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St. Martin's Press, New York, 1978. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first American edition, issue the same year as the UK edition. 8vo. xxxi, 402pp. Blue rexine boards lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. A virtually fine copy of Reilly's exhaustive and essential Great War poetry bibliography, the writing of which took four years and won her a fellowship of the Library Association. No dust wrapper called for..
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English Poetry of the First World War. A Bibliography.
by CATHERINE W.REILLY.
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Eighty - Not Out. An interview, broadcast by the BBC, between Cliff Morgan and E.W.Swanton, OBE, recording his eightieth birthday on 12th February 1987. (SIGNED BY THE PRINTER / PUBLISHER)
by E.W.SWANTON.
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The Penmiel Press, Esher, 1987. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, designed and printed by Edward Burrett at the Penmiel Press on Basingwerk Parchment and limited to 110 numbered copies, signed by the printer-publisher [this being #108]. Slim 8vo. 15pp sewn into plain card wrappers with an integral marbled paper dust wrapper and a mounted title plate. With a photographic portrait frontispiece and a reproduction of an Eric Ravilious wood engraving. A virtually fine copy of this ten-page interview with the noted cricket journalist, followed by a brief note by the printer ("[he] is 'seventy-five - not out' and catching up fast!"), Uncommon. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..
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contributes his poem 'To A Silver Birch Tree' to an issue of the periodical 'Vision. The Magazine of the Gloucester Society of Artists'. Vol. 2, no. 1. Summer 1930.
by F.W.HARVEY
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Vision. The Magazine of the Gloucester Society of Artists. Vol. 2, no. 1. Summer, 1930. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition. Small 4to. 36pp stapled into card wrappers, the staples rusted and the wrappers very slightly spotted and faded. Some occasional quite light spotting, and a light crease to one corner. Faint name of former owner pencilled to the head of the front wrapper. A very good copy of this uncommon periodical of (mostly) verse and art which includes a tipped-in frontispiece by A.Seaton White, and further decorations by A.C.Hambly, Phyllis Denton, A.E.Phelps, E.M.Tyndale and others..
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A Gloucestershire Lad at Home and Abroad. Poems. With a preface by Colonel J.H.Collett.
by F.W.HARVEY.
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Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., London, 1916. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 8vo. xv, 64pp. Original publisher's blue cloth with a lettered and decorated title plate pasted to the upper board. The cloth lightly soiled and discoloured in places, with some wear to the backstrip ends. Free endpapers toned. Contemporary former owner name and date inked to the head of the title page. A touch of spotting to three or four preliminary leaves, and to the margins of several concluding leaves. Some uneven off-set toning to the dedication leaf from where a slip of paper was at some point stored. A good copy of the author's uncommon first book, published in September 1916 shortly after his capture by German troops whilst carrying out a reconnaissance patrol. Harvey spent the remainder of the war as a P.O.W. Fifty-seven poems and prose-poems, most of which were written at the front and first published in the 'Fifth Gloucester Gazette' (the first paper…
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Gloucestershire Friends: Poems from a German Prison Camp. With an introduction by the Right Rev. Bishop Frodsham.
by F.W.HARVEY.
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Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1917. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Sidgwick & Jackson, London 1917. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 71pp. Blue cloth with a tanned, chaed and partially illegible paper spine label, and a pristine spare tipped-in at the rear, as called for. Free endpapers fractionally spotted, and with just a little bruising to the backstrip ends. A very good copy. No dust wrapper. Fifty-three poems, the author's second book. Frederick William Harvey, "the Laureate of Gloucestershire", was born in Hartpury, Gloucestershire and educated at the King's School, where he formed a close friendship with Ivor Gurney. He joined the 5th Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment, four days after war was declared, and won the Distinguished Conduct Medal in August 1915. Harvey was captured in August 1916 while carrying out a reconnaissance patrol and spent the remainder of the war as a POW. His first book, 'A Gloucestershire Lad At Home and Abroad', was…
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The Evangelists. A novel.
by G.W.TARGET.
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Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., London, 1958. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 192pp. Blue cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. A narrow strip of very light toning to the front free endpaper, and a touch of spotting to the final text leaf. Contemporary former owner name and date inked to the front endpaper. A very good copy in slightly rubbed, chafed and dust soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a short tear to the base of the front panel. The Anglo-Irish author's first novel..
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The Tiger's Back. A novel.
by J.W.MASON.
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Robert Hale Ltd., London, 1957. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 187pp. Black cloth lettered in green at the spine and with a small silver-stamped vignette. Some uneven toning to the front free endpaper. Very good indeed in chafed, spotted, rubbed and a little nicked non-price-clipped dust wrapper. An uncommon crime novel..
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The Story of a Red-Deer. With decorations by Dorothy Burroughes.
by J.W.FORTESCUE
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The Gregynog Press, Newtown, 1935. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first edition with these illustrations, which comprise a title page decoration and eleven delightful colour chapter header decorations. Number 43 of 250 hand-set copies, printed and bound at the Gregynog Press. 4to. 125pp. Terracotta-brown cloth lettered in gold at the spine with a gilt-stamped stag vignette to the upper board. Cloth a little marked and soiled, with some rubbing to the spine ends and several corner tips. Some spotting, mostly marginal, to the final eight leaves, and a small area of browning to the base of the backstrip, suggesting a small sticker was once in situ. A very nice copy, particularly crisp internally. Former owner name neatly inked to the front free endpaper. Originally published in 1897, Fortescue's story is told from the point-of-view of an Exmoor deer and was written for his nine-year-old nephew. Thirty years later Fortescue would pen the introduction to another celebrated Devon nature…
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Regions of the Imagination. The Development of British Rural Fiction.
by W.J.KEITH. (Thomas Hardy, D.H.Lawrence, R.D.Blackmore, Emily Bronte, J.C.Powys &c.).
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University of Toronto Press, 1988. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 199pp. Beige cloth with white lettering to the spine. Covers bumped at two corners. A very nice copy in dust wrapper, faded at the spine panel and with a single short tear and a minimal area of loss to the front panel. Chapters on Hardy, Mrs Gaskell, J.C.Powys, D.H.Lawrence, R.D.Blackmore, Sir Walter Scott, Emily Bronte &c..
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Home in Ham. With drawings by Gay Thomas. (INSCRIBED)
by R.W.THOMPSON
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Arrowsmith, Bristol, 1938. Book. Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition (never reprinted) - this copy inscribed by the author on the title page to an un-named recipient. 8vo. 240pp. Blue ribbed cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with a small gilt-stamped vignette to the upper board. With map-illustrated endpapers and various plates and illustrations in the text. Cloth a little marked and chafed at extremities, with a five millimetre nick to the base of the upper board and a little resulting creasing. An area of miscellaneous staining to the top edge, encroaching just a fraction of upper margins of occasional text leaves, and some very light sporadic fox-spotting and margin soiled. Quite a nice crisp copy of an uncommon book in the uncommon pictorial dust wrapper, non-price-clipped, but a little tanned and spotted with an inch of loss from the head of the spine panel and a fraction or two more from various extremities. A delightful portrayal of the North Devon village…
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Wartime Memories 1914-18. Poems.
by R.W.MOSS.
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Printed for the author by Regency Press, London, 1976. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 8vo. 40pp stapled into glossy wrappers. In virtually fine state. Twelve Great War poems penned and privately printed by Robert William Moss, Lance-Corporal 9th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps and later Second Lieutenant with the Machine Gun Corps, repeatedly decorated for gallantry. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..
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The Mixed Division (T). A novel.
by R.W.CAMPBELL
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Hutchinson, London, 1916. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 320pp + xxxii publisher's catalogue at rear. Brown cloth, gilt lettered and ruled at the spine and with a double blind-stamped border to the upper board. Covers a little soiled and marked. Endpapers browned. A good, bright copy. No dust wrapper. "With the Publisher's Compliments" inkstamp to the title page. A novel of the Great War, based upon experiences with a Lowland Scottish Territorial Regiment..
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A Biography of the Nuffield Foundation
by RONALD W.CLARK
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Longman, London, 1972. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 224pp. Two-tone cloth with blue lettering to the spine. A fine copy in very slightly marked non-price-clipped dust wrapper with a single short closed tear to the front panel. Attractive former owner bookplate. Two newspaper clippings laid-in..
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Guests of the Unspeakable. The Odyssey of an Australian Airman - Being a Record of Captivity and Escape in Turkey. With a foreword by Lieut.-General John Monash and a preface by Major-General G.V.Kemball.
by T.W.WHITE.
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John Hamilton Ltd., London [1928]., 1928. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing), preceding the Australian edition by four years. 8vo. 320pp. Dark blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board, and with the publisher's blue top edge stain. With twenty-six black and white captioned photographs and a three-panel folding colour map tipped to a blank concluding leaf. A touch of light wear to several extremities, a little toning to the free endpapers, and a touch of light spotting to occasional leaf margins. A very good copy. No dust wrapper. Uncommon in this correct first edition state..
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contributes his poem 'A Ballad of Thieves' to the second issue of the periodical 'The Dome. An Illustrated Monthly Magazine and Review of Literature, Music, Architecture and the Graphic Arts'. New series, Vol. 1, No. 2. November 1898.
by W.W.GIBSON
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The Unicorn Press, London November, 1898. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo. Card wrappers, a little rubbed and nicked at the yapped edges with some darkening and just a little chipping to the spine. A good bright copy of this very early Gibson contribution, preceding the publication of his first book by four years. With a laid-in photogravure after Holbein's painting 'The Merchant George Gisze', and a laid-in colour portrait of Henry Irving by Gordon Craig. This issue also includes contributions from T.W.H.Crosland (four fables), Albrecht Altdorfer (five woodcuts and engravings), Christine Rossetti ('Mirage'. A song set to music by Harold Thorp), Louis Barsac (his poem 'Vision') and A.H.Holmes ('The Fancy and the Fact'. A story)..
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Distant Water. The Fate of the North Atlantic Fisherman (with UK edition dust wrapper)
by WILLIAM W.WARNER
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Atlantic / Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1983. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 338pp. Paper-covered red cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Map-illustrated endpapers. Former owner bookplate to the front pastedown. A virtually fine copy in very good dust wrapper (from the English edition), just a little rubbed at the head and base of the spine panel..
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Wildtrack. A poem.
by JOHN WAIN
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Macmillan, London, 1965. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 50pp. Pictorial boards featuring a striking design by Victor Reinganum, repeated on the dust wrapper. A fine copy in virtually fine price-clipped dust wrapper designed by Victor Reinganum..
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The Important Man.
by JEFFREY WAINWRIGHT
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Northern House Pamphlet Poets, Leeds, 1970. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Eleven poems by Wainwright stapled into very slightly soiled card wrappers and issued as the fourteenth number in the Northern House Pamphlet Poets series. Very good. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..
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White Egrets. Poems
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Faber, London, 2010. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 89pp. Blue boards lettered in silver at the spine. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper..
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Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays.
by DEREK WALCOTT
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Jonathan Cape, London, 1972. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK edition (first printing), issued two years after the considerably more common US edition. 8vo. 326pp. Orange cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with the publisher's black top edge dye and pictorial endpapers. A small area of light miscellaneous staining to the base of the upper board. A virtually fine copy in slightly rubbed and dust soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper, designed by Bill Botten, with a small area of corresponding internal staining. Former owner name and date inked to the head of the front free endpaper. A one-page foreword by the author precedes 'What the Twilight Says: An Overture', plus his plays 'The Sea at Dauphin', 'Ti-Jean and His Brothers', 'Malcochon, or The Six in the Rain' and 'Dream on Monkey Mountain'..
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