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THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, Gentleman.
London: C. Cooke, No date [circa 1800]. 6 volumes bound as two. Vol’ I: 96 pages; 1 engraved plate. Vol’ II: 96 pages. Vol’ III: 110 pages; 1 engraved plate and one mounted plate of marbled paper. Vol’ IV: 99 pages; 1 engraved plate. Vol’ V: 99 pages; 2 engraved plates. Vol VI: 102 pages; 1 engraved plate. Contemporary quarter calf gilt over marbled boards. 143 x 93 mm. Boards a little rubbed; else a very good set.
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THE LIFE, And Strange Surprising ADVENTURES of ROBINSON CRUSOE; of York, Mariner. Who lived eight and twenty Years all alone in an uninhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River Oroonoque; having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With an Account how he was at last as strangely delivered by Pirates. Written by Himself. The Eighth Edition, Adorn’d with Cuts. In Two Volumes..
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THE LIFE AND SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE of York, Mariner. With introductory verses by Bernard Barton, and illustrated with numerous drawings by George Cruikshank expressly designed for this edition.
London: Printed at the Shakespeare Press, by W. Nicol, for John Major, Fleet Street, 1831. Two volumes. Vol’ I: [8], xv, [1 blank], 434 pages. Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette on title and engravings within the text. Vol’ II: [4], 406 pages. Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette on title and engravings within the text. Bound in comparatively recent quarter tan calf over marbled boards with twin red gilt labels to the spines. Octavo. 170 x 110 mm. First edition with the Cruikshank illustrations. A very handsome set.
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THE LOST WORLD.
New York: Hodder & Stoughton; George H. Doran Company, 1912. [vi], [3], 4-309pp. Black & white frontispiece with 15 other black & white plates. Original cloth gilt. 20 x 13.5cms. First U.S. edition. Extremities a trifle rubbed; a tiny nick to head of spine and two to heel; cracked between title and frontispiece; else a very good copy.
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THE LOVER. A Comedy, As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal, By His Majesty's Servants. Written by Theophilus Cibber, Comedian. Price One Shilling and Six Pence.
London: J. Watts, at the Printing-Office in Wild-Court near Lincoln's-Inn Fields, 1730. Disbound from a collection. [12], 85, [3 ad's] pages. First edition. Small library stamp to foot of blank verso of title, and to the foot of the last leaf of text; else a very good copy.
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THE MAGIC FISHBONE. A Holiday Romance from the pen of Miss Alice Rainbird aged 7.
London: Constable and Co. Ltd, 1911. Hardback. No dust-wrapper. Illustrated with six full-page coloured plates and with line drawings within the text by Susan Beatrice Pearse. Original paper-covered boards with mounted pictorial pastedown to upper board. Second impression in the same year as the first. Ownership inscription on front free endpaper; very light browning on endpapers; else a near fine copy of a title that is very difficult to find in such a good state.
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THE MAN THAT CORRUPTED HADLEYBURG and other stories and sketches. By Mark Twain. With a frontispiece by Lucius Hitchcock.
London: Chatto & Windus. 414, [2], 32 ad’s, dated Sept. 1900, pages. Original orange pictorial cloth. Octavo. First U.K. edition. Cloth a little worn at head of spine; ad’s a trifle browned; else a very good copy.
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THE MERCHANT OF VENICE By W. Shakespeare.
Venice: S. Rosen, 1906. Hardcover. 256 pages. Portrait frontispiece, and other illustrations throughout. Original mock vellum binding with lettering in red and black; leather ties. Binding size: 70 x 53 mm [2 3/4" x 2 1/16"]. Rear free endpaper cracked; later inscription on front endpaper for 1926; binding lightly marked; else a very good copy of this miniature edition of Shakespeare.
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THE MILL ON THE FLOSS.
Oxford.Clarendon Press. 1980. xxxvii, 472pp. Original cloth, gilt. Original dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition thus. Bookplate. The dust-wrapper has been covered in clear self-adhesive plastic at the time of purchase and, in consequence is in fine condition, though price-clipped. Bookplate to front fixed endpaper; else a fine copy.
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THE MODISH COUPLE. 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, 1732. Disbound from a collection. [8], 74, [2] pages. First edition. Small library stamp to foot of blank verso of title, and to the foot of the last leaf of text; short tear in one leaf [no loss] repaired with Sellotape, now browning; else a very good copy.
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THE NOTE OF HAND; or, Trip to Newmarket. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane.
London: W. Griffin, 1774. 48 pages. Engraved vignette on title. Half-title present. Disbound from a collection. Small tear in blank margin of title; small hole in half-title just affecting one letter; remains of leather to spine; half-title and last page a little dust-soiled; else very good.
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The Novels of Jane Austen (in ten volumes). PERSUASION. Being volume X. Edited by R. Brimley Johnson with illustrations by William C. Cooke. And ornaments by F. C. Tilney.
London: J.M. Dent and Company, 1892. iv, [2], 261 pages. Illustrated with three plates. Bound in half brown morocco over marbled boards. 175 x 117 mm. Binding a little rubbed; else a very good copy.
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THE OPTIMIST.
New York. The Macmillan Company, 1922. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. First edition. Original blue cloth. Octavo. Spine a little spotted; else a good copy of a scarce novel.
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THE PATRIOT'S PROGRESS. Being the Vicissitudes of Pte. John Bullock Related by Henry Williamson and drawn by Frank Kermode.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1930. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First edition. Original buckram gilt. Original dust-wrapper. Wrapper worn and torn and strengthened at the head of the spine from the blank verso; ownership label on fixed front endpaper; some light spotting; else a very good copy.
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THE PELICANS.
London. William Heinemann, 1918. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. First edition. Original purple cloth. Octavo. Spine a quite faded, boards less so; light browning to endpapers & throughout; else a good copy of a scarce novel. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: 'In memory of the many, many stories with which you made my childhood happy, I send you my story now. E. 30. IX. 18'.
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THE PHOENIX GENERATION.
London: Macdonald, 1965. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First edition. Wrapper not price-clipped, but a little worn at head & heel of spine; ownership label on front endpaper and name also; else a very good copy.
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THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB. Illustrated in colour by Frank Reynolds, R.I.
London: The Westminster Press, Limited, No date [late 1920's?]. 584 pages. Illustrated with 20 tipped-in colour plates. Original pictorial cloth, gilt. Originalprinted dust-wrapper. 4to. Tissue gurd to first plate a little foxed, else a fine copy in a bright binding, the dust-wrapper with a small chip at the heel of the spine. This book is heavy, please contact us directly for a postage quotation.
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THE PRAIRIE, A Tale. By the author of The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, etc. In three volumes.
Paris: Hector Bossange, 1827. Three volumes. Bound in contemporary blue paper-covered boards; gilt banding and titling to spines. Octavos. First Paris edition in English. Half-titles present in all volumes. Uncut. Some very light scattered foxing at front and rear of all volumes; the occasional corner crease; some light rubbing of boards; two corners bumped on volume III; else an excellent set. More difficult to find than the London printing of the same year.
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THE PRAIRIE; A Tale. By the author of "The Spy," "The Pilot," &c. &c. In three volumes.
London: Henry Colburn, 1827. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with twin labels. First U.K. edition. Bound without half-titles; bindings a little rubbed; else a very good set.
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THE PYRAMID.
London: Faber & Faber, 1967. Original blue boards gilt; original unprice-clipped dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, which also bears the ownership signature of the writer Stephen Prickett. The book is slightly cocked; else near fine.
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