First English edition of 1874, after the first French of 1873. Quarto, pp., xiv, 474, [2] of publisher’s advertisements. Plus 10 chromolithographic plates after drawings by Étienne Antoine Eugène Ronjat, with 137 further woodcuts ...

First American edition, and the first edition in English. Octavo, pp., 242, [4]. Publisher’s original terracotta cloth, titled in gilt to spine, and in blind to upper board, top edge dyed red, in the ...

First separately published edition, after a version of the account in Pratt’s Gleanings (1801). Octavo pamphlet in sheets, pp., 8. Woodcut of Covey as a double amputee to title-page. Some soiling to lower section ...

Folio, pp., [370 ], sig., π1 a-c⁴ A-2Z⁴ 3A1, plus engraved frontispiece. Collated and complete. Titled in red and black within rules. Contemporary full mottled calf, spine on six raised bands, gilt George II ...

Two imprints in two volumes, comprising a complete set of the fourth edition, which includes works not by Prior, namely Hildebrand Jacob’s notorious erotic poem ‘The Curious Maid’. Duodecimos, pp., [22], 402, [6] index ...

First edition. Octavo, pp., 431, [1], 12 of publisher’s advertisements. Publisher’s original midnight-blue cloth, titled in gilt to spine, titled in blind to upper board, in the original unclipped bright blue dust-jacket. Colour-printed ...

First edition. Octavo, pp., [4] preliminaries, xvi, 216, [4]; sig., [pi]⁴ a⁸ A-N⁸ O⁴. Engraved folding map of the Amazon river by G. N. Delahaye to end. Collated and complete. Contemporary ...

First Edition, quarto, pp, 214. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white and full-colour photographs. Publisher’s pictorial boards. The slightest of shelf-wear to corners and spine-tips. Near fine.

The first British edition (we locate no other imprint), after the first American of 1887. Stapled paperback duodecimo, pp., 32. Publisher’s original pictorial colour-printed paper wraps, advertisements to lower cover.
Small closed tear (approx ...

First edition, first printing of the cover story. Duodecimo, pp., [6], 178, plus colour-printed frontispiece and six full-page illustrated plates in McGuiness’ distinctive Modernist style within text. Original publisher’s crimson cloth, titled to paper ...

Second Edition. Landscape quarto, pp., 228. Full-colour photographs throughout. Publisher's navy blue cloth, white titles to spine and upper board, in the original pictorial dust-jacket. Very slight shelf-wear to head and foot of jacket ...

First Edition, Quarto, pp., 222. Monochrome illustrations throughout. Navy blue publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to spine, in the original pictorial dust-jacket. Slight shelf-wear to head of jacket, former price sticker to front flap ...