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THE WILLIAM COMPANION. With David Shute and contributions from Kenneth C. Walter.
London: Macmillan, 1990. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. Quarto. First edition. Spine of wrapper a little faded; else a fine copy.
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THE WISE WOMAN. A Parable.
London: Strahan & Co, 1875. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 222pp. Original decorative cloth gilt. Octavo. First edition. Re-backed, with the original spine laid down, but with some loss at head and foot of spine; some foxing throughout. Contained in a folding decorative calf-backed gilt box with star decoration to the spine. Inscribed at the head of the title-page: ‘Irene MacDonald from her father. Christmas 1875.’ Loosely laid in is a carte-de-visite of MacDonald, by Elliott & Fry, dated in pencil ‘Feb. 8 1873’. A very difficult title to locate, though sub-titled ‘a parable’, it is in fact a fairy story. This is the first copy we have handled. Shaberman 54. First issued in the United States under the title, A Double Story (1876). Re-issued in London in 1895 as The Lost Princess.
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THE WOMAN'S KINGDOM. By the author of "John Halifax, Gentleman." Copyright edition. In two volumes. Vol's 983 & 984.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1868. 310; 296 pages. Both half-titles present. Bound as one volume in quarter calf gilt over marbled boards. Spine a little rubbed at head & heel; some light browning; else a very good, clean copy.
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THE WOODMAN, a comic opera, in three acts; as performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden, with universal applause.
London: T. Cadell, 1791. [viii], 94pp. Engraved pictorial half-title. Unbound as issued. Octavo. Third edition. Front and back pages a trifle grubby; some page turning to corners; fore-edges uncut also with some turning; ownership inscription on both front and back pages; else a good copy.
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THE WORKS OF ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Poet Laureate.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1887. 640 pages. Bound in full calf with a nicely panelled spine with gilt decoration. Octavo. Some light foxing at start, else a very good copy.
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THE WORKS OF ARTHUR CLEMENT HILTON (of Marlborough & Cambridge) Author of “The Light Green” together with his Life and Letters.
Cambridge: Macmillan and Bowes, 1904. ix, [3], 219 pages. Two illustrations. Original green cloth with black lettering and decoration. Octavo. Carte-de-visite of his grave mounted on blank recto of frontispiece. Notes on endpapers and a gift inscription on the half-title; bookplates; else very good. Has a chapter on Sandwich, Kent. Scarce.
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THE WORKS OF MR. JOHN DRYDEN. The Third Volume. Consisting of the Author's Original Poems and Translations. No first Publish'd together.
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THE WORLD CRISIS [Volume 5] The Aftermath.
London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1929. 474 pages. Original cloth gilt. Octavo. First edition. Few light spots and start and end; else a very good copy.
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The World in Miniature. South Sea Islands. Being a Description of the Manners, Customs, Character, Religion and State of Society Among the Various Tribes Scattered over the Great Ocean, called the Pacific, or the South Sea.
Volume I only. xvi, 320 pages. Illustrated with 11 hand-coloured plates as called for. Contemporary half-morocco gilt. Head of spine pulled and worn; frontispiece offset onto title; else very good.
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THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. Illustrated.
London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh, 1887. [32] pages. Illustrated in black & white throughout. Original decorative embossed leather with gold thread securing the spine. Some spotting on endpapers; else a very good, clean copy in an unusual, Japanese inspired, binding.
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THE YOUNG ARDIZZONE An autobiographical fragment.
London. Studio Vista, 1970. Hardback in unclipped dust-wrapper. First edition. A fine copy in a like dust-wrapper.
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THE YOUNG PHILOSOPHER; A Novel.
London: T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1798. Four volumes. viii, 274; [ii], 278; [ii], 284; [ii], 400, pages. Contemporary half calf gilt over marbled boards. 12mo. First edition. Some old corner creases; bindings a little rubbed and worn; else a very good, clean set of Smith’s last novel in which her principle protagonist the ‘philosopher’ Delmont abandons class-bound and restrictive England for the freedoms offered in egalitarian America.
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Thematic Index of the Works of François Couperin. Together with, François Couperin by Paul Brunold. Translated from the French by J.B. Hanson. Same publishing details.
Monaco: The Lyrebird Press, 1949. Two Volumes. Softcovers. 133; 75, [2] pages. Original printed covers. The pair contained in the original slipcase with paper label to spine. Some foxing at start and end of both volumes; the covers of the second volume are spotted also; ownership name and date on verso of both covers. Else very good.
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THIRTY VIEWS OF TUNBRIDGE WELLS. Price 1/-.
Published by R. Pelton., the Parade and Broadway, No date. Thirty steel-engraved views. Original cloth gilt. Oblong: 125 x 180 mm. Slight water-damage to the outer blank margins of the plates, but not visible from the front; else very good.
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THOMAS MIDDLETON An Annotated Bibliography.
New York: Garland Publishing Inc, 1985. 138 pages. Original green gilt. Octavo. First edition. A fine copy. Review Slip laid in.
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THOMAS SIDNEY COOPER, C.V.O., R.A. 81803-1902.
Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, publishers, Limited, 1976. Hardcover. Pictorial dust-wrapper. Edition limited to 500 copies. Tipped-in colour frontispiece; black & white plates at end. A fine copy.
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THOUGHTS OF A HANGMAN. Woodcuts by Bill Hamper aka Billy Childish.
London: The Aquarium, 2006. ISBN 18711894085 218 pages. Illustrated throughout. Original pictorial orange boards. 30.5 x 21.2 cm. First edition. A near fine copy.
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THOUGHTS ON BEING; suggested by meditation upon the infinite, the immaterial, and the eternal.
London.Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 1850. xv, [i], [1], 2-301pp.+ 32pp. cat'. Original blind-stamped cloth gilt. First edition. Head of spine a little worn with a short tear [5mm]; else a very good copy
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THREE LETTERS, containing Remarks On some of the numberless errors and Defects in Dugdale's Baronage: And occasionally on some other Authors.
London: Printed for the Author, 1738. 250 pages. Folding plate. Bound in later [19th century] half green calf over boards. Small 4to. 19 x 11.7 cm. residue to inner joint of title, possibly from old wrappers; very slightly cropped at top edge, just affecting the first few leaves; binding rubbed and a little stained; but a very good copy nonetheless.
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THREE LETTERS FROM THE ANDES.
London: John Murray, 1991. Hardback in the original dust-wrapper (not price-clipped). First edition. As new. Mounted on the front free endpaper is a sheet of Fermor’s headed notepaper bearing a gift inscription, set within his customary cloud surrounded by birds, to Colin Seymour Ure, and signed in full. There is also a small correction on the rear inner flap of the wrapper, where the word ‘Life’ and been changed in biro to ‘Irish’.
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