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THE BOOK OF THE LOVER AND THE BELOVED.
Lo Libre de Amich e Amat; Librum Amici et Amati. An English Translation with Latin and Old Catalan Versions Transcribed from Original Manuscripts.
Warminster: Aris & Phillips Ltd, 1995. 8vo., pp.xxxiii,141, yellow hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece and 3 further illustrations; neat ownership nameplate to front paste-down endpaper, otherwise a near fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped pictorial dust jacket.
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THE DEPORTEES.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2007. Signed first edition, 8vo., pp.xiii,242, black hardcover, gilt; signed by author to title pages, a very good copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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PROENSA. An Anthology of Troubadour Poetry,
Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, 1978. 8vo., pp.xxiv,325, red cloth lettered in black; foxing to edges and lightly, to endpapers, a very good copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine.
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TROILUS AND CRISEYDE.
A New Edition of ‘The Book of Troilus’.
London/New York: Longman, 1990. First edition, large 8vo., pp.xii,587, paperback; a very good, internally clean copy, with partial sunning to wrappers (to spine and to rear upper and inner margins), and slight curling to corners of wrappers.
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THE CHINESE CLASSICS, IV. THE SHE KING, Or THE BOOK OF POETRY.
Taipei: SMC Publishing Inc, 1991. Reprint (third impression), 8vo., pp.xii,785, red hardcover, gilt, b/w map; light marking to fore-edges, else fine, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is sunned to spine and front upper margin.
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THOMAS DEKKER. Selected Prose Writings.
The Wonderful Year; The Gull’s Horn-Book; Penny-Wise; Pound-Foolish; English Villainies Discovered by Lantern and Candlelight.
London: Edward Arnold (Publishers), 1967. 8vo., pp.ix,374, green cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations; light toning to endpapers, a very good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed to edges.
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PETER ABELARD.
A Novel.
New York: Henry Holt and Company. Facsimile reprint, 8vo., pp.277, glazed hardcover, b/w illustrations; fine. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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THE COMPLETE POEMS. In Three Volumes.
The Phoenix Edition.
London: William Heinemann Ltd. Three volumes, 8vo., pp.xxxvii,269;xxxvi,299;xliv,185, red cloth, silver lettering; partial toning to front free endpapers, foxing to edges, o/w fine, in price-clipped dust-jackets, which are just lightly rubbed and chipped without loss to extremities.
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POEMS BY ARTHUR SYMONS. In Two Volumes.
London: Heinemann, 1921. Two volumes, 8vo., pp.x,219;vii,227, uncut, paper-covered boards with printed paper labels to spines, frontispiece portrait with tissue guard to first volume; toning to endpapers, with neat ownership nameplate to front paste-down endpaper of both volumes, foxing to prelims and edges, a very good set, in rudimentary printed dust-jackets, bearing bookseller’s inkstamp to front and rear panels (Miller & Gill, Charing Cross Road), split and lightly chipped along joints, with small sellotape reinforcements at extremities, and with small area of loss to rear upper margin of jacket to Volume I.
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THE PRELUDE.
Or, Growth of a Poet’s Mind.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959. Second edition, 8vo., pp.lxxiv,650, navy cloth, gilt, 7 b/w illustrations, including frontispiece portrait, and MS. facsimiles; foxing to endpapers and edges, an otherwise very good copy, in a price-clipped dust-jacket, which is chipped to extremities, with just slight loss, and now in a protective cover.
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AN ANTHOLOGY OF NINETIES VERSE.
London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, Ltd, 1928. First edition, 8vo., pp.176, uncut, pictorial yellow paper-covered boards backed in yellow cloth, design and lettering in black, b/w pictorial title; foxing to edges and margins of boards, occasional foxing within, splash-mark to top-edges, slight splash-marking to spine, a very good copy.
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WRITTEN ON THE BODY.
London: Johnathan Cape, 1992. Signed first edition, 8vo., pp.190, black cloth, gilt; very slight roll to spine, a very good copy indeed, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which has small closed tear at rear upper corner, light creasing to head and foot of spine, and one tiny nick to foot of spine.
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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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PROSE REMAINS OF ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH.
With a selection from his letters and a memoir.
London: Macmillan & Co, 1888. 8vo., pp. 421, green cloth, gilt, uncut, two unopened leaves; light foxing to prelims and last few leaves, otherwise internally clean, boards and spine lightly rubbed to extremities, a very good copy.
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COLLECTED POEMS.
London: Max Goschen Ltd, 1914. Second edition; 8vo., pp.227; green cloth, printed paper label; very light foxing to prelims, splash marks/foxing to edges, otherwise internally clean, rubbing/fading and two light marks to boards, overall a good+ copy, in a unclipped dust-jacket with light foxing and surface soil, chipped and rubbed to extremities, with a small area of loss to headband.
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THE CRITICAL ATTITUDE.
London: Duckworth & Co, 1911. First edition, 8vo., pp. vii, 190, cloth, gilt, teg., small decoration in blind to rear board; foxing and toning to prelims, very light foxing throughout text, foxing to edges but generally not affecting margins, otherwise internally clean, wear and sunning to boards, overall a good copy.
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POETRY AND PHILOSOPHY IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
A Festschrift for Peter Dronke.
Leiden: Brill, 2001. 8vo., pp.392,(ii), blue cloth, gilt; from the library of D.E. Luscombe, with ownership autograph to front free endpaper, editor’s autograph to title, a fresh and near-fine copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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TRACING T.S. ELIOT'S SPIRIT.
Essays on his Poetry and Thought.
Cambridge University Press, 2008. Digital reprint, 8vo., pp.xxi,195, paperback; a fine copy.
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GOETHE'S FAUST, Parts I and II.
An Abridged Version.
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1951. 8vo., pp.306, orange cloth, gilt; light partial toning to endpapers, slight spotting to top edges, a very good copy indeed, in very good price-clipped dust-jacket, with light creasing and one tiny nick to head of spine.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON ON SHAKESPEARE.
London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1960. Small 8vo., pp.xxxv,115,(ii), black hardcover, gilt, foxing to all edges, partial toning to free endpapers, else very good, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is foxed, with toning to spine, complete and otherwise very good.
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