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First edition, first impression, trade issue; large 8vo; publisher's burgundy cloth, titles to spine gilt, spotting to the first and last leaves from the endpapers, as always, dust jacket with some very minor loss at the top edge, otherwise a very good copy.
£3,250 -
First edition, first issue; 8vo (220 x 150 mm); 16 engraved plates (including additional title and frontispiece) by Hablot K. Browne, very occasional light spotting to plates but in the main, unusually clean and bright; near-contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, matching endpapers and edges, worn and rubbed at extremities but sound; otherwise a very good copy indeed.
£3,750 -
First edition thus; 4to (285 x 230 mm); 12 mounted colour plates by Edward J. Detmold; publisher's cream gilt boards after a design by Detmold, edges uncut, as published, contemporary ink gift presentation to balnk verso of upper front free endpaper, spine darkened (as usual) some surface soiling, mostly to rear, spine ends and corners light bumped, otherwise very good and internally fine.
£575 -
First edition, first impression, signed by the author; 8vo; 7 plates by W. Graham Robertson and one map, 2pp. advertisements, one or two pages slightly roughly opened, a few short marginal tears, contemporary gift inscription to early blank leaf; publisher's grey cloth, decoration and titles to upper board and spine in black and red, grey topstain, bookplate to front paste down, cloth a little dusty, spine somewhat faded, otherwise very good indeed.
£3,750 -
Limited edition, one of 145 examples on Japon Impérial, 4to (30.5 x 23.5 cm), text in French, translated by N.Andreieff, half-title, title, 76, [6] pp., with 20 colour plates and numerous vignettes in text and elaborate borders, polychrome gold and silver printing, with an extra suite in black in the original green paper chemise; original printed wrappers with gilt detail and publisher's slipcase, slipcase slightly worn and faded but otherwise a mint copy.
£2,800 -
First edition; 3 vols, 4to (284 x 234 mm); half titles, chromolithographed frontispieces and additional title-page vignettes in each vol., 41 (14 + 13 + 14) further plates, some damp-staining to prelims of vol. 3, otherwise very good internally; uniformly bound in original decorated red cloth gilt, gilt edges, brown endpapers, some dampstaining to binding of vol.3, spine ends of each vol. bumped.
£500 -
First UK editions, 3 vols, volume I signed by the author on title; 8vo, (225 x 145 mm); text leaves slightly toned at extremities in vols I and II, minor glue (ý) stain to title of vol. I, minor ink stain at lower edge of text block of vol. II (not affecting text); publisher's cloth, lettered in gilt, unclipped dust-jackets, slight creasing to dust-jacket of vol. I with spines of vols I and III slightly sunned, very good overall condition.
£3,750 -
Limited edition, one of 500 copies signed by the artist; 4to (320 x 270 mm); 12 tipped-in colour plates and black & white illustrations and decorations by Kay Nielsen, captioned tissue-guards, occasional light spotting, mostly contained and heavier to endpapers, not affecting text block or plates (different paper uses); publisher's gilt-stamped pictorial vellum, top edge gilt, others uncut (as published, two small marks to bottom edge of upper cover, which is also slightly bowed, otherwise exceptionally clean and bright.
£3,500 -
Second edition; 2 vols, 8vo (200 x 130 mm); portrait frontispiece to volume 1 (2nd state, 1st issue), 4 engraved maps, 2 engraved plans, woodcut head and tailpieces, volume 2 lacking preliminary advertisement leaf, first few gatherings (pp 1-23) of volume 2 heavily damp-stained, scattered spotting; 19th-century speckled calf gilt, red morocco title labels, boards bordered in gilt, rubbed, otherwise a good set.
£2,900 -
New and Definitive edition. 2 vols, 4to, 674; 696 pp., frontispiece, 2 large folding maps, 8 plates, illustrations in text, original brown cloth gilt, dustwrappers, prize bookplate to front pastedown, tiny stain to title and frontispiece else a fine set.
£2,250