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THE LANGUAGE OF WALTER SCOTT.
THE LANGUAGE OF WALTER SCOTT.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1980. 8vo., pp.351, brown hardcover, gilt;a very good, clean copy, in lightly sunned unclipped dust-jacket.
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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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BLOODY CONSTRAINT. War and Chivalry in Shakespeare.
New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 8vo., pp.246, brown hardback, red gilt, b/w frontispiece; owner’s inscription to front board --------- (Craig Taylor, University of York - relevant? seems that he’s professor of medieval history) ----------, fine with near-fine unclipped dust-jacket with sunning to spine.
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THE RECEPTION OF SIR WALTER SCOTT IN EUROPE.
London: Continuum, 2006. 8vo., pp.lxxiv,396, pictorial hardcover; internally fresh, a very good copy indeed. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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THE RECEPTION OF JANE AUSTEN AND WALTER SCOTT. A Comparative Longitudinal Study.
London: Continuum, 2007. 8vo., pp.x,198, glazed hardcover; near-fine.
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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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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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WRITING LIVES TOGETHER. Romantic and Victorian Auto/Biography.
Abingdon: Routledge, 2018. 8vo., pp.x,148, hardcover; two light indentations to front board, internally fine, a very good, clean copy.
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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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AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Volume II.
Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, Part 3: Discovering Difference.
Abingdon: Routledge, 2007. 8vo., pp.ix,393, blue hardcover lettered in white; slight bruising to corners, else fresh and very good indeed.
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Volume IV.
Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, Parts 7: Personal Texts as Autobiography, and 8: Cultures of Life Writing.
Abingdon: Routledge, 2007. 8vo., pp.xi,399, blue hardcover lettered in white; near-fine.
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TRANSCENDENTAL WORDPLAY.
America’s Romantic Punsters and the Search for the Language of Nature.
Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2000. 8vo., pp.xxiv,518, blue cloth lettered in silver; a very good, fresh copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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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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BLOOMSBURY AESTHETICS AND THE NOVELS OF FORSTER AND WOOLF.
London/Basingstoke: Macmillan. 8vo., pp.xii,249, brown hardcover, gilt, 24 b/w illustrations; light rubbing to extremities, a very good, clean copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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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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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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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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THE OTHER NATION.
The Poor in English Novels of the 1840s and 1850s.
Oxford: Clarendon Press. 8vo., pp.xvii,282, black hard covers, gilt; very good, in vg unclipped dust-jacket (with crease to price at front flap), which is lightly sunned to spine.
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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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EARLY FRANCISCAN ART AND LITERATURE.
Reprinted from the “Bulletin of the John Rylands Library” Vol.27, No.2, June, 1943.
Manchester University Press. 8vo.,pp.21, printed wrappers; some pages are uncut to upper edge, rubbed and lightly foxed to extremities, small closed tear to front edge and ownership inscription to front of wrappers, otherwise a very good copy.
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