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Image for Elegant Extracts: or, useful and entertaining pieces of poetry, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: being similar in design to Elegant Extracts in Prose.

Elegant Extracts: or, useful and entertaining pieces of poetry, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: being similar in design to Elegant Extracts in Prose.

By: N/A

Price: £60.00

Publisher: London. 1796:

Seller ID: 70871

Size 5.75 x 9.5 inches. Re-bound in grey hard card covers with gilt to maroon morocco title label on leather spine. New endpapers. In very good condition. Small marks to front. Occasional small marks and foxing spots. Else a clean and tight copy. 544pp. With illustrated main title page. Anthology of ‘improving’ verse, for young people, from the end of the 18th century. Includes works by, Dryden, Johnson, Gay, Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton and many others.
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The Poetical Works of the Rev.George Crabbe. With Letters and Journals, and Life. By his Son. In eight volumes.

By: (CRABBE):

Price: £250.00

Publisher: John Murray. 1851:

Seller ID: 61650

8 vols.; 8vo. In light brown full calf leather binding with gilt to spine and tan and green morocco title labels. Raised bands. Marbled edges and endpapers. In very good condition. Spines slightly faded and rubbed. Light scratches and small marks to covers. Owner’s bookplate to front endpaper. A couple have small pencil marks in margins. There are a couple of contemporary inserts loose at front . Else very clean and tight copies. Eight volumes. With b/w engraved frontis and vignette main title page. Volume one is The Life. The remaining volumes have the poems and letters, etc.
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Blackie's English-Study Readers. Fifth Reader. Book V. Henty, Hardy, Conrad, Kipling, Dickens, etc.

By: (HENTY), VARIOUS:

Price: £65.00

Publisher: London & Glasgow, Blackie & Son. n.d ca 1938:

Seller ID: 77303

Hardback, approx 8 x 5 inches. In dark grey cloth with dark green lettering and blue design to front board. In very good condition. Corners, edges and ends of spine rubbed, rubbing to boards. Slight darkening to endpapers with inscription to front “Sylvia M. Gee 9/2/38.” Some small spots to outer page edges, slight darkening to top of title page. Colour plates clean and bright. Inside pages very clean and tight throughout. 256pp. 8 Colour plates and 14 full-page b&w illustrations.
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A Fiery Eye. Signed copy.

By: ALCOCK, FRANK:

Price: £9.00

Publisher: Piscean Press. Portland, Dorset. 2000 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 65771

5.5” x 8.5”. In illustrated limp card covers with red lettering to spine and front. In near fine condition. Author’s dedicatory inscription to title page. A very clean and tight copy. 80pp. 79 poems from Frank Alcock.
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Images.

By: ALDINGTON, RICHARD:

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London. The Egoist Ltd. n.d ca 1925:

Seller ID: 58227

Sm 8vo. In brown hard card covers with green cloth spine. Paper title labels to spine and front. In very good condition. In removable plastic cover. Spine slightly darkened and covers slightly marked. Owners’ nameplate to front endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. 60pp. “These poems are taken from “Images” (published around 1915 and now out of print), and the various Imagist anthologies which are also being allowed to lapse. I have rescued one or two poems from periodicals. There are also one or two newer poems which did not quite fit into my other two books”.
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Paris Symphony. With a foreword by John Cowper Powys.

By: ANDERSON, JOHN REDWOOD:

Price: £2.00

Publisher: London. George G.Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1947 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 73995

Size 5.5 x 8.0 inches. In blue cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly faded. Price clipped). Else a clean and tight copy. 87pp. With portrait frontis. Poems in four Movements.
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Poems. Three volumes. Vol I, Early Poems, Narrative Poems and Sonnets; Vol II, Lyric and Elegiac poems; Vol III, Dramatic and Later Poems.

By: ARNOLD, MATTHEW:

Price: £150.00

Publisher: Macmillan & Co. 1888:

Seller ID: 72599

Size 5.0 x 7.5 inches. In brown morocco bindings with gilt to spines. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. In very good condition. Spines slightly darkened. Small marks and handling marks. Occasional small marks and foxing spots. Vol I has marks to first blank page. Else a clean and tight set. Three volumes. Poems by Matthew Arnold.
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On the Frontier. A Melodrama in three acts.

By: AUDEN, W.H. / ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHER:

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Faber and Faber Limited. 1939 2nd imp.:

Seller ID: 73983

Size 6.0 x 9.0 inches. In maroon cloth boards with gilt to spine. With dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly darkened. Handling marks. Not price clipped). Small marks to boards. Mild foxing to edges. Slight browning to endpapers. Neat inscription to front endpaper, dated 1943. 123pp. Play in three acts by W.H.Auden and Christopher Isherwood.
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Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Illustrated by HUGH THOMSON. With an Introduction by Austin Dobson. Two Volumes in One.

By: AUSTEN, JANE:

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co., 1951:

Seller ID: 78869

Hardback, 7 x 4.5 inches. Red cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Top red edging. In paper dustwrapper with red lettering. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (DW darkened, some minor handling marks.) Cloth slightly rubbed at edges else clean and bright. Endpapers partially darkened, a couple of negligible spots else a very clean and tight copy. 444pp. With full-page B&W illustrations by HUGH THOMSON.
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Mansfield Park With Coloured Illustrations by C. E. Brock. “The Series of English Idylls.”

By: AUSTEN, Jane:

Price: £60.00

Publisher: London & New York, J. M. Dent & Sons, & E.P. Dutton & Co., no date ca1928:

Seller ID: 79794

Hardback, approx 8 x 5 inches. Light pale green cloth with red decorative design and lettering to front and gilt decoration and lettering to spine. Top edges gilt. Decorative endpapers. In very good condition. Some minor handling to cloth, corners slightly bumped, small nick to rear bottom corner of spine. Endpapers slightly darkened. Some minor foxing to outer page edges else a clean and tight copy. 396pp. 15 coloured plates + a decorative title page by C. E. Brock.
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Sense and Sensibility “The Nelson Classics.”

By: AUSTEN, Jane:

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Thomas Nelson & Sons, No date, circa 1940’s:

Seller ID: 82450

6 x 4 inches. Pebbled / leather effect cloth cover. Gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. In very good condition. Some minor foxing to outer page edges, else a clean tight copy. 335pp.
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Image for Jane Austen’s Works in Six Volumes. Pride & Prejudice / Northanger Abbey / Persuasion / Emma / Sense & Sensibility / Mansfield Park. [Large print edition].

Jane Austen’s Works in Six Volumes. Pride & Prejudice / Northanger Abbey / Persuasion / Emma / Sense & Sensibility / Mansfield Park. [Large print edition].

By: AUSTEN, JANE:

Price: £125.00

Publisher: London, Franklin Watts Ltd. 1971 Ultratype Editions.:

Seller ID: 83211

Complete Set of 6 Volumes Hardbacks, 7.5 x 5 inches. Publisher's blue cloth in pictorial dust jackets. Fine condition books in very good condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Small name pencil inscription on front endpaper. A few minor light marks top edge. Else pages all very clean, and tight throughout.
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Northanger Abbey and Persuasion Illustrated by C.D. Eyles.

By: AUSTEN, JANE:

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Collins Clear-Type Press, no date ca1930:

Seller ID: 83809

Softback, 6 x 4 inches. Maroon pebbled cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Top edges red. Grey endpapers. In very good condition. Some minor rubbing to corners and ends of spine. Some minor fading/darkening to edges of endpapers. No penned inscriptions or marks. Inside pages all clean and tight. Else a very clean and tight copy. 512pp. With B&W full-page plates by C.D. Eyles.
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Northanger Abbey & Persuasion. Standard Novels No. XXVIII. Two Volumes in One.

By: Austen, Jane:

Price: £500.00

Publisher: London, Richard Bentley, 1837 (early edition):

Seller ID: 83908

Two Volumes bound in One. Hardback, approx 7 x 4 inches. Quarter bound in brown calf leather to spine and corners, and marbled paper boards. Binding by J. Mackenzie. In very good condition. Some rubbing to extremities and around top edges and corners, some rubbing to raised banding on spine. Binders stamp to endpaper “J. Mackenzie.” Some darkening and minor spots to engraved title and frontis plates, neat inscription to top of title page “Maureen(?) Gates 1882.” A couple of minor spots to rear endpaper else inside pages all very clean and bright throughout. Else a very ...
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The Novels of Jane Austen In Ten Volumes. Illustrated.

By: AUSTEN, JANE; JOHNSON, Reginald Brimley:

Price: £350.00

Publisher: London, J. M. Dent & Company, 1893 3rd edition:

Seller ID: 83210

10 vols. Hardbacks, Demy 8vo; approx 7 x 4.5 ins. Bound in original light green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on spine & front cover. Top edges gilt. Decorative endpapers. In generally good condition. Corners slightly bumped. Some handling marks and minor soiling. Spines a little darkened, with a couple of small nicks on head. Free endpapers darkened, printed bookplate to fronts with stag designs, these have small name inscribed. Some light foxing spots to front tissue guards/title/frontis’, pages rough cut, else pages clean and tight. Illustrated with B&W plates.
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Image for Intimate Journals. Translated by Christopher Isherwood, Introduction by W. H. Auden. With Six Collotype Plates and One Line Drawing. LIMITED EDITION of 750 Copies.

Intimate Journals. Translated by Christopher Isherwood, Introduction by W. H. Auden. With Six Collotype Plates and One Line Drawing. LIMITED EDITION of 750 Copies.

By: BAUDELAIRE, CHARLES; ISHERWOOD, C.; AUDEN, W. H.;

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1949 1st thus LTD Edition:

Seller ID: 77535

Hardback, approx 9 x 5.5 inches. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (DW minor rubbing to edges, spine a little faded and darkened, minor tears to corners, in protective sleeve.) Cloth clean. Inside pages all very clean and tight. 71pp. Illustrated with Six Collotype Plates and One Line Drawing. Plates with tissue guards.
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Verses. Rare First Edition in Dustwrapper.

By: BELLOC, HILAIRE:

Price: £90.00

Publisher: London, Duckworth and Co., 1910 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 81813

Hardback, 9 x 6 inches. In dark blue cloth covers with gilt lettering to spine and front. Gilt banding to ends of spine, blind paneled front board. Top edge gilt. Plain endpapers. In dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (DW some darkening to spine and edges, some rubbing to edges, small chips to corners and ends of spine. A couple of ‘stamp-paper’ corners to inner flaps. Not clipped. In protective sleeve.) Cloth clean and bright, come slight rubbing to corners. Owners’ bookplate to front endpaper “J.G.E. Hopkins.” Some minor darkening to...
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Green and Pleasant Land. Poetry of the English Countryside. Pictures by Gordon Beningfield.

By: BENINGFIELD, GORDON:

Price: £14.00

Publisher: Selectabook. Devizes. 2003:

Seller ID: 71211

Size 10.0 x 7.0 inches, oblong. In illustrated hard card covers with matching dustwrapper. Pictorial endpapers. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; front slightly faded. Price clipped).Small stain to bottom edge affecting some pages inside. Else a clean and tight copy. 125pp. Collection of poems by various authors on themes of English countryside and nature, illustrated by Gordon Beningfield.
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The Laying On Of Hands A Story By Alan Bennett. SIGNED.

By: BENNETT, ALAN:

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Profile Books, 2001 1st Signed Copy.:

Seller ID: 80848

Small hardback, approx 6 x 4 inches. Red cloth with dustwrapper. In very good near fine condition with very good dustwrapper: Dustwrap some minor rubbing to edges. Cloth clean and bright, inside pages all very clean and tight throughout. Author’s signed sticker to front half-title page. 110pp.
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Hope Against Hope. And Other Stories. Signed LTD edition.

By: BENSON, Stella;

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Macmillan & Co. 1931 1st ltd ed:

Seller ID: 75609

10.5 x 6.5 ins. Half bound in white/cream cloth to spine and marbled paper covered boards. Gilt lettering and edging to cloth. top page edges gilt. In very good condition. Corners bumped and nicked at leading edges. Spine darkened with some minor rubbing. Neat inscription to front endpaper. Signed by author opposite half-title page. Pages rough cut else very clean and tight throughout. 152pp.
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