 4 first edition points, some foxing, torn corner to 1 pl,offsetting & light water stains, ink name to fep (JC Billington 1940), hinges strenghtened. (Folio, 132*214 mm), (Podeschi A31)

London Glasgow & Dublin: Blackie & Son, 1899. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ralph Peacock. In blue cloth, bevelled edges, decorative ink and gilt tooling, corners and edges a little bumped and worn. Spine, ink tooling & titles. Book a little cocked. Internally, grey endpapers, ink dedication to Alfred Lockley of the Adelphi Lads Club (Salford 1899), pencil note to half title, 384 pp, [32] catalog, text block edges in gilt. Events taking place around 1400 on the borders of Scotland and Wales. As usual Henty wove his fictional hero into a factual account of the period. A most attractive copy. (185*131 mm). Henty, journalist and children's writer. Henty's friend Sir Henry Lucy considered him 'one of the warmest-hearted shortest-tempered men in the world' (Lucy, 89). Edward Marston, friend and publisher, called him 'a rough diamond of the first water, sometimes boisterous, genial, generous, sympathetic, and… Read More

London: York Street, Covent Garden.: Bell and Daldy, 1870. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. COOPER R.. VG, 1870, 2 pls. In blue embossed cloth, corners bumped & worn. Spine, gilt tooling & titles, edges rubbed. Frontis, engraved tp (dated 1852), [3], 4-40. [2], [2], [1], 2-63, [1]. [3], 6-39, [1]. [3], 6-37, [1]. [1], 40-51, [1]. [3], (iv-xii), [1], 2-103, [1]. [1], 2-41, [1]. [1], 2-36. [1], 2-46. [3], 4-40 pp, 2 pls. Brown endpapers, ink name (Harvey), a bookseller label (Randle) to fpd, bottom edge cut others not, damp stain to corner of 1st 2 leaves. Authors & titles are: Rasselas / Samuel Johnson -- Vicar of Wakefield / Oliver Goldsmith -- Exiles of Siberia / Madame Cottin -- Paul and Virginia / Bernardin Saint-Pierre -- Indian cottage / Bernardin Saint-Pierre -- Gulliver's travels / Jonathan Swift -- Sterne's sentimental journry / Laurence Sterne -- Sorrows of Werter / [anonymous translation of the work by Johann Wolfgang von… Read More

Newtown, Montgomeryshire: Gregynog Press, 1930. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. MAYNARD Robert Ashwin 1888-1966. One of the Gregynog classics Limited first edition, in a natural Hermitage calf spine with gilt titling over marbled boards, edges rubbed. Signed on paste-down of lower cover Gregynog Press Bindery, limited to 275 copies. (ix), [3], 73 pp, [1]. Published on 22 November 1930. Garamond type on heavy Japanese vellum. Wood engraved opening and 13 decorated initials by Maynard, hand coloured, completed 1 July 1930, 250 copies bound in paper, printed in three colors, designed and printed at the Press. One of a cycle of tales forming the celebrated Mediæval 'Romance of Abu Zeyd'. (305*227 mm). (Harrop 16/p191).

Newtown, Powys, Wales: The Gregynog Press, 1930. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. MAYNARD Robert Ashwin 1888-1966. Limited first edition, in a slightly darkened natural Hermitage calf spine with gilt titling over marbled boards, edges rubbed. Internally, half title, [6], (vii-ix), [1], 73 pp, [1] limitation, wood engraved full size plate and 14 initial letters by RA Maynard, all hand coloured at the press, signed on paste-down of lower cover Gregynog Press Bindery, limited to 275 copies. Published on 22 November 1930, Garamond type on heavy Japanese vellum. Completed 1 July 1930, Previous owners ink signature to fpd (Peter Harvey 1937). (305*227 mm). (Harrop 16/p191).

Edinburgh and London: Cadell and Co. and Simpkin and Marshall., 1827. First Edition . Half-Leather. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. VG, 1st ed, 5 vols, 1827 & 28. All in brown refurbished half calf, green marbled boards, lightly bumped & worn to covers, corners & edges. Rebacked with old spines laid down, gilt tooling. First series, 2 vols complete, 1st editions, 1827, Vol1, [2], [1], (ii-xxviii), [1], 2-351 pp, lacks spine title label. Vol 2, [2], [1] 2-374 pp. The Highland Widow, The Two Drovers & The Surgeons Daughter. WITH Chronicles of the Canongate. 2nd Series in 3 vols, 1st edition, 1828, Vol 1, [2], [3], 4-336 pp, with the press figure on p 336. Vol 2, [2], [3], 4-336 pp, lacks spine title label. Vol 3, [2], [3], 4-348 pp, all printed by Ballantyne and Co. Internally, all with green marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate to fpds (John Jones) , occasional light. A nice set of first editions! (Lowndes 2226. Allibone 1970). Scott, poet… Read More

Fleet Street. London.: David Bogue, 1847. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1847, 1st English ed, VG+. In green embossed cloth, corners and edges very lightly bumped and worn. Spine, titles in gilt, edges bumped. Internally, yellow (later?) endpapers, half title with adverts to verso, portrait frontis, [5], (vi-xvii), [1], [1], 2-397 pp, 1 pl (portrait), printed by TC Savill, part of the European Library series, small bookseller label to epd (Leighton), some light spotting to frontis, but an exceptionally clean copy. The classic French novel first published in Vienne in 1827. Our copy is the first English translation based on the 9th Paris edition. (Lowndes 23). The story of the failed conspiracy of young Henri d'Effiat, marquis de Cinq-Mars to overthrow Richelieu; his doomed romance with Marie de Gonzague, a princess betrothed to the king of Poland; and Cinq-Mars' subsequent beheading. Alfred Victor de Vigny, was a French poet,… Read More

New Rochelle, NY: HT Brooks, 1931. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. VG, 1931, Rare, 12 copies printed! In green and black coloured cloth, title to spine in gilt. Internally, NO inscriptions etc, [6], 331 pp, 5 pls (B&W), 14 printers devices, chapter IV (91-114 pp) printed backwards with a small ink note so stating to base of p 90. Very Rare. Edition limited to twelve copies set and printed by the translator. Authorized German translation from the Danish by Pauline Klaiber. English rendition by HT Brooks.