1. Austen, Jane / Chapman, R.W. (Collated by).

The Novels of Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey and Persuasion with introductory notes. The Text based on Collation of the Early Editions by R.W. Chapman With Notes Indexes and Illustrations from Contemporary Sources.

One Volume. Oxford / New York, Oxford University Press, 1988. 12 cm x 19 cm. Northanger Abbey: Frontispiece (The Pumphouse, &c. From Bath, Illustrated from a Series of Views, from the Drawings of John Claude Nattes, 1806), XIII, 252 pages / Persuasion: Frontispiece (Autumnal Walking Dress, Invented by Mrs. Bell. From La Belle Assemblée, 1815), 333 pages. Some black and white illustrations throughout both novels. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Previous owner’s name in ink pen on endpaper. [The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen (Volume V of VI)].

2. Borrelli, Mario / Thorne, Anthony.

A Street Lamp and the Stars – The Autobiography of Don Borrelli of Naples. Written with the help of Anthony Thorne.

London, Peter Davies Ltd., 1963. 13.5 cm x 20 cm. Frontispiece (Black and White Photograph “Priest as Vagabond”), 206 pages. 22 black and white photographs throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor discolouration to endpapers only.

3. Brontë, Charlotte.

The Professor.

London, Penguin Books, 1995. 11 x 18cm. 256 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition. [Penguin Popular Classics].

4. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett.

Sonnets from the Portuguese.

Limited Facsimile Edition of the British Library Manuscript. New York, Imprint Society, 1977. 15.5 cm x 23.5 cm. XX, 90 pages. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

5. Buckley, Jerome [Jerry] Hamilton.

Collection of Books & Pamphlets from the private library and collection of Harvard Professor Jerome [Jerry] Hamilton Buckley, specialist on Victorian Literature and Poetry [e.g. Byron, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Arnold, Dickens etc.]. The collection includes numerous publications dedicated, inscribed, signed to Jerry Buckley from his colleagues in the field of Literary Criticism focusing of 19th and 20th century Literature.

Boston / Toronto / New York etc. etc. c. 1960 – c. 1995 Octavo. Original Softcover / Stapled offprints etc. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Offprints often signed and inscribed.

6. [Byron Circle] Haygarth, William.

Greece, A Poem, In Three Parts; With Notes, Classical Illustrations, And Sketches Of The Scenery.

First Edition. London, Printed by W,Bulmer and Co., 1814. Quarto (24 cm wide x 30 cm high). 304 pages with all 9 original sepia-aquatint-plates by Charles Turner after Haygarth. Disbound due to broken binding. Halftitle and bookblock available with all 9 plates included. Needs rebinding. Bookblock firm, halftitle detached. All nine plates with faded dampstain but still in beautiful and strong impression. The wide-margined Text in excellent, clean condition besides the faded dampstain. Last page of the Volume with some browning. Very minor wormhole-damage to the last 14 pages. One illustration cleanly detached. Extremely Rare Book !

7. Byron, George Gordon.

Selected Poems.

New York, Dover Publications, Inc., 1993. 13 x 21cm. (6), 106 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition. [Dover Thrift Editions, Editor: Stanley Appelbaum].

8. Caruth, Cathy.

Empirical Truths and Critical Fictions – Locke, Wordsworth, Kant, Freud. [Inscribed]

Baltimore, London, The Johns Hopkins Univesity Press, 1991. 15 cm x 22.5 cm. VIII, 167 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Jacket design by Joanna Hill. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear with a personal, signed inscription by the author Cathy Caruth on the front free endpaper.

9. Chambers, Sir Edmund.

Matthew Arnold.

First Edition. London, Oxford University Press, 1932. 8°. 25 Pages. Original printed wrappers, stringbound (softcover). Good condition. Signs of wear – wrappers chipped and bumped. Some underlining and pencil markings within. [From the Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. XVIII.]

10. Chopin, Kate.

The Awakening and Other Stories. Edited with an introduction and notes by Pamela Knights.

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000. 13 x 19.5cm. (60), 410 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition. [Oxford World’s Classics].

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.