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The Tiger's Eye, New York., 1949. First edition. Octavo. 26 pages. One of 200 numbered copies signed by the author. Cloth-backed marbled paper boards. Printed at the Banyan Press. Poems.Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to the noted American bibliophile Frederick Adams whose Rockwell Kent bookplate is on the front pastedown: "To Fred Adams with all good wishes - this souvenir of a Curator's 'past' - Herb Cahoon 3 May 1954". Cahoon was curator at the Pierpoint Morgan Library, while Adams was its director. He was also co-bibliographer of James Joyce. Laid in are a Christmas card to Adams with a photograph of the author in a top hat, and a folded poem card.Fine.
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Thanatopsis.
by CAHOON, Herbert.
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The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book.
by CALDECOTT, Randolph (illustrates).
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Frederick Warne, London., [c 1900]. New edition of a book originally published by Routledge in 1883. Oblong quarto. Four sections, each individually paginated: ''Where Are You Going, My Pretty Maid?''; ''Hey Diddle Diddle and Baby Bunting''; ''A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go''; ''The Fox Jumps over the Parson's Gate''. Numerous illustrations by Caldecott, many of which are full-page and in colour. Pictorial cloth.5 cm tear to rear free endpaper. Covers slightly rubbed and dusty. Very good.
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Selected Prose of Tobias Smollett.
by CALDER-MARSHALL, Arthur (edits).
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The Falcon Press, London., 1950. First edition. Octavo. 86 pages. Seven-page introduction by the editor. Boards.Presentation copy from the editor, inscribed by him on the front free endpaper: ''To Kay [sic] and Ronald from Arthur Calder-Marshall - Christmas, 1950''. The recipients are Kaye Webb and her then husband Ronald Searle.Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper slightly darkened at the spine.
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Through the Telephone Directory with Mel Calman.
by CALMAN, Mel.
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Putnam, London., 1962. First edition. Square octavo. Unpaginated. The first book by the great cartoonist, this being his own copy signed in pencil on the dedication page and with a few pages marked in pencil for reproduction on a smaller scale. ''Win a Calman'' spoof card laid in.Small spot to last couple of leaves, otherwise fine in very near fine dustwrapper. On the front flap of the dustwrapper is the ink stamp of The Workshop, Calman's business in Lamb's Conduit Street.
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Time and the Hunter.
by CALVINO, Italo.
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Jonathan Cape, London., 1970. First UK edition. Translated by William Weaver. Octavo. 152 pages.Small spot to fore-edge. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Near fine in very good indeed, faintly spotted dustwrapper, designed by Stanley Chapman, slightly rubbed at the edges and a bit tanned at the spine.
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Cambridge.
by CAMBRIDGE. TUKER, M.A.R. (text). MATTHISON, W. (illustrates).
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Adam and Charles Black, London., 1907. First edition. Octavo. pp xx, 394. Extending map. 77 colour plates, with captioned tissue guards, by William Matthison. Four pages of adverts at rear. Decorated blue cloth stamped in brown, lighter blue and gilt. Top edge gilt.Free endpapers tanned. Spine and top edge of rear cover faintly faded. Near fine.
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Poetry and Dialectic. An Inaugural Lecture.
by CAMERON, J.M.
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Leeds University Press., 1961. First edition. Octavo. pp [ii], 34. Sewn wrappers. The author was Professor of Philosophy at Leeds.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed by him on the title-page to a poet and his wife: ''Peter & Barbara Redgrove with best wishes - James Cameron''. Loosely inserted is an offprint of another poetry-related essay by Cameron, ''Poetic Imagination'', taken from the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 1962.Covers very slightly spotted. Spine a bit faded. Very good indeed.
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Love Poems from the Portuguese of Luis de Camoens.
by CAMOENS, Luis de. STRANGFORD, Lord Viscount (translates).
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Privately printed, San Francisco., 1886. First edition of this selection by B.B. Haggin. Royal octavo. 117 pages. Parchment wrappers lettered and decorated in gilt. Pages unopened. Out of a total edition of 100 this is one of 50 numbered copies on Japan paper.Presentation copy from the editor, inscribed by him on the first blank: ''To Lord Lytton - With the compliments of BB Haggin - San Francisco - May 14th 1886''.Spine a litte darkened and rubbed. Corners of covers slightly bumped. Very good. Scarce.
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Flowering Reeds - poems.
by CAMPBELL, Roy.
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Boriswood, London., 1933. First edition. Octavo. 47 pages. Twenty-five poems.Free endpapers partially browned. Covers slightly darkened at the edges. Near fine in very good indeed dustwrapper a bit darkened at the spine.
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Adamastor - Poems.
by CAMPBELL, Roy.
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Faber & Faber, London., 1930. First edition. One of 75 numbered copies signed by the author. Printed on handmade paper. Top edge gilt. Free endpapers a little spotted. Near fine in publisher's slipcase which is rubbed at edges.
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The Fall.
by CAMUS, Albert.
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Penguin Books, Harmondsworth., 1963. First Penguin edition. Translated by Justin O'Brien. Octavo. pp 108, [4] adverts. Pictorial wrappers with a cover illustration by Paul Hogarth. Fine.
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Tour of the Grand Junction, Illustrated in a Series of Engravings; with an Historical and Topographical Description of those Parts of the Counties of Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire, Through which the Canal passes.
by CANALS. HASSELL, John.
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J. Hassell, London., 1819. First edition. Octavo. pp viii, 147, [1], [iv] Index. Twenty-four hand-coloured aquatint plates drawn and probably engraved by Hassell. Fine 19th century binding of full tan calf with raised bands, floral gilt decorations to spine, gilt rules and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, two morocco title labels. Eighteen of the plates show views in which the canal features, often with locks or bridges. Hassell was taking advantage of both the widespread enthusiasm for this new means of transport and the beauty of the landscape surrounding this canal.Fine.
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Crowds and Power.
by CANETTI, Elias.
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Victor Gollancz, London., 1962. First U.K. edition. Translated by Carol Stewart. Octavo. 495 pages. Small ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Very good in very good, slightly rubbed dustwrapper with a few nicks.
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The Melting Man.
by CANNING, Victor.
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Heinemann, London., 1968. First edition. Octavo. pp [iv], 279. A thriller whose sultry temptresses are even more outlandishly named than Fleming's. Miss Panda Bubakar, anyone?Fine in near-fine dustwrapper slightly creased at the edges. Scarce in such presentable condition, for some reason.
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A Handbook on Hanging - Being a short Introduction to the fine Art of Execution, containing much useful Information on Neck-breaking, Throttling, Strangling, Asphyxiation, Decapitation and Electrocution; as well as Data and Wrinkles for Hangmen, an account of the late Mr. Berry's method of Killing and his working list of Drops; to which is added a Hangman's Ready Reckoner and certain other items of interest - All Very Proper to be Read and Kept in Every Family.
by CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. DUFF, Charles.
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The Bodley Head, London., 1938. New and enlarged edition of a book originally published in 1928. Octavo. 187 pages. Cloth with title-label. ''... perhaps the only example of truly Swiftian satire written in our times'' (from the blurb).Signed by the author on the title-page.Very near fine in near-fine dustwrapper designed by James Arnold.
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In Cold Blood - A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences.
by CAPOTE, Truman
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Random House, New York., 1965. First edition. Octavo. pp [xii], 343.Signed by the author on a leaf tipped in after the front free endpaper for members of Kroch and Brentano's "First Edition Circle". In addition, however, the author has also signed the title-page.Small faint abrasion at top edge of front free endpaper Near fine in near-fine dustwrapper (with correct first issue points) with a hint of rubbing to the edges.
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The Grass Harp.
by CAPOTE, Truman.
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Heinemann, London., 1952. First U.K. edition. Octavo. pp [viii], 191. The author's second novel.Contemporary (1953) ownership inscription on half-title page. Some slight fading to spine. Near fine in very good indeed, slightly nicked dustwrapper a bit tanned a the spine and with a small chip to tail of spine.
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The Apocalypse and the Shape of Things to Come.
by CAREY, Frances (edits).
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British Museum Press, London., 1999. First edition. Quarto. 352 pages. 295 illustrations, 95 of which are in colour. The depiction of the Apocalypse through a thousand years of western art. Essays by Frank Kermode, Norman Cohn, Jonathan Alexander and others. Published for an exhibition.Very near fine in very near fine dustwrapper.
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Poems, suggested chiefly by Scenes in Asia, Syria, and Greece, with Prefaces, extracted from the Author's Journal. Embellished with Two Views of the Source of the Scamander, and the Aqueduct over the Simois.
by CARLYLE, J.D.
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John White, London., 1805. First edition. Quarto. pp xx, 145 (last page misnumbered ''149''). Aquatint frontispiece and plate. Period binding of tan calf with marbled boards. J.D. Carlyle travelled as chaplain to Lord Elgin's mission to Constantinople. Contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Occasional foxing and light marginal staining. Front inner hinge splitting. Covers rubbed. Very good.
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Latter-Day Pamphlets.
by CARLYLE, Thomas.
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Chapman & Hall, London., 1850. First edition. Octavo. Period binding of full polished tan calf with gilt rules and blind decoration to edges of covers. The spine has been replaced, retaining the leather title-label. New endpapers. Marbled edges.These eight pamphlets were issued between February and August of 1850 and published in book form at the time of the final issue. They contain his views on various political and social questions and display a far from progressive attitude to the modern world.Some rubbing to edges of covers. Very good.
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