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A PACKET FOR EZRA POUND.
Shannon: Irish University Press/T.M. MacGlinchey, 1970. Facsimile reprint of the Cuala Press edition of 1929, 8vo., pp.(iv),38,(i), quarter oatmeal cloth, blue paper-covered boards lettered in black, with plain translucent paper jacket; owner’s neat nameplate to upper margin of front paste-down endpaper, else fine.
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A PAD IN THE STRAW.
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1952. First edition, small 8vo., pp.xi,235, green cloth, gilt; pictorial headpieces to chapters; light partial sunning to spine, overall a very good, fresh copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is just lightly chipped to extremities, with small closed tear to head of fold over upper joint. Now in a protective cover.
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A PLAY OF LOVE.
The Tudor Facsimile Texts.
Facsimile Edition, 4to.,pp. unpaginated, grey card boards, beige cloth spine with black lettering; toning to margins, ownership bookplate to front paste down endpaper, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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A POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY.
Arguments for Conservatism.
Continuum, 2006. First edition, 8vo., pp.x,214, black hardcover lettered in silver; a fine copy, in a very good+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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A POLYGLOT OF FOREIGN PROVERBS
Comprising French, Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Danish, with English Translations.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1857. Special presentation copy, 8vo., pp.iv,579,(xiv)advertisements, blind stamped green cloth with gilt panels and lettering, uncut; neat ownership signature pencilled in twice to prelims, gutter occasionally lightly visible between leaves, decorative blind stamping to spine, wear to cloth at lower corners of boards and light wear to upper corners, a very good copy.
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A RECORD OF D245 BATTERY, 1914-1919.
London: Renwick of Otley, 1931. First edition, 8vo., pp.(vi),182, textured blue cloth, gilt, b/w plates and figures, large folding map to rear of volume; b/w sellotape repair stain to inner margin between prelims, mostly erased (but still visible) scribbles to rear endpapers, paper repair to reverse of map, foxing to endpapers, a few marks to front board, rubbing to extremities, otherwise very good.
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A SHORT ACCOUNT OF MIDDLEHAM CASTLE AND CHURCH.
From ‘A Paper on ‘The Works of the Nevilles Round Darlington’.
London: Whiting & Co, 1887. 8vo., pp.4, comprises title, 3pp. of text, plus 2 b/w plates, bound into green cloth boards, gilt; from the library of Janet and C.R. Ashbee, with their nameplate to head of front paste-down endpaper, and inscribed to C.M. Ashbee on title page, a further heraldic bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, paste-action to free endpapers, foxing throughout, tobacco odour, overall a very good copy, with small spots of rubbing to extremities.
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A SHORT HISTORY OF THE CLAN ROBERTSON (CLANN DONNACHAIDH). Shewing How, When and Where the Clan Originated. With Historical Notes and Some Account of its Branches, Septs, and Dependants.
Stirling: Eneas Mackay, 1933. 8vo., pp.144, fawn cloth, burgundy lettering, coloured top edge; partial toning to endpapers, foxing to fore edges and very slightly to front endpapers, very slight rubbing to head of spine, a very good copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which is toned and lightly rubbed and scuffed to spine, slightly creased to upper edge, else very good.
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A SIP FROM THE WELL OF GRACE.
Medieval Texts From The Apostolic Penitentiary. Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Canon Law, Volume 7.
Washington, D.C: The Catholic University of America Press, 2009. 8vo., pp.xi,196, paperback, with accompanying CD ROM; neat ownership nameplate to front wrapper verso, very good indeed.
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A SKILFUL MASTER BUILDER.
The Continuing Story of a Yorkshire Family Business, Craftsmen for Seven Generations.
York: William Anelay Limited, 1975. 8vo., pp.viii,72, pictorial wrappers, b/w illustrations; a fresh and near-fine copy.
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A SLENDER REPUTATION.
An Autobiography.
London: Frederick Warne, 1994. First edition, 8vo., pp.288, black hardcover, gilt, 16pp. colour plates, numerous b/w illustrations; a very good copy indeed, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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A STORY OF JUDGESPORE, 1858.
London: Army and Navy Co-Operative Society, Ltd, 1858. 8vo., pp.52, half navy leather, cloth boards, unlettered spine with title in gilt to front board; toning to free endpapers, light wear to edges of leather, with a couple of small holes to rear inner margin, light partial sunning to cloth over front board, internally fine and fresh, a very good copy.
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A STUDY AND EDITION OF SELECTED MIDDLE ENGLISH SERMONS. Richard Alkerton’s Easter Week Sermon Preached at St Mary Spital in 1406, a Sermon on Sunday Observance, and a Nunnery Sermon for the Feast of the Assumption. Leeds Texts and Monographs, New Series 13.
Leeds: University of Leeds, 1994. Large 8vo., pp.xi,245, paperback; very slight creasing to wrappers, a fresh and overall very good+ copy.
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A STUDY OF INFLUENZA, AND THE LAWS OF ENGLAND CONCERNING INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
A Paper Read Before the Society of Medical Officers of Health, January 18th, 1892. To which is appended a paper on the Spread of Influenza by Contagion, read before the Epidemiological Society, May 20, 1891. And an Abstract of a Paper On the Prevention of the Spread of Epidemic Influenza, read at the Seventh International Congress of Hygiene and Demography, August 1891. Together with: Counsel’s Opinion on the Powers of Sanitary Authorities as to Influenza, and the Acts and Extracts from Acts relating to Infectious Diseases; the Provisional Memorandum on Epidemic Influenza, issued by the Local Government Board on January 25, 1892; and the Directions for Obtaining Ambulances for the Conveyance of Persons Suffering from Influenza, issued by the Metropolitan Asylums Board.
London: Longmans, Green and Co. 8vo., pp.119, green cloth, gilt; ex Royal Veterinary College Library, with inkstamp to title and to two further pages, publisher’s blindstamp to title, o.w internally fine, rubbing to extremities, small label to spine, o/w a very good, bright copy.
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A SURVEY OF DOMINICANS IN ENGLAND.
Based on the Ordination Lists in Episcopal Registers (1268 to 1538).
Rome: S. Sabina, 1967. 8vo., pp.497, uncut, paperback; scotch-tape reinforcement to fore-edges of wrappers and part of upper fold for spine, mildly ex library, with neat ownership nameplate and University Library plate to front wrapper verso, inkstamps to prelims, else clean, a very good copy, with creasing to spine of wrappers.
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A TALE OF THE HOUSE OF THE WOLFINGS AND ALL THE KINDREDS OF THE MARK WRITTEN IN PROSE AND IN VERSE.
London: Reeves and Turner. Second edition, adverts dated 1890, 8vo.,pp.199,29, burgundy cloth, with paper title label to spine; ownership autograph with small inscription to front free endpaper, foxing to endpapers, lightly toned and foxed to margins with chipping to edges of text block, cracking to inner hinge with webbing visible, boards working loose to front and rear endpapers, boards rubbed to extremities with light wear to corners and to head and foot of spine, light toning and a couple of stains to spine, title label heavily rubbed and worn with a small piece missing to edge, lettering still visible, a good copy. No dust-jacket.
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A TASTE FOR CHINA.
English Subjectivity and the Prehistory of Orientalism.
Oxford University Press, 2013. 8vo., pp.xi,282, black cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations; a fine copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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A THING OF NOUGHT.
London: Lovat Dickson and Thompson Limited, 1934. First edition, 8vo., pp.51, pictorial white paper-covered boards illustrated and lettered in black, b/w in-text illustrations; light wear and discolouration to edges of boards, light foxing to endpapers, a very good copy, with remant of original glassine dust-jacket (the front of jacket intact, the rear of jacket missing, and all now covered with a plastic wrapper).
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A TOPOGRAPHICAL CATALOGUE OF THE PRIVATE TOMBS OF THEBES.
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1913. First edition, folio, pp.45 + 15 full page plates, printed grey paper-covered boards backed in navy cloth, gilt; light wear to extremities of boards, slight marking/surface soil to boards, internally fresh, a very good copy.
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A TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE GUNPOWDER PLOT.
London: C. Dolman, 1851. 8vo., pp.xiv,127, brown cloth; toning to free endpapers, loss to lower corner of rear free endpaper, rubbing and light wear to extremities, with evidence of removed label across spine, and rubbing to front board, a good working copy.
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