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PERVERSE AND FOOLISH A Memoir of Childhood and Youth.
London.The Bodley Head. 1979. 139pp. Illustrated with reproductions of black and white photographs throughout the text. Original green boards, gilt. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Signed on the half-title by the author; 'Yours Sincerely Lucy M. Boston.' A fine copy in a like wrapper.
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PORTRAIT OF A GENIUS, BUT… (The Life of D. H. Lawrence, 1885-1930).
London. William Heinemann Ltd, 1950. Hardback in original unclipped dust-wrapper. Octavo. Wrapper states this is the 8s6d 'Cheap Edition.' A fine copy in a like wrapper.
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RANDOLPH CALDECOTT: A Personal Memoir of his early art career. With one hundred and seventy-two illustrations.
London.Sampson Low, Martson, Searle, & Rivington. 1886. xvi, 216pp. 172 black & white illustrations including frontispiece. Original publisher's cloth gilt. t.e.g. Large quarto paper edition. Some browning to endpapers, and occasional spotting to interior. Boards a trifle rubbed, some very slight wear to spine edges and corners, with light bumping to head and heel of spine. Very slight chipping to fore-edges to first few pages; else, a very good copy of the large paper issue.
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Reminiscences and Notes of Seventy Years' LIFE, TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE; Military and Civil; Scientific and Literary. Vol. II Civil Service in Sheerness and Chatham Dockyards. Home and Foreign Travel.
London: Elliot Stock, 1895. Hardcover. Volume II only, relating primarily to Kent. viii, 571, [1], 16 index, [2 ad's] pages. Original two-tone cloth, gilt. Octavo. First edition. Both inner joints cracked; a large number of pages unopened; name and date on endpaper; light water-staining to the very top of the front endpapers. A very good copy, nevertheless, of volume II only. Scarce. This book is heavy and will incur extra postal charges; please contact us directly for a shipping quote. info@davidmilesbooks.com
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REMINISCENCES OF A HIGHWAY SURVEYOR 1886 – 1932. By H. T. Chapman… County Surveyor of Kent.
Maidstone: Albaster, Passmore & Sons., Ltd, 1932. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 148 pages. Illustrated throughout. Original pictorial cloth, gilt. 4to. First edition. Presentation copy with an inscription to Bri. Gen. D'Arcy Legard from the author, with two letter loosely laid in to the General concerning the book and fund-raising. Gilt on spine dulled; else a very good copy.
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REMINISCENCES OF MY FATHER By Charles Dickens the eldest son on the great novelist. Supplement to the Christmas Windsor.
London: Ward, Lock & Co, 1934. 32 pages, including pictorial wrappers. Illustrated. A fine copy.
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RENE HAGUE A Personal Memoir.
Upton: Aylesford Press, 1989. 59, [3]pp. Illustrated with 5 reproductions of photographs and a 2 page reproduction of a letter. Original cloth-backed paper-covered boards with paper labels to the spine. Octavo. Number 11 of a De-luxe edition of 40 copies signed by Barbara Wall. A fine copy.
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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON A BOOKMAN EXTRA NUMBER 1913.
London.Hodder & Stoughton. 1913. xi, i-x,11-208pp. Profusely illustrated in colour & black & white throughout. Original limp hessian cloth cover, with mounted portrait to front cover. Loosely inserted advertising leaflet for Stevenson's 'Edinburgh Days'. Some slight edge wear to covers and a small inoffensive stain to front cover; else a very good copy.
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RODEN NOEL 1834 -1894 A Wide Angle… A background to Noel's life and work, featuring his poetry, his philosophy, correspondence with Tennyson, Browning, Hardy, and others, plus reminiscences of Noel's son, Conrad, the 'rebel priest' of Thaxted. Compiled and presented by Desmond Heath with a Foreword by Isobel Armstrong.
London.DB Books, 1834. xiv, 281pp. Illustrated. Original boards, gilt. Dust-wrapper. Large octavo. First edition. Number 79 of a limited edition of 250 copies. A fine copy. Signed by the author on the half-title; together with a loosely laid in ALS from the author concerning the book, and another ALS relating to the book.
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ROSENBACH A Biography.
Cleveland & New York.The World Publishing Company 1960. [1-5], 6-616, [2]pp. 16 pages of black & white photographs and illustrations after p288, plus frontispiece portrait. Original publishers cloth gilt. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed ; ' To Phyllis Calvert with love and admiration for a fellow bookman John Fleming Nov 22 1960'. Bookplate to paste-down endpaper. Front hinge a little weak. Minor browning to fore-edges. Else a very good copy.
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SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF CHARLES, SECOND EARLY GREY.
London: Richard Bentley, 1861. xii, 460 pages. Original cloth. Octavo. First edition. Cloth faded at spine and worn at head with a small split to the upper joint. Bookplates. Embossed ownership stamp to title-page. A good plus copy.
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THE AWAKENING OF THE LAURENTIANS. A Fabulous Woman… Lucile Wheeler… and her Family who made the Laurentians Famous.
New York: Vantage Press, 1958. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First edition. Wrapper a little worn and chipped etc., with a small tape repair to the rear panel; else a very good copy. Signed by the author, as Frances Wheeler Thompson, on the title.
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THE DIARY OF HENRY TEONGE, Chaplain on board his Majesty’s ships Assistance, Bristol, and Royal Oak, anno 1675 to 1679. Now first published from the original ms, with biographical and historical notes.
London: Printed for Charles Knight, 1825. xviii, [2], 327[328]pp. Engraved title-page with vignette; folding frontispiece. Contemporary quarter morocco over pebbled cloth. Octavo. First edition. Bookplate; calling card on The Venerable Austin Oakley, British Embassy Istanbul Turkey, on front free endpaper; library number on both engraved and letterpress titles. Previous owner's note of Robert Lemon on letterpress title; spine a little rubbed; two cancellation stamps on blank recto of frontispiece; else a very good copy.
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THE DURRELL-MILLER LETTERS 1935-80.
London: Faber and Faber, 1988. Hardback in original unclipped pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. A fine copy in a like wrapper.
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THE LETTERS OF ROBERT BLAKE Together with Supplementary Documents.
Navy Records Society, 1937. Hardback in two colour buckram, gilt. Octavo. First edition. Bookplate; white cloth a little marked; else a very good copy.
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THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF BAMPFLYDE-MOORE CAREW, Commonly called the King of the Beggars. Being an impartial account of his Life, from his leaving Tiverton School, at the age of fifteen, and entering into a Society of Gypsies; wherein the motives of his conduct are related and explained: The great number of Characters and Shapes he has appeared in through Great-Britain, Ireland and several other Places of Europe: with is travels twice through great part of America:
Derby. Henry Mozley. No date [circa 1820]. containing a particular account of the Origin, Government, Laws, and Customs, of the Gipsies, with the method of electing their King. And a dictionary of the Cant language used by mendicants. 159, [1 blank], [9] pages. Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece. Original printed paper-covered boards. 12mo. Lacks endpapers; cracked at front inner joint and holding on strings, though firm; head and heel of spine a little chipped; front board water-marked at outer edge; else a very good good copy. Quite scarce in the original printed boards.
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THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JAMES BONNELL Esq; Late Accomtant General of Ireland. To which is Added the Sermon Preach'd at his Funeral by Edward Lord Bishop of Killmore and Ardagh. The Life by William Hamilton, A.M. Archdeacon of Armagh.
Dublin: Printed by and for Jo. Ray, and are to be Sold at his Shop in Skinner-Row, opposite to the Tholsel, 1703. Hardcover. Two folding plates at front; [2], xxvi, 272, [2], v, [1], 31, [1] pages. 'Errata' pasted to first blank at rear. Contemporary full panelled calf, without title-label. Octavo. First edition. Some small loss of leather to the panels; else a very good, clean copy. The first edition is scarce.
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THE LIFE OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE, author of “Jane Eyre,” “Shirley,” “Villette,” “The Professor,” &c. By E. C. Gaskell., author of “Mary Barton,” “Ruth,” “North and South,” etc.
London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1860. viii, 441, [1], [1 ad’] pages. Vignette of Haworth parsonage on title. Original orange cloth. Octavo. Ownership inscription at head of title, dated Feb’ 25th 1860; newspaper article concerning Haworth church tipped onto front endpaper; binding worn and rubbed and bumped at top outer corner; else a good clean copy.
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THE MILK OF PARADISE Diaries, 1993 - 1997.
London. John Murray, 2005. Hardback in an unclipped dust-wrapper. First edition. A fine copy in a like wrapper.
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THE TRUTH ABOUT MYSELF
THE TRUTH ABOUT MYSELF, contained in The Strand Magazine, for January 1936. Also contains, Kipling's story, "Teem" – A treasure Hunter. Original pictorial wrappers. Slight wear to heel of spine,with small loss and a short tear; light wear to head of spine; old crease mark to lower outer corner of upper wrapper. A very good copy, complete with the original loosely laid-in insert for the National Trust.
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