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

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

London: Rupert Hart-Davis 1962. 8vo. xxv., 958 pp. Maroon hardback. Dust jacket. Not price clipped. Discoloured spot on top left of front board, very light bumping to spine ends. Minor chipping to top edge of panel, sunning to spine. Internally a clean copy with no markings. Many black-and-white photographic illustrations of significant figures to whom Wilde exchanged correspondence with. .… Read more about this item

London: Herbert Jenkins 1953. 8vo. First Edition. 224 pp. Hardcover with gilt-stamped author's signature to front board in pictorial jacket. Wear to jacket, which isn't price clipped. Sunning to book's spine. Light foxing to prelims, otherwise internally clean. A selection of Wodehouse's often hilarious letters to his long-time friend Bill Townend, who has written the foreword. . Good. Hardcover. First… Read more about this item

London: Richard Bentley 1840. 8vo. 6 volumes. Half calf with gilt lettering and decoration to spine over marbled boards; all edges marbled; marbled endpapers. Some rubbing and minor wear to extremities, particularly with damage and loss to the spine of volume 3. Previous owner's bookplate. Internally clean. . Very Good. Half Calf. 1840.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1980. 8vo. xiii, 249 pp. Hardcover in pictorial jacket. Rubbing to jacket and creasing to its edges. Bumping to base of book's spine. Internally clean. Jacket is not price clipped. This edition of Apocalypse, Lawrence's final book, is the first to accurately reproduce the final corrected text with detailed annotations and notes. 0521224071 . Very Good.… Read more about this item

London: The Hogarth Press 1938. 8vo. First edition. xi., 396 pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Some fading and light scratching to boards and extremities and what looks to be a label removed from the base of the front panel (Boots Library?); hinges coming away slightly. Some spotting to fore-edge, and prelims, otherwise internally mostly clean. Inscription of… Read more about this item

London: J. M. Dent & Sons 1923. 16mo. xii, 336 pp. Reinforced cloth with gilt lettering to spine and black edges. Minor wear to extremeties and light scratching to edges but overall a neat copy, with a bright and clean pages. An elaborately decorated title-page and frontispiece with a quotation by John Milton. No. 163 of Everyman's Library. DeQuincey knew… Read more about this item

London: Cambridge University Press 1927. 8vo. First edition. xviii, 220 pp. Red hardback with gilt lettering and detail to spine. Minor wear to spine ends and corners; a few spots to front board and discolouration to spine. Internally a bright and clean copy with deckle edged pages. Two bookplates to endpapers and a preface by A. E. Housman. An elegant… Read more about this item

London: F. C. and J. Rivington 1819. 8vo. Third Edition. 4 volumes in 3. xxiv, 398; vii, 392; vii, 434, [18] pp. Full brown calf with black title labels, gilt lines and lettering to spines; all edges speckled. Wear to spine ends, joints and corners. Minor offsetting and occasional spots, but generally internally clean. Carter and Talbot were members of… Read more about this item