Animal Farm. A Fairy Story
Orwell, George The uniform edition of George Orwell, with Jacket illustrated by Denis Piper. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering, uneven and faint light spots to the boards, ink name to the front endpaper. Top edge foxed. Not price clipped, with only minor little nicks and a small folded nick to the spine head, but otherwise a great copy in the nicely preserved Denis Piper illustrated dust jacket. This copy reset and reprinted in the Collected Edition.- $205
- $205
The Catcher in the Rye
Salinger, J. D. Third impression of the British edition. Blue/grey boards with silver spine lettering. Corners and spine ends bumped and the spine darkened, boards a little soiled and a touch bowed, ink name and foxing to the endpapers and one gathering foxed, likely from the different paper used in production. The jacket price clipped, with light nicks and creases in the corners and spine ends, but overall, still a pretty good copy.- $149
- $149
Liza of Lambeth. Jubilee Edition, Signed
Maugham, W. Somerset 8vo. Quarter off-white parchment with a gilt lettered black leather spine label, over red patterned paper boards, top edge gilt. Head of spine with a faint red mark to the parchment spine, purple ink gift inscription to half-title at the head and foot, but overall a nice clean and tight copy. Without the slipcase. Edition of 1000 copies, this is no. 459, signed by Maugham. The Jubilee edition.- $168
- $168
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
8vo. No dust jacket. Original illustrated paper boards. Edge-wear and bumped corners, heavy wear to the spine, top edges repaired and a few pieces glued back, joints worn, internal hinges good, with repair to the front paste-down. Blue crayon name to first blank. Still a good clean copy. First printing. Scarce. The Sea and the Jungle
8vo. First of this edition, limited to 515 copies, this being no. 353, signed by the author. Green buckram, top edge gilt, with gilt spine titles. Spine slightly tanned, light tanning to the front endpapers from offsetting of binding, a few light damp spots to the covers, and slightly cocked, nice copy otherwise without the dust jacket. Contains a new author foreword for this edition plus 16 excellent woodcuts by Clare Leighton. The author's first book. first published in 1912, a classic of South American and particularly Amazonian Travel. The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
8vo. Pp. 614. Bound in full leather with gilt titles to spine and gilt tooling tot he spine bands, all edges gilt, gilt stamped turn-ins and marbled endpapers. Gift inscription to first blank. Foxed to the title-page, first blank, and to the last couple pages, else clean throughout, the binding tight and square, with lightly touched up scuffs to the spine. Nice copy. With b/w ills. throughout. Chandos Poets Series. The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents and Insects. (3 Volumes)
3 volumes. Folio. Facsimile of the 1658 edition by De Capo Press. Quarter beige cloth over brown paper boards, with brown lettering to the spines and device in gilt to each front board, ink name to front endpaper, a couple of brown spots to the spines of volume 2 and 3, clean throughout otherwise and in very good condition overall. The Famous History of Herodotus
8vo. Quarter red buckram over maroon paper boards, gilt lettered spine, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Board corners and edges with light wear but overall a clean and tight copy. Edition limited to 1025 copies. The Tudor Translations, Second Series, edited by Charles Whibley VI.