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London: Grant Richards 1904. Large 4to. 2 volumes. xvi, 474; xvi, 462 pp. Recently rebound in half specked calf with marbled boards and original top edge gilt. With illustrations by W. Heath Robinson throughout. Edges worn and foxing throughout. This larger original edition is not to be confused with the smaller, later edition published by Navarre Society in 1921. 29.5 cms tall. . Very Good. Half Calf. First Edition Thus. 1904.

Paris: Bibliotheque Larousse N.d. [c. 1920's]. 8vo. In 2 volumes. 247, 247; 246 pp. Quarter brown leather over marbled boards. Gilt decoration & lettering to spines. Minor wear to spine ends. Leaves age-darkened. Clean copies. No ownership marks. With 32 illustrations. Text in French language. . Very Good. 1/4 Leather. 1920.

Leipzig: Bern. Tauchnitz Jeune 1845. 16mo. French language. 2 volumes in 1. 340, 488 pp. Quarter black calf over marbled boards, with gilt lettering and decoration; decorative endpapers, all edges speckled. Wear to edges and joints, some marks, foxing throughout. Works of one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille. . Very Good. 1/4 Calf. 1845.

New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company 1978. 4to. In 4 volumes complete. Hardbacks in pictorial dust jackets. 131; 107; 127; 107 pp. Small old price sticker to front endpapers and small tears to spine edges. Very clean copies. No ownership names. With fifty to sixty full-page colour plates in each volume. Contains over 2000 designs in all styles of ornamentation. A nice set. This is a heavy set and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. 0442267940 . Very Good. Hardcover. 1978.

London: Constable & Co. Ltd. N.d. [1919]. Large 8vo.Illustrated. 170 pp. Bound in blue gilt decorated cloth with gilt device of Blackheath High School to the front board. A few minor marks to the spine boards and wear to the edges of the spine and head of the back board. Binding slightly shaken. Illustrated pastedowns and prize plate pasted to the front endpaper. With sixteen tipped-in and tissue-guarded colour plates by Arthur Rackham. Title-page vignette and additional b&w illustrations. . Very Good. Gilt-decorated Cloth. First Editions Thus. 1919.

London: HarperCollins 2006. 8vo. xiv, 609 pp. Green buckram. Printed pictorial dw. Numerous colour photographs, maps, line drawings. Clean and unread copy. Still in shrinkwrap. 0007202431 . Fine. Hard Cover. First Edition. 2006.

London: William Heinemann N.d. [1913]. 8vo.Illustrated. First edition. xi, 160 pp. Publisher's original decorated green cloth. Slight wear to spine ends. Boards slightly marked. Pictorial endpapers. Early ink inscription to ffep. Scattered foxing. One or two sections slightly loose. Frontis and 12 additional tissue-guarded colour plates by Arthur Rackham. A VG copy. . Very Good. Decorated Cloth. First Edition. 1913.

N.p.: Privately printed 1889. 8vo. This is copy no. 244 of an edition limited to 250 copies. viii, 102 pp. Contemporary full patterned calf. Gilt decoration to spine with brown leather title label. Marbled endpapers. Minor wear to spine ends with slight worming to lower spine joint. Internally clean. Printed on laid paper. Title-page in red & black. Head and tail-pieces. . Very Good. Full Calf. Limited Numbered Edition. 1889.

London and Johannesburg: Sampson, Low, Marston and Company / J. C. Juta & Co. 1898. 8vo. xix, 248 pp. Original gilt-decorated red cloth. Minor marks to boards. Leaves spotted & age-darkened. Illustrations. Folding map at rear. Binding firm. . Very Good. Gilt Decorated Cloth. 1898.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis 1960. 8vo. First Edition 219 pp., in an unclipped dustjacket with an early design by illustrator and writer Raymond Briggs. Very Good in Very Good jacket which has some small tears chips and folds at the head and base of the spine. Hardcover with some dents to the head and tail of the spine. Signed by the author, John Rae | October 1960. A novel of an evacuated teenager in Norfolk, with cruel, amoral teenage schoolboy gangs. Made into the film 'Reach for Glory', which drew comparisons with William Golding's Lord of he Flies . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1960.

London: R. Baldwin 1806. 8vo. pp, [frontis], [iv], iv, [4 folding plates], 397., Bound in a full nut brown morocco. Binding quite fragile, indeed the front board has been detatched, and re-attatched by way of a strip of masking tape to the f.e.p. Corners bumped, extremities worn with loss, spine cracked slightly, Slight tanning to the first and last pages, slight waterstaining to frontis, but the text block is generally very good and clean . Good. Full Morocco. 1806.

Newport Pagnell: Paul Minet Reprints [1970]. 8vo.Facsimile. Facsimile of 1782 edition. [xi], 1-[404] pp. Lemon hardcover with green titles to spine and green top edge. B&w etching frontispiece of the author. A very nice facsimile of a work dedicated to Lady Elizabeth Warburton, whom the author had served as housekeeper. 0851040055 . Near Fine. Buckram. 1970.

A Bradford Book. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xi, 169 pp, an MIT Press book . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1993.

Copenhagen: Berling Brothers 1854. 8vo.Pamphlet. 111 pp + [iii plates]. Wraps discoloured and a bit foxed. Pages uncut. . Very Good. Original Wraps. 1854.

Stroud: Sutton Publishing Limited 1997. 8vo. viii, 243 pp. Full cloth in pictorial dust jacket. Jacket bright. Internally clean. No ownership marks. 9780750913485 . Near Fine. Cloth. 1997.

New York: Star Guidance, Inc. 1972. Small 8vo. 162 pp. Colour illustrated paperback. Wear to spine, stamp marks and other marks to boards. Illustrated throughout in black & white with some coloured paper and ink sections. Includes interviews and stories about various contemporary cinema figures, as well as an Oscars section which lists all winners and nominees to date. . Good. Paperback. 1972.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1928. 8vo. xi, 310, 8 pp. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine and in original printed dust wrapper. Cloth clean. No ownership names. Scattered light foxing. Illustrations. Uncommon in jacket. . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1928.

Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie. 1878. 8vo. 727 pp. Green morocco spine over marbled boards. Five raised bands to spine with gilt panels. Corners and edges worn and boards slightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers. Scattered foxing. Four folding colour maps. Text in French. Good condition. . Good. Leather Spine Marbled Boards. 1878.

London: Sampson, Low, Marston and Company 1897. 8vo. 574 pp. Contemporary full calf with raised bands to spine and gilt lettering. Gilt 'Nellie' device to front board. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Bound by Bumpus. Some staining to boards. Offsetting from leather to endpapers. Internally clean. . Very Good. Full Calf. First Edition. 1897.

London: T. Fisher Unwin 1896. 8vo. 194, 22 pp. Publisher's original green cloth with design in red & dark green to front board. Gilt lettering to front board and spine. Top edge gilt. Other edges untrimmed. Spine lettering faded but legible. Ink inscription to front endpaper. 22-page publisher's adverts at rear. Cloth fresh. . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1896.