11. Collins, Wilkie.

The Works of Wilkie Collins [Includes also his Classics: The Woman in White, The Moonstone, After Dark, The Dead Secret and others].

30 Volumes (complete set). New York, Peter Fenelon Collier, no year [c. 1900]. Octavo. More than 14000 pages. Illustrated throughout. Original Hardcover / Publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine. A scruffy set with bindings worn but still firm. While not in collectable condition, this is still a very good reading copy of this important set. From the library of Lucille Hubbert from Malcom, Poweshiek, Iowa, with her bookplate to pastedown [International shipping of this heavy set is included in the price / We ship via UPS Courier and this set will be with you within 2 – 4 working days per UPS Express Saver].

12. [Combe, William] / [Thomas Rowlandson].

The Tour of Doctor Syntax – In Search of the Picturesque – A Poem [plus: “Volume Second”: “The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax – In Search of Consolation – A Poem”].

Volume One in Fourth Edition / Volume Two in First Edition. Two Volumes. London, Published by R. Ackermann at the Repository of Arts, 1813 – 1820. Large Octavo. Pagination: Volume I: Frontispiece, engraved titlepage, [2], 276, plus 1 page with “Directions to the Binder for placing the Plates”. With 31 handcoloured illustrations (including Frontispiece and titlepage) by caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson / Volume II: Frontispiece, [1], 277 pages plus 1 page with “Directions to the Binder for placing the Plates”. With 22 (of 24) handcoloured illustrations by caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson. Hardcover / Original half leather with original spine-labels and ornaments. Both Volumes with some rubbing but both in firm, original condition. Interior of Volume I with some mild foxing and fingerstaining only but all plates excellent. Interior of Volume II with a tear and loss of paper to the front free endpaper, some mild foxing, one plate and one textpage (page 11) slightly detached and with fraying). Minor wormholedamage to rear board (neglectable). Overall these two Volumes are in very good condition !

13. [Conrad, Joseph], Jean-Aubry, G.

Joseph Conrad. Life & Letters.

Two Volumes. London, William Heinemann, Ltd., 1927. 16.5 cm x 25 cm. (VII) 339 pages, (V) 376 pages. Black-and-white illustrations: Volume I – 11, Volume II – 5. Original Hardcover (Dark blue cloth – title in embossed gilt on front and spine). Former library-copy in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Library stamp on frontispiece of Volume I and facing half-title page Volume II. Very slight foxing of pages. One or two faint pencil marks.

14. Dickens, Charles.

American Notes for General Circulation.

First single-volume edition. London, Chapman and Hall, 1850. 13 cm x 19.5 cm. Frontispiece by C. Stansfield, XIII, 175 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering and ornament to spine. Endpapers and pastedown with original publisher’s advertising. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Unusual in this excellent and firm condition.

15. Dickens, Charles.

Christmas Books.

London, Paul Elek Limited, 1960. 12.5 x 18.5cm. 254 pages, with illustrations from engravings. Original softcover. Fair condition with some signs of external wear and a faded dampstain. [Bestseller Library].

16. Dostoyevsky / Banine (Translator) / Joly, Louis (Illustrator).

La Femme D’un Autre ou le mari sous le lit.

Paris, Julliard Sequana, 1945. 12.5 cm x 17 cm. 87 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with signs of external wear. Slight tear to lower and top spine and edges of cover. Some stronger spotting on cover. Slight tear on inside of back cover. Small section of front endpage missing. Inscription by preowner.

17. Foster, R.F.

Words Alone – Yeats and His Inheritances.

Oxford / New York, Oxford University Press, 2011. 13.5 cm x 20.5 cm. XIX, 236 pages. Several black and white photographs throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Fine / As New.

18. Gilmour, David.

The Long Recessional. The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling.

London, John Murray, 2002. 16 x 24 cm. XII, 351 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

19. [Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von] Pelikan, Jaroslav.

Faust the Theologian.

New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1995. 15 cm x 24.5 cm. XI, 145 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Designed by James J. Johnson. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

20. Graver, Elizabeth.

Have You Seen Me ?

Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburg Press, 1991. 15.5 cmx 23.5 cm. 170 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear.