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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 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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IN MEMORIAM EDWARD THOMAS: Being Number Two of the Green Pastures Series. [From the library of Janet and C.R. Ashbee].
London: The Morland Press. First edition, published July 1919, 8vo., pp.20, decorative paper wrappers, decorative title, 2 b/w plates, b/w vignettes; with the nameplate of Janet and C.R. Ashbee to front wrapper verso, small closed tear to fore-margin of front wrapper, a little light rubbing to extremities of wrappers, otherwise a very good, fresh copy.
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MEMORIALS OF TWO SISTERS, SUSANNA AND CATHERINE WINKWORTH.
London: Longmans, Green and Co. First edition, 8vo., pp.xiii,341, navy cloth, frontispiece portrait of Catherine Winkworth with tissue guard, portrait of Susanna Winkworth with tissue guard; ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, light wear to head and tailbands, light foxing and toning to endpapers, otherwise very good.
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