PROUST, MARCEL & MONCRIEFF, C K SCOTT (Trans)

12 VOL SET, sm octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines, mixed pagination, VG+ (sl bruising & rubbing to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, sl foxing to prelims) in d/w, G+ (spines of vols 11 & 12 missing- attempts at tape repair to vol 12 but to no avail, other moderate to heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to edges- some with loss at spines, light tanning to spines of remaining vols, moderate general foxing & soiling, annotation in ink & pencil to rear flaps)

PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1949-52

KEYWORDS: Marcel Proust literature collections

DICKENS, CHARLES & HOUSE, MAEDLINE (Ed) & STOREY, GRAHAM (Ed) & TILLOTSON, KATHLEEN (Ed)

THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxv + 692pp, VG+ (sl rubbing to extrems, light foxing & soiling to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, light fading to spine, light soiling & foxing, heavy annotation in ink & pencil to rear flap)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1974

KEYWORDS: Pilgrim Edition editions Charles Dickens literature literary letters correspondence

DICKENS, CHARLES & HOUSE, MADELINE (ED) & STOREY, GRAHAM (Ed)

THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xlvi + 744pp, VG+ (light fading & rubbing to extrems, light fading to spine, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (light fading & tanning/soiling/foxing to spine, moderate creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, minor general soiling, moderate annotation in ink to rear flap)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1965

KEYWORDS: Pilgrim Edition editions Charles Dickens literature literary letters correspondence

DICKENS, CHARLES & KINSLEY, JAMES (Ed)

FIRST EDITION THUS, CLARENDON EDITION, DEFINITIVE TEXT, octavo, grey buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, civ + 898pp + map of London to rear, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges, sl foxing to eps, occasional light pencil markings to margins) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, moderate soiling, light fading to spine, minor annotation to rear flap)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1986

KEYWORDS: modern first editions THUS Clarendon edition definitive text classic English literature novels fiction Charles Dickens

DICKENS, CHARLES & HORSMAN, ALAN (Ed)

FIRST EDITION THUS, CLARENDON EDITION, DEFINITIVE TEXT, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, lx + 871pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, sl soiling to boards, light soiling & foxing to page edges, sl tanning & foxing to eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, sl fading & 1cm scuff to spine, light general soiling)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1974

KEYWORDS: modern first editions THUS Clarendon edition definitive text classic English literature novels fiction Charles Dickens

DICKENS, CHARLES & CARDWELL, MARGARET (Ed)

FIRST EDITION THUS, CLARENDON EDITION, DEFINITIVE TEXT, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, lxxvi + 864pp, illus, VG+ (sl rubbing/bruising to spine extrems, sl soiling to rear board, sl foxing & soiling to page edges, occasional pencil marking to margins) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, light general soiling, minor annotation in ink to rear flap)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1982

KEYWORDS: modern first editions THUS Clarendon edition definitive text classic English literature novels fiction Charles Dickens

DICKENS, CHARLES & SUCKSMITH, HARVEY PETER (Ed)

FIRST EDITION THUS, CLARENDON EDITION, DEFINITIVE TEXT, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, lxv + 835pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising & rubbing to extrems, light soiling & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, light soiling, minor scuff/surface loss to fore-edge of front cover)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1979

KEYWORDS: modern first editions THUS Clarendon edition definitive text classic English literature novels fiction Charles Dickens

DICKENS, CHARLES & BURGIS, NINA (Ed)

FIRST EDITION THUS, CLARENDON EDITION, DEFINITIVE TEXT, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, lxxvi + 781pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to spine & board extrems, sl chafing to boards, light soiling to page edges, occasional pencil markings to margins) in d/w, G- (front cover & front flap completely missing, spine detached but present- all just loosley enclosed in book, moderate rubbing & tearing to spine, annotation to rear flap, other heavy scuffing & tearing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1981

KEYWORDS: modern first editions THUS Clarendon edition definitive text classic English literature novels fiction Charles Dickens

AUSTEN, JANE & CHAPMAN, R W (Collected & Ed by)

Super octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xlv + 519pp + indices to rear, illus, VG+ (sl bruising & rubbing to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasig & chipping/tearing to edges, moderate soiling to spine, other general soiling & foxing)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1952

KEYWORDS: literature literary letters correspondence Jane Austen

VERMASEREN, MAARTEN J

Imperial ocatvo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt publisher's motif to front board, 224pp, illus/photos, VG (minor scuffing & bruising to extrems, minor fading to top edge of rear board, light tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's ink markings to ffep) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, moderate fading to spine & rear cover, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: Thames and Hudson 1977

KEYWORDS: ancient mythology Cybele literature art antiquity Greece Greek

LESKY, ALBIN & WILLIS, JAMES (Trans) & DE HEER, CORNELIS (Trans)

Imperial octavo, blue cloth boards, blue lettering on silver gilt backing to spine, top page edges stained red, xviii + 921pp, VG (light bruising to extrems, moderate staining to boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges, sl tanning & foxing to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (moderate foxing, light to moderate creasing & chipipng to edges, sm pencil annotation to rear flap)

PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co 1966

KEYWORDS: Greek literature history criticism

ACKERLEY, CHRIS & CLIPPER, LAWRENCE J

Super octavo, grey heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 476pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine & extrems, sl foxing & soiling to page edges, sl foxing to eps, gift inscription in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: University of British Columbia Press 1984

KEYWORDS: literature literary companions criticism Malcolm Lowry novels fiction Under the Volcano

WOOLF, VIRGINIA

Sm octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 538pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, sl tanning & foxing to eps & prelims) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading/discolourtion to spine, light to moderate foxing & soiling, minor pencil annotaiton to rear flap)

PUBLISHER: The Hogarth Press 1960

KEYWORDS: novels fiction literature Virginia Woolf

BEARD, MARY

Octavo, grey buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt face illus to front board, xiii + 229pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine & board corners, sl soiling to page edges, moderate pencil annotaiton to terminals) in d/w, VG+ (light fading & creasing to spine, light creasing to edges, sl soiling)

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2000

KEYWORDS: classical philology literature anthropology classicists mythology history historiography

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM

Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated, VG+ (sl rubbing & bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, sl foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping/tearing to spine extrems, light tanning & 1cm tear to spine, sl soiling & discolouration)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1964

KEYWORDS: William Shakespeare plays quarto facsimile series King Lear literature

WHITE, PAT

SIGNED, octavo, illus light card wrappers with french flaps, white lettering to spine, 202pp, illus/photos, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Frontiers Press 2017

KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand writers authors Pat White literature literary biography biographies memoir Peter Hooper

LEWIS, C S

Super octavo, dark blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, deckled edges to base of page block, viii + 378pp, VG (light rubbing to extrems, sl chafing to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate cracking to gutter of half title page) in d/w, VG (priceclipped, minor tanning & foxing to spine, light creasing & chipping to edges, minor soiling & foxing)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1953

KEYWORDS: C S Lewis literature love romanticism medieval

WYNDHAM, JOHN

FIRST EDITION, tidy ex military library copy, octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering & sm illus to spine, 184pp, VG (spine sl cocked, sl rubbing & bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, minimal library ink stamps & scuffings, moderate tape staining to front & rear pastedowns, sl soiling to prelims & terminals, occasional sl cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate tape staining to fore-edges of flaps, light creasing & chipping to edges, moderate chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Michael Joseph 1968

KEYWORDS: modern first editions literature novels fiction John Wyndham

FREEMAN, KATHLEEN

Octavo, green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 162pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, sl foxing to prelims) in d/w, VG (minor creasing & tanning/soiling to spine, light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, minor general soiling & foxing)

PUBLISHER: Basil Blackwell / Oxford University Press 1971

KEYWORDS: ancient philosophy pre-socratic literature translations

LOWRY, MALCOLM

FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 283pp, VG+ (light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (all corners clipped, moderate tanning to rear & flaps, light creasing & chipping to edges, sl scuffing to spine, light foxing to flaps)

PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1962

KEYWORDS: modern first editions short novels literature fiction Malcolm Lowry