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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 PRUSSIAN OFFICER AND OTHER STORIES: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D.H. Lawrence.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. 8vo., pp. lv,303, red hardcover, gilt; a few spots of foxing to edges of text-block particularly to top edge, a very good copy, in a vg unclipped dust-jacket, which has some light surface scratches.
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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 SALISBURY PLAIN POEMS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, Salisbury Plain, or A Night on Salisbury Plain; Adventures on Salisbury Plain (including The Female Vagrant); Guilt and Sorrow or, Incidents upon Salisbury Plain.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press/Harvester Press, 1975. 8vo., pp.xviii,310, teal cloth, gilt, b/w ms. facsimiles; Harvester Press blindstamp to half title, foxing to edges, internally clean, a very good copy, in a very good, partially sunned unclipped dust-jacket, which has archival tape repair to closed tear at foot of rear flap-fold.
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THE SALUTATION.
London: Chato and Windus, 1932. First edition, 8vo., pp.(iv),303,(iv)adverts, blue-black cloth with marbled design, gilt; toning to prelim blank, sunning to spine (black outline of marbled design remains, with the blue under-colour sunned to brown), some sunning also to margins of boards, an otherwise very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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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 SHADOW OF THE WIND.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005. First illustrated edition, limited and signed, no. 430 of 1000 copies, pictorial hardcover, map design to endpapers, marble design to title and chapter titles, 14 monochromatic plates; very slight bruise to head of spine, very slight creasing to tail of spine, signed by author to limitation page, with previous owner’s autograph inkstamp to lower margin of same page, a fresh and near-fine copy, in matching near-fine slipcase, with very minimal shelfwear to upper margins, and lightly sunned to fore-edge.
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