Morris, William: (Kelvin, Norman, ed.:) The Collected Letters. Chichester: Princeton University Press, 1996. 4 vols bound as 5. 3rd printing, large 8vo., pp. lxiv, 626; liii, [i], 365, [i]; [ix], 366-921, [i]; lxv, [i], 537, [i]; lvii, [i], 465, [i]. Internally clean and bright. Beige buckram, burgundy titles to spines. A few small smudges to edges, very good indeed. Dust-jacket spines a little sunned, very good indeed. Dates covered as follows: Vol I, 1848-1880; Vol II pt.i,1881-1884; Vol. II pt.ii, 1885-1888; Vol. III, 1889-1892; Vol. IV, 1893-1896. Ref: 54955show full image..
[Morris, William] Peterson, William S.: The Kelmscott Press: A History of William Morris's Typographical Adventure. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. Folio, pp. xiv, 371, [i]. Richly illustrated. Clean and bright within. Very dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine. Very slight wear to endcaps, near fine. Dust-jacket spine a little sunned, very slight shelf wear, very good indeed. Loosely inserted, an interesting correspondence between the noted book collector Eric Sweet and the Oxford University Press prompted, by Mr Sweet's complaints about the quality of the book's boards and the publisher's proof reading. Chapters: 1. The World of Victorian Printing; 2. William Morris and the Book Arts; 3. Founding the Press; 4. Morris as Book-designer; 5. The Decorated Book; 6. The Business of the Press; 7. The Story of Three Books; Ref: 54957show full image..
Sartre, Jean-Paul: Words. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1964. First UK edition, first printing. 8vo., pp.173, [i]. Dark brown cloth, gilt title to spine. Head-cap a little crumpled but still fine. Dust jacket tattered at top edge, price-clipped, rear flap creased, good. Translated by Irene Clephane and published in the same year as the first French edition (Mots). Ref: 54676
[Scott, Walter:] The Monastery. A Romance. London; Edinburgh: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London; and for Archibald Cons 1820. First edition. 3 vols., 12mo., pp. [iv], 331, [i]; [iv], 333, [i]; [iv], 351, [i]. Each volume with its half-title; the second and third volumes each with a second half-title bound after the title-page. The misspelling 'attentoin' appears in volume one, in the final line of p.226; volume two has "Chapter II" on both p. 26 and p. 63, and "Chapter III" on pp. 89 and 123. A few spots and smudges, but very good. Near contemporary half brown calf, spines gilt terracotta and blue marbled boards, edges and endpapers. Rubbed, joints and edges worn, a few chips, very good. Ownership inscription of Robert Taylor in an old hand to the head of each title-page, though barely visible in vol. I. The first edition of The Monastery, in three volumes. Published with a print run of 10,000 and a price ?1 4s (?1.20). Like all the other Waverley novels before 1827, it was published anonymously. Ref: 54924show full image..
Sillitoe, Alan: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. London: W.H. Allen 1959. First edition, first printing. 8vo., pp.176. Internally very clean. Sage green cloth, gilt title to spine. Slightly cocked, some faint stains to cloth, stripe of toning near gutter to each free endpaper, illegible ms initials to front pastedown, good. Dust jacket a little creased at edges, price intact, very good. The author's second book, a Hawthornden Prize-winning collection of short stories; published one year after the success of Saturday Night & Sunday Morning. The eponymous lead story was the basis for the highly-regarded movie (of the same title) directed by Tony Richardson. Ref: 54668show full image..
Sillitoe, Alan: The Ragman's Daughter. London: W.H. Allen 1963. First edition. first impression. 8vo., pp.189, [i]. Very mildly toned, a little faint foxing to first leaf. Black cloth, gilt title to spine. Edges very slightly rubbed, faint foxing to endpapers, very good. Green Foyles Bookshop sticker to front pastedown. Dust jacket a bit creased at edges, a few marks, price intact, very good. First appearance of these seven stories in book form, Ref: 54669
[Thackeray] Harden, Edgar F.: A William Makepeace Thackeray Chronology. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. First edition. 8vo., pp. xvii, 396. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Spine slightly cocked, mild signs of use with jacket lightly creased to edges, still a good copy. In the publisher's Author Chronologies series. Ref: 53936
Thomson, James: (Cunningham, Alan, ed.: Williams, Samuel, illust.:) The Seasons, and The Castle of Indolence [?] with a biographical and critical introduction [?]. London: Tilt and Bogue, 1841. 8vo., pp. [v], x-lxx, 271, [i]. Many engraved illustrations in the text, plus single-sided full-page 'ornamental titles' for Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and The Castle of Indolence. Toned vertical line (seemingly from a ribbon bookmark) to pp.76-7, one or two tiny specks but generally clean and bright. Contemporary black straight-grain morocco, raised bands, title tooled direct, a.e.g., marbled endpapers. A bit rubbed, joints and endcaps slightly worn, very good. Elaborate armorial library bookplate of Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843), 9th child of King George III. Beneath it, a small label written in German to that effect. An edition from the short lived partnership of Charles Tilt and David Bogue (1840-1843), publishers of books and prints. Bogue arrived in London from Scotland in 1836 and worked for Charles Tilt at 86 Fleet Street. He went into partnership with Tilt in 1840, and purchased the firm from him in 1842 for about ?50,000. Bogue's chief success was as Cruikshank's principal publisher, but business soon declined. After his death at the age of 48 the firm passed to W.Kent, and then to his previous rivals, Bohn. Ref: 54925show full image..
