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The Anniversary; or, Poetry and Prose for MDCCCXXIX
by Cunningham, Allan (editor)
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(London: John Sharpe, 1829). 8vo; original cloth over boards; all edges gilt; pp. xvi + 320; steel engravings; ribbon marker. Backstrip missing; upper board detached (but present), and lower board nearly so; extremities of boards rubbbed; earlier owners' bookplate and label to front pastedown; some foxing to engravings, with offset to adjacent pages. Fair externally; good internally. Noteworthy inclusions in… Read more about this item Item Price
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Providence & Mr Hardy
by Deacon, Lois, and Terry Coleman
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(London: Hutchinson, 1966). 8vo; original blue cloth with gilt-on-black lettering to spine; dustwrapper; pp. 244, incl. index; plates. Dustwrapper price-clipped, torn and somewhat rubbed; trace of damp-stain to cloth adjacent to joints; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper; a little foxing to endpapers and edges. Good. "No important discovery about a leading literary figure ever came about in… Read more about this item Item Price
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Glist'ring Phaeton
by Beresford, Richard
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(Johannesburg: Published by the Morija Printing Works & sold by the Constantia Booksellers, 1945). 252 x 162 mm; original wrappers; pp. (vi) + 78 + (1), few headpieces after old engravings. Wrappers sun-darkened and somewhat soiled, frayed at the spine. Good externally; very good internally. Edition limited to five hundred copies. Printed in Basutoland, this is a product of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Ted Hughes. The Life of a Poet
by Feinstein, Elaine
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(London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001) 029764601X. 8vo; original boards; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xiv + 273, incl. index; plates. Trace of edgewear to dustwrapper; top edge foxed, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Very good condition. "In this biography Elaine Feinstein for the first time tells the story of Hughes' life as he experienced it, rather than presenting him as a figure in… Read more about this item Item Price
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Hudibras, in Three Parts, Written in the Time of the Late Wars: Corrected and Amended. With Large Annotations, and a Preface
by Butler, Samuel, and Zachary Grey
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(Cambridge: Printed by J. Bentham, Printer to the University, 1744 [Vol. 1]; London: Printed by J. Bettenham, 1744 [Vol. 2]). Two post 8vo volumes, complete; each of matching full calf; gilt fillets to margins of boards; spine tooled in compartments, with lettering in gilt to second and third compartments; pp. xxxvi + (xlii) + 424 + index, (ii) + 446… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography, Mythology, and Geography based on the Larger Dictionaries
by Smith, William, and G. E. Marindin (revision)
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(London: John Murray, 1899). Demy 8vo; original brown blind-stamped buckram, lettered in gilt on spine; tinted edges; pp. vi + 1019; numerous illustrations in text. Boards a little rubbed, and backstrip frittered at head and tail; cloth tape reinforcing to hinges; variable foxing throughout. Good condition. "The Classical Dictionary, published more than thirty years ago, of which this book is… Read more about this item Item Price
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Charles Dickens by Pen and Pencil. Including Anecdotes and Reminiscences Collected from His Friends and Contemporaries
by Kitton, Frederick G.
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(London: Frank T. Sabin and John F. Dexter, 1890-1892). Three folio volumes (39 x 30 cm), including "A Supplement to Charles Dickens by Pen and Pencil"; original cream quarter buckram with turquoise cloth over bevelled boards; gilt lettering to spines; gilt lion emblem from Dickens' bookplate to upper cover in each case; pp. xviii + 80, (iv) + [81-192] +… Read more about this item Item Price
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Rejected Addresses: or, The New Theatrum Poetarum
by [Smith, James and Horace]
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(London: John Murray, 1841). 12mo; full brown calf, ornately gilt; all edges gilt; pp. xxviii + (ii) + 170; frontis. portrait; illustrations in text. Upper board detached, but present; contemporary gift inscription to fly-leaf; some foxing to outermost leaves and occasionally elsewhere. Good condition, but note that upper board will require re-jointing. A humorous, and apparently very capable, series of… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Dickens-Kolle Letters. Supplemental to the Letters from Charles Dickens to Maria Beadnell
by Smith, Harry B. (editor)
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(Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1910). This edition is limited to 483 copies printed for members only. Small 4to; original half-vellum, with brown boards; pp. (x) + 90; pages uncut; plates with captioned tissue-guards; facsimiles, incl. folding. Rather foxed throughout. Good only. "At the time of the issue (in 1908) of the volume of the Dickens-Beadnell Correspondence, containing Professor Baker's footnote… Read more about this item Item Price
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Graham Greene: A Life in Letters
by Greene, Richard (editor)
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(London: Little, Brown, 2007) 9780316727938. 8vo; original charcoal boards, lettered in silver gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xxxiv + 446, incl. index; plates. Slightest curl to edges of dustwrapper. Very good to near-fine condition. "One of the undisputed masters of English prose in the twentieth century, Graham Greene (1904-91) wrote tens of thousands of personal letters. This substantial… Read more about this item Item Price
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Proeve van Kleine Gedigten voor Kinderen
by van Alphen, Hieronymus
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([The Hague]: L.J.C. Boucher, ca 1939). 16mo; cloth-backed pictorial papered boards; unpaginated (but pp. 76); plates. Lightly rubbed; some foxing to edges and outermost leaves; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper. Good to very good condition. Dutch text. Facsimile reprint of the 1778 edition of Jan van Terveen. Van Alphen's children's poems enjoyed great success, and were translated… Read more about this item Item Price
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Major Greville, V.C.: A Tale of the Great Boer War
by Munnik, G. G.
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(London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Co. / Cape Town: T. Maskew Miller, [1911?]). 8vo; original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; pp. 317 + (iii) + 12. Cloth rather worn and stippled; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper; rather foxed throughout. Fair to good. "To the memory of the brave men of two nations,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Law of Douglas van Yssen
by Nel, Paul
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(Cape Town: Scamp Fiction, 2011) 9780980260984. 233 x 154 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. (iv) + 644. Occasional fox spot. Very good condition. "For its range and depth, this novel deserves comparison with Patrick White's great novel of Australian becoming, The Tree of Man. We see Douglas van Yssen, his country and his culture come of age. There is sadness… Read more about this item Item Price
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Go Set a Watchman
by Lee, Harper
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(London: William Heinemann, 2015) 9781785150289. 8vo; original blue-grey boards, lettered in black to spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. (vi) + 278 + (iii). Fine condition. "Written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman imparts a fuller, richer understanding and appreciation of Harper Lee. Here is an unforgettable novel of wisdom, humanity, passion, humour and effortless precision - a… Read more about this item Item Price
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Van den Vos Reinaerde. Naar de thans bekende handschriften en bewerkingen, critisch uitgegeven met eene inleiding door Dr. J. W. Muller
by Muller, J. W. (editor)
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(Gent & Utrecht: W. Siffer & A. Oosthoek, 1914). 8vo; original brown pictorial cloth, blocked in red to upper cover; pp. LIX + (i) + 121 + (ii). A little rubbed; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper; trace of foxing to edges and endpapers; discreet pencilled underlining to introduction. Good condition. Dutch/Flemish text. The medieval Reynard stories are… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Magic Tree. South African Stories in Verse
by Butler, Guy, and Jeff Opland (editors)
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(Cape Town: Maskew Miller Longman, 1989) 063601200X. 240 x 168 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. (xii) + 243. Small crease to bottom fore-corner of upper cover; lightly rubbed; edges and outermost leaves foxed. Good condition. "The Magic Tree is a unique and significant new anthology of South African narrative verse. Here are the voices of our shared past and our… Read more about this item Item Price
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Jack's Heroism: A Tale of Schoolboy Life
by Kenyon, Edith C.
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(London: S. W. Partridge, [ca 1900]). Crown 8vo; red pictorial cloth; pp. 144 + 24; plates and illustrations in text. Light wear; backstrip a little sunned; school prize label dated 1902 to front free endpaper; regular, light browning; trace of foxing; lower hinge just starting. Good condition, in a very attractive binding. Moralistic Edwardian boys' fiction of a type very… Read more about this item Item Price
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D. van Hoogstratens Gedichten
by Hoogstraten, D[avid] van
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(Amsterdam: Jacobus van Hardenberg, 1697). Small 4to; recent half Oasis goatskin with marbled sides; spine tooled in compartments, with gilt lettering piece to second compartment; new endpapers; title page expertly silked; pp. (xx) + 391. A very attractive copy of this uncommon work. This is the earliest edition of the poet's collected original poetry and translations. David van Hoogstraten (1658-1724),… Read more about this item Item Price
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Heat and Dust
by Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer
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(London: John Murray, 2003) 0719561779. 198 x 128 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. (vi) + 181. Small penned number on final blank. Near-fine condition. "This is a book of cool, controlled brilliance. It is a jewel to be treasured." - The Times . Item Price
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Adventures in the Skin Trade
by Thomas, Dylan
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(London: Putnam, 1955). First edition. Crown 8vo; original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine; dustwrapper; pp. 115. Dustwrapper foxed and edgeworn, with some archival tape repairs to reverse; bump to tail of spine; scattered foxing. Good condition. "Several years before his death, Dylan Thomas began to write a novel that would not be strictly autobiographical,… Read more about this item Item Price
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