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WRIGHTSON Priscilla
The Small English House. Catalogue 35. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. With the errata slip mounted on title. The catalogue describes over 660 items with full index.
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SEYMOUR Terry
A Guide to Collecting Everyman's Library. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Since its foundation in 1906, Everyman's Library has published more than 1,000 titles covering virtually every field of knowledge. This work is the first comprehensive guide to the series between 1906 and 1976, with detailed listings, points, issues and scarcity.
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BLOCH, comp. Joshua
The People and the Book. The Background of Three Hundred Years of Jewish Life in America. A Tricentennial Exhibition at The New York Public Library. Sponsored by the Louis M. Rabinowitz Foundation. October - December 1954. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; patterened boards, burgundy cloth back lettered in gilt, red top, a near fine copy. An annotated list of illuminated manuscripts, rare books, authentic documents and related materials.
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CRUISING ASSOCIATION.
The Cruising Association Library Catalogue. A Collection of Books for Seamen and Students of Nautical Literature, Atlases and Charts. Compiled by HerbeRt J. Hanson. [Third Edition]. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY: THIRD EDITION WITH ADDENDA
8vo., Third Edition, with full-page illustrations in the text; burgundy cloth, upper board blocked in colours and lettered in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy. The Addenda for Jan-June 1954, and Jan 1988-Jan 1989 are loosely inserted. A valuable resource for maritime literature, though this third edition is abbreviated to authors, titles and dates.
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YABLON G. Anthony
A Bronte Bibliography [1856-1978]. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, on laid paper; navy cloth gilt, gilt back, a fine copy.
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WILLIAM MORRIS SOCIETY.
The Work of William Morris. An Exhibition [at The Times Bookshop] arranged by the William Morris Society. 2000 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Sm. 4to., First Edition; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 2000 COPIES. The exhibition was held from 25 October - 10 November in the Rare Book Room.
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NEEDHAM, Paul
William Morris and the Art of the Book. With Essays on William Morris as Book Collector by Paul Needham, as Calligrapher by Joseph Dunlap, and as Typographer by John Dreyfus. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with 114 fine plates and pictorial endpapers; green cloth boards, back in darker green cloth lettered in gilt, darker, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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COUPE Robert L.M.
Illustrated Editions of the Works of William Morris in English. A Descriptive Bibliography. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. folio, First Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous reproductions in the text; cloth, gilt back, patterned endpapers, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Published in association with the British Library.
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BIRLEY, comp. Robert
The Eton College Collections. One Hundred Books. Selected and annotated by Robert Birley. BRIGHT COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., with a frontispiece; original printed wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Eton College Collections, Occasional Publications, no. II. The frontispiece is taken from the Eton Chrysostom (1610-13), n. 64, the engraved title of which contains the earliest depiction of the college. The work was the gift of Sir Henry Savile {of Banke] and was bound by Williamson.
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BARKER Nicolas
Stanley Morison. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, red top, fore-edge spotted else a very good, bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter browned at edges and fold-ins.
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NOWELL-SMITH Simon
The House of Cassell 1848-1958. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 23 illustrations in the text (the majority full-page and one double page); navy buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped, very lightly dust-soiled dustwrapper. The standard history, handsomely printed at the Curwen Press.
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MOUNT ATHOS.
The Treasures of Mount Athos. Illuminated Manuscripts, Miniatures, Headpieces, Initial Letters. Volume I [only]. The Protaton and the Monasteries of Dionysiou, Koutloumosiou, Xeropotamou and Gregoriou. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
Folio, First Edition, with 376 fine coloured reproductions and several other photographs and maps, patterned endpapers; original tan faux-morocco cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked in gilt and colours, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the whole housed in publisher's illustrated board slip-case.
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MORGAN Charles
The House of Macmillan (1843-1943). BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with title in red and black; decorative cloth gilt, gilt back, gilt top, a near fine copy. The classic account of one of the greatest nineteenth publishing houses. It includes much detail on the relationship between the Macmillans (particularly Frederick) and the writers of the day (Hardy, Carroll, James, Tennyson, Kipling among others) who often owed much to the firm's encouragement.
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WWII.
Bibliografia della Seconda Guerra Mondiale 1945-1975. NEAR FINE COPY IN LAMINATED BOARDS
8vo., First Edition, text in Italian; laminated boards, a near fine copy.
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WHITE Arthur S.
A Bibliography of Regimental Histories of the British Army. With a Foreword by Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer. [Second Edition]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition; green cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper The standard reference. Much-needed reissue of the first edition of 1965.
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CRESSWELL Mary Ann
United States Air Force History. An Annotated Bibliography. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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BAYLISS Gwyn M.
Bibliographic Guide to the Two World Wars. An Annotated Survey of English-Language Reference Materials. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, neat signature on front free endpaper; blue buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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HELD Walter
Verbande und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Eine Bibliographie der deutschen Nachkriegsliteratur. Band 2. 1977-1981. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, text in German; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. Standard German-language reference. SCARCE.
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SCHMITT Bernadotte
Les Duex Guerres Mondiales. Bibliographie Selective. 1000 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition, text in French, with pictorial endpapers; grey cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 932). Standard French-language reference. SCARCE.
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OTTLEY George
A Bibliography of British Railway History. Compiled by George Ottley. Foreword by Professor Jack Simmons. [Second Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bright copy of the best edition of this invaluable standard reference.
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ENSER A. G. S.
A Subject Bibliography of the Second World War.. Books in English 1939-1974. BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, wanting front free endpaper; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bright copy of an invaluable standard reference. A supplementary volume was issued in 1987.
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TOOLEY R. V.
English Books with Coloured Plates 1790- to 1860. A Bibliographical Account of the most important Books illustrated by English Artists in Colour Aquatint and Colour Lithography. [Revised Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition thus; blue buckram, gilt back, blue top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bright copy of this invaluable reference, first published in 1935 and here reissued in greatly expanded form. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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MULHOLLAND John
Victoria Cross Bibliography. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; maroon cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The standard bibliography. Lists books relating to the VC and books written by recipients.
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BROCKMAN H.A.N.
The Caliph of Fonthill. [With a Foreword by Nikolaus Pevsner]. (William BECKFORD).
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, 12 plates, 4 illustrations in the text, and endpaper maps in red and black; grey cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The work includes a select bibliography. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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BOOKPLATE SOCIETY.
A Brief History of Bookplates in Britain. with reference to Examples at the Victoria & Albert Museum BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN WRAPPERS
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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SITWELL Sacheverell
Great Flower Books 1700-1900. A Bibliographical Record of Two Centuries of Finely-Illustrated Flower Books. With a Foreword by S. Dillon Ripley. [Second Edition] FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. folio, Second Edition, with coloured frontispiece and numerous fine coloured plates; navy cloth, gilt back, dove gey endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The bibliography is edited by Patrick M. Synge and compiled by W.T. Stearn, Sabine Wilson and Handasyde Buchanan. Much-needed, high-quality reissue of the scarce original limited edition of 1956.
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SKELTON R.A.
Decorative Printed Maps of the 15th to 18th Centuries. A revised Edition of 'Old Decorative Maps and Charts' by A.L. Humphreys. With eighty-four Reproductions and a new Text. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with 12 coloured plates and 72 monochrome plates; burgundy cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. The first form of this work, by Humphreys, appeared in 1926 designed as a picture book to illustrate the wealth of a notable collection. Skelton's classic reworking serves both as a specimen book and a guide to the study of maps printed from wood blocks or copper-plates from the birth of mapmaking to the eve of scientific cartography. The majority of plates in the original work have been retained and twenty-two new illustrations added, together with a bibliography.
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BERNARDO Gabriel Adriano
A Critical and Annotated Bibliography of Philippine, Indonesian and other Malayan Folklore. Compiled by Gabriel A. Bernardo. Edited by Francisco Demetrio y Radaza. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN WRAPPERS
Roy., 8vo., First Edition, with full-page illustration in the text; printed wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy.board and backstrip with divisional emblem blocked in red and lettered in black, uncut, one corner bruised, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE.
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BARTY-KING Hugh
Her Majesty's Stationery Office. The Story of the First 200 Years 1786-1986 FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates; blue cloth, gilt back, blue endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A presentation copy from the Director of Supply, HMSO, 1986, with his signed holograph inscription on front free endpaper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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FORDHAM H.G.
The Road-Books & Itineraries of Great Britain 1570 to 1850. A Catalogue with an Introduction and a Bibliography. 550 COPIES WERE PRINTED
4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece; green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt and blind, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 550 COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 201). Perkins & Parry, p.105
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BARON CORVO, pseud.
Letters to Harry Bainbridge. Edited with an Introduction by Miriam J. Benkovitz. 350 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 350 COPIES.
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CHILCOTT Tim
A Publisher and his Circle. The Life and Work of John Taylor, Keats's Publisher. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. In addition to many of Keat's most famous editions, the well-known house of Taylor & Hessey also published for Carlyle, Clare, Coleridge, De Quincey, Hazlitt and Lamb among many others. A fascinating study incorporating much original material.
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MOWL Timothy
William Beckford. Composing for Mozart. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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Carter John
Taste and Technique in Book Collecting. A Study of Recent Developments in Great Britain and the United States. [The Sandars Lectures in Bibliography 1947. Second Impression.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Impression; original ochre cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean, crisp copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly soiled and browned at backstrip. A much-loved standard reference. Published a year after the first edition.
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HOWARD Michael S.
Jonathan Cape, Publisher. Herbert Jonathan Cape. G. Wren Howard. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates; original brown buckram gilt, gilt back, dark top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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ATTENBOROUGH John
A Living Memory. Hodder & Stoughton Publishers 1868-1975. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo. First Edition with plates; red cloth gilt back a near fine copy in dustwrapper the latter lightly and unevenly sunned at backstrip.
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
Notes and Queries. Twelfth Series. Volume III. January - December 1917. A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, etc. FIRM COPY IN LIBRARY CLOTH
8vo., First Edition; strongly bound in brown library cloth, gilt back, patterned endpapers, a bright, firm copy. Sold from an insitution with its bookplate on front paste-down and neat stamps on title.
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SPINK & SON.
Catalogue of Valuable Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters of Sir Richard Francis Burton 1821-1890. Many recorded for the first time. Including a fine Portrait in Oils. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with coloured portrait frontispiece, coloured plates and monochrome illustrationsmin the text; printed wrappers, a near fine copy. The catalogue lists 221 items.
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MCKERROW Ronald B.
An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students. [Second Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, on laid paper, with illustrations in the text, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. McKerrow's classic text was first published in 1927; the revised second edition first appeared in 1928. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.
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WORMSLEY LIBRARY.
The Wormsley Library. A Personal Selection by Sir Paul Getty. Compiled by H. George Fletcher, Robert J.D. Harding, Bryan D. Maggs, William M. Voelkle and Roger S. Wieck. Edited by George H. Fletcher. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, numerous fine coloured photographs throughout and photographic endpapers; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
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VAUGHAN H.M.
Catalogue (with Notes) of the Aneurin Williams Collection of Book Plates. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece; tan boards, beige buckram back lettered in black, a very good, bright, crisp copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. The collection is notable for numerous examples of bookplates of poets, authors, artists, lawyers and clerics.
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DAVIDSON James
Bibliotheca Devoniensis. A Catalogue of Printed Books relating to the County of Devon. THE ORIGINAL EDITION WITH SUPPLEMENT IN CONTEMPORARY HALF CALF
Sm. 4to., First Edition, title and preliminaries very lightly spotted; attractively bound in contemporary half calf, marbled boards, back with raised bands, second compartment with red leather label ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments elaborately ruled and tooled in gilt, marbled edges, county coloured map sections as paste-downs, marbled free endpapers, a very good, bright, crisp copy. With the list of subscribers and [first] Supplement bound in. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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[SWISS GRAPHIC DESIGN]
Publicite et Arts Graphiques 1946/1947. Revue de la Publicite et des Arts Graphiques en Suisse. Edited by Maurice Collet. FIRM COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
Sm. folio, First Edition thus, with numerous coloured and monochrome reproductions (many full-page and mounted); pictorial wrappers, uncut, covers moderately age-soiled, fore-edges lightly browned else a good, firm copy. Valuable annual survey of printed graphic design in Switzerland. Includes essays by Tschichold, Wenger, Neubold and others.
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PHILLIPS, ed. Euan
Tribute to Brooke Crutchley. on his Retirement as University Printer. Edited by Euan Phillips [and others]. 650 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; patterned boards (from a design by Reynolds Stone), black cloth back lettered in gilt, uncut, a very good, bright,clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 650 COPIES.
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MURRAY, ed. George
The Antarctic Manual for the Use of the Expedition of 1901. Edited by George Murray. With a Preface by Sir Clements R. Markham. Presented to the Expedition and issued by the Royal Geographical Society. [Facsimile reissue]. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., with 3 large folding maps and very numerous illustrations, diagrams and tables in the text; blind-blocked cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. This work, prepared for Scott's British Antarctic Expedition 1901-1904, contains a valuable and wide-ranging storehouse of scientific and practical Antarctic data by acknowledged authorities. It includes a particularly extensive bibliography of Antarctic exploration and research compiled by Hugh Robert Mill (formerly librarian to the RGS). Spence, 829 (recording the scarce original edition of 1901).
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READE, pseud. Rolf F.
Registrum Librorum Eroticorum. Compiled by Rolf F. Reade. [Preface by T.O.I.] 200 COPIES WERE PRINTED
2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, on hand-made paper, INTERLEAVED THROUGHOUT WITH BLANKS, free endpapers very slightly browned; original black buckram, backs with black leather labels framed and lettered in gilt, gilt tops, uncut, boards very lightly age-marked else a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 200 HAND-NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 136). Prior to Kearney this is the most comprehensive bibliography of erotic literature ever attempted, listing more than 5,000 separate works and including, importantly, those in the holdings of the British Library and the Vatican.
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WORDSWORTH Christopher
The Old Service-Books of the English Church. [Antiquary's Books]. FIRM,CLEAN WORKING COPY
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and 37 plates in monochrome, title and fore-edges very lightly spotted, text block clean and crisp; original series binding of decorative red buckram, sides with multiple frame border enclosing title all in gilt, gilt back, backstrip faded and chipped at headband, joints rubbed else a good, firm working copy. Sold from an institution with its press-mark and pocket on front endpapers. With publisher's 40pp general catalogue bound in at rear. One of the scarcest titles in Methuen's excellent 'Antiquary's Books' edited by J. Charles Cox.
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WISE Thomas J
A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Algernon Charles Swinburne. [Facsimile Reissue.] NEAR FINE COPY OF THE FACSIMILE REISSUE
2 vols., 4to., Second Edition, with portrait frontispieces and plates; blue cloth, gilt backs, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the wrappers chafed at heads of tails of backstrips. Facsimile reissue of the original limited edition of 1919-20.
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KEYNES Geoffrey
William Pickering Publisher. A Memoir and a Check-List of his Publications. Revised Edition. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., Revised Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece and numerous facsimiles and illustrations in the text; sand cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly dust-soiled dustwrapper. Revised and updated version of the original Fleuron edition of 1924.
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COCHRANE James Aikman
Dr. Johnson's Printer. The Life of William Strahan. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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