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AUTUMN JOURNAL [First Edition]
London: Faber & Faber, 1939. 8vo., pp.96, hardcover, gilt; ownership signature to front free endpaper, heavy foxing to endpapers, very occasional spots throughout rest of text, lightly toned, slightly sunned to spine, gilt still bright, light rubbing to extremities, a good+ copy, no dust-jacket.
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BACKGROUNDS TO DAVID JONES.
A Study in Sources and Drafts.
Cardiff: University Of Wales Press, 1990. 8vo.,pp. 232, hardcover, silver lettering, b/w illustrations; some light pencilling to margins, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has sunning to spine.
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BALLADS AND BROADSIDES IN BRITAIN, 1500-1800.
Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. 8vo., pp.xv,357, black hardcover lettered in silver, b/w illustrations; very good indeed, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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BALOOKY KLUJYPOP [First Edition]
London: Heinemann, 1975. Small 8vo., unpaginated, pictorial hardcover, colour illustrations throughout; light toning to edges, otherwise internally clean, very light surface soil to boards, otherwise a very good indeed copy.
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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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BARTHAR SAGA. Volume 8, Series A: GARLAND LIBRARY OF MEDIEVAL LITERATURE.
New York: Garland Publishing, 1984. 8vo., pp.xxix,143, green cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations, figures and frontispiece; a near-fine copy. No dust-jacket.
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BASIL BUNTING ON POETRY.
Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1999. 8vo., pp.xlv,232, hardcover, copper lettering, 9 b/w plates; lightly foxed to top edge, very slight bruising to spine which is slightly rolled, else very good indeed, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket which is lightly sunned and creased to headband, otherwise very good indeed.
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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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BEDE’S ECCLESISTICAL HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969. 8vo.,pp. lxxvi, 618, navy hardcover, bronze lettering to spine; ownership inscription to front paste down endpaper, small patch of wear to inner hinge with webbing slightly visible but otherwise firm, light foxing to upper edge of text block, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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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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BEN JONSON 11 VOLUMES: Volume I & II: The Man and His Work; Volume II:I A Tale of a Tub; The Case is Altered; Every Man in His Humour; Every Man out of His Humour; Volume IV: Cynthia’s Revels; Poetaster; Sejamus; Eastward Ho; Volume V: Volpone; Epocoene; The Alchemist; Catiline; Volume VI: Batholomew Fair; The Devil is an Ass; The Staple of News; The New Inn; The Magnetic Lady; Volume VII: The Sad Shepherd; The Fall of Mortimer; Masques and Entertainments; Volume VIII: The Poems; The Prose Works; Volume IX: Survey of the Text; Stage History; Commentary; Volume X: Commentary; Volume XI: Commentary; Literary Record; Notes; Index.
Oxford: At the Claredndon Press, 1952. 11 volumes, the set, 8vo., green cloth, gilt lettering with gilt emblems to front boards, b/w frontispieces; light foxing to edges of text block, otherwise near-fine, in mostly price-clipped dust-jackets, with some surface scuff marks and rubbing to extremities, overall a very good set.
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BEOWULF AND CELTIC TRADITION.
Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1979. 8vo., pp.ix,142, pictorial burgundy cloth, lettered in cream; a very good, clean copy. No dust-jacket.
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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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BEOWULF AND OLD GERMANIC METRE.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 8vo., pp.xii,235, paperback; a fine, fresh copy.
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BEOWULF AND OLD GERMANIC METRE.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 8vo., pp.xii,235, navy hardcover, gilt; ink ownership signature to front free endpaper, light glue staining to paste-down endpapers, bruising to front board extremities and lightly to spine, slight rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket which is slightly soiled and rubbed to headband, else very good.
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BEOWULF AND THE DRAGON. Parallels and Analogues.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2000. 8vo., pp. x,230, navy hardcover, with pale blue title label to front board, gilt lettering to spine; upper section of front free endpaper cropped, otherwise a clean and near-fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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BEOWULF'S WEALTHEOW AND THE VALKYRIE TRADITION
Madison, London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984. 8vo., pp.xiii,269, hardcover, gilt; a near-fine copy.
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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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BETWEEN FRANCE AND FLANDERS: Manuscript Illumination in Amiens in the Fifteenth Century. The British Library Studies in Medieval Culture.
London: The British Library. 8vo., pp.421, blue hardcover, gilt, 32 colour plates, b/w frontispiece and 203 b/w illustrations; a fresh and near-fine copy, in a very good+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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BEVIS. The Story of a Boy.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1932. First edition with E.H. Shepard’s illustrations, 8vo., pp.519, pictorial green cloth lettered in cream, top edges green, frontispiece and pictorial title vignette, b/w plates, pictorial endpapers; contemporary ink ownership autograph to reverse of frontispiece, foxing to fore-edges and (just lightly) to endpapers, a very good copy, in a price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket, with foxing and toning to the pale paper, and chipping to extremities, with loss at head and tail of spine, repaired with the clipped section from front flap, with staining from now-removed sellotape to reverse, and also small missing section to front lower margin.
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