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THE SECRET HISTORY OF SOE: The Special Operations Executive 1940-1945.
London: St Ermin’s Press, 2000. First edition, 8vo.,pp. xxix,814, hardcover, gilt; light toning to margins and edges of text block, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE MONGOLS.
For the First Time Done into English out of the Original Tongue and Provided with an Exegetical Commentary. Volume I. Translation.
Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 1982. 8vo., pp.lxv,277, blue cloth lettered in silver; from the library of Professor Bernard Hamilton, with ownership autograph to front free endpaper, light spotting to top edges, slight bruise to top edge of front board, else fresh and near-fine. No dust-jacket.
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THE SECRET MUSEUM: Pornography in Modern Culture.
University of California Press, 1996. 8vo., pp.xiv,318, paperback; creasing/shelfwear to wrappers, else very good.
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THE SECURITY SERVICE 1908-1945. The Official History.
Kew: Public Record Office, 1999. 8vo., pp.(iv),442, black hardcover lettered in silver, b/w illustrations; near-fine, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE SELECTED WRITINGS OF SIR EDWARD COKE.
Indiana: Liberty Fund, Inc, 2003. Three volumes, 8vo., pp.lxxxvii,520;1183;1468, paperback, b/w frontispieces; light creasing to front lower corner of wrapper to Volume II, light creasing to the laminate coating of the wrappers to the spine of Volume II, a fresh and near-fine set.
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THE SENSES IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. 8vo.,pp. xi,372, hardcover, gilt, b/w and colour illustrations; ownership bookplate to front paste down endpaper, a near-fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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THE SEPOY AND THE RAJ: THE INDIAN ARMY, 1860-1940.
Basingstoke, Macmillan Press Ltd, 1860. Reprint, 8vo., pp.xx,313, paperback; tiny crease to upper corner of front wrapper, a very good, fresh copy.
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THE SEPULCHRE OF CHRIST AND THE MEDIEVAL WEST. From the Beginning to 1600.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. 8vo., pp. xxii,427, black hardcover, gilt, many b/w illustrations and figures; ownership bookplate to front paste-down, otherwise internally clean, a very good copy indeed, in a vg+ dust-jacket.
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THE SERPENT’S PRESENCE.
The Golden Cockerel Press, 1954. Limited edition of 290 copies, this copy numbered 257, 8vo.,pp. 105, cream vellum, pictorial gilt to front board and gilt lettering to spine, b/w plates and frontispiece; very light toning and soiling to rear boards, otherwise a very good bright copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE SEVEN LIBERAL ARTS IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983. 8vo., pp.xiii,282, blue cloth lettered in black, b/w figures; pencilled annotations to margins, light sunning to margins of boards, else a very good, fresh copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which has 1cm closed tear to front upper margin, else very good.
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THE SEVEN LIBERAL ARTS IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986. 8vo., pp.xiii,282, paperback, 13 b/w figures; ownership bookplate to front wrapper verso, small note of price to inner margin of preliminary blank, a very good, fresh copy.
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THE SEVENTH CRUSADE 1244-1254
Sources and Documents.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. First edition, 8vo., pp.256, red hardcover (without dust-jacket as issued), gilt; a near fine copy.
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THE SEVENTH SENSE: FRANCIS HUTCHESON AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH AESTHETICS.
Oxford: Clarendon Press. Second, revised and enlarged edition, 8vo., pp.xiv,402, paperback, b/w frontispiece; light crease to spine, partial sunning to wrappers, else clean and very good.
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THE SHADOW OF THE WIND.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005. First illustrated edition, limited and signed, no. 430 of 1000 copies, colour pictorial hardcover, map design to endpapers, marble design to title and chapter titles, 14 monochromatic plates; very slight bruise to head of spine, very slight creasing to tail of spine, signed by author to limitation page, with previous owner’s autograph inkstamp to lower margin of same page, a fresh and near-fine copy, in matching near-fine slipcase, with very minimal shelfwear to upper margins, and lightly sunned to fore-edge.
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THE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY 1594-1642.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 8vo.,pp. xvi,339, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; creasing to p.287, otherwise a very good copy,in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities.
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THE SHAKESPEARE HEAD EDITION OF THE NOVELS OF ANTHONY TROLLOPE. [14 Volume Set: Complete Set of the Barsetshire Novels in 13 Volumes, plus An Autobiography].6
Barchester Towers I and II; Framley Parsonage I and II; The Small House at Allington I and II; The Warden; Dr. Thorne I and II; The Last Chronicle of Barset I-IV; An Autobiography.
Straford-upon-Avon: The Shakespeare Head Press, by Basil Blackwell, Oxford. Large paper edition, limited to 525 copies, 14 volumes, 8vo., uncut, green cloth, gilt, t.e.g.; offsetting and light foxing to free endpapers, some light foxing to fore-edges and to prelims, o/w bright and clean, light marking to front board of ‘Allington’ vol.I, a very good set.
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THE SHEPHERD FAMILY OF YORK 1664-1990.
York: 1998. Small 4to.,pp. 158,hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; a near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities, with slight staining to rear upper edge.
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THE SHIP.
London: John Harris, 1831. Second edition, square 12mo., pp.204, backed in red roan, gilt, green cloth boards, 16 engraved plates including frontispiece; ink ownership inscription to front paste-down endpaper, foxing to prelims and plates, light marking to cloth, light rubbing to head and foot of spines, with small spots of wear at corners, a very good copy.
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THE SHIP THAT SAILED TO MARS. A Fantasy.
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THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM.
Oxford: published by the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 2003. 8vo., pp.xcix,224, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; slight foxing to top edges, else fresh and near-fine, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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