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  • Edited by: WAGNER, David L.
    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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  • JACKSON, Peter, (Translator)
    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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  • KIVY, Peter.
    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. by ZAFON, Carlos Ruiz; translated by GRAVES, Lucia. [Signed by the author]
    ZAFON, Carlos Ruiz; translated by GRAVES, Lucia. [Signed by the author]
    THE SHADOW OF THE WIND.

    London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005. First illustrated edition, limited and signed, no. 430 of 1000 copies, 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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  • TROLLOPE, Anthony. Edited by SADLEIR, Michael.
    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]. 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.; toning and light foxing to free endpapers, some light foxing to fore-edges and to prelims, light marking to the front board of ‘The Small House at Allington’, Volume I, a fresh, bright set, overall very good indeed.

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  • SHEPHERD, Donald Welton.
    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. by TAYLOR, Rev. Isaac.
    TAYLOR, Rev. Isaac.
    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. by Told and pictured by TIMLIN, William M.
    Told and pictured by TIMLIN, William M.
    THE SHIP THAT SAILED TO MARS. A Fantasy.

    London: George G. Harrap & Company Limited. First edition, 4to., 48 mounted pages of calligraphic text, 48 mounted colour plates, publisher’s vellum-backed boards, spine elaborately decorated in gilt; foxing to title and dedication pages, and, lightly, to first text leaf, foxing and toning to endpapers, occasional foxing within, particularly at inner margins, very slight rubbing and minor darkening to head and tail of spine, paper worn at corners of boards, but spine quite bright with clear gilt decoration, overall about very good, in a rather worn and heavily repaired dust-jacket with archival tape to reverse, which has creasing, closed tears and minor loss to extremities, as well as some marking to the paper (splash-marking to front of jacket), but…

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    London: George G. Harrap & Company Limited. First edition, 4to., 48 mounted pages of calligraphic text, 48 mounted colour plates, publisher’s vellum-backed boards, spine elaborately decorated in gilt; foxing to title and dedication pages, and, lightly, to first text leaf, foxing and toning to endpapers, occasional foxing within, particularly at inner margins, very slight rubbing and minor darkening to head and tail of spine, paper worn at corners of boards, but spine quite bright with clear gilt decoration, overall about very good, in a rather worn and heavily repaired dust-jacket with archival tape to reverse, which has creasing, closed tears and minor loss to extremities, as well as some marking to the paper (splash-marking to front of jacket), but largely complete and now in protective cover. (Please see photographs).

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  • THE SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF WALSINGHAM. by DICKINSON, J.C.
    DICKINSON, J.C.
    THE SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF WALSINGHAM.

    Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1956. 8vo., pp.xiii,151, blue cloth, gilt, 9 b/w plates, fold-out architectural plan; ownership plate to front free endpaper, very slight foxing to endpapers, internal threading slightly visible, very slight soiling to fore-edge, light rubbing and toning to boards, else a very good copy, in a price-clipped dust-jacket which is lightly soiled and rubbed, else good + now in a protective cover.

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  • HANNA, Ralph; LAWTON, David.
    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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  • THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM. by KOLBING, E; DAY, Mabel.
    KOLBING, E; DAY, Mabel.
    THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM. Edited from Ms. Laud. MISC. 656 with Variants from all Other Extant MSS.

    Oxford: Early English Text Society, 1971. 8vo.,pp. xxxi,133, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, foxing to cloth, small tearing to upper margin of p.xv, annotation in red ink to p.28, otherwise very good. No dust-jacket.

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  • THE SILENT ROAD by POLE, Wellesley Pole.
    POLE, Wellesley Pole.
    THE SILENT ROAD In the Light of Personal Experience.

    Suffolk: Neville Spearman, 1978. 8vo., pp.xiii,223, hardcover, gilt; foxing to fore-edge of text block, rubbed to extremities, light soil to very bottom of lower margin of boards, light tobacco aroma, else a good+ copy in a fair unclipped dust-jacket, worn to extremities, rubbed generally, some light surface soil.

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  • Illustrated by: BERESFORD EGAN; Preface by P.R. STEPHENSEN
    THE SINK OF SOLITUDE Being a Series of Satirical Drawings occasioned by some Recent Events performed by BERESFORD EGAN, Gent, to which is added a Preface by P.R. STEPHENSEN, Gent, and a Verse Lampoon composed by SEVERAL HANDS and now set forth for the first time, the whole very proper to be read both on Family and Public Occasions.

    London: Hermes Press, 1928. 4to., pp. v,19. paperback, printed yellow wrappers, 5 full page b/w plates; slight crease to upper corners, minor area of loss to upper corner of front wrapper, rubbing to extremities, wrappers partially worn along spine, light surface soil to wrappers, internally clean, overall a very good copy.

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  • THE SISTERS OF THE CAVERN. by SMYTHE, E.A.
    SMYTHE, E.A.
    THE SISTERS OF THE CAVERN. An Interesting Tale, From the French of Madame de Herbster.

    Boston: James Loring, 1823. 12mo., pp.106, black calf-backed marbled boards, gilt, engraved frontispiece; toning and foxing to margins, wear to extremities of paper covering of boards, rbbing to boards, a very good copy.

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  • THE SLEEPY FISHWIFE. by Clare Leighton.
    Clare Leighton.
    THE SLEEPY FISHWIFE.

    1930. Original woodcut, printed onto Japan paper. From a limited edition of 450 copies. Mounted in a double acid-free mount, measuring W 32.6 x L 30 cms; the plate itself measures W 16.1 x L 13.5 cms. [Nb. Extra postage may be required.]

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  • THE SMALL HOUSE IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LONDON. by GUILLERY, Peter. Drawings by Andrew Donald, and new photographs by Derek Kendall.
    GUILLERY, Peter. Drawings by Andrew Donald, and new photographs by Derek Kendall.
    THE SMALL HOUSE IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LONDON. A Social and Architectural History.

    New Haven/London: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, by Yale University Press, in association with English Heritage, 2004. 4to., pp.vii,351, red hardcover, gilt, colour frontispiece, colour and b/w illustrations; near-fine, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.

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  • THE SNAIL THAT CLIMBED THE EIFFEL TOWER by CROSS, ODO. Illustrated by John Minton.
    CROSS, ODO. Illustrated by John Minton.
    THE SNAIL THAT CLIMBED THE EIFFEL TOWER And Other Stories.

    London: John Lehmann, 1947. First edition in a second state binding, tall 8vo., pp.86, unlettered grey hardcover, colour plates and b/w illustrations, pictorial endpapers; light toning to half title, light toning at head and foot of spine, very slight bruising at extremities, a very good+ copy, in a price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has chipping to corners and loss at head and foot of spine, otherwise complete and very good.

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  • BRIGGS, Raymond.
    THE SNOWMAN.

    London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978. First edition, 4to., pp.(32)unpaginated, colour-illustrated throughout, glazed pictorial boards; a near fine copy.

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  • William of Tudela and an anonymous successor. Translated by: SHIRLEY, Janet.
    THE SONG OF THE CATHAR WARS: A History of the Albigensian Crusade.

    Aldershot: Scolar Press. 8vo., pp.xiii,210, red hardcover, gilt, 7 b/w maps and figures; toning to margins, else very good indeed. No dust-jacket.

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  • CATHER, Willa.
    THE SONG OF THE LARK.

    London: Cassell and Company, 1938. First UK edition, 8vo.,pp. viii,580, red cloth, gilt; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, foxed and off set to endpapers and to title page, light toning to margins and light foxing to edges of text block, sunned to spine and margins of boards, with some soiling to rear and light rubbing to extremities, otherwise a very good copy. No dust-jacket.

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