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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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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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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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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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THE SONGS OF THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD.
London/Edinburgh: T.N. Foulis, 1916. First edition, small 8vo., pp.(ii),152,(iv) adverts, bound in decoratively blindstamped reverse calf wrappers, gilt, t.e.g., untrimmed paper, 6 tipped-in colour illustrations by Jessie M. King (frontispiece, decorative title, one double-page plate and 3 single-page plates, all with tissue-guards); neat ink ownership gift inscription, dated 1916, to foot of front free endpaper, toning to half title and final page of adverts, toning at inner hinges, spine lightly sunned, a very good copy indeed.
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THE SOUTHWOLD DIARY OF JAMES MAGGS 1818-1867. [Two Volumes.] Volume I: 1818-1848. Volume II: 1848-1867. (Suffolk Records Society Volumes XXV and XXVI)
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, for the Suffolk Records Society, 1983. Two volumes, 8vo., pp.ix,149;vii,183, olive hardcover, gilt, pictorial endpapers, b/w frontispiece, 10 further b/w illustrations to volume I, 5 further b/w illustrations to volume II; volume I contains ink inscription to front free endpaper verso, and is very slightly rubbed to extremities, otherwise very good indeed, volume II contains editor’s ink inscription to front free endpaper verso and signature to title and is very lightly rubbed to extremities, otherwise very good indeed, both in unclipped pictorial dust jackets which are lightly shelf-worn and very slightly soiled but otherwise very good.
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THE SPIRIT OF COLOURS: THE ART OF KARL GERSTNER.
Nine Picture Chapters and Selected Essays.
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1981. Large 8vo.,pp. 225, black cloth, grey lettering, b/w and colour illustrations and fold-outs; light toning to edges of text block, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities.
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THE SPIRIT OF THE OXFORD MOVEMENT. And Newman’s Place in History.
London: The Saint Austin Press, 2001. 8vo., pp. xiii, 153, burgundy cloth, gilt; ownership autograph to front paste-down endpaper, else internally clean, a very good copy indeed, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE SPIRITUALLY BENEFICIAL TALES OF PAUL, BISHOP OF MONEMBASIA
and other Authors.
Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1996. First edition, 8vo., pp.223, fonispiece, hardcover: a near fine copy in unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE ST. ALBANS CHRONICLE, Volume I. 1376-1394. Volume II 1394-1422. The Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003. 8vo., pp.cxviii,1030,c,888, navy hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece and two further b/w plates to Vol I; a fine set, in vg unclipped dust-jackets, which are sunned to spine and are now in protective covers.
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THE STAR AND CRESCENT.
Being the Story of the 17th Cavalry from 1858 to 1922.
Naval and Military Press in association with The Imperial War Museum. Facsimile reprint, 8vo., pp.xii,358, paperback, b/w illustrations; light vertical crease to front wrapper and peeling to laminate coating of wrappers at fore-margins, else very good, and internally fine.
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THE STATE OF DRAWING: GESTURE AND ACT. Selected from the Tate Collection.
New York: Tate Publishing and The Drawing Center, 2003. 4to.,pp. 284, pictorial hardcover, white lettering, b/w and colour illustrations and fold-outs, colour frontispiece; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, occasional underlining and annotation in pencil, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has a small puncture mark to front.
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THE STATESMAN'S BOOK OF JOHN OF SALISBURY.
Being the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Books, and Selections from the Seventh and Eighth Books, of the POLICRATICUS.
New York: Russell and Russell, 1963. 8vo., pp.xc,410, black cloth, gilt; ex library, with inkstamp to rear free endpaper, p.410, and to upper and lower edges, inkstamp to title verso, remains of removed bookplates to front free endpaper, and very slight evidence of removed sticker to foot of spine, an otherwise very good copy, which is internally clean and fresh. No dust-jacket.
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THE STOIC TRADITION FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES. [Two volumes:]
I. Stoicism in Classical Latin Literature. II. Stoicism in Christian Latin Thought through the Sixth Century.
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1985. Two volumes, 8vo., pp.xii,446;xii,336, blue cloth, gilt; from the library of Gordon Leff, with ownership inscription to front paste-down endpaper of both volumes, light spotting to top edges, otherwise fine, in very good unclipped dust-jackets, of which jacket to volume II has two small closed tears to rear upper edge.
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THE STONE DRAGON AND OTHER TRAGIC ROMANCES.
Charleston, South Carolina: Charon House, 1998. Limited edition facsimile reprint of the 1894 first edition, with the addition of two b/w plates by Larry Creasy, and one by Brandon Lennert and Larry Creasy, as well as numerous pictorial headpieces and tailpieces chosen to appear sympathetic and contemporaneous with the original text, and not present in any previous edition, no. 207 of 250 copies, 8vo., pp.208, black cloth, silver gilt, 3 b/w plates, pictorial head- and endpieces and illuminated letters; a fresh and near-fine copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket with design by Larry Creasy, which is sunned to spine and margins, else near-fine.
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THE STORY OF BLUE BEARD.
London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1895. First edition, 8vo., pp.62, uncut, pictorial green cloth stamped in navy, and lettered in navy to spine, both boards fully decorated, pictorial headpiece to half title, pictorial title lettered in red, full pictorial and decorative Arts and Crafts style borders to text throughout, as well as 8 black and white plates, pictorial vignette to p.62; toning to free endpapers, light rubbing to extremities, a fresh and bright copy of this scarce volume, a very good copy indeed.
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THE STORY OF DAVID.
Reprinted from the authorised version with 11 wood-engravings by John Farleigh.
London: A & C Black Ltd, 1934. First edition thus, 8vo., pp.140, yellow cloth, black lettering, eleven b/w wood engravings by John Farleigh; neat ownership nameplate to front paste-down endpaper, foxing to top edges, some foxing within, largely to early leaves, slight toning to endpapers, a very good copy, in a very good price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket, rubbed with very slight chipping to extremities, and now in protective covering.
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THE STORY OF PETERLOO, WRITTEN FOR THE CENTENARY, AUGUST 16, 1919. Pre-print of an Article which is to appear in “The Bulletin of the John Reynlds Library”, April- October, 1919.
Manchester: At the University Press, 1919. 8vo.,pp. 45, printed wrappers, b/w illustrations, b/w fold-out plan; toned to title page and margins throughout, wrappers heavily rubbed, chipped to extremities and spine, with loss to head and foot of spine, toned and foxed to margins and toned and cracked to spine, contents still firm, a good copy.
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THE STORY OF STONES AND STONEMASONS IN AND AROUND SWAINBY.
Joan Hartley, 1995. 4to.,pp. 50, pictorial wrappers, b/w illustrations; light creasing to wrappers, otherwise a very good copy.
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THE STORY OF THE ROYAL WARWICKSHIRE REGIMENT (FORMERLY THE SIXTH FOOT).
London: published at the Offices of ‘Country Life’ Ltd./New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 8vo., pp.x,235, pictorial full vellum, gilt, t.e.g., colour frontispiece, 12 b/w plates and 26 b/w illustrations, 4 folding maps to rear of volume; light toning to endpapers, foxing and toning to spine, with some further foxing and light toning to boards, overall a very good copy.
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