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E.V.LUCAS: A WANDERER IN LONDON. Detailed essays
and guide to London,
its curiosities, culture and architecture. 16 col illus by Nelson Dawson, 36
b/w. Pub 1912. 13th
edition. Methuen, London. Written in 1906 as a description of
London from
an impressionistic and personal point of view - but serves well as a Guide.
8vo, x, 305pp, 30pp catalog at back, front endpaper maps. Hardcover in blue
cloth with gilt titles and decoration on spine. No dustjacket. Clean, tight
copy. Small cover tears at top of spine. Owner inscribed 1918.
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305
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£10
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ADDISON: ESSAYS FROM THE
SPECTATOR. 187 essays on wide-ranging subjects from master essayist. Pub
1876. Portrait of Addison. The MacMillan Company. Fair. No Jacket. Some cover fading and
wear outside at top of spine and inside cover. Clean pages, otherwise good condition.
Some pages uncut. Hard Cover
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575
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sold
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LONGFELLOW'S POETICAL WORKS.
Comprehensive edition, pub 1890, soft leather cover, London: Henry Frowde, 1890. Good book with leatherette
covers, marbled endpapers and gilt page edges. A reprint of the revised
American edition together with earlier and later poems, some of which have
not appeared in any other edition of the poet's works. School "Conduct
prize" to owner's grandmother 1898. Small sticker inside cover
for "Goulden & Nye, The Royal Library, Tunbridge Wells". Some
erased pencil inscription inside first blank page. Hand-written 4 line verse
facing end page of index. Some foxing on outer blank pages. Front and back
covers + closest pages (inscribed) broken inside spine from rest of book (but
held in place by cover). Small tear and some wear at top ext spine. Body of
book vg, covers fair.
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630
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£15
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BYRON'S POETICAL WORKS. Edited/ preface
WM Rosetti. Illus. (Edited with a Critical Memoir by William Michael
Rossetti) Rare edition. Ward, Lock London
ca. 1900(?). Hardbound. Wear to spine ends, corners. Binding just beginning
to give a bit (inside covers, and pgs 288-9, 318-90), gilt edges Inside
cover page missing, first contents page loose, some foxing throughout.
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604
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£15
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MILTON'S POETICAL WORKS. Soft leather, pub 1896. B/W
illus. London: Frederick
Warne & Co. Ltd. Hard (in fact soft leather) Cover. No Jacket. 608 pages
including bibliography. Tissue-protected black and white frontis. All edges
bright gilt. Slight foxing to opening and closing pagess. Inscribed gift to
Sunday school teacher by Guernsey class
1899. Tea(?) stain, top corner pg 303, some pencil ticks to lines of Paradise
Lost. Fading to spine. Otherwise good copy.
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608
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£25
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BACON'S ESSAYS. Inc moral and historical
works. Glossary. Leather bound, damaged cover. London: Frederick Warne and Co. Hard Cover. Fair/No
Jacket. Originally published in 1597 and 1605. Full title: "Bacon's
Essays including his Moral and Historical Works. Namely: The Essays; The
Colours of Good and Evil; Ornamental Rationalia, or Elegant Services; Short
Notes for Civil Conversation; Advancement of Learning; Wisdom of the
Ancients; New Atlantis; Apothegms; History of Henry VII; History of Henry
VIII; History of Elizabeth. With Memoir, Notes, and Glossary". 530pp. No
foxing. Marbled paper inside front and rear covers. Front cover nearly
detached from spine. Spine faded and worn. Rest of book vg. Inscribed by
owner 1898, some small pencil ticks to contents. Rare edition.
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530
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£20
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RL STEVENSON: THE BLACK ARROW. "A
Tale Of The Two Roses". Illus H M Paget - 8 b/w London: Cassell & Co, 1907. Hard Cover [cloth]. No
Jacket. Spine darkened. Spine join inside covers beginning to wear. Otherwise
good clean copy.
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324
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£7.50
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MEMOIRES DE CASANOVA ("Les Meilleures Pages des...").
French large format p/b, most pages uncut. Probably pub 1950s. Editions de la Sirene. Texte integral.
Purchased by owner from Left Bank Paris book-stall late 50s/early 60s.
Appendice avec Variantes, notes et commentaires. Cover a bit scruffy, but
otherwise good throughout. Thought to be rare edition.
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343
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£20
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OEUVRES DE MOLIERE. 2 vols, yellow/brown
leather bound, gilded. In French. Pub 1862. Paris: Librarie de Firmin Didot Freres, Fils et Cie. Ridged
spines with red/ black titling, scrollwork. Gilt bust on front covers, coat
of arms on rear covers. Marbled inside cover pages. Integral
book-marker ribbon. Vol 1: outer spine cracking apart front edge, and inside
cover, but holding well. Rear cover partly detached. Vol 2: Inside title page
detached. Inside covers have full-page presentation plates (Mercers Hall
1863). Slight foxing.
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648/
671
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£45
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JOHN GALSWORTHY: THE FORSYTE SAGA. Pub
1928, all 3 books in 1 vol. London,
William Heinemann, Ltd. Reprinted 1928. Cloth cover, gilt lettered titles.
Spine darkened, spine top front beginning to tear. 2 final pages have tears,
pencil scribbles. 1104 pages. Binding is Hardcover.
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1104
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£7.50
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ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN POETRY. Lyric America
1630-1930. Inc suuplement 1930-5. Ed Alfred Kreymborg. Pub 1935 New York: Tudor Publishing. Hard Cover. VG-/No Jacket. Black
buckram, gilt and blue titles, new revised edition, 300 years of Ameican
poetry, owner's signature inside cover (1936), spine join inside covers
beginning to wear.
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654
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£15
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BARRY NORMAN: Tales of the Redundance
Kid The Bedside Barry Norman - humourous essays from a master. B/W illus. Pub
1975. D/j Wokingham: Van Nostrand Reinhold
Company, 1975. 1st edn, 1st ptg; not inscr. HB. VG in VG dw. Collection of
Norman's Guardian articles from the 1970s, together with a handful from 'The
Observer' and 'Cosmopolitan', covering a wide variety of subjects (mainly
non-film) – such as "politics, sex, sport, scenes from domestic
life" etc.
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180
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£5
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A WORDSWORTH ANTHOLOGY. Soft leather
cover. Gilt titling. Published 1960s? London: Collins Greetings Books. Inside cover stamped
"purchased at Wordsworth’s Cottage, Grasmere".
Cover slightly mottled. Included: separate picture postcard (photo of
lakeside with daffodils) with "Daffodils" poem printed on back. V
good copy.
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159
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£5
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THE POET'S TONGUE: An anthology. Ed W H
Auden & John Garrett. First pub 1935 "for the use of H M
Forces". Hbk + d/j London; Bell.
Ninth Impression; 8vo; xxxiv, 223pp; Original blue cloth. Inside stamp
"withdrawn" by printed text box "For the use of H.M. Forces.
NOT FOR RESALE". Good in only slightly chipped dustwrapper, red titles
on white, darkened esp on spine. Owner inscription inside.
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223
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£8
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