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Baker, Ernest A.
The history of the English novel
10 volumes Hardcover Very good condition, some light underling on a few pages in a a few volumes [v. 1] The age of romance; from the beginnings to the renaissance. --[v. 2] The Elizabethan age and after. --[v. 3] The later romances and the establishment of realism. --[v. 4] Intellectual realism: from Richardson to Sterne. --[v. 5] The novel of sentiment and the Gothic romance. --[v. 6] Edgeworth, Austen, Scott. --[v. 7] The age of Dickens and Thackeray. --[v. 8] From the Brontës to Meredith: romanticism in the English novel. --[v. 9] The day before yesterday. --[v. 10] Yesterday.
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Dickens, Charles
The unpublished letters of Charles Dickens to Mark Lemon, edited by Walter Dexter.
vii, 165 p. illus. 26 cm. Hardcover Very good condition in 3/4 vellum, covers lightly faded Limited to five hundred and twenty-five copies of which this is number 391.
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Henderson, Philip
Swinburne: Portrait of a Poet
305 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Winwar, Frances
The Romantic Rebels
507 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition
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Hood, Thomas
The choice works of Thomas Hood
3 vols. Hardcover Good condition
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Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay
Critical, historical, and miscellaneous essays and poems. Vol. I [- III]
3 vols. Hardcover Very good condition
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Thackeray, William Makepeace
The Christmas Books of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh : Mrs. Perkins's Ball, Our Street, Dr. Birch, The Kickleburys on the Rhine, The Rose and the Ring
328, 413 p., illus. with this is bound, as issued, the author's Ballads and Tales Hardcover Very good condition, top of spine chipped
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Murray, John, editor
Shinid; or, The Island
160p. inserted are a letter from the editor to Mrs. Arnfelt and the editor's typed key to the characters and places in the story. Hardcover Very good condition A collection of stories edited by John Murray, Principal of University College of the South West, Exeter and written by guests & family of Robert Armstrong (Lord Mayor of Leeds) at his summer home on the island of Dinish in South Kerry, Ireland.
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Briscoe, Jill & Stuart, editors
Desert Songs : Selections from the Psalms in the new King James version
80p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Galt, John
The Provost. Illustrated in colour by John M. Aiken
357p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition, gift inscription on end paper
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Birrell, Augustine.
Obiter Dicta.
232p. Hardcover Very good condition
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Congreve, William.
Love for Love . . . [With this is bound: Congreve, William. The Old Batchelor. London, Jacob Tonson, 1735. (106p); Steele, Richard. The Tender Husband. London, Jacob Tonson, 1735. (78p.); Steele, Richard. The Funeral. London, Jacob Tonson, 1735. (93p.); & Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, The Rehearsal. 13th edition. London, Printed for W. Feales, 1735. (111p.)].
130p., frontis. Hardcover Good condition, in full leather, spine lacquered, front cover detached
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Wilde, Oscar.
The Works of . . . six volumes in one.
Hardcover Good condition
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Gosse, Edmund.
Seventeenth century studies, a contribution to the history of English poetry, by Edmund Gosse.
350p. Hardcover Very good condition, in 3/4 red morocco, hinges cracked Bookplate: Viscount Birkenhead
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Times, London
Landscape and Letters : A Series of Twenty Pictures from the Times
20 photographs Unbound Ex-library, Very good condition, in portfolio Plates have been mounted on stiff paper
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Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
The Land of Heart's Desire
33 p. Hardcover Very good condition, back strip chipped at top and detached at bottom 950 copies printed.
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Croft, Herbert
The Abbey of Kilkhampton; or, Monumental Records for the Year 1960 [i.e. 1980]
66, [4] p. Disbound Very good condition, cropped A collection of satiric epitaphs
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Shakespeare, William
King Lear. Edited by John F. Andrews. Foreword by Hal Holbrook.
270p. Paperback Very good condition
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Pool, J. Lawrence & Angeline J.
Izaak Walton : the compleat angler and his turbulent times / by J. Lawrence Pool and Angeline J. Pool.
xiii, 134 p., [1] leaf of plates : illus., maps, ports. ; 24 cm. Bibliography: p. 127-134. Hardcover Very good condition One of an ed. of 2000 copies.
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Langstaff, John & Nancy, compilers
Sally go round the moon : and other Revel songs and singing games for young children / compiled by Nancy and John Langstaff ; piano arrangements by Seymour Barab ; guitar chords by Happy Traum ; optional percussion accompaniments for children ; illustrated by Jan Pie´nkowski.
127p., illus. Paperback Fine condition A collection of folk songs and singing games, many of which incorporate dancing, jumping, and clapping movements
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Trease, Geoffrey
The Phoenix and and Flame: D. H. Lawrence, A Biography
177p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Browning, Robert
Rabbi Ben Exra & Abt Vogler
27p. Pamphlet Very good condition
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Byron, George Gordon, Lord
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
311p. Hardcover Very good condition, in white vellum, backstrip soiled
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De Quincey, Thomas
Ann of Oxford Street. Illstrated by Philippe Jullian
46p. Hardcover Very good condition. spine ends chipped.
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Carlyle, Thomas
The Life of John Sterling
iv, 344p. Hardcover Very good condition, spine ends worn, foxed
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Manners-Sutton, D. (Doris)
Black God: A Story of the Congo
299 p. Hardcover Very good condition good Illustrated lining-papers. Dust jacket by C. LeRoy Baldridge
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Flexner, Stuart Berg
I Hear America Talking: An Illustrated Treasury of American Words and Phrases
Oversize. 505 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Cunningham, Alison
Cummy's diary; a diary kept by R. L. Stevenson's nurse, Alison Cunningham, while travelling with him on the continent during 1863, with a preface and notes by Robert T. Skinner.
xvi, 191,[1] p., pl., ports. 26 cm. Hardcover Very good condition No. 241 of limited edition of 750 copies
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Medwin, Thomas
Conversations of Lord Byron noted during a residence with his Lordship at Pisa in the years 1821 and 1822
2 vols.(255, 271 p.) Hardcover Very good condition in full olive calf, hinges lightly worn
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Doyle, Arthur Conan
Songs of the Road
137p. Hardcover Very good condition
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Booth, Bradford A.
Anthony Trollope : Aspects of His Life and Art
258p. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Shakespeare, William
Much Ado About Nothing, edited by Tucker Brook The Yale Shakespeare
138p. Hardcover Very good condition
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Alexander, Nigel, editor
Elizabethan Narrative Verse The Stratford-upon-Aven Library 3
338p. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Gawain and the Grene Knight.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; a comedy for Christmas. Translated from Middle English by Theodore Silverstein. Illustrated by Virgil Burnett.
121 p. illus. 23 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Watson, George
The concise Cambridge bibliography of English literature, 600-1950
271p. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Shaw, Bernard
The Apple Cart : a Political Extravaganza
118p. Hardcover Very good condition
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Glendinning, Victoria
Rebecca West, a life
300pp. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Herman, Lewis Helmar & Marguerite Shalett
Manual of American Dialects for Radio, Stage, Screen and Television
326p. Hardcover Very good condition
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Weber, Carl J. & Clara Carter
Thomas Hardy's Correspondence at Max Gate : A Descriptive Checklist
238p. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Bayley, John
Elegy for Iris
275p. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Shallcross, Martyn
The Private World of Daphne du Maurier
183p. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Butts, Mary
The Crystal Cabinet : My Childhood at Salterns. Foreword by Camilla Bagg. Afterword by Barbara Wagstaff
296p. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Grosskurth, Phyllis
The woeful Victorian; a biography of John Addington Symonds
370pp. , ports. 22 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron
The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson Cambridge edition
887p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition
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Laing, Alexander
Wine and physic; a poem and six essays on the fate of our language, by Alexander Laing; with decorations by Isabel Lattimore.
xii, 157 p. illus. 22 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good Signed by the author for Charlie Stone
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Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
Robert Louis Stevenson
175p. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Bagnold, Enid
Autobiography
382p. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Webster, John
The White Devil. Edited by F. L. Lucas
224p. Hardcover Good condition in chipped d.j., marginalia in ink fair
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Warner, Sylvia Townsend
Scenes of childhood
177pp. 23 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
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Elizabeth, Queen, consort of George VI, King of Great Britain
The queen’s book of the Red cross
3 p.l., 6-255 p. front. (port.) plates. (part col.) facsim. (music) 26 cm. Hardcover Very good condition, covers faded
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