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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 UNIVERSITIES OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE.
Baltimore/London: John Hopkins University Press, 2002. 8vo., pp.xx,592, blue cloth, gilt, 12 b/w illustrations, b/w map; a fresh and near-fine copy, in near-fine unclipped 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 UNKNOWN PHILOSOPHER: THE LIFE OF LOUIS CLAUDE DE SAINT-MARTIN AND THE SUBSTANCE OF HIS TRANSCENDENTAL DOCTRINE.
New York: Rudolf Steiner Publications. First edition thus, 8vo., pp.464, turquoise cloth, gilt; evidence of removed bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, foxing to fore-edges, some very light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, partially protected with adhesive plastic.
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THE UNNAMABLE.
New York: Grove Press Inc, 1958. First English edition, 8vo., pp.179, paperback; small ownership autograph to half title page, toned and lightly foxed to edges of text block with toning to margins, text otherwise clean, rubbed to extremities with light wear to head of spine and light creasing along hinge, otherwise very good.
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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 marking 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 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 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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THE VIGIL OF VENUS.
London: Frederick Muller Ltd. Signed, limited edition, no.39 of 250 copies signed by author and illustrator, small 4to., pp.50, quarter cream cloth, gilt, marbled paper-covered boards, wood-engraved plates and in-text illustrations; slight evidence of tape-marks to paste-down endpapers, light wear to paper at corners of boards, overall very good indeed.
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THE VIKINGS AND THE VICTORIANS:
Inventing the Old North in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Cambridge: B.S. Brewer. 8vo., pp.xv,434, blue cloth, gilt, 12 b/w illustrations; fresh and near-fine, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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