Search Results: Titles starting with C from Abbey Bookshop

London: John Lane, 1903. Later printing. Very Good. WILMSHURST (G.C.). 8vo., original red cloth decorated in gilt, with 20 plates. one plate loose

London: Privately Printed, 1894. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo., original parchment spine, brown boards, pages untrimmed. One of 1000 copies printed on hand-made paper for subscribers only, published after Burton's death. Leonard Smithers writes in the introduction: "I claim this for this volume that it is the first literal and complete English translation as yet issued of Catullus. bookplate to front pastedown, extremities worn

Venice, CA: The Lapis Press, 1991. First edition thus. Fine. Large 8vo., original pictorial cloth, illustrated endpapers, occasional vignettes in the text and one folding landscape. The first edition with these illustrations; the translation from the French was first published in 1951.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1981. First edition. Near Fine/near fine. 8vo., original blue and white boards, dust jacket. Inscribed by the author, "For Bill Haber - Best James. 26 5 81. dust jacket spine faded, "14/20" in pen to half-title

New York: Random House, (1956). Later impression. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo., original black cloth spine, cream boards, turquoise slipcase with a printed reproduction of a photograph of the author and his mother. A later printing of the first edition, the printed B9 on the copyright page suggests a ninth impression. points of slipcase lightly rubbed

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1959. First edition. Very Good. 8vo., original green cloth. occasional neat annotations in pen and pencil, cloth spotted and worn in places.

New York: The World Publishing Company, 1969. First American edition. Near Fine/very good. 4to., original pictorial boards, dust jacket, richly illustrated. A wonderfully inventive children's book by the Italian artist and designer, Munari. dust jacket price-clipped and lightly stained in places, long closed tear repaired with scotch, small scuff to corner of half-title

London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1855. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo., original red cloth, with numerous illustrations. An interesting Victorian commonplace book. spine dulled, a few marks to the cloth, lacks front free endpaper

London: Nonesuch Press, 1930. First edition thus. Very Good. 8vo., original red cloth over bevelled boards. The excellent Nonesuch Press edition of John Donne, edited by John Hayward, which was first published in a limited edition a year earlier. spine faded and a little stained, very occasional pencil marginalia, loosely inserted by the poem 'The Apparition' is a French translation which has very lightly browned the two pages enclosing it

Paris: Garnier Frères, [c. 1870]. Nouvelle edition, revue avec soin. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo., contemporary red quarter morocco, marbled boards, raised bands to spine. hinges worn towards head of spine, points bumped