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PUCK AND PEASEBLOSSOM IN LONDON.
London: Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, 1858. Tall 8vo., pp.(viii), pictorial paper wrappers, 8 hand-coloured wood-engravings by Edmund Evans; edgeworn, (occasionally extensive) horizontal closed tears from fore-edges, with archival tape repairs, a good+ copy of this extremely scarce illustrated chapbook.
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PUSHKIN’S FAIRY TALES.
London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1978. First edition thus, 4to., pp.94, black hardcover lettered in silver, b/w lithographic illustrations plates; slight perfumed odour, else very good indeed, in very good+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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RED FOX.
The Story of His Adventurous Career in the Ringwaak Wilds and of His Final Triumph over the Enemies of His Kind.
London: Duckworth and Company, 1945. First UK edition, 8vo., pp.xv,340, uncut, pictorial green cloth, pictorial spine, gilt, t.e.g., colour frontispiece with caption-sheet, pictorial half title and title, 48 b/w plates, 11 further vignettes, pictorial endpapers; light foxing to reverse of frontispiece, light toning to free endpapers, rubbing to extremities, with slight wear at headband, a very good, fairly bright copy, which is internally clean.
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RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM.
London: Constable and Company Limited, 1920. First edition thus, 4to., cream paper-covered boards, gilt, with inlaid circular colour plate to front board, tipped-in colour frontispiece and 5 further colour plates, 18 tipped-in b/w plates, 14 tipped-in b/w plates with colour accents, and 39 vignettes; small ink ownership inscription (dated 1920) to upper margin of front free endpaper, light toning/foxing to endpapers, otherwise internally fresh and very good indeed (plates are fine and without creasing), toning to spine and margins of boards, small closed tear to headband, light vertical crease to spine, light marking to boards (small water stain to front board, and extensive water-stain to rear board), rubbing and slight wear to extremities, overall a very good copy.
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SATYRS AND SUNLIGHT.
Being the Collected Poetry of Hugh McCrae.
London: The Fanfrolico Press. Limited edition, no.11 of 550 copies, 4to., pp.xix,176, full green morocco, gilt, with small pictorial gilt image to front board, handmade paper by Barcham Green, deckle edges, b/w frontispiece, pictorial title, pictorial half title, pictorial colophon, b/w collotype and gravure plates; (sympathetic) pictorial ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, spine and margins of boards browned (gilt remains bright), light rubbing to the leather, such that the surface colour has been lifted, light toning to fore-edges of leaves, a fresh and otherwise fine copy.
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SHAKESPEARE'S HEROINES.
London/New York: J.M. Dent/E.P. Dutton, 1901. First edition thus, 8vo., pp.xii,379, uncut, pictorial green cloth, gilt, pictorial spine in gilt, t.e.g., frontispiece with tissue guard, pictorial titles and decorative headpieces in red and black; school prize bookplate, dated 1907, to front paste-down endpaper, superficial paper-cracking to inner hinges (textblock sits slightly proud in its casing), toning to half title, foxing to prelims, light vertical crease to spine, a good, fairly bright copy of this scarce illustrated title.
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SILVER BUBBLES.
A New Book of Nursery Rhymes.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons. 4to., pp.(20),(20), cloth-backed pictorial boards, 20 colour plates (rectos) with accompanying verse to versos, neat ink ownership gift inscription to front paste-down endpaper (dated ‘[19]04’), free endpapers toned, the ‘s’ of ‘Bubbles’ to front board has been coloured red, wear to corners, light wear to paper covering alone edges, light wear to head- and tailbands, surface soil to pale paper of rear board, a little light fingermarking to margins, overall a good+ copy.
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SONGS OF INNOCENCE.
Reproduced In Facsimile From An Original Copy Of The Work Printed In The British Museum.
London: Ernest Benn Ltd, 1926. First edition thus; 8vo., unpaginated colour facsimile, black cloth, gilt, with decorative borders in gilt, full colour facsimile plates throughout; light partial toning to endpapers, slight wear to cloth at head and foot of spine, a very good copy, in an unclipped pictorial dust jacket, which is toned to spine, with some light foxing, toning and surface soil to the pale paper, light chipping to extremities, and small closed tear to front lower margin, else very good.
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SPORT IN WAR.
London: Collins, 1936. Signed, limited edition, no. 32 of 75 copies signed by author and artist, folio, pp.98, quarter green leather, gilt, green cloth boards, t.e.g., colour frontispiece, colour and b/w plates, b/w illustrations; small ownership autograph to front free endpaper, foxing to fore-edges, rubbing to head and tailbands, with a few further small scuffs to leather, a very good copy. Housed in rather worn card slipcase, with remnants of removed label to side panel.
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TALES, POETRY, AND FAIRY TALES.
London: W. Brown. First edition, 8vo., pp.vi,181, quarter unlettered cloth, paper-covered boards, illustrated with 90 woodcut illustrations, including frontispiece and pictorial title; rubbing and wear to extremities, with some loss to paper covering of boards, water-staining to front board/front endpapers, internally clean and very good, a good copy overall.
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TANNHAUSER.
A Dramatic Poem.
London: George G. Harrap and Co. Signed, limited deluxe edition, no.283 of 525, signed by Pogany, 4to., unpaginated, publisher’s full pictorial vellum, gilt, pictorial endpapers, tipped-in colour plates, b/w plates, decorations in colour throughout; a fine copy.
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TENNYSON’S MAY QUEEN: THE MAY QUEEN, IN ILLUMINATED BORDERS.
London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1876. Small 4to., pictorial and decorative bevelled green cloth stamped in gilt and black, a.e.g., full colour plates, each with plain protective leaf; ink ownership inscription, dated 1876, to front free endpaper, toning to protective leaves, toning and foxing to free endpapers, and some foxing to reverse of plates, a little rubbing to extremities, an unusually bright copy, very good indeed.
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THE ADVENTURES OF ALCASSIM:
An Iranian Entertainment.
London: Johnathan Cape, 1936. First edition, 8vo., pp.352, red cloth lettered in black, b/w frontispiece, 13 further b/w plates plus pictorial headpieces; slight loss to lower corner of front free endpaper and crease to upper corner of front free endpaper, light foxing to fore-edges, light mottling to corners of front board, a very good copy, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is toned to pale paper, with light surface soil, publisher’s price sticker to foot of spine, and slight wear to extremities - now in a protective cover.
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THE AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF CAPTAIN CASTAGNETTE,
Nephew of the ‘Man With the Wooden Head’.
London: S.O. Beeton, 1866. First edition, 4to., pp.68, recased with new endpapers, spine professionally repaired, publisher’s brown leather, front board lettered in gilt, all edges red, 43 b/w illustrations, including full-page plates, by Gustave Dore, parchment tape repair (over text) to p.61 (text remains legible), light wear to corners of plate at p.33 (the image itself is not affected, but there is a small crease and light loss at the fore-corners), light surface soil, fingermarking and light creasing within, rubbing and light wear to extremities, a good(+) copy of this scarce title.
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THE BORROWERS.
London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. First edition, 8vo., pp.159, deluxe pictorial full blue morocco, gilt, 5 raised bands, gilt decorations to compartments, colour frontispiece plate, pictorial endpapers and numerous in-text illustrations (monochromatic; printed in brown); a fine copy.
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THE COWSLIP, OR, MORE CAUTIONARY STORIES IN VERSE.
London: J. Harris/B. Crosby, 1811. 12mo., pp.68,(iv)adverts, decorative paper-covered card wrappers with printed paper label to front and pictorial vignette pasted down to rear, 29 engraved illustrations; some wear to paper covering of spine, light rubbing to extremities, otherwise very good indeed.
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THE ENGLISH DANCE OF DEATH, FROM THE DESIGNS OF THOMAS ROWLANDSON, WITH METRICAL ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR OF DOCTOR SYNTAX.
London: R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, printed by J. Diggens, 1815. First edition, two volumes bound as one, pp.vii,295,(iv),299,(iv)Index, paper-backed plain card boards, 74 hand-coloured plates, including frontispiece, additional engraved title; prelims working loose, a fine unsophisticated copy in the original boards.
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THE FARMER’S YEAR: A Calendar of English Husbandry.
Reissued by The Sumach Press, Oblong 4to.,pp.56, hardcover, black lettering, b/w plates, pictorial endpapers; light rubbing to foot of spine, o/w a near-fine copy, in a very good price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has rubbing and soiling, with some light surface scratches to rear.
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THE GIRL AND THE FAUN.
London: Cecil Palmer & Hayward, 1916. First edition, 4to., pp.78, pictorial brown cloth stamped in black, small pictorial paper title label to spine, colour frontispiece and 3 further colour plates, all with tissue guards, pictorial title printed in orange, and decorative pictorial borders throughout; light toning to margins, light marking to front board, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, bearing the same design as the front board, which is a little chipped and worn to the extremities, with a few neat paper-reinforcements to reverse of closed tears, but overall very good.
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THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER.
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