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![The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/787/910/1602910787.0.m.jpg)
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The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus
by Palinurus (Cyril Connolly)
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition Thus
- Published
- 1945
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, GBR
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SGD 79.97
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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1945. 1st Edition Thus . Very Good/Very Good. 5.5 x 8.5 inches (14 x 21 cm). Dust jacket: Original jacket by John Piper. Fading to spine. Spots of foxing to rear cover and flaps. Slight wear to ends of spine. Short tear to upper edge of front cover. Price clipped. Preserved in a removable jacket… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 79.97
![The Colour of Life: And Other Essays on Things Seen and Heard](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/237/683/1602683237.0.m.jpg)
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The Colour of Life: And Other Essays on Things Seen and Heard
by Alice Meynell
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- Used - Very Good Minus
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1896
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, GBR
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SGD 62.59
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London: John Lane, 1896. 1st Edition . Very Good Minus. 4.5 x 7 inches (11 x 18 cm). First printing. Brown buckram binding. Page edges untrimmed. Rubbing to spine and board edges. Small stain to lower edge of front board. Foxing to endpapers. Light browning to pages, text is otherwise clean throughout. Small bookseller's label and recent owner's… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 62.59
![The Rhythm of Life and Other Essays](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/234/683/1602683234.0.m.jpg)
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The Rhythm of Life and Other Essays
by Alice Meynell
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1893
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, GBR
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SGD 97.36
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London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1893. 1st Edition . Very Good. 4.5 x 7 inches (11 x 17.5 cm). First printing, limited edition of 550 copies. Brown buckram binding. Page edges untrimmed. Browning to spine and board edges. A little light marking to boards. Browning to page edges and endpapers. Newspaper clipping about Meynell pasted to rear… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 97.36
![Sunday Under Three Heads: As It Is; As Sabbath Bills Would Make It; As It Might Be Made (The Manchester Series of Fac-Simile Re-prints of Rare and Valuable Works No. 1)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/577/165/1602165577.0.m.jpg)
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Sunday Under Three Heads: As It Is; As Sabbath Bills Would Make It; As It Might Be Made (The Manchester Series of Fac-Simile Re-prints of Rare and Valuable Works No. 1)
by Timothy Sparks (Charles Dickens)
- Condition
- Used - Very Good Minus
- Edition
- Facsimile
- Published
- 1884
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, GBR
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SGD 132.13
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Manchester: W.T. Johnson, 1884. Facsimile . Very Good Minus. 4 x 6.5 inches (16 x 16.5 cm). Facsimile reprint of the 1836 first edition. Paper wraps, illustrated to front cover. Loss to head of spine and short split to top of front joint. Spotting and creasing to covers. Illustrated title page (with foxing and crease to upper corner)… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 132.13
![Breakfast in Perigord [SIGNED]: Essays on Various Occasions and in Diverse Moods, with favourite quotations. Decorated and Enlivened with 60 Illustrations & Devices](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/492/746/1596746492.0.m.jpg)
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Breakfast in Perigord [SIGNED]: Essays on Various Occasions and in Diverse Moods, with favourite quotations. Decorated and Enlivened with 60 Illustrations & Devices
by Sir William Russell Flint
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1968
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, GBR
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SGD 114.74
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London: Privately printed for the author by Charles Skilton, 1968. 1st Edition . Very Good/Very Good. 8.75 x 13 inches (22.5 x 33 cm). Signed by Author. Slipcase: Rubbing and light marking. Overall case condition is Very Good Minus. Book: Limited edition, number 97 of 525 copies, signed by the author to colophon. Quarter black morocco with white… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 114.74
![A Kirkstall Forge Romance: Letters between Isabella Fawcett Holgate and Ambrose Edmund Butler](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/976/256/1595256976.0.m.jpg)
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A Kirkstall Forge Romance: Letters between Isabella Fawcett Holgate and Ambrose Edmund Butler
by Isabella Fawcett Holgate / Ambrose Edmund Butler / Hugh Myddleton Butler (Ed.)
- Condition
- Used - Very Good Minus
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1939
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, GBR
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SGD 53.89
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Kirkstall: Henry Jenkinson Ltd. , 1939. 1st Edition . Very Good Minus. 5.5 x 8 inches (14 x 20.5 cm). Quarter black cloth with paper covered boards, illustrated to front board. Slight insect damage to cloth on rear board. Light marking to boards. Slight foxing to page edges, very clean text throughout. Illustrated. Overall condition is Very Good… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 53.89
![The Diary of Joseph Farington: [Volumes I, II, III, IV, V, & VI]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/816/995/1592995816.0.m.jpg)
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The Diary of Joseph Farington: [Volumes I, II, III, IV, V, & VI]
by Joseph Farington / Kenneth Garlick (Ed.) / Angus Macintyre (Ed.)
- Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1978-1979
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, GBR
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SGD 191.23
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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978-1979. 1st Edition . Very Good Plus/Good. 5.75 x 8.75 inches (14 x 22.5 cm). Dust jacket: Shelf wear and rubbing. Fading to spines and edges of covers. Creasing to Volume IV. Preserved in removable jacket protectors. Overall jacket condition is Good. Book: First six volumes of the 16 volume set. These volumes… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 191.23
![The Letters of George Meredith to Alice Meynell, with Annotations Thereto, 1896-1907](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/786/995/1592995786.0.m.jpg)
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The Letters of George Meredith to Alice Meynell, with Annotations Thereto, 1896-1907
by George Meredith / Everard Meynell (Ed.) / Francis Meredith Wilfrid Meynell (Ed.)
- Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1923
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, GBR
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SGD 62.59
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London: The Nonesuch Press, 1923. 1st Edition . Very Good Plus. 6.5 x 9.5 inches (16 x 24 cm). Limited edition, number 7 of 850 copies, of which 780 are for sale. The low number would indicate this is a non trade copy. Lacking jacket. Quarter beige buckram binding with paper covered boards. Slight wear to corners of… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 62.59
![T.E. Lawrence to His Biographer, Liddell Hart [PLUS] T.E. Lawrence to his Biographer, Robert Graves: Information About Himself, in the form of Letters, Notes and Answers to Questions and Conversations [SIGNED]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/503/995/1592995503.0.m.jpg)
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T.E. Lawrence to His Biographer, Liddell Hart [PLUS] T.E. Lawrence to his Biographer, Robert Graves: Information About Himself, in the form of Letters, Notes and Answers to Questions and Conversations [SIGNED]
by T.E. Lawrence / Robert Graves / B.H. Liddle Hart
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1938
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, GBR
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SGD 521.55
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London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1938. 1st Edition . Very Good/Good. 6.25 x 9.5 inches (16.5 x 24.5 cm). Signed by Author. Slipcase: Light foxing and marking to side, end and top panels. Heavy foxing to lower panel. Overall case condition is Good. Book: Limited edition of 1000 copies, 500 of which printed for Great Britain. Two volume… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 521.55
![Byron's Letters and Journals (12 Volume Set) Vol. 1: In My Hot Youth; Vol. 2: Famous in My Time; Vol. 3: Alas. The Love of Women; Vol. 4: Wedlock's the Devil; Vol. 5: So Late into the Night; Vol. 6: The Flesh is Frail; Vol. 7: Between Two Worlds; Vol. 8: Born for Opposition; Vol. 9: In the Wind's Eye; Vol. 10: A Heart for Every Fate; Vol. 11: For Freedom's Battle; Supplementary Volume : What Comes Uppermost](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/477/995/1592995477.0.m.jpg)
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Byron's Letters and Journals (12 Volume Set) Vol. 1: In My Hot Youth; Vol. 2: Famous in My Time; Vol. 3: Alas. The Love of Women; Vol. 4: Wedlock's the Devil; Vol. 5: So Late into the Night; Vol. 6: The Flesh is Frail; Vol. 7: Between Two Worlds; Vol. 8: Born for Opposition; Vol. 9: In the Wind's Eye; Vol. 10: A Heart for Every Fate; Vol. 11: For Freedom's Battle; Supplementary Volume : What Comes Uppermost
by Lord Byron / Leslie A. Marchand (Ed.)
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1974-1994
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, GBR
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SGD 417.24
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London: John Murray, 1974-1994. 1st Edition . Very Good/Very Good. 5.5 x 8.75 inches (14 x 22 cm). Dust jacket: Shelf wear and light rubbing. Some volumes have browning to the flaps. Preserved in removable jacket protectors. Overall jacket condition is Very Good. Book: Twelve volume set containing the complete letters and journals in 11 volumes issued between… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 417.24
![Pardon My Delay: Letters from Henry James to Bruce Richmond](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/452/995/1592995452.0.m.jpg)
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Pardon My Delay: Letters from Henry James to Bruce Richmond
by Henry James / Philip Horne
- Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1994
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, GBR
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SGD 29.55
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London: The Foundling Press, 1994. 1st Edition . Very Good Plus. 6 x 8.75 inches (15.5 x 22 cm). Limited edition, number 176 of 350 copies. Flexible card binding with paper title label to front board. Page edges untrimmed. Two tipped-in photographic portraits. Very clean text throughout. Overall condition is Very Good Plus. International postage will be less… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 29.55
![A Diary of Thomas de Quincey 1803](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/846/253/1592253846.0.m.jpg)
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A Diary of Thomas de Quincey 1803
by Thomas de Quincey / Horace A. Eaton (Ed.)
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1928
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, GBR
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SGD 53.89
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London: Noel Douglas, 1928. 1st Edition . Very Good. 7 x 9 inches (17.5 x 22.5 cm). Limited edition number 480 of 1500 copies. Beige buckram binding. Browning to spine and board edges. Outer and lower page edges untrimmed. Browning to page edges, foxing to top page edge. Good solid binding, very clean text throughout. Later gift inscription… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 53.89
![Reviews](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/817/253/1592253817.0.m.jpg)
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Reviews
by Oscar Wilde
- Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1908
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, GBR
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SGD 79.97
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London: Methuen and Co., 1908. 1st Edition . Fair. 6.5 x 8.5 inches (16.5 x 21.5 cm). First printing. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Cream buckram binding. Spine heavily browned. Marking and soiling to boards. Top page edge gilt, but dulled, other edges untrimmed and browned. Foxing and a couple of small stains to endpapers. 12 leaves within… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 79.97
![Lettere del Conte Baldessar Castiglione ora per la Prima Volta Date in Luce: con Annotazioni Storiche illustrate dall Abate Pierantonio Serassi (Complete 2 Volume Set)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/387/018/1589018387.0.m.jpg)
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Lettere del Conte Baldessar Castiglione ora per la Prima Volta Date in Luce: con Annotazioni Storiche illustrate dall Abate Pierantonio Serassi (Complete 2 Volume Set)
by Baldassar (Baldassare) Castiglione / Pierantonio (Pier Antonio) Serassi (Ed.)
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1769-1771
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, GBR
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SGD 869.25
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Padova (Padua): Presso Giuseppe Comino, 1769-1771. 1st Edition . Very Good. 7 x 9.5 inches (18 x 24 cm). Complete two volume set. Contemporary full vellum bindings. Volume I has wear to head of spine and top edge of front board. Red mottled page edges. Foxing to endpapers, browning to some pages. A few pencilled notes to margins,… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 869.25
![The Watchman: Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Volume 2 (Bollingen Series LXXV)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/965/401/1583401965.0.m.jpg)
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The Watchman: Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Volume 2 (Bollingen Series LXXV)
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Lewis Patton (Ed.)
- Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition Thus
- Published
- 1970
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, GBR
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SGD 97.36
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London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970. 1st Edition Thus . Very Good Plus/Very Good. 6 x 9.25 inches (15 x 23.5 cm). Slipcase: Title label to side panel. Slight fading and a few light marks. No splits or tears. . Overall case condition is Very Good. Book: The first complete reprint of Coleridge's short lived political periodical, originally… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 97.36
![The Spanish Journal of Elizabeth Lady Holland](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/242/962/1566962242.0.m.jpg)
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The Spanish Journal of Elizabeth Lady Holland
by Elizabeth Lady Holland (Elizabeth Vassall Fox, Baroness Holland) / Giles Fox-Strangways, 6th Earl of Ilchester (Ed.)
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- Used - Very Good Minus
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1910
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, GBR
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SGD 208.62
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London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1910. 1st Edition . Very Good Minus. 6.5 x 9.25 inches (16.5 x 23.5 cm). Blue-grey buckram binding with red panelled front board and spine. Short tear to head of spine, a few small marks to rear board. Good solid binding. Foxing to page edges and endpapers. Clean text throughout. Portrait frontis with… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 208.62
![The Croker Papers. The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, Secretary to the Admiralty From 1809 to 1830: (Complete 3 volume set)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/223/962/1566962223.0.m.jpg)
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The Croker Papers. The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, Secretary to the Admiralty From 1809 to 1830: (Complete 3 volume set)
by Louis J. Jennings
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1884
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, GBR
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SGD 104.31
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London: John Murray, 1884. 1st Edition . Very Good. 6.25 x 9 inches (15.5 x 23 cm). Complete three volume set. Brown cloth bindings with gilt armorial to front boards. Page edges untrimmed. Spines have slight wrinkling, a few light marks to boards. Scuff to outer page edges of Volume II. Good solid bindings. Foxing to blanks, very… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 104.31
![A Paladin of Philanthropy and Other Papers](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/123/962/1566962123.0.m.jpg)
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A Paladin of Philanthropy and Other Papers
by Austin Dobson
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1899
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, GBR
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SGD 45.20
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London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1899. 1st Edition . Very Good. 5.5 x 7.75 inches (14 x 19.5 cm). First printing. Red buckram binding. Top page edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Light foxing to page edges. Good solid binding, very clean text throughout. Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 5.5 x 7.75 inches (14 x 19.5 cm).… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 45.20
![The Journal of Elizabeth Lady Holland (1791-1811): (Complete 2 volume set) [SIGNED]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/466/742/1530742466.0.m.jpg)
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The Journal of Elizabeth Lady Holland (1791-1811): (Complete 2 volume set) [SIGNED]
by Elizabeth Lady Holland (Elizabeth Vassall Fox, Baroness Holland) / Giles Fox-Strangways, 6th Earl of Ilchester (Ed.)
- Condition
- Used - Very Good Minus
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1908
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, GBR
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SGD 260.78
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London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1908. 1st Edition . Very Good Minus. 6.5 x 9.25 inches (16 x 23.5 cm). Signed by Author. Complete two volume set. Green cloth bindings with bevelled board edges. Top page edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Spines darkened and have wear to head. Good solid bindings. Foxing to page edges and endpapers, scattered… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 260.78
![The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/766/363/1513363766.0.m.jpg)
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The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens
by Charles Dickens / Jenny Hartley (Ed.)
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 3rd Impression
- Published
- 2012
- ISBN
- 9780199591411
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, GBR
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SGD 29.55
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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 3rd Impression . Near Fine/Very Good. 6.25 x 9.5 inches (16 x 24 cm). Dust jacket: Light creasing to top edge. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Very Good. Book: Red cloth binding. Light marking to top page edge, otherwise excellent. Appears unread. Overall book condition is Near Fine.… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 29.55