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THORSTEIN OF THE MERE: A SAGA OF THE NORTHMEN IN LAKELAND.
London: Edward Arnold, Publisher to the India Office, 1895. First edition, 8vo., pp.(iv),328, uncut, pictorial brown cloth, gilt, frontispiece and pictorial title, b/w plates and illuminated letters; colour postcard tipped in the rear paste-down endpaper, foxing to prelims, with ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper, rubbing to extremities, gilt to spine a little dulled, a good++ copy.
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AMERICA, A PROPHECY.
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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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THE TWELVE MONETHS, OR, A PLEASANT AND PROFITABLE DISCOURSE OF EVERY ACTION, WHETHER OF LABOUR OR RECREATION,
Proper to Each Particular Moneth, by Matthew Stevenson 1661, Together with a Diary for 1929.
London: The Cresset Press Ltd., printed at The Alcuin Press, 1929. 8vo., unpaginated, patterned cloth, with stamped title-label to front board, and cream leather label to spine, gilt, t.e.g., 12 b/w wood-engraved plates; owner’s name gilt-lettered to lower corner of front board, slight tone to edges, slight sunning to spine, a very good, clean copy, in worn glassine wrapper.
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A DOG OF WAR.
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1927. Limited edition, no. 28 of 375 copies, tall 8vo., pp.32, quarter orange buckram, gilt, orange paper-covered boards, coloured frontispiece and 4 further hand-coloured plates; toning and some foxing to endpapers, light foxing within, spine just lightly sunned, with light surface soil to boards and wear to paper covering at lower corners of boards, overall a very good copy, in good(+) unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, partially toned, with closed tears and light loss to upper margin.
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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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ATTA TROLL.
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1913. 12mo., pp.v,185, vellum-backed with paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt, with pictorial insignia to spine in red, untrimmed edges, top edges red, ribbon bookmark, 5 b/w illustrations to beginning of volume, headpieces and vignettes to text, pictorial endpapers; light foxing to margins, light toning to spine, a very good+ copy.
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MISTER BOSPHORUS AND THE MUSES.
Or, A Short History of Poetry in Britain: Variety Entertainment in Four Acts. With Harlequinade, Transformation Scene, Cinematograph Effects, and Many Other Novelties, as well as Old and Tried Favourites.
London: Duckworth & Co. First edition, 4to., pp.126, cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards, 11 wood-engraved plates by Paul Nash, as well as front cover illustration; partial toning and foxing to endpapers and half title, lower corners of boards lightly bumped, with light toning to margins of boards, internally clean, a very good copy, in good(+) unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is toned, with light chipping to the extremities, slight loss at head and foot of spine, and with 4cm closed tear to front of jacket (not affecting the plate).
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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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OF THE IMITATION OF CHRIST. In Four Books.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co. Ltd, 1898. Limited edition of 660 copies, 8vo., pp.xii,324 in full vellum wrappers, gilt, b/w frontispiece, decorative title page, 3 further b/w plates with tissue-guards, illuminated letters and tailpieces, titles printed in red; foxing to plate at p.111, with toning to adjacent text, superficial split to vellum at foot of spine, a near-fine copy of this scarce volume.
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NARROW BOAT.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1945. Second printing, 8vo., pp.212, green cloth lettered in white, b/w frontispiece and numerous illustrations within; light bruising to corners, a very good copy, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has loss to head/foot of spine and corners of front panel, as well as 5cm closed tear and crease from front lower margin.
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WALLPAPERS BY EDWARD BAWDEN PRINTED AT THE CURWEN PRESS.
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HOME LIFE WITH CATS.
London: Grafton, imprint of HarperCollins, 1992. First edition, 8vo.,pp. 64, pictorial hardcover, colour illustrations; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, a few small indentations along margins of boards, very slight tobacco odour, a good copy. No dust-jacket.
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CHIN-PAO AND THE GIANT PANDAS.
London: Country Life, 1939. First edition, 8vo., pp.83, blue-grey cloth lettered in black, colour frontispiece, 3 further colour plates and numerous b/w illustrations; ink ownership autograph to front paste-down endpaper (covered by flap of dust-jacket), spine lightly rolled, with sunning/toning to spine, a slight surface soil to boards, overall a very good copy, in pictorial price-clipped dust-jacket, which has creasing and tears to edges, with some loss, and apx. 4mms loss to head of spine.
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TWO OLD LADIES, TWO FOOLISH FAIRIES AND A TOM CAT. The Surprising Adventures of Tuppy and Tue. With Coloured Plates and Other Illustrations by Arthur Rackham.
London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1897. First edition, 8vo., pp.190,(xviii)publisher’s adverts, pictorial blue cloth, gilt, with blindstamped decoration to rear board, t.e.g., colour frontispiece with tissue guard, 3 further colour plates and 19 b/w plates, decorative endpapers; light blindstamp to front free endpaper, finger mark to title verso, light foxing to fore-edges, slight rubbing to extremities, a near-fine copy. The first book to include colour plates by Rackham.
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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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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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VERSAILLES AND THE TRIANONS.
London: William Heinemann, 1906. Signed, limited edition, no. 48 of 100 copies, 4to., pp.viii,305, uncut, full vellum, gilt, t.e.g., tipped-in colour frontispiece and plates with caption sheets; loss to corner of mounted plate at p.163, paper-cracking to front inner hinge, with webbing visible (board firm), surface soil and light wear to edges of endpapers, a very good copy.
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NEW LION AND THE UNICORN FIGHTING FOR THE CROWN.
Dean and Co, 1845. Tall 8vo., pp.8, sewn pictorial wrappers, illustrated with one full-page and 7 half-page hand-coloured wood engravings; light partial water-staining from fore-margins, light surface soil to wrappers, with a little chipping along spine, illustrations bright, a good+ copy of this very scarce pamphlet.
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BLIGHTY PIN-UP AND CARTOON ANNUAL.
London: Blighty, City Magazines Ltd. Small 4to., pp.98, paperback with pictorial colour wrappers, b/w illustrations throughout as well as folding colour plate; light surface soiling to wrappers, internally clean and overall a very good copy.
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