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CHAUCER AND WAR.
Lanham/New York/Oxford: University Press of America, 2000. 8vo., pp.xvi,259, black hardcover lettered in gilt; ownership inscription to front paste-down endpaper, o/w near-fine. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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CHAUCER'S LEGENDARY GOOD WOMEN.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 8vo., pp.xi,i,338, brown hardcover, gilt; a near-fine copy in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed.
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CHAUCER’S PARDONER’S PROLOGUE AND TALE: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 1900 TO 1995.
Toronto/Buffalo/London: University of Toronto Press, 1900. First edition, 8vo., pp.445, red cloth; gilt illustration on front cover; owner’s very small ink inscription to half-title page, o/w a fine copy.
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CHAUCER'S PHILOSOPHICAL VISIONS.
Chaucer Studies XXVII.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2000. 8vo., pp.viii,178, brown hardcover with printed paper label to front board, gilt; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with author’s presentation inscription to front free endpaper, slight sunning to spine/front upper margin, bump to upper edge of front board, else a very good, fresh copy.
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CHAUCER'S RELIGIOUS TALES.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1990. 8vo., pp.xiii,190, brown hardcover with printed paper label to front board, silver gilt; light toning to endpapers, light marking to rear board, else very good indeed.
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CHAUCERIAN POLITY: ABSOLUTIST LINEAGES AND ASSOCIATIONAL FORMS IN ENGLAND AND ITALY.
Stanford University Press. First edition, 8vo., pp.xix,555, black cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations; a fresh and near-fine copy, in vg+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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CHAUCERIAN POLITY: ABSOLUTIST LINEAGES AND ASSOCIATIONAL FORMS IN ENGLAND AND ITALY.
California: Stanford University Press, 1997. First edition, tall 8vo., pp.xix,555, black hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with author’s presentation inscription to front free endpaper, a fine copy, in vg+ (fine?) unclipped dust-jacket.
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CHINA COAST BALLADS (And Other Verses).
Shanghai: A.R. Hager, printed at the Willow Pattern Press, Shanghai, 1938. First edition, 8vo., pp.125, half cream cloth lettered in black, red cloth boards, numerous b/w vignette illustrations to margins, endpaper maps; ownership autographs to front endapers, numerical inscriptions to prelim and end blanks (handwritten dates), partial paper-splitting to head and foot of inner hinges, with the same paper-splitting visible to lower margins (and occasionally upper margins) throughout,48 stitching visible between leaves in a couple of places, darkening and marking to cream cloth, light marking to boards, a sound or good- copy of this scarce title.
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COLERIDGE AND LIBERAL RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Romanticism, Science and Theological Tradition.
London/New York: I.B. Tauris. 8vo., pp.x,210, black hardcover, gilt; a very good copy indeed, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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COLLECTED POEMS.
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COLLECTED POEMS. Enlarged edition.
London: John Murray, 1970. Third edition (with addition of all poems published in ‘High and Low’), 8vo., pp.xxx,366, green cloth, gilt; a fine copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which has creasing to rear flap, and rubbing/light chipping to headband. Front free endpaper inscribed in pencil, “To Eric Mascall from the ridiculous author of these verses with fervent affection John Betjeman 1970”. Also includes a letter, written in pencil, from Betjeman to Mascall, thanking him for a copy of the Book of Humourous Verse.
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CONFLICTED LIFE: William Jerdan, 1782-1869.
London Editor, Author and Critic.
Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2011. 8vo.,pp.xii, 659, pictorial hardcover, b/w illustrations; light rubbing to corners of boards, adhesive price label to rear, otherwise a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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CONTEXTS OF BAROQUE:
Theatre, Metamorphosis, and Design.
Oslo: Novus Press, 1997. 8vo., pp.237,(i), dark green faux-leather hardcover, gilt; fine, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues: ST. AUGUSTINE'S ABBEY, CANTERBURY. [Set of Three Volumes]
London: The British Library, in association with The British Academy, 2008. Three volumes, 8vo., pp.cii,768;769-1616;1617-2356, deep red cloth, gilt, 8 b/w plates; a fine set, in acetate wrappers.
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CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Everyman’s Library.
London; New York: J.M. DENT & SONS; E.P. DUTTON, 1911. Small 8vo., pp.xv,455, grained leather, gilt, decorative gilt to spine, t.e.g., pictorial endpapers; light yellowing to pages, foxing to edges, occasionally affecting margins, wear and sunning to spine, rubbing to extremities, small split to headband where it joins the front board, else a good copy.
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Criterion Miscellany - No. 16. AMBUSH.
Faber and Faber. Reprint, 8vo., pp.43, paperback (stitched wrappers); author’s dedication inscription to half title, light partial toning to wrappers, splash-marks to front wrapper, slight wear to extremities, foxing to fore-edges, otherwise clean and very good.
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CURSOR MUNDI. A Northumbrian Poem of the XIVth Century. Four Versions. [Set of Seven Volumes:] Parts I - V. Text; Part VI. Preface, Notes and Glossary; Part VII. Essay on the Manuscripts and Dialect. Edited from British Museum MS. Cotton Vespasian A. III., Bodleian MS. Fairfax 14, Gottingen University Library MS. Theol. 107, and Trinity College Cambridge MS. R. 3.8. Early English Text Society Original Series, No. 57, 59, 62, 66, 68, 99, and 101.
Published for the Early English Text Society by Oxford University Press, 1961. Complete set of seven volumes, reprinted from the 1874-1893 edition, 8vo., paperback wrappers, b/w frontispiece; a fresh and near-fine set, with just slight wear to wrappers.
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CUSTOM & EXILE.
London: Allison and Busby, 1985. First edition, 8vo., pp.64, paperback; ex libris David Moody, with author’s signed presentation inscription to title, a fresh and near-fine copy, with just slight shelfwear to wrappers. Cover design by Joanna Voit.
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D.G. ROSSETTI; A.C. SWINBURNE AND R.W. BUCHANAN, THE FLESHLY SCHOOL REVISITED.
Reprinted from the Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol.65, No.1, Autumn 1982 and Vol. 65, No.2, Spring 1983.
Manchester: The John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1983. Journal offprints, 8vo., pp.206-234,176-207, printed wrappers; light toning to margins, glue slightly coming away to inner hinge but all contents firm, rubbed to extremities of wrappers, a good copy.
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DAFYDD AP GWILYM The Poems,
New York: Centre for Medieval & Early Renaissance Studies, 1982. 8vo., pp.346, green hardcover, gilt; lightly rubbed with a few light marks, else a vg+ copy, no dust-jacket.
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