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THE SHAKESPEARE HEAD EDITION OF THE NOVELS OF ANTHONY TROLLOPE. [14 Volume Set: Complete Set of the Barsetshire Novels in 13 Volumes, plus An Autobiography].6
Barchester Towers I and II; Framley Parsonage I and II; The Small House at Allington I and II; The Warden; Dr. Thorne I and II; The Last Chronicle of Barset I-IV; An Autobiography.
Straford-upon-Avon: The Shakespeare Head Press, by Basil Blackwell, Oxford. Large paper edition, limited to 525 copies, 14 volumes, 8vo., uncut, green cloth, gilt, t.e.g.; offsetting and light foxing to free endpapers, some light foxing to fore-edges and to prelims, o/w bright and clean, light marking to front board of ‘Allington’ vol.I, a very good set.
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THE SHIP.
London: John Harris, 1831. Second edition, square 12mo., pp.204, backed in red roan, gilt, green cloth boards, 16 engraved plates including frontispiece; ink ownership inscription to front paste-down endpaper, foxing to prelims and plates, light marking to cloth, light rubbing to head and foot of spines, with small spots of wear at corners, a very good copy.
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THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM.
Oxford: published by the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 2003. 8vo., pp.xcix,224, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; slight foxing to top edges, else fresh and near-fine, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM. Edited from Ms. Laud. MISC. 656 with Variants from all Other Extant MSS.
Oxford: Early English Text Society, 1971. 8vo.,pp. xxxi,133, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, foxing to cloth, small tearing to upper margin of p.xv, annotation in red ink to p.28, otherwise very good. No dust-jacket.
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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 SKALDS A SELECTION OF THEIR POEMS.
New York: Princeton University Press, 1947. Second printing, 8vo., pp. vii, 216, cloth; very light sunning to margins of boards, very light rubbing to extremities, one small mark to lower margin of front board, a very good copy, in a good+ dust-jacket, lightly toned, minor chipping to headband, 1 cm closed tear to rear upper margin
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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 TRAGEDIE OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK. A Scolar Press Facsimile, First Folio Text 1623.
Menston: The Scolar Press, 1972. Reprint, 8vo., pp.104, paperback in dust-jacket; ex libris J.W. Binns, with ownership autograph to front free endpaper, foxing to top edges, a very good, clean copy, in lightly rubbed dust-jacket, which has two small closed tears to rear upper margin.
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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 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 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 VIVESECTOR.
London: Johnathan Cape. First edition, 8vo., pp.642, orange cloth, gilt, blue top edge; very light foxing to fore-edge of text block, else a near-fine copy, in very good unclipped dust jacket.
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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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