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SPEAKING LIKENESSES, With Pictures thereof by Arthur Hughes.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1874. viii, 96 pages. Illustrated throughout. A re-bound copy in half dark brown morocco, with raised hubs to the spine, with gilt decoration to the panels. Octavo. First edition. Slight foxing to the title-page, lacks half-title; else a very handsome copy.
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Sunderland Murder. THE TRIAL OF JACON FREDERICH EHLERT, for the Murder of Capt. Johan Fredrick Berkholdz, of the ship Phoenix, while asleep in his cabin, on the night of the 12th of June, 1839. Convicted on the evidence of his accomplice, Daniel Fredrick Muller. With an account of his Execution, &c.
Durham: George Walker, Jun, 1839. Chapbook, dis-bound from a collection. 24 pages. Small woodcut on title. 12mo. 15.5 x 9cm. Title and last leaf loose; spine has some residue where dis-bound; else very good.
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T.S ELIOT: A TRIBUTE by the Poet Laureate Ted Hughes.
London: Privately printed by Faber and Faber, 1987. Limited to 250 copies signed by Ted Hughes on the colophon page. Tall octavo. Printed on Frankfurt Cream paper with Fabriano Roma wrappers. Dust jacket of the same dark-blue paper with titles to front panel in black. Inserted into a translucent synthetic folder sealed with a square of gummed paper and housed in a pale grey heavy paper envelope with printed paper label, all as issued. Small tear in one fold of the translucent folder; else fine.
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TAGLIONI'S GRANDSON. Translated by Alfred Fremantle.
London: Putnam, 1937. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. [8], 291 pages. Original purple cloth, gilt. Pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First U.K. edition. Spine of wrapper faded and browned; else a very good, clean copy. Taglioni's Grandson is the story of a Russian racing horse.
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TALES FROM OVID Twenty-four Passages from the Metamorphoses.
London: Faber and Faber, 1998. Number 117 of an edition of three hundred numbered copies signed by Ted Hughes. A near mint copy in the original slipcase as issued.
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TALES FROM OVID Twenty-four Passages from the Metamorphoses.
London: Faber and Faber, 1998. Number 91 of an edition of three hundred numbered copies signed by Ted Hughes. A near mint copy in the original slipcase as issued.
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TALES OF ALL COUNTRIES. New Edition.
London. Chapman and Hall, 1877. [4] 403 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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TALES OF THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS Retold from Chaucer & others by F. J. Harvey Darton. With introduction by F. J. Furnivall and Illustrations by Hugh Thomson.
London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co, 1906. 365, [23 ad’s] pages. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Original pictorial cloth gilt. Top edge gilt. Last few pages of ad’s have been carelessly opened resulting in some loss of blank margins; else a lovely bright copy.
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TAMING OF THE SHREW. 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. 120 pages. Not illustrated. Bound with: ANNOTATIONS by Sam. Johnson and Geo. Stevens, and the various commentators, upon,TAMING OF THE SHREW, written by Will. Shakespere. John Bell. 1787. 98 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; label chipped; else a very good copy.
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TEMPEST. 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. 92 pages. Not illustrated. Bound with: ANNOTATIONS by Sam. Johnson and Geo. Stevens, and the various commentators, upon, TEMPEST, written by Will. Shakespere. John Bell. 1787. 98 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; label chipped; slight loss at head of spine; else a very good copy.
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TENSION.
London. Hutchinson & Co. No date. [1920]. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. First edition. Original red cloth. Octavo. Spine faded and a little marked; endpaper a little browned; a good plus copy of a scarce novel.
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THE ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS. The Second Edition, in one volume. With Illustrations by William Harvey.
London: G. Routledge & Co, 1855. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. viii, 991 pages. Illustrated with black & white full-page engravings. Original pictorial cloth, gilt. Octavo. Name on endpaper; slight wear to head & heel; some light browning to edge of half-title and title; else a very good copy. This book is heavy and will incur extra postal charges. Please contact us directly for a shipping quote: info@davidmilesbooks.com
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THE AUTHOR'S FARCE; with a Puppet-Show, call'd the Pleasures of the Town. As Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. Written by Henry Fielding, Esq. The Third Edition. This Piece was originally Acted at the Hay-Market, and Revived some Years after at Drury-Lane, when it was Revised, and greatly Alter'd by the Author, as now Printed…. Price 1s 6d.
London: J. Watts, at the Printing-Office in Wild-Court near Lincoln's-Inn Fields, 1750. Disbound from a collection. 68, [4] pages. Small library stamp to blank verso of title, and to foot of last page; else a very good copy
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THE BELL JAR by Victoria Lucas.
London: Heinemann, 1963. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Small brown mark on fore-edge; else the book itself is very good, without inscriptions. The wrapper in unpriced-clipped, but is very tired and heavily worn, with browning to the spine and back panel; the head and heel of spine are worn and chipped, with a vertical tear of 4 cm's at the head; the corners are worn.
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THE BELTON ESTATE.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1875. Hardback. vii, 392 pages. Contemporary half blue calf over marbled boards, with red labels to the spine. Octavo. New edition. Cover edges and corners slightly rubbed; small marks on half-title and last page; pencil notes to rear free endpaper; else a very good copy.
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THE BERTRAMS. A Novel. New Edition.
London. Chapman and Hall, 1875. [4] 440 pages. Bound in contemporary half blue calf, gilt, over marbled boards. Octavo. Spine and corners a little rubbed; else a very good copy.
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THE BLACK BOOK a novel.
London. Faber and Faber, 1973. First edition. Signed and dated by Durrell on the half-title Slight discolouration to the half-title where something has been laid in; else a fine copy in a unclipped dust-wrapper.
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THE BLACK MONK AND OTHER STORIES. Translated from the Russian by R.E.C. Long.
London: Duckworth & Co, 1903. [i-v],vi-ix, [x-xiv], [1],2-302, [1]pp, plus 4pp. adverts to rear. Black blind-stamped cloth gilt. Printed red to front board. Octavo. First English translation. Some spotting to endpapers and fore-edges. Some rubbing to lettering on front board. Else an excellent copy.
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THE BORDERERS; A Tale. By the author of "The Spy," "The Red Rover," "The Prairie," &c. &c. &c. In three volumes.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1829. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with twin labels. Bound without half-titles; edges a little rubbed; else a very good set.
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THE BOROUGH: A Poem, in Twenty=four Letters.
London: J. Hatchard, 1810. xli, [3], 344 pages. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, recently finely re-backed. Octavo. First edition. Some occasional light patches of foxing; corners worn; else a very good copy.
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