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To Keep the Ball Rolling - The Memoirs of Anthony Powell, Volume Four: THE STRANGERS ARE ALL GONE.
London: Heineman, 1982. First edition, 8vo., pp.(vi),208, grey cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations; extremities rubbed, light tone to edges, a clean and good+ copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly creased and rubbed to extremities.
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TRACING T.S. ELIOT'S SPIRIT.
Essays on his poetry and thought.
Cambridge University Press, 2008. 8vo., pp.,xxi,195, paperback; a near fine copy.
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TRANSCENDENTAL WORDPLAY.
America’s Romantic Punsters and the Search for the Language of Nature.
Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2000. 8vo., pp.xxiv,518, blue cloth lettered in silver; a very good, fresh copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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TRANSFORMING TALK.
The Problem with Gossip in Late Medieval England.
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. 8vo., pp.x,238, black cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece/pictorial title, b/w plates; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with author’s presentation inscription to front free endpaper, a fine copy in a fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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TRINITY APOCALYPSE. Anglo-Norman Text Society No. LXXIII (for 2016).
Oxford: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 2016. 8vo., pp. xxxiii,140, green hardcover, gilt, colour frontispiece; a fine copy.
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TWENTY FIVE BINDINGS: Designed by Edgar Mansfield and Realised by James Brockman.
Frenich, Foss, K.D. Duval. Limited edition, of 500 copies, Oblong 8vo.,pp.24,(30)plates, paperback, colour plates, colour fold-out, b/w frontispiece; slight toning to margins, lightly sunned to spine and lightly creased to extremities, with a small adhesive mark to rear, otherwise very good.
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ULUESTUN TO OULSTON: A Village History.
Oulston Village History Group. 8vo., pp.164, pictorial wrappers, colour illustrations; light rubbing, a very good copy indeed.
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UNIFORM EDITION OF VIRGINIA WOOLF: 17 Volumes; The Commom Reader, First Series; The Common Reader, Second Series; Three Guineas; A Room Of One’s Own; The Moment And Other Essays; The Captain’s Death Bed; The Voyage Out; Night And Day; Jacob’s Room; Mrs. Dalloway; To The Lighthouse; Orlando, A Biography; The Waves; The Years; Between The Acts; A Haunted House; Flush, A Biography.
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UNNATURAL DEATH.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1936. Re-issue with revisions by the author, 8vo., pp.287, red cloth lettered in black; small ownership inscription, dated 193-, to head of front free endpaper, toning to margins throughout, light roll to spine, with light sunning to spine, small mark to fore-margin of front board, a good+ copy. No dust-jacket.
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UNTOLD STORIES.
London: Faber and Faber/Profile Books, 2005. Signed, limited edition, no. 134 of 250 copies produced for sale, 8vo., pp.xv,658, cloth-backed boards, b/w plates; a near-fine copy, in matching slipcase.
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VALSE DES FLEURS.
A Day in St Petersburg and a Ball at the Winter Palace in 1868.
York: The Fairfax Press, 1980. Limited edition, no. 68 of of 400 copies on Merkall mould-made paper, with two wood-engraved devices (at title and colophon) by Reynolds Stone and colour pictorial endpapers and slip-case design by Henry Moore, pp.xi,90, quarter blue cloth, gilt, grey paper-covered boards, one b/w plate; owner’s nameplate to half title, else fresh and fine, in matching slipcase with one bruised corner, else near-fine.
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VATHEK AND OTHER STORIES: A William Beckford Reader.
London, William Pickering. First edition, 8vo.,pp.xxxviii,314, blue hard covers, gilt; near-fine copy in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket which has some soiling to rear, small closed tears and chips to extremities o/w good.
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VERTUMNUS SIVE ANNUS RECURRENS (printed 1607); TRES SIBYLLAE (printed 1607). Renaissance Latin Drama in England, First Series: 5.
Hildesheim/New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1983. 8vo., pp.23 (Introduction), unpaginated facsimile, paperback (blue wrappers lettered in silver); sunning to spine, light marking to wrappers, internally fresh, a very good copy.
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VICTORIAN MEDICINE AND SOCIAL REFORM. Florence Nightingale among the Novelists.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 8vo.,pp. xxi,193, pictorial hardcover, b/w illustration to rear; small ownership autograph to front free endpaper, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF & LYTTON STRACHEY: LETTERS.
London: The Hogarth Press and Chatto & Windus, 1956. First edition, 8vo.,pp. 118, terracotta cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; light toning to margins and to extremities of boards, a very good, clean copy. No dust-jacket.
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VISIONS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ALBION.
San Marino: Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 2002. 4to.,pp. v,78, brown cloth, silver lettering, b/w and colour illustrations, b/w frontispiece; a near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial, which has small scuff mark to lower spine and foxing to reverse.
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VOICES AGAINST SILENCE: JULIAN OF NORWICH AND MARGERY KEMPE.
A Feminist Approach to Language.
Poznan: Motivez, 1996. 8vo., pp.194, paperback; lightly sunned to spine/margins of rear wrapper, a very good, clean copy.
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W.H. AUDEN: THE MAP OF ALL MY YOUTH.
Early Works, Friends and Influences. Auden Studies 1.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. Reprint, 8vo., pp.xi,245, navy hardcover, gilt; slight spotting to top edge, very good indeed, in very good+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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WAITING FOR GODOT, A Tragicomedy In Two Acts.
London: Faber And Faber Ltd. Third impression, 8vo., pp.94, Naples yellow cloth, lettered in red; light foxing and toning to free endpapers, slight foxing to fore-edges, else very good indeed, in complete and unclipped dust-jacket, which has light rubbing and chipping to extremities (without loss), and light foxing to rear upper margin.
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WAR AND COMBAT, 1150-1270. The Evidence from Old French Literature.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer,2003. 8vo., pp.ix,261, brown hardcover, gilt, with printed label to front board; ownership inscription to front paste-down endpaper, a fresh and near-fine copy.
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