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SHADOWS OF HEAVEN.
Religion and Fantasy in the Fiction of C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams and J.R.R. Tolkien.
London: SCM Press, 1971. First edition, 8vo.,pp. 184, hardcover, bronze lettering; foxing to edges of text block, ownership autograph to front free endpaper, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly toned to rear and lightly rubbed to extremities.
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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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SHAKESPEARE AND THE GODDESS OF COMPLETE BEING.
London: Faber and Faber, 1992. First edition, 8vo., pp.xv,517, navy hardcover, gilt; foxing to top edges, slight surface soil to fore-edges, internally clean, a very good copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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SHAKESPEARE AND THE HUNT. A Cultural and Social Study.
Cambridge University Press, 2001. 8vo., pp.xii,253, black hardcover lettered in silver, 10 b/w illustrations; owner’s handwritten catalogue no. to upper margin of front free endpaper, slight crease to headband, an otherwise fine copy, in vg+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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'SHAKESPEARE' IDENTIFIED IN EDWARD DE VERE, THE SEVENTEENTH EARL OF OXFORD.
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1949. 8vo., pp.xxi,476, blue cloth, gilt,top edges red, b/w frontispiece and 4 further b/w plates; light toning to edges, with light water-marking to top edges, rubbing to extremities, otherwise a very good copy, in good unclipped dust-jacket, which has creasing, chipping, and loss to extremities - now in a protective cover.
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SHAKESPEARE’S COMEDIES: The Consummation.
Reprinted from the “Bulletin of the John Rylands Library”, Vol.21, No.2, October, 1937.
Manchester University Press. 8vo.,pp.31, printed wrappers; toning and light creasing to extremities of wrappers, ownership inscription to front wrappers, foxing to margins, a good copy.
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SHAKESPEARE’S INFLUENCE ON SIR WALTER SCOTT.
Boston: The Cornhill Publishing Company, 1925. 8vo.,pp. xii,508, brown cloth, gilt, gilt to upper edge of text block, b/w frontispiece; light toning to margins, lightly damp stained to boards, front lower corner slightly knocked, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed and lightly chipped to extremities, with light sunning to spine, overall a very good copy.
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SHAKESPEAREAN SUBVERSIONS. The Trickster and the Play-Text.
London/New York: Routledge, 1992. 8vo., pp.ix,284, black cloth lettered in silver; a couple of very minor marginal markings, else a very good, clean copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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SKALDSKAPARMAL Snorri Sturluson’s ars poetica and medieval theories of language.
Odense University Press, 1987. 8vo., pp.210, hardcover, gilt; small mark to front board, else very good indeed.
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STOICISM, POLITICS & LITERATURE IN THE AGE OF MILTON. War and Peace Reconciled.
Cambridge: Univerisity of Cambridge Press, 1998. 8vo., pp.xi,174, black hardcover, gilt, 5 b/w illustrations; very light foxing to edges, very slight damp staining to boards, very slight rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket which is lightly damp stained, overall very good, now in a protective cover.
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T.S. ELIOT: A STUDY OF CHARACTER AND STYLE.
Oxford University Press, 1983. 8vo., pp.,xiii,287, blue and grey hardcover, gilt, b/w photographs; very light foxing to head and fore-edge, o/w a very good hardcover in very good unclipped dust-jacket in clear book protector.
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T.S. ELIOT’S INTELLECTUAL AND POETIC DEVELOPMENT 1909-1922.
Sussex: The Harvester Press, 1982. 8vo., pp. xii,273, blue hardcover, gilt; very light yellowing to margins, foxing to top edge of text block, else internally clean, a very good copy in a vg unclipped dust-jacket, few spots of foxing to verso.
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THE AMERICAN T.S. ELIOT: A Study of the Early Writings.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. 8vo.,pp. ix,269, black cloth, silver lettering; lightly toned and foxed to edges of text block, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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THE BLOOMSDAY BOOK.
A Guide Through Joyce’s Ulysses.
London: Methuen and Co. Ltd, 1966. First edition, 8vo., pp.xii,275, cloth, gilt; rubbing and light marking to cloth, light vertical crease to spine, internally clean, a good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which has a couple of small nicks and tears to extremities, else very good.
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The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D.H. Lawrence: APOCALYPSE AND THE WRITINGS ON REVELATION.
Cambridge University Press, 1980. 8vo., pp.xiii,249, red cloth, gilt; partial toning to paste-down endpapers, foxing to top edges, a very good copy indeed, in a very good+ price-clipped dust-jacket.
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THE COMMON READER. Second Series.
London: At The Hogarth Press, 1932. Second impression, 8vo., pp. 270, green cloth, gilt; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, pencil annotations to contents page, foxing to margins of title page and lighter foxing and toning to margins and to edges of text block, lightly rubbed and toned to spine and extremities, overall a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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The Hogarth Essays, IV: HOMAGE TO JOHN DRYDEN. Three Essays on Poetry of the Seventeenth Century.
London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Wolf at the Hogarth Press, 1924. 8vo., pp.46, pictorial wrappers with front cover illustration by Vanessa Bell; foxing to prelims, edges and margins throughout, toning and light surface soil to wrappers, loss to paper covering at head and tail of spine, a very good copy.
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THE HOMOEROTICS OF EARLY MODERN DRAMA.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 8vo., pp.xi,216, paperback; mark from removed price sticker to rear wrapper, a very good+ copy.
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THE INARTICULATE RENAISSANCE. Language Troubles in an Age of Eloquence.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 8vo., pp.viii,349, black cloth, gilt, 5 b/w illustrations; a fresh and near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE KEYS OF MIDDLE-EARTH. Discovering Medieval Literature Through the Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien.
Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Second edition, 8vo., pp.xii,284, paperback; very slight rubbing to edges of wrappers, a fine, fresh copy.
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