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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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WILLIAM MORRIS.
Centenary Essays.
University of Exeter Press, 1999. 8vo., pp.xi,298, green hardcover, gilt, 8 colour plates, 19 b/w illustrations; a fine copy, in a near-fine pictorial dust-jacket.
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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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MEMOIRS OF LAETITIA PILKINGTON. [In Two Volumes]
Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2016. Two volumes, 8vo., pp.lxii,348;349-845, paperback; fine.
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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 JOURNAL OF SIR WALTER SCOTT.
Oxford University Press. 8vo., pp.xlvi,812, navy cloth, gilt; b/w maps and illustrations, partially water stained with undulation to lower corners, price clipped dust-jacket worn to head of spine and lightly worn at corners, some very light scratch marks to jacket, pencil notation on paste down endpaper, o/w a good copy.
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A RABBIT IN THE AIR.
Notes from a Diary Kept While Learning to Handle an Aeroplane.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1932. First edition, 8vo., pp.ix,117, uncut, marbled cloth, gilt, t.e.g., 2 b/w plates; spine lightly sunned, foxing to fore-edges, a very good, clean copy. No dust-jacket.
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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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