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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. View more info
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. View more info
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. View more info
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. View more info
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”. View more info
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. View more info
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. View more info
By: ARNOLD, MATTHEW:
Price: £40.00
Publisher: Macmillan & Co. 1908:
Seller ID: 81034
Hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. In very attractive full tree calf fine leather binding by “Bickers & Son.,” with gilt lettering to maroon leather spine label, decorative gilt paneled boards, vignette to both boards “Collegium Sancti Petri Radleiense, AD.MD.CCC.XLVII” and extensive gilt decorations and raised banding to spine. Marbled endpapers and page edges. In very good near fine condition. Boards are slightly curved outward at leading edges. No penned inscriptions or marks. Pages all very clean and tight throughout. Some minor foxing to rear endpapers. Else a very clea... View more info
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. View more info
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. View more info
By: AUSTEN, JANE:
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co., 1933 repr:
Seller ID: 79456
Hardback, 7 x 4.5 inches. Red cloth with gilt to spine. Top edges gilt. Plain endpapers. In dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrap (DW spine darkened, chip to edge of spine. Small chips to corners. In protective sleeve.) Corners slightly bumped & some slight rubbing to cloth. Inside pages all very clean and tight. 444pp + cat. B&W Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. View more info
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. View more info
By: AUSTEN, JANE:
Price: £300.00
Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1926 2nd (see notes):
Seller ID: 81687
5 vols. Hardback. 8 x 5.5 inches. In maroon cloth with decorative gilt lettering to spines and decorative gilt vignette to fronts. In very good conditions. Some slight fading to spines, some minor rubbing to corners and ends of spines. Some light handling marks to cloths on boards. Endpapers clean, no penned inscriptions. Inside pages all very clean and bright throughout. Page edges rough cut. Else a very clean and tight set. (Second Oxford Edition, being the First Regular Edition, proceeded by the ‘Large Paper Edition’ in 1923. Some sets have gilt numbering to spines; this appears... View more info
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. View more info
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. View more info
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... View more info
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. View more info
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. View more info
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. View more info
By: BESANT, WALTER: RICE, JAMES:
Price: £100.00
Publisher: London, Chatto and Windus, 1878:
Seller ID: 81865
3 vols. Hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. Quarter bound maroon morocco leather to spines and corners, marbled paper boards. Gilt banding and lettering to spines. Plain endpapers. Speckled red page edges. In very good conditions. Some rubbing to board sand edges. Corners bumped. Chip to bottom of spine v.1. and top of spine v.2. Endpapers darkened, bookplates to fronts, “Edward Chatterton Orpen.” Some dark foxing to titles and last pages, else inside pages clean and tight. 3 volumes. 314, 283 & 277pp. With decorative chapter headers. Walter Besant and James Rice wrote in partnership unt... View more info