English Literature from OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994)

New York: The Limited Editions Club [Spiral Press], 1941. Edited by G. B. Harrison. Illustrated by 29 tipped-in water colors by William Blake (collated). Limited edition. c.1678. Copy 953/1500. Full green leather, decorated gilt, moire endpapers, marking ribbon, aeg. 4to. pp. xxxii, [2], 213. Fine/No jacket, as issued/Very Good+. Light wear to slipcase opening edges; slight sun line to spine… Read more about this item

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1979. Illustrated by 12 water colors by William Blake. First thus edition. c.1678. The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written, Limited Edition. Full green leather, decorated gilt, moire endpapers, marking ribbon, aeg. 8vo. pp. xv, [1] blank, 189, conclusion, [7] blank. Fine/No jacket, as issued. Gift copy. Bunyan wrote this epic Christian allegory from prison because… Read more about this item

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, n.d. Illustrated by Color frontis and green illustrated end papers. First thus edition. c.1678 part I; c.1684 part II. Lime green cloth with navy print and decoration. 8vo. pp. 350, [4] Ads. Very Good/In like jacket/No price in mylar. The Children's Favorite Stories for Boys and Girls of Every Age Series. Color mottling to topboard:… Read more about this item

Westminster and Philadelphia: Archibald Constable and J.B. Lippincott (Butler & Tanner The Selwood Printing, London), n.d. Illustrated by Color lithography tissue frontis and 1-2 addition plates per volume by various authors. c.1900 from one dated lithograph. 20 volumes. Original ribbed burgundy cloth, gilt pr & dec spines, uncut and unopened, t.e.g. navy marking ribbons, green border eps, thick paper issue.… Read more about this item

Norwalk, CT: Heritage Press, (1965). Illustrated by John Austen. Second thus edition. c.1937. Blue cloth, gilt print spine, cream unprinted paper covered slipcase. 8vo (23,5cm). pp. xvi, 821. As New/No jacket, as issued/In like slipcase. Copy of Heritage Club Sandglass on featured title (4 pages, as new) laid in. How this book came to be by John T. Winterich..

New York: Charles Scribner, 1864. [early American] edition. Quarter leather over marbled boards, eps and fore-edges, 4 raised bands. Medium 8vo. pp. xix, 620, [4] blank. Very Good. Caps, edges and corners worn and starting to chip, foxing starting. Solid copy seeking volume 2; 1861 author preface..

New York: Harper & Row, 1973. Illustrated by B/W photographs. First US edition. Red cloth. 8vo. pp. 250. Very Good/In like jacket/Clipped price in mylar. Light soil back panel, edgewear, closed tear..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. Illustrated by Tissue port frontis and plates. Works edition. Red cloth, decorated spine, uncut, teg. 8vo. pp. 358. Near Fine/No jacket, as issued. Minor cover wear..

New York: Doubleday, McClure , 1898. Illustrated by 8 b/w plates, line drawings. First American edition. Green embossed cloth decorated black, gilt print, t.e.g., uncut. 8vo. pp. [xii], 431. VG+/No jacket, as issued/In mylar protector. Cap and joint rubbing, hinges starting, pages and plates fine..

Boston: Joseph Knight, n.d. Illustrated by Tissue frontis and 9 plates, H. Pille etchings by L. Monzies with tissue guards. Reprint edition. (c.1807 London two volumes). Vellum backed silk covered boards, teg, uncut. 16mo (16cm). pp. [iv], 388. Good/No jacket, as issued. Edgeworn and soiled boards, owner bookplate, (ink gift inscription, 1892). Volume 2 of 2 only..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons (Trow's), 1924. Illustrated by Color cover, title and 9 plates by N.C. Wyeth. Later edition. (c.1920). Black cloth, color paste-down topboard. Cr.4to. pp. [ii], 502, [2] Ads. Appendix, Index. VG-/No jacket. Dull and lightly mottled cover with VG paste-down, internally VG, foxing starting and separated publisher's misglue at rear ep and pastedown edge..

Boston: Dana Estes & Co, n.d. Illustrated by Frontis with captioned tissues and plates. ca. early 1900's. 8 volumes. Half brown morocco, marbled boards and end papers, gilt decorated and stamped spine, teg. Large Post 8vo. Very Good. Pencil gift inscription 1910 volume one. Head chipping to two volumes, spine chipping at titles to three volumes (one title not readable),… Read more about this item

Boston: Estes and Lauriat (University Press), n.d (ca. 1870). Illustrated by each volume with b/w tissue frontis and 15 additional plates. (from the 20 volume) Handy Volume edition. 6 volumes. Burgundy marbled boards, endpapers and edges, half burdundy morocco with five raised bands, gilt tooled and stamped spine. Cr.8vo. pp. 392; 391; 457; 443; 404; 414. Near Fine/No jacket,… Read more about this item

Boston: Jordan, Marsh & Co. (Beewick & Smith), 1887. Illustrated by 214 drawings in text by the author, Richard Doyle, Mrs. Butler, George Du Maurier, John Collier, H. Furniss, G.G. Kilburne, M. Fitzgerald, J.P. Atkinson and W.J. Webb. Reprint edition. c.1849 London, c.1869 Tauchnitz and Smith, Elder, c.1887 Worthington Co., NY (with 118 illustrations). Olive silk, decorated black, printed gilt… Read more about this item

Chicago & New York: Rand McNally, n.d. Reprint edition. c.1847-8 London: Bradbury & Evans (wraps in 20/19 parts). Red buckram, gilt print and decoration, uncut, teg. (misspelled "Thackery" on topboard and spine). 8vo. pp. vi, 668. VG. Sunned and soiled spine, faint areas of fading to boards, internally fine reading copy..

New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. Illustrated by Warren Chappell. First thus edition. c.1726. (from the text based on the 1735 Edition). Quarter cloth. 8vo. pp. xxxii, 300. Fine/VG+/No price in mylar. Several short closed tears, some rubbing. Introduction by Jacques Barzun..

London: Thomas Nelson, 1906. Illustrated by b/w tissue frontis and 3 plates. (c.1823) . Limp full leather, gilt dec spine and topboard emblem, marbled eps, india paper, marking ribbon, a.e.g. 16mo. pp. xv, [1], 556. Notes. Near Fine/No jacket, as issued. Traces of cap and corner rubbing, internally fine..

Boston: Desmond Publishing Co, 1900. Illustrated by Frontis. Reprint edition. Red cloth, deorated and printed gilt, uncut, t.e.g. 12mo. pp. [vi], 333. VG. Sunned spine..

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1852. Assumed first thus (American) edition. [Note: vol. I has 82 Cliff Street, vols. II-IV have 329-331 Pearl Street addresses, copyright pages blank]. 4 volumes. Original dark olive blind-stamped, gilt cap decorations and topboard emblem, original yellow eps. Cr. 8vo. pp. [iv] blank, xiv, 9-350, [6] blank. Appendix; [ii] blank, xiv, 13-317, [7] blank.… Read more about this item

London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, 1921. Illustrated by b/w line drawings on chapter heading pages. First edition. Blue cloth printed red. 12mo. pp. 223. VG/No jacket. Rubbed boards, dulled spine, ep. foxing starting, heel crushing. (Introduction by Walter Dadus Pollacke on the acquisition of the journals)..