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FIELDING Henry
The Miscellaneous Works of Henry Fielding
New York: Derby & Jackson 1857. Hardcover. Complete 4-volume set. Small 8vo. Quarter calf with raised bands and gilt lettering and marbled paper over boards. 492pp; 443pp; 547pp 4pp ads; 500pp 2pp ads. Frontispiece marbled endpapers and page edges. Very good. Faintest of edgewear. Supremely tight and handsome first of this edition in a superb custom binding with giltstamping bright and internally bright and free of foxing and age toning. Volumes I and II contain "Tom Jones" Volume III "Amelia" and Volume IV "Joseph Andrews" and "Jonathan Wild." From the library of Wisconsin civic leader JAMES M. LYNCH chief clerk at the Adjutant General's Office during the Civil War appointed quartermaster general in 1865; he dates an inner flyleaf of the first volume in pencil "Aug 31` 70." Derby & Jackson hardcover
Bookseller reference : 37641
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LAMB Charles
The Works of Charles Lamb
New York: Harper & Brothers 1868. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. Small 8vo. Black blind-embossed cloth with gilt spine lettering. viii 555pp; x 611pp. Frontispiece Volume I. Very good. Bit rough at head of Volume II else tight clean and attractive -- internally tight bright and near fine. Later printing of this set first brought out by Harper in 1838 "With a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials" by Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd." Harper & Brothers hardcover
Bookseller reference : 37634
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WILSON John MAGINN William LOCKHART JG. and HOGG James J. G.
Noctes Ambrosianae
New York: W.J. Widdleton Publisher 1863. Hardcover. Edition revised by R. Shelton Mackenzie. Complete 5-volume set. 8vo. Quarter calf with gilt spine lettering and decorations and paper labels expert contemporary replacements and marbled paper over boards. xxxii 486pp; xxxvi 432pp; xvi 469pp; xxii 468pp; xxxii xii 465pp. Frontispieces marbled endpapers and page edges. Very good. Mild edgewear but internally bright and near fine. Handsome and tight custom-bound set of this series of 71 fictional dialogues first published by "Blackwood's Magazine" between 1822 and 1835. From the library of Wisconsin civic leader JAMES M. LYNCH chief clerk at the Adjutant General's Office during the Civil War appointed quartermaster general in 1865. He boldly signs the inner flyleaf of Volumes II IV and V in brown ink dating each "Madison Wis. / 1863." W.J. Widdleton, Publisher hardcover
Bookseller reference : 37654
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BARKE James
The Wind That Shakes the Barley: A Novel of the Life and Loves of Robert Burns. / The Song in the Green Thorn Tree: A Novel of the Life and Loves of Robert Burns
London: Collins 1950. Hardcover. Two volumes. Small 8vo. Light green cloth and dark green cloth pictorial dust jackets. 384pp 512pp. Map and pictorial endpapers second volume only. Very good/very good. Both jackets rather edgeworn with small chips at head and tail of spine but colorful and attractive. Later printing tight and nice of the first two volumes of Barke's quartette about Burns published in 1946 and 1947 respectively; first volume is a 6th printing and second volume a 4th printing. Collins hardcover
Bookseller reference : 37060
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CARROLL Paul Vincent
Irish Stories and Plays
New York: The Devin-Adair Company 1958. Hardcover. 8vo. White and black cloth pictorial dust jacket. 278pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear with a few small edge chips; bookplate on front pastedown. Tight and most attractive first edition containing eight short stories three one-act plays and one three-act play by the noted Irish writer 1900--68. The Devin-Adair Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 37069
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HUGHES Thomas
Tom Brown's School-Days
Philadelphia: Porter & Coates n.y. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and extensive black decorative stamping. 39pp. Frontispiece. Very good. Small ownership signature on half-title page; mild binding wear at corners. Later undated but circa 1880s "Alta Edition" of this 1857 bestseller -- titled "Tom Brown at Rugby" on spine and front board. Porter & Coates hardcover
Bookseller reference : 36776
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SHAKESPEARE William
Four Great Historical Plays of William Shakespeare
New York: Pocket Books 1951. Hardcover. Edited by William Aldis Wright. Introduction by Henry W. Simon. Illustrations by Louis L. Glanzman. 16mo. Quarter leatherette with gilt lettering and decorations and tan floral paper over boards. x 469pp. Line drawings floral endpapers. Very good. Faint bit of edgewear. Tight and handsome "Collector's Edition" of this compilation of "Henry IV" Parts I and II "Henry V" and "Richard III." Lovely copy of this cute little edition. Pocket Books hardcover
Bookseller reference : 36785
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Stanford University. English Club Creator
Elizabethan Humours and the Comedy of Ben Jonson: Being the Book of the Play "Every Man in His Humour" 1598
Nabu Press 2009-12-31. Paperback. Good. Nabu Press paperback
Bookseller reference : SONG1141180316 ISBN : 1141180316 9781141180318
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English High School Association Creator
Re-Union of the English High School Association February 20 1882: Presentation of the Portrait of Robert C. Waterston with Remarks Upon That Occasion
Nabu Press 2010-05-25. Paperback. Good. Nabu Press paperback
Bookseller reference : SONG1149761113 ISBN : 1149761113 9781149761113
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English Church Union. meeting Charles Lindley Wood Halifax
An address delivered to members of the English Church Union at the forty-sixth annual meeting June 27th 1905 Volume Talbot collection of British pamphlets
Nabu Press 2010-06-07. Paperback. Good. Nabu Press paperback
Bookseller reference : SONG1149845775 ISBN : 1149845775 9781149845776
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English Royal West India Mail Steamer Creator
Case of the seizure of the southern envoys Volume Talbot collection of British pamphlets
Nabu Press 2010-06-07. Paperback. Good. Nabu Press paperback
Bookseller reference : SONG1149905069 ISBN : 1149905069 9781149905067
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Harriet English
Truth and filial love. A little drama. In three acts
Gale ECCO Print Editions 2010-05-29. Paperback. Good. Gale ECCO, Print Editions paperback
Bookseller reference : SONG1170631533 ISBN : 1170631533 9781170631539
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Stanford University. English Club Creator
Elizabethan humours and the comedy of Ben Jonson being the book of the play "Every man in his humour" 1598
Nabu Press 2010-09-08. Paperback. Good. Nabu Press paperback
Bookseller reference : SONG1171719582 ISBN : 1171719582 9781171719588
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English Bill
A Treatise on the Pleadings in Suits in Court of Chancery
BiblioLife 2009-06-04. Paperback. Used:Good. BiblioLife paperback
Bookseller reference : DADAX111052451X ISBN : 111052451X 9781110524518
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ENGLISH COMBATANT
Battle-Fields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; With Sketches of Confederate Commanders and Gossip of the Camps
Alexandria: Time-Life Books 1984. Hardcover. 8vo. Black blind-embossed leather with gilt lettering. xxvii 517pp. All edges gilt. Frontispiece 2 foldout maps marbled endpapers sewn-in red silk page marker. Fine. Tight handsome facsimile reprint of the 1864 John Bradburn first edition a volume in the "Collector's Library of the Civil War" series. James I. Robertson Jr. writes "One of the most consulted of Southern sources for military operations; the author was an Englishman who served briefly in the Confederate army; his rancor and exaggerations offset in part his good observations." NEVINS I 55. Time-Life Books hardcover
Bookseller reference : 35983 ISBN : 0809443910 9780809443918
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BUCHAN John
The Courts of the Morning
London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd 1929. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue cloth. 405pp 8pp ads. Mao front flyleaf 2 maps. Very good. Tight nice first edition of this adventure yarn set in the fictrional country of Olifa on the west coast of South America. Hodder and Stoughton Ltd hardcover
Bookseller reference : 36128
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O'FAOLAIN Nuala
My Dream of You
New York: Riverhead Books 2001. Hardcover. Small 4to. Cream cloth spine and green paper over boards pictorial dust jacket. 500pp. Fine/near fine. Tight and attractive first edition of the Irish columnist's first novel boldly signed by the author in black ballpoint on the title page below which she adds "Winnetka 2001." Riverhead Books hardcover
Bookseller reference : 35489 ISBN : 1573221775 9781573221771
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NATHAN George Jean foreword
Five Great Modern Irish Plays: The Playboy of the Western World by John M. Synge Juno and the Paycock by Sean O'Casey Riders to the Sea by John M. Synge Spreading the News by Lady Gregory Shadow and Substance by Paul Vincent Carroll
New York: The Modern Library n.y. Hardcover. 12mo. Grey cloth dust jacket. xiii 332pp 6pp ads. Decorative endpapers. Very good/very good. Jacket slightly edgeworn with small edge chips; miniscule ownership signature on front flyleaf. Later printing of this 1941 Modern Library collection #30. Tight and nice. The Modern Library hardcover
Bookseller reference : 35506
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CAPES Harriet M.
A Change for the Worse; or The Lesson of a Day
London: Blackie & Son n.y. Hardcover. 12mo. Grey cloth with ornate black gilt yellow red and green pictorial stamping and lettering. 127pp 12pp ads. Frontispiece. Very good. Slight bit of minor edgewear; endpapers a tad age toned. Tight and attractive copy of this novel by Mother Mary Reginald O.P. English author of popular fiction and juvenile tales of the late 19th century such as "Sylvia Brooke" The Wise Princess and Other Stories" "Two Little Brothers" "Wisdom & Beauty from Conrad" and others. This title was apparently first published in 1891 and this an early printing. Surprisingly uncommon. Blackie & Son hardcover
Bookseller reference : 35512
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FORD Marcia
Island Nurse
New York: Avalon Books 1959. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green cloth pictorial dust jacket. 224pp. Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear; lightly abraded area on front flyleaf likely from ownership signature removal. A tight and handsome first edition of this volume in the "Avalon Nurse Stories" series with fun corny jacket graphics. Avalon Books hardcover
Bookseller reference : 35559
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TANNENBAUM Samuel A. and TANNENBAUM Dorothy R.
Elizabethan Bibliographies
Port Washington NY: Kennikat Press 1967. Paperback. Complete 10-volume set. Stiff grazed wrappers. Various paginations most circa 2150pp. Fine. First of this paperback edition having been first published privately in the 1940s. An extraordinarily useful bibliographical accomplishment essential for serious research. The true first edition is quite scarce and even this first softbound edition is uncommon -- especially in such pristine condition. Kennikat Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 35577
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DEFOE Daniel
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
New York: The Heritage Press 1942. Hardcover. Illustrations by Reginald Marsh. 8vo. Brown cloth with black and gilt lettering and decorations slipcase. xv 354pp. Frontispiece numerous line drawings. Near fine/very good. Faint toning to endpapers as usual; slipcase only lightly worn. Tight clean and handsome copy of this "poor man's Limited Editions Club" trade edition. The Heritage Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 35212
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FIELDING Henry
The History of Tom Jones a Foundling
New York: Heritage Press 1952. Hardcover. Introduction by Louis Kronenberger. Illustrations by T.M. Cleland. Small 4to. Tan cloth spine with gilt lettering and marbled paper over boards slipcase. xvi 780pp. Frontispiece color illustrations. Fine/near fine. A tight handsome copy of this "poor man's Limited Editions Club" edition with the appropriate "Sandglass" issue laid in. Heritage Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 35213
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SHAKESPEARE William
Julius Caesar
New York: Simon and Schuster 1975. Paperback. Edited by Maurice Charney. Small 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers pictorial dust jacket. xxvi 195pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Bit of age toning and mild jacket edgewear. First of this edition being side-by-side texts with the original text and a modern rendition -- "The Shakespeare Parallel Text Series." Though the three volumes in this series the others are "Hamlet" and "King Lear" are often seen in a slipcase this unusual copy features a never-before-seen DUST JACKET showing a David Levinesque caricature of Julius Caesar surrounded by plotting advisors and notes "Presented with the compliments of Great Northern Paper." Simon and Schuster paperback
Bookseller reference : 34345
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SHAKESPEARE William
King Lear
New York: Simon and Schuster 1975. Paperback. Edited by Beatrice Tauss. Small 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers pictorial dust jacket. xxii 265pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Bit of age toning and mild jacket edgewear. First of this edition being side-by-side texts with the original text and a modern rendition -- "The Shakespeare Parallel Text Series." Though the three volumes in this series the others are "Hamlet" and "Julius Caesar" are often seen in a slipcase this unusual copy features a never-before-seen DUST JACKET showing a David Levinesque caricature of a dark glowering Lear and notes "Presented with the compliments of Great Northern Paper." Simon and Schuster paperback
Bookseller reference : 34346
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DRINKWATER John
Abraham Lincoln: A Play
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1919. Paperback. Introduction by Arnold Bennett. 12mo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. xii 112pp. Frontispiece 7 full-page illustrations. Very good. Minor edgewear. "Illustrated Souvenir Edition" illustrated with photographs from one of the early productions. Black white orange and tan pictorial front wrapper of a famed portrait of a young unbearded Lincoln is exceptionally nifty. Houghton Mifflin Company paperback
Bookseller reference : 34130
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Bill English; Brian Alderman; Mark Ferraz
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrator's Companion
Microsoft Press 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good. Microsoft Press paperback
Bookseller reference : SONG0735627207 ISBN : 0735627207 9780735627208
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English Bill
A Treatise on the Pleadings in Suits in Court of Chancery
BiblioLife 2009-06-04. Paperback. Good. BiblioLife paperback
Bookseller reference : SONG111052451X ISBN : 111052451X 9781110524518
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George Bethune English
A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar Large Print Edition
BiblioLife 2008-08-20. Paperback. Good. BiblioLife paperback
Bookseller reference : SONG0554688336 ISBN : 0554688336 9780554688336
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V. P. English
The Doctor's Plain Talk to Young Men: Anatomy Physiology and Hygiene of the Sexual Organs
BiblioLife 2009-03-19. Paperback. Good. BiblioLife paperback
Bookseller reference : SONG1103616684 ISBN : 1103616684 9781103616688
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WARREN Samuel
Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician
New York: Harper & Brothers n.y. Hardcover. Complete 3-volume set. 16mo. Original black blind-embossed cloth gilt lettering. xi 352pp; 351pp; 331pp. Very good overall. Mild edgewear and some dampstaining to second volume. Later printing "From the Fifth London Edition" tight and decent of this 1839 Victorian potboiler with a medical setting penned by the English barrister 1807-77 with medical training. Each front pastedown bears the quaint mid-19th century "Ladies' Library Association" of Kalamazoo Michigan plate tipped in. Harper & Brothers hardcover
Bookseller reference : 33664
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PEPYS Samuel
Passages from the Diary of Samuel Pepys
New York: The Modern Library 1923. Hardcover. Edited by Richard Le Gallienne. 16mo. Brown cloth. xvi 330pp 699 ads. Decorative endpapers. Very good. Early printing of this early Modern Library tight and clean and handsome. Rather uncommon. The Modern Library hardcover
Bookseller reference : 33436
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EVANS Nicholas
The Loop
London: Bantam Press 1998. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 434pp. Near fine/very good. Slight bit of minor jacket edgewear. First English edition tight and handsome of this novel set in Hope Montana by the "Horse Whisperer" author signed large and bold by the author in black ink on the title page. Bantam Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 33280 ISBN : 0593040678 9780593040676
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FIELDING Henry
The History of Tom Jones a Foundling
New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1924. Hardcover. Introduction by Wilbur Cross. Complete 2-volume set. 8vo. Burgundy cloth gilt. xxxi 434pp; xv 427pp. Top edges gilt. Very good. Spines a tad worn; bookplate on each front pastedown. First of this "Borzoi Classics" edition limited to 3000 numbered sets this #1479 -- tight clean attractive. Lacks the slipcase. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
Bookseller reference : 32616
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PEPYS Samuel
Diary of Samuel Pepys Deciphered by the Rev. J. Smith M.A. from the Original Shorthand Ms. in the Pepysian Library Cambridge.
London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd 1926. Hardcover. Notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke. Introduction by Guy N. Pocock. Illustrations by Major Benton Fletcher. Complete two-volume set. 8vo. Blue cloth. xiii 666pp; ix 719pp. Frontispieces illustrations. Good plus. Would rate "Very good" but for spines whose gilt titles are badly rubbed as it's a tight and clean and internally lovely set; mild edgewear. Decent set of the famed journals. J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd hardcover
Bookseller reference : 32566
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BOYD William
On the Yankee Station
New York: William Morrow and Company 1984. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey cloth spine and grey paper over boards dust jacket. 217pp. Near fine/near fine. A superb and tight first edition of this collection of fifteen short stories by the prize-winning novelist. A bit uncommon. William Morrow and Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 32460
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DURRELL Lawrence
Sauve Qui Peut
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co 1967. Hardcover. Illustrations by Nicolas Bentley. 8vo. Red cloth spine and purple paper over boards pictorial dust jacket. 82pp. Line drawings. Near fine/very good. Jacket very slightly edgeworn and with spine sunned else a tight and nice first U.S. edition of this slim collection of humorous tales about "life in the diplomatic corps. E.P. Dutton & Co hardcover
Bookseller reference : 32337
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BUNYAN John
The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come.; Introduction by Charles M. Sheldon
New York: The Christian Herald 1910. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth with black white and gold pictorial giltstamping. 427pp 5pp ads. Frontispiece numerous illustrations. Very good. Spine slightly sunned and with spine giltstamping rather rubbed but overall a tight clean quite handsome copy of the "Red Line Edition" with each text page of course bearing red outline ruled. A lovely copy of this well illustrated edition of the 1678 allegorical tale. The Christian Herald hardcover
Bookseller reference : 32361
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WODEHOUSE PG. P. G.
The Inimitable Jeeves
London: Penguin Books 1953. Paperback. 12mo. Stiff wrappers. 224pp. Very good. A tight clean and nice first paperback edition of this 1924 Jeeves tale #933 in Penguin's distinctive orange and white wrappers. Last text page bears circular inkstamp of Vienna's Shakespeare & Company Booksellers. Penguin Books paperback
Bookseller reference : 32258
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LEVER Charles
Charles O'Malley the Irish Dragoon
New York: George Routledge and Sons n.y. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Brown cloth with extensive black and gilt pictorial and decorative stamping. xii 604pp. Frontispiece decorative endpapers. Very good. Mildest bit of edgewear mainly at head and tail of spine else clean tight and quite handleable. Lever's Preface to this "New Edition" is dated Trieste 1872 the same year he died in his villa there thus this undated edition likely dates from shortly thereafter. Lever 1806-72 was an incredibly popular Irish novelist whose popularity rivaled that of Dickens Thackeray and other giants of his day. George Routledge and Sons hardcover
Bookseller reference : 31827
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WELLS HG. H. G.
Tono-Bungay.; Introduction by Norman H. Strouse. Illustrations by Lynton Lamb
New York: The Heritage Press 1960. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth slipcase. xiii 395pp. Illustrations some color. Very good/very good. Mild bit of slipcase edgewear; spine slightly sunned. Tight and nice trade edition of the superb limited Limited Editions Club edition -- the "poor man's LEC" -- with appropriate "Sandglass" issue laid in. The Heritage Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 31713
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KINGLAKE Alexander William 1809 91
Carte-de-Visite
Hardcover. This influential English travel writer and historian is most remembered for his monumental 8-volume "Invasion of the Crimea" 1863-87; other titles include "Eothen or Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East" 1844. Carte-de-visite 2�" X 4" London England n.y. ca.1875. Near fine. A superb sepia-tone portrait of an older Kinglake in three-piece suit reclining in a leather chair book in lap. Photographer's name Elliott & Fry and address printed on blank lower margin as well as noted on a decorative backstamp. A beautiful example in clean sharp-cornered condition. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 31394
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WIBBERLEY Leonard
The Hands of Cormac Joyce
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1960. Illustrations by Richard Bennett. 126pp. Line drawings. Near fine/very good. Jacket spine slightly age toned and minor overall soiling; "Christmas 1960" inked on front flyleaf. First edition a tight and attractive copy. G.P. Putnam's Sons unknown
Bookseller reference : 11363
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BAKER Frank
Sweet Chariot
New York: Coward-McCann 1943. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Red cloth dust jacket. 335pp. Very good/very good. Ligt jacket edgewear. First U.S. edition tight and handsome. Coward-McCann hardcover
Bookseller reference : 13820
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DRINKWATER John
Oliver Cromwell: A Play
London: Sidgwick & Jackson 1921. Hardcover. 12mo. Pink cloth with paper spine label dust jacket. vii 80pp. Very good/good plus. Jacket well chipped but overall still attractive. Tight nice first edition. Sidgwick & Jackson hardcover
Bookseller reference : 11010
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HYAMS Edward
Tillotson
New York: Simon and Schuster 1961. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth dust jacket. 311pp. Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear; usual mild age toning to pages. Tight nice first edition. YOUNG 1940. Simon and Schuster hardcover
Bookseller reference : 9792
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GALSWORTHY John
Swan Song
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1928. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Purple cloth pictorial dust jacket. viii360pp. Very good/very good. Jacket rather edgeworn with several small edge chips but still attractive; small non-authorial gift inscription on front flyleaf. Handsome first edition in a lovely jacket. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
Bookseller reference : 9158
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GALSWORTHY John
The Slaughter of Animals for Food
London: Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 1912. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff wrappers. 24pp. Very good. Outer wrapper a bit delicate along the fold but archivally mended with a couple of small edge chips -- overall a clean attractive copy of this early oddity by the English dramatist and Nobel Prize winner. Probable sole edition. Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals paperback
Bookseller reference : 6668
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PINTER Harold
The Proust Screenplay: a la Recherche du Temps Perdu
New York: Grove Press 1977. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan cloth dust jacket. x 177pp. Near fine/near fine. First edition tight and handsome. Grove Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 9974
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MORTIMER John
Dunster
New York: Viking 1993. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine and black paper over boards pictorial dust jacket. 296pp. Near fine/near fine. A tight and handsome first U.S. edition of this novel by the famed "Rumpole" creator nicely inscribed and signed by him in blue fineline on the title page: "To Greg / with best wishes / John Mortimer." Viking hardcover
Bookseller reference : 27120
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