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FUSSELL G.E.
Old English Farming Books 1523-1793. Fitzherbert to the Board of Agriculture. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition thus, with a portrait frontispiece and 4 plates; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 475).Much-needed re-issue in a single volume of the author's indispensable 'OId English Farming Books' '(1947) and 'More Old English Farming Books' (1950).
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COLLIE Michael
George Gissing. A bibliographical Study. [Second Edition]. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., Second Edition, with 5 plates; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. Published in the series 'St. Paul's Bibliographies', this is the extensively revised and extended edition of the original bibliography which appeared in 1976
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CARTER Harry
Orlando Jewitt.
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with a title-vignette and numerous reproductions of engravings (a number full-page) in the text; pictorial cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, gilt back, patterned endpapers, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. Jewitt (1799-1869) was perhaps the finest wood-engraver specialising in Gothic architecture. Records of his life are, however, slight; this is the first attempt at a biographical essay
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HANDLEY-TAYLOR Geoffrey
John Masefield, O.M. The Queen's Poet Laureate. Bibliography and Eighty-First Birthday Tribute. 999 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Sm. 4to., with a title-vignette by Rex Whistler and numerous illustrations and facsimiles in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 999 SIGNED COPIES (this copy out of series and UNSIGNED)
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LANE Charles
British Racing Prints 1700-1940.
4to., First Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. This major study, based around a catalogue by artist, includes a useful bibliography
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LONGFORD Elizabeth
Images of Chelsea. Gallery of Prints, Harriet O'Keefe. Catalogue of Prints, Jonathan Ditchburn. 000 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Roy. 4to., with 70 pages of reduced facsimiles and numerous illustrations in the text; buckram, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. An invaluable work of reference illustrating and describing the area. The catalogue was prepared under the editorial supervision of Ralph Hyde, Keeper of Prints and Map at the Guildhall Library, City of London
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LOTH David
The Erotic in Literature. A historical Survey of Pornography as delightful as it is indiscreet.
8vo., cloth, a fine copy in the dustwrapper
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KIRKPATRICK B.J.
A Bibliography of Katherine Mansfield.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and 9 full-page facsimiles in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. Published in series 'The Soho Bibliographies'.
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MARREN Peter
New Naturalist 82. The New Naturalists. Half a Century of British Natural History. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 16 coloured plates and very numerous monochrome photographs in the text; original series binding of green buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. New Naturalist 82. Dustwrapper artwork by Robert Gillmor.
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NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM
Catalogue of the Library. Volume Five: Naval History. Part One: The Middle Ages to 1815.
8vo., First Edition, with 12 plates; original decorative buckram gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. Sold from an institution with its cancelled bookplate.
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HOBSON H.
The Pearl of Days. An intimate Memoir of The Sunday Times from 1822-1972.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, numerous plates, illustrations and facsimiles in the text, and pictorial endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper.
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SIMON Herbert
Songs and Words. A History of the Curwen Press.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with 6 plates and very numerous illustrations and facsimiles (a number in colour) in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. An outstanding history of a fundamentally influential press. The work includes a catalogue raisonne of books printed at the press between 1920-1932.
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ROSE R.N.
The Field 1853-1953. A Centenary Volume. Foreword by The Duke of Beaufort.
8vo., Sole Edition, with a coloured frontispiece and 45 plates on 24; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at edges. The fascinating story of the great paper's development is inextricably linked with the advance and increasing sophistication of British sporting practice in fields as diverse as yachting and dog-breeding.
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NOWELL-SMITH (ed.) Simon
Letters to Macmillan. Selected and edited by Simon Nowell-Smith.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 11 plates, 5 facsimiles in the text and pictorial endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. A valuable selection from over half a million latters accumulated by the grand publishing house in more than a century. The eighty-four correspondents here represented include Arnold, Barnes, Barrie, Beerbohm, Carroll, Churchill, Coleridge, Gosse, Hardy, Housman, Huxley, Keynes, Kipling, O'Casey, Rossetti, Shaw, Tennyson, Trollope and Wilde.
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SCHOFIELD G.
The Men that carry the News. A History of United Newspapers Limited.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous illustrations and facsimiles in the text, and pictorial endpapers; pictorial boards gilt, cloth back gilt, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper.
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ROSENKILDE V.
Thesaurus Librorum Danicorum 15th and 16th Century.
8vo., First Edition, with 8 coloured plates and 17 monochrome facsimiles in the text; decorative cloth gilt, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. Extensively annotated bibliography in English describing over 300 of the most important books published in Denmark and by Danish authors abroad.
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SIMMONS (ed.) Jack
English County Historians. First Series.
8vo., First Edition, A LL PUBLISHED, with 9 full-page illustrations and several pedigrees in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The first work in a series unfortunately not carried further. The eight biographical essays are devoted to Atkyns, Borlase, Hasted, Hutchins, Nicolson & Burn, Thoroton, Worsley and Wright.
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FIFOOT Richard
A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell.
8vo., First Edition, with three facsimiles; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY TO NAN AND ARTHUR WISE, INSCRIBED, SIGNED AND DATED (1963) BY THE COMPILER ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Soho Bibliography, XI.
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EATON P.
Marie Stopes. A Checklist of her Writings.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper.
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D'ARCH SMITH Timothy
Montague Summers. A Bibliography. Foreword by Father Brocard Sewell [Second and revised Edition].
8vo., BEST EDITION, with a portrait frontispiece, 2 plates and a full-page facsimile in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. The substantially revised and corrected edition of a work first published in 1964.
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UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, UTRECHT.
Illuminated and Decorated Mediaeval Manuscripts in the University Library, Utrecht. An illustrated Catalogue. Compiled by Koer T Van Der Horst. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Folio, First Edition, with 23 fine coloured plates on 16 and 718 monochrome plates on 342; terracotta cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in brown, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The manuscript collection contains some 700 codices, over half of which originated in the monastery libraries of the mediaeval bishopric of Utrecht. This catalogue, modelled on those of the Bodleian Library, presents all the essential information on the miniatures, marginalia and other decorations in 132 MSS from the northern Netherlands, and 49 others from Belgium, France, Germany, Greece and Italy.
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WHEELER H.A.
A Short Catalogue of Books printed in England and English Books printed Abroad before 1641 in the Library of Wadham College, Oxford. With biographical Introduction by J.C. Squire.
8vo., on laid paper, endpapers lightly marked; buckram, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper.
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LOFTS W.O.G.
The British Bibliography of Edgar Wallace. [With an Introduction by Penelope Wallace and a Preface by Leslie Charteris].
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a very good copy in the dustwrapper. Includes not only thrillers and short stories, but also articles and other contributions to periodicals.
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LOEWENSTEIN F. E.
The Rehearsal Copies of Shaw's Plays . A Bibliographical Study by F. E. Loewenstein. NEAR FINE COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy.
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FFINCH M.
Donald Maxwell 1877-1936.
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations throughout; original cloth gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Detailed and wonderfully illustrated biography, together with the most comprehensive bibliography to date listing over 1000 entries. EXTREMELY SCARCE
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MACDONALD H.
Thomas Hobbes. A Bibliography.
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 4 plates and 9 facsimiles (a number full-page) in the text, free endpapers lightly browned; original series binding of grey boards, holland back lettered in black, uncut, backstrip very lightly sunned, a very good, clean copy. Besterman, p.1908.
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[Sale Catalogue of] the Diaghilev-Lifar Library.
4to., with a coloured frontispiece and 32 full-page illustrations in the text; decorative boards gilt, gilt back, covers very lightly age-marked else a very good, clean copy. This renowned library of Russian literature which included, among other works, first editions of Lomonossov, Pouch, Tourgueniev and Dostoievsky, comprised 826 lots.
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ROFF Renee
A Bibliography of the Writings of Charles and Mary Lamb. The First Editions in Book Form by Luther S. Livingston with appendices; the Books of the two John Lambs. Contributions to Periodicals by J.C. Thomson.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 5 plates and very numerous facsimiles in the text; cloth gilt, gilt back, a fine copy.
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FORMAN Maurice Buxton
George Meredith. A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse [with] Meredithiana. Being a Supplement to the Bibliography of Meredith. BRIGHT, CLEAN SET
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece and 5 other facsimiles, endpapers browned; original series binding of grey boards, oatmeal holland back lettered in black, uncut, a very good, bright, crisp set. Second volume with the Society's 'Vote of Thanks' slip loosely inserted.
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FABES Gilbert H.
The First Editions of A.E. Coppard, A.E. Herbert and Charles Morgan. With Values and bibliographical Points.
8vo., First and Sole Edition, on laid paper; original black cloth gilt, gilt back, a very good copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter a little frayed at edges
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FABES Gilbert H.
Modern First Editions: Points and Values. [First to Third Series complete]. 'POINTS' COMPLETE IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, first volume with errata slip; black buckram, upper boards lettered in gilt, gilt backs, uncut, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper, the wrappers lightly dust-soiled and chipped at extremities. The set comprises: First Series (No. 230 of 750 copies); Second Series (No. 147 of 1000 copies); Third Series (No. 244 of 750 copies signed by Fabes). A VERY NICE SET OF AN IMPORTANT WORK SELDOM FOUND COMPLETE IN THIS CONDITION.
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FABES Gilbert H.
John Galsworthy. His First Editions, Points and Values. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition; cloth gilt, gilt back, a very good copy in the dustwrapper, the latter chipped at edges. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES (this copy out of series). Loosely inserted is a disbound copy of 'John Galsworthy. An Appreciation together with a Bibliography' 1926 by Galsworthy's neice Miss Dorothy Easton
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BERTRAM ROTA
[Sale Catalogue of] Fine and Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Autograph Letters. A.T. 'Dusty' Miller, former Proprietor of Frank Hollings' Bookshop. Catalogue 294. [Appreciation by Anthony Rota].
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs, facsimiles and reproductions throughout; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. The catalogue lists 206 notable items and includes a biographical summary by Dudley Massey and full bibliography of references. As staff member and subsequently proprietor of Frank Hollings bookshop (a career spanning the period 1925-1969), Miller was, with Percy Muir and Bertram Rota, one of the founding fathers of the modern first editions market.
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FABES Gilbert H.
The First Editions of Ralph Hale Mottram. 350 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., on laid paper, with a portrait frontispiece, a plate and a facsimile; cloth gilt, gilt back, covers just a trifle worn and faded else a good, clean copy of an uncommon work. EDITION LIMITED TO 300 COPIES (this copy out of series). The work also contains an essay by Mottram on the genesis of 'The Spanish Farm' (1924) in which he ackowledges help and guidance from Galsworthy, together with the first reprints of both his first essay and his first short story
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BODLEIAN LIBRARY, Oxford
First-Line Index of English Poetry 1500-1800 in Manuscripts of the Bodleian Library Oxford. Edited by Margaret Crum. NEAR FINE XL SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., roy. 4to., First Edition; original blue buckram, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-downs and neat accession data on title versos. The institutional marks notwithstanding, a lovely set in dustwrappers.
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BONSER Wilfrid
A Romano-British Bibliography (55 BC - AD 449). IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition; original blue buckram, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly age-browned. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-downs, neat accession data on title versos and small stamp on bottom edges. The original edition of this standard reference is scarce, especially in this condition.
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BRITISH MUSEUM
Short-Title Catalogue of Books printed in France and of French Books printed in other Countries from 1470-1600 now in the British Museum. [Second Edition]. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down, neat accession data on title verso and small stamp on bottom edge. Much-needed reissue of the scarce original edition of 1924. Scarce and valuable standard reference.
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MAHONEY et al B.E.
Illustrators of Children's Books 1744-1945 [with] 1946-1956 [with] 1957-1966. COMPLETE SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS
3 vols., 4to., Mixed Impressions, with numerous reproductions throughout; original cloth, a very good, bright, clean set in the dustwrapper
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MORISON Stanley
A Brief Survey of Printing History and Practice. IN THE DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous type-facsimiles in the text, neat inscription on front free endpaper; original boards, cloth corners and backstrip, paper label, boards very lightly rubbed else an unusually bright, clean copy in the scarce dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled and chipped with minor loss at head and tail of backstrip. . A small portion of the contents appeared in a more condensed form in a printing supplement issued with the Manchester Guardian, 23 May 1922. Scarce in this condition, especially in the dustwrapper. Appleton 18.
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LEJEUNE Rita
The Legend of Roland in the Middle Ages. COMPLETE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., roy. 4to., First English Edition, with titles in red and black, with 63 fine tipped-in coloured plates, 510 plates in monochrome and decorative endpapers, fore-edges very lightly age-soiled; original red holland, upper boards blocked in gilt, gilt backs, a very good, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper, the wrapper to second volume chipped at headband (just affecting lettering). Nice set of the first English edition of the first detailed study of the iconography of Roland in sculpture, wall painting, the minor arts and, above all, illuminated MSS. First published in Brussels in 1966. Scarce in this condition.
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UNBEGAUN B.O.
A Bibliographical Guide to the Russian Language. With the Collaboration of J. .G. Simmons. NEAR FINE XL COPY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; original blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper, the latter mildly age-browned at backstrip. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down, and small neat stamp on dustwrapper and title verso. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION
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LEJARD A.
The Art of the French Book from Early Manuscripts to the Present Time. Introduction by Philip James.
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome reproductions (many full-page) in the text, small neat signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, upper board lettered in white, ivory cloth back lettered in blue, a very good, bright, clean copy. With worn dustwrapper loosely inserted.
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[Sale Catalogue of] The Holy Land & Middle East. The Library of a Gentleman. Maps & Books from the Laor Collection. 23 March 1999. Sale: Code LO9203.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with several facsimiles in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy. The sale comprises 417 lots.
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FREEMAN Rosemary
English Emblem Books [Second Octagon Edition]. nglish Emblem Books [Second Octagon Edition].
8vo., Second Octagon Edition; original blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. Very scarce
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MEISS Millard
The Visconti Hours. Bibliotheca Nazionale, Florence. FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with very numerous splendid coloured heightened in gold; blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case with mounted coloured plate. With extended introduction and bibliography.
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GOLLIN Alfred M.
The Observer and J.L. Garvin 1908-1914. A Study in a Great Editorship.
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured portrait frontispiece and 8 plates; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down, markings on front free endpaper, and small blind stamp on title.
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LONGMANS LTD
Three Addresses. An Essay in Publishing Ecology 1939-1947. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, title in red and black, coloured and monochrome plates and a colour map; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, wrappers lightly dust-soiled at extremities else a very good, clean copy. Printed for private circulation.
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BRITISH LIBRARY
Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues. Volume 4. English Benedictine Libraries: the Shorter Catalogues. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, vol. 4. VERY SCARCE
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WILSON E.M.
Samuel Pepys's Spanish Plays.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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REDGRAVE Gilbert R.
Daniel and the Emblem Literature. A Paper read before the Bibliographical Society, February 21, 1910. IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
4to., First Edition thus, on laid paper; original printed wrappers, yapped edges, covers mildly worn at edges, fore-yapps flaking else a very good, clean copy. VERY SCARCE.
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