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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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THE CAMBRIDGE BIOGRAPHY OF D.H. LAWRENCE. [Set of Three Volumes:] Volume I. The Early Years, 1885-1930; Volume II. Triumph to Exile, 1912-1922; Volume III. Dying Game, 1922-1930.
Cambridge University Press, 1991. Three volumes, 8vo., pp.xxx,626;xlv,943, maroon hardcover with green title-labels, gilt, b/w plates; a fine set, in fine unclipped dust-jackets, housed in red card slipcase.
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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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THE LIFE TO COME AND OTHER STORIES.
London: Edward Arnold, 1972. 8vo.,pp. xxi,240, hardcover, gilt; foxing and toning to edges of text block, otherwise very good, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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A STRONG SONG TOWS US.
The Life of Basil Bunting.
Oxford: Infinite Ideas, 2013. First edition, 8vo.,pp.,618, black hardcover, silver lettering many b/w photos; small marking on fore-edge, o/w a near fine copy in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS.
MacGibbon & Kee, 1968. First UK edition, 8vo., pp.xi,401, hardcover, gilt; lightly toned and foxed to edges of text block and mildly to margins, a very good and otherwise clean copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine.
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COOLE BY LADY GREGORY.
Dolmen Editions X.
Dublin: Dolmen Editions, 1971. Limited edition of 1050 copies, large 8vo., pp.105,(i), quarter cream cloth, gilt, pictorial endpapers; a fresh and near-fine copy, ex libris Rigby Graham, with the artist’s signature to front free endpaper verso, and with a unique patterned paper replacement dust-jacket made after one of the artist’s own designs, with printed title-label to spine.
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THE DOMESTICATION OF GENIUS: BIOGRAPHY AND THE ROMANTIC POET.
Oxford University Press, 2009. 8vo., pp.x,253, black hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; a near fine copy in very good unclipped dust-jacket which has a few faint scratches.
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BLOOMSBURY.
London: George Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 8vo., pp.126, brown hardcover lettered in white; includes selection of TLS regarding future corrections to the text; a very good, clean copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which has small closed tear, light creasing and very mild chipping to extremities. Now in a protective cover.
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JAMES SHIRLEY. A Study of Literary Coteries and Patronage in Seventeenth-Century England.
University Press of America, 1988. 8vo., pp.xiv,234, navy cloth, gilt; light marginal pencilling, foxing to edges, slight bloom to front board, else very good. No dust-jacket.
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WILLIAM STRACHEY 1572-1621.
Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1965. 8vo., pp.224, brown hardcover, decorative gilt; occasional pencilling, otherwise internally clean, very light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy.
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SEVENTY YEARS 1852-1922: BEING THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LADY GREGORY.
Buckinghamshire: Colin Smythe Ltd, 1974. First edition, 8vo., pp.,xv, 583, blue hardcover,gilt, b/w frontispiece, b/w illustrations throughout; very light spotting to fore-edge, tail and first few pages of text, otherwise a very good copy in very good slightly worn unclipped dust-jacket which is in a clear protective cover.
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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 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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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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HENRY JAMES AND H.G. WELLS.
A Record of their Friendship, their Debate on the Art of Fiction, and their Quarrel.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959. 8vo., pp.272, cream cloth, black lettering, b/w frontispiece; light foxing to top edges, very slight bruising to upper corner of front board, a very good, clean copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which is slightly foxed.
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THE OLD BOY'S BOOKS: A HISTORY OF THE OLD TIME JOURNALS FOR BOYS, THEIR PUBLISHERS, AUTHORS, ARTISTS AND EDITORS/ A BRIEF HISTORY OF BOYS' JOURNALS, WITH INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE WRITERS OF BOYS' STORIES.
Leicester: H. Simpson, 1913. 8vo., pp. 111, grey pictorial wrappers, b/w illustrations, portrait frontispiece; tiny chip at foot of spine, otherwise a very good, clean copy.
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WILFRED OWEN: Anthem for a Doomed Youth.
London: The Woburn Press, 1987. 8vo.,pp. ix,166, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece; a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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To Keep the Ball Rolling - The Memoirs of Anthony Powell, Volume Four: THE STRANGERS ARE ALL GONE.
London: Heineman, 1982. First edition, 8vo., pp.(vi),208, grey cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations; extremities rubbed, light tone to edges, a clean and good+ copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly creased and rubbed to extremities.
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THE EARLY ESSAYS AND ROMANCES OF SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE Bt. With the Life and Character of Sir William Temple by his sister Lady Gifford.
Also two unpublished Poems of Sir William Temple and two poems on ‘Mother Ludwell’s Cave’.
Oxford, At the Clarendon Press. First edition, 8vo.,pp. xxviii,215, navy cloth, gilt, b/w plates, b/w frontispiece wityh tissue guard; light toning to margins and endpapers, slight toning to spine and light surface marking to boards, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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