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Whopper Bb (illus Denys Watkins-Pitchford) (Ernest Benn) London, 1967 First edition, out-of-print hardback in protected dust jacket [quite clean shelf-rubbed jacket with lightly frayed edges, abrasion affecting title lettering with small triangular loss & faded tape residue on front cover, not price-clipped, 11s 6d net], Crown octavo over 7.5x5inches, 119 pp, line-drawings illustrations by Watkins-Pitchford, clean green cloth boards with bright silver titling, very faint edge-fade & few small indents to upper board impressed through to endpapers, no owner's inscriptions, occasional light page blemish o/w textblock clean & bright, nice tight copy of this scarce very collectable item. VG/VG-. *see an actual image of this item on our website or by request. NB at time of writing we have another 54 books by BB (Denys Watkins-Pitchford) on our website & Abe. NB special rate shipping will apply. [AA 32143] £450.00 ($715.00)
Charles Dickens complete Centennial Edition in 36 volumes Heron Books [Complete Works collection] see description for titles Dickens, Charles (Heron Books) London, 1970 Centennial edition, 36 Volumes complete, matched set of out-of-print hardbacks in luxurious faux-leather sage-green Skivertex, lavish gilt tooling & scrolling, silken marker-ribbon, decorative/gilt endpapers, portrait frontis plus contemporary illustrations by Seymour and Phiz, Charles Green, Greiffenhagen, Marcus Stone, Cruikshank, Landseer, Maclise, Leech, Tenniel, Stanfield et al, with general intro & preface by J B Priestley, and with individual Intros by Eleanor Farjeon, Frederick Page, Sir Osbert & Sacheverell Sitwell, Sir John Shuckburgh, Dingle Foot, Humphrey House, Dame Sybil Thorndike, Earl of Wicklow & others, and with literary/biographical notes by eminent reviewers; with bright boards/gilt, most copies in the set are excellent and apparently unread, a v few may show only minor blemishes from shelf-wear such as edge bump, minuscule scuff, or dusty/flecked top-edge though o/w clean white pgs with clear print, but no major defects; one or two may have the spine gilt/titling rubbed or faintly dulled with time o/w this is a better than average set, VG - VG++ with many Fine copies. *see an actual image of this copy on our website or by request. NB we have another 135 books by Charles Dickens on our website & Abe. NB non-standard item for delivery, substantial shipping charge to any destination, tba; Titles include: American Notes & Pictures from Italy, Barnaby Rudge (in 2 volumes), Bleak House (in 2 volumes), Child's History of England, Christmas Books, Christmas Stories (in 2 volumes), David Copperfield (in 2 volumes), Dombey & Son (in 2 volumes), Edwin Drood & Master Humphrey's Clock, Great Expectations, Hard Times, Little Dorrit (in 2 volumes), Martin Chuzzlewit (in 2 volumes), Miscellaneous Papers (in 2 volumes), Nicholas Nickleby (in 2 volumes), Old Curiosity Shop (in 2 volumes), Oliver Twist, Our Mutual Friend (in 2 volumes), Pickwick Papers (in 2 volumes), Reprinted Pieces, Sketches by Boz (in 2 volumes), A Tale of Two Cities, & Uncommercial Traveller. [CDS 34223] £231.82 ($369.00)