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Cassell & Co. Limited. Collectible - Acceptable. London: Cassell & Company, Ltd., 1886. Early Printing. Two parts in one. 12mo Hardcover. 442pp+ads. Fair book. Moderate edgewear. Boards soiled. Spine slanted. Stamped on page edges and title page. Front hinge cracked, front free endpaper nearly detached. Bookplated removed from front pastedown. Pages age toned. Upper corner of rear free endpaper chipped away. (science fiction, sci-fi, literature) Inquire if you need further information.

Cassell & Co. Ltd., London, 1886. Book. Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. Second impression of the first edition, issued a year after the original impression and probably printed from the standing type. Crown 8vo. vi, 442pp + [xvi] publisher's advertisements dated SG.4.86. Original red fine weave cloth lettered in gilt at the spine, with a black-stamped border and lettering to the upper board, and a blind-stamped border to the rear board. The cloth a little faded at the backstrip, with a touch of wear to several extremities, and small bumps to the corner tips. Former owner inked and pencilled notes to the half-title and adjacent verso, noting the pages at which various animals and species appear. A nice crisp copy of this early reissue of Jefferies' quasi-dystopian / utopian novel, set in England following an unspecified calamity that destroys the great cities and allows nature to re-take cultivated land. 1,000 copies were printed. Miller & Matthews B22.3 (binding A, printing variant B)..

London: Cassell and Company, 1885. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +. 442, [10] pp. Original brown publisher's cloth, lettered and ruled in black, gilt, and blind. Spine gilt rubbed, some edgewear. An early post-apocalyptic novel, the book describes the ecological repercussions of an unspecified catastrophe. Jefferies was one of the great nature writers of his day, and his The Story of My Heart (1883) is a classic of spiritual examination and introspection.

London, Mixed publishers and editions 1879. Hardback, approx 7.5 x 5 inches. ATTRACTIVE Uniformed bindings. Halfbound polished green morocco leather and marbled to boards. Gilt line edging. Raised banding and gilt decorations to spine. Gilt top page edging. Marbled endpapers. Binding by J. LARKINS. In very good condition. Some very minor rubbing to leather bands on spine. 3 volumes slightly faded to brown. 3 volumes very slightly sunned top edge of marbled boards. Pages clean and tight. Inside some foxing, Amateur Poacher has name inscription on half title page. Else a very clean and tight copy. After London or Wild England. Cassell 1885 1st Amarllis at the Fair. Sampson Low 1887 1st The Gamekeeper at Home. Smith Elder 1879 3rd Wild Life in a Southern County. Smith Elder 1879 2nd Nature near London. Chatto 1883 1st Red Deer. Longmans 1884 1st The Story of My Heart. Longmans 1883 1st Hodge and his Masters. Smith Elder 1880 2 Volume Set 1st The Open Air. Chatto 1885 1st The Toilers of the Field.… Read More