Literature & History

8vo (205 x 155 mm); illustrated as detailed above; modern half crimson morocco over red cloth, gilt spine, marbled endpapers and top edge gilt.

Folio 312 x 255 mm); music score with lyrics, decorated with pictorial vignettes, including title-page, head, tail and endpiece; vrey mild age-toning, offsetting to head of title-page, small nick to base of p.8, else very good; publisher's quarter cloth over papered boards, with printed paper label to upper board, pictorial dust-jacket, sunned spine, very minor soiling, more so to rear panel, chips to extremities with small losses to tail of spine and outer corners; otherwise a very good copy; [ii] + 34 pp.

First edition, first impression, first issue dust-jacket without the Sunday Times review on the upper flap; 8vo. Publisher's black boards, heart device to upper board and titles to spine in red. With the dust jacket. Contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, spine just a touch rolled but a particularly bright copy in the internally repaired dust jacket, nicked at the edges and with some minor restoration at the top of the spine panel and a couple of corners.

First English edition; 4to (305 x 230 mm); illustrated with colour strip cartoons, occasioinal scattered foxing, more so to title, otherwise light, publisher's laminated, pictorial boards with cloth spine, a little wear to extremities, more so to the upper corners, otherwise a good copy; [ii] + 61 + [1]pp

8vo (195 x 140 mm); engraved frontispiece portrait of the author (offset onto tissue-guard), one recurrent brown spot prevailing on first few leaves, else internally fine; near-contemporary, half-brown morocco, the spine very finely gilt-blocked and tooled, top edge gilt, others plain, a few spots to edges, otherwise a most attractive volume.

8vo (210 x 140 mm); frontispiece portrait of the author 'from the painting by Toulouse-Lautrec, 1895'; contemporary full purple calf by Bayntun-Riviere, with double gilt panels, floral hand-tooled spine, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers and all edges gilt, spine and top edges of upper board faded, a few minor scuffs to boards, otherwise very handsome and internally fine.

One volume edition, later issue. Contemporary half green calf, titles and decoration to spine gilt, tan endpapers. Early gift inscription to first blank leaf, with a further neat ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, tips a little rubbed. Very nice.

First edition; 2 parts in one volume, folio, (46.7 x 29.5 cm); half-title, titles in red and black, 62 double-page engraved plates, including additional pictorial title, 5 double-page engraved maps, and 29 engraved illustrations all by Jan Luyken, text a little browned, some slight spotting and soiling, red endpapers; full contemporary green morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments, all edges gilt, an attractive copy; [xxv], 78; 60pp.

First edition, first impression, presentation copy inscribed by the author; 8vo; Publisher's brown cloth, rules to upper board and titles to spine in black. An excellent copy in the dust jacket.

First edition, first impression, first issue with 40pp. publisher's catalogue (dated September 1907) at end (final leaf of catalogue toned); 8vo. Publisher's red cloth, titles to spine gilt. Two corners lightly bumped, three tiny ink spots to spine but an exceptional copy of a true masterpiece.