STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS & CAMERON, JOHN (Illus)

LACKS FEP, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, gilt decoration to front board, teg, deckled page edges, frontispiece with tissue guard, x + 340pp, illus/plates- 1x plate missing, VG (moderate fading & staining/rubbing to spine, light fading & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, ffep & 1x plate missing, minor foxing sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: Cassell & Company 1911

KEYWORDS: classic literature novels fiction Robert Louis Stevenson illustrated

PEASE, Sir ALFRED E

FIRST EDITION, LACKS FEP, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & lion illus to spine & front board, teg, frontispiece with tissue guard, xix + 291pp, illus, VG- (heavy scuffing & bruising to spine & board extrems, moderate soiling to boards, binding loose, heavy cracking to rear gutter & hinge- rear board shaky, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, plate opp. p154 detached but present)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1913

KEYWORDS: first editions literature lions lion hunting history Sir Alfred E Pease

RICHARD GREVILLE VERNEY LORD WILLOUGHBY DE BROKE

Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, blind rule to boards, teg, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvii + illus/plates- not counted presumed all present, VG (light to moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, minor discolouration to spine & board edges, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: Constable & Company 1924

KEYWORDS: literature history Richard Greville Verney Lord Willoughby de Broke

BOSANQUET, ELLEN S

Octavo, blue light card covers, black lettering to spine & front cover, 136pp, illus/photos, VG (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges with light fading/tanning also, minor soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges, occasional cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Chameleon Press (Printer) N/D

KEYWORDS: autobiographical Ellen S Bosanquet letters correspondence poems poetry verse literature

JACKSON, MACDONALD P

SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO VINCENT O'SULLIVAN. Super 8vo, pp. xii + 272; black heavy card bds, spine lettered in gilt; VG+ (sl scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; minor soiling to pg edges); in d/w, VG+ (light scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2014

KEYWORDS: Shakespeare poetry drama canon 16th century literature history critcism

JACKSON, MICHAEL

SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR FOR VINCENT O'SULLIVAN. 8vo, pp. xi + 205; illus. light card covers; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals).

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 2013

KEYWORDS: American fiction 20th 21st century history criticism literature writing authorship

PICHOIS, CLAUDE; RUE, MAURICE (photos)

TEXT IN FRENCH. Provanace attributed to Vincent O'Sullivan. Imp. 8vo, pp. 163; blue cl bds, spine & front board lettered in gilt; photos, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with light chipping).

PUBLISHER: Librairie Hachette 1967

KEYWORDS: Charles Baudelaire 19th century poet author poetry literature fiction Paris France French language

GUTZWILLER, KATHRYN J

LACKS D/W, octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 304pp, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, sl soiling to board edges, sl tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: University of Wisconsin Press 1991

KEYWORDS: Theocritus pastoral poetry literature writings Greek history criticism literary form

PEASE, ALFRED E

Octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering to spine, black rule to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, 271pp + 32pp to rear, illus/plates- not counted presumed all present, G+ (spine cocked & faded with heavy cracking also- top half flapping loose but still tentatively attached, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning to page edges, some prelims detached- some potentially missing, light tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals, moderate cracking sporadically throughout- some pages may be detached)

PUBLISHER: W Thacker & Co 1898

KEYWORDS: hobbies sports hunting literature Alfred E Pease

BUXTON, CHARLES (Ed)

Octavo, half leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering to leather title plates to spine, gilt tooling/decoration & raised bands to spine, teg, marbled eps, frontispiece, xvi + 600pp, VG (moderate scuffing & surface loss to leatherwork on spine/boards, light chafing to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, ex-libris plate to front pastedown, remembrance plate tipped in & gift inscription in ink to recto of half title page, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: John Murray, Albemarle Street 1848

KEYWORDS: Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton biography biographies memoir autobiographies literature letters correspondence history

WHIM-WHAM (CURNOW, ALLEN)

Octavo, stapled light card covers, black & green lettering to front cover, 47pp, VG+ (light to moderate tanning & sl foxing to covers- minor creasing also, light tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: The Progressive Publishing Society N/D

KEYWORDS: New Zealand poets writers literature Allen Curnow Whim Wham poetry poems verse

FOX, JULIAN PEASE

SIGNED, octavo, grey stapled light card covers, black lettering to front cover, unpaginated, VG (light to moderate creasing & tanning/soiling to covers/edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges, minor rusting to staples)

PUBLISHER: J P F (N/D)

KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand Julian Pease Fox literature

BAKER, CAPTAIN B GRANVILLE

LACKS FEP, imperial octavo, blue/grey buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt & coloured lettering & illus to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvi + 191pp, illus, VG (light to moderate rubbing to spine & board edges/extrems- some minor loss to illus on front board, light chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light to moderate foxing to eps, sm rust stains to front eps, ffep missing, light foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: George Allen & Company / Swan Sonnenschein & Co 1911

KEYWORDS: travel literature art drawings rivers Dunube history historical

AICARD, JEAN

TEXT IN FRENCH, duodecimo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine & front board, black decoration to rear board, aeg, ix + 239pp, VG+ (light rubbing to spine & extrems, sl chafing & soiling to boards, minor discolouration to gilt on page edges, lengthy inscription in ink to single prelim page)

PUBLISHER: Librairie Fischbacher N/D (c.1880s?)

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN FRENCH poetry poems verse literature Jean Aicard

N/A

Oblong octavo, string bound illus light card covers, 11pp, illus, G+ (heavy creasing & soiling to front cover, string binding v delicate- front cover almost detached, red staining to page edges, moderate foxing to rear pgs)

PUBLISHER: Griffith and Farran N/D

KEYWORDS: children's verse literature coal mining illustrated

VERHAEREN, EMILE

TEXT IN FRENCH, sm duodecimo, floral cloth stiff card covers, black lettering to title plate on front cover, aeg, DIY looking marbelling to eps, 125pp, VG (light soiling & warping to covers, light tanning & soiling to title plate on front cover, sm gift inscription in ink to prelim pgs, light foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: Librairie Payot et Cie N/D

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN FRENCH literature verse poetry poems Emile Verhaeren Henri Derieux

VONNEGUT, KURT & KLINKOWITZ, JEROME (Collected & Intro) & WAKEFIELD, DAN (Collected & Intro) & EGGERS, DAVE (Fore)

Imperial octavo, maroon buckram boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xxx + 911pp, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Seven Stories Press 2017

KEYWORDS: literature Kurt Vonnegut anthologies collections omnibus stories

TOLKIEN, J R R & TOLKIEN, CHRISTOPHER (Ed)

THIS VOL ONLY, FOURTH IMP., octavo, maroon heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, decorated borders to title page, unpaginated prelims, 385pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (light fading to spine, light creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing & soiling, light tanning to flaps)

PUBLISHER: Unwin Hyman 1988

KEYWORDS: fantasy tales literature J R R Tolkien middle earth fiction stories

ROGERS, PAT

Super octavo, grey heavy boards, red lettering to spine, 470pp, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges)

PUBLISHER: Reaktion Books 2021

KEYWORDS: literary history Alexander Pope Edmund Curll literature feuds conflict

LANE, JOEL

Super octavo, grey heavy boards, yellow lettering to spine, illus title page, 227pp, Near FINE, in d/w, Near FINE (lightly creased- barely noticeable)

PUBLISHER: Eibon Vale Press 2015

KEYWORDS: short stories Joel Lane literature fiction dark urban fantasy