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THE COLLECTED ESSAYS, JOURNALISM AND LETTERS OF GEORGE ORWELL:
Vol. I An Age Like This, 1920-1940; Vol. II My Country Right or Left, 1940-1943; Vol. III As I Please 1943-1945; Vol. IV In Front of Your Nose, 1945-1950. (4 vols)
London: Secker & Warburg. First edition, four volumes, 8vo., pp.xxiii,574;xv,477;xv,435;xvii,555, blue cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece in each volume; particularly fine, bright set in very good complete dust-jackets, with two closed tears to lower margin of dust-jacket to Volume I.
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C.S. LEWIS: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces.
London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2000. First edition, 8vo.,pp. xiv,894, green hardcover, gilt lettering; foxing to upper edge of text block and very lightly to fore-edge, otherwise clean and very good, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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THE LAZY TOUR OF TWO IDLE APPRENTICES. NO THOROUGHFARE. THE PERILS OF CERTAIN ENGLISH PRISONERS.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1895. 8vo., pp.vi,327, half red morocco with contrasting moire silk boards, five raised bands, decorative gilt to compartments, 8 b/w plates, marbled endpapers, speckled edges; pencilled ownership autograph to front free endpaper verso, foxing to prelims and ultimate leaves, light yellowing to margins, extremities lightly rubbed, a very good copy in a handsome binding.
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DOSTOEVSKY: A WRITER'S DIARY. [Two Volumes:]
Volume I. 1873-1876; Volume II. 1877-1881.
Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1994. Two volumes, Volume II being the second impression in paperback, Volume I the first, 8vo., pp.xvi,805;xii,811-1455, paperback; just very slight rubbing to extremities of wrappers to Volume I, a fresh and near-fine set.
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The Zodiac Press Edition of the Novels of Jane Austen, in Six Volumes, comprising: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park.
London: The Zodiac Press, 1968. Five volumes, seventh impression, 8vo.; a very good set, in very good, lightly chipped dust-jackets.
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FOUR WYCLIFFITE DIALOGUES.
Unites States: Oxford University Press, 2009. 8vo., pp., lxxi,151, brown hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece; a near fine copy in a very good unclipped dust-jacket
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THE VOCAL SONGS IN THE PLAYS OF SHAKESPEARE: A Critical History.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968. 8vo.,pp. xix,314, burgundy cloth, black title band and gilt lettering to spine; ex-library with printed acquisition numbers to title page, plain white stickers covering up library markings to front free endpaper, light toning to margins, adhesive staining to endpapers and to front and rear boards, with a small stain to lower edge of text block, a good+ copy, in a price-clipped dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine with marking where label has been removed, overall very good.
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LITERATURE AND SOCIETY IN RENAISSANCE CRETE.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. 8vo., pp.xi,339, blue hardcover, gilt; slight undulation to fore-margins, slight marking to boards, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to the spine.
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TIMARION. Byzantine Texts in Translation.
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1984. 8vo., pp.ix,161, terracotta cloth, gilt; ink ownership autograph to front free endpaper; a very good, clean copy, in good price clipped dust-jacket, which is sunned to spine, with small closed tear to front upper margin and rubbing to extremities.
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SHAKESPEARE, CO-AUTHOR: A Historical Study of Five Collaborative Plays.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 8vo.,pp. xvii,558, paperback, b/w tables; light rubbing to extremities, light soiling to edges of text block, otherwise a very good copy.
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POLITICAL THEOLOGIES IN SHAKESPEARE’S ENGLAND. The Sacred and the State in Measure for Measure.
Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001. 8vo.,pp. ix,194, paperback; a near-fine copy.
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BROKEN HARMONY: Shakespeare and the Politics of Music.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011. 8vo.,pp. xiv,261, navy cloth, silver lettering, b/w figures; heavily annotated in ink to front paste down and front free endpapers with light annotation to rear free endpaper, some light pencil annotation to margins of text, lower corners of boards slightly knocked and small sticker marking to rear, otherwise very good. No dust-jacket.
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BYZANTINE HEROIC POETRY.
Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 1990. 8vo., pp.xii,189, paperback; toning to primary and ultimate leaves, slight toning and shelfwear to wrappers, a very good, clean copy.
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AN INTRODUCTION TO MODERN GREEK LITERATURE.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. 8vo., pp.xiii,426, navy hardcover, gilt, 2 maps; ink ownership autograph to front free endpaper, a very good copy indded, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE WORKS OF ALFRED LORD TENNYSON, POET LAUREATE.
London: Macmillan, 1889. Reprinted, 8vo., pp. v,803, dark green half calf with red title band to spine and gilt lettering and five raised bands, green marbled boards, marbled endpapers and marbled edges of text block, b/w frontispiece; light toning with light foxing to endpapers, rubbing to extremities with light wear to corners of boards, a very good copy.
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HORACE ODES [Three Volumes] I. Carpe Diem. Text, Translation and Commentary. II. Vatis Amici. Text, Translation and Commentary. III. Dulce Periculum. Text, Translation and Commentary.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007. Three volumes, 8vo., pp.xiii,203;xxiii,156;xxv, paperback; light rubbing to extremities, otherwise a very good set indeed.
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SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY. The Social Context.
London: Hutchinson, 1985. 8vo., pp. 256, paperback, pictorial front cover, b/w illustrations; light creasing to spine, a very good clean copy.
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THE DIARIES OF SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1994. First edition, 8vo., pp.,xvi,384, black hardcover, gilt, sticker to front paste down, pages very lightly toned, o/w a very good clean copy in very good pictorial unclipped dust-jacket.
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BLAKE RECORDS.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969. First edition, 8vo., pp.xxviii, 678, illustrated throughout in b/w, cloth, gilt, with pictorial gilt stamped to spine, minor rubbing to extremities, minor foxing to fore-edges, o/w a very good copy in very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket with minor scuffing in a clear book protector
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A COMPANION TO THE WORKS OF ARTHUR SCHNITZLER.
Woodbridge/Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2003. 8vo., pp.xii,415, black cloth, gilt; a fine copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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