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AVRIL Being essays on the poetry of the French renaissance.
London.Duckworth & Co. 1904. [i-vi] vii -xv [1-2] 3-238pp. Frontispiece. Original green cloth, gilt. T.e.g. Octavo. First Edition. Some spotting to endpapers. Slight wear to boards. A very good copy. Cahill 16.
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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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BLACK ORPHEUS. A Journal of African and Afro-American Literature. No. 18 October 1965.
Lagos: General Publications Section, Ministry of Education, 1965. Softcover. 64 pages. Illustrated. A very good copy.
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BLACK ORPHEUS. A Journal of African and Afro-American Literature. No. 6 November 1959.
Lagos: General Publications Section, Ministry of Education, 1959. Softcover. 60 pages. Illustrated. Little bumped at corners; edges lightly tanned; else very good.
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BLACK ORPHEUS. A Journal of African and Afro-American Literature. No. 8.
Lagos: General Publications Section, Ministry of Education, No date [1960?]. Softcover. 60 pages. Illustrated. Little bumped at one point of fore-edge; edges lightly tanned; else very good.
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Blackie's English Texts DICKEN'S CHRISTMAS CAROL.
London.Blackie & Son Limited. [c 1909]. 112pp. Original blue decorative semi-stiff cloth with a design by Talwyn Morris. Some very minor edge wear. Blue stamp to front free endpaper, 'With the publisher's compliments.' A very good copy
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Blackie's English Texts FROISSART'S CHRONICLES CRECY AND POITIERS.
London.Blackie & Son Limited. 1907. 119pp. Original blue decorative semi-stiff cloth with design by Talwyn Morris. Blue 'specimen' stamp across title page. Some slight spotting and very minor rubbing to spine heel and head; else, a very good copy.
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Blackie's English Texts THE GOLD BUG and other tales. Edgar Allan Poe
London.Blackie & Son Limited. [c 1907]. 118pp. Original blue decorative semi-stiff cloth with design by Talwyn Morris. Some very minor edge wear. Previous owner's note in pencil to front free endpaper. Very occasional pencil markings throughout. Some light spotting and minor edge wear; else, a very good copy.
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Blackies English School Texts TALES FROM THE DECAMERON. (Boccaccio.)
London.Blackie & Son Limited. [c.1908]. 119pp. Original blue decorative semi-stiff cloth with design by Talwyn Morris. Paper label to spine. Red publisher's compliments stamp to front free endpaper. Some very minor edge wear. Light spotting to fore-edges and endpapers. Some loss of paper to spine label and minor wear to spine heel and head; else, a very good copy.
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Blackies English Texts KINGSLEY'S HEROES.
London.Blackie & Son Limited. [c.1909]. 132pp. Original blue decorative semi-stiff cloth with design by Talwyn Morris. Some very minor edge wear. Light spotting to fore-edges and endpapers, and very minor rubbing to spine heel and head; 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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CHINESE LEGENDS; or, The Porcelain Tower. By T. T. T. Bound with: MAXWELL, John S. THE CZAR, His Court and People: including Tour in Norway and Sweden.
London: Richard Bentley, 1848. xvi, 180 pages. xii, 243 pages. The two bound together in contemporary half calf, gilt over marbled boards. Octavo. First editions. The half-title is lacking in the first volume, but is present in the second. Text blocks slightly browned; binding rubbed and worn at corners and edges, but sound.
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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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COMEDY OF ERRORS. 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. 76 pages. Not illustrated. Bound with: ANNOTATIONS by Sam. Johnson and Geo. Stevens, and the various commentators, upon, COMEDY OF ERRORS, written by Will. Shakespere. John Bell. 1787. 42 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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