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THE SCANDAROON. Illustrations by Ken Lilly.
London: Macdonald, 1972. Hardcover. Slipcase. Limited edition of 250 copies signed by Williamson, this being number 4. Small book label on endpaper; short split on slipcase; else a very good, bright copy.
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THE SCOURING OF THE WHITE HORSE; or, the Long Vacation Ramble of a London Clerk. By the author of "Tom Brown's School Days." Illustrated by Richard Doyle.
Cambridge: Macmillan and Co, 1859. Hardcover. 244 pages. First edition. Bound in quarter blue morocco gilt over pebbled blue cloth. Book plate of Robert Fiennes Hibbert of Bucknell in the County of Oxon. A very good and attractive copy.
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THE SPIRE.
London: Faber and Faber, No date [1964]. Uncorrected Proof Copy Not for Sale. Not for review or serialization. Publication date not yet settled. 223 pages. Bound in sage green wrappers. Octavo. A very good copy.
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THE SPY: A Tale of the Neutral Ground. In three volumes. Fifth edition with additions and alterations.
London: A. K. Newman and Company, 1835. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with twin labels. Bound without half-titles. One signature a little prone in volume one; edges a little rubbed; else a very good set.
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THE SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN. Illustrated by William Strang R.A. and J.B. Clark, with an introduction by Thomas Seccombe.
London: The Medici Society, 1929. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. lv, [1], 299 pages. Coloured frontispiece by Wyndham Payne. Original pictorial cloth. Octavo. First edition thus. Tear to the blank margin of one leaf; wrapper torn with loss and split at spine; else an excellent copy.
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THE TALISMAN: a rich and rare collection of original and select magic tales, &c. of the most intense interest: being highly calculated to Instruct and Amuse both Old and Young. In three vols. Vol. III. Embellished with beautiful coloured engravings on steel.
London: G. Cowie… W. Strange…, No date [circa 1830]. [2], 222 pages. Illustrated with seven folding engraved plates, five of which are hand-coloured as issued. Original half calf over marbled boards, recently re-backed. 112 x 75 mm. Small ink blot on one page; mark on front endpapers; else a very good copy of volume III only. Scarce
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The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The ARABIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENT. A New Translation from the Arabic, with Copious Notes. Illustrated by many Hundred Engravings on Wood from original designs by William Harvey. A New edition, from a copy annotated by the translator; edited by his nephew, Edward Stanley Poole, with a preface by Stanley Lane-Poole. In Three Volumes.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1889. Three hardback volumes, bound, as issued, in green decorative cloth, gilt. No dust-wrappers. Inner jointed cracked on Volume II; some very occasional and light spotting; some corners a little bumped; else an excellent set. This set is very heavy and will require additional postage. Please contact us directly for a shipping quote: info@davidmilesbooks.com
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THE TOUR OF DOCTOR SYNTAX In Search of the Picaresque. A Poem.
London: R. A. Ackermann, 1823. Miniature edition. 276, [1 Directions to the binder] pages .Frontispiece, vignette on title, and 29 plates all hand-coloured as issued. Later full calf gilt by Bayntun Bindery, Bath, 142 x 95 mm. A fine, fresh copy.
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THE TOWER OF LONDON. A Historical romance. Collection of Ancient and Modern British Authors. Vol. CCCIII.
Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1841. xii, 426 pages. Bound in quarter calf, gilt over marbled boards. Octavo. A very good copy.
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THE TRAVELS AND SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN. Illustrated with twenty-three curious engravings, from the Baron’s own designs, and five woodcuts, by G. Cruikshank.
London: William Tegg, 1869. xii, [12], 268 pages. Illustrated with 23 hand-coloured plates and five uncoloured woodcuts. Original green pictorial cloth, gilt. All edges gilt. Octavo. One leaf of the ‘contents’ pages, where previously loose, has had some restoration to the blank margins; spine expertly strengthened at head & heel; else a very good, clean copy.
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THE TRIUMPH OF THE MACHINE. Drawings by Althea Willoughby.
London: Faber & Faber Ltd, 1930. Large paper edition, limited to 400 copies, this being number 143. Original green cloth, gilt. Octavo. A near fine copy.
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THE UNIVERSAL PASSION. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, By His Majesty's Servants. Price One Shilling and Six Pence.
London: J. Watts, at the Printing-Office in Wild-Court near Lincoln's-Inn Fields, 1737. Disbound from a collection. [8], 77 pages. First edition. Small library stamp to blank verso of title, and to foot of last page; else a very good copy.
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THE VICAR OF BULLHAMPTON.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1877. Hardback. vii, 452 pages. Contemporary half blue calf over marbled boards, with red labels to the spine. Octavo. New edition. Cover edges and corners slightly rubbed; else a very good copy.
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THE VIRGIN AND THE GYPSY.
Florence: G. Orioli, 1930. Lungarno Series No. 4. 216 pages. First edition. Number 690 of a limited edition, printed on hand-made paper, of an edition of 810 copies. Original white boards with pictorial phoenix device to upper cover. Octavo. Text block largely unopened. Original printed dust-wrapper. Head of spine bumped with consequent crack to the upper joint extending some 5cm's from the top of spine; else a very good fresh copy, in a very good wrapper with just a small amount of wear to the head & heel of spine; spare spine label tipped-in at rear.
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THE WARDEN.
London: Chapman and Hall, No date. Hardback. vii, 221 pages. Contemporary half blue calf over marbled boards, with red labels to the spine. Octavo. New edition. Cover edges and corners slightly rubbed; light spotting to title-page; some spotting to last six pages, and short tears to their fore-edges where carelessly opened; else a very good copy.
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THE WEDGE.
London: W. H. Allen, 1972. Original cloth; original dust-wrapper. First edition. Lightly browned on the top fore-edge; else a fine copy in an unprice-clipped fine wrapper. Presentation copy inscribed on front free endpaper: ‘to Stephen Prickett, June 1972 John Toft.’
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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 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 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 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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