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FELSTED SCHOOL
The Foundation Deeds of Felsted School and Charities. With introductory Note by Andrew Clark.
8vo., with a portrait frontispiece and 3 plates; cloth gilt, gilt back, uncut, a very good copy.
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ARNOLD LODGE SCHOOL
[Prospectus for] Arnold Lodge School. Preparatory School for Boys. Principal: H.D.P. Hall. A RARE SURVIVAL
Oblong 8vo., First Edition, with full-page photographs in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. 'Recognized by the Ministry of Education' has been added to the title in manuscript. With a few neat manuscript amendments to prices. A rear pocket (which may have been for ephemeral material) is present but empty. A rare survival.
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PETRIE Flinders
Egyptian Architecture. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 34 plates containing 155 photographs, illustrations, plans and diagrams; original terracotta cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, upper board very lightly age-marked, backstrip lightly frayed (without material loss) at head and tail, two corners mildly bruised else a very good, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate removed from front paste-down, small stamp on front free endpaper, and single neat annotation on title. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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RIMMER Alfred
A History of Shrewsbury School. From the Blakeway MSS., and many ther Sources. Illustrated by twenty-six Views specially drawn on Wood by Alfred Rimmer.
4to., with a frontispiece, 3 plates and 22 illustrations in the text; original cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, gilt back, obverse of frontispiece and rear blank preliminary browned, upper corners just slightly bruised else an EXCEPTIONALLY BRIGHT, FINE COPY. The definitive history of the period 1551-1888.
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HAYENS Herbert
Play Up, Royals!. Illustrated by Archibald Webb.
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece and a plate in monochrome; original beige pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in red and black, gilt edges, a remarkably crisp, clean copy. With a prize bookplate on front paste-down. Scarce.
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GREEN E. E.
Priscilla. A Story for Girls. IN PUBLISHER'S PICTORIAL BINDING
8vo., with a frontispiece and plates; original pictorial cloth, gilt back, a remarkably bright, clean copy. Scarce, especially in this condition
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WILDMAN W.B.
A short History of Sherborne from 705 AD. Third Edition. 100 COPIES WERE PRINTED
4to., LARGE PAPER, on laid paper, with 8 plates and 2 plans (one folding); plum buckram, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, expertly recased, covers lightly age-faded else a very good, bright, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 100 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 36). With the embossed armorial bookplate of Ivory King on front paste-down, and two relevant half-tone plates loosely inserted. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM TEN SCHOLARS OF No. 3 DORMITORY TO I.H.A. KING
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WESTAWAY K.M.
A History of Bedford High School. History of Bedford High School.
8vo., First Edition, with 12 plates, neat contemporary signature on title; cloth, gilt back, backstrip lightly frayed at head and tail else a good, clean copy.
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EASTWAYS W.E.
Christine of the Fourth.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, text browning at edges, neat inscription on dedication; decorative cloth blocked in silver, backstrip lettered in silver, one corner lightly bruised else a very good, tight copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled and with minor loss at lower edge of front panel. The bibliography of this school tale is confused. The author is given variously as W.E. Eastways (dustwrapper and title) and W.W. Eastways (series catalogue on dustwrapper rear panel). BLPC gives the latter and records two editions, neither of which matches the present copy. Here the pagination matches the first edition of 1949, though the imprint is Children's Press (not Collins). A scarce survival in this condition.
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FARRAR Frederic William
Eric. Or, Little by Little. A Tale of Roslyn School. With an Introduction by John Rowe Townsend.
8vo., cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper very lightly sunned at backstrip. Dedicated to the Bishop of Calcutta, this children's classic was first published in 1858. This modern re-issue is set from A&C Black's complete edition of 1898.
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JUDD Alfred
The Riddle of Randley School. Illustrated by R. H. Brock. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 2 plates; small label scar on front free endpaper; original red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed (without material loss) at extremities and a little age-soiled on (predominantly white) rear panel. With coloured prize bookplate, and the trade ticket of Goulden of Canterbury, on front paste-down. Very scarce in this condition.
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MILNE J.P.
The Adventures of Jig & Co. [Illustrated by Inez Topham. Second Edition?].
8vo., with a frontispiece; original blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in green, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, the latter frayed at extremities and with minor loss (not affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip. Milne's popular girls' school adventure was first published in 1934. BL gives 1942 for the second edition. Uncommon in this condition.
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MOORE Dorothea
Darry the Dauntless. A Schoolgirl's Adventure.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece by Brock, endpapers and half-title lightly foxed; original pictorial blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in white and black, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. With coloured illustration from dustwrapper mounted on front free endpaper. Scarce.
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SAUNDERS Marjorie
Leave it to Madge.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece; original cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, clean copy in unclipped but worjk and partially defective dustwrapper. With a coloured prize bookplate on front free endpaper. Sequel to 'Madge's Sister'.
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NATIONAL GALLERY
National Gallery Catalogues. Early Netherlandish School. Plates.
Folio, First Edition, with 121 fine full-page plates; ivory boards, blue cloth corners and back, a very good, clean copy.
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CHARTERHOUSE SCHOOL
Charterhouse Register 1872-1900.
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with title-vignette, free endpapers lightly browned; original green cloth, upper board elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, green top, upper hinge cracked else a bright, clean copy. Very scarce.
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CHARTERHOUSE SCHOOL
Charterhouse. An Open Examination written by the Boys.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrated title-spread, illustrations in the text and endpapers maps; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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GOODYEAR R.A.H.
Young Rockwood at School.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 3 plates, small corner clipped from front free endpaper, free endpapers lightly browned; buff pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, a very good, clean copy.
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COOMBE Florence
Boys of the Priory School. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., with a frontispiece, this and title lightly spotted; original red cloth, upper board and backstrip framed and lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy. With prize bookplate on front free endpaper. Nice copy of this later issue, without the four plates by Copping present in the first edition of 1900.
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JUDD Alfred
At School on the Ocean [Second Edition]. t School on the Ocean [Second Edition].
8vo., Second Edition, with a frontispiece, fore-edges lightly spotted; original blue boards, upper board and backstrip lettered in blue, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter moderately age-browned and with one of two short closed tears. With prize bookplate in gilt and colours on front paste-down. Dustwrapper artwork by Serge Drigin. Judd's classic tale was first published in 1928.
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TIDDEMAN L.E.
Angelica's Troubles. With Illustrations by M. . Boole. Fourth Edition. IN THE RARE DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Fourth Edition, with a frontispiece and 3 full-page illustrations in the text, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpaper; attractive pictorial green cloth patterned and lettered in yellow and black, backstrip lettered in black, a remarkably bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Extremely scarce in the dustwrapper. Lizzie Tiddeman's classic homily was first published in 1897.
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LIEDTKE Walter
Vermeer and the Delft School. With Michiel C Plomp and Axel Rueger. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, and very numerous coloured and monochrome reproductions throughout (many full-page); blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, blue endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Extensive and profusely illustrated catalogue of the major exhibition held at MMA (March to May) and the National Gallery London (June to September) 2001.
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CARR Kent
The Shaping of Jephson's. A School Story. Illustrated by Harold Earnshaw. [Second Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Second Edition, with a frontispiece and 4 plates; original blue pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in darker blue, a very good, bright, clean copy. With prize bookplate on front free endpaper. Carr's classic school tale was first published in 1919. BOTH EDITIONS ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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GREEN E. E.
Priscilla. A Story for Girls. IN PUBLISHER'S PICTORIAL BINDING
8vo., with a frontispiece and plates; original pictorial cloth, gilt back, a remarkably bright, clean copy. Scarce, especially in this condition
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SYMONS et al K.
Alfred Edward Housman. Recollections by Katherine E. Symons, A.W. Pollard, Laurence Housman, R.W. Chambers, Alan Ker, A.S.F. Gow, John Sparrow. A.E.H. Bromsgrove School 1879-1877. [Second Edition]. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Roy. 8vo., Second Edition, with a full-page tinted portrait, 5 plates on 4 and a full-page illustrations in the text; original green buckram, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. This valuable collection was first issued in an edition of 250 copies in October 1936 which edition was rapidly exhausted. Ehrsam p.22.
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WAKE R.
Bedales School. The First Hundred Years [1893-1993]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and very numerous photographs in the text; plum cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BRAZIL Angela
The School on the Moor. Illustrated by H. Coller.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 3 plates, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; brown cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in darker brown, brown top, a very good, bright, clean copy. The first edition is scarce in this condition.
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CLARK, [W.G.
Sabrinae Corolla in hortulis regiae Scholae Salopiensis contexuerunt tres viri floribus legendis. IN SIGNED BICKERS BINDING
8vo., First Edition, with an engraved frontispiece and illustrations in the text, small neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; attractively bound in contemporary full calf BY BICKERS, sides with double frame border stopped at corners with rosettes all in gilt, back with five raised bands ruled in gilt, second compartment with brown leather label lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments richly tooled and ruled in gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, joints lightly rubbed else a very good, bright, clean crisp copy. The binding is signed on front free endpaper verso. First appearance of this famous collection of European poetry (chiefly English; from Shakespeare onmwards) translated into classical verse by members of the school. The original and classical texts are given in parallel on facing pages. A lovely copy.
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COOLIDGE Susan
Katy at School. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with coloured frontispiece, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; red cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION
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DAVID MESSUM
British Impressions 2011. FINE COPY WITH PRICE LIST AND INVITATION
4to., First Edition, with very numerous coloured reproductions (the majority full-page) throughout; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. With separately printed price list and invitation to private view loosely inserted. Artists represented include Forbes, Langley, Knight, Lamorna Birch, Brangwyn and many others.
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VUILLIER Joseph-Bonaventure
L'Arithmetique decouverte par un Enfant de Dix Ans. ou Maniere d'enseigner l'Arithmetique aux Enfans. ARITHMETIC: A RARE PRIMER
8vo., [First? Edition], text in French, only the most minimal age-staining; handsomely bound in contemporary full roan, boards with elaborate decorative triple frame border in gilt, back with flat bands, second compartment with red leather label ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments richly tooled in gilt lattice, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, a remarkably well-preserved, crisp, clean copy in wholly unrestored contemporary binding. A rare arithmetic primer constructed on the mother-son principle, with 'Adolphe' pursuing his learning through structured conversations with 'La Mere'. EXTREMELY SCARCE, THE MORE SO IN THIS CONDITION. Fourcroy 1801.
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BUCKLER J.C. [John Chessell]
Sixty Views of Endowed Grammar Schools. from Original Drawings with Letter-press Descriptions. [No. I. This part only. FIRST AND SOLE EDITION]. IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS: A RARE SURVIVAL
4to., First Edition, on India Paper, with 6 fine copper-engraved plates, small tide-mark in blank margins (nowhere affecting engraved surfaces); ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS, sewed as issued, uncut, a remarkably well-preserved, crisp, clean copy. The first part [only] of Buckler's notable series of copper views of the nation's eminent grammar schools. Here he depicts Banbury School (Oxfordshire), The King's School (Canterbury), Mercers' School (London), The Close School (Salisbury), Free Grammar School (Stamford), Free Grammar School (Wakefield). EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
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WEST DOWNS SCHOOL
The West Downs Magazine and O.W.D. Register 1957-1964. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with 2 photographs; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. Founded in 1897, the school closed in 1988. The Register lists all OWDs from 1947 to 1964. VERY SCARCE.
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BRAZIL Angela
A Patriotic School Girl. Illustrated by Balliol Salmon. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, FIRM COPY
8vo., with frontispiece and 5 plates in monochrome, free endpapers lightly browned, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; origina pictorial brown cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in red, white and black, a very good, bright, clean copy. ALL EARLY ISSUES ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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BRAZIL Angela
The Leader of the Lower School. A Tale of School Life. Illustrated by John Campbell. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., with coloured frontispiece and 4 plates in monochrome, free endpapers moderately browned, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; origina pictorial brown cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in blue, cream and black, top and fore-edge lightly spotted else a very good, bright, clean copy. First published in 1913. ALL EARLY ISSUES ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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DOUGLAS M.A.
The Godolphin School 1726-1926. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and plates, contemporary inscription on front free endpaper, fore-edge lightly dust-soiled; original ivory buckram, upper board blocked with school crest in red, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter frayed and worn with minor loss at edges. With a copy of a printed School booklet loosely inserted. SCARCE.
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NANSEN Fridtjof
The First Crossing of Greenland. Translated from the Norwegian by Hubert Majendie Gepp. [First Single-Volume Edition]. HARROW PRIZE COPY IN HALF CALF
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and full-page map; handsomely bound in contemporary green haldf calf, sides ruled in gilt, back with five bands tooled in gilt, seconf compartment ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartmnents elaborately tooled in gilt, giltop, marbled endpapers, backstrip very lightly dulled else a most attractive, bright, crisp copy. With the prize bookplate of Harrow School (dated 1907) on front paste-down. A handsome copy of the first single-volume edition, based on the two-volume first edition of 1890. This edition retains Nansens's preface, adds a new preface by Longman and preserves the great majority of the illustrations of the original.
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INGOLDSBY, pseud. Thomas
The Ingoldsby Legends. NEAR FINE COPY IN HARROW PRIZE BINDING
Sm. 8vo., handsomely bound in full green calf, sides with double frame border stopped at corners by rosettes and enclosing Harrow School crest all in gilt, back with five raised bands ruled in gilt, second comparment with red leather label ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments framed and tooled in gilt with the School crest, gilt dentelles, marbled edges, marbled edges, a near fine copy. With the Harrow School prize bookplate, signed by Edward Graham, on front paste-down.
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BOWEN The Hon. W.E.
Edward Bowen. A Memoir. With Appendices and Illustrations. BRIGHT, FRESH COPY
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), 2 portraits in photogravure (original tissue guards present) and 2 plates, endpapers lightly browned; navy buckram, upper board with crest blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, fresh copy. With 40pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Encomium written for the eminent Harrow schoolmaster. Uncommon in this condition.
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CHATWYN Alys
A Prairie Schoolgirl.. [Illustrated by Savile Lumley]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, title lightly spotted, neat contemporary pencilled signature on front free endpaper, pencilled sketches on rear endpapers; original pictorial green cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in brown and white, a very good, bright, clean copy. Cover artwork (repeating frontispiece) by Savile Lumley. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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EPSOM COLLEGE.
Epsom College Register 1855-1954. Edited by T.R. Thomson. BRIGHT COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, neat signatures on front free endpaper; blue cloth, upper board blocked in school arms in gilt, gilt back, boards lightly faded at lower edge else a very good, bright, clean copy.
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BRAZIL Angela
A Fourth Form Friendship. A School Story. Illustrated by Frank E. Wiles. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., with coloured frontispiece and 4 plates in monochrome, top lightly dust-soiled, small signature on front paste-down; original green pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in cream and black, a very good, bright, clean copy. With prize bookplate (1920) on front free endpaper.
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DRURY, ed. Henry
Arundines Cami. sive Musarum Cantabrigiensium lusus canori. Edition Sexta. Edited by H.J. Hodgson. ARUNDINES CAMI IN FINE RUGBY SCHOOL BINDING
8vo., Sixth Edition, with title in red and black, text in printed frame throughout; attractively bound in red full morocco, upper board with multiple bline frame border enclosing Rugby School crest in gilt, back with flat bands, second compartment lettered and ruled in gilt, gilt edges, primrose endpapers, expertyly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, bright, crisp copy. Splendid copy of the great Cambridge anthology of translations, first issued in 1841. Drury's original is revised and augmented by Hodgson. RUGBY SCHOOL BINDINGS ARE SCARCE.
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HEMINGWAY Andrew
The Norwich School of Painters 1803-1833. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, and numerous coloured and monochrome reproductions throughout, neat signature on front free endpaper; ochre cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BRAZIL Angela
A Pair of Schoolgirls. A Story of School Days. [Illustrated by John Campbell]. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, FIRM COPY
8vo., with frontispiece and 3 plates, free endpapers and half-title lightly browned; original pictorial green cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in cream and black, a remarkably bright, fresh copy. First published in 1912. Last title listed in 'Ruth of St. Ronan's' (1927). ALL EARLY ISSUES ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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MARCHANT Bessie
Two of a Kind. Illustrated by L. Stead. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with frontispiece and 3 plates, contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; orange cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, orange top, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed at extremities.
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AINGER Arthur Campbell
Eton Songs. Set to Music by Joseph Barnby. Illustrated by Herbert Marshall. ETONIANA: NOTABLE ASSOCIATION COPY IN THEMED BINDING
Sm. folio, First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title-vignette and numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, endpapers very lightly spotted; elegantly bound in green full morocco, sides with multiple frame border stopped at corners by Eton lilies and rosettes, and enclosing title and decorative cartouche reprising Eton lilies and rosettes all in gilt, back gilt extra, gilt edges, gilt doublures, marbled endpapers heightened in gilt, a splendid, crisp copy in themed Eton binding. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM AINGER TO HIS PUPIL ANGUS VALDEMAR HAMBRO WITH THE FORMER'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Ainger (1841-1919) taught at Eton until his retirement in 1901. Hambro (1883-1957) was educated at Eton, elected twice as MP for Dorset and served as High Sheriff of the county. This copy was presented at Election 1900.
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DIXON Mark
An Eton Schoolboy's Album. [With a Foreword by John Julius Norwich]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. folio, First Edition, with very numerous photographs throughout, and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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CHEETHAM Anthony
Eton Microcosm. Illustrations by Edward Pagram. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, illustrations (many full-page) in the text, and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, boards striped in Eton Blue, backstrip lettered in blue, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped, mildly rubbed dustwrapper.
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BRAZIL Angela
The Leader of the Lower School. A Tale of School Life. [Illustrated by John Campbell]. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, FIRM COPY
8vo., with frontispiece and 3 plates; original pictorial blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in cream and black, a remarkably bright, fresh copy. First published in 1914. Last title listed is 'The Fortunes of Philippa' (1907). ALL EARLY ISSUES ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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