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THE WORLD CRISIS. 1911-1914, 1915, 1916-1918 (2 Volumes), The Aftermath & The Eastern Front
by CHURCHILL. WINSTON SPENCER
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- 1923
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Thornton Butterworth Limited. London. 1923 - 31. FIRST BRITISH EDITION SET. 6 volumes, complete. All volumes are first impressions. Large 8vo (9.5 x 6.4 inches). Contains several maps, plans and facsimiles of letters and documents, many folding. Some light foxing to the first couple of pages of volume1. Volume 2 has some foxing to the fore edges. Volume 6 with… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE COMMANDMENTS.
by BRABY. DOROTHEA. Arranges and Illustrates
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- 1946
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£450.00
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F. Lewis Ltd. Leigh-on-sea, Essex. 1946. FIRST EDITION. Tall 8vo. (10.6 x 7.3 inches). 44pp. Illustrated with 12 striking full page wood engraved plates, comprising the title, the ten commandments and the greatest commandment, by Braby. Limited edition of 1025 copies on mould made paper, with only 1000 for sale. Finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere in attractive full red polished calf… Read more about this item Item Price
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ANIMAL FARM. A fairy story.
by ORWELL. GEORGE
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- 1945
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Secker & Warburg. London. 1945. FIRST EDITION. 1st impression. 8vo. (7.3 x 5 inches). This is an ex school library copy but the only evidence of this is the two line school name in ink on the title page with the number 126 below written by hand. Overall a very good copy in recent fine leather binding of full dark… Read more about this item Item Price
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A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN.
by WOOLF. VIRGINIA
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- 1929
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Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, London. 1929. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo. (7.2 x 4.8 inches). Finely bound in recent full brown morocco. Spine with raised bands. Red title label, gilt. Compartments ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt. Single gilt ruled border on boards. Top edge gilt. A Lovely copy. Item Price
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Printed complete from the text of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Steevens, and revised from the last editions. 1785. ---- Bound with; Annotations by Sam. Johnson and Geo. Steevens and the various commentators, upon Midsummer Night's Dream, written by Will. Shakespeare. 1787
by SHAKESPEARE. WILLIAM
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- 1785
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John Bell. London. 1785. Two works in one volume. Early and first edition. 8vo. (5.8 x 3.6 inches). First work; 90pp. second work: 99pp. Some brown offsetting from the glue used in the binding to the first and last couple of leaves, otherwise generally very good copies in an attractive late 18th century leather binding of half dark brown calf.… Read more about this item Item Price
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POEMS. With an introduction by Alice Meynell. - The Red Letter Poets
by BROWNING. ROBERT
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- 1903
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£575.00
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Blackie and Son Limited. London. No date. Circa 1903. Early reprint. 8vo. (6 x 4 inches). Mono portrait frontis, from a photograph by J. Caswall Smith. xi, 277pp. Text in red and black and decorated with small floral head pieces in red. Attractive early leather binding of full dark green morocco, although much of the leather has now toned to… Read more about this item Item Price
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SONNETS. Edited and with an introduction and commentary by Martin Seymour-Smith
by SHAKESPEARE. WILLIAM
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- 1967
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£550.00
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Heinemann. London. 1967. Reprint. This edition originally published in 1963. 8vo. (7.2 x 4.9 inches). vi, 194pp. Finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere in attractive full red calf binding. Spine with raised bands, each decorated with gilt wavy lines. Compartments double ruled and decorated in gilt. Blue morocco label, gilt. Board edges and turn-ins with decorative floral gilt tooling. All edges gilt.… Read more about this item Item Price
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BLACK BEAUTY. His Grooms and Companions. The autobiography of a Horse. Translated from the original Equine by Anna Sewell
by SEWELL. ANNA
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- 1977
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£850.00
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David Paradine Developments Limited. London. 1977. FACSIMILE OF FIRST EDITION. 8vo.(6.8 x 4.2 inches). Limited edition, one of only 100 copies, this number 17, numbered and signed by Champion British Equestrian Lucinda Prior-Palmer, later Green, to mark the centenary of the book's first publication. Finely bound in publishers delux leather binding of full tan morocco. Spine with raised bands, ruled… Read more about this item Item Price
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MASTERMAN READY; Or, The Wreck of the Pacific. Written for young people. With illustrations by Fred Pegram and an introduction by David Hannay
by MARRYAT. CAPTAIN FREDERICK. - Pegram. Fred, Illustrates
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- 1928
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Macmillan and co. London. 1928. Reprint of 1897 edition. 8vo. (7.4 x 4.9 inches). Illustrated with 39 full page line illustrations by Pegram. Tissue guard to the frontis. Creasing to the top outer corner of 20 leaves, otherwise a vary good copy in a fine early leather binding by Riviere and son. Half blue calf. Spine with raised bands, the… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE FABLES OF AESOP. Selected, told anew and their history traced by Joseph Jacobs
by AESOP. ; HEIGHWAY. RICHARD. Illustrates
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- 1894
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£600.00
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Macmillan & Co. Ltd. London. 1894. FIRST HEIGHWAY EDITION, Large paper issue. One of only 100 copies issued. Large 8vo. (10.5 x 7.4 inches), With notes and an index. Beautifully illustrated throughout with over 100 fine engravings by Heighway. Tissue guard to the frontis. Some minor offsetting to the blank endpapers otherwise a fine and clean copy throughout. In the… Read more about this item Item Price
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TRAVELS INTO SEVERAL REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD by LEMUEL GULLIVER. First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several ships. With a preface by Henry Craik
by SWIFT. JONATHAN. ; BROCK. CHARLES. E. Illustrates
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- 1894
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Macmillan and Co. London. 1894. FIRST BROCK EDITION, Large paper issue. One of only 110 copies issued. Large 8vo. (10.5 x 7.4 inches). One hundred fine line illustrations by Brock. Tissue guard to the frontis. Some minor offsetting to the blank endpapers otherwise a fine and clean copy throughout. In the original publishers burgundy cloth binding with printed paper label… Read more about this item Item Price
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WINE IN PEACE AND WAR.
by WAUGH. EVELYN. ; WHISTLER. REX. Illustrates
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- First edition.
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- 1947
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Saccone & Speed Limited. London. 1947. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (9 x 6 inches). Two colour illustrations by Whistler within the book plus colour decoration on boards showing three men cowering behind a wine barrel. Both pastedown endpapers browned by the binders glue, as usual. Some light creasing to the very top of the spine but generally a fine bright copy. Item Price
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LITTLE.COM.
by STEADMAN. RALPH
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- 2000
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£75.00
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Andersen Press. London. 2000. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED ON HALF TITLE BY STEADMAN. 4to. (11.6 x 8.8 inches). Fine copy in fine colour printed boards. Item Price
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THE ART JOURNAL ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF THE GREAT EXHIBITION 1851.
by GREAT EXHIBITION
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- 1851
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George Virtue, London. 1851. FIRST EDITION. Folio. (13.2 x 10 inches). Packed with 100's of detailed mono line drawings, the work provides not only a catalogue of the Great Exhibition but its history. A very good copy in attractive early leather binding of full red morocco. Spine with raised bands, the compartments ruled, lettered and fully decorated in gilt. Elaborate… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE BOYS' BOOK OF CRICKET. With a foreword by P. F. warner.
by HENLEY. F. A. H
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- 1936
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£175.00
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G. Bell and Sons. Ltd. London. 1936. Reprint of title originally published in 1924. 8vo. (7.4 x 5 inches). Illustrated with 24 mono photographic plates. A bright and clean copy bound, by G. F. Laurence binders of london, in early half burgundy calf. Spine with five raised band. Compartments ruled in blind and lettered and decorated in gilt. Red cloth… Read more about this item Item Price
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POLYMETIS: Or, an Enquiry concerning the Agreement between the Works of the Roman Poets, and the Remains of the Antient Artists. Being an attempt to illustrate them mutually from one another. In ten books
by SPENCE. The Rev'd. Mr. (Joseph)
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- third
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- 1774
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£800.00
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1774. The third edition. Folio. (16.8 x 11.3 inches). Portrait frontispiece; 37 full and 4 double page copperplates (including 4 double-page) and 17 fine engravings in the text by Boitard. A clean and wide margined copy in contemporary full tree calf binding. Spine with red title label, lettered ruled and decorated in gilt. Spine ruled and fully decorated in gilt.… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE SURVEY OF LONDON. Contayning the Orignall, Increase, Moderne Estate, and Government of that City, methodically set downe. With a memoriall of those famouser acts of charity, which for publike and pious uses have beene bestowed by many worshipfull citizens and benefactors. Begunne first by the paines and industry of Iohn Stovv, in the yeere 1598. Afterwards inlarged by the care and diligence of A[nthony] M[unday] in the yeere 1618. And now completely finished by the study and labour of A. M., H[enry] D[yson] and others. This present yeere 1633. Whereunto, besides many additions (as appeares by the contents) are annexed divers alphabeticall tables; especially two: The first, an index of things. The second, a concordance of names
by STOW. JOHN
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- 1633
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Printed by Elizabeth Pursloww, and are to be sold by Nichlas Bourne, at his shop at the South Entrance of the Royall Exchange. 1633. Folio, in 6's. (13.5 x 8.9 inches).Woodcut coats-of-arms frontispiece, 8 unnumbered leaves, 939 pages, 14 unnumbered leaves (the 2 tables). Finely illustrated with coats of arms and decorative head and tail pieces. Frontis and Title pages… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE COMPLETE WORKS OF LEWIS CARROLL. With an introduction by Alexander Woollcott and the illustrations by John Tenniel
by CARROLL. LEWIS. ; ( Dodgson. Charles L )
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- First edition.
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- 1939
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£400.00
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Nonesuch Library. London. 1939. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.1 inches). 1165pp. Finely bound in recent full red morocco leather. Spine with five raised bands. Spine compartments ruled and decorated with gilt stamped Mad Hatter and Playing card devices. Single gilt ruled border to boards. Top edge gilt. A fine copy. Item Price
£400.00
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THE INIMITABLE JEEVES.
by WODEHOUSE. P. G
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- 1923
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Herbert Jenkins. London. 1923. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. First state with only 10 titles listed on the advert leaf opposite the title page. Neat previous owner name, dated 1923, on the front blank pastedown endpaper. Some spotting to the page edges but overall a very good copy in the original publishers green cloth with dark green lettering and illustrations. Item Price
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THE COMPLETE WORKS OF LEWIS CARROLL. With an introduction by Alexander Woollcott and the illustrations by John Tenniel
by CARROLL. LEWIS. ; ( Dodgson. Charles L )
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- First edition.
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- 1939
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£400.00
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Nonesuch Library. London. 1939. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.1 inches). 1165pp. Finely bound in recent full deep red morocco leather. Spine with five raised bands. Black leather title label, gilt. Spine compartments ruled and decorated with gilt stamped Mad Hatter, March Hare, and Playing card devices. Single gilt ruled border to boards. Top edge gilt. A fine copy. Item Price
£400.00