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London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1927. Blue leather-bound edition, part of a boxed set "The Plays of Bernard Shaw". Original glassine (like grease-proof paper) dustwrapper is a bit creased, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with gilt titles and decoration on spine and facimile signature on front board all still bright. Originally published in this edition in 1926, this… Read more about this item

London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1927. Blue leather-bound edition, part of a boxed set "The Plays of Bernard Shaw". Original glassine (like grease-proof paper) dustwrapper is a bit creased, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with gilt titles and decoration on spine and facimile signature on front board all still bright. Originally published in this edition in 1926, this… Read more about this item

London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1927. Blue leather-bound edition, part of a boxed set "The Plays of Bernard Shaw". Original glassine (like grease-proof paper) dustwrapper is a bit creased, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with gilt titles and decoration on spine and facimile signature on front board all still bright. Originally published in this edition in 1926, this… Read more about this item

London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1927. Blue leather-bound edition, part of a boxed set "The Plays of Bernard Shaw". Original glassine (like grease-proof paper) dustwrapper is a bit creased, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with gilt titles and decoration on spine and facsimile signature on front board all still bright. Originally published in this edition in 1926, this… Read more about this item

London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1927. Blue leather-bound edition, part of a boxed set "The Plays of Bernard Shaw". Original glassine (like grease-proof paper) dustwrapper has had most of back panel torn away, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with gilt titles and decoration on spine and facsimile signature on front board all still bright. Originally published in this… Read more about this item

London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1927. Blue leather-bound edition, part of a boxed set "The Plays of Bernard Shaw". Original glassine (like grease-proof paper) dustwrapper is a bit creased, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with gilt titles and decoration on spine and facimile signature on front board all still bright. Originally published in this edition in 1926, this… Read more about this item

London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1927. Blue leather-bound edition, part of a boxed set "The Plays of Bernard Shaw". Original glassine (like grease-proof paper) dustwrapper is a bit creased, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with gilt titles and decoration on spine and facsimile signature on front board all still bright. Originally published in this edition in 1926, this… Read more about this item

London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1927. Blue leather-bound edition, part of a boxed set "The Plays of Bernard Shaw". Original glassine (like grease-proof paper) dustwrapper is a bit creased, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with gilt titles and decoration on spine and facsimile signature on front board all still bright. Originally published in this edition in 1926, this… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 2014. Very slight scuffing to top end of spine, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this slim soft-cover book. A collection of poems by the author, who died on 29th May 2024. Number line starts with a 2, so NOT a first edition. 82pp.. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket.… Read more about this item

London: J M Dent & Sons Ltd, 1954. Creasing and small tears to edges of unclipped dustwrapper with small pieces missing at spine ends. Slight bumping to spine ends of brown boards and some yellowing to the pages, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this slim hard-cover book. Originally published in February 1954, this is a sixth impression… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1917. Pocket Edition in red leather binding with gilt elephant head and swastika on front board, top edge of pages gilt. Some scuffing to spine ends and bumping to corners, otherwise a good clean tight copy. Contains eight stories and eight poems by the author. Originally published in the Pocket Edition in 1909, this is… Read more about this item

London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1916. Red leather-bound Pocket Edition with gilt elephant head and swastika on front board and top edge of pages gilt. Slight scuffing to spine ends and corners, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this slim leather-bound book. Contains two poetry collections by Kipling, "The Five Nations" and "Service Songs". Originally published in… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1918. Pocket Edition bound in red leather with gilt elephant head and swastika on front board, top edge of pages gilt. Methuen at bottom ends of spines, but publisher is Macmillan. Minor scuffing to spine ends and bumping to corners, but otherwise both good clean tight copies. A collection of pieces by Kipling on his… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1916. Red leather ''Pocket Edition'' with gilt elephant's head and swastika on front board, gilt edges to pages. Some scuffing to spine ends and bumping to corners, original owner's name in pencil inside front board, some yellowing to endpapers, but otherwise a good clean copy of this little book. Contains the author's twelve… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan and Co Ltd, 1919. Red leather ''Pocket Edition'' with gilt elephant head and swastika on front cover, top edge of pages gilt. Slight scuffing to spine ends but gilt titles and decoration thereon is still bright, endpapers have some yellowing, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this small leather-bound book containing ten stories from English history… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1960. Some creasing and a few tears to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, slight bumping to spine ends and corners of green boards, original owner's name on f/ep, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover novel. The story deals with an aristocratic family in Sicily in 1860 at the time of Garibaldi's invasion. Originally published in Italian… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1923. "Pocket Edition" in red leather binding with gilt elephant head and swastika on front board, top edge of pages gilt. Slight scuffing to spine ends and bumping to corners, binding just starting to split at last page of text, otherwise a good clean tight copy. Contains three collections of stories, namely "Under… Read more about this item

London: The Folio Society, 1966. Folo Society edition in slipcase from 1966. A small water-stain to lower corner of brown slipcase, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. A selection of twenty-six essays by Dickens, mostly from "The Uncommercial Traveller" and "Sketches by Boz", on working-class London. Selected and with introduction by Rosalind Vallance. 236pp, 15… Read more about this item

London: The Folio Society, 1964. Folio Society edition in slipcase from 1964. Green slipcase has some fading to spine and one side, and to outer (open) edge, some scuffing to corners and an old water-stain to lower corner. The spine of the book itself has faded from mauve to a khaki colour, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of… Read more about this item

London: The Folio Society, 1966. Two-volume Folio Society edition with slipcase from 1966. Thr gray paper covering the cardboard slipcase has split at one side of bottom edge, also some scuffing to the corners. Some rubbing to ends and edges of the brown leather spine of volume 1, and to spine ends of volume 2 which also has… Read more about this item