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  • TOLKIEN, J. R.R. Illustrated by Alan Lee. [Signed by Alan Lee and Rayner Unwin]
    THE LORD OF THE RINGS.

    London: HarperCollins, 1950. A very rare first printing of the Alan Lee illustrated edition, signed both by the artist and by Rayner Unwin, son of the publisher Stanley Unwin: it was Rayner’s enthusiastic book report on the manuscript of The Hobbit that convinced his father to proceed with publication of the story. Unwin thereafter requested a follow-up volume, which - after the rejection of The Silmarillion - emerged in the mid 1950s as The Lord of the Rings. 8vo., pp.1193,7 (maps), brown cloth, gilt, colour frontispiece and plates, red ribbon bookmark; half title inscribed ‘To Sheila / Alan Lee / Rayner Unwin’, a few leaves show a tiny crease to their upper corner, there is a ‘soft’ crease to…

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    London: HarperCollins, 1950. A very rare first printing of the Alan Lee illustrated edition, signed both by the artist and by Rayner Unwin, son of the publisher Stanley Unwin: it was Rayner’s enthusiastic book report on the manuscript of The Hobbit that convinced his father to proceed with publication of the story. Unwin thereafter requested a follow-up volume, which - after the rejection of The Silmarillion - emerged in the mid 1950s as The Lord of the Rings. 8vo., pp.1193,7 (maps), brown cloth, gilt, colour frontispiece and plates, red ribbon bookmark; half title inscribed ‘To Sheila / Alan Lee / Rayner Unwin’, a few leaves show a tiny crease to their upper corner, there is a ‘soft’ crease to the lower corners of pp.1035-1106, small dots of foxing to top edges, and light foxing to fore-edges, with slight pale mark to upper edge of front board, a very good copy of this exceptionally scarce volume, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed and frilled to the edges, with a few superficial impressions made to the panels.

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  • THOMAS HARDY: Selected Letters. by Edited by, MILLGATE, Michael.
    Edited by, MILLGATE, Michael.
    THOMAS HARDY: Selected Letters.

    Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. 8vo.,pp. xxvii,433, navy hardcover, gilt; light toning to edges of text block, slight mottling to upper margins of boards, otherwise very good, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is sunned to spine and upper extremities.

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  • T.S. ELIOT AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY. by Edited by, THORMAHLEN, Marianne.
    Edited by, THORMAHLEN, Marianne.
    T.S. ELIOT AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY. Lund Studies in English 86.

    Lund: Lund University Press, 1994. 8vo.,pp. 243, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine.

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  • STRANGE LIKENESS. by JONES, Chris.
    JONES, Chris.
    STRANGE LIKENESS. The Use of Old English in Twentieth-Century Poetry.

    Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. 8vo.,pp. viii,266, hardcover, gilt; pencilling throughout, front free endpaper marked as damages with ownership doodle surrounding ink stamp, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed and lightly worn to corners, overall a very good working copy.

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  • MARCEL PROUST: Letters To His Mother. by Translation and Introduction by, PAINTER, George D. With an essay by, HANSFORD JOHNSON, Pamela.
    Translation and Introduction by, PAINTER, George D. With an essay by, HANSFORD JOHNSON, Pamela.
    MARCEL PROUST: Letters To His Mother.

    London: Rider, 1956. First edition, 8vo.,pp. 237, blue cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; foxing to endpapers and edges of text block, cracking along inner hinge, all contents firm, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine and lightly foxed, with chipping to head and foot of spine, overall very good.

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  • BECKETT, Samuel.
    NOUVELLES ET TEXTES POUR RIEN.

    Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1958. 8vo.,pp. 205, cream cloth, brown lettering; light foxing to endpapers and edges of text block, with slight toning to margin of boards, otherwise very good, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is foxed along fore-edges.

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  • BECKETT, Samuel.
    HAPPY DAYS: A Play in Two Acts.

    New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1961. First edition, 8vo.,pp. 64, paperback; foxing to endpapers and wrappers verso, rubbing to extremities, otherwise very good.

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  • BECKETT, Samuel. With an essay On Directing Film by, SCHNEIDER, Alan.
    FILM.

    New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1969. 8vo.,pp. 95, paperback, b/w illustrations; ink smudge to margin of p.67, booksellers label to rear wrapper verso, otherwise clean and a very good copy.

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  • LEVY, Eric P.
    BECKETT & THE VOICE OF SPECIES. A Study of the Prose Fiction.

    Totowa: Gill And Macmillan, 1980. 8vo.,pp. 145, hardcover, silver lettering; foxing to edges of text block, otherwise very good, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.

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  • WOOLF, Leonard.
    GROWING: An autobiography of the years 1904 to 1911.

    London: The Hogarth Press, 1961. First edition, 8vo.,pp. 256, blue cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece; ownership bookplate to front paste down endpaper, light toning and slight foxing to edges of text block and endpapers, otherwise very good, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which is toned to spine and extremities, lightly chipped to head of spine and light wear to corners with small tear along front lower fore-edge, overall very good.

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  • FAULKNER, William. Compilation and Introduction by, COLLINS, Carvel.
    EARLY PROSE AND POETRY.

    London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. First UK edition, 8vo.,pp. xiv,134, green hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; slight foxing to edges of text block, otherwise very good, in a very good clipped dust-jacket, which is lightly foxed to extremities and small chip to lower edge of front.

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  • FRAME, Janet.
    THE LAGOON AND OTHER STORIES.

    Christchurch: The Caxton Press. German edition 1961 (text printed in English), 8vo.,pp. 123, green and red mottled hardcover, yellow lettering; pencilling to half title page and ownership autograph to front free endpaper, light toning to spine, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is toned and soiled to spine and rear, which has wear to corners and head and foot of spine with small areas of loss, overall a very good copy.

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  • THE ELDER STATESMAN: A Play. by ELIOT, T.S.
    ELIOT, T.S.
    THE ELDER STATESMAN: A Play.

    London: Faber and Faber, 1959. First edition, 8vo., pp.108, red cloth, gilt; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, toned and lightly foxed to endpapers, light toning throughout with a little foxing to margins, light sunning to spine, overall very good, in a good+ unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed and toned to spine and extremities with foxing to fore-edges.

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  • THE BURNT ONES. by WHITE, Patrick.
    WHITE, Patrick.
    THE BURNT ONES.

    London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1964. First edition, 8vo.,pp. 314, brown hardcover, gilt; toned with light foxing to edges of text block, spine slightly rolled, otherwise very good, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed and toned to extremities, with light wear to corners.

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  • THE SELECTED LETTERS OF GEORGE OPPEN. by Edited by, BLAU DuPLESSIS, Rachel.
    Edited by, BLAU DuPLESSIS, Rachel.
    THE SELECTED LETTERS OF GEORGE OPPEN.

    Durham: Duke University Press, 1990. First edition, 8vo.,pp. xxxiii,436, paperback, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece; slight sunning to spine, light toning and foxing to upper and lower edge of text block, otherwise clean, a very good copy.

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  • BOTTOM: On Shakespeare. by ZUKOFSKY, Louis.
    ZUKOFSKY, Louis.
    BOTTOM: On Shakespeare.

    Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. First edition thus, 8vo.,pp. 470, paperback, pictorial title page; light sunning to spine, a very good copy.

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  • SCENTED GARDENS FOR THE BLIND. by FRAME, Janet.
    FRAME, Janet.
    SCENTED GARDENS FOR THE BLIND.

    London: W.H. Allen, 1963. First UK Edition, 8vo.,pp. 192, red hardcover, gilt; light toning to margins and toned and foxed to edges of text block, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed to extremities and soiling to rear.

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  • HESIOD HOMERIC HYMNS EPIC CYCLE HOMERICA? by EVELYN-WHITE, Hugh G.
    EVELYN-WHITE, Hugh G.
    HESIOD HOMERIC HYMNS EPIC CYCLE HOMERICA?

    Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. Small 8vo., pp.xlviii,? green cloth, gilt; very light rubbing to extremities, very good indeed copy?, in a vg+ unclipped dust-jacket.

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  • WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. by Edited by, GILL, Stephen.
    Edited by, GILL, Stephen.
    WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. 21st-Century Oxford Authors

    Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 8vo., pp. xxxix, 800, black hardcover, gilt; a fine copy in a fine unclipped dust-jacket.

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  • ROBINSON, Marilyn [signed by author]
    JACK

    London: Virago, 2020. 8vo., pp. 309, green hardcover, gilt; author’s signature to half title page, a fine copy in a vg+ unclipped dust-jacket which has very minor rubbing to extremities and ‘signed copy’ sticker to front cover.

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