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The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D.H. Lawrence: THE PLUMED SERPENT (Quetzalcoatl).
Cambridge University Press, 1997. First edition, 8vo., pp.xlvii,567,(ii), red cloth, gilt; light foxing to top edges, a fresh and otherwise near-fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D.H. Lawrence: APOCALYPSE AND THE WRITINGS ON REVELATION.
Cambridge University Press, 1980. 8vo., pp.xiii,249, red cloth, gilt; partial toning to paste-down endpapers, foxing to top edges, a very good copy indeed, in a very good+ price-clipped dust-jacket.
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CHARLES OLSON AND ROBERT CREELEY: THE COMPLETE CORRESPONDENCE. [Set of Ten Volumes]
Santa Barbara/Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1985. Set of ten volumes, 8vo., paperback; a couple of light creases to corners of wrappers, very slight surface soil to wrappers, some foxing to edges, overall a fresh and near-fine set.
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INADMISSABLE EVIDENCE. A Play.
London: Faber and Faber, 1965. First edition, 8vo., pp.115, green cloth, gilt; light foxing to edges, a near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, just lightly rubbed to edges.
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The Hogarth Essays, IV: HOMAGE TO JOHN DRYDEN. Three Essays on Poetry of the Seventeenth Century.
London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Wolf at the Hogarth Press, 1924. 8vo., pp.46, pictorial wrappers with front cover illustration by Vanessa Bell; foxing to prelims, edges and margins throughout, toning and light surface soil to wrappers, loss to paper covering at head and tail of spine, a very good copy.
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THE OLDEST ENGLISH TEXTS. [OS 83]
Early English Text Society, 1966. 8vo., pp.viii,668, brown cloth, gilt; neat ownership inscription to front free endpaper, just slight tone to edges, a clean and very good+ copy.
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THE OLD ENGLISH VERSION OF THE GOSPELS. [Two-Volume Set:] Volume I. Text and Introduction; Volume II. Notes and Glossary. [O. S. 304 and 314]
Early English Text Society, 1994. 8vo., pp.lxxviii,202;xxii,369, brown cloth, gilt, folding b/w plate to Volume I; neat ink ownership autograph to front free endpaper of both volumes, a fine set, Volume II in a near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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OLD POSSUM’S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS.
London: Faber and Faber Limited. First edition, 8vo., pp.45, pictorial yellow cloth stamped and lettered in red; foxing to prelims and edges, spine and margins of boards darkened, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, without dust-jacket.
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PLATONOV. A Play in Four Acts and Five Scenes.
1964. First edition, 8vo., pp.195, brown cloth, gilt; edges foxed, else near-fine, in an unclipped dust-jacket, whch has 1.5cm closed tear to upper fold of spine, sunning to spine, and foxing to the fore-margins, still very good.
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POEMS OF OSSIAN. Two Volumes.
Edinburgh: The Mercat Press/James Thin, 1971. Fascimile of the 1805 edition, part of a limited edtion run of which this No. 409, 8vo., pp.lxix,579, light blue cloth, gilt; ownership bookplate to front paste-down of both volumes, a couple of light spots of foxing to endpapers, very light foxing to fore-edge of text block, lightly rubbed, vol. II lightly sunned to spine, overall a very good set.
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BEOWULF AND THE DRAGON. Parallels and Analogues.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2000. 8vo., pp. x,230, navy hardcover, with pale blue title label to front board, gilt lettering to spine; upper section of front free endpaper cropped, otherwise a clean and near-fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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ON OLD ENGLISH: Selected Papers.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988. 8vo., pp.x,363, hardcover, silver lettering; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly toned to spine.
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THE COMPLETE POEMS OF CHRISTINA ROSSETTI: A Varorium Edition, In Three Volumes.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. Three volumes, 8vo., pp.xix,332;xxi,525;xviii,601, pale green cloth, brown title bands to spine with gilt lettering, b/w frontispiece to vol.I; ownership inscription to front free endpaper of vol.III, with slight foxing to upper edge of text block to vol.III, upper corners of boards to vol.I slightly curled, otherwise a clean and very good. No dust-jackets.
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THE HOTEL: A Play.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1939. First edition, 8vo., pp.104, pink cloth, blue lettering; toned and foxed to edges of text block, light toning to endpapers, otherwise clean and a very good copy, in a good+ unclipped dust-jacket, which is toned to spine and rear, with heavy foxing along fore-edges and lighter splashes of foxing to front and rear.
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THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JOHN MILTON. Volume VI Vernacular Regicide and Republican Writings.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 8vo., pp.xviii,811, light blue hardcover; very light marks to boards, a fresh and very good copy indeed.
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DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI AND JANE MORRIS: Their Correspondence.
Oxford, Oxford University Press. First edition, 8vo., pp.xx,219, red cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece; light toning to margins, a very good copy, in a price-clipped dust-jacket, which is lightly toned, with light surface soil. A scarce title.
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MOLLOY, MALONE DIES, THE UNNAMABLE.
London: John Calder, 1959. First edition thus, 8vo., pp. 418, navy hardcover; toning and foxing to prelims, endpapers and fore-edge of text block, lightly rubbed, a few very light marks to boards, a very good copy.
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THE VIVESECTOR.
London: Johnathan Cape. First edition, 8vo., pp.642, orange cloth, gilt, blue top edge; very light foxing to fore-edge of text block, else a near-fine copy, in very good unclipped dust jacket.
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PERSONS FROM PORLOCK.
and other plays for the radio
London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1969. First edition, 8vo., pp.144, green hardcover, gilt; very light toning to front free endpaper, else internally clean, else a near-fine copy in a vg+ unclipped dust-jacket light rubbed with a few marks.
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THE JOURNEY NOT THE ARRIVAL MATTERS.
An autobiography of the years 1939 to 1969.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1969. First edition, 8vo., pp.,217, blue cloth, gilt, b/w photographs; sticker to front paste-down, light spotting to head, o/w a very good copy in a very good unclipped dust-jacket in clear protective detail.
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