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Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of William IV and Victoria. From original family documents.

By: BUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOS, DUKE OF:

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Hurst & Blackett 1861 (1st.).:

Seller ID: 80548

2 volumes. Tall 8vo. In the original mauve cloth, decorated in blind on both covers, lettered in gold. Re-cased. Colour on spines and on inside edge of one back cover a bit faded. 2 sm. ink marks on one page. Else very good. 2 steel-engr. portraits. 401 pp./ 429 pp, cat. 16 pp.
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The Log of a Sea-Waif. Being recollections of the first four years of my sea life. With eight illustrations. Fifth impression.

By: BULLEN, FRANK T.:

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London. Smith Elder & Co. 1906:

Seller ID: 68539

Size 5.0 x 7.5 inches. In black cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. In very good condition. Spine slightly faded. mild foxing to edges. Neat inscription to front endpaper, dated 1908. Owner’s small address label to front endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. 349pp. With 8 b/w plates. The author goes to sea, aged twelve. This is the story of his first four years.
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Rossetti Painter and Poet. Signed copy.

By: BULLEN, J.B.:

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Frances Lincoln Limited. 2011 1st.:

Seller ID: 85306

10.0 x 12.0 inches. In brown cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Light brown endpapers. In near fine condition with near fine dustwrapper. (d/w Not price clipped). Author’s signature to main title page. Else a very clean and tight copy. 270pp. With b/w and colour illustrations. Bigraphy od Dante Gabriel Rossetti, his influence on the artists of the period, especially the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and his relationships with women who modeled for him.
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Image for A Commentary on Antoninus, His Itinerary, or Journies of the Roman Empire, so far as it concerneth Britain: wherein the first foundation of out cities, laws and government, according to Roman Policy, are discovered... With a Chorographical Map of the severall stations, and Index’s to the whole work.

A Commentary on Antoninus, His Itinerary, or Journies of the Roman Empire, so far as it concerneth Britain: wherein the first foundation of out cities, laws and government, according to Roman Policy, are discovered... With a Chorographical Map of the severall stations, and Index’s to the whole work.

By: BURTON, William:

Price: £495.00

Publisher: London, Tho. Roycroft, Henry & T. Twyford, 1658:

Seller ID: 81803

Hardback, 11 x 7 inches. Leather bound. Plain endpapers and edging. In very good condition. Cover worn and heavily rubbed. Chips to corners and end of spine. Some faint staining to edges of endpapers and top edge of frontis. A couple of neat inscriptions to title page. Some staining to last pages/index. Soem minor handling marks else pages very clean and tight. 266 + index. Illustrated with a frontis portrait and double-page map. (Complete). Includes B&W illustrations of coins within text.
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The Real Jane Austen. A Life in Small Things. Signed copy.

By: BYRNE, PAULA:

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London. Harper Press. 2013 1st edition:

Seller ID: 85314

6.5 x 9.5 inches. In grey cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Maroon endpapers. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w Not price clipped. In protective plastic wrap). Slight browning to edges. Author’s neat inscription to main title page. Else a clean and tight copy. 380 pp. With b/w and colour photographs and illustrations. Published to coincide with the bi-centenary of Pride and Prejudice, in this biography of Jane Austen each chapter begins by focussing on an object closely associated with the author.
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La Folie Baudelaire Translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen.

By: CALASSO, ROBERTO:

Price: £70.00

Publisher: Allen Lane. 2012 1st thus.:

Seller ID: 84979

6.0 x 9.0 inches. In grey cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In near fine condition with near fine dustwrapper. (D/W Not price clipped. In protective plastic wrap). Author’s signature to main title page. Else a very clean and tight copy. 337pp. With b/w and colour illustrations in text. Using as a base the only dream Beaudelaire ever recorded, of a of a brothel that is also a museum, the author examines Beaudelaire’s work, focusing on Igres and Delacroix, with a close close reading of his poems and commentaries on paintings.
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Blood and Roses. The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century.

By: CASTOR, HELEN:

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Faber and Faber. 2004 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 72875

Size 5.75 x 8.75 inches. In maroon cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Maroon endpapers. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. 347pp. With colour photographs. The story of the Paston Family, and their lives during the Wars of the Roses, based on their many survivng letters.
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The Life and Death of Thomas Wolsey the Great Cardinal of England.

By: CAVENDISH, George;

Price: £60.00

Publisher: The Alcuin Press, Chipping Campden. 1930:

Seller ID: 75227

Size approx 9 x 11.5 inches. In maroon cloth, bevelled boards. Gilt to spine. In very good condition. Some light marks to cloth. Inside pages clean and tight throughout. Else an excellent clean and tight copy. 192pp. With chapter/heading decorations.
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Robert Parker and Comte de Merode-Westerloo. The Marlborough Wars. Military Memoirs. SIGNED.

By: CHANDLER, DAVID (ed):

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Longmans. 1968 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 78749

Hardback, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. In light brown cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; slightly rubbed along edges. Price clipped). Soem minor darkening to endpapers. Inscribed on main title page “For Ken, an admirer for ‘Milord Marl.’ and his period, David Chandler, Sept ‘98.” Else a very clean and tight copy. 276pp. With b/w portrait plates and a map. Extracts from the memoirs of two contasting soldiers from the Marlborough period. Robert Parker rose from to obscurity to the rank of Capta...
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Frances Partridge. The Biography. Signed first edition.

By: CHISHOLM, ANNE:

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. London. 2009 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 85222

Size 6.25 x 9.5 inches. In maroon cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Illustrated endpapers. In near fine condition with near fine dustwrapper (dw; not price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Author’s neat inscription to main title page. Else a clean and tight copy. 402pp. With b/w and colour photographs. Frances Partridge was part of the Bloomsbury Group and a prolific diarist.
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Image for Lettres Interessantes du Pape Clément XIV (Ganganelli), (Letters of Pope Clement XIV) Traduites de l’Italien & du Latin; Seconde édition, Exactement revue, corrigée, et augmentée de la Traduction des Passages Latins, & d'une Table Alphabétique des Matieres. (Translated from Italian & Latin; Second edition, Exactly revised, corrected, and augmented by the Translation of the Latin Passages, and an Alphabetical Table of Contents.) In Three Volumes.

Lettres Interessantes du Pape Clément XIV (Ganganelli), (Letters of Pope Clement XIV) Traduites de l’Italien & du Latin; Seconde édition, Exactement revue, corrigée, et augmentée de la Traduction des Passages Latins, & d'une Table Alphabétique des Matieres. (Translated from Italian & Latin; Second edition, Exactly revised, corrected, and augmented by the Translation of the Latin Passages, and an Alphabetical Table of Contents.) In Three Volumes.

By: CLEMENT XIV (Ganganelli):

Price: £95.00

Publisher: Paris, Chez Lottin, 1776 - 1777:

Seller ID: 78602

3 vols. Hardback, approx 4 x 7 inches. In full calf leather bindings with two red morocco leather labels to spines, with gilt lettering, gilt decoration and banding to spines. Gilt decoration to board edges, speckled page edges, and marbled endpapers. In very good conditions. Corners a little bumped and rubbed with a couple of small nicks to corners, some minor rubbing to edges and spines. Some darkening to edges of pages and endpapers. A couple of minor spots to frontispiece, a few odd minor spots and minor page darkening, one or two minor edge tears, else pages very clean and tight. 453; 430...
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Biographia Borealis; or the lives of distinguished northerners.

By: COLERIDGE, HARTLEY:

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Whittaker & Co. 1833. 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 69341

Size 5.25 x 8.75 inches. In dark brown half calf leather binding with elaborate gilt decor to spine.Raised bands. Light brown boards. marbled edges and endpapers. In very good condition. A couple of small scuffed areas to spine. Corners slightly rubbed at edges. front spine slightly cracked. Occasional small marks and foxing spots. Else a clean and tight copy. 3 engr. portraits. 732 pp.( incl. historical and chronological index). 13 biographies: Andrew Marvel, Dr. Richard Bentley, Lord Fairfax, The Earl of Derby, Anne Clifford, Roger Ascham, John Fisher, The Rev. William Mason, Sir Richard Ar...
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P.G.Wodehouse. An Illustrated Biography. With complete bibliography and collectors guide.

By: CONNOLLY, JOSEPH:

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Orbis publishing. London. 1979 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 69502

Size 7.5 x 10.0 inches. In light brown cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly faded with small tear at top end. Price clipped). Bibliography loose in front. A clean and tight copy. 160pp. With b/w photographs and illustrations. Illustrated biography of P.G.Wodehouse including photographs of the casts of various productions of Wodehouse’s works, published in his centenary year.
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George Gissing. The Definitive Biography.

By: COUSTILLAS, PIERRE:

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Rivendale Press 2005 1st edition:

Seller ID: 85298

7.0 x 10.0 inches. In maroon cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In near fine condition with near fine dustwrapper (DW Not price clipped. In protective plastic wrap). A very clean and tight copy. 604pp. With b/w and colour photographs. Biography of the Victorian Novelist, George Gissing. The author explores Gissing’s turbulent life and relationships, as well as his work.
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Fleet Street, Press Barons and Politics. The Journals of Collin Brooks, 1932-1940. Camden Fifth Series Volume 11.

By: CROWSON, N.J. (ed):

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press. 1998 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 67347

Size 5.5 x 8.75 inches. In maroon cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. 311pp. A personal account of working as a journalist and editor during the 1930s.
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Fyffes and the Banana. Musa Sapientum. A Centenary History, 1888 1988.

By: DAVIES, PETER N.:

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, The Athlone Press. 1990 first edition.:

Seller ID: 84535

9.5 x 6.5 inches. In dark blue cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition. D/W not price clipped, slightly bumped at top of spine. Else a clean and tight copy. 301pp. With b/w photographs and colour frontis. Celebrating one hundred years of business in the banana trade.
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The English School Days of a French Boy. Letters from Maurice de Pange.

By: de PANGE, MAURICE:

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London. John Lane The Bodley Head Limited. 1928 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 60027

8vo. In blue cloth covers with black lettering to paper title label on spine. With dustwrapper. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly darkened and chipped at ends. Slightly rubbed along edges with small tears and marks.Not price clipped). Mild foxing to edges. Occasional foxing spots and explanatory pencil notes in margins. Owner’s pencil inscription to front endpaper, “E.W.Margesson. Bought from Ramsden. 11 Chapel road, Worthing. 20th Feb 1928. Finished reading 28-2-1928.” Slight browning to endpapers. Else a clean and tight copy. 100pp. With b/w p...
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Histoire De La Maison De Rochechouart. Two Volumes Bound in One.

By: DE ROCHECHOUART, Le General Comte:

Price: £200.00

Publisher: Paris, Emile Allard, 1859 1st:

Seller ID: 84794

Tall hardback, 4to. 11 x 8.5 inches. Half bound in dark maroon pebbled cloth to boards and dark maroon morocco leather spine, raised banding and blind paneling, with gilt lettering to spine. Marbled endpapers. In very good condition. Cloth chipped and bumped at corners, some rubbing and minor fading to spine with tiny split to bottom end. Some minor rubbing to edge of endpaper. Chipped/torn hole to top edge of halftitle page. Some minor light foxing to inside pages, tissue guards darkened but plates all remain clean and bright. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 368 & 412pp. Illustrate...
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Dear Bill. W.F.Deedes reports.

By: DEEDES, W.F.:

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Macmillan. 1997 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 58468

Tall 8vo. In black cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly faded and bumped at top end. Slight crease along top edge. Not price clipped). A clean and tight copy. 413pp. With b/w photographs. A personal memoir by the journalist and politician, William (Bill) Deedes.
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George Gissing. A Life.

By: DELANY, PAUL:

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 2008 1st edition:

Seller ID: 84976

6.5 x 9.5 inches. In maroon cloth coivers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In near fine condition with near fine dustwrapper (DW Not price clipped. In protective plastic wrap). A very clean and tight copy. 444pp. With b/w photographs. Biography of the Victorian Novelist, George Gissing. The author explores Gissing’s turbulent life and relationships, as well as his work.
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