First printing. Folio (35cm). Two volumes in later half brown leather, blue cloth over boards, all edges marbled; marbled endpapers; not paginated; ad to final page of vol II; with 79 (of 80) full-page line engravings. Bookplate of noted zoologist James G. Mead. Lacking plate 67. Straight and sound, externally.....
Octavo (23cm.); publisher's brown pictorial wrappers; 110,2pp.; double frontispiece (tissue guards), illus. throughout, text in double columns. Wrapper extremities a bit chipped with a few shallow losses, else Very Good, internally sound.
First printing, with the second state of the ads. Octavo (20cm). In original blue publisher's cloth, titled in gold on front and spine, with badge designed by Charles Ricketts below title on front; plain endpapers; [i]-ix [x] 11-151, [1], [1]-40pp; with 40pp publisher's catalogue at rear, dated March 1905. With.....
First Impression. Octavo; blue-gray paper over boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 280pp. A triffle sunned at spine and upper board edges, else very Near Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket, with some trivial sunning to yellow spine lettering. The sixth Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novel.....
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Unnumbered copy, of 1000. Elephant folio (50cm). Halfbound in brown faux leather, with brown cloth over boards, titled in gilt on spine; plain endpapers; unpaginated; 50 full-page color plates. Fine. A facsimile of the 1838 original by John Lindley (1799-1865), a distinguished botanist and early orchidologist. Note: this volume is.....
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Folio (32cm.); recent full blue crushed morcco, gilt-lettered spine; xxxii,500pp. (* - 4*4 A-3R4); title page printed in red and black, woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces. Slightly ex-library with mid-20th century rubberstamp to title page, title page separated but present (and rather browned), new front free endpapers, though retaining.....
First Printing. Octavo; brown marbled paper over boards, quarterbound in mustard yellow cloth with titles stamped in red on spine; red topstain; dustjacket; 233pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped but with the price scratched out, subtle fading to spine and a touch of soil along rear flap fold.....
Limited to 725 copies of which this is no. 234. Large, slim octavo (23.25cm.); original cloth-backed boards in blue and white decorative dust jacket; 109pp.; frontispiece & illus. Signed by the author on frontispiece. Jacket spine toned, a bit rubbed along extremities, unobtrusive tears with neat tape repair to verso;.....
First issue, with windmill device to t.p. and without "Reserved for the Colonies only" on verso of half-title. Octavo (20cm). Publisher's black cloth, stamped in gilt on front and spine, edges untrimmed; plain endpapers; [viii],304,[32]pp; leaf of ads at front, list of titles to half-title verso, and 32-page publisher's catalogue.....
Octavo (19cm.); original cloth in purple pictorial dust jacket; [6],350pp. Jacket extremities rubbed with a few short closed tears and chipping at corners, minor dust-soiling to rear panel; top textblock edge more heavily dustsoiled, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket.
A run of twenty-eight weekly issues in original pictorial paper wrappers, comprising: Vol. VIII no. 1 (Jan 7, 1892)-8; 10-26; Vol IX, 1-3 (July 21, 1892). Each issue paginated as follows: i-iv; [1]-16; v-viii; front and rear matter containing adverts. Occasional light soil and marginal flaking to covers, but a......
First impression. Octavo (22cm); blue cloth over boards, titled in gilt in spine; 344pp. With ownership signature in pencil of Raymond Greene to front free endpaper. Slight rubbing to board edges; scattered faint foxing within, still a sound, Very Good copy. Greene's scarce second novel. This copy with Greene family.....
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Octavo (19.25cm.); original blue gilt-lettered wrappers; 45pp. Wrappers quite fragile with long shallow loss along upper wrapper fore-edge not affecting text, upper wrapper starting to separate, spine toned; interior about fine. About Very Good. The author's first book, comprised of two short pieces inspired by the London aesthetes and the.....
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Slim quarto (27.5cm); original pictorial wrappers; stapled; [1],2-56pp; illus. Light wear and faint creasing to wrappers, vertical bend at center, with some tanning to text edges; Very Good+.
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Limited to 595 copies of which this is no. 434. Quarto (27.75cm.); original cloth-backed boards in cream dust jacket printed in red, top edge gilt; 76pp.; music in text. Tiny faint soil spot to bottom edge of upper jacket cover else a Very Near Fine, unopened copy. Signed by the.....
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Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's black buckram in green decorative dust jacket, dark green topstain; [8],264pp. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed with some short tears with creasing at bottom edge of rear panel, minute tape repair to verso, spine rather sunned, else Near Fine in a just about Very Good jacket. Review.....
First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in green on spine, and publishers logo embossed at lower front cover; dustjacket; [6],7-287,[3]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, contemporary owners name (in ink) to front endpaper, else Fine. In an attractive example of the dustjacket designed by William Gropper; price-clipped, gently.....
Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in tan photo-illustrated dust jacket, red topstain; 316pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Cloth gilt a bit dulled, topstain a shade darkened, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, tiny closed tear at top edge of rear jacket panel not approaching text, else Near Fine in a superlative.....
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12mo (18cm). Printed card wrappers; 127pp. Very mild external wear; faint spotting to a few pages of text; Near Fine in the original wrappers.
12mo (19cm.); stitched self-wrappers; 11pp. Wrappers rather crudely trimmed with brief doodle at bottom margin, general dust-soil, else Very Good overall.
First Printing. Octavo (21.25cm.); publisher's cloth in cream decorative dust jacket printed in green and black, top edge gilt; viii,[2],149pp. Jacket extremities a bit toned, a few tiny losses at top edge of upper and rear panels, none approaching text, else a Very Good, unusually nice copy. GALLUP A24b.
First Printing, with publication date on title page and "47G" code present in lower gutter of p.405. Octavo; rust-colored cloth, with titles stamped in black and gilt on spine; dustjacket; 406pp. Inscribed by Bradbury on the front endpaper in an early (though not contemporary) hand. Small wrinkle to crown, else.....
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Quarto (31cm). Brown cloth, stamped in gilt; brown endpapers; xiv, 678pp; black and white illustrations throughout. Gently rubbed, else Near Fine. Supplement: quarto (31cm). Brown cloth, stamped in gilt; brown endpapers; x,388, [2]pp; 28 color plates and black and white illustrations throughout. With bookplate to front pastedown. Upper corner of.....
12mo (18cm). Printed tan wrappers; 278pp. Edition of 500 copies. Tight, firm copy with moderate soiling to wrappers, mottling to paper on spine, lacking the slipcase. Contemporary ownership signature (Claire Croft / Paris) to front free endpaper. Bookseller ticket (Librarie Galignani, Rue de Rivoli, Paris) inside front cover.
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