English Thomas Dunn
LITTLE GIANT THE BIG DWARF AND OTHER WONDER-TALES
Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co. 1904. Numerous b/w illustrations. Illustrated by Lucy Fitch Perkins. 150 pp. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth. Head heel and corners bumped and worn; heel chipped away; extremities bumped and lightly worn; hinges rubbed; boards lightly soiled; edges toned; endpapers lightly foxed and soiled. Pages lightly toned; scattered markings in pencil to interior. Good/No jacket issued. A. C. McClurg and Co. hardcover
Référence libraire : 46165
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TRAMS A. Francis
MORE MARGINALIA
Cedar Rapids: Privately Printed for the Friends of the Torch Press 1931. First Limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo 46 pages red clothbacked boards; textured glassine dj nicked <br/><br/>Joliet professor and Leigh Hunt expert comments on Luther Brewer's copy of Napier as annotated by Leigh Hunt. Privately Printed for the Friends of the Torch Press hardcover
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KINSELLA Thomas
SONGS OF THE PSYCHE
Dublin : Peppercanister 1985 . First edition. Wrappers. Fine. 8vo wrappers Inscribed to Ben P. on the title-page. <br/><br/>Ninth book in this series from Kinsella's own press: issued in paper cloth & leather; this is one of the 350 paper copies Peppercanister unknown
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ZANIELLO Tom
HOPKINS IN THE AGE OF DARWIN
U. Iowa Press 1988 . First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/fine. 8vo 199 pages cloth inked name embossed on title; fine dj <br/><br/>Places Gerard Manley Hopkins in the context of his century U. Iowa Press hardcover
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DE LOCRE Eliza
OLDER THAN EARTH
London: The Franfrolico Press 1930. First Limited edition. Hardcover. good . 8vo clothbacked decorative paper over boards <br/><br/>Limited to 175 signed copies for sale. The Franfrolico Press hardcover
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TOLLEMACHE Emma. Emma Manasseh Tollemache
IN THE LIGHT
London: Marlowe Galleries 1948 . First Limited edition. Hardcover. very good/price-clipped dj. Francis ROSE. 12mo clothbacked boards inked name on title; clipped dj <br/><br/>One of 250 copies signed by the author and the artist Sir Francis Rose. Her first book of poems. ( Marlowe Galleries ) hardcover
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BUCHANAN Robert
STORY OF DAVID GRAY
Portland ME: Thomas B. Mosher 1900. First Limited. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Ex libris Herbert Carlton Wright. 12mo 4 xxii 85 pages. An unusual production with both boards in decorative French wrappers with a plain thin dust jacket with only the title on the spine chipped; dec French wraps unopened; dj chipped flap separated <br/><br/>The 100th book from this press. Limited to only 400 copies. As a poet who died young Gray has been compared to Keats. Thomas B. Mosher hardcover
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HOUSMAN Laurence
GREEN ARRAS
London & Chicago: John Lane / Way And Williams 1896. First. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo gilt dec. green cloth tips of spine worn <br/><br/>Illustrated by Housman with 6 drawings Morris-esque title-page and cover design to accompany his poems Kraus 33. John Lane / Way And Williams hardcover
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SWINBURNE Algernon Charles
LOCRINE A Tragedy
London: Chatto & Windus 1887. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo 138 32 pages blue cloth scuffed uncut and unopened some foxing <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus hardcover
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SQUIRE J. C. ed
A BOOK OF WOMEN'S VERSE
Oxford: Clarendon Press 1921. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo 191 pages blue cloth <br/><br/>With a lengthy Preface by Squire Clarendon Press hardcover
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THOMAS Dylan
QUITE EARLY ONE MORNING
London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd 1954. First edition. Near Fine. 12mo 181 pages. blue cloth faint inked name in 1956 on endpaper; dj chipped at tips of spine edgworn. <br/><br/>First state with a period after "sailors" p.3 Rolph B23. Posthumous collection of two dozen pieces of prose and poetry including the now-classic "Child's Christmas in Wales." Also "A Visit to America" and "On Poetry" and "On Reading One's Own Poems". J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd hardcover
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RIDGE Lola
FIREHEAD
New York: Payson & Clarke 1929. First Limited edition. Hardcover. Good. 4to 1/4 red leather w. tips black cloth untrimmed spine chipped uncut <br/><br/>One of ONLY 30 Signed copies printed on Arnold handmade paper. Ridge was and American poet who was born in Dublin Ireland but raised in New Zealand. This lyrical narrative arose from the intense emotion aroused in her by the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. In 1941 in her obituary the New YorkTimes called Ridge one of the leading contemporary American poets. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky and Terese Svoboda author of the new biography of Ridge have argued for her re-discovery. Payson & Clarke hardcover
Référence libraire : DEMO012847I
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Tennyson Alfred
Enoch Arden
Boston: Ticknor And Fields 1865. Deluxe edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo 57 pages all edges gilt embossed cloth with bevelled edges gilt titling especially on spine; tips of spine worn gift inscription from Rosa to Edwin Feb 15th 1865. <br/><br/>19 steel-engraved plates with tissue guards by artists such as Elihu Vedder F. O. C. Darley W. J. Hennessey John La Farge. Published without illustrations in 1864. Ticknor And Fields hardcover
Référence libraire : 0008287
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DE LA MARE Walter
POEMS 1901 TO 1918
London: Constable 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mos grey cloth untrimmed fore-edges. <br/><br/>Collected poems to date including "The Listeners". Constable hardcover
Référence libraire : DEMO008268I
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MEREDITH Owen LYTTON Edward Bulwer
LUCILE
Boston: James R. Osgood And Company 1872. Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 24mo 251 pages brown cloth gilt titles brown coated endpapers a.e.g. tips of spine worn.; inked inscription on flyleaf in 1877. <br/><br/>One of the great classics of 19th century literature. James R. Osgood And Company hardcover
Référence libraire : 0008344
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THOMSON James
THE SEASONS: With The Castle Of Indolence
New York: W. B. Gilley 1818. New edition. Hardcover. Fair. wood engravings by Anderson. 24mo 267 pages full polished calf extra-gilt spine gilt and blind rules on covers lower outer joint splitting front hinge half broken. Sales label from Cummings & Hilliard booksellers and stationers in Boston 1818; inked presentation to Miss Mary Ann Black at Medford Mass. in 1819. <br/><br/>Thomson's classic poem with a "Hymn" and his allegorical poem on Indolence including a 2pp. glossary of obscure words. J. Scoles engraved the frontispiece and title-page with Richard Westall's designs. The four wood engravings in this volume were made by Dr. Alexander Anderson America's first wood engraver. They appear here on India paper with covering tissues printed by D. Fanshaw some foxing. Early American Imprints 2d series 45860. W. B. Gilley hardcover
Référence libraire : 0008152
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Masefield John
Minnie Maylow's Story
London: William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. First Limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo brown cloth corners bumped untrimmed white silk ribbon <br/><br/>Copy no. 20 of only 375 copies for Great Britain and Ireland. Verse pieces particularly for declamation or performance. Publicly recited poetry was an enthusiasm for Masefield. This work was published soon after he was appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom a post he held longer than anyone except Tennyson. William Heinemann Ltd. hardcover
Référence libraire : 0007718
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POUND Ezra
PAVANNES AND DIVISIONS
New York: Knopf 1918. First edition. Hardcover. Good . E. O. Hoppe photo of Pound. 8vo 262 pages grey cloth cracking front hinge. <br/><br/>This copy in the secondary binding of gray cloth with black stamping Gallup A15. Prime-time Pound. His essays on poetry and and some prose including Elizabethan classicists. E. O. Hoppe photo of Pound. Knopf hardcover
Référence libraire : DEMO014634I
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Sharp William Editor. Pseudonym: Fiona Macleod
Sonnets Of This Century
London & Newcastle-on-Tyne: Walter Scott 1886. Edition De Luxe. Hardcover. Good. 4to blue cloth some sewing loosened to book block untrimmed partially unopened spine label chipped. <br/><br/>With voluminous notes and a 40 page Introductory Essay on the Sonnet by William Sharp. This is actually the second edition preceded by an octavo volume in the Canterbury Poets series. This has a revised preface revised Notes and 5 more sonnets than the 1st ed. Colbeck p.739 Walter Scott hardcover
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Thompson Francis
Poems by Francis Thompson
London & Boston: Elkin Mathews / Copeland & Day 1893. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo decorated boards October 1893 Elkin Mathews catalogue at rear tips of spine chipped rebacked with original spine laid down top board bumped front endpaper reattached with archival tape. Ex libris Francis Wilson famed actor and bibliophile. Scarce <br/><br/>One of only 500 copies of Thompson's first book. " Robert Frost took a book off the shelf in the front sitting room and said 'You should have this.' It was the copy of Francis Thompson's POEMS to which Robert made frequent reference over the years in his readings and lectures - Jack Hagstrom in the Dartmouth College Library Bulletin April l1996." Thompson was a lauded poet clearly with the distinction too of being a nominee as Jack The Ripper ! Co-published by Copeland & Day in its first year of operation. Frontispiece by Laurence Housman. Elkin Mathews / Copeland & Day hardcover
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JOHNSON Lionel
POEMS
London & Boston: Elkin Mathews / Copeland & Day 1895. First Limited edition. Hardcover. Good. woodcuts in red. 8vo 115 pages deckle-edged gray boards new spine rubber stamped <br/><br/>One of 750 copies. Ex libris Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones & signed by Mary Lloyd Jones: Frank Lloyd Wright's uncle - and aunt Johnson's second book and first book of poetry including his masterpiece "The Dark Angel". Printed at The Chiswick Press with a striking woodcut tailpiece emblem for the press balancing the red ecclesiastical woodcut on the title-page. Kraus COPELAND & DAY 18. Elkin Mathews / Copeland & Day hardcover
Référence libraire : DEMO010156I
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Matthiessen F. O.
The Achievement Of T. S. Eliot
New York & London: Oxford University Press 1947. Revised & Enlarged edition. Hardcover. Fine/price-clipped. 8vo sviii 202 pages green cloth 1948 inked inscription on endpaper. <br/><br/>First published in 1935 this new ediiion has two additional chapters to cover The Four Quartets and Eliot's Plays. Oxford University Press hardcover
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Abbott Charles D. editor
Poets At Work
New York & London: Oxford University Press 1947. Revised & Enlarged edition. Hardcover. Fine/price-clipped. 8vo xviii 202 pages green cloth 1948 inked inscription on endpaper <br/><br/>Shapiro's essay is "The Meaning of the Discarded Poem" which as the Editor of Poetry Magazine Shapiro should know more than a little about. Includes facsimiles of poems by Stephen Spender Robert Bridges William Carlos Williams W. H. Auden Dylan Thomas. Oxford University Press hardcover
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Ellis Sarah Stickney. Mrs.
Sons Of The Soil
London Liverpool Paris: Fisher Son & Co no date . First edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo; xvi 298 later quarter leather pebbled black cloth rubber stamps of a private library on title-page. Scarce. <br/><br/>An epic-length poem in 12 books which lauds the life of the farmer especially inspired by the author's father. With wood engravings at each chapter head. "Critics Karen Chase and Michael Levenson place her in the company of Dickens as "one of the deep designers of the mid-century family imagination." Fisher, Son, & Co hardcover
Référence libraire : 0006408
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Dutt Toru
Ancient Ballads And Legends Of Hindustan
London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co. 1888. Third edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo xxvii 139 pages untrimmed partially unopened green bevelled cloth <br/><br/>Toru Dutt died before attaining 22 years of age. She was amazingly gifted. These poems are her translations and adaptations of traditional Sanskrit. Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. hardcover
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Colum Padraic
Dramatic Legends And Other Poems
New York: Macmillan 1922. First printing. Hardcover. Good. Narrow 8vo 100pp. clothbacked boards paper label <br/><br/> Macmillan hardcover
Référence libraire : 0005999
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Oliver Bernard
Getting Over It
London: Peter Owen 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Octavo 159pp. dark boards; edgeworn dj <br/><br/> Peter Owen hardcover
Référence libraire : 0005829 ISBN : 0720608651 9780720608656
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TEASDALE Sara editor
THE ANSWERING VOICE
New York: Macmillan 1930. New Enlarged edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo red cloth <br/><br/> Macmillan hardcover
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Rice Wallace & Frances compilers
Mother and Home
Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Co. 1913. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Designs by F. W. Raymond. 8vo 64pp. green pictorial cloth Xmas inscription in 1918 on recto of frontispiece. <br/><br/>An anthology including "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by William Butler Yeats. Others by Lord Byron Eugene Field Jane Taylor R.L.S. etc. Designs by F. W. Raymond. M. A. Donohue & Co. hardcover
Référence libraire : 0005581
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Carroll Lewis
THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK
Silver Spring MD: The Lewis Carroll Society of America / Univ. of California Press 1983. First Limited edition. Paperback. Fine/fine. Woodcut illustrations by Barry Moser. Folio white stiff wrappers light blue dust jacket <br/><br/>Copy no. 318 of only 350 copies numbered and signed by the illustrator. This is Carroll Studies Number 7 with an Introduction by Jame R. Kincaid. Woodcut illustrations by Barry Moser. The Lewis Carroll Society of America / Univ. of California Press paperback
Référence libraire : 0005380 ISBN : 0520051386 9780520051386
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Shakespeare William
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Stratford-Upon-Avon: The Shakespeare Head Press 1912. New edition. Hardcover. Fine. 32mo unpaginated inked name on blank leaf; full tree calf raised bands a.e.g. <br/><br/>Copy no. 325 of 510 copies. The Shakespeare Head Press hardcover
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GAY John
FABLES
London: J. Carpenter J. Booker 1812. New edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 69 woodcuts. 16mo modern speckled calf extra gilt by Bayntun a.e.g. some closed splits in the leather on the covers. <br/><br/>Classic and handsome treatment of Gay's first collection and his posthumous collection of fables. "Printed at The Chiswick Press by Mr. Whittingham whose taste and skill in fine typography have conspired to enter his name pre-eminent in the literary annals of the country. . the typographical connoisseur sees much to delight his eye and to gratify his mind. He perceives the most careful display and arrangement of type; the most pleasing tone of ink on every page; and the woodcuts brought out in all their brightness clearness and richness of colour -"The Gentleman's Magazine." The first fable in part 2 "The Dog and the Fox" is dedicated to a lawyer. "I know you Lawyers can with ease / Twist words and meanings as you please;". 69 woodcuts. J. Carpenter, J. Booker hardcover
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GAY John
FABLES by the Late Mr. Gay
London: J. Buckland W. Strahan 1783. First thus. Hardcover. Good. 16mo full sheep later spine rebacking green endpapers. <br/><br/>Gay's fables made him famous before his "Beggar's Opera". No engravings in this copy. Ex libris Lee Merton Watson. ESTCT13861 J. Buckland, W. Strahan hardcover
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Hope Laurence editor. Nicholson Adela Florence
India's Love Lyrics
New York & London: John Lane / William Heinemann 1920. New edition. Hardcover. Fair. 24 color plates. Quarto dark blue cloth tips of spine chipped extremities rubbed. Cryptic pencilled inscription on front free endpaper in 1920 while still in school at Harvard by John Mason Brown the prominent drama critic. Scarce in this format & edition. <br/><br/>Laurence Hope was the pen name of Adela Florence Nicholson whose cousin Indian-born Byam Shaw illustrated her posthumous poems which she claimed were translations but were really inspired by her years in India as a daughter and army wife. Her false claim inspired Somerset Maugham's short story "The Colonel's Lady". Shaw's passionate art is considered as among his best work. As Hope her passionate romantic poetry was popular even before she committed suicide at age 39 after the death of her husband. John Lane / William Heinemann hardcover
Référence libraire : 0005286
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Housman Laurence
A. E. Housman: Personal Recollections
New York: Scribner's 1938. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Chipped Dj. Octavo 286 pages cloth <br/><br/> Scribner's hardcover
Référence libraire : 004182
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Yeats William Butler
Poems Lyrical And Narrative
Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press 1908. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo quarter vellum cloth stained darkened spine. <br/><br/> Wade 75; Tomkinson MODERN PRESSES p.229 Shakespeare Head Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 4487
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Beaumont Francis & John Fletcher
Works of Beaumont and Fletcher. 14 Vols
James Ballantyne 1812. New edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vos law buckram with leather labels. <br/><br/> James Ballantyne hardcover
Référence libraire : 002514 Beaumont
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Preston Raymond. T. S. Eliot
'Four Quartets ' Rehearsed
London: Sheed & Ward 1946. Second printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very fine. 12mo 64 pages pink cloth <br/><br/>"I wish to thank Mr. Eliot for reading the first draft of the essay and for adding some interesting notes - Preface." Not in Gallup's revised bibliography despite Eliot's notes . Sheed & Ward hardcover
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Betjeman John compiled w/intro. by The Earl of Birkenhead
John Betjeman's Collected Poems
<p>Boston/Cambridge: HM/Riverside Press. 1959 1st Am. ed. 279pp. salmon cloth 12mo: Very Good in a generally Good dj torn along extremities but now protected in a Brodart poly cover ink name on ffep; bit of age browning of edges; else a clean complete & tight copy A nice hard bound first edition of Sir John Betjeman’s 1906-84 poetry. He was Poet Laureate of England from 1972 until his death.</p> Boston/Cambridge: HM/Riverside Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 19358
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Wagner Richard; english version by John Gutman
Die MEISTERSINGER von NURNBERG - Opera in Three Acts
New York: G. Schirmer 1963. No edition stated. Paperback in tan wraps saddle-stapled. VeryGood unmarked. The complete words libretto of the opera in side-by-side German & English. Nice clean copy. <br/><br/>7 x 10-1/2 vii 2 x 44 pp G. Schirmer paperback
Référence libraire : 18964
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Giordano Umberto; libretto by Luigi Illica; english translation by Charles & Mary Jane Matz
ANDREA CHENIER - An Opera in Four Acts- Libretto: San Francisco Opera 1965
New York: Fred Rullman Inc./Franco Colombo Inc. c1954. No edition stated. Paperback in aqua/white wraps saddle-stapled. VeryGood unmarked. The complete words libretto of the opera in side-by-side Italian & English. Nice clean copy of scarce item. <br/><br/>7 x 10-1/2 47 pp. Fred Rullman Inc./Franco Colombo Inc. paperback
Référence libraire : 18972
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Strauss Richard; libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal; english version by Alfred Kalisch
Der ROSENKAVALIER The Rose-Bearer - Comedy for Music in Three Acts
New York: Boosey and Hawkes c1943. No edition stated. Paperback without wraps side-stapled. VeryGood unmarked. The complete words libretto of the opera in side-by-side German & English. Nice clean copy of scarce item. <br/><br/>6 x 9 136 pp. Boosey and Hawkes paperback
Référence libraire : 18967
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Verdi Giuseppe; libretto by Francesca Maria iave & Andrea Maffei; english translation by Glen Sauls
MACBETH - Opera in Four Acts- Libretto: San Francisco Opera
New York: G. Schirmer c1959. No edition stated. Paperback in green/white wraps saddle-stapled. VeryGood unmarked. The complete words libretto of the opera in side-by-side Italian & English. Nice clean copy of scarce item. <br/><br/>6-3/4 x 10-1/4 vii 2 x 13 pp. G. Schirmer paperback
Référence libraire : 18970
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Wagner Richard; english edition by H. & F. Corder
Die Meistersinger von Nuremburg - Grand Opera Libretto
Los Angeles: John Huber Publ no date. No edition stated. Paperback in b/w illus wraps saddle-stapled. VeryGood unmarked. The complete words libretto of the opera in side-by-side German & English. Nice clean copy of scarce item. <br/><br/>5-1/2 x 8-1/2 80 pp John Huber Publ paperback
Référence libraire : 18960
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Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus; libretto by Lorenzo Da ponte; english translation by Ruth & Thomas Martin
The MARRIAGE of FIGARO Le Nozze di Figaro - Libretto
New York: Program Publ. c1948. No edition stated. Paperback in white illus wraps saddle-stapled. VeryGood unmarked. The complete words libretto of the opera in English. Nice clean copy of scarce item. <br/><br/>7 x 10 32 pp. Program Publ. paperback
Référence libraire : 18973
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English Ecology Group
'IN HARMONY WITH NATURE - A Broader Concept of Man''s Responsibility for the Global Environment'
Madras: Theosophical Publ House 1975. First Thus. Paperback in yellow illus wraps. Fine unmarked. Finding harmony with the Elemenys Earth Plant Kingdom Animal Kingdom Mankind and Divine Life. Nice bright clean copy of rare booklet. <br/><br/>5 x 7-1/4 Theosophical Publ House paperback
Référence libraire : 16564
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Joan Penny; illus by Dugald McGregor; translated from English by Marcel Christen
'DANY L''EPAGNEUL Danny the Spaniel'
Neuchatel Suisse/Paris France: Delachaux & Niestle 1947. Hardcover in gray cloth boards w red titling & illustration. VeryGood with owner inscription Inside in French else unmarked. Illustrated juvenile dog story in French language. Full-page frontispiece and numerous b/w illus. Nice clean tight copy of very scarce title. <br/><br/>5-1/2 x 8-1/4 169 pp b/w illus. Delachaux & Niestle hardcover
Référence libraire : 8454
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Masefield John
The Poems and Plays of John Masefield: Volume One Poems
<p>New York: Macmillan. 1924 reprint. 521pp. navy cloth 8vo: Good/no dj. A large Masefield 1878-1967 collection. He was poet laureate of England from 1930-67.</p> New York: Macmillan hardcover
Référence libraire : 3935
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Gosse Edmund
A Short History of Modern English Literature
<p>8vo crimson leather/gold pp420 index F- Leather bound presentation copy with 1909 school prize label inside front. A handsome book.</p> Heinemann hardcover
Référence libraire : 1119
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Grahame:
The Sabbath Sabbath walks and other poems
<p>London Nisbet 1857 210X155mm pp123 many bw engravings red cloth/gold gilt VG-20mm tear top spine some-- discolouration on back Poetry from Presbyterian Scotland. Name neatly handwritten in front. A nice edition of this Scots poet with illustrations by Birket Foster.</p> London Nisbet 1857 hardcover
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