Letteratura

THE LETTERS 1898-1944. Edited by Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton. General Editor John Haffenden.

Eliot, T.S. · 2009 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£280.00 (€335.67 | $369.98 | ¥59,088)

Faber and Faber 2009-25. Revised Ed. 10 vols. Large 8vo. 216 ills. mainly from photos. Very good in d/ws.

THE WORKS. Lord Jim. Nostromo. Heart of Darkness. The Secret Agent. Victory. Typhoon & other Tales. Under Western Eyes. The Shadow Line. Chance. The Rover. Almayer’s Folly. The Secret Sharer. The Rescue. An Outcast of the Islands. The Duel & other Tales. The Arrow of Gold. The Mirror of the Sea. Introduction by Gavin Young, Jeremy Harding et al.

Conrad, Joseph. · 1996 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£200.00 (€239.77 | $264.27 | ¥42,206)

Folio Society 1996-2005. 17 vols. Illus. by Francis Mosley through. Very good in original silver lettered dec. dark blue cloth, in individual silver lettered blue slipcases with some very minor signs of wear.

THE SELECTED LETTERS OF JOSEPH CONRAD.

(Conrad). Davies, Laurence. (Editor). · 2015 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

CUP 2015. 1st Ed., thus. [xxxviii] + 553pp. + [i]. 14 ills. on 8 plates. Very good in d/w.

ENEMIES OF PROMISE.

Connolly, Cyril. · 1949 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. 1949. Revised Ed. xii + 265 + [i]. Some very light marginal age toning, e.ps. very sl. browned, in lightly soiled browned and chipped d/w. repaired in parts to verso.

G.K. CHESTERTON. A Biography.

(Chesterton). Ker, Ian. · 2011 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

OUP 2011. 1st Ed. Royal 8vo. [xxii] + 747pp. + [xv] blank. 16 plates. Ownership ink stamp, otherwise very good in d/w.

THE CHARLESTON MAGAZINE Charleston Bloomsbury and the Arts. Semiannual Two issues a year (Spring/Summer and Summer/Autumn). Issue 1 (Spring/Summer 1990) - Issue 24 (Autumn/Winter 2001) Plus Index vol. to nos. 1-10. All Published. 25 issued in total.

(Charleston Magazine). · 1990 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Charleston Trust ... Lewes ... 1990-2001. 25 issues in Total. Thin royal 8vo. Profusely ills. including some colour. Original wrapps., minor wear, lower wrapp. to Issue 2 taped and lacking large piece due to ills. removal.

ITALIAN FOLKTALES. Selected and retold, and with an introduction and notes by ... Translated by George Martin. Preface by Guillermo Del Toro.

Calvino, Italo. · 2019 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£400.00 (€479.53 | $528.54 | ¥84,412)

Folio Society 2019. 1st Folio Ed. 2 vols. Royal 8vo. xliv + 503pp. + [v] + [x] + ([505]-1048)pp. 16 colour plates including 2 double page, many other b/w. ills. by Gerard Dubois. Illus. cream upper e.ps., colour e.p. maps to lower e.ps., printed and bound by Kösel in full clot...

SCARRONNIDES: OR VIRGILE TRAVESTIE A mock-poem, on the first and fourth books of Virgils Ænæis in English; burle´sque.

[Cotton, Charles]. · 1667 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London : printed by E. Cotes for Henry Brome in Little Britain, 1667. 12mo. [iv] + pp.(5-150) + [iv]. [Lacking imprimatur leaf, A4 and A5]. Light browning, old sheep? some wear, sympathetically rebacked in modern calf. ESTC R14379.

TENNYSON AMONG THE POETS. Bicentenary Essays.

(Tennyson). Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert and Perry, Seamus. (Editors). · 2009 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

OUP 2009. 1st Ed. Large 8vo. xvi + 436pp. 4 ills. Very good in d/w.

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF EDMUND SPENSER.

(Spenser). McCabe, Richard A. (Editor). · 2010 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

OUP 2010. 1st Ed. Royal 8vo. [xxiv] + 826pp. 25 ills. Good in d/w. with red lettering to spine lightly faded.

THE CORRESPONDENCE. Edited by Roger Kuin.

Sidney, Sir Philip. · 2012 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

OUP 2012. 1st Ed. 2 vols. Large 8vo. [lxx] + 696pp. + [vi] + ([697]-1381)pp. + [v]. Port. frontiss., 16 plates. Very good in d/ws.

SEVEN AGES, Etched by E. Goodall after Original Designs by Daniel Maclise.

Shakspeare’s · 1850 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

Art-Union of London 1850. Slim Landscape 4to. [18]pp. 8 plates. Some very light marginal age toning, original green cloth backed pale green limp card wrapps., upper wrapp. browned and sl. stained, lower wrapp. sl. soiled and browned to edges.

SHAKESPEARE AND EARLY MODERN POLITICAL THOUGHT.

(Shakespeare). Armitage, David; Condren, Conal and Fritzmaurice, Andrew. (Editors). · 2009 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

CUP 2009. 1st Ed. Slim 8vo. [xii] + 289pp. + [iii]. Very good in d/w.

MILTON AND THE PEOPLE.

(Milton). Hammond, Paul. · 2014 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

OUP 2014. 1st Ed. [xiv] + 271pp. + [iii]. Very good in d/w.

THE COMPLETE SHORTER FICTION. Introduced by Jay Parini.

Melville, Herman. · 2012 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

Folio Society 2012. Royal 8vo. xviii + 504pp. + [iv] blank. 16 colour plates by Bill Bragg. Very good in original black and silver lettered dec. red cloth, in silver slipcase as issued.

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE AT 450.

(Marlowe). Deats, Sara Munson and Logan, Roberta A. (Editors). · 2015 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Ashgate 2015. 1st Ed. [xii] + 369pp. + [iii]. Good in d/w. faded to spine.

ABYSSINIA’S SAMUEL JOHNSON. Ethiopian thought in the Making of an English Author.

(Johnson). Belcher, Wendy Laura. · 2012 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

OUP 2012. 1st Ed. [xii] + 285pp. + [iii]. Map. Some rather derogatory marginal ink annotations and underling, good in yellow & white lettered turquoise coloured pictorial laminated boards, very minor rubbing to corners and head and tail of spine.

JEFFERIES’ LAND. A History of Swindon and its Environs. By the Late ... Edited with Notes by Grace Toplis.

Jefferies, Richard. · 1896 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd. 1896. 1st Ed. xvi + 207pp. + [i] adverts. 12 plates, folding map. Browned throughout and with some sporadic light spotting, f.e.ps. browned, sm. booksellers label, original gilt lettered dark blue cloth, bevelled edges, upper board ...

THE CHAMELEON. Introduction by ... On The Chameleon: An Essay by Timothy d’Arch Smith. Makers of the Nineties Edited by G. Krishnamurti.

Hyde, H. Mongomery. · 1978 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

Eighteen Nineties Society 1978. Facsimile Reprint of 1894 Ed. ‘Ordinary’ Ed. Slim Royal 8vo. [iv] + 60pp. Dec. initial letters and head and tail pieces. From the library of Jerrold Northrop Moore, original pale green limp card wrapps. with yapped edges dark green lettering to ...

[THE WORKS]. Far From the Madding Crowd. The Wessex Tales. The Return of the Native. Under the Greenwood Tree. The Mayor of Casterbridge. Jude the Obscure. The Trumpet Major. The Woodlanders. Tess of the d’Urbervilles. The Well-Beloved. Two on a Tower. A Pair of Blue Eyes. A Group of Noble Dames. A Changed Man. Life’s Little Ironies. A Laodicean. The Hand of Ethelberta. Desperate Remedies. Introduced by Bel Mooney et al.

Hardy, Thomas. · 1993 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

Folio Society 1993-1995. Mixed reprint Eds. 18 vols., complete set. Many ills. E.p. maps, good in gilt lettered cloth of varying colours with corn dolly device to upper boards, together in 11 slipcases as issued, some very minor rubbing.