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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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THE RECEPTION OF JANE AUSTEN AND WALTER SCOTT. A Comparative Longitudinal Study.
London: Continuum, 2007. 8vo., pp.x,198, glazed hardcover; near-fine.
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THE RECEPTION OF SIR WALTER SCOTT IN EUROPE.
London: Continuum, 2006. 8vo., pp.lxxiv,396, pictorial hardcover; internally fresh, a very good copy indeed. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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THE REST IS SILENCE. Death as Annihilation in the English Renaissance.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. 8vo., pp.xiv,416, quarter cloth, lettered in silver, paper covered boards; from the library of David Lindley, with ownership signature to front free endpaper, light rubbing to extremities, overall a very good copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which is creased and just slightly chipped to extremities.
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THE REXROTH READER.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1972. First edition, 8vo., pp.437, red hardcover, gilt; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, foxing to edges, else very good, in a lightly chipped price-clipped dust-jacket.
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THE ROMANS OF PARTENAY,
Or of Lusignen: Otherwise Known as The Tale of Melusine: Translated from the French of La Coudrette (about 1500-1520 A.D.). Early English Text Society, Original Series, No.22.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & CO, 1899. 8vo., pp.xx,287, uncut, paperback (printed wrappers); ink mark struck through the advertisements to rear wrapper and front wrapper verso, internally fresh, with shelf-wear to extremities of wrappers, a good copy.
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THE ROMANTIC CROWD: Sympathy, Controversy and Print Culture.
Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press. 8vo., pp.ix,294, black hardcover, gilt, 7 b/w illustrations; fresh and near-fine, in vg+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO ANGLOPHONE CARIBBEAN LITERATURE.
London: Routledge, 2011. Large 8vo., pp.xxx,660, pictorial hardcover; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, lightly shelfworn, with a few small bumps to edges of boards and light marking to edges of text-block, internally clean, a good+ copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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THE SAGA OF KING SVERRI (SVERRISAGA)
Felinfach: Llanerch Publishers, 1994. Facsimile reprint of the 1899 edition. 8vo., pp.xxx,288,(8), paperback, b/w maps to rear; near-fine.
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THE SAXON SAVIOR.
The Germanic Transformation of the Gospel in the Ninth-Century Heliand.
Oxford University Press, 1989. 8vo., pp.xiii,129, black cloth, gilt; a fine copy, in a very good+ unclipped dust-jacket, just lightly creased to front upper margin.
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THE SEA AND THE MIRROR, A POEM A Commentary on Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. 8vo., pp. xlii,106, hardcover, silver lettering; ink ownership autograph to front free endpaper, occasional light pencilling, a few light spots of foxing and light toning to edges of text block, not affecting margins, else a very good copy indeed in a vg+ unclipped dust-jacket, very light rubbing to extremities.
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THE SECRET AGENT.
A Simple Tale.
London: Methuen & Co. First edition, first impression (adverts dated 1907; misprint at p.117 reads ‘be be’ for ‘to be’), pp.(iii),442,40(publisher’s adverts), uncut, red cloth, gilt, decorative gilt motifs to spine; pictorial ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, foxing to prelims and to fore-edges (occasionally affecting margins), some rubbing to extremities, a very good, rather bright copy. (No dust-jacket).
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THE SECRET MUSEUM: Pornography in Modern Culture.
University of California Press, 1996. 8vo., pp.xiv,318, paperback; creasing/shelfwear to wrappers, else very good.
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THE SELECTED LETTERS OF GEORGE OPPEN.
Durham: Duke University Press, 1990. First edition, 8vo.,pp. xxxiii,436, paperback, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece; slight sunning to spine, light toning and foxing to upper and lower edge of text block, otherwise clean, a very good copy.
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THE SELFISH GENE.
London: 2012. First Folio Society editon, 8vo., pp.xi,367, pictorial hardcover, many colour plates; a fine copy in a vg slip case.
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THE SENSE OF AN ENDING. Studies in the Theory of Fiction.
Oxford University Press, 1968. Reprint, 8vo., pp.xi,187, paperback; toning to margins, a very good copy indeed.
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