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FEILING, KEITH: The Life of Neville Chamberlain:
Macmillan & Co., Ltd. London 1946 (1st.).
Tall 8vo. Blue cloth gt. 9 photo.plates, including portraits, facs.letter and music. Front cover tiny bit marked. Top corner of 3 pages have a crease. Top edge slightly foxed. Very good ( only the inside flap of the dustwrapper is present). His surviving papers afford rich historical material extending from his earliest travel diaries down to the narrative of his interviews with Hitler, and the extinction of all his hopes in the outbreak of war (dw blurb).
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15.00 GBP
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Kitton, Fred G. (ed): Dickensiana. A Bibliography of the Literature Relating to Charles Dickens and His Writings.
Haskell House 1971
In original beige cloth covers with silver to spine. 512pp. Ills.with b/w portrait frontispiece. Facsimile edition of 1886 edition. In very good condition. Spine slightly bumped at top and bottom. Mild foxing to top edge. Else clean and tight copy. Facsimile reprint of 1886 edition, reference book for critical essays and reviews, poetical tributes, dramas and musical works relating to Dickens, anthologies, plagiarisms. Much interesting material is included in the extensive notes to the items described.
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16.00 GBP
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Langridge, Derek: John Cowper Powys, A Record of Achievement.
The Library Association 1966 1st edition
In original green cloth covers with gilt to spine. With dustwrapper. 256pp. Ills.with b/w frontispiece, several b/w photographs and some facsimiles. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper ( Slight rubbing to edges with small chips to top and bottom of spine. Corners a little rubbed.) Not price clipped. Small marks to covers. Presentation inscription from G Wilson Knight on front endpaper. Else clean and tight copy. A comprehensive record of Powy’s work, a guide for students and collectors and a foundation for further bibliographical investigations. Primary and secondary bibliography, with much other material of interest. Mwellown’s comment: "An accurate and virtually complete list, arranged so eccentrically as to prevent one’s using it" is a little harsh, evn if the dustjacket blurbwriter had felt obliged to mention "..in its method of presentation it will be of interest to all students of bibliography".
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25.00 GBP
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NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM: Catalogue of the Library, Voyages & Travel, Volume 1.
London: HMSO. 1968
4to. In blue cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. With dustwrapper. 403pp. With 2 fold out maps at back. A few b/w line drawings in text. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; rubbed at edges, small tear at top front edge. Small marks). Not price clipped. Small marks on edges. Else a clean and tight copy. Extensive and annotated catalogue of the extensive collection of travel books in the Maritime Museum.
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16.00 GBP
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NORTON, J.E.: Edward Gibbon A bibliography of the works of Edward Gibbon.
Oxford University Press. 1970
Tall 8vo. In black cloth covers with gilt to spine. With dustwrapper. 256pp.With fold out illustrations of Gibbon’s work. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Spine slightly faded. Slightly rubbed. Price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. In the main confined to editions published before 1838. Originally published in 1940.
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QUAYLE, ERIC: R.M.Ballantyne. A Bibliography of first editions.
Dawsons. 1968 1st edition.
Size 5.75 x 9.0 inches. In green cloth covers with gilt to spine. With dustwrapper. 128pp. With b/w portrait plates and illustrations. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; a couple of small tears to top edge. Price clipped). Mild foxing to edges. Else a clean and tight copy. Definitive bibliography of the first editions of R.M.Ballantyne.
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18.00 GBP
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