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Hardback, Very nice blue pebbled/textured cloth with decorative black paneling to front with coloured vignette plate of a small boy in centre of front cover, with gilt lettering to spine and front. In very good condition. Corners slightly bumped, rear top corner slightly rubbed at edge. Cover clean and smart. Some minor darkening and minor foxing to free endpapers. Inside pages all very clean and tight (bright semi-gloss type paper) Illustrated with 22 B&W illustrations from original drawings by L. Rossi

Condition: Good. 1962. First Edition.. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards. Clean pages with light tanning. Binding remains firm. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Unclipped jacket now in protective mylar.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: F. D/J protected in mylar. Heavy book, black line-embossed cloth boards, embossed title at top front, very bright gilt lettering at spine. Uncut quality pages clean and tight. 1st US. (Originally published in Italian, 1957, a First Thus) New Translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Velokhonsky. Includes translation notes, notes to pages, epilogue and the Poems of Yuri Zhivago.In celebration of the 40th anniversary of its original publication, here is a new translation of the classic story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution.Overall a fine copy.

London: Folio Society, 2004. First Folio Society Printing. Hardcover. Fine. 22 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 279pp. Illustrated cloth in slipcase. With illustrations by Paul Cox.
The gardens of Blandings Castle are that original garden from which we are all exiled. All those who know them long to return." ―Evelyn Waugh When Lord Tilbury receives a letter from Galahad Threepwood stating he will no longer be publishing his memoir, he decides to travel to Blandings Castle and steal the manuscript. But he isn't the only one after the memoir. Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe and Lady Constance Keeble are also trying to lay their hands on it to prevent Ronnie Fish and Sue Brown from getting married. Monty Bodkin, Lord Emsworth's new secretary, is also after the manuscript in order to secure a year's employment at the Mammoth Publishing Company.

First UK Edition. Hutchinson. London. 1987. 1st Printing. . b/w illustrations. Original quarter cloth in dust jacket. Dust Jacket in mylar cover. Black and white illustrations by Peter Chapman. Sometimes fairy tales can come true even for plain, shy spinsters like Missy Wright. Neither as pretty as cousin Alicia nor as domineering as mother Drusilla, she seems doomed to a quiet life of near poverty at Missalonghi, her family's pitifully small homestead in Australia's Blue Mountains. But it's a brand new century a time for new thoughts and bold new actions. And Missy Wright is about to set every self-righteous tongue in the town wagging. Because she has just set her sights on a mysterious, mistrusted, and unsuspecting stranger who just might be Prince Charming in disguise. Set in the Blue Mountains.

Hardback Near Fine. Near Fine in unclipped dust jacket. This book is beautifully illustrated by the award-winning artist, Bagram Ibatoulline. This lovely first printing of this award-winning book is protected in a Brodart cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995. Author's first novel. Hard cover binding. Fine in fine dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover. Well-preserved with pages clean and tight. Overall a very good copy."The American historian Henry Adams is looking for Miriam Talbot. No one at her given address has seen her. Adams soon discovers that Miriam's disappearance is somehow involved with the great Panama Affair that threatens to engulf France. Historical Thriller

Cloth cover with pages clean and tight and 249 marginal sketches. Dust jacket (price-clipped) with a few chips and now in a protective sleeve. A light hearted autobiography.

The original edition of Rubaiyat of a Motor Car. Humorous prose. Iluustrated with full page plates by Frederick Strothmann. Colour illustrations throughout. Pictorial cover as shown. A tight, clean copy. This work was written in 1906 when cars were much different than they are today, this short poem celebrates the 'joys' of the automobile. The work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. Very charming and collectible.

First Edition thus, with frontispiece, title-vignette, illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and endpaper maps; pictorial cloth, gilt back, a fine copy bound in fully illustrated cloth in publisher's slip-case also in fine condition. Black and white illustrations throughout by Paul Cox and with pictorial cloth covers with drawings by the artist.
Hugh Carmody loved Millicent, Lord Emsworth niece, but he was very good friends with Sue Brown - an attachment which Millicent, perhaps, could hardly be expected to enthuse over. Ronnie Fish loved Sue, and entertained feelings of unrestrained ferocity towards Pilbeam, a blister of the first water, who was pestering her with flowers. When Millicent and Ronnie heard that Hugo and Sue were having dinner on the quiet, there was trouble; and when Ronnie, descending upon Mario's, found not Hugo but the execrable Pilbeam, summer lightning flashed in truth. How Lord Emsworth's pig was stolen, how Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe was accused of the crime, how Mr… Read More

Ivory pictorial cloth, upper board blocked in gilt and red; gilt back. Pages clean and tight and bright. A very good copy in publisher's board slip-case with coloured title-vignette, numerous coloured illustrations (a number double- or full-page) in the text, and coloured endpaper maps. With the co-operation of several hampers of food and a covered boat, the three men (not forgetting the dog) set out on a hilarious voyage of mishaps up the Thames. When not falling in the river and getting lost in Hampton Court Maze, Jerome K. Jerome finds time to express his ideas on the world around many of which have acquired a deeper fascination since the day at the end of the 19th century when this excursion was so lightly undertaken.

Hardcover. Stated Collector's First Edition; First Printing. Fine, Leather Bound with gilt lettering. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges for this milled edition. The endpapers of moire fabric with silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines with pages clean and tight. A fine collector's copy. This title may be collected from Port Fairy, Victoria.