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London : Smith, Elder 1830 Sm. 8vo. 230 pp. Frontispiece by George Cruikshank. Hardback - brown cloth with paper spine label. Spine faded, spine ends fraying, cover rubbed, label chipped. Seems to have been rebound over original boards. Lacks free endpapers, fairly crude pastedowns. Publisher's list for 1835 bound in at front of volume. A bit shaken otherwise text VG.

PETER OWEN, 1965. VG/VG no inscriptions. price-clipped. lovely clean copy. 8vo Bibliography of African- English Literature

New York: Twayne, 1969 G/G. 1st edition. no inscription. not price-clipped. ex-libris with stamps a few pages have underlinings. a better reading copy. This study looks at Huxley's fiction, and his essays and polemics such as The Devils of Loudun Twayne's English Authors Series

The Clarendon Press Oxford University Press 1967 Near fine/VG (clean unclipped dj lightly rubbed top of spine, dark blue cloth with gilt titles on spine,no marks or inscriptions, internally fine) octavo 200pp. Reprint same year as first printing. The work of Andre Gide. Literary criticism.

The Clarendon Press Oxford University Press 1967 Near fine/VG (clean unclipped dj lightly rubbed top of spine, dark blue cloth with gilt titles on spine,no marks or inscriptions, internally fine) octavo 200pp. Reprint same year as first printing. The work of Andre Gide. Literary criticism.

A C Fifield London 1910 G (no dj, worn red card covers with red titles, darkened on spine and all edges worn, pencil annotations on inside of back cover, printed on thick paper with rough cut edges, few light marks pre-title page, the pages are very clean and bright but a few passages neatly underlined in blue pencil, central hinge cracked but binding remaining firm) 16mo 106pp plus 4pp publisher's adverts.

Running Press Philadelphia 1992 Near fine/G (transparent protective wrapper over very bright clean clipped dj with large clean cut across centre of back cover, clean bright tan cloth with bronze lettering on spine, a very crisp bright square copy in excellent conditon but two pale smudges on front free endpaper where small marks have been erased) square large octavo 198pp. First printing. Fifteen colour plates by the Brothers Hildebrant.

McGraw-Hill New York 1950 G (no dj, blue paper-covered boards with dark blue cloth backstrip and gilt titles on spine, both boards are heavily worn/faded at bottom corner and lightly discoloured top edges, all corners are heavily rubbed and worn, light browning to outside page edges, internally the contents are clean and bright with no marks or inscriptions and the binding very firm) large octavo 370pp. First edition. Now first published from the original manuscript prepared for the press, with introduction and notes by Frederick A. Pottle. Preface by Christopher Morley. Map of London 1761` on endpapers, 2 b/w plates of pages of the original manuscript.

Oxford university press, 1915 VG no dj. spine is sunned and rounded to both ends - but no loss. tiny indentation mark to spine. blue boards are clean and bright with the odd speck of discolouration. not unsigghtly. tightly bound. no inscriptions. clean tidy copy. tissue-guarded image to front of bret hart

Faber and Faber, London, 1995 VG/VG near fine gift quality.1st edition. not price-clipped. no inscriptions. lovely clean copy. The Australian novelist's first children's book

James Blackwood and Co London undated ?c1900 G (no dj, patterned green cloth boards with black bands across corners and gilt titles and black/gilt bands on spine, front and back hinges cracked but contents remaining tight, brown endpapers, gilt top edge to pages, neat signature pre-title page, slight spotting prelims and last couple of pages and the odd margin) large octavo 403pp. New edition. Comprising the essays, plays and poetical works, with a memoir. Illustrated with woodcuts and facsimile of a characteristic and humerous letter og Goldsmith's to a friend.

london Dean & son 1930s? VG/G Octavo pp248. Minor bumping to the top and bottom of spine boards, and corners, but otherwise clean and bright red boards with black titling. DJ is worse for wear in that there are small areas of los to each corner, and a larger area of about 15% of loss from a tear to the front of the dj. The warship though is still intact!. One of tghe colour plates is loose to one half, but is attached securely. - just only G. no inscriptions or markings, and no spotting or foxing. A classic adventure tale. priced to reflect condition of dj.

london john shaw 1900s ? G 1st edition. small octavo. red boards with artwork.No significant problem with book, save a little area of fraying to top and bottom of spine, but no loss and some rounding of corrners. undated but carries neat inscription for 1902 at front

Ward Lock undated green boards with gilt titling to spine. light wear to edges. ffeps touch browned with some spots. no annotations. heavy title.

london thomas nelson & co undated but with 1916 plate G. a reading copy only. no dj. boards are wrinkled/creased and worn to edges. spine is lightly sprung. endpapers are grubby. no dj . boards have rounding to corners, but text is clean, if a bit browned.

Denham House, 1981 VG/VG. 'First Edition Cecil King has kept a commonplace book for fifty years, noting in it amusing, delightful, peculiar and profound quotations. these results of reading a wide variety of authors of several nationalities and listening to people all over the world are impressive, unusual, and entertaining. The reader is bound to discover new curiosities as well as to be reminded of favourite authors

longmans green and co 1874 VG no dj. small octavo. red boards have isolated light/tarnish spots, with some wrinkling to edges and back - nothing unsightly. all tightly bound. gilt titling to spine is a little dulled. small inscription to reverse of front board dated 1877, and there is a scratching-out on part of it, showing white beneath. internally a clean crisp copy though the ffeps and pre-title page shows edge-browning and some foxing. all consistent with its 100 plus years age

Collins, 1983 VG/VG. 'First Edition A biography of Connolly written through the use of his journals and memoirs. Pp 304. Index. 8vo

Secker and Warburg London 1954 Vg/Fair (clean unclipped dj with few chips and small tears to bottom edge, two1" tears to front of wrapper, clean light brown cloth with black lettering on spine,a very good clean bright copy with small neat ink annotation back free endpaper, no other marks or inscriptions) octavo 248pp. First edition. The life and work of Daniel Defoe, with full analysis of Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders.

hamish hamilton london 2001 VG/VG (excellent clean unpriceclipped dj . no inscriptions ) octavo. 1st edition . 12 short stories evoking life in many of its myriad and often strange facets. a meditation and a humourous aside