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AN EDITOR'S TALES. Fourth Edition.
London. Chapman and Hall, 1876. [4] 366 pages. Bound in contemporary half blue calf, gilt, over marbled boards. Octavo. Spine a little rubbed; some very occasional light foxing; else a very good copy.
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AN ESSAY ON THE ART OF INGENIOUSLY TORMENTING; with proper rules for the exercise of that amusing study. Humbly addressed, Part I. To the master, husband, &c. Part II. To the wife, friend, &c. With some general instructions for plaguing all your acquaintance. Third edition.
London: reprinted for William Miller by W. Bulmer, 1805. [10], 229, [1 blank], [2 ad’s] pages. Engraved frontispiece by Gillray. Twentieth century binding of half calf gilt over marbled boards. Octavo. Name on half-title; else a very good, clean copy. Written as an antidote to the courtesy books of the time. .
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ANALYSIS OF MR TENNYSON'S IN MEMORIAM.
London.Smith, Elder, and Co. 1862. Not Paged., but a total of 56pp., including prelim's and ad's at rear. Black pebbled semi-stiff cloth, gilt. Small octavo. First edition. Small bookseller's label to bottom corner of paste-down endpaper. Minor wear to head and heel of spine; rear hinge cracking. A very good copy.
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ASSORTED ARTICLES.
London: Martin Secker, 1930. 216 pages. Original cloth, gilt. Octavo. First edition. No dust-wrapper. A very good copy. Signed by the painter Mabel Harrison on the front free endpaper, and inscribed below that signature by Lawrence's wife, Frieda: 'To Mabel Harrison to one who knew him Frieda Lawrence'Mabel Harrison was a painter who met Lawrence when she moved to property near to where he was living in Taos, New Mexico.
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AUTHENTIC ADVENTURES OF THE CELEBRATED COUNTESS DE LA MOTTE. Including The Fraudulent Transaction with Cardinal de Rohan. translated from the French. To which is added, a Narrative of her escape to London, as stated by herself. Also memoirs of her sister, under the character of Marianne.
London.E. Johnson. 1787. [2], xii, 163, [1]pp. 12mo. Bound in a fine recent binding of full sprinkled calf gilt, with a red morocco label to the spine, and gilt decoration to the panels. First edition. [One of two issues are known, varying only in the details of the imprint.] Lacks half-title; clean tear to upper margin pf pages 123/4; title slightly grubby and with just a tiny piece lost from the lower outer corner; else a very good copy of a rare title.A translation of 'Histoire veritable de Jeanne de S. Remi.' OCLC records three copies only of this issue.
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Black Mischief.
London: Chapman and Hall Ltd, 1932. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. First edition. Slightly cocked; spine mellowed; few light spots at front and rear; else a very good copy.
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BOTTOM DOGS. With an introduction by D. H. Lawrence.
London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1929. Number 424 of a limited edition of 520 copies for sale by private subscription. First edition. Original black cloth, gilt. Original printed dust-wrapper. Slight bumping to a couple of corners; else a near fine copy in a like wrapper.
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BRACEBRIDGE HALL; or, The Humorists. A Medley. Author's Revised Edition.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1890. 320 pages. Bound in full calf with a nicely panelled spine with gilt hubs and decoration; black title label. Octavo. A very handsome copy.
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CAMPO SANTO.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 2005. Hardback; unprice-clipped dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition; first issue. Fine, in a like dust-wrapper.
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CAPTAIN BOLDHEART. THE MAGIC FISHBONE. Two comedies by Charles Dickens. Preface by Mary McCarthy. Pictures by Hilary Knight.
New York. London.The Macmillan Company. Collier- Macmillan Limited. 1964. Unpaged. Illustrated in colour throughout. Original pictorial cloth. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. Quarto. First edition. Wrapper is price-clipped, and clipped also at top edges of both front and rear flaps. A fine copy in a near fine wrapper.
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CASTLE RICHMOND. A Novel. New Edition.
London. Chapman and Hall, 1877. [4] 440 pages. Bound in contemporary half blue calf, gilt, over marbled boards. Octavo. Spine a little rubbed; else a very good copy.
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CHAUCER FOR CHILDREN A Golden Key. Illustrated with eight coloured pictures and numerous woodcuts by the author. A newe edition, revised.
London.Chatto & Windus. 1882. [vii], xvi, [1], 112pp. 8 colour plates including frontispiece and numerous woodcuts throughout the text. Original pictorial cloth, gilt with 'Argyle College' prize stamp in gilt on lower board. Quarto. Extremities rubbed with some wear to corners; spine a little faded; head and heel of spine a little bumped; spotting at start, end and to fore-edges; previous owners notes to front free endpaper and half-title else a very good copy.
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CITIES, PLAINS AND PEOPLE. Poems by Lawrence Durrell.
London. Faber and Faber Ltd, 1946. 72 pages. Yellow cloth, gilt hardback with original unclipped dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. A very good copy in a like wrapper.
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CLAIRE D’ALBE, par L A C.***.
Paris: Chez Maradan, AN VII [1799]. viii, 285 pages. Engraved frontispiece. Later 19th century half calf gilt over marbled boards. 12mo. First edition. Spine worn and splitting; name and date of 1807 on title, which is a little cropped, revealing that book was trimmed when rebound; some light foxing to last few leaves; else a very good copy of Sophie Cottin’s first novel. Complete with half-title. Rare.
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CONSEQUENCES.
London. Hodder and Stoughton. No date [1919]. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. First edition. Original cloth. Octavo. Binding very marked - spine particularly so; fore-edges browned. A good plus copy. Inscribed on front free endpaper: 'With the author's love June 1919'.
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Count Lucanor; or the FIFTY PLEASANT STORIES OF PATRONIO written by the Prince Don Juan Manuel and first done into English by James York, M. D., 1868. Illustrated by Stanley L. Wood.
London: Gibbings & Company, Limited, 1896. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. xvi, 246 pages. Illustrated with 30 black & white plates. Original green cloth with gilt lettering and pictorial design in black. Octavo. Tissue guard to frontispiece spotted with some off-setting to title; some occasional spotting and light dust-soiling; else a very good copy.
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CRANFORD. With a preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie and illustrations by Hugh Thomson.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1891. xxx, 297[298] pages. Illustrated throughout in black & white by Hugh Thomson. Recently finely bound by Charles Gledhill of London in half burgundy morocco, gilt over patterned paper. First Thomson edition. Large Paper Copy [thought to number a hundred copies only]. Slight browning of half-title, some browning from tissue guard on title; else a very handsome copy.
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D. H. LAWRENCE A Basic Study of His Ideas.
Gainsville. University of Florida Press, 1955. Hardback in original pictorial silver dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. A fine copy in a near fine dust-wrapper.
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D. H. LAWRENCE An unprofessional Study. With two facsimile manuscript pages out of Lady Chatterley's Lover.
Paris. Edward W. Titus, 1932. Hardback. Lacks dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Number 418 of a limited edition of 550 copies. Gilt dulled on spine; else a very good, clean copy.
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D. H. LAWRENCE and Human Existence. Foreword by T. S. Eliot.
London.Rockliff. 1951. Hardback in original printed dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. A fine copy in a like dust-wrapper.
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