1890's from Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB

Chicago: Academy, (1981). First edition. Quarto, blue cloth. pp. ix, 611; illustrated. The story of the Women's Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago 1893. Slight foxing to top page edge, else near fine in a lightly rubbed dust jacket. This book weighs over 1 kg, which may necessitate a request for additional postage, pending on shipping destination and delivery standard… Read more about this item

London:John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1908. First edition. 19.5 cm x 13 cm, publisher's original light green cloth, top edge gilt, other uncut, pp. 174, (2). Abercrombie's first book, with a brief presentation inscription from fin-de-siecle publisher John Lane to fellow publisher Charles Carrington. Carringtom was a publisher of Wilde, his catalogue also included a considerable amount of… Read more about this item

London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane / New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894. Octavo, publisher's dark blue vertically ribbed cloth, pp. (x), 204, 4 (catalogue of the author's works), 16 (ads dated March 1894); with a Lithographed Portrait of the Author by R. Wlison Steer. Title page mounted on a stub. Notice regarding American… Read more about this item

Cambridge:Harvard University Press, 1971. First edition. Octavo, silver cloth, pp. xiv, 387; illustrated. Fine in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket [a few small edge tears]. Comes with a mylar dust jacket protector..

London: Edwin Arnold, (N.d). Seventh impression. 8vo., green cloth with elaborate design in silver, pp. 284. With eight lovely black and white illustrations. Half inch tear in fore-edge of title page, slight fraying to spine ends, very slight darkening to the spine, else in excellent condition with the binding design bright and unworn. Uncommon thus..

London: Constable & Co., Ltd, 1933. First edition. 8vo., light green wrappers, pp. viii, 85. Small Australian bookseller's label, foxing to page edges, light dust soiling to covers. A very good copy..

(London): John Murray, (1988). First edition. Tiny remainder dot to top edge, else a fine copy in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket..

Philadelphia: MacManus, 1984. First edition, 1 of 500 copies. Blue cloth, small 4to., 111pp. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued..

New York: Dover Publications, Inc., (1967). Unabridged reprint of the revised 1920 edition by John Lane. Quarto, plum cloth. Marillier's text is 15 pages, followed by over 100 plates. Some soiling to front free endpaper, covers show light soiling and wear, else a very good copy, in a worn, chipped dust jacket..

Chicago: Herbert S. Stone, 1896. First American edition. Translated by Barbara Leonora Jones. Very slightly bumped at top corners, else a lovely fine, bright copy..

[Oxford}: Plantin Press, [1990]. First paperback edition. 8vo., wrappers, pp 472. Light edge wear and creasing to wrappers, else a very good copy..

Toronto: Musson Book Company, (1903). First Canadian edition. 8vo., green cloth with attractive art nouveau design in gold and white. Illustrated by Will H. Low, with decorations by Charles L. Linton. Uncommon Canadian issue. Non-authorial inscription and attractive Canadian bookplate (Estelle Allien Holland) on endpapers, light rubbing to upper corners, else near fine..

New York: Grove, (N.d). Second printing. Tall slim octavo, dark blue cloth, pp. 140; illustrations and designs by Beardsley. Glassco, a Canadian poet, read Beardsley's Under the Hill at the age of twelve. He was disappointed by the bowdlerized version with its story broken-off in the middle. Twenty years later he resolved to complete the book. Fine in a near… Read more about this item

New York: George Braziller, (1967). First American edition. Near fine in dust jacket (a bit rubbed along the spine)..

London: Jonathan Cape, (1922). First edition. Pale purple cloth, decorated in dark blue and yellow-brown, 8vo., (220)pp. This selection of fairy tales is reprinted from: A Farm in Fairyland (1894), The House of Joy (1895), The Field of Clover (1898), and The Blue Moon (1904). With a frontispiece, thirteen illustrations and a tail-piece by Housman in his typical 1890's style.… Read more about this item

The Sheiling, Silverdale, nr. Carnforth, [N.d].. No Binding. Very Good. Gordon Bottomley, 1874-1948, English poet and dramatist, author of numerous verse dramas with themes inspired by Celtic and northern legend. President of the Scottish Community Drama Association and Vice President of the British Drama League. 7" x 5.25" leaf, written both sides, just shy of 300 words. To… Read more about this item

(Madison): University of Wisconsin Press, (1989). First edition, paper issue. Trade paperback format. A history of this significant publishing house, instrumental to the Symbolist and Decadent movements, as well as to the Celtic Revival. With a bibliography of Elkin Mathews imprints 1894-1921. Near fine..

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1899. Later impression, originally published in America by Putnam's in 1894. 8vo., brown cloth, pp. 204, [2] publisher's ads. With Le Gallienne's signed presentation inscription, "To T.R. Smith, from his friend the prose fancier- R. Le. G. Christmas, 1917." The book bears a bookplate and previous owner's signature, and Le Gallienne has left his verse… Read more about this item

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1966. First edition. A catalogue published in conjunction with the 1966 Victoria & Albert exhibition. Wrappers, 8vo., 18pp., of text and 50 black and white illustrations. Name neatly written on half-title, light soiling to covers, else a very good copy. Victoria and Albert Large Picture Book Number 32. Lasner 196A..

Toronto: George N. Morang, 1898. First Canadian edition. 8vo., tan decorated cloth, pp.159; attractively decorated throughout in orange by the noted poster artist of the American 1890s. Front hinge cracked, spine is considerably darkened with loss at crown. A good copy of an attractive book..