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[The King Penguin series, complete in 76 volumes, comprising:] British Birds on Lake, River & Stream; A Book of Roses; A Book of Ships; Portraits of Christ; Caricature; British Shells; Fashions and Fashion Plates 1800-1900; Elizabethan Miniatures; The Microcosm of London by T Rowlandson & A C Pugin; The Bayeux Tapestry; Fishes of Britain's Rivers and Lakes; The Poet's Corner; Edible Fungi; A Book of Lilies; Seashore Life and Pattern; Children as Artists; The Leaves of Southwell; Some British Moths; Garden Birds; English Ballet; Popular Art in Britain; Heraldry in England; Poisonous Fungi; Birds of the Sea; Ur : The First Phases; A Book of Toys; Flowers of Marsh and Stream; A History of English Clocks; Flowers of the Woods; A Selection of Engravings on Wood by Thomas Bewick; English Book Illustration 1800-1900; A Christmas Carol; Russian Icons; The English Tradition in Design; A Book of Spiders; Ballooning; Wild Flowers of the Chalk; Compliments of the Season; Woodcuts of Albrecht Durer; Edward Gordon Craig Designs for the Theatre; British Butterflies; British Military Uniforms; A Prospect of Wales; Tulipomania; Unknown Westminster Abbey; Highland Dress; British Reptiles and Amphibia; A Book of Scripts; Some British Beetles; Popular Art in the United States; Life in an English Village; The Isle of Wight; Flowers of the Meadow; Greek Terracottas; Romney Marsh; Early British Railways; A Book of Mosses; A Book of Ducks; Ackermann's Cambridge; The Crown Jewels; An Atlas of Tudor England and Wales; Medieval Carvings in Exeter Cathedral; A Book of Greek Coins; Magic Books from Mexico; Semi-Precious Stones; Birds of La Plata; Mountain Birds; Animals in Staffordshire Pottery; Ackermann's Oxford; The Diverting History of John Gilpin; Egyptian Paintings; Misericords: Medieval Life in English Woodcarving; The Picture of Cricket; Woodland Birds; Monumental Brasses; The Sculpture of the Parthenon
London: Penguin Books [through 1959], 1939.

All First Editions in about Fine condition (with a few exceptions, for the most limited to the early issues, then about Near Fine), complete with all dust jackets issued, each volume individually selected as an exemplary example. 1. British Birds on Lake, River & Stream (1939), Phyllis Barclay-Smith; 16 color... more

Price: $2,650.00

London: Michael Joseph [through 1960], 1958.

Three First Impressions, in the correct handsome Broom-Lynne dust jackets, all in collectible condition. 8vo's; 158; 159, [1]; 157, [1]pp. Darling Buds (1958): Publisher's scarlet cloth, the spine stamped gilt; in a pictorial jacket priced 12s/6d. Extremely good, the spine slightly faded, the top edge dust-soiled, with offsetting to the... more

Price: $385.00

New York: Simon & Schuster [through 1973], 1971.

First Trade Editions. 8vo's: [8], 9-288; [8], 9-317, [1]; [4], 5-315, [1]pp. All three books and dust jackets with correct first printing points, all in Fine condition. Teachings of Don Juan: Publisher's claret-colored cloth, the spine and upper board stamped gilt, with speckled end papers; in a pictorial dust jacket... more

Price: $485.00

New York: Random House [through 1959], 1940.

A superb set of Faulkner's masterly trilogy. First Printings (so stated). 8vo; [8], 421, with the brilliant pictorial title page; [8], 372; [12], 436pp. The Hamlet: About Fine (apparently unread) publisher's black cloth, tight and square, lettered in gilt (slightly dulled) and ruled in red on the spine and upper... more

Price: $2,265.00

New York: Pantheon [through 1988], 1985.

First American Editions (so stated). Oversized 8vo's: xvii, [3], 293, [3]; xvi, [2], 276, [4]; xviii, 301, [1]pp. Three volumes of a trilogy that the New Yorker calls "nothing less than a unified history of the Western Hemisphere . . . recounted in vivid prose." Translated by Celdric Belfrage. Genesis... more

Price: $215.00

New York: Pantheon [Harcourt, Brace & World, through 1965], 1961.

First Printings of the first American editions, with matching dust jackets illustrated with drawings by the author. All translated from the German by Ralph Manheim. 8vo's; 592; 190; 570pp. The Thin Drum (Pantheon, 1961): Publisher's finely woven red cloth, the upper boarded stamped with a device of the "tin" drummer,... more

Price: $1,385.00

New York: [through 1983].

Three First Printings, all in highly collectible condition. 8vo's; 317, [1]; [12], 282; [12], 227, [1]pp. Legs (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1975): Publisher's cream paper-covered boards and black cloth spine stamped gilt, with decorative end papers; in a pictorial dust jacket priced $8.95. Fine and apparently unread with one bumped... more

Price: $535.00

New York: Alfred A. Knopf [through 1998], 1992.

First Editions (so stated). 8vo's; [8], 302; [6], 426; [6], 296pp. All bound in publisher's quarter black cloth with black paper-covered boards; titles to spines gilt, the author's gilt monogram on the upper covers; the second and third books in the series with top edges stained, respectively, dusty rose and... more

Price: $485.00

London: Secker & Warburg [through 1960], 1953.

The author's 3-volume literary landmark (the fourth volume, unfinished at Musil's death, was not published in English until 1996). Here offered: three First Impressions (no additional printings noted), uniformly bound in the publisher's green cloth, with spines stamped in gilt and brown title blocks, in typographic dust jackets, all in... more

Price: $865.00

Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1883.

"Complete EAP Edition," edited by John H. Ingram. Third Edition, in four volumes: Memoir & Tales; Tales continued; Poems and essays; Autobiography, criticism, and index. 8vo: xcix,[1],513,[1], with portrait frontispiece, two manuscript facsimiles (one double-page) and two further text illustrations; vi,569,[1], with frontispiece illustration for Pym and title-page vignette; vi,[2],517,[1];... more

Price: $685.00

London: printed for J. Dodsley, Pall Mall, M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786].

Complete in four volumes, with an additional fifth volume, A Catalogue Of Engravers: vols. 1, 2 and 3 are the 'fourth edition, with additions,' vol. 4, a third edition, issued the same year; vol. 5, a second edition. Small 8vo's, uniformly rebound: [4], xiv, [2], 288 (p .27 misnumbered 72,... more

Price: $585.00