Edited by E K Chambers (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Owner's name.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. No stated date c1930 - Muses Library edition (The Muses' Library of poetry was initially issued by London publisher Lawrence & Bullen in 1891, and the series ceased active publication. Routledge revived the series in 1904 and with Dutton in the US began publishing the old titles as well as new titles until the late 1930s. This book is the second volume of the poems of John Donne (c1571-1631), and includes his verse letters, epicedes and obsequies, satires, epigrams, and other works. The book is bound in the original blue cloth covered boards with gold titling and decoration on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with some shelf wear and light soiling to the boards and bumping with a little bit of damage to the top of the spine. There is a faint water stain running along the top and spine edges of the boards and down the fore edge of the front board. The contents are tight and clean with a water stain running along the top edge and down part of the fore edge of the pages and the water has caused slight wrinkling to the top corner of the pages. There is no inscription.…

hardback, 12mo, 125pp, patterned endpapers, owner's name on half-title, moderate scattered foxing, internal binding sound, gilt-decorated red morocco leather, spine rubbed, torn with some loss at spine ends, Fair condition.

1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a somewhat edge-torn, nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 502 pages. B&W illustrations. Two-column text. Subjects; Sherlock Holmes. Detective fiction. Fiction. Thriller Fiction. Crime fiction. Criminal investigation. Investigation Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. De?tectives Romans, nouvelles, etc. Enque?tes criminelles Romans, nouvelles, etc. Fiction. Private investigators. Private investigators Fiction. 1 Kg.…

1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a somewhat edge-torn, nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 502 pages. B&W illustrations. Two-column text. Subjects; Sherlock Holmes. Detective fiction. Fiction. Thriller Fiction. Crime fiction. Criminal investigation. Investigation Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. De?tectives Romans, nouvelles, etc. Enque?tes criminelles Romans, nouvelles, etc. Fiction. Private investigators. Private investigators Fiction. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Vol 1 [LII]; 316 pp; vol 2 [LXIII]; 365 pp. The Muses' Library Edition. Hardback bound in blue cloth with decorative gilt tooled pictorial motif to cover and spine. Top edges gilt, remaining page edges untrimmed, Pictorial frontispiece with tissue guards to both volumes. A little shelf wear to extremities, previous owners name to front free end-paper in an old hand (1905) else a good plus handsome set. Free from any mark's, no other inscription's, book-plate's, under lining etc. No sunning to any parts of the books (Not left in sunlight to fade).…

Condition: Poor. 2 vol set. No dustjackets. Tanning/discolouration to covers & scuffs to edges. Pages rough cut. Dark tanning to textblock edges/endpapers. Foxing to endpapers. Inscription inside front covers. Pencil/pen underlining/marks/notes.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. No signatures. Spines faded. Bindings very good with no splits to joints or hinges.; 39 volumes (complete set). Red cloth boards with gilt lettering and white decoration on spines. Gilt and white lettering and white decoration on front boards. Art nouveau design by Talwin Morris. Page dimensions: 158 x 92mm. Top page edges gilt. Character names printed in red. Introductions to each volume by E. K. Chambers. Title pages and series title pages with a similar design to that on the front boards. No illustrations. Occasional footnotes for obscure words. Imprint dates range from 1904 to 1908. The titles arranged by year of imprint and then in alphabetical order are: 1904 - The Merchant of Venice; The Tempest; 1905 - As You Like It; Henry the Fifth; King Richard II; King Richard III; Love's Labour's Lost; Macbeth; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Much Ado About Nothing; Romeo and Juliet; The Taming of the Shrew; Two Gentlemen of Verona; 1906 - Julius Caesar; King Henry IV Part I; King Henry IV Part II; King John; Measure for Measure; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Poems - Volume I; Poems - Volume II; 1907 - Antony and Cleopatra; The Comedy of Errors; Coriolanus; Cymbeline; Hamlet; King Henry VI Part I; King Henry VI Part II; King Lear; Titus Andronicus; Troilus and Cressida; Twelfth Night; 1908 - All's Well That Ends Well; King Henry VI Part III; King Henry VIII; Othello; Pericles; Timon of Athens; The Winter's Tale.…