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A BOOK OF SCOTTISH VERSE with a frontispiece by Jessie M King.
London.Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1932. [i-vi],vii-xiv,[1]208pp, plus 8pp adverts to rear. Colour frontispiece and pictorial dust wrapper by Jessie King. Blue boards gilt. Octavo. First Edition. Slight spotting to endpapers. Small smudge marks to top of pp 58-9. Dust wrapper slightly chipped at corners, with some small paper loss to head and heel of spine, and to rear of wrapper; else, a very good bright copy.
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A Christmas Carol. Illustrated by Chris Burke.
Oldham: Incline Press, No date [2005]. 53, [1 colophon], pages. Illustrated with mounted plates in colour and monochrome, with an original pencil sketch mounted at the close. This is copy number 39 from an edition of two hundred. Original cloth-backed paper-covered boards; slipcase. A fine – as new – copy.
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A CROPPE OF KISSES Selected lyrics of Ben Jonson chosen, with an appreciation by John Wallis.
Golden Cockerel Press, 1937. Number 152 of a limited edition of 250 copies. 51 pages. Original binding of quarter morocco over cloth. 310 x 194 mm. Internally clean and fresh. However, the binding is a little dust-soiled, and worn at the corners.
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A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS A Comedy of Youth, Love, and Adventure in Three Acts. French's Acting Edition. No. 1281.
London.Samuel French, Ltd. 1930. 88, (4)pp. 4 full-page photographic plates of stage sets. Original wrappers. Some underlining and in red and annotation in pencil, as this copy has been used for a production in 1932. Loosely inserted is an original 4 page printed programme for the performance by Dover Operatic and Dramatic Society, November 1932. Ownership inscription on upper cover by a member of the cast. Little worn at extremities, else a very good copy.
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A DREAM OF JOHN BALL and A King’s Lesson. (Reprinted from the ‘Commonweal.’) By William Morris, author of ‘The Earthly Paradise.’ Etc. With an Illustration by Edward Burne-Jones.
London: Reeves & Turner, 1888. viii, 143 pages. Original cloth gilt. 170 x 135 mm. First edition. Bookplate; cloth a little worn and heel of spine and boards lightly rubbed; else a very good copy.
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A FAIRY TALE. In Two Acts. Taken from Shakespeare. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury lane. [Price Sixpence.]
London: J. and R. Tonson, 1763. 24 pages. Octavo. Bound in later wrappers with a printed label to the upper panel. Title and last leaf stained; tiny corner chipped from title; some light spotting; else very good. An abridgment of Garrick's alteration of Midsummer Night's Dream, variously ascribed to Garrick and George Colman.
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A HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE 1841 - 1941, and A HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE 1941-1970.
Sydney: Wentworth Books, 1969. 1971. Two volumes. xii, 212 and xi, 316 pages. Both illustrated. Hardcover with unclipped, original pictorial dust-wrappers. Volume one has hand-written note affixed to front loose endpaper; some light spotting to front loose endpaper; dust-wrappers have sun-lightened spines and slight wear to extremeties; else very good copies.
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A New Dramatic Entertainment, called A Christmas Tale. In Five Parts. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. Embellished with an Etching, by Mr. Louthbourg. [Price One Shilling and Six-pence.]
London: T. Becket, 1774. [8], 76 pages. Engraved frontispiece. Original sheep, recently re-backed; no title. Octavo. First edition. A late play by Garrick based upon Charles Favart's, La fée urgèle. Boards worn at corners; else very good.
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A POTTLE OF STRAWBERRIES, to beguile a short journey, or a long half hour. With illustrations by Gilbert and Henning.
London: David Bogue. 62, [2 ad’s], [16] illustrated ad’s dated April 1848.] pages. Illustrated throughout. Original colour-printed pictorial wrappers. 143 x 112 mm. First edition. Wrappers a little dust-soiled; else a very good copy. Very scarce in the original wrappers.
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A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY, by Mr. Yorick; and The History of a Good Warm Watch Coat, &c. A Political Romance.
Paris: Theophilus Barrois, 1883. xx, 205, [1 blank] pages. Contemporary calf, recently expertly re-backed. 14.5 x 8.3 cm. Half-title and leaf of ad's present. Final blank corner is a little soiled and with an old crease-mark; inscription on front endpaper; else a very good copy in an attractive binding.
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A SOLITARY WAR.
London: Macdonald, 1966. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First edition. Ownership label on front fixed endpaper; wrapper, not price-clipped, but has minor loss at head of spine and corners; else a very good copy.
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A SONG about Tsar Ivan Vasilyevitch his young body-guard and the valiant merchant Kalashinikov. Translated by John Cournos with decorations by Paul Nash.
Kensington: The Aquila Press, 1929. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. [4], 24, [2 blanks], v, [1 blank], colophon pages. Illustrated. Original full morocco binding to a design by Paul Nash. Binding: 27.4 x 17.6 cm. No 3 of a limited edition of 750 copies on hand-made paper. Slight evidence of a bookplate being removed from first free endpaper; binding a little rubbed and marked; else a very good copy.
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A SPANIARD IN THE WORKS.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. First edition. Original pictorial glazed boards. Small, neat name on endpaper; else fine.
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A STAR IS BORN. With an Introduction by Henry Williamson and wood-engravings by C. F. Tunnicliffe.
London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1933. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. First edition. Original green cloth gilt. Small book label on endpaper and an inscription; few very small marks on cover; else a very good, fresh copy.
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A WRITER'S NOTEBOOK.
London.William Heinemann Ltd. 1949. No 92 of a limited edition of 1000 copies signed by the author. Original quarter vellum over blue buckram. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Original Card slipcase with the number '92' written in biro on the base. Octavo. Slipcase rather marked and worn; the book itself, apart from some very light spotting to the vellum, is almost fine.
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ADAM GRAINGER. A Tale. Copyright edition. Vol. 1586.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1876. 255 pages. Bound with; OLIPHANT, Mrs. THE CURATE IN CHARGE. Copyright edition. Vol. 1561. Leipzig. Bernhard Tauchnitz. 1876. 311 pages. The two bound as one in blue pebbled cloth gilt; both titles on the spine. Paper of the second title a little browned; else a good pair, with both half-title present.
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ADÈLE DE SENANGE, ou Lettres de Lord Sydenham. En deux volumes.
Londres: Se trouve chez Debrett, Piccadilly; Hookham, Bond Street; Edwards, Pall Mall; & chez De Boeffe, Gerrard Street, 1794. Two volumes bound as one. [4], xxiv, 186; [4], 259 pages. Contemporary full calf gilt. 12mo. First edition. Spine expertly repaired, and with a new title label; some spotting on the fore-edges, which has penetrated a few millimetres into some of the pages; lack half-titles; else a very good copy. The front pastedown bears the bookplate 'Panshanger' which was the country estate of the Earls of Cowper; the library was dispersed in 1953.
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AFTER DARK. Copyright edition. Vol. CCCLXVII.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1856. 377 pages. Half-title present. Bound in quarter green morocco over marbled boards. Half-title, title, and last leaf lightly browned, and the occasional patch; else a very good copy.
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AIDS TO REFLECTION in the Formation of a Manly Character on the several grounds of Prudence, Morality, and Religion: illustrated by select passages from our elder divines, especially from Archbishop Leighton. By S.T. Coleridge, Esq. R.A., R.S.L. Second edition.
London: Hurst, Chance, & Co. St. Paul’s Church-yard, 1831. xv, [1 blank], 408 pages. Contemporary calf, sometime re-backed. All edges gilt. Octavo. Bookplate; inners joints cracked but firm; else very good
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ALICE OR THE MYSTERIES A sequel to "Ernest Maltravers". By the author of "Pelham," "Rienzi," "The Student," &c. &c. In three volumes.
London: Saunders and Otley, 1838. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with twin labels. First edition. Bound without half-titles; Title-page to volume one a little browned and marked; some occasional light marking throughout; else a very good set.
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