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HARROW SCHOOL 1855.57. 1858.60. [Two volumes].
Harrow.Crossley and Clarke Booksellers. 1858-1860. Six volumes of school lists bound into two with a seperate title per term. Volume I; 40pp., 40pp., 40pp., 36pp, 35pp., 34pp.,34pp.,34pp., Volume II; 39pp., 39pp., 38pp., 38pp., 38pp.,38pp.,39pp.,40pp. half calf decorative gilt with red lettering-piece, over marbled boards. 10 x 8cms. Ownership stamp of contemporary pupil to front free endpapers of both volumes. 1855 -57 volume has some annotation throughout. Some light browning to pages of both volumes, minor rubbing to boards, and light shelf wear to bottom edges; else, a handsome pair.
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HEY NONNY YES. Passions and Conceits from Shakespeare. Assembled by Hállam Fordham. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
London: The Saturn Press, 1947. Hardcover. Pictorial dust-wrapper. First edition. A near fine copy.
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HISTORY OF BRITISH COSTUME. The Library of Entertaining Knowledge.
London: Charles Knight, 1834. Hardcover. 376 pages. Illustrated throughout with engravings. Original cloth gilt. 17 x 11 cm. Binding a little faded; some spotting in the blank margin of one signature; name on endpaper; couple of pages with crease-marks; else a very good copy.
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HOUNDS OF FRANCE Disciples of Diana. Illustrated by Maria Ericson with drawings from life, including 8 pages in full colour.
Hindhead. Saiga Publishing Co. Ltd, 1979. Hardback in unclipped pictorial dust-wrapper. 4to. A near fine copy in a like dust-wrapper.
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HOW TO STOCK YOUR A.R.P. LARDER. One Week's Emergency Food Store chosen by the British Medical Journal.
London: British Medical Association, No date [1939]. Softcover. 12 pages. Original printed wrappers. Octavo. Hole punched through top left-hand corner throughout; covers a little dust-soiled; else very good.
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HUNDERT SENTENZEN vom seligen Lavater
Basel: Felix Schneider, 1827. Mounted decorative title printed in black on green paper; [206]pp. Bound, probably late 19th/early 20th century in full calf gilt; title on spine: ‘HUNDERT SENTENZEN.’ All edges yellow. Oblong: 35 x 84 mm’s. Some rubbing to leather on front joint; else a very good copy.
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IN SEARCH OF JAMES GILES.
Wingham: Micawber Publications, 1983. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First edition. As new - mint.
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IN SEARCH OF JAMES GILES (1718-1780)
Wingham, Kent: Micawber Publications, 1983. [i-iv] v-xiv 1-280pp. 23 colour plates, including frontispiece; plus 72 b/w plates. Full calf, gilt. In tan cloth slipcase. Octavo. Limited edition number 145 of 250 copies bound in leather. A fine copy.
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INFANTINE COMPLAINTS; or, rather, Complaints of Infants, and hints to Mothers.
London: Dickinson and Son, 1842. Hardcover. Title; 2 pages of letterpress introduction, followed by twelve full-page tinted lithographic plates each with a leaf of letterpress description, like the plates, printed on one side only. Original cloth gilt. Oblong: 14.5 x 22 cm. First edition. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on title: 'Augusta S. Keate March 2nd 1843 Lady Herries.' Some light foxing; binding splitting at spine and chipped at head; else a very good copy.
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IRONS IN THE FIRE A History of Cooking Equipment.
Marlborough. The Crowood Press, 1984. Hardback price-clipped dust-wrapper. Tiny chip at head of spine of wrapper; else a fine copy.
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ISLAMIC BOOKBINDINGS in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
World of Islam Festival Trust in association with The Victoria and Albert Museum, 1983. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First edition. 4to. A near fine copy in a like wrapper. This book is heavy and may incur extra postal charges. Please contact us directly for a shipping quote.
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KEEDLE. Text by Deirdre and William Conselman, Jr. Drawings by Fred L. Fox.
New York: Hillman-Curl, Inc, 1940. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. [56] pages. Illustrated throughout in colour. Original pictorial boards; original pictorial dust-wrapper. 26 x 22 cm. First edition. Wrapper a little soiled and rubbed; else a very good copy of this satire of Hitler.
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L. ANNAEI SENECAE Philosophi Opera omnia (2 vols), et M ANNAEI SENECAE Rhetoris (1 vol)
Amsterdam: Guiljelmum L Caesium, 1628. 3 volumes. first volume with engraved pictorial title; second, a continuation of the first, so no title; continuous numbering through the two; 609, [1], pages. Third volume, title with engraved vignette;221, [7] pages. Contemporary full vellum with red gilt labels to spines. Names on endpapers. A very good set.
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L. ANNAEUS FLORUS
Lugduni Batavorum: Elzevir, 1638. Engraved title-page + [6], 336, [16] pages. Sixteen mo. Recently re-bound in full calf gilt. A very handsome, clean copy. First Elzevir edition, first issue, of this Roman history edited by Claudius Salamasius.
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LAKELAND WORDS. A collection of Dialect Words and Phrases, as used in Cumberland and Westmorland, with illustrative sentences in the North Westmorland dialect. With preface by Professor Joseph Wright, M. A., Ph.D. Oxford.
Kendal.T. Wilson. 1898. xiv, [2],168pp. Original buckram. First edition. Hinges cracked; else an excellent copy.
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LAWRENCE AND BRETT A Friendship.
London. Martin Secker, 1933. 288 pages. Colour portrait frontispiece, and 8 full-page black and white plates. Original cloth, gilt. No dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. A very good copy. Signed by Catherine Carswell on the front endpaper.
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LAWRENCE DURRELL: THE MINDSCAPE.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. Hardback in pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. A near mint copy in a like dust-wrapper.
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LE DÉSACCORD CONJUGAL d'ordre intime.
Paris. Les Editions Modernes: No date [1920's/]. 32 pages. French text. Original pink pictorial wrappers. Completely loose. Wrapper edges and head of spine a little worn and frayed; else a good clean copy.
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[LE MORTE DARTHUR]. The Birth Life and Acts of King Arthur of his Knoble Knight of the Round Table their marvellous enquests and adventures, the achieving of the San Greal and in the end le Morte D'Arthur with the dolourous death and departing out of this world of them all. The text as written by Sir Thomas Malory and printed by William Caxton at Westminster the year 1485, and now spelled in modern style. With an introduction by Professor Rhys and embellished with many original designa by Aubrey Beardsley.
London: E. P. Dent, 1909. Edition limited to 1000 copies for the U.K. and 500 copies for America. 4to. 351 different designs by Beardsley including ten additional chapter headings inadvertently omitted from the first edition, 20 full or double page illustrations, 240 chapter headings, 43 borders, 25 initial letters, 19 small ornaments and 4 headpieces, pages lix, 624, including General Glossary. Recently bound in half morocco, gilt over marbled boards. Some very occasional spotting; else a very good copy in a handsome binding.
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LE VIN DE BORGOGNE (La Côte-d'or). Troisième Édition.
Dijon. Louis Damidot, 1948. Xv, [1], 350[351] pages. Illustrated with colour plates and in black & white. Original pictorial wrappers. The entire work bound in brown buckram with a black and gilt label to the spine. Some foxing to the endpapers of the new binding and to the rear cover of the original soft-cover book; couple of short marginal tears; else a very good copy.
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