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London: Printed for Vernor and Hood, Poultry, And Cuthell and Martin, Holborn, 1802. Leather Bound. Good -. 8vo. pp. viii, 392 + four aquatint engravings. In contemp calf binding, gilt dentelles, gilt decoration to spine, tooled title to spine, marbled page edges. Hinges cracked, boards scuffed, boards rubbed to edges, tips. Binding and boards still holding, text block clean and bright. Armorial bookplate of Henry Forrester with motto, 'Blow Hunter Thy Horn' to front pastedown.

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. A fine, unmarked copy, tight and firm, in similar price clipped dust jacket.

London: Macmillan & Co., 1932. Reprint. Half Leather. Near fine. John Tenniel. 8vo (19.5cm). Gilt top edges, pale blue linen over boards, dark blue morocco to spine and outer corners. Gilt rules to leather edges on covers, five raised bands to spine, with gilt titles and date to base. Matching pale blue marble card endpapers. The bindings almost certainly by Bayntun of Bath, having been in the same family home in Bath since their purchase, and match exactly the style of other Alice bindings by the firm from this period. However, there is no binder's ticket. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Untrimmed forward page edges. One Hundred and Eighty-Sixth Thousand. With Fourty-Two Illustrations by John Tenniel. Tissue guarded frontis. [4, poem and publisher's preface], 183, [2, pub's adverts]. Through the Looking Glass, 1933. One Hundred and Twenty-Seventh Thousand. With Fifty Illustrations by John Tenniel. Tissue guarded frontis. [3, poem, author's preface], 208. Both copies with previous owner's gift… Read More

Washington DC: Phi Beta Kappa Society, 1991. Wraps. Very Good. Pieces on Michelet, Ludwig Boltzmann, Eliot's Four Quartets; Behind the Rushdie affair, Bernard Lewis; Schumpeter Ascending, Thomas McCraw, etc. VG or better.

Edizione Scolastiche Mondadori, 1952. First edition. Trade Paperback. Good. 8vo. 472. Pages toned, page edges darkened, some wear, marks to covers, internally clean and sound.

London: Folio Society, 1965. First edition, thus. Original Cloth. Very good+. Translated by B P Moore. Drawings by Victor Reinganum. 12mo. Half faux leather over dark reddish brown cloth, gilt titles to spine. pp. 124. Spine slightly rubbed, else a very well kept copy, in like slipcase.

Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1938. First Edition, First Printing. Wraps. Good. pp. 312 + [6], "Complete List of All Penguin and Pelican Books to the end of 1938," + ad. Only the rear panel of the original dust jacket has been retained, which a previous owner has glued to recto of rear blank. Minor spotting and browning to page edges, small split to edges of covers at base of spine, previous owner's initials to Penguin Books logo to top of cover. A few pencil rules to margins. Otherwise a firm, sound copy.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1979. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. 8vo, pp. 287, illustrated. In a very clean, sharp jacket with a little edgewear, rubs. Book is near fine, clean and unmarked.

London: J. M. Dent & Comoany, 1904. Third edition. Full Leather. Good +. A small pocket size book (13cm x 8-1/2cm), bound in limp green morocco, top edges gilt and gilt titles to spine. The covers are faded, rubbed to edges and with slight loss to hd. of spine. A very small contemporary gift inscription dated 1904 to fly leaf and a small book plate to pastedown. Front prelims tender, darkening to endpapers else a clean, firm copy profusely illustrated with the striking Beardsley vignettes.

Milano: Carlo Signorelli, 1951. Terza edizione riveduta. Paperback. Good +. Pages quite darkened/toned, a few scattered spots to spine, else a sound, firm, clean copy.

Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1947. First edition thus. Very Good +/good. pp. 121. Small pocket sized paperback in cream card wraps and original (?) glassine jacket, with a tear to front and creased to rear. Previous owner's name to flyleaf, else a very clean, sound copy. Quite scarce.

London: J. M. Dent & Sons, No date [but 1912]. First Edition. Original Cloth. Good. The Everyman's Library first printing, without any printings mentioned, as called for. Bound in red cloth, flat back style spine, with gilt ornament, titles. xiii, 314. Splits to cloth on rear hinge, spine ends rubbed, lean to spine. Otherwise, binding remains firm, internally clean and unmarked.

Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1946. First Edition. Boards. Near fine/Very good +. John Leech. Slim 8vo (18.5cm). Printed paper over boards. With gilt decoration to cover. No. 32 in the King Penguin series. Illustrations in colour and b&w by John Leech. pp. 138. In the scarce, price clipped dust jacket with slight rubs, to folds and edges, small fray around upper spine end. Traces, only, of foxing to leading page edges. Text block bright and clean. Previous owner's gift note to flyleaf. A small ding to upper edge of front board, boards otherwise in excellent condition.

London: Ernest Benn, 1926-1927. First Edition thus. Cloth. Near fine. The thin-paper edition, a complete set of the first 12 volumes to be issued. Sm 8vo (17.5cm). With the faux engraved title pages. The publisher states in a page to rear, "Further volumes will be issued monthly until the edition is complete." In all, 28 volumes were published. The titles in this set are, in order: The History of Mr Polly (Vol I), Kipps (II), The New Machiavelli (III), The Invisible Man (IV), a small, just under 1cm tear to spine; The Food of the Gods (V), The Stolen Bacillus (VI), Tono-Bungay (VII), The First Men in the Moon (VIII), Love and Mr Lewisham (IX), front gutter cracked; The Sleeper Awakes (Vol X), Twelve Stories And a Dream (XI), In the Days of the Comet (Vol XII). All in the uniform tan cloth, top edges stained brown, gilt titles to spines, with decorated gilt panels and gilt motif to upper board. There are no inscriptions or ownership marks. Tips of a few volumes slightly pushed. Bindings remain firm,… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. pp. 127. A very nice copy with only limited signs of use. Previous owner's name to flyleaf, in a very well kept unclipped jacket. Essays focused chiefly on Donne and Milton.

New York: Peter Pauper Press, 1941. First edition thus. Hardcover. Good +/good. In slightly worn, marked s'case, book is slightly bowed, else a very sound, clean copy.

London: Hurst & Blackett, 1896. Twenty-third Edition. Boards. Very good. 8vo. pp. vii, 456, 8, publisher's ads. In the rich brown boards, black rules to upper board and gilt titles to spine. Head and tail of spine lightly bumped, spotting to page edges, crack to paper at joints of inside front hinge. Overall, still a very nice, well kept and collectable copy.

London: John Murray, 2016. First Edition, First Printing. Original Cloth. Near fine/near fine. 8vo (24cm). In publisher's original black cloth, gilt titles to spine. xxv, 469. Illus with b&w photographs. Unclipped dust wrapper, with Hatchard's Signed Copy wraparound bellyband. Signed by Sisman to title page. Some light wear, use, very minor edgewear to wrapper. Faint toning to page edges. Otherwise a bright, firm copy in like wrapper.

Wimborne: The Dovecote Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 8vo. pp. 189 + b&w plates. In a tidy, unclipped jacket with a little edgewear, faint spotting to top page edges, otherwise text block appears barely used.

London: Folio Society, 1966. First Edition. Very good+. 8vo. Illustrations by George Cruikshank. Polished buff cloth with illustration to cover, silver titles to spine. Maroon stained top edges. Green endpapers. pp. 239. Some minor marks to boards, in a firm, sound slipcase which has a few marks. Still a very bright copy, internally fine.