Multi-Volume Sets

London: J and R Tonson, 1736. First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good. Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose of the Late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; With some Account of the Life and Writing of the Author, by Mr. Tickell. Three Volumes. Original 1736 edition newly rebound in handsome brown full-leather. Occasional light foxing and browing of page edges. The volumes contain plays, essays, poems and dialogues. Vol. III has 235 pages devoted to "Dialogues Upon the Usefulness of Ancient Medals, Especially in Relation to the Latin and Greek Poets." Many illustrations of the medals are included. Addison was born in England, educated at Oxford, and then he entered politics. He married the Dowager Countess of Warwick in 1716, died in 1719, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. Very Good interior in Fine outer binding.

Handsome, fine-binding edition of "THE GEORGIAN ERA: Memoirs of the Most Eminent Persons, Who Have Flourished in Great Britain, from the Accession of George the First to the Demise of George the Fourth." The volumes are dated 1832, 1833 and 1834; Vizetelly, Branston and Co.; London. Complete in four volumes. Three-quarter leather bound with marbled covers, page edges and end papers. Each volume contains a frontispiece portrait. The volumes contain dozens of biographical sketches of prominent English men and women including Adam Smith, Isaac Newton, Jonathn Swift, Robert Burns, Thomas Paine, Captain James Cook, Daniel Defoe, Thomas Gainsborough, etc. The contents are grouped into the following categories:VOLUME I: The Royal Family, The Pretenders and Their Adherents, The Church, The Senate, DissentersVOLUME II: The Army, The Navy, Jurisprudence, Medical ScienceVOLUME III: Voyagers and Travellers, Science, LiteratureVOLUME IV: Political Economists, Rural and Domestic Economists, Painters, Sculptors,… Read More

Berlin: Jüdischer Verlag, 1925. First Edition . Orig.-Half-leather. Very Good. 1925 - 1929. Here and there a few volumes with some edge wear (mainly on inner part) . Vol. 3 and 4 head of spine with some wear and one small missing spot. (please see photos) Otherwise a very good, clean and fresh set. - Original- Halbleder. Einige Bände hier und dort an den Kanten ( meistens Innenseite) berieben. Bei Bd. 3 u. 4 Kopf der Rücken berieben und mit Fehlstelle. Ansonsten ein sehr gutes, sauberes und frisches Exemplar.((additional shipping cost of $ 100.00 above the automatically indicated rate, will apply - due to "heavy item" of 10 vols.)

London: Printed by William Bulmer and Co., Shakspeare Press, for John Porter, Bookseller to Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte, 1814. Book. Very Good. Full-Leather. First Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. "With memoirs of his life and writings by William Mason. To which are subjoined extracts philological poetical and critical from the author's original manuscripts selected and arranged by Thomas James Mathias." In Two Volumes (complete). First edition, first printing, with both title pages dated 1814. Original dark-brown full-calf fine binding. Ornate gilt decoration on spines. Red and black morocco title and volume labels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on both covers. Marbled endpapers. Huge and very heavy folio-size volumes, measuring 12" x 10" x 2". 581 and 634 text pages. Includes Gray's poems, letters and prose, with most of the prose published for the first time. Illustrated with a facsimile reproduction of Gray's original handwritten copy… Read More

P.F. Collier & Son Corporation, ca. 1930s. Hardcover . Collectible. Complete set volumes 1-51, with included Reading Guide volume. Tan hardbacks with stamped text cover and spine in dark blue. Collection is slightly dust faded, but generally in very good condition for their age. A copy that has been enjoyed! Light wear from average amounts of reading, but a well taken care of title!Marked up from in-store price - requires extra postage because it's just SO BIG! The Bluestocking Bookshop provides high-quality used and new books and gift items at deep discounts. Shipping media mail. Follow on Instagram for New Arrival stories and bookseller recommendations.

Time-Life Books 1970's. Quarto. Twenty three volume set in very good condition. Texts are clean and unmarked. Boards and bindings are strong with light shelf and edge wear. Three volumes show small white nicks on the spine. No DJs.

This is a complete, uniform, set of the 25 volume Author's National Edition. However, all the volumes are not first editions from the 1899 publication by Harper and Brothers. Thirteen of volumes are from the 1899 first edition publication. The remaining twelve volumes span the years 1901 - 1909. Condition of each book varies from Good to Very Good+. Pages on all the volumes are clear, without marks and overall without foxing (with only a few exceptions which have some light foxing). Book spines are all in good to excellent condition. We could not find any tears on pages except for a tear on the second page of volume xx (the page with the author's lithographed signature). All have a varied amount of shelf wear at the top and bottom of the spines. Otherwise shelf wear is very slight. Some have slight age toning. All include photogravure front pieces of the author or an illustration related to the book, as well two other illustrations scattered throughout the book. All have Mark Twain's… Read More

New York: University Alliance, 1911. Hardcover. Good. Complete 12 volume set. 1911. New York; University Alliance. Set 23 of 750 printed Cambridge Edition sets. Volumes 1-6 in red leather, 7-12 in blue. No dust jackets, as issued. Overall good condition. Gilt engravings on each front cover, engravings to back covers. Spines are also engraved and gilded. Marbled end pages. Pages are rough cut. Some wear to edges, spines are sun faded with some small tears. Pages are clean and unmarked. Bindings are loose but intact, save volume one which has a broken binding. Volumes 5, 7, and 8 have more wear to the boards or spines than the others. Volume 12’s front cover is partially sun faded. Shelf 1

New York: D. Appleton and Co. Publishers, 1875. Hardcover. Good +. New York; D. Appleton and Co. Publishers. 1875, 1878, 1879. Complete three volume set. Good+ Condition. Three quarter red leather bindings with red morocco paper covered boards. The gilt lettering and decoration on the spine and covers is fully intact. The edges are gilded all the way around and the endpapers are marbled. There is some staining and wear to the covers/spines, but the pages are clean and unmarked with slight yellowing. Each front end paper is stamped with a previous owner's name. 20 engravings on steel per volume, plus engravings on wood on most pages. Around 450-500 pages per volume. Shelf 1

Paris: Aubier, 1951. First edition. Two volumes. Small octavo. Original wrappers. Minor edgewear to wrappers and spotting to front wrapper of Vol. II; one-inch closed tear to top of first two leaves of Vol. II; minor spotting to page block of Vol. II; both volumes bright and largely uncut. Inscribed by Gabriel Marcel on title page to Vol. I. Very good.. Inscribed first edition, two-volume set collecting Gabriel Marcel's (1889-1973) Gifford Lectures presented at the University of Aberdeen between 1949 and 1950 on the nature and purpose of philosophy, faith, and metaphysics in human life. Marcel was an influential French philosopher, playwright, and music critic who, in the tradition of Søren Kierkegaard, was also a renowned Christian existentialist. Marcel focused much of his thought on the displacement of the authentically human in an increasingly industrial and technological world and, like other existentialist thinkers of his time, sought to explain the roots of human alienation. The Mystery of… Read More

The Folio Society, 2003. Book. Like New. Hard Cover with Slipcase. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Eight hardcovers with slipcases. Books are bound with purple cloth spine with red labels with gilt lettering; boards covered in pictorial paper; red pictorial slipcases. Each book has an erasure on a blank page near the front, otherwise like-new. Slipcases very good to very good plus; a bit of streaking or scuffing, mostly on the bottom; one with a scratch to the side. Will require extra for shipping.

SIGNED on title pages of all 3 books. Personally signed by Anne Rice directly on the title page of each book. NOT signed on a bookplate. NOT signed to anyone. The Trilogy includes 3 soft cover books in a slip case designed by Nancy Etheredge. First edition thus, later printings. All 3 books are LIKE NEW and Unread, opened only for signing. The slip case is also in like new condition. This is a beautiful, RARE autographed box set. Makes a great gift.

London and Edinburgh : Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1798. Second Edition. . Leather Bound. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavos. 451; 490; 487; 473; 388; 540, [1] pages. [LACKS ALL MAPS]. Hardcovers bound in original full leather. The bindings are worn and scuffed and a bit dry. Volume I has been rebacked in leather with the original spine laid down. New endpapers in all of the volumes. Although worn, the set is fairly sound. Headcap of the spine on Volume II is chipped. Text is toned and foxed. The text blocks are sound. The leaf for pages 245-246 in Volume one has a 3 1/2 inch tear running from the fore edge straight into the text. Lacks all of the maps, although it appears they were never bound in (no plate marks or sign of cut pages).

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2041pp; Three volumes missing DJ, DJ for Vol. 4 edgeworn & protected by mylar sleeve, blue cloth boards with gilt titling to front & spine, boards square, clean & bright, minor staining to fore-edge of Vol. 3, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Four volume set of journalistic pieces, letters and essays by George Orwell, spanning his entire career. Essential reading for Orwell admirers and any student of politics and the history of the 20th century, with brilliant observations and insights throughout, as well as personal details from Orwell's extraordinary life.

This is a three volume set that I purchased new. It has been on my bookshelf ever since. I have leafed through the volumes but otherwise it is unmolested. The box it comes in is made of cardboard and it has very minor dents or dings.