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THE TYROLESE: By the Author of ‘Claudine’ - ‘Always Happy,’ &c. &c.
London: Harris and Son. First edition, 12mo., pp.xii,156, b/w engraved frontispiece and 5 plates, quarter-calf, with pictorial paper boards, gilt; some rubbing at head and tail, corners bumped and worn, with small loss to upper rear corner, slightly pencil-marked, first free endpaper removed, contents lightly foxed, a good copy.
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THE UNAPPROPRIATED PEOPLE: Freedman in the Slave Society of Barbados.
Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1974. 8vo.,pp. xii,225, yellow cloth, gilt, b/w tables and figures; light foxing to edges of text block and to endpapers, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities with a small indentation to spine.
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THE UNCORRECTED BILLY CHILDISH.
London: The Tangerine Press, 2018. Large 8vo., pp.187, paperback, b/w decorations; light shelfwear to wrappers, very good.
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THE UNIVERSE OF SUNS,
And Other Science Gleanings. A New Edition.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1905. 8vo., pp.vi,401, blue cloth, gilt, 11 b/w illustrations including folding plate; foxing and toning to free endpapers, rubbing to extremities, light marking to cloth, overall very good. No dust-jacket.
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THE UNKNOWN CATACOMB.
A Unique Discovery of Early Christian Art.
New Lanark: Geddes & Grosset. 4to., pp.180, blue cloth, gilt, 150 illustrations, largely in colour; ownership blindstamp to front free endpaper, a very good copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE UNRETURNING SPRING.
Being the Poems, Sketches, Stories, and Letters of James Farrar.
London: Williams and Norgate Ltd, 1950. First edition, 8vo., pp.242, green cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece portrait; sunning to spine and margins of boards, a very good copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly marked to spine and just lightly rubbed with slight creasing to extremities.
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THE UNVARNISHED DOCTRINE:
Locke, Liberalism, and the American Revolution.
Durham/London: Duke University Press, 1990. 8vo., pp.x,247, black cloth lettered in red; light water-staining to lower margin of front board, else very good indeed, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE URBAN DIALOGUE.
An Analysis of the Use of Space in the Roman City of Empúries, Spain. BAR International Series 901.
Oxford: Archaeopress. 4to., pp.vi,132, paperback; slight shelfwear to wrappers, a near-fine copy.
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THE USATGES OF BARCELONA:
The Fundamental Law of Catalonia.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 8vo., pp.xii,140, paperback; small ownership autograph to half title, very slight crease to lower corner of front wrapper, otherwise near-fine.
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THE USE OF GRAVE-GOODS IN CONVERSION-PERIOD ENGLAND C.600 - C. 850.
BAR British Series 261
Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1997. 4to., pp.x,340, paper wrappers, many b/w illustrations, maps and tables accompany the text throughout; partially disbound but all pages present, light rubbing to wrappers, creases to spine and bottom rear corner, a good+ clean copy.
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THE USE OF HEREFORD.
The Sources of Medieval English Diocesan Rite.
Ashgate, 2015. 8vo., pp.xxxi,830, black hardcover, silver, b/w frontispiece and 7 b/w illustrations; a near-fine copy.
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THE USES OF PLANTS. With Special Reference to Vegetable Products Introduced During the Last Fifty Years.
London: Roper and Drowley, 1889. First edition, pocket 8vo., pp.224, green cloth with red leather title label, gilt; light rubbing to endpapers, rubbing and light marking to cloth, slight chipping to label, internally clean, a very good copy.
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THE VALOIS.
Kings of France 1328-1589.
London: Hambledon and London, 2004. 8vo.,pp. xii,276, hardcover, gilt, b/w plates, genealogical table; ownership inscription to front paste down endpaper, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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THE VARIORUM EDITION OF THE POEMS OF W.B. YEATS.
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co, 1973. Sixth impression, 8vo., pp.xxxv,884, blue cloth, gilt; foxing to top edges, slight roll to spine, a very good copy, in very good gently price-clipped dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed and chipped to extremities.
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THE VERMILION BIRD: T’ang Images of the South.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967. 8vo.,pp. viii,380, paperback; slight creasing to lower edge, a very good copy.
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THE VERNACULAR WORKSHOP.
From Craft To Industry, 1400-1900.
York: Council for British Archaeology, 2004. 4to., pp.xv,201, paperback, b/w illustrations; crease to lower corner of rear wrapper and pp.189-201, light rubbing to edges of wrappers, else clean and very good.
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THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM.
The History of its Building.
Oxford: Phaidon/Christie’s, 1982. Small 4to., pp.288, olive cloth, gilt, colour plates and numerous b/w illustrations; a very good, clean copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE VICTORIAN WORKING-CLASS WRITER.
London/New York: Cassell, 1999. 8vo., pp.viii,164, pictorial glazed hardcover; a very good, clean copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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THE VICTORIANS AND RENAISSANCE ITALY.
Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1992. 8vo.,pp. xi,308, hardcover, silver lettering, b/w illustrations; very light soiling to upper edge of text block, otherwise near-fine, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is slightly sunned to spine.
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THE VICTORS AND THE VANQUISHED, Christians and Muslims of Catalonia and Aragon, 1050-1300.
Cambridge University Press, 2004. 8vo., pp.xxiv,449, black hardcover, gilt; from the library of D.E. Luscombe, with small ownership autograph to front free endpaper, a fine, fresh copy, in fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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