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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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MILTON AND THE IDEA OF THE FALL.
Cambridge University Press, 2009. Reprint, 8vo., pp.xi,240, paperback; a fine, fresh copy.
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MILTON & TOLERATION.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. 8vo., pp. x,320, navy hardcover, gilt; a fine copy in a fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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MILTON'S IDEA OF THE SON in the Shaping of Paradise Lost as a Christocentric Epic.
Tokyo: Eihosha, 1996. 8vo.,pp. xi,316, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, with light surface soiling.
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MILTON'S MESSIAH. The Son of God in the Works of John Milton.
Oxford University Press, 2011. Reprint, 8vo., pp.xii,253, navy hardcover, gilt; small mark to front paste-down endpaper (concealed by flap of dust-jacket, an otherwise fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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MILTON'S THEOLOGY OF FREEDOM.
Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2006. 8vo., pp. xiv, 209, hardcover, white lettering; a few very light surface scratches, otherwise a fresh and near-fine copy.
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MODERNIST ALCHEMY: Poetry and the Occult.
Ithaca/London: Cornell University Press, 1995. 8vo., pp.xx,218, pale blue cloth lettered in black, b/w illustrations; minor pencilling to Index, else a very good, fresh copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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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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OVER THE LONG HIGH WALL. Some Reflections & Speculations on Life, Death & Time
London: Heinemann, 1972. First edition, 8vo., pp.142, navy hardcover, gilt; light yellowing to pages, light foxing to edges, a few spots of foxing to endpapers, and initial initial pages, otherwise internally clean, a very good copy in a vg unclipped dust-jacket, a couple of closed tears to lower margin, small area of loss rear upper margin, lightly sunned to spine.
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PAGAN PAST AND CHRISTIAN PRESENT IN EARLY IRISH LITERATURE.
Ireland: Leinster Leader Ltd, 1991. 8vo., pp.,xi,277, green hardcover, gilt; a very good hardcover in a very good unclipped dust-jacket which has a sticker price to back.
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PLAYING THE FARMER. Representations of Rural Life in Vergil’s Georgics.
London: University of California Press Ltd, 2011. 8vo., pp.326, green cloth, bronze lettering; ink marking to top edge, affecting upper margins from p.55 to p.252, light shelf wear to extremities, a very good copy in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket which is lightly creased to inner folds and is very slightly soiled and slightly rubbed to extremities, else very good.
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PROUST AND THREE DIALOGUES.
London: John Calder, 1965. First edition, 8vo., pp.126, mauve hardcover, gilt; light foxing and toning to endpapers, light foxing to edges, very slight shelf-wear to extremities and mild bruising to spine, a very good copy in an unclipped dust-jacket, which is very slightly foxed and soiled, and lightly sunned to spine, else very good.
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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 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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REFORM AND CULTURAL REVOLUTION. Volume 2: 1350-1547.
The Oxford English Literary History.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. 8vo.,pp. xvii,661, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; slight soiling to edges of text block, otherwise clean and very good, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine.
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