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VOX GRAECIA: A GUIDE TO THE PRONUNCIATION OF CLASSICAL GREEK.
Cambridge University Press. Second edition, 8vo., pp.xiv,174, blue hardcover, gilt; light foxing to top edges, slight mustiness, else clean and very good, in vg price-clipped dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed and foxed to extremities, and now in protective cover.
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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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WATT.
New York: Grove Press Inc, 1959. First US edition, 8vo., pp. 254, paperback; small bookplate to half title page, toning and foxing to edges of text block, rubbed to extremities, lightly sunned to spine with creasing along hinges, light stain mark to front cover, overall very good.
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WESTWARD HO.
London: John Calder, 1983. First edition, 8vo., pp.47, green hardcover, gilt; a few very light spots of foxing to top edge of text block, a very good indeed copy in a vg+ unclipped dust-jacket with a few very light spots of foxing to verso.
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WHITE MULE.
MacGibbon & Kee, 1965. First edition, 8vo.,pp. 266, brown hardcover, gilt; toned to margins, a very good copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which is sunned to spine, rubbed and toned to extremities, with some light loss to head and foot of spine and corners, overall very good.
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WIDSITH: A Study In Old English Heroic Legend.
New York: Russell & Russell, 1965. Reissued, 8vo.,pp. ix,263, burgundy cloth, gilt; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, occasional pencilling, toning to margins and edges of text block, with water staining to inner hinges of endpapers and to upper edge of text block, light rubbing to extremities, light water staining to boards and to spine, else a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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WILFRED OWEN: Anthem for a Doomed Youth.
London: The Woburn Press, 1987. 8vo.,pp. ix,166, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece; a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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WILLIAM GAGER: THE COMPLETE WORKS. [Set of Four Volumes:]
Volume I. The Earlier Plays; Volume II. The Shrovetide Plays; Volume III. Poems; Volume IV. Juvenilia, Pyramis, Collected Prose.
Garland Publishing, Inc, 1994. Four volumes, 8vo., pp.xxvi,372;xvi,254;xxxix,415;xxi,293, red cloth lettered in black; editor’s presentation inscription to front free endpaper of Volume I, slight bumping to extremities, else very good indeed. (No dust-jackets).
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WILLIAM STRACHEY 1572-1621.
Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1965. 8vo., pp.224, brown hardcover, decorative gilt; occasional pencilling, otherwise internally clean, very light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy.
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WINTERING OUT.
London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1972. First edition, 8vo., pp.80, paperback with integrated jacket; light toning to edges and to margins and spine of wrapper, with a very slight scuff mark to the front cover, a very good copy indeed.
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WISDOM AND CHIVALRY.
Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale and Medieval Political Theory. Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts, Volume 4.
Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2009. 8vo., pp.xvi,329, glazed hardcover; ownership inscription to front paste-down endpaper and author’s inscription to front free endpaper, slight bruise to upper edge of front board, else a fine, fresh copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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WOMEN AND SHAKESPEARE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
Cambridge University Press. 8vo., pp.x,256, black hardcover lettered in silver, 6 b/w illustrations; fine, in vg+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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WOODS ETC.
London: Faber & Faber, 2005. First edition, first impression, 8vo., pp. vi,56, hardcover, white lettering; a fine copy in a near-fine unclipped dust-jacket which is sunned to spine.
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WORTERBUCH ZU HARTMANNS IWEIN,
Zweite Ausgabe Besgort von E. Wilken.
Gottingen: Dieterichsche Verlags-Buchhandlung. First edition, 8vo., pp.viii,391, cloth-backed marbled boards, gilt; rebacked preserving the original cloth, front board loose, wear to extremities, internally clean, a good working copy.
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WRITING; A COMPOSITION BOOK; STEIN IMITATIONS. For Madison 1953.
Albuquerque: Sumbooks, 1964. First edition, limited to 375 copies, square 8vo., pp.(lx) + loose errata leaf, stapled blue paper wrappers; toning to contents throughout, small closed tears to fore-edge of rear wrapper (which stands proud of contents), light marking to rear wrapper, else very good.
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WRITING AND READING ROYAL ENTERTAINMENTS.
From George Gascoigne to Ben Jonson.
Oxford University Press, 2010. 8vo., pp.x,305, navy hardcover, gilt; light rubbing to foot of spine, else fresh and very good indeed, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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WRITING LIVES TOGETHER. Romantic and Victorian Auto/Biography.
Abingdon: Routledge, 2018. 8vo., pp.x,148, hardcover; two light indentations to front board, internally fine, a very good, clean copy.
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WRITING WAR: Medieval Literary Responses to Warfare.
Cambridge, D.S. Brewer, 2004. 8vo.,pp. ix,235, burgundy hardcover, gilt lettering to spine, b/w figures; small ownership inscription to front paste-down, rubbing extremities, bump to upper margin, a very good copy indeed, no dust-jacket.
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