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THE SINK OF SOLITUDE
Being a Series of Satirical Drawings occasioned by some Recent Events performed by BERESFORD EGAN, Gent, to which is added a Preface by P.R. STEPHENSEN, Gent, and a Verse Lampoon composed by SEVERAL HANDS and now set forth for the first time, the whole very proper to be read both on Family and Public Occasions.
London: Hermes Press, 1928. 4to., pp. v,19. paperback, printed yellow wrappers, 5 full page b/w plates; slight crease to upper corners, minor area of loss to upper corner of front wrapper, rubbing to extremities, wrappers partially worn along spine, light surface soil to wrappers, internally clean, overall a very good copy.
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THE SONG OF THE LARK.
London: Cassell and Company, 1938. First UK edition, 8vo.,pp. viii,580, red cloth, gilt; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, foxed and off set to endpapers and to title page, light toning to margins and light foxing to edges of text block, sunned to spine and margins of boards, with some soiling to rear and light rubbing to extremities, otherwise a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE TEMPLE OF NATURE
Or, The Origin of Society; A Poem With Philosophical Notes.
Menston and London: The Scolar Press Limited, 1803. Scolar Press facsimile; 8vo., pp.174,124 (Additional Notes), tan cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece and one further plate; light foxing to endpapers, tiny closed tear to head of rear blank, light foxing and toning to edges otherwise very good, in an unclipped dust jacket, which has chipping and diagonal closed tear for apx. 24mms to head of spine, slight rubbing to edges, else very good.
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THE TOSA DIARY.
Rutland, Vermont/Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Co, 1981. 8vo., pp.148, red cloth, gilt; occasional lightly pencilled annotations, else a very good, clean copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE TRANSFIGURATION OF HISTORY AT THE CENTER OF DANTE’S PARADISE.
Princeton University Press, 1986. 8vo., pp.xiii,268, blue cloth with stamped black title-band, gilt; ownership autograph to front paste-down endpaper, slight foxing to top edges, else fresh and very good indeed, in vg complete and unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE TRANSMIGRATIONS OF THE MANDARIN FUM-HOAM (CHINESE TALES).
London: H.S. Nichols, 1894. Limited edition of 680 copies, royal 8vo., pp.viii,252,(xviii)adverts, uncut, pictorial black cloth, gilt, t.e.g.; light rubbing to extremities, slight foxing to prelims, overall bright and very good indeed.
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The Twickenham Edition of the Poems of Alexander Pope: Volumes I-VI, in Seven Volumes:
I. Pastoral Poetry and An Essay on Criticism; II. The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems; III. Part One. An Essay on Man; III., Part Two. Epistles to Several Persons. Moral Essays; IV. Imitations of Horace, with An Epistle to Dr Artbuthnot and The Epilogue to the Satires; V. The Dunciad; VI. Minor Poems.
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THE UNCORRECTED BILLY CHILDISH.
London: The Tangerine Press, 2018. Large 8vo., pp.187, paperback, b/w decorations; light shelfwear to wrappers, very good.
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THE UNRETURNING SPRING.
Being the Poems, Sketches, Stories, and Letters of James Farrar.
London: Williams and Norgate Ltd, 1950. First edition, 8vo., pp.242, green cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece portrait; sunning to spine and margins of boards, a very good copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly marked to spine and just lightly rubbed with slight creasing to extremities.
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THE VARIORUM EDITION OF THE POEMS OF W.B. YEATS.
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co, 1973. Sixth impression, 8vo., pp.xxxv,884, blue cloth, gilt; foxing to top edges, slight roll to spine, a very good copy, in very good gently price-clipped dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed and chipped to extremities.
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THE VICTORIAN WORKING-CLASS WRITER.
London/New York: Cassell, 1999. 8vo., pp.viii,164, pictorial glazed hardcover; a very good, clean copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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THE VICTORIANS AND RENAISSANCE ITALY.
Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1992. 8vo.,pp. xi,308, hardcover, silver lettering, b/w illustrations; very light soiling to upper edge of text block, otherwise near-fine, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is slightly sunned to spine.
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THE WHITE MONKEY.
London: William Heinemann, 1924. First edition, 8vo.,pp. viii, 325, green cloth, gilt lettering, with small gilt emblem to front board; light foxing to fore-edges and margins, off setting to endpapers, otherwise very good, in a good+ unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly chipped to head and foot of spine, worn to corners, small tear to rear lower corner extending to inner fold, sunned to spine but lettering unaffected.
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THE WISDOM OF THE SANDS.
London: Hollis and Carter, 1952. First edition, 8vo., pp.xii,350, red cloth, gilt, top edges red; light rubbing to extremities, slight roll to spine, a very good copy, in price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has light wear and loss loss to extremities.
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THE WORKS, Containing:
Alice; Devereux; Ernest Maltravers; Eugene Aram; Harold; The Last of the Barons Parts 1&2; The Last Days of Pompeii; Leila; Paul Clifford; Pelham; Rienze
G.J.Howell & Co: London, 1900. 12 volume set, 8vo., publisher’s half calf over pink boards, marbled endpapers, spines elaborately gilt with four raised bands, illustrations throughout by J.J.Waddington, top-edge-gilt, other uncut; occasional light foxing, slight rubbing to extremities but an attractive set.
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THE WORKS OF BERNARD SHAW.
Volumes 1-5, then 7-30.
London: Constable and Co. Ltd. 29 volumes (of 33), limited edition, 8vo., green cloth, gilt, t.e.g.; in very good condition, all in dust-jackets, some of which are torn with loss to extremities.
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THE WORKS OF RICHARD EDWARDS.
Politics, Poetry and Performance in Sixteenth-Century England.
Manchester University Press, 2001. 8vo., pp.xiv,269, black hardcover, gilt, 7 b/w illustrations; slight tone to edges, else very good indeed, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, Research Edition. CORRESPONDENCE, Volume Five: THE GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE OF JAMES BOSWELL, 1766-1769. Volume I.: 1766-1767.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press/New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 1766. First Edition, 8vo., pp.xlvi,282, black hardcover, gilt; inkstamped ownership bookplate to front free endpaper, upper corners of boards lightly bumped, else clean and very good, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE YEAR OF THE MONKEY.
A Farewell Edition Privately Printed for the Author by the Board of Directors of Konan University, Kobe, Japan.
Kobe: Konan University, 1956. Signed, limited edition, no.71 of 400 copies, small 4to., pp.41, cream paper-covered boards with printed paper label to spine and small gilt insignia to front board, handmade paper, b/w frontispiece portrait of the author with loose tissue guard; author’s signed presentation inscription to frontispiece, light partial sunning to boards, a couple of small bruises/nicks to extremities, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE YELLOW HOUSE ON THE CORNER.
Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1980. First edition, 8vo.,pp. 70, paperback; light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy.
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