FRAMLEY PARSONAGE.
London: Folio Society, 1979. First Folio Society edition. Hardcover. Original yellowish green cloth and decorative boards; octavo; 472 pp., map endpapers, slipcase. More
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DOCTOR THORNE.
London: Folio Society, 1978. First Folio Society edition. Hardcover. Original orange cloth and decorative boards; octavo; 507 pp., map endpapers, slipcase. More
THE LAST CHRONICLE OF BARSET.
London: Folio Society, 1980. First Folio Society edition. Hardcover. Original yellow cloth and decorative boards; octavo; 772 pp., map endpapers, slipcase. More
THE COMPLETE NOVELS OF CHARLOTTE, EMILY, AND ANNE BRONTE: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; Villette; Shirley; The Professor; The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; Agnes Grey.
London: Folio Society, 1991 (2004). Ninth printing of the 1991 reissue of the Folio Society edition. Hardcover. 7 volumes, various paginations, wood engraved illustrations by Simon Brett, Peter Forster, Peter Reddick, Howard Phipps, George Tute, Ian Stephens, Harry Brockway (each volume a different illustrator); octavos, blue buckram and decorative boards..... More
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[COLLECTED WORKS OF JANE AUSTEN]: Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Emma; Northanger Abbey; Persuasion; Shorter Works. (7-volume set)
London: Folio Society, 1975 (1984). Third printing of the Folio Society edition. Hardcover. 7 volumes, original gray cloth and decorative boards, wood-engraved illustrations by Joan Hassall, slipcase. Reprints the definitive text edited by R. W. Chapman and published by Oxford University Press in 1923 (revised in 1933). More
COOKING AND DINING IN TUDOR AND EARLY STUART ENGLAND.
London: Prospect Books, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. 670 pp., illustrated, large octavo, blue boards, jacket. A gastronomic history of the period, complete with authenticl recipes. Peter Brears is the author of "Cooking and Dining in Medieval England," the André Simon Trustees 2009 Food Book of the Year." More
JANE AUSTEN'S LETTERS.
London: Folio Society, 2003. First Folio Society edition. Hardcover. xxx, 642 pp. frontispiece and 34 illustrations; octavo, bound in floral-patterned silk over boards, slipcase box. Some 160 letters, originally published by the Clarendon Press as edited by R. W. Chambers in 1932. The present edition reprints the third Oxford edition..... More
CULTURE OF THE GRAPE.
Boston: J. E. Tilton & Co., 1867. Second printing. Hardcover. 355 pp., illustrated with engraved vignette title page (with title as "Cultivation of the Grape"), headpieces, tailpiece, 40 text figures; octavo, original green cloth with gilt spine title, top edge gilt. Contemporary bookseller label of "King's Old Books" San Francisco..... More
THE CAMBRIDGE WORLD HISTORY OF FOOD.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (2000). First edition. Hardcover. 2 volume set, quartos, green buckram, 1120; xii, xlii, 1121-2153 pp., illustrated, pictorial dustjackets, matching slipcase box. An exhaustive encyclopedic history of food across the ages and around the world. NB: this set weighs 12 pounds (5.5 kilos), extra shipping charges will..... More
Far from the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Return of the Native, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, The Trumpet Major, Under the Greenwood Tree. 6-volume boxed set of the Wessex Novels.
London: Folio Society, (1991). Fifth printing of the Folio Society edition. Hardcover. 6 volumes, octavo, various pagination, a volume a different color full cloth binding, wood-engraved illustrations by Peter Reddick. Texts are from the 1912 Wessex Edition published by Macmillan. More
DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (12 volumes in 4). SPRING: A Question of Upbringing, A Buyer's Market, The Acceptance World; SUMMER: At Lady Molly's, Casanova's Chinese Restaurant, The Kindly Ones; FALL: The Valley of Bones, The Soldier's Art, The Military Philosophers; WINTER: Books Do Furnish a Room; Temporary Kings; Hearing Secret Harmonies .
London: Folio Society, 2006. First Folio Society edition. Hardcover. 12 volumes complete in 4; royal octavos burgundy cloth and color pictorial boards; various paginations, profusely illustrated in color and black & white, individual slipcases. An attractive new edition of this classic British literary epic. The 12 individual novels were originally..... More
GONE WITH THE WIND: Sixtieth Anniversary Edition.
New York: Scribner, (1996). First edition thus (first printing 60th anniversary edition0. Hardcover. 959 pp., frontispiece; octavo, red cloth and pictorial boards, matching slipcase box. More
GRANITE AND RAINBOW: Essays.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., (1958). First US edition. Hardcover. 240 pp. octavo, original blue cloth, pictorial dustjacket. Jacket design by Vanessa Bell. The fourth posthumouse collection of previously uncollected essays. Edited by the author's husband, Leonard Woolf. More
KNOLE AND THE SACKVILLES.
New York: George H. Doran, [1922]. First US edition. Hardcover. xvi, (231) pp., frontispiece and 24 monochrome illustrations; royal octavo, gray pictorial cloth. An historical tour through the centuries at Knole, one of the largest English manor Houses. Knole was bought by Archbishop Bourchier in 1456 and functioned as an..... More
THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE.
London: Folio Society, 1998. First edition thus. Hardcover. 152 pp.,11 illustrations in color including 1 double-page, quarto, decorative blue cloth, slipcase. More
THE OREGON TRAIL.
London: Folio Society, (2013). Fifth printing of this edition. Hardcover. xxi, 326 pp., many illustrations in color from contemporary western paintings, endpaper maps; octavo, pictorial cloth, slipcase. More
MY EARLY LIFE: A Roving Commission.
London: Folio Society, 2007. First edition thus. Hardcover. xxiv, 388 pp, many illustrations from photographs, 11 maps; octavo, pictorial cloth, slipcase. More
Journal of the Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. BEAGLE: Round the World under Captain Fitz Roy, R. N.
London: Folio Society, 2003. First edition thus. Hardcover. (xxxv). 517 pp., illustrations in color and black and white; quarto, pictorial cloth, slipcase. This edition reprints the text of the 1860 edition. More
MIDDLEMARCH: A Study of Provincial Life.
London: Folio Society, 2018. First edition thus. Hardcover. xv, 752 pp; color illustrations; quarto, decorative green cloth with cover design in gilt, silver, and brown, mathcing cloth-coverd slipcase. More
ZEN FLESH, ZEN BONES: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings Compiled by Paul Reps
Rutland & Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, (1963). Sixth printing. Original decorative paper over boards, small octavo (5 x 8 inches), 211pp. Four books in one: "101 Zen Stories"; "The Gateless Gate"; "10 Bulls"; and "Centering." More
ANNE HUGES: HER BOKE.
London: Folio Society, 1981. First edition thus. Hardcover. Small octavo, decorative boards, 176 pp., monochrome illustratons, slipcase. A sort of tongue in cheek diary of a rustic old-time housewife written in dialect and originally published in the "Farmers Weekly" in 1937. Efforts by Michael Croucher to establish the identity of..... More
LETTERS TO ELIZABETH: A Selection of Letters from John Steinbeck to Elizabeth Otis.
San Francisco: Book Club of California (Printed at the Plantin Press), 1978. Limited edition. Hardcover. xix, 119 pp., octavo, tan cloth spine and russet boards, printed paper spine label, jacket. A selection of letters from John Steinbeck to his long-time (27 years) literary agent and friend, Elizabeth Otis. None of..... More
A LARGE DICTIONARY IN THREE PARTS: I. The English before the Latin. II. The Latin before the English. III. The Proper Names of Persons, Places, and other things necessary to the understanding of Historians and Poets.
London: Printed for W. Rawlins, for G Sawbridge, W. Place, et al, 1672. First edition. 3 volumes, relatively recent half brown morocco and marbled boards, morocco lettering pieces. The 3 parts, each with seperate title page, are bound not in the order described on the general title page, but with..... More
COLLIER'S San Francisco. Vol. XXXVII, No. 6. May, 1906. (The San Francisco Number).
New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1906. First edition, first printing. Complete as published in original color pictorial wrappers; 15 x 11 inches, illustrated. Special number of Collier's reporting on the April 18, 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco. With stunning cover art by J. C. Leyendecker and..... More
EPISTLE SUPEROGATORY TO MUIR DAWSON. A Memorandum on Archival Anxieties, Reverses, Epistolary Plaints Midsummer, Bentley's Epistle to Fellow Phalaropes, A School for Children in the Wilderness, & A Consecrated Prelum & Scriptorium by Wilder Bentley the Elder. Set up and Printed on a Handpress by the Author on the Birthday of Juliana of Norwich at The Archetype Press in the City of Berkeley, Mclxxxv. This is Scroll Z, the Twenty-Sixth & Final Volume of an Abecedarium Series Entitled "The Poetry of Learnng."
Berkeley: The Archetype Press, 1985. First edition. Printed scroll of 5 joined panels each 15" wide and altogether 8 feet long with short blank sections at front and rear. 20 numbered columns of verse flanked by printer's ornaments, printed on heavy bright white wove stock, rolled and housed in decorative..... More