- Tag = LITERATURE
-
THE OTHER NATION.
The Poor in English Novels of the 1840s and 1850s.
Oxford: Clarendon Press. 8vo., pp.xvii,282, black hard covers, gilt; very good, in vg unclipped dust-jacket (with crease to price at front flap), which is lightly sunned to spine.
More details Price: £28.00 -
THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF THE GEORGIAN THEATRE, 1737-1832.
London: Oxford University Press, 1737. Third impression, 8vo., pp.xxv,758, navy hardcover, gilt, b/w in-text illustrations; a fine, fresh copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
More details Price: £68.00 -
THE OXFORD HISTORY OF THE IRISH BOOK, Volume III.
The Irish Book in England 1550-1800.
Oxford University Press, 2006. 8vo., pp.xxi,477, navy hardcover, gilt; with presentation inscriptions from four of the contributors to the title page, pencilled ownership inscription to front free endpaper, a little light pencilling to margins, o/w very good indeed, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
More details Price: £68.00 -
THE OXFORD PSALTER. (Bodleian MS Douce 320) Anglo-Norman Text Society Volume 72.
St. Peter’s College, Oxford: Published and distributed by the Anglo-Norman Text Society, 2015. 8vo., pp.xv,236, green hardcover, gilt, colour frontispiece; a fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
More details Price: £24.00 -
THE PARDON OF PIERS PLOWMAN:
Sir Israel Gaollancz Memorial Lecture, from the Proceedings of the Royal Academy Volume XXXI.
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege. Offprint edition, 8vo., pp.57, original printed wrappers, uncut; fore-edges of wrappers browned and creased, with a few small tears, a good copy, which is internally fresh and very good.
More details Price: £15.00 -
THE PERFECT AGE OF MAN’S LIFE.
Cambridge University Press. 8vo.,pp. xiii,175, hardcover, silver lettering, b/w illustrations; a very good copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which has light creasing to extremities and two adhesive marks to rear where labels have been removed.
More details Price: £30.00 -
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
London: 2008. Penguin classics Bill Amberg edition, 8vo., pp. 295, publisher’s calf, Yapp binding, bookmark tag; a fine copy that is still in its original box.
More details Price: £68.00 -
THE PIERS PLOWMAN GLOSSARY: WILL'S VISIONS OF PIERS PLOWMAN, DO-WELL, DO-BETTER AND DO-BEST. A GLOSSARY OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY OF THE A, B AND C VERSIONS AS PRESENTED IN THE ATHLONE EDITIONS.
London: Continuum, 2005. 8vo.,pp. xiii,240, green printed hardcover, white lettering; light toning to margins, light sunning to spine, small indentation marks along front hinge, otherwise very good. No dust-jacket, as issued.
More details Price: £48.00 -
THE PLAYER OF GAMES.
London: Macmillan. First edition, 8vo., pp.309, blue hardcover, gilt; author’s presentation inscription to title, a little rubbing to head and foot of spine, else fresh and very good indeed. in vg complete and unclipped dust-jacket.
More details Price: £595.00 -
THE POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS OF THOMAS STANLEY.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1962. 8vo., pp.lxiv,416, navy cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; ex University departmental library, with bookplates to paste-down endpapers and gilt stamp to spine, otherwise unmarked, slight ring mark to rear board, a very good copy, without dust-jacket.
More details Price: £35.00 -
THE POEMS OF ALFRED STARR HAMILTON.
Penland: The Jargon Society, 1970. First edition, 8vo.,pp. unpaginated, plain paperback, with pictorial dust-jacket, b/w frontispiece; dust-jacket toned to spine and extremities, lightly chipped to head of spine, a very good copy.
More details Price: £30.00 -
THE POEMS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1974. First printing of the much revised second edition, 8vo., pp.xxviii,496, navy cloth, gilt; slight spotting to top edges, else very good indeed, in vg price-clipped dust-jacket,
More details Price: £42.00 -
THE POEMS OF SIR JOHN DAVIES.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1975. First edition, 8vo., pp.lxvii,451, navy cloth, gilt; from the library of David Lindley, with ownership autograph to front free endpaper, a very good copy, in edge-worn unclipped dust-jacket, now in a protective cover.
More details Price: £75.00 -
THE POEMS OF WILLAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN [Two Volumes].
The Muses’ Library.
London/New York: Lawrence and Bullen/Chas. Scribner’s Sons, 1894. Limited edition, no. 14 of 100 large paper copies, 12mo., pp.cxxv,245;348, uncut, quarter brown morocco with stamped title-bands, gilt, brown cloth boards, t.e.g., marbled paste-down and endpaper, illuminated pictorial device to title pages, titles in red and black, engraved frontispiece portrait to Volume I. by R. Gaywood; occasional light foxing to fore-edges, light rubbing to extremities, a very good, internally clean set.
More details Price: £95.00 -
THE POETRY OF CHRISTOPHER SMART.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, 1968. 8vo., pp.xxx,332, green cloth, gilt, 5 b/w plates; ownership autograph to front free endpaper and title page, otherwise internally clean, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy in very good unclipped dust-jacket which is in a clear protective sleeve.
More details Price: £24.00 -
THE PRELUDE.
Or, Growth of a Poet’s Mind.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959. Second edition, 8vo., pp.lxxiv,650, navy cloth, gilt, 7 b/w illustrations, including frontispiece portrait, and MS. facsimiles; foxing to endpapers and edges, an otherwise very good copy, in a price-clipped dust-jacket, which is chipped to extremities, with just slight loss, and now in a protective cover.
More details Price: £68.00 -
THE PRIVATE PRESS TODAY. 17th Kings Lynn Festival.
Kings Lynn Festival/Juliet Standing. Organiser’s presentation copy, with dedication inscription to half title, 4to., pp.(22), stapled wrappers (paperback), b/w illustrations, 2 plates printed in green + pictorial title; partial sunning to wrappers, light crease to upper margin of front wrapper, else clean and very good.
More details Price: £14.00 -
THE PROCESSION OF MASKS.
Boston: B.J. Brimmer Company. Limited edition, no.34 of 128 signed copies, 8vo., pp.267, uncut, t.e.g., half cloth with paper-covered boards, printed paper label to spine and to front board; label to spine sunned, light rubbing to extremities, lower corners a little bumped, a very good, clean copy.
More details Price: £25.00 -
THE PROSE WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH [Set of Three Volumes].
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1974. First edition, three volumes, 8vo., pp.xxiv,415;vi,465;vii,475, navy cloth, gilt; foxing to top-edges, internally clean, a very good set, in very good price-clipped dust-jackets, of which the jacket to Vol. I has superficial paper damage to front upper right corner and a 0.5 cm closed tear at headband.
More details Price: £295.00 -
THE PUBLIC’S OPEN TO US ALL.
Essays on Women and Performance in Eighteenth-Century England.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 8vo., pp.343, black cloth, gilt; fresh and near-fine, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
More details Price: £25.00
![Another image of THE PLAYER OF GAMES. by BANKS, Iain M. [Signed by author].](https://images.vialibri.net/production/31/33990_2---height_100.jpg?v=1727437931)