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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT BURNS.
Edinburgh/London: Oliver and Boyd, 1964. 8vo., pp.xiii,396, teal cloth with stamped title-band, gilt; internally clean and very good, with dampstaining to boards, in unclipped dust-jacket which shows surface soil to pale paper, a good+ copy.
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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT OWEN, THE SOCIALIST 1771-1858.
The National Library of Wales. Second edition, revised and enlarged.
Aberystwyth/London: Published by the National Library of Wales, in association with the Press Board of the University of Wales/Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1925. 8vo., pp.viii,90, uncut, quarter beige cloth, lettered in black, with pale blue paper-covered boards, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, dated 1926, review notice pasted in to front paste-down endpaper; toning to margins of boards and to endpapers, a little foxing within, else very good.
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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF MAX BEERBOHM.
The Soho Bibliographies series.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1952. Tall 8vo., pp.x,60, red cloth, gilt; very good, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which has small closed tear and light rubbing to upper edge.
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A CRITICAL EDITION OF JOHN LYDGATE'S LIFE OF OUR LADY.
Duquesne Studies, Philological Series 2.
Pittsburgh: Duquesne University, 1961. Small 4to., pp.ix,742, blue cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; rubbing to extremities, with light marking to cloth, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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A DAUGHTER OF THE NARIKIN.
Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, 1932. First edition, 8vo., pp.x,325, uncut, black moire cloth, gilt, with blindstamped Japanese title to front board, top edges green, pictorial title page; bookseller’s label to front paste-down endpaper, light foxing to fore-edges, slight marking to lower edges, very slight wear at tailband, very slight bruising to corners, a very good copy.
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A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF JAMES FENIMORE COOPER.
New York: R.R. Bowker Company, 1934. 8vo., pp.xi,260, brown cloth, gilt, pictorial title, t.e.g.; light stain to lower edges/fore-edges at corner, else clean and very good.
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A DOUBLE SINGLENESS.
Gender and the Writings of Charles and Mary Lamb.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. 8vo., pp.x,220, navy cloth, gilt; near-fine in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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A FACSIMILE OF BODLEIAN LIBRARY, OXFORD, MS DOUCE 104.
Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, 1992. 8vo., pp.xciv,unpaginated facsimile, green cloth, black title band and gilt lettering to spine, colour plates, b/w figures and facsimile; lightly rubbed to extremities, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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A FEW LATE CHRYSANTHEMUMS.
London, John Murray. Frist edition, 8vo.,pp.vi,95, blue cloth, cream title label to front, black lettering; a very good copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities, lightly toned to spine, light surface soiling.
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A HALIFAX CIDER JAR.
With an appreciation of the potter, Isaac Button, by Barry L. Sheridan, Keeper of Exhibitions, Calderdale Museums Service.
Castleford: Yorkshire Art Circus, 1987. Limited edition, one of 100 copies illustrated by this artist, and one of 800 copies overall, 8vo., pp.21,(i), quarter green cloth, gilt, marbled boards with printed paper title label, 6 tipped in b/w plates; with loose advertisement for the publication, and invitation to the accompanying exhibition, a fine copy.
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A MIDDLE ENGLISH TRANSLATION FROM PETRARCH’S SECRETUM.
Early English Text Society O.S. 351.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 8vo., pp.lxviii,96, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; a near-fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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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 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 RABBIT IN THE AIR.
Notes from a Diary Kept While Learning to Handle an Aeroplane.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1932. First edition, 8vo., pp.ix,117, uncut, marbled cloth, gilt, t.e.g., 2 b/w plates; spine lightly sunned, foxing to fore-edges, a very good, clean copy. No dust-jacket.
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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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ABOUT LEVY.
A Novel.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1933. First edition, 8vo., pp.252, mustard cloth lettered in cream, b/w frontispiece and pictorial vignette to title; foxing to prelims and edges, else very good, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is creased to headband, with two small closed tears to rear upper edge, and slight surface soil to pale paper, very good and now in a protective cover.
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ABSALOM; CHRISTUS TRIUMPHANS.
Renaissance Latin Drama in England, Second Series, 5.
Hildesheim/Zurich/New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1988. 8vo., pp.iv,38(Introduction),(58),(xiv),121,(vii), paperback; slight creasing at corners of wrappers, a very good copy.
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ABSENT NARRATIVES, MANUSCRIPT TEXTUALITY, AND LITERARY STRUCTURE IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 8vo., pp.xix,284, green hardcover lettered in silver; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with author’s presentation inscription to title, a fresh and near-fine copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to front inner margin, otherwise fine.
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