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EARLY ARCHAIC CHINESE.
University of Toronto Press, 1962. 8vo., pp.xxxi,288, grey cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations; light ink underlining to p.xxi, pale foxing to edges, extremities lightly rubbed, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE CHINESE LANGUAGE. Fact and Fantasy.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1984. 8vo., pp.x,331, cream cloth, red gilt lettering, 11 b/w illlustrations, 1 b/w map; small ownership sticker to title verso, edges lightly foxed, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE LITTLE WORLD OF MAN.
London: Longmans, Green And Co, 1952. First edition, 8vo.,pp. 187, green cloth, gilt; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, off setting to endpapers and toning to margins, sunned to spine. light rubbing and marking to boards, otherwise a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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LIN YUTANG'S CHINESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY OF MODERN USAGE.
With Supplementary Indexes (1978).
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, distributed by McGraw Hill, 1972. Large 8vo., pp.lxvi,1720, purple cloth, gilt, with Supplementary Indexes (pp.105) in paperback wrappers; very light soiling to front endpapers, light toning to prelims and rear endpapers, light rubbing to extremities, otherwise a very good copy, in an unclipped pictorial dust jacket which has light shelf wear to extremities, slight chipping to head of spine and lightly sunned to spine, otherwise very good.
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GAELIC BARDS, And Original Poems. [Includes translations of poems by: Alexander MacDonald; Ducan Ban MacIntyre; Dugald Buchanan; Rob Donn; William Ross; Mary MacLeod; MacGregor’s Lullaby; Fugitive Songs; plus Ancient Gaelic Bards: Ossianic Poetry; Original Poems.]
Glasgow: Archibald Sinclair, 1890. Second edition, 8vo., pp.278, pictorial blue cloth, lettered in gilt, with illustration and borders in black, b/w frontispiece; spine dulled, light rubbing to extremities, contemporary ink inscription to front free endpaper, toning to endpapers,
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THE FIRST DECADENT.
Being the Strange Life of J.K. Huysmans.
London: Faber & Faber, 1954. 8vo., pp.,283, red cloth, gilt, p.o.’s ink inscription and dedication to front endpaper, b/w portrait frontispiece, b/w illustrations, light fading to endpapers, fading to spine, light toning to heading, otherwise, a very good copy, no dust-jacket.
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THE ARDEN SHAKESPEARE: COMPLETE WORKS.
London: The Arden Shakespeare. Collector’s leather-bound edition, 4to., pp.vii,1344, calf, gilt, decorative endpapers, 19 b/w illustrations; very slight rubbing to extremities, otherwise a near fine copy in a slip case which is lightly rubbed, else very good indeed.
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THE POETRY OF CHRISTOPHER SMART.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, 1968. 8vo., pp.xxx,332, green cloth, gilt, 5 b/w plates; ownership autograph to front free endpaper and title page, otherwise internally clean, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy in very good unclipped dust-jacket which is in a clear protective sleeve.
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STRANDLOPER.
London: The Harvill Press, 1996. First edition, 8vo., pp.200, grey hardcover, gilt; a fine, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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W.H. AUDEN: THE MAP OF ALL MY YOUTH.
Early Works, Friends and Influences. Auden Studies 1.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. Reprint, 8vo., pp.xi,245, navy hardcover, gilt; slight spotting to top edge, very good indeed, in very good+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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MEMOIRS OF AN INFANTRY OFFICER.
London: Faber & Faber, 1931. Unsigned proof copy of the limited edition, of which 320 copies were produced, printed on English hand-made paper and identical in all points with the Limited Edition, full pictorial cloth, pictorial endpapers in colour, colour frontispiece, b/w vignettes; ‘rough proof’ pencilled to verso of front free endpaper, text cased a little high in binding, with creasing to cloth at tailband, light bumping to front lower corner, endpages frayed where they overhang text-block, overall a very good copy.
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ANNOTATIONS TO FINNEGANS WAKE.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. First paperback edition, 8vo.,pp. xii,628, paperback; foxing to edges of text-block, light rubbing to extremities and light sunning to spine, overall a very good copy.
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VISIONS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ALBION.
San Marino: Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 2002. 4to.,pp. v,78, brown cloth, silver lettering, b/w and colour illustrations, b/w frontispiece; a near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial, which has small scuff mark to lower spine and foxing to reverse.
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ALBERTINE GONE.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1989. First edition, 8vo., pp. ix,99, blue hardcover, gilt, very good hardback in very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket in clear plastic protective cover.
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MATRIX 9. A Review for Printers and Bibliophiles. Number 9, Winter 1989.
Andoversford, Glos: The Whittington Press, 1989. Limited edition of 925 copies, 4to., pp.(iv),200, pictorial paper-covered boards stamped in black, colour and b/w plates, some tipped-in; slight bump to lower edges, a fine copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is sunned to the spine.
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RHAPSODY.
A Dream Novel.
London: Constable, 1928. Limited edition of 1,000 copies, 8vo., pp.191, decorative paper-covered boards, pictorial title, 8 largely dichromatic plates, 14 further line-drawn illustrations to text; engraved ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, foxing to prelims and edges, sporadic foxing throughout, webbing slightly visible between pages 96 and 97, sunning to spine and margins of boards, partial ring-marking to front board, light nick to lower edge of front board, else very good.
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SHAKESPEARE AND OVID.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Reprint, 8vo., pp.xv,292, paperback; light soiling to fore-edges, crease to front lower corner, otherwise internally clean and very good.
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ECHO AND MEANING ON EARLY MODERN STAGES.
Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature.
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 8vo., pp. viii,123, hardcover; ink presentation inscription to front free endpaper, otherwise a fresh near fine copy.
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SHAKESPEARE AND CLASSICAL COMEDY. The Influence of Plautus and Terence.
Oxford University Press, 1994. 8vo., pp.xi,234, navy hardcover, gilt; small note to front paste-down endpaper, a very good, clean copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is sunned to the spine.
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TALES FROM TIMBUKTU.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1923. First edition, 8vo, pp. ix,179, multicoloured publisher’s cloth, title inlay to spine, uncut, green top edge, colour frontispiece, 11 b/w plates; toning to endpapers, a few spots of foxing to prelims, frontispiece unaffected, otherwise internally clean, rubbing to boards and spine, overall a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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