Anglophilia

Samuel S. and William Wood, New York, 1858; Fourth Edition; Revised and Improved; 8vo, 1,070 pages with a two-page Goold Brown catalogue at the back; green buckram; yellow spine titles; frontispiece engraved portrait plate of the author, with guard tissue. A prodigious reference on the English language, covering every conceivable aspect of grammar and usage, plus substantial material on the origins and history of the English tongue. Divided into four sections: Orthography, Etymology, Syntax, and Prosody, plus a 138-page "Key To The Improprieties For Correction," and a substantial four-part Appendix. Very Good, spine panel moderately sunned. Pages clean, crisp, no foxing, binding tight, sound, and square, corners sharp, no ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind. Not an ex-library. A grammatical masterwork, by an indefatigable American grammarian.

First edition. R. Faulder. 1794. Royal Octavo. xvi, 183pp, + 7*, 8*. Engraved frontispiece, engraved tailpiece, engraved vignette, 54 further plates. All present, (including the rare Frontis-piss), with the exception of the Richardson censored plate. Later half calf, cloth. Spine in six, with raised banding, gilt lettering and rules. Minor rubbing/bumping to spine and corners. Shepherd Boy relaid onto larger paper.
With the bookplate of Charles Barrington Brown, geologist, explorer and author to fep. Signature of his son, C Barrington Brown, Caius Coll. Cambridge to ffep. From the library of Denis Gray, with his bookplate to ffep.

A New Edition, in Two Volumes, greatly enlarged from the Author's manuscript notes. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1818. 2 volumes. Quarto. xvii, 583pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of White Kennet, 3 further plates, two of which are folding; 526pp + indices [3X-4F2] + glossary [A-N], 6 folding engraved plates. (10 engraved plates in total, or which 8 are folding). All edges red. Contemporary full calf, spines in six compartments with gilt tooling and faded leather labels. Upper joints and hinges cracked. Upper hinges repaired with cloth tape. Boards scuffed with some surface loss. Rubbed to extremities and spines. Light foxing to the frontispiece. Internally the text and plates are formly bound, crisp, bright and clean with occasional spotting and light offsetting.
White Kennett (1660 - 1728) Vicar of Ambroseden, later Bishop of Peterborough. Antiquarian and author. "His reputation as a topographer and philologist was enhanced by his 'Parochial Antiquities attempted in the History of Ambrosden,… Read More

London: The Folk-Lore Society, 1890. Publications of the Folk-Lore Society No. XXV. Printed in Gaelic and English on facing pages. Bookplate of the Leicestershire Archaeological Society front paste down, along with small seller's label. Bookplate of noted Celtic scholar and folklorist Edgar M. Slotkin verso front end page. Very Good, slight spine lean, light wear to cloth at edges, scant toning at end pages. SCARCE in collectible condition. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

"CHRISTIE'S" 1766 TO 1925. AUCTION CATALOGUE. NICE COPY IN A RARE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. By H.C. Marrillier. Many Illustrations. Printed in Great Britain By Robert Maclehose and Co., Ltd., The University Press, Glasgow. Used. Very Good-/Good Original Dust Jacket. 7 3/4 X 10/14 X 2. 311 pages, Indexed. Large volume. Weighs 3 pounds.

London: Richard Bentley, 1856. In signed Riviere & Son binding of half red polished calf over red buckram boards, the back ornately gilt with floral decorations, marbled end papers, all edges gilt, bookplate of J. F. Holmes in sporting theme with horse rider and outdoor sporting devices. Very Good, front board broken, light wear at edges, frontispiece portrait starting to separate. . First Edition. Half Polished Calf. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

The Secret Of Chimneys (1941, John Lane/The Bodley Head 3/6 POPULAR EDITION. W/Fax DJ) Christie, Agatha. Used. Good- Condition/ New Facsimile 1st Ed. Candlestick DJ. The Secret of Chimneys, copyright 1927, 1941 3/6 Popular Edition / W New facsimile DJ. INSPECTOR BATTLE. Our copy has a couple of chocolate spots on the boards. Please see our photos. Summary: "A young drifter finds more than he bargained for when he agrees to deliver a parcel to an English country house. Little did Anthony Cade suspect that a simple errand on behalf of a friend would make him the centrepiece of a murderous international conspiracy."

Ten Little Indians Dodd, Mead Greenway Edition, Copyright 1967 by Agatha Christie Mallowan. States: First published in the Greenway Edition in the United States 1978. Number line starts with 2. Used. VERY GOOD/ VG Unclipped original bright orange fish motif dust jacket. ffp $8.95 A nice, crisp copy in a mylar wrap. DJ spine states 24. Our DJ spine is slightly sunned. "Ten Little Indians, aka And Then There Were None and (offensive language alert) Ten Little N*ggers, is a mystery novel by the English writer Agatha Christie, described by her as the most difficult of her books to write. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November, 1939 as Ten Little N-ggers, after the children's counting and minstrel song, which serves as a major plot element."

The Poison Belt. 1913 FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. By Arthur Conan Doyle. "Being an account of Another Amazing Adventure of Professor Challenger" Hodder & Stoughton/ George H. Doran. States Hodder & Stoughton on the spine. RARE. Illustrated. Red Boards with gilt titling. Gilting still bright. All 16 B&W plates, including frontis, present and affixed to binding. USED. Bright pages. Good Condition/ No DJ Included. 5 ¼ X 7 ¾. 252 pages.

The Case-book Of Sherlock Holmes. By Arthur Conan Doyle. Publisher: John Murray, 1929 Cheaper Edition. Short story anthology. Detective fiction. Used. Clean and square. Protected in a mylar wrap. Good Condition/Good- ORIGINAL DUST JACKET illustrated by J. Abby. Blue blind-stamped cloth. Toning as is typical of this edition. RARE original, White, blue and red pictorial dust-wrapper. Priced at 2/- net to the bottom right of the front panel. Back panel of the jacket lists "New volumes in Murray's Fiction Library. The 12 Titles listed there are from Beau Geste to The Black Flemings. 320pp. 4 5/8 X 7. A great find. Adventures included here are: The illustrious Client; The Blanched Soldier, The Mazarin Stone, The Three Gables, The Sussex Vampire, The Three Garridebs, The Problem of Thor Bridge, The Creeping Man, The Lion's Mane, The Veiled Lodger, Shoscombe Old Place, The Retired Colourman.

Eliot, T.S. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. First Edition, $2.50 printing thus, 1939. 3rd Printing? Harcourt Brace And Company. Used. Good Condition/ Good Dust Jacket. 45 pages. 6 3/8 X 8 7/8. RARE. About the author: "Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. Considered one of the 20th century's major poets, he is a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry. "

London: Published at the Offices of "Country Life, 1913. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio. 344, 15 pages. Hardcover bound in white quarter cloth with grey cloth covered boards. The binding is quite worn and stained but sound. Old glass rings and stains on the front cover, especially at the fore edge. The white cloth spine is foxed and the spine is toned and the spine gilt a bit dulled. A sound copy with secure hinges. Text is clean. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos. Signed on the back side of the frontis by William Lanier Hunt. William Lanier Hunt (1906-1996) was the "Dean of Southern Horticulture." He donated land along the Morgan Creek in southern Orange County, NC to the North Carolina Botanical Garden and is now known as the Hunt Arboretum.

The Poison Belt. 1913 FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. By Arthur Conan Doyle. Hodder & Stoughton/ George H. Doran. States Hodder & Stoughton on the spine. RARE. Illustrated. Red Boards with gilt titling. Gilting still bright. All 16 B&W plates, including frontis, present and affixed to binding. THE PROFESSOR CHALLENGER SERIES. "Being an account of Another Amazing Adventure of Professor Challenger. USED. Bright pages. Very Good Condition/ No DJ Included. 5 ¼ X 7 ¾. 252 pages. RARE.

H. Rider Haggard, Longmans Green & Co., London. The People of the Mist: First Edition September, 1894. Reprinted January, 1895. USED. Good+/ No DJ Included. Green boards with gold gilt titling , jagged mountains and red diamond graphic design. Spine has darkened somewhat. 5 x 7 1/2. 357 PAGES plus adverts. ADVENTURE FICTION ROMANCE. VICTORIAN NOVEL. Summary: "The People of the Mist is the tale of a British adventurer seeking wealth in the wilds of Africa, finding romance, and discovering a lost race and its monstrous god." By the author of "She" and "King Solomon's Mines".

First edition of this historic four volume set. See previous four listings (Sku 1469 - 1471) for detailed description of each volume. We are selling all four volumes at a reduced price.