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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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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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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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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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Monks of the Thelema. A Novel. Second Edition. In Three Volumes.

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...
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The Testament of Beauty. A Poem in 4 Books by Robert Bridges, Poet Laureate. Second edition with the Author’s final corrections.

By: BRIDGES, ROBERT:

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Oxford. Clarendon Press 1938 2nd edition.:

Seller ID: 72814

Size 7.0 x 8.75 inches. In marbled hard card covers with gilt to vellum spine. With original dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly darkened with small marks. Slight browning and mild foxing. Not price clipped). Mild foxing to edges. Many pages uncut/unopened. Occasional small marks and foxing spots. Else a clean and tight copy. 175pp. With portrait frontis. Publisher's note tipped in at the back. Produced near the end of his life and probably the poet’s best work. Scarce with dustwrapper.
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Speak to the Hills. An Anthology of Twentieth Century British and Irish Mountain Poetry. Foreword by Norman Nicholson. Signed limited edition.

By: BROWN, HAMISH / BERRY, MARTYN (eds):

Price: £60.00

Publisher: Aberdeen University Press. 1985 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 70164

Size 6.0 x 9.25 inches. In dark blue cloth covers with silver to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Slightly creased along top edge. Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. 530pp. With b/w photographs. A rare anthology of over 600 poems with a mountain theme, by more than 300 writers. This is No. 31 of a limited edition for subscribers, and signed by the editors.
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Hudibras. Written in the Time of the Late Wars. Corrected and Amended With Several Additions and Annotations.

By: BUTLER, SAMUEL:

Price: £68.00

Publisher: London. 1709:

Seller ID: 71027

Size 4.5 x 7.75 inches. In full calf leather binding. Raised bands. In good condition. Spine strengthened with old cloth repair, now rubbed and split. Boards and edges rubbed. Splits to hinges. One plate loose. One plate missing. Occasional small marks. In three parts, individually numbered. With b/w engraved plates. Hudibras is a mock epic satire on the Roundheads, puritans and their associates. It tells of the adventures of the Knight, Hudibras, who is both bigoted and stupid.
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The Ace of Knaves The “Saint” Books. SIGNED.

By: CHARTERIS, Leslie;

Price: £695.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1937 1st edition:

Seller ID: 80349

Hardback, approx 8 x 5 inches. Light blue cloth with black lettering to spine and front. Blue endpapers. In illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (DW darkened, edges rubbed, corners chipped, small tear to bottom front spine edge, some minor tape marks to inside corners. In protective sleeve. NOT price clipped.) Cloth faded and rubbed at edges, with a couple of minor handling marks. Two dark-square tape-mark spots to endpapers. “The Saint Club Rules” pamphlet loose in front. Faint inscription to top of title page. Some minor handling/thumb marks...
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The Dark Companion.

By: COOKSON, G.M.:

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Privately printed. 1940 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 56442

Tall 8vo. In grey limp card covers. In very good condition. Covers slightly browned and creased at edges. Mild foxing to edges. Else clean and tight inside. 32pp. The star Procyon has a dark companion, and the two revolve round each other in a period of forty years. A dialogue poem between Procyon and his dark companion. They debate religion and war. Oxford, Berkshire, Kent, Paris, Rome, Jordan, Jerusalem.
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