Kästner, Erich.

Gesammelte Schriften Band 1-7. Band 1: Gedichte, Band 2: Romane I, Band 3: Romane II, Band 4: Theater, Band 5: Vermischte Beiträge, Band 6: Romane für Kinder I, Band 7: Romane für Kinder II.

7 Bände (vollständig). Frankfurt am Main, Büchergilde Gutenberg, 1958. 20.6cm x 13.2cm. Band 1: 402 Seiten / Band 2: 294 Seiten / Band 3: 406 Seiten / Band 4: 561 Seiten / Band 5: 613 Seiten / Band 6: 509 Seiten / Band 7: 392 Seiten. Illustriert. Original Hardcover / Leinenbände mit den originalen Schutzumschlägen. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur geringen Gebrauchsspuren.

Herbert, A.P.

Half-Hours at Helles.

First Edition. Oxford, B.H. Blackwell, 1916. 19 x 13 cm. (4), 63 pages plus publisher’s list. Stiff paper wrappers. Soft covers. Deckle edges. Very good condition. Some shelf wear and age darkening. Name of previous owner on half title page. Internally clean.

Hume Nisbet [James].

Hathor and other Poems.

First Edition. London, Greening & Co., Ltd, 1905. 19 x 13 cm. xx, 331 pages plus 4 pages publishers list. With a frontispiece and vignette on title page. Inscribed by the author on the half title. NO SIGNATURE (see photo). Original white cloth with gilt titles on spine and front board. Top edge gilt. Fore and bottom edge deckle. Very good condition. Binding slightly rubbed, bumped and age darkened. Small stains on boards. Mild browning and foxing to end papers and titles. Edges and spine dust dulled. Internally bright and clean.

Howitt, William.

Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets. Illustrations by W. and G. Measom.

Second Edition. Two Volumes. London, Richard Bentley, 1847. 15 x 23.5cm. Vol. 1: 504 pages / Vol.2: 473 pages, illustrated throughout. Original green embossed cloth, hardcover with gilt lettering and tooling on spine. Some signs of wear including small slight tear to cloth at spine joint, some foxing to text and loosening of subtitle page.

Butler, Samuel.

Hudibras in Three Parts. Written in the Time of the Late Wars. With a Life of the Author, Annotations, and an Index.

London, Printed for J. Walker et al. 1809. 12.5 x 7 cm. viii, 336 pages plus 16 pages index. With a frontispiece and illustrated title page. Contemporary half leather over marbled boards. Marbled edges and end papers. Gilt title and decorations. Very good condition. Rubbed and bumped. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Ex Libris of previous owner on front paste down. Closed tear to edge of frontispiece (see image).

Anon.

Hymns for Infant Minds. By the Authors of “Original Poems”, “Rhymes for the Nursery” &c.&c.

Thirty-First Edition. London, Jackson and Walford, 1839. 14 x 9 cm. 98 pages plus two pages publishers list. Frontispiece. Quarter leather over marbled boards. Rebacked in 2023 using the original boards. New dark blue cloth spine with gilt title. New cream end papers. Very good condition. Rebacked with new spine. Sound binding. Internally dust dulled, otherwise clean and complete.

Rice, Adrian.

Impediments.

Northern Ireland, Abbey Press, 1998. 22.3cm x 14.4cm. 30 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by the author.

Holland, J.G (Josiah Gilbert).

Kathrina Her Life and Mine in a Poem.

New York, Charles Scribner & Company, 1869. 17 x 23 cm, xii, 281 pages. B&W Illustrations by W.J.Hennessy and C.C. Linton, engraved by W.J. Linton. Original gree cloth with elaborate gilt decorations on boards and spine. All edges gilt. Very good condition. Spine darkened. Corners and spine bumped and rubbed. Small tear near the hing of the title page. Textblock bright and clean.

Downey, Edmund (Editor) / Walker, Francis S. (Artwork).

Killarney’s Lakes and Fells. Twelve Mezzotint Engravings by Francis S. Walker. Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter Etchers; Member of the Royal Hibernian Academy. With some Accounts of Killarney, its Legends and its Poems. Edited by Edmund Downey.

First Edition. Ordinary Edition, printed on India paper by Gilbert & Rivington. London, Downey & Co., 1902. 27 x 37 cm (oblong). (4) [Title / TOC], 120 pages plus 12 Mezzotint Engravings, as called for. Original boards, rebacked in 2024 with new cloth spine. Original green moire cloth boards with gilt title across fron board. New black end papers. Good condition. Binding rubbed, bumped, and damp damaged (see images). Half-title and first title page chipped on side edges; light chipping to edges of feps and pages. Internally dust dulled with light ink smudging from plates to opposite pages. Most pages show mild damp staining to the bottom edge, not affecting the text or the actual angravings. Despite the wear; still an impressive book with wonderful illustrations.

Poliziano, Angelo.

L’elegantissime stanze di Messer Angelo Poliziano & La Favola Di Orfeo, e ridotta ora la prima volta alla sua vera e sincera lezione. incominciate per la giostra del Magnifico Giuliano di Piero de’ Medici; le quali vengono allegate come testo di lingua dagli accademici della Crusca nel loro vocabolario; Ridotte ora col riscontro di varie antiche edizioni alla loro vera lezione; e accresciute d’una canzone, e di varie notizie. Edizione II padovana.

In Padova, Appresso Guiseppe Comino, 1751 & 1749. 19 x 13 cm. xliv, 58, 24 & 8 pages. Small vignettes and illustrations. Contemporary cardboard wrappers. Handwritten titles on Spine. See images. Deckle edges. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear and dust dulling. Internally bright and clean. A lovely item.