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THREE PLAYS Deacon Brodie Beau Austin Admiral Guinea.
London: David Nutt, 1892. xii, [1],2-250pp. Fine Zaensdorf binding of half-calf gilt over marbled boards, with raised bands, gilt lines, and gilt devices in compartments. t.e.g. Octavo. Signed limited edition no.20 of 100 large paper edition, printed on Dutch hand-made paper. Bookplate to paste-down endpaper. Some, slight browning to fore-edges; else, an excellent, near fine copy.
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TIMON IN LOVE: or, The Innocent Theft. A Comedy. Taken from Thimon Misanthrope or the Sieur De Lisle. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By His Majesty's Servants. [Price One Shilling Six pence.]
London: J. Watts, at the Printing-Office in Wild-Court near Lincoln's-Inn Fields, 1733. Disbound from a collection. [8], 55 pages. First edition. Some light water-staining; small library stamp to blank verso of title; else very good.
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TITUS ANDRONICUS. By Will. Shakespere: Printed Complete from the Text of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Stevens, and revised from the last Editions.
London: John Bell, British Library, Strand, 1785. 108 pages. Not illustrated. Bound with: ANNOTATIONS by Sam. Johnson and Geo. Stevens, and the various commentators, upon TITUS ANDRONICUS, written by Will. Shakespere. John Bell. 1787. 24 pages. The pair bound as one in contemporary half calf, gilt over marbled boards with a red gilt label to the spine. 12mo. 14.6 x 9.3 cm. Some browning to a few leaves at start and end from the leather corners; else a very good copy.
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TRAVELS INTO SEVERAL REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver. First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships. The Fifith edition, Corrected.
London: Charles Bathurst, at the Cross-Keys in Fleet-Street, 1747. [10], 296 pages. Six engraved full-Page plates. Contemporary calf, some time re-backed. Octavo. There is some old worming to the lower margin, affecting the imprint and some of the letterpress of the ‘contents’ leaves; small piece cut from flyleaf, probably to remove an ownership name; else a very good, clean copy. The first three editions were published by Motte. Bathurst published the fourth edition in 1742 and the fifth in 1747. See Teerink 303. Scarce.
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TREASURE ISLAND. Drawings by Mervyn Peake.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1949. [vi], vii + [iii] + [3]-244 + [i] pages. Hardback. Original pictorial unprice-clipped dust-wrapper. First edition thus. A fine copy in a fine dust-wrapper.
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TRILBY A Novel. With 121 illustrations by the author.
London. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co, 1895. Hardback. First edition. Original pictorial blue cloth, gilt. Top edge gilt. Light spotting to the untrimmed fore-edges, else a fine copy, the binding bright and fresh.
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TUNC a novel.
London. Faber and Faber, 1968. First edition. Uncorrected proof copy in printed wrappers. A very good copy.
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TWELVE ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE PICKWICK PAPERS.
London.Albert Jackson. 1894. A portfolio containing an 'Advertisement' leaf; title-page to Pickwick Papers with a hand-coloured etched vignette; 12 full-page hand-coloured etchings; and plate list. Original blue printed wrappers with contents loose and unstitched, as issued. Small, blank corner torn from plate list; wrappers a little bumped and creased at extremities; slight dusting at margins; else a very good, clean set.Originally designed to be published in 1847, these plates were thought lost until discovered by the family and here printed and published for the first time.
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TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA. By Will. Shakespere: Printed Complete from the Text of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Stevens, and revised from the last Editions.
London: John Bell, British Library, Strand, 1786. 96 pages. Not illustrated. Bound with: ANNOTATIONS by Sam. Johnson and Geo. Stevens, and the various commentators, upon, TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, written by Will. Shakespere. John Bell. 1787. 48 pages. The pair bound as one in contemporary half calf, gilt over marbled boards with a red gilt label to the spine. 12mo. 14.6 x 9.3 cm. Some browning to a few leaves at start and end from the leather corners; slight loss at head of spine; else a very good copy.
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VIRGIN SOIL. BY Ivan Turgénieff. Translated with the author's sanction from the French version by T. S. Perry.
London: Ward, Lock, and Co, No date [1883]. Hardcover. 315 pages. Bound in a near contemporary binding of half calf, gilt over marbled boards. Binding a little rubbed; else a very good copy.
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Volume VII. Of the Author’s Works, containing LETTERS to and from Johnathan Swift, D. D, D.S.P.D.
Dublin: Printed by and for George Faulkner, 1746. [2 ad’s], [xiv], 302, [iv], 32 pages. Bound in contemporary calf. Octavo, Contains at the rear, ‘Some Free Thoughts upon the Present State of Affairs.’ Written in the year 1714. Dublin. George Faulkner, 1741. Spine label chipped; neat name on title; binding rubbed and worn and with a short split in the upper joint, but remains firm.
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WAVERLEY NOVELS. Twenty-five volume set.
Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1841. Illustrated half-titles; Bound in half green calf, gilt with twin red labels, over marbled boards. Octavo. 16 x 10 cm. Very occasional spotting; small bookplate on rear endpapers. A very handsome set.
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WE HAPPY FEW. An anthology by Owen Rutter. I: Britain at War. II: Britain at Sea. III: Britain in the Air. Printed in Great Britain, with eleven engravings by John O’Connor, at the Golden Cockerel Press.
Golden Cockerell Press, 1946. 150 pages. Original blue buckram backed pictorial paper-covered boards. Octavo Number 92 of a limited edition of 750 copies. Numbers 1-100 are specially bound. However, regardless of its number this copy has not been issued in the special binding. A fine copy.
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WOMEN & MEN.
Paris: Three Mountains press, 1923. Number 161 of a limited edition of three hundred copies of this book on Rives hand-made paper. Text block uncut. Bound in recent half black morocco, gilt over paper-covered boards. Frist edition. Text block browning; some wear to corners; light spotting on front and rear endpapers; some very occasional pencil annotation.; else a very good copy in a handsome binding.
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WRITING THROUGH FINNEGANS WAKE.
Tulsa. University of Tulsa, 1978. Original printed white card wrappers. Published as Special Supplement to Volume 15 of the James Joyce Quarterly and as Number 16 in the University of Tulsa's Monograph Series. A fine copy.
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