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  • WARNER, Sylvia Townsend.
    A SPIRIT RISES.

    London: Chatto and Windus, 1962. First edition, 8vo., pp.210, green cloth. gilt; a fresh and near-fine copy, in a very good pictorial dust-jacket, which has light chipping to headband and closed tear to rear upper margin.

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  • BURTON, Richard.
    A STRONG SONG TOWS US. The Life of Basil Bunting.

    Oxford: Infinite Ideas, 2013. First edition, 8vo.,pp.,618, black hardcover, silver lettering many b/w photos; small marking on fore-edge, o/w a near fine copy in very good unclipped 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. by MORRIS, William.
    MORRIS, William.
    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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  • YEATS, W.B. Selected and Edited by, JEFFARES, A. Norman.
    A VISION AND RELATED WRITINGS.

    London: An Arena Book, 1990. 8vo.,pp. xx,459, paperback, b/w illustrations; university bookshop re-sale stamp and written price to front cover verso and a faded impression of the stamp to half title page, toning to margins, light creasing to spine and extremities of covers, with a small scuff mark to lower spine, otherwise a very good copy.

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  • A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS. by LINDSAY, David.
    LINDSAY, David.
    A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS.

    Great Britain: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 2003. 8vo., pp.,280, paperback; creasing to spine with knock to lower part, edges lightly worn, o/w a very good copy.

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  • Edited by, DOR, Juliette.
    A WYF THER WAS. Essays in Honour of Paule Mertens-Fonck.

    Liege: Liege Language and Literature, 1992. 8vo.,pp. 300, paperback; ownership autograph to half title page, toned to margins, creasing to spine, light wear to head of spine at its rear corner, otherwise a very good copy.

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  • WATSON, Thomas; FOXE, John. Prepared with an Introduction by: SMITH, John Hazel.
    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. by SCALA, Elizabeth.
    SCALA, Elizabeth.
    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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  • ALCHEMY, MEDICINE, AND COMMERCIAL BOOK PRODUCTION. by HONKAPOHJA, Alpo.
    HONKAPOHJA, Alpo.
    ALCHEMY, MEDICINE, AND COMMERCIAL BOOK PRODUCTION. A Codicological and Linguistic Study of the Voigts-Sloane Manuscript Group. Texts and Transitions, 9.

    Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. 8vo., pp.xv,248, pictorial hardcover; a fresh and near-fine copy.

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  • ALL STRANGE AWAY. by BECKETT, Samuel.
    BECKETT, Samuel.
    ALL STRANGE AWAY.

    London: John Calder, 1979. First edition thus, 8vo., pp. 44, hardcover, gilt; light toning to head and foot of spine, a very good and clean copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which has some light surface markings and light sunning to spine.

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  • AN ANTHOLOGY OF NINETIES VERSE. by Edited with an Introduction by: SYMONS, A.J.A. Contributors: BEARDSLEY, Aubrey; CUSTANCE, Olive; DAVIDSON, John; DOUGLAS, Lord Alfred; DOUGLAS, Evelyn (John Barlas); DOWSON, Ernest; FIELD, Michael; GRAY, John; HOUSMAN, Laurence; JOHNSON, Lionel; LE GALLIENNE, Richard; LEE-HAMILTON, Eugene; O'SULLIVAN, Vincent; PLARR, Victor; SYMONDS, Arthur; THOMPSON, Francis; WILDE, Oscar; WRATISLAW, YEATS, W.B.
    Edited with an Introduction by: SYMONS, A.J.A. Contributors: BEARDSLEY, Aubrey; CUSTANCE, Olive; DAVIDSON, John; DOUGLAS, Lord Alfred; DOUGLAS, Evelyn (John Barlas); DOWSON, Ernest; FIELD, Michael; GRAY, John; HOUSMAN, Laurence; JOHNSON, Lionel; LE GALLIENNE, Richard; LEE-HAMILTON, Eugene; O'SULLIVAN, Vincent; PLARR, Victor; SYMONDS, Arthur; THOMPSON, Francis; WILDE, Oscar; WRATISLAW, YEATS, W.B.
    AN ANTHOLOGY OF NINETIES VERSE.

    London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, Ltd, 1928. First edition, 8vo., pp.176, uncut, pictorial yellow paper-covered boards backed in yellow cloth, design and lettering in black, b/w pictorial title; foxing to edges and margins of boards, occasional foxing within, splash-mark to top-edges, slight splash-marking to spine, a very good copy.

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  • LEES-MILNE, James.
    ANCESTRAL VOICES; PROPHESYING PEACE; CAVES OF ICE; MIDWAY ON THE WAVES; A MINGLED MEASURE; ANCIENT AS THE HILLS; THROUGH WOOD AND DALE; DEEP ROMANTIC CHASM; HOLY DREAD; BENEATH A WANING MOON; CEASELESS TURMOIL; THE MILK OF PARADISE; [Complete set of twelves volumes]

    London: Chatto & Windus; John Murray, 1975. Set of twelve volumes, all first editions except for: Caves of Ice; A Mingled Measure; Ceaseless Turmoil, each of which are second impressions, 8vo., pp.x,302;vii,254;ix,276;248;viii,325;ix,228;viii,325;vii,276;xi,240;xii,258;xi,354;xiii,319, hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispieces, pictorial endpapers; some occasional light toning to edges of text blocks, with light foxing to edges of ‘Caves of Ice’, slightly darker foxing to top-edge only of Midway on the Waves, spine of ‘A Mingled Measure’ slightly rolled, ownership inscription by A.N. Wilson to front free endpaper of ‘Ancient As the Hills’, a very good set, in very good mostly unclipped pictorial dust-jackets (the exception being ‘Midway On the Waves’, which is in a price-clipped jacket), lightly sunned to spines, most noticeable to…

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    London: Chatto & Windus; John Murray, 1975. Set of twelve volumes, all first editions except for: Caves of Ice; A Mingled Measure; Ceaseless Turmoil, each of which are second impressions, 8vo., pp.x,302;vii,254;ix,276;248;viii,325;ix,228;viii,325;vii,276;xi,240;xii,258;xi,354;xiii,319, hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispieces, pictorial endpapers; some occasional light toning to edges of text blocks, with light foxing to edges of ‘Caves of Ice’, slightly darker foxing to top-edge only of Midway on the Waves, spine of ‘A Mingled Measure’ slightly rolled, ownership inscription by A.N. Wilson to front free endpaper of ‘Ancient As the Hills’, a very good set, in very good mostly unclipped pictorial dust-jackets (the exception being ‘Midway On the Waves’, which is in a price-clipped jacket), lightly sunned to spines, most noticeable to ‘Ancient As the Hills’, ‘A Mingled Measure’ and ‘Midway On the Waves’.

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  • MCHUGH, Roland.
    ANNOTATIONS TO FINNEGANS WAKE.

    London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. First paperback edition, 8vo.,pp. xii,628, paperback; foxing to edges of text-block, light rubbing to extremities and light sunning to spine, overall a very good copy.

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  • ANOTHER TIME. [First edition] by AUDEN, W.H.
    AUDEN, W.H.
    ANOTHER TIME. [First edition]

    London: Faber and Faber. First edition, 8vo., pp.125, red cloth, gilt, uncut; toning to endpapers, foxing throughout, else a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with a small area of loss to headband, a few chips to extremities, light sunning to spine, and small pencil mark to rear lower margin.

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  • ANTIGONE; ROXANA; ADRASTUS PARENTANS SIVE VINDICTA. by WATSON, Thomas; ALABASTER, William; MEASE, Peter. Prepared with Introduction by: COLDEWEY, John C.; COPENHAVER, Brian F.
    WATSON, Thomas; ALABASTER, William; MEASE, Peter. Prepared with Introduction by: COLDEWEY, John C.; COPENHAVER, Brian F.
    ANTIGONE; ROXANA; ADRASTUS PARENTANS SIVE VINDICTA. Renaissance Latin Drama in England, Second Series: 4.

    Hildesheim/New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1983. 8vo., pp.19 (Introduction),3-53,(xiv),62,(43) facsimiles, paperback (blue wrappers lettered in silver); title page to Roxana loose but present, else clean and very good indeed.

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  • ANTIGONE; ROXANA; ADRASTUS PARENTANS SIVE VINDICTA. by WATSON, Thomas; ALABASTER, William; MEASE, Peter. Prepared with Introduction by: COLDEWEY, John C.; COPENHAVER, Brian F.
    WATSON, Thomas; ALABASTER, William; MEASE, Peter. Prepared with Introduction by: COLDEWEY, John C.; COPENHAVER, Brian F.
    ANTIGONE; ROXANA; ADRASTUS PARENTANS SIVE VINDICTA. Renaissance Latin Drama in England, Second Series: 4.

    Hildesheim/New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1983. 8vo., pp.19 (Introduction),3-53,(xiv),62,(43) facsimiles, paperback (blue wrappers lettered in silver); slight crease to front wrapper, a very good, clean copy.

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  • Under the Supervision and Editorship of FARMER, John S.
    APIUS AND VIRGINIA 1575. The Tudor Facsimile Texts.

    London, T.C.& E.C. Jack, 1575. Facsmilie Edition, 8vo.,pp. vi, facsimile text unpaginated, grey card boards, with grey cloth and paper title label to spine; several pages uncut to upper edge, a couple of leaves are slightly loose at hinge, toning to endpapers, ownership bookplate to front paste down endpaper, lightly rubbed and toned to title label, otherwise a very good copy. No dust-jacket.

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  • ART IN URDU POETRY. by RAHMATULLAH, Shahabuddin. Foreword by The Honourable Malik Firoz Khan Noon.
    RAHMATULLAH, Shahabuddin. Foreword by The Honourable Malik Firoz Khan Noon.
    ART IN URDU POETRY.

    Dacca: Privately published, printed at Monu Press, 1956. Tall 8vo., pp.(iv),120, green cloth, gilt, colour and b/w plates; ownership gift inscription, dated 1956, to front free endpaper, else very good, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly worn and torn to extremities, and is now in a protective cover.

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  • ECHARD, Sian.
    ARTHURIAN NARRATIVE IN THE LATIN TRADITION.

    Cambridge University Press. 8vo., pp.xi,256, brown hardcover, gilt; a very good, fresh copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is sunned to spine and lightly to rear upper margin.

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  • Edited by: BROUGHTON, Trev Lynn.
    AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Volume II. Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, Part 3: Discovering Difference.

    Abingdon: Routledge, 2007. 8vo., pp.ix,393, blue hardcover lettered in white; slight bruising to corners, else fresh and very good indeed.

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