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Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk. The Second Edition.

By: MORRIS, PETER:

Price: £160.00

Publisher: London, William Blackwood, T. Cadell & W. Davies & John Smith and Son, 1819 2nd:

Seller ID: 78903

3 vols, hardback, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Diced calf leather boards, with gilt paneled edges, gilt lettering, banding and decorations to spines. Speckled page edges. In very good conditions. Professionally rebacked; contemporary leather to spines and original boards neatly laid over. Corners and edges bumped and rubbed, some minor rubbing to boards. Contemporary endpapers. Inside pages and plates all very clean and bright, Else very clean and tight copies. 333, 363 & 351pp. Illustrated with 12 B&w engraved plates, title page vignettes, and a vignette at last page of vol.3.
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Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk. The Third Edition.

By: MORRIS, PETER:

Price: £100.00

Publisher: London, & Edinburgh, William Blackwood, T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1819 3rd:

Seller ID: 79553

3 vols, hardback, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Quarter bound dark green calf leather, marbled boards, gilt edging to leather on boards, gilt banding, lettering and decoration to spine. Plain endpapers and edges. In very good conditions. Professionally rebound. Slight darkening to spines. Contemporary endpapers. Original bookseller label to half title page “Angus & Robertson, Sydney.” Top of main title page clipped. Corners of first 4 prelim. pages with tape repairs to corner. Dark spot to main title and dedication page. Some darkening to inside pages opposite plates else pages clean and t...
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The Greatest Traitor. The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, Ruler of England 1327-1330.

By: MORTIMER, IAN:

Price: £14.00

Publisher: Jonathan Cape. London. 2003 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 74025

Size 6.25 x 9.5 inches. In black cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Dark maroon endpapers. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; slightly creased along top edge. Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. 377pp. With b/w photographs and illustrations. Biography of Roger Mortimer, lover of Queen Isabella and responsible for the deposing and death of King Edward II.
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The House of Routledge 1834-1934 With a History of Kegan Paul Trench Trubner and other Associated Firms.

By: MUMBY, F. A.:

Price: £68.00

Publisher: London, George Routledge and Sons, 1934 1st:

Seller ID: 80866

Hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. Grey cloth with gilt to spine. Top page edges red. In dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (DW darkened on spine, some minor rubbing to edges, Not price clipped.) Cloth clean, some slight darkening to endpapers. Some foxing spots to closed outer page edges, else inside pages all very clean and tight. 232pp. Illustrated with a frontis portrait.
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Somerset Paupers. Unremembered Lives. SIGNED.

By: MUNCKTON, Thelma;

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Wincanton Press 1994 1st ed:

Seller ID: 75377

8.5 x 6 ins. In black cloth with gilt to spine in original glossy dustwrapper. In very good near fine condition with very good dustwrapper. Author’s signature to title. 208pp.
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The Pope’s Daughter.

By: MURPHY, CAROLINE P.:

Price: £3.00

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

Seller ID: 74024

Size 6.25 x 9.5 inches. In black cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Dark blue endpapers. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; slightly creased along top edge. Not price clipped). Small inscription to half title page, dated 2005. A very clean and tight copy. 359pp. With colour and b/w photographs and illustrations. Biography of Felice della Rovere, the daughter of Pope Julius II.
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Memoirs of Adam Black

By: NICHOLSON, Alexander:

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1885:

Seller ID: 79166

Hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. In Quarter-Bound brown morocco Leather binding, marbled boards, raised banding to spine, with gilt lettering and decorations. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. In very good condition. Some minor handling to boards; edges and spine mildly rubbed. Front hinge starting after endpapers. A couple of minor handling marks, the odd pencil note, else a very tight and clean copy. 260pp. Illustrated with an engraved B&W frontis portrait.
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The Life of Benvenuto Cellini; A Florentine Artist. Written by Himself in the Tuscan Language and Translated from the Original. In Two Volumes.

By: NUGENT, Thomas:

Price: £145.00

Publisher: London, T. Davies, 1771:

Seller ID: 79522

2 vols. Hardback, 8.5 x 5 ins. Brown calf with red and brown spine labels, raised banding and gilt decoration. In good conditions. Later rebinding with original spines laid over. Hinges cracked on both vols. Endpapers darkened, bookplates to fronts “William Arthur, Sixth Duke of Portland.” Some light staining to top of frontis, and top of pages 30-60. Some minor tanning to pages. Else clean and tight copies. 512 + 403pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontis portrait in volume 1.
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More than Shadows. A Biography of W. Russell Flint.

By: PALMER, ARNOLD:

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, The Studio, 1943 1st ed.:

Seller ID: 78329

Hardback, 10 x 6 ins. In original navy blue cloth covers with bronze lettering to spine and design to front. With illustrated dustwrapper. Top page edges blued. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (dw; rubbing to edges and spine. Small tear to bottom front edges. Price clipped.) Some minor rubbing to corners. Inside pages all clean and tight throughout. 146pp. Illustrated with 8 colour and 136 b&w plates. Includes Bibliography and list of books illustrated by W. Russell Flint. Great resource on this artist; Concise, well-illustrated study; includes a list of illustrated books, plu...
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Frederica Queen of The Hellenes. Mission of a Modern Queen.

By: PAPANICOLAOU, Lilika S.;

Price: £90.00

Publisher: (PEG) Publishers Enterprises Group Ltd. Malta. 1994 1st edition:

Seller ID: 75444

10 x 7 ins. In blue cloth with gilt to spine, in original pictoral glossy dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (DW lamination slightly creased, original Hatchards barcode to rear.) 509pp. Many b&w photo illustrations.
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East and West. The Last Governor of Hong Kong on Power, Freedom and the Future. Signed and dedicated copy.

By: PATTEN, CHRIS:

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London. Macmillan. 1998 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 67850

Size 6.0 x 9.5 inches. In black cloth covers with gilt to spine. Pictorial endpapers. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly bumped at top end. lamination slightly creased. Not price clipped). Author’s dedicatory inscription to main title page. Else a very clean and tight copy. 342pp. With b/w photographs. The author recalls his time as the last Governor of Hong Kong and considers the future, not just of Hong Kong, but of the entire Far East and its changing role in the world.
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Life of Python. ...and now for something completely different from George Perry.

By: PERRY, GEORGE:

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Pavilion Michael Joseph. 1983 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 57061

Tall 8vo. In black cloth covers with green to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Small marks to back. Price clipped. Presentation inscription on front endpaper. Else a very clean and tight copy. 192pp. Prof. ills. with b/w photographs. The history of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, with chapters on the individual members.
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P.G. Wodehouse, Man and Myth SIGNED COPY.

By: PHELPS, Barry:

Price: £32.00

Publisher: London, Constable, 1992 1st:

Seller ID: 81818

Hardback, 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Light blue cloth with silver lettering to spine. In illustrated blue dustwrapper. In very good near fine condition with near fine DW (DW some minor handling marks to rear, not price clipped, in protective sleeve.) Cloth clean and bright. Authors inscription to front endpaper “Louis Hughes, Louis, thanks for your help (see p11) and for inspiring the Droves, Yours ever Barry, 15/10/92.” And signed again on main title page. Loose newspaper cutting in front. Else a very clean and tight copy. 344pp. Illustrated with B&W photo plates.
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The letters of Eliza Pierce. 1751-1775, with letters from her son Pierce Joseph Taylor, a schoolboy at Eton.

By: PIERCE, ELIZA and MACDONALD, VIOLET, ed:

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London: John Lane, The Bodley Head. 1927 1st edition:

Seller ID: 53469

Tall 8vo. In original bevelled purple silk covers with gilt to spine and front. In good condition. Spine darkened and slightly rubbed at top and bottom. Edges of covers darkened and small marks on spine and front. Corners slightly rubbed. owners inscription on front endpaper.Small marks on front endpapers and first blank page. Many pages uncut. 124pp. with b/w portrait frontis. Limted to 670 copies of which 75 copies, numbered 1 to 75 have been printed on Millbourn hand-made paper. This is number 68. A collection of letters of an 18th century Devonshire woman, with some comment on the literatu...
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Heroes.

By: PILGER, JOHN:

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London. Jonathan Cape. 1986 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 61868

Tall 8vo. In maroon cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Slightly rubbed along top edge. Not price clipped). A clean and tight copy. 591pp. With b/w photographs. John Pilger’s Heroes are the ordinary people who manage to keep going, who live their lives in spite of war and poverty.
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Autobiography. A New Edition with an Introduction by J. B. Priestley.

By: POWYS, JOHN COWPER:

Price: £55.00

Publisher: Macdonald. London. 1967 1st thus.:

Seller ID: 76488

Hardback. Size approx 9 x 6 inches. In light blue cloth covers with gilt to spine and facsimile signature to front. With dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; small mark to front. Some minor rubbing. Not price clipped. In protective sleeve.) Small marks to front endpaper. Else a very clean and tight copy. 672pp. With b&w portrait frontis. John Cowper Powys’s autobiography written in 1934 and covering the first sixty years of the author’s life. This edition has an introduction by J.B.Priestley.
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The She-Apostle. The Extraordinary Life and Death of Luisa de Carvajal.

By: REDWORTH, GLYN:

Price: £4.00

Publisher: OUP. 2008 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 73391

Size 6.25 x 9.5 inches. In black 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. 276pp. With b/w photographs and illustrations. Biography of a Spanish woman who was smuggled into England by the Jesuits in 1605 and worked in secret for many years supporting Roman Catholics in a time of widespread persecution. Includes extracts from her writings describing life in Shakespeare’s London.
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Guy’s Hospital 1725-1948

By: RIPMAN, Hujohn A.;

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Guy’s Hospital Gazette Committee 1951 1st:

Seller ID: 75595

10 x 7.5 inches. In blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, gilt design to front. In original dustwrapper. In very good condition with good dustwrapper. (DW rubbing to edges, and darkening to rear. Corners chipped, sml tear top of spine.) Very slight fading to ends of spine. Inside pages clean and tight throughout, no marks or inscriptions. 176pp. b&w photo ills throughout.
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Sherborne, Oxford and Cambridge. Recollections of Mrs Ernest Stewart Roberts.

By: ROBERTS, MRS ERNEST STEWART:

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Martin Hopkinson. 1934 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 83999

Hardback, Small 8vo. 7.5 x 4.5 inches. Bound in cream cloth covers with gilt to spine. With dustwrapper. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (dw; some rubbing and small nicks to top edge, some minor handling marks, not price clipped.) Cloth clean and bright. Some mild foxing to endpapers, some spots to outer page edges. Else inside pages all clean and tight throughout. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 232pp. Illustrated with a B&W frontis portrait. Autobiography of Mrs Roberts her time in Sherborne where her father was headmaster of the school, and later when her husband was...
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Powys to the Trovillions. The Letters of John Cowper Powys to Hal W. and Violet Trovillion. Edited by Paul Roberts.

By: ROBERTS, Paul; POWYS, John Cowper; TROVILLION, Hal, Violet;

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London. Cecil Woolf. 1990 1st edition:

Seller ID: 76458

Hardback. size approx 9 x 5.5 inches. In green cloth with gilt to spine. In original glossy illustrated dustwrapper. In near fine condition with near fine dustwrapper. (DW minor rubbing to edges. Price clipped.) Else a very clean tight copy. 121pp.
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