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First edition, number 127 of 280 copies, from a total edition of 290, signed by the author; 8vo; internally fine; publisher's blue marbled wrappers, stitched as issued, a near-fine copy.

First edition thus, first impression, inscribed by the author; 8vo; frontispiece, Cartland's facsimile signature to title, unused private library label, marginal toning to leaves, otherwise unmarked internally; publisher's red leatherette boards, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, gilt device to front cover, overall a very good copy.

Limited edition, number 75 of 1600 copies; 8vo; small device to title, light toning to leaves; original buckram-backed yellow cloth boards, black leather spine label with gilt lettering, light offsetting to endpapers, edges uncut, in the original printed dust jacket, slightly marked, overall a very good copy.

Limited edition, number 36 of 260 copies, signed by the artist on the colophon; 8vo; 6 copper plate etchings by Eric Gill, light toning to edges, otherwise unmarked internally; original black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, extremities slightly faded, top edge partly unopened, others uncut, overall a very good copy.

First edition; 8vo; illustrations and map endpapers by Ernest Shepard, a very few, minor, peripheral marks, the only two of note at base of p. 131 but even these are light and small, otherwise near fine; publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt, light bumping to spine tips and upper right-hand corner, illustrated dust-jacket, spine slightly faded, light soiling, minor chipping to head of spine and corners, otherwise, again, near fine.

First edition, first impression; 2 vols, 8vo; half titles to both volumes, as called for, 2 pp. publisher's ads at the end of vol. I, 16 pp publisher's catalogue at end of vol. II correctly dated June 1857, Wesley's bookbinder's label to rear paste down of the first volume, all primary issue points; publisher's purple cloth, elaborately tooled in blind to all boards, titles to spines gilt, cream coated endpapers, hinges just a little tender, spines inevitably somewhat faded but a stunning copy, entirely unsophisticated condition and a qenuine rarity thus; housed in an early twentieth century red cloth, solander box.

First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author, one of 350 numbered copies, specially bound, printed on large paper; 8vo; publisher's red buckram, device to upper board and titles to spine gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed; some spotting to the endpapers, cloth just a little dull, but a very nice copy housed in a brown cloth slipcase.

First edition, first impression; 8vo; even toning to the endpapers, otherwise unmarked internally; publisher's green boards, titles to spine gilt, pictorial dust jacket. An excellent copy in the slightly toned, price-clipped dust jacket.

Stipple engraving, part printed in colour and finished by hand. Framed and glazed, overall dimensions: 46.5cm by 56.2cm by 2cm.

First edition; 8vo; monochrome portrait frontispiece signed by Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier, numerous monochrome plates from photographs, mild peripheral spotting to preliminary and terminal leaves, mostly to the plain endpapers; publisher's maroon cloth, slight dust-soiling, pictorial dust-jacket, chipped and creased at extremities, three short, closed tears but in the main, a rare survival.