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The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night. In four volumes
by Mardrus, Dr. J. C. and Powys Mathers
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1958
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- Parchment Paper Spine
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$122.08
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London: The Folio Society 1958. 8vo. In 4 volumes complete. Quarter white parchment over red pattered-paper covered boards. Gilt lettering to spines. Bumping to corners and spine ends, with chipping at head of volume 3. Internally clean. Wood engravings by Eric Fraser. This is a heavy set and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. . Very… Read more about this item Item Price
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Jane Austen's Works : Pride and Prejudice. Sense and Sensibility. Emma. Mansfield Park. Northanger Abbey & Persuasion. Six works in five volumes
by Austen, Jane
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- Used - Fine
- Published
- 1920
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- Half Calf
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London, Greater London, GBR
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$1,092.34
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London: Robert Riviere and Son N.d. [c. 1920]. 12mo. Six works in five volumes. Later brown half calf over marbled boards, published by Riviere. Raised bands to spines with gilt decoration & lettering; green and red morocco title labels; top edge gilt. Clean boards, marbled endpapers. No ownership marks and all internally clean. 18 cms tall. . Fine. Half Calf.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Oxford Illustrated Dickens. Complete set of 21 volumes
by Dickens, Charles
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- Published
- 1967
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- Cloth
- ISBN
- 9780192545220
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$321.28
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Oxford: Oxford University Press 1967. 8vo. 21 volumes complete. Cloth with gilt lettering to spine in pictorial dust jackets. Certain jackets have some loss at spine ends, with sunning to some spines. Some jackets are clipped, while others have later price stickers. Jackets mostly VG, with 5 or so a bit less than that. All the books are internally clean,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Folio Society Complete Dickens. 16 volumes.
by Dickens, Charles ; Hibbert, Christopher
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Slipcase
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- First Edition Thus
- Published
- 1981
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- Decorated Cloth
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$321.28
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London: The Folio Society 1981 - 1988. 8vo. 16 volumes. 13 are first impressions, with the others being second impressions. Quarter dark green cloth in uniform green slipcases (Oliver Twist in a lighter slipcase). Gilt design and lettering to spines, over patterned paper-covered boards, with each volume being of a different colour. Wear to extremities of a few slipcases. All… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Everyman's Library. In six volumes
by Gibbon, Edward ; Smeaton, Oliphant [ed.]
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- Used - Very Good
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- Reprint
- Published
- 1919
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- Cloth
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London, Greater London, GBR
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$96.38
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London: J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd. 1919. 16mo. The Everyman's Library edition in 6 volumes complete. Publisher's red cloth with dulled gilt lettering and design to spines, which have faded; top edge stained blue. Bumping and rubbing to extremities, with slight fraying to a few volumes. Light spotting to edges, though all internally clean. No. 434 of Everyman's Library.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Complete Aubrey/ Maturin Novels [21 volumes in 5 books]
by O' Brian, Patrick
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Published
- 2004
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- Hardcover
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$224.89
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New York: W. W. Norton 2004. 8vo. Omnibus edition of all of Patrick O' Brian's Aubrey/ Maturin novels (a total of 21 volumes, including 3 chapters of his unfinished last novel, '21'). Contained in around 7000 pages, across 5 hardbacks in illustrated dust jackets and a slipcase. Some of the earlier volumes have some scratching to the surface of their… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Gormenghast Trilogy : Titus Groan. Gormenghast. Titus Alone. Three volumes in slipcase
by Peake, Mervyn
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- Used - Fine
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- Slipcase
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Published
- 1992
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- Pictorial Cloth
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$224.89
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London: The Folio Society 1992. Large 8vo. First edition thus. 3 volumes. xx, 428; vi, 450; viii, 248 pp. Pictorial cloth with gilt lettering to spines and in printed slipcase. Books are clean and fresh, in fine condition. Illustrations by Peter Harding. With an introduction by Michael Moorcock. This particular edition was praised by the journal Peake Studies who, on… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Works of Laurence Sterne; In Four Volumes.
by Sterne, Laurence
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- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1803
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- 1/4 Morocco
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London, Greater London, GBR
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$578.30
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London: Printed for J. Johnson [etc.] 1803. Large 8vo. 4 volumes. Quarter red long grain morocco over cloth boards with gilt lettering to the spines. Top edges gilt and endpapers decorated. With engraved sub titles and plates throughout each volume, alongside a leaf of marbled paper at p.267/268 of volume 1. Some rubbing at the spine and edges of bindings… Read more about this item Item Price
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Master and Commander / The Aubrey-Maturin Series [17 Volumes]
by O'Brian, Patrick
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Slipcase
- Published
- 2010
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- Illustrated Boards
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London, Greater London, GBR
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$2,377.44
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London: The Folio Society 2010-2012. 8vo. 17 volumes of 20. Blue illustrated cloth with gilt decorations to the spines and front boards, in slipcases. Occasional minor signs of wear to the slipcases. Bindings all in lovely condition, and are internally clean and bright. This set of 17 lacks the final 3 volumes (The Yellow Admiral, The Hundred Days and Blue… Read more about this item Item Price
$2,377.44
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Kipling Pocket Editions. The complete 35 volume set.
by Kipling, Rudyard
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- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1912
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- Full Calf
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London, Greater London, GBR
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$1,220.84
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London: Macmillan 1912-1938. 8vo. 35 volumes (complete). Full maroon calf with gilt decorations to spines and front covers. All edges of the earliest volume Wee Willie Winkie gilt; Top edges gilt on all other volumes. With red ribbon bookmarks to each of the volumes. Illustrations throughout a number of the volumes, inc. The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book,… Read more about this item Item Price
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And Quiet Flows the Don: A Novel in Four Books [4 volumes]
by Sholokhov, Mikhail
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
- Published
- 1950
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- Hardcover
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London, Greater London, GBR
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$192.76
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Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House [c. 1950]. 16mo. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965. 647, 619, 686, 864 pp. Brown hardbacks with decorative embossed spines and stamped signature of author to front panels. In illustrated dust jackets. Volumes are in very good, clean and unmarked condition internally, with clean boards. Occasionally there is light bumping to a… Read more about this item Item Price
$192.76
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The Works of William Shakespeare [The Red Letter Shakespeare] in 39 Volumes (complete)
by Shakespeare, William; Chamber, E. K. [ed.]
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- Used - Near Fine
- Published
- 1905
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- Decorated Cloth
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London, Greater London, GBR
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$771.06
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London: The Gresham Publishing Co. Ltd. 1905 - 1908. 12mo. c. 1905. 39 volumes complete. 37 plays and 2 volumes of Poems. Cream coloured cloth with lovely green and red Arts & Crafts decoration on front covers and spines by Talwin Morris. Top edge burnished green. Title-pages in red & black. Frontis to each volume. Some minor bumping at spine… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: Including Numerous Letters Now First Published from the Original Manuscripts. In Six Volumes.
by Walpole, Horace
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- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1840
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- Half Calf
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$321.28
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London: Richard Bentley 1840. 8vo. 6 volumes. Half calf with gilt lettering and decoration to spine over marbled boards; all edges marbled; marbled endpapers. Some rubbing and minor wear to extremities, particularly with damage and loss to the spine of volume 3. Previous owner's bookplate. Internally clean. . Very Good. Half Calf. 1840. Item Price
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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. The Library Edition of The Arabian Nights Entertainments. In twelve volumes
by Burton, Sir Richard F. and edited by Leonard C. Smithers
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- Used - Near Fine
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- First Editions Thus
- Published
- 1894
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- Gilt Decorated Cloth
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$1,606.38
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London: H. S. Nichols & Co. 1894. Large 8vo. In 12 volumes complete. Bound in original, gilt decorated, black cloth with top edge gilt. Gilt fresh and bright with slight bumping to extremities, light wear in a few cases. Light spotting to some edges. Published in 1894 three years before the illustrated edition and shortly after Lady Burton edition, the… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Works of Charles Lamb in Twelve Volumes
by Lamb, Charles ; Macdonald, William [ed.]; Mary Lamb
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Limited Numbered Edition
- Published
- 1903
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- Vellum Spine
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$771.06
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London: J. M. Dent & Co. 1903. 8vo.Limited Edition. Twelve volumes each with c. 400 pages. Numbered limited edition, 200 sets for England, of which this is no. 101. Gilt decorated vellum spine over blue publisher's cloth. Author's gilt cipher to front boards. Top edges gilt and deckle edges. Very light wear to extremities, with light bumping and marking to… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Romances of Alexandre Dumas [60 Volumes]
by Dumas, Alexandre
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- Used - Near Fine
- Published
- 1893
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- Gilt Decorated Cloth
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$1,927.65
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London: J. M. Dent & Co. 1893-1897. 8vo. English language. 60 volumes, published 1893-97. Green cloth with elaborate gilt 'Dumas' monogram and fleur-de-lys devices and lettering to spines and boards; decorated endpapers, top edges gilt, others uncut. Generally an unusually clean and bright set, inside and out, with minor rubbing to extremities, occasional minor marks to boards and light spots… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Chronicles of Barsetshire: The Warden. Barchester Towers. Dr. Thorne. Framley Parsonage. The Small House at Allington. The Last Chronicle of Barset. In six volumes.
by Trollope, Anthony
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- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1962
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- Decorated Boards
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$192.76
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London: The Zodiac Press 1949 / 1950. 8vo. In 6 volumes, mixed editions. Publisher's original cream & brown patterned hardbacks with gilt titles to spines. Top edges burnished red-brown. Minor sunning and a few spots to the spines, and fading to ends. Binding firm, light spots to prelims and/or fore-edges, else internally clean. A nice set of Trollope's series of… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Works of Robert Burns; with an Account of his Life, and A Criticism on his Writings. To which are prefixed, some observatins on the character and condition of the Scottish Peasantry [Four Volumes]
by Burns, Robert
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Third Edition
- Published
- 1802
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- Speckled Calf
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$321.28
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London: T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies 1802. 8vo. Third Edition. 4 volumes. xii, 396; xx, 471; xii, 425; xxiv, 414, 2 pp. Original brown speckled calf boards with gilt borders, respined with lighter brown calf and gilt lettering; marbled endpapers. Rubbing, scratches and marks to boards and corners. Minor yellowing internally, occasional spots, but generally interrnally clean. Author frontispiece… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. The Aldine Edition of the British Poets. In six volumes.
by Chaucer, Geoffrey ; Morris, Richard [ed.]
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- New and Revised Edition
- Published
- 1880
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- Gilt Lettered Cloth
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$96.38
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London: Bell and Daldy / The Aldine Edition c. 1880. Small 8vo. 6 volumes. Original green cloth with gilt lettering and black decoration. Pages uncut. Minor rubbing to extremities, especially volume 6. Offsetting to endpapers, otherwise generally internally clean. A very good set. Part of The Aldine Edition of the British Poets series. This is a heavy set and may… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Works of Lord Byron, in Six Volumes + Don Juan; Hours of Idleness; English Bards and Scotch Reviewers; The Waltz; and Other Poems, in Two Volumes [Eight Volumes total]
by Byron, Lord
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- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1831
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- Gilt Lettered Cloth
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$224.89
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London: John Murray 1831 / 1829. 12mo. 8 volumes: 6 volumes of 'Works' + 2 volumes of 'Don Juan etc.' Brown cloth with gilt lettering and decor to spines; pages uncut. Spines all slightly faded, boards have a few light marks. Bindings slightly slanted. New endpapers to volume 1, 7 and 8; ink names to ffep. in remaining volumes. Minor… Read more about this item Item Price
$224.89