Diaries, Letters, And Essays from Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1971. Large 8vo. Two volumes. xii, 538 ; viii, 539-1079 pp. Publisher's cloth with red title label and gilt lettering to spine in jacket. Light rubbing to jackets. Internally clean. Volume 1 covers 1812-1848 and volume 2 covers 1849-1866. Edited on behalf of the Royal Institution by L. Pearce Williams. This is a heavy set and… Read more about this item

London: Collins Harvill 1987. Large 8vo.Illustrated. First trade edition but with the Libanus Press jacket.. 46 pp + letters. Red cloth with gilt lettering to the spine, in dustjacket. Includes English and Italian dual-text translations of Pietro Bembo's poetry. With wood engravings by Richard Shirley Smith. Some minor bumping and fading at the head and tail of the spine, but… Read more about this item

London: Chatto and Windus 1946. 8vo. First Edition. viii, 258 pp. Cloth with gilt lettering to spine in unclipped jacket. Small areas of loss to spine's ends, which has darkened. From the library of Jamaican writer, Andrew Salkey, whose name is in ink at ffep, otherwise internally clean. The author was Professor of Biometry at the University of London. .… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber 1967. 8vo.Review Copy. First Edition. 454 pp. Cloth with gilt lettering to spine in unclipped jacket. Internally clean. Review copy with slip. Reviews from The Times and The Listener inserted at rear. The focus of the essays are on the links between politics and language and meaning. . Near Fine. Gilt Lettered Cloth. First Edition. 1967.… Read more about this item

London / Sydney / Toronto / Bombay: George G. Harrap and Company Ltd. 1949. 8vo. First Edition. 288 pp. Cloth in unclipped illustrated jacket. Minor spotting and chipping to jacket and minor foxing to earlier pages, otherwise clean internally. The editor of this work was the grandson of the diarist and also himself a vicar in Norfolk. The diaries provide… Read more about this item

London: Arthur L. Humphreys 1912. 12mo. bound in 6's. vii, 70 pp. Paper boards with decorative cover in contemporary slipcase with paper onlay. Boards yellowed; internally clean and bright with pasted paper illustrations. Slipcase is rubbed to extremities and has several small tears to edges. Essays on 'The Optimism of Byron', 'Pope and the Art of Satire', 'Stevenson', 'Rostand' and… Read more about this item

[unknown]: [unknown] [n.d.] circa 1890. 8vo. Unpaginated. Black full morocco with a working brass key-locked clasp. All edges and endpapers marbled. With a contemporary pink ribbon attached to the key. Leaves are ruled and blank. Edgewear and rubbing to boards alongside some chipping to the leather at the spine. Some damage to the endpapers from the nails fastening the lock… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape 1967. 8vo. First Edition. xix, 459 pp. Cloth spine with gilt lettering over boards in unclipped pictorial jacket. Minor chipping and rubbing to jacket. Internally clean. The letters cover his early life in England, his journeys in Mexico and British Columbia and his return to Europe and England. A very insightful collection of letters. . Very Good.… Read more about this item

London: Secker & Warburg 1941. 16mo. First edition. 127 pp. Original cream-coloured boards with green lettering to spine in dust jacket. Dust jacket slightly edgeworn with a few marks and tanning, and a small tear to back panel. Binding a little slanted. Orwell's essay on socialism, patriotism and the class system in wartime Britain. Clean copy. . Very Good. Hardcover.… Read more about this item

Oxford: Clarendon Press / Oxford University Press 1919. Small 8vo. First edition. [v], 160 pp. Blue cloth in printed jacket, which has some chipping and short tears. Minor bumping and rubbing to extremities of book. Later ink inscription to ffep, otherwise internally clean. Includes essays on Dante and Goethe, Jane Austen, John Ruskin, Flattery and the English Church and the… Read more about this item

London: J. M. Dent & Sons 1950. 16mo. 432, 427 pp. Pink cloth in dust jackets. Spine of jackets slightly sunned; some small chips and tears to volume 2. Ink inscription of previous owner to FFEPs. Internally clean. Everyman edition based on the three-volume edition of 'The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb', which was edited and annotated by E.… Read more about this item

London: Cassell & Co. 1929. 8vo. x, 325 pp. Blue buckram with bevelled boards in dust jacket (not price clipped). Slight sunning to spine; a little discolouration to bottom edge of book and some bumping to bottom corners. Clean boards. Dust jacket a little tanned and spotted, with a few chips and tears. Light foxing to edges and endpapers, otherwise… Read more about this item

London: C. Clement 1824. 12mo. Unpaginated. Quarter calf over marbled boards. Red morocco title label, gilt lettering, blind stamped bands. Minimal rubbing. Pages are tanned, with the occasional spot or stain. Cobbett writes in a series of letters to his son the importance of good grammar and clarity of expression, including mistakes in grammar taken from the writings of Samuel… Read more about this item

Oxford: Clarendon Press 1955. 8vo. 6 volumes. Dark blue cloth in printed and unclipped jackets. Blind-stamped Oxford crest to boards and gilt lettering to spines. Chipping, spotting and sunning to jackets, with short tears. Slight bumping to extremities of books. All internally clean. Evelyn's diaires form a highly authoritative source for scholars of late 17th century England, now in a… Read more about this item

London: Printed for J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall 1780. 8vo. First English Edition. 142 pp. Original wraps, uncut. Spine sympathetically repaired. Two small bookplates to prelims. Internally clean. The essays were originally published in France in 1732, with the marchioness being a notable salonniere. With an introductory letter to William Melmoth, Esq. 23.5 cms tall. UK copies at the British Library, the… Read more about this item

London: The Folio Society 1950. 8vo. First edition. Folio Society's 25th published book. Green and grey cloth blocked with gold design. Illustrated jacket. Minimal rubbing and bumping to spine ends. Light discolouration to bottom edge. Minimal rubbing and creasing to jacket extremities. Ink ownership inscription dated 1956. Internally clean and bright. Voltaire arrived in Greenwich in 1726 and stayed for… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co. 1825. 8vo. 2 volumes: xx, 379 pp. & xii, 320, 80 pp. Full brown leather with gilt embellishments and lettering to spine and gilt borders to boards Lacks folding map. Foxing to prelims alongside some occasional markings and creasing to leaves throughout. Ink inscriptions from 1827, 1832 and 1840 to first free endpaper. Bindings firm.… Read more about this item

Manchester: Carcanet Press 1986. 8vo. 222 pp. First English edition. Black hardback. Illustrated dust jacket. Clean boards. Light bumping to spine ends and small dent to back board. Jacket spine is sunned, but in general jacket has very minimal rubbing to edges. Internally clean and bright. French novelist Henri Alain-Fournier spent the summer of 1905 in London, improving his English… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: A. Donaldson 1767. 12mo. bound in 6's. 6 volumes. Engraved frontis portrait to vol. 1 and 10 engraved plates throughout. Full calf with raised bands. Wear across boards and spines, including loss at spine ends. There has, at some stage, been a respine to volume 1 and front board of volume 6 is detached. Some foxing throughout, but text… Read more about this item

Brussels: Mercatorfonds 2009. 4to. English language. 6 vols. Hardcovers with illustrated boards in a colour illustrated slipcase. Minor dent to spine of volume 4; otherwise all in near fine condition, clean and bright inside and out. Fully illustrated and annotated definitive collection of van Gogh's surviving correspondence translated into English, dating from 1872 to 1890. Including facsimile reproductions of some… Read more about this item