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AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Volume IV.
Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, Parts 7: Personal Texts as Autobiography, and 8: Cultures of Life Writing.
Abingdon: Routledge, 2007. 8vo., pp.xi,399, blue hardcover lettered in white; near-fine.
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BACK TO THE MACHINEGUN: Manuscripts. [Set of Three Volumes:]
Volume I. 1959-1974; Volume II. 1975-1977; Volume III. 1978-1980.
Three volumes, 8vo., pp.274;272;314 plus unpaginated notes and contents pages, paperback; small crease to lower corner of rear wrapper, else fresh and near-fine.
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BARDACHD ALBANNACH: SCOTTISH VERSE FROM THE BOOK OF THE DEAN OF LISMORE.
Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press Ltd, 1978. 8vo.,pp. xl,327, hardcover, gilt; a very good copy, in a good+ unclipped dust-jacket, which is toned to spine with water marking, rubbing to extremities with light chipping to head and foot of spine and light wear to corners.
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BAWDY PLAYS OF BYGONE DAYS.
Seven Early Dramas.
Privately published, 2015. 8vo., pp.xx,139, paperback; ownership inscription to title, a very good, fresh copy.
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BELLUM GRAMMATICALE SIVE NOMINUM VERBORUMQUE DISCORDIA CIVILIS (printed 1635); THIBALDUS SIVE VINDICTAE INGENIUM (printed 1640).
Renaissance Latin Drama in England, First Series: 12.
Hildesheim/New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1983. 8vo., pp.19 (Introduction),(xii),66,(xvi),80(facsimiles), paperback (blue wrappers lettered in silver); sunning to spine, small underlinings to one page, else clean, a very good copy.
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BEOWULF AND FOUR RELATED OLD ENGLISH POEMS.
A Verse Translation with Explanatory Notes.
New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2010. Signed by the author, 8vo., pp.xxv,170, pictorial cloth, black lettering; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with author’s presentation inscription to front free endpaper, light rubbing to extremities, very slightly bruised to upper corner of front board, otherwise a very good copy indeed. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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BETRAYALS.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1994. Signed first edition, 8vo., pp.(ix),308, black hardcover lettered in silver; author’s signature to title page, a very good, clean copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which is sunned to spine, else very good.
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE CHURCH LIBRARIES AT TURTON AND GORTON, BEQUEATHED BY HUMPHREY CHETHAM.
Manchester, The Chetham Society. 8vo..pp.192, brown cloth, gilt; some pages uncut at upper margin, rubbed and sunned to spine and extremities, light wear to head and foot of spine and toning to marigns, o/w a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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BIBLIOTHEQUE ANDRE DESGUINE: LES INCUNABLES CATALOGUE.
Nanterre, Archives Departementales. 8vo.,pp. 159, paperback, b/w and colour illustrations; lightly toned to margins, light sunning to spine, a very good copy.
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BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE LATE REVEREND JOSEPH WARTON, D.D.
Master of St. Mary Winton College; prebendary of Winchester Cathedral; and Rector of the parishes of Wickham and Upham: to which are added, a selection from his works; and a literary correspondence between eminent persons reserved for publication by the Rev. John Wooll, A.M.
London: Gregg International Publishers Ltd, 1969. Facsimile republication of the 1806 edition, 8vo., pp. xix, 407, hardcover, b/w frontispiece; light foxing to prelims, endpapers and edges, margins only occasionally and slightly affected, otherwise internally clean, boards lightly rubbed, overall a very good copy.
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BLANQUERNA.
Dedalus European Classics.
London/New York: Dedalus/Hippocrene Books, 1992. Facsimile reprint, 8vo., pp.536, paperback; partial sunning to wrappers, crease to spine, internally clean and very good, a good+ copy.
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BLANQUERNA.
Dedalus European Classics.
London: Dedalus/Hippocrene. 8vo, pp.536, paperback; light partial sunning to wrappers, light shelfwear, light marking to edges of text block, else clean and very good.
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BLANQUERNA: A THIRTEENTH CENTURY ROMANCE.
London: Jarrolds, 1926. Tall 8vo., pp.536, backed in cream linen, gilt, marbled boards; light foxing to prelims, foxing to fore-edges, rubbing and light wear to paper covering at extremities of boards, internally fresh, a very good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which has 3cm closed tear and creasing to front lower margin, and two further small closed tears to extremities, else very good.
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BLASTING AND BOMBARDIERING.
London: Calder and Boyars Ltd, 1937. Best edition, with new material, 8vo., pp.(vi),343, green hardcover, gilt, b/w plates; foxing to fore- and top-edges, creasing to head and foot of spine, lower corners lightly bumped, a very good copy, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly toned to spine, and lightly chipped and rubbed to lower edge, else very good.
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BLOODY CONSTRAINT.
War and Chivalry in Shakespeare.
New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 8vo., pp.246, brown hardback, red gilt, b/w frontispiece; owner’s inscription to front board --------- (Craig Taylor, University of York - relevant? seems that he’s professor of medieval history) ----------, fine with near-fine unclipped dust-jacket with sunning to spine.
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BLOOMSBURY AESTHETICS AND THE NOVELS OF FORSTER AND WOOLF.
London/Basingstoke: Macmillan. 8vo., pp.xii,249, brown hardcover, gilt, 24 b/w illustrations; light rubbing to extremities, a very good, clean copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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BOETHIUS AND DIALOGUE.
Literary Method in The Consolation of Philosophy.
Princeton University Press, 1985. 8vo., pp.x,264, brown cloth with stamped title label, gilt; light partial sunning to cloth, slight roll to spine, a very good, internally fresh copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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BOOK CATALOGUES: THEIR VARIETIES AND USES.
St. Paul’s Bibliographies, 1986. 8vo., pp.xxxvii,284, blue hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece; light creasing to headband, slight toning to edges, a very good copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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BOOKS FOR SALE.
The Advertising and Promotion of Print since the Fifteenth Century.
New Castle, DE/London: Oak Knoll Press/The British Library, 2009. 8vo., pp.xvi,191, black cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations; a fine, fresh copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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BOOKS ON THE MOVE.
Tracking Copies through Collections and the Book Trade.
New Castle, DE/London: Oak Knoll Press/The British Library, 2007. 8vo., pp.xv,164, black cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations; slight bruise to upper edge of front board, else fresh and fine, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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