Confessions of an English Opium-Eater Together With Selections From the Autobiography of Thomas De Quincey by Thomas De Quincey - 1950-01-01

Cresset Press, 1950. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1950. No Edition Remarks. 339 pages. Grey dust jacket over dark blue cloth. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and heavy foxing to text block edges. Boards have visible rubbing and noticeable bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and rubbing to spine. Unclipped jacket with major edge wear and sunning to spine. There is visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends and splitting to joints and front flap coming away from the jacket.

Cresset Press, 1950. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1950. No Edition Remarks. 340 pages. Grey dust jacket over blue cloth. Dust jacket is in plastic cover. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Occasional thumb-marking present. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Light sunning to spine and edges. Clipped jacket has light edge wear with chips, tears and creasing. Mild tanning to spine and edges. Minor brown mark to spine. Jacket is in plastic cover.

The Cresset Press, 1950-01-01. Hardcover. Fair/good/No Dustjacket. Some spots spilled on spine (they look deliberate). Otherwise in good condition.

The Cresset Press, London, 1950. Hardcover. 8vo, First Edition. Condition: Good. Ex library. Very clean and square copy. No Dust Jacket..

London: Constable & Co.. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1927. Hardcover. Some mottling to cloth along margins of boards. Spine browned. Moderate spots of foxing. No signatures. ; xlvi, 279, [1 (blank)] pages. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Page dimensions: 222 x 132mm. This is a nice edition to read, with generous blank margins surrounding the printed text. "I here present you, courteous reader, with the record of a remarkable period in my life" - page 5. .