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GRANVILLE BARKER: A Secret Life.
London, Heinemann Educational Books. 8vo.,pp.xxii,354, hardcovers, gilt, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece; foxing to fore-edge and upper edge, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed to extremities, light surface scratches, sunned to spine and to margin of front.
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HERBERT READ REASSESSED.
Liverpool University Press, 1998. Small 4to., pp.vii,328, paperback; light creasing to lower corner of front wrapper, light partial sunning to rear wrapper, a very good, clean copy.
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LADY GREGORY’S DIARIES 1892-1902.
Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1996. First edition, 8vo.,pp. xxxviii,346, blue cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece; light toning to upper edge, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has two small previous price stickers to rear.
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LECTURES & ESSAYS IN CRITICISM
University of Michigan Press, 1962. 8vo., pp.vi,578, disbound stitched text block in dust-jacket; edges foxed, light toning to inner margins of endpapers, else very good, in lightly edgeworn unclipped dust jacket.
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MARRIAGE, PERFORMANCE, AND THE POLITICS OF THE JACOBEAN COURT
Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
Farnham: Ashgate, 2009. 8vo., pp.ix,187, black hardcover, silver lettering; a near fine copy in an unclipped dust-jacket, which is creased to upper margin of spine, else very good.
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MASCULINE DESIRE: The Sexual Politics of Victorian Aestheticism.
Chapel Hill/London: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. 8vo., pp.x,276, burgundy cloth, pink gilt, b/w frontispiece; small ownership autograph to head of front free endpaper, a very good+ copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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MASCULINITY AND THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS.
Studies in Victorian Autobiography and Fiction.
New York: Routledge, 2007. 8vo., pp. xi,252, hardcover, white lettering, b/w illustrations; splash marks to rear paste down and rear free endpapers, otherwise clean, a near-fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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MUSIC AND GENDER IN ENGLISH RENAISSANCE DRAMA. Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies.
London/New York: Routledge, 2013. 8vo., pp.xvi,216, hardcover; from the library of Professor David Lindley, with author’s presentation inscription to half title, upper corner of front board bumped, internally fresh, a very good copy.
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‘NOT IN GALLUP’.
Oxford: Perpetua Press, 1928. Limited edition of 150 copies, of which this is no. 105, 8vo., pp.(viii), plain card wrappers with printed jacket; a fine copy. [A reprint of T.S. Eliot’s introduction to a 1928 production of ‘The Merry Masque of Our Lady in London Town’, by Charles A. Claye; unlisted in Gallup’s Bibliography].
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NOTES ON CHINESE LITERATURE: With Introductory Remarks on the Progressive Advancement of the Art; and a List of Translations from the Chinese, into various European Languages.
Shanghae, American Presbyterian Mission Press. First edition, 4to.,pp. xxviii,260, marbled paper covered boards, green cloth spine, title label to front; rubbed to extremities, chipped to head and foot of spine with some loss, worn to corners with creasing and small tear to rear lower corner, light annotation to rear index pages, soiling to edges, toned and foxed to endpapers, with occasional light foxing to margins, a very good copy.
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NOW & THEN. A Periodical of Books and Personalities Published Occasionally. Summer 1927, No.24.
Includes ‘What Is A Novel?’, by Virginia Woolf.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. 8vo., pp.33,(4)adverts, printed paper wrappers; small closed tears to margins of wrappers, o/w very good.
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OSCAR WILDE AND THE SIMULACRUM.
Studies in Comparative Literature 35.
London, LEGENDA. 8vo.,pp. xiv,356, pictorial hardcover, b/w illustrations; light rubbing to extremities, with slight knock to front upper edge of board, a very good copy.
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PREMISES AND MOTIFS IN RENAISSANCE THOUGHT AND LITERATURE.
Princeton University Press, 1982. 8vo., pp.xix,236, maroon cloth lettered in silver, 6 b/w illustrations; from the library of Gordon Leff, with ownership inscription to front paste-down endpaper, slight foxing to top edges, an otherwise fresh and near-fine copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly toned to spine.
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RADICAL SATIRE AND PRINT CULTURE 1790-1822.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. Letter from the author loosely inserted, 8vo., pp.xviii,318, navy hardcover, gilt, 50 b/w illustrations; a fine copy, in a vg pictorial dust-jacket, which is sunned to spine.
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READING MASQUES. The English Masque and Public Culture in the Seventeenth Century.
Oxford University Press, 2010. First edition, 8vo., pp.288, navy hardcover, gilt, 9 b/w plates; occasional light pencil scoring to margins, else internally fresh, spine just lightly rolled, internally fresh, a very good copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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READING THE SPLENDID BODY.
Gender and Consumerism in Eighteenth-Century British Writing on India.
London: Associated University Presses, 1998. 8vo., pp.223, charcoal cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations; a near fine copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, with rubbing to extremities.
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ROMANTIC CORRESPONDENCE.
Women, Politics and the Fiction of Letters.
Cambridge University Press, 1993. 8vo., pp.xii,268, black hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece and 5 further b/w illustrations; slight bruise to upper edge of front board, else fresh and very good indeed, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed/chipped to edges.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON ON SHAKESPEARE.
London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1960. Small 8vo., pp.xxxv,115,(ii), black hardcover, gilt, foxing to all edges, partial toning to free endpapers, else very good, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is foxed, with toning to spine, complete and otherwise very good.
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SCIENCE FICTION AS EXISTENTIALISM.
Hayes, Middlesex: Bran’s Head, 1978. First edition, 8vo., pp.16, paperback stapled wrappers; rubbing to spine, a very good, clean copy.
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SHAKESPEARE AND CLASSICAL COMEDY.
Oxford University Press. 8vo.,pp. xi,234, hardcover, gilt; ink stamp to title page (‘damaged’), otherwise near-fine, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is sunned to spine.
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