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By: Anon
Price: £50.00
Publisher: Ipswich, John Raw: 1818
Seller ID: 019228
xv + 404pp, illustrations in text. Full leather binding, gilt and stamped border to boards, 4 bands gilt decoration within, gilt on black spine label. Some edge rubbing to boards, which are very secure, some foxing/marking to contents, occasional corner crease, overall a Good+ copy of a scarce title. Ownership inscription to front endpaper dated March 14th 1863. Assumed 1st edition (ref British Library). View more info
By: Anon
Price: £100.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co Ltd:
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 022411
128pp, with 16 plates in colour. 100 illustrations and text based on the First National 'Pictures' Technicolor Production 'The Adventures of Robin Hood'. Undated, but film was released in 1938, so this is assumed to be a 1939/40 first edition. Illustrated front board, rubbing to corners of front board with slight loss, very slight spine twist, light general ageing, overall a very nice copy in the scarce (repair to corner of rear panel, small losses mainly to spine base a... View more info
By: Anthon, Charles / Revised By J Talboys Wheeler
Price: £40.00
Publisher: London, William Tegg & Co: 1858
Edition: Revised Edition
Seller ID: 016384
viii + 253pp. New and revised edition. Quarter-bound calf over brown cloth, some edge rubbing, cloth is faded in parts, decorated endpapers, marbled page edges, small maroon title label to spine, gilt lettering, a handsome volume. Dated owner's initial to tile page, some neat pencilled underlining to text (mainly to Book IX and partly to book III). View more info
By: Baguley, David / Zola, Emile
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1992
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 021804
xii + 116pp, bibliographies. Laminated boards, light wear only, general browning to contents, a VG copy. View more info
By: Bastin, Nina
Price: £40.00
Publisher: Switzerland, Peter Lang: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 016799
291pp, index, bibliography. This paperback copy has been very tastefully rebound in blue cloth boards with gilt titling to front and matching blue endpapers. The original (slightly creased) covers are bound in at the rear. Contents are VG, boards are Fine. Overall a collectable copy which is signed by the author with a personalised gift dedication to the 1/2 title. Scarce signed copy. View more info
By: Bate, Jonathan
Price: £18.00
Publisher: London, Viking: 2008
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 021815
xii + 500pp, index, references, illustrations. Black boards, light wear and ageing, a VG copy in dustwrapper. View more info
By: Bearman, Robert
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Stroud, Sutton Publishing Ltd: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 021122
viii + 88pp, index, sources and notes, appendix, illustrations. Softback, light wear only, a VG copy. View more info
By: Bennett, Paula
Price: £20.00
Publisher: USA, University of Illinois Press: 1990
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 020395
xv + 300pp, index, notes, not illustrated. Card covers, slightly sunned, light ageing to contents, a VG copy. View more info
By: Bennett, Paula Bernat (Editor)
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Oxford, Blackwell Publishers: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 020880
xlvii + 524pp, index. Softback, slight indenting to covers, light reading wear, reading crease to spine, minor marking to edges, overall a VG copy. View more info
By: Boyd, Brian
Price: £18.00
Publisher: USA, Harvard University Press: 2009
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 022227
xiii + 540pp, index, bibliography, notes, 14 illustrations. Quarter-bound black over grey cloth boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper. The evolutionary origins of art and storytelling. View more info
By: Braddon, ME
Price: £85.00
Publisher: London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co: 1894
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 021684
261pp + 10pp adverts at rear, 25 listed illustrations plus chapter headpieces. Pictorial boards, general light wear, a few marks, rear internal hinge showing very slightly, gift inscription to front endpaper, general foxing to contents, a Good tight copy. View more info
By: Brodsky, Joseph
Price: £15.00
Publisher: London, Viking: 1986
Edition: Fifth Edition
Seller ID: 022699
501pp. Quarter-bound in black cloth over buff paper boards, light wear and ageing, a VG copy in (slightly edge creased) dustwrapper. View more info
Price: £15.00
Publisher: London, The British Library: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 018094
320pp, indexes, bibliography, 5 appendices, 244 black and white illustrations, 12 colour plates. Blue boards, light ageing only, a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper. View more info
By: Carroll, David
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Stroud, Alan Sutton Publishing: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 017392
xvi + 200pp, index, bibliography, illustrations. Softback, light wear only, slight fading to spine, overall a VG copy. Signed by the author on title page. View more info
By: Carroll, Joseph
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Routledge: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 022232
xxvii + 276pp, index, references. Softback, light reading wear, a VG copy. View more info
By: Chapman, RW
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Oxford University Press: 1920
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 022726
147pp. Dark blue boards, spine faded, title label worn with loss, owner's name to front endpaper, rough cut edges, general foxing, a Good tight copy. Flat signed and dated by the author to page 5 (1 Oct 1946). View more info
By: Churchill, George Bosworth
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Dursley, Alan Sutton: 1976
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 020648
xi + 548pp, bibliographical index, addendum, Brown boards, general foxing/browning to contents, overall a Good+ copy in a VG price-clipped dustwrapper. Originally published in 1900, this book sets out to show the nature of the raw material available to Shakespeare's hand when he began to write his play 'Richard III'. View more info
By: Copley, Stephen / Whale, John (Editors)
Price: £10.00
Publisher: London, Routledge: 1992
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 021528
ix + 261pp, index, bibliography, a collection of 11 essays. Softback, light wear only, a VG copy. View more info
By: Cruz, Mary (Translated from the Spanish By Harold Spencer)
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Cuba, Instituto Cubano Del Libro: 1994
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 018859
244pp, bibliography. Softback, reading creases/rubs to covers, general browning to pages, some annotation in orange highlighter, some in pencil, overall a Good tight copy. This is very much a working copy only and is sold with all faults. A study of the relationship between Cuba and Hemingway and his work. View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Faber & Faber: 1970
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 021182
256pp, Blue boards, owner's details to front pastedown (under wrapper flyleaf), light ageing, light rubs to boards, a VG copy in a near VG (small chips/rubs/edge losses, not price-clipped) dustwrapper. Includes chapters on Larkin, Lowell, Berryman, Hughes, Plath, Gunn, Olson and Dorn. View more info
Price: £12.00
Publisher: Aberystwyth, Gwasg Aberystwyth: 1951
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 015877
103pp, welsh text. Red boards, slightly sprung, light ageing to contents, overall a VG copy in (minor edge chips) dustwrapper. View more info
Price: £400.00
Publisher: Oxford, W. Downing for F.Oxlad Senio, J. Adams, and F. Oxlad Juniorr: 1673
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 016405
x + 341pp, circa 50 illustrations and adornments, 1 folding map, 3 other folding plates. Recent rebind into quarter-calf, gilt titling/lines to spine with blind-stamped decoration. Grey boards, a few minor marks. New endpapers, title page in red/black ink. A few marks to text throughout, small hole to title page of satyre I, overall a good copy of the first edition. View more info
By: Denham, Sidney (With a Foreword By Sir Compton Mackenzie)
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, H Denham: 1952
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 017053
44pp. Red buckram over blue boards, slight fading to spine, light edge wear, foxing to edges, light ageing to contents. Includes correspondence in September 1958 between Sidney Denham and author Basil Harley regarding the latter's winning tape of 'Dialogue for Cats'. 2 letters are from Denham, one typewritten, the other handwritten and signed, with a handwritten unsigned letter from Harley. Interesting period pieces! View more info
Price: £120.00
Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape: 1943
Edition: Limited/Numbered
Seller ID: R15018
1943 limited edition, this copy No. 222 of 535, of which only 500 for sale. Originally published in 1906 in 6 volumes, this is a new edition in one volume with re-set type. 692pp, index and glossary. Gilt on light blue boards, top edge pale blue, bottom edge untrimmed, no inscriptions, light foxing only with some slight spotting to fore-edge, light indeed given year of production. Slight bumping to corners. Good dustwrapper, now in removeable protective sleeve, price-cli... View more info
By: Ebbatson, Roger
Price: £30.00
Publisher: Aldershot, Ashgate Publishing Limited: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 022310
vii + 232pp, index, bibliography, notes. Laminated pictorial boards, light wear, light ageing to contents, a VG copy. View more info
By: Edited By Jonathan Gottschall and David Sloan Wilson / Forewords By EO Wilson and Frederick Crews
Price: £60.00
Publisher: USA, Northwestern University Press: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 022231
xxvi + 305pp, works cited, chapter notes, a collection of 14 essays. Green boards, silver titling, light wear and ageing only, a VG copy. View more info
By: Evans, Caradoc / Edited By John Harris
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Bridgend, Poetry Wales Press Ltd: 1985
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 022031
220pp, bibliography, 7 illustrations. Softback, light wear and ageing only, slight fading to spine, a VG copy. View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Lampeter, Edwin Mellen Press Ltd: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 022643
200pp, index, bibliography. Black boards, VG in dustwrapper. View more info
By: Everett, Barbara
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press: 1990
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 021369
232pp, index. Softback, reading creases, a few edge marks to pages, overall a Good+ copy. View more info
By: Fouli, Janet
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Faculté de la Lettres de la Manouba: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 019126
263pp, indexes, bibliographies. Softback, general reading wear to covers, slight ageing to contents, occasional pencil annotation, overall a Good working copy. Scarce. View more info
By: Fox, Levi
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust & Jarrold Publishing: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 022674
ix + 358pp, index, sources, black and white illustrations. Black boards, minor edge marks, a VG copy in dustwrapper. Signed personalised dedication from the author to front endpaper, loose signed slip of paper, plus a signed photograph with gift dedication to verso. View more info
By: Fox, Levi
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust & Jarrold Publishing: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 022761
ix + 358pp, index, sources, black and white illustrations. Black boards, minor edge marks, a VG copy in dustwrapper. Flat signed by the author to front endpaper. View more info
Price: £20.00
Publisher: USA, University of Oklahoma Press: 1970
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 022407
xxv + 222pp, index, bibliography, appendix. Mauve boards, light ageing and wear only, a VG copy in (colour fading to spine and edges) dustwrapper. View more info
By: Fripp, Edgar I
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Oxford, OUP: 1929
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 022680
160pp, index, illustrations. Grey spine over pale grey boards, a few rubs/marks, general ageing to contents, a VG copy without dustwrapper. View more info
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Oxford, OUP: 2006
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 017756
xx + 493pp, index, main texts and additional reading, illustrations. Black boards, 4 pages uncut otherwise a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper. View more info
By: George, Andrew (Translated and with an Introduction by)
Price: £10.00
Publisher: London, Allen Lane: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 022785
lxii + 225pp, glossary, appendix, 28 illustrations, maps, time chart. Black boards, light ageing, a VG copy in dustwrapper. View more info
Price: £30.00
Publisher: The Thomas Hardy Society Ltd: 1985
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 017290
12 booklets bound in green boards, gilt titling to spine. Covers bound in, an excellent clean tight set of the first 12 issues from Volume I No.1 January 1985 to Volume IV No,3 October 1988. Very light ageing to edges only. View more info
By: Goldman, Paul
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Aldershot, Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd: 2004
Edition: Revised Edition
Seller ID: 022008
xviii + 395pp, appendix, index, bibliography, notes, over 230 black and white illustrations. Softback, an excellent copy. In this revised edition, the author has selected 31 artists, including Burne-Jones, Millais, Holman Hunt and Rosetti and provides a critical commentary on each artist. View more info
By: Guppy, Henry
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Manchester, The Manchester University Press: 1930
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 021247
xv + 103pp + 16 facsimiles, indexes, appendices. Brown cloth boards, corner rubs, general light foxing, overall a VG copy without dustwrapper. View more info
By: Hamilton, AC / Bateson, FW / Manning, RJ / Spenser, Edmund
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Longman: 1995
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 021810
xiii + 753pp, bibliography, 3 appendices. Softback, light wear only, a VG copy. View more info
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Cambridge, CUP: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: R14921
xiii + 334pp, bibliography, notes. Green boards, a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper. View more info
By: Hardy, Thomas / Edited By Pamela Dalziel and Michael Millgate
Price: £120.00
Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 016646
xxvii + 164pp, index, notes, annotations, Gilt on black boards, a VG clean tight copy with loose fitting protective cover. A reproduction of Hardy's notebook with extensive accompanying narrative. View more info
By: Hazel Grunewald (nee Rodrigues)
Price: £40.00
Publisher: Nottingham, Hazel Grunewald: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 021254
viii + 312pp, bibliography. Gilt on blue cloth boards, minor marks, a VG copy. This volume is the thesis submitted to the University of Nottingham for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, October 2000. Very heavy, UK at standard rate, overseas at cost. View more info
By: Herodotus / Translation of G. Rawlinson Revised & Annotated By A.W. Lawrence
Price: £500.00
Publisher: London, The Nonesuch Press: 1935
Edition: Limited/Numbered
Seller ID: 022309
xxvi + 778pp + 7 maps at rear. Quarter-bound in blue vellum over blue cloth, gilt titling and decoration to vellum. Rough-cut fore- and bottom edges, a few marks, rubs with small loss to bottom edge of vellum. Light ageing to contents. Gift inscription to verso of free endpaper from the late bookseller Alan G Thomas, together with an accompanying letter, in which he describes this as the best printed as well as the best edited edition. This is copy 546/675. Heavy book, U... View more info
Price: £85.00
Publisher: Hampshire, MacMillan Press Ltd: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 022418
ix + 244pp, index, bibliography, notes. Black boards, small bump to one corner, light wear and ageing only, a VG copy in (short closed tear to one corner) dustwrapper. Dated personalised gift dedication from the author to front endpaper. This is the first book to offer an extensive discussion of all four of Edgeworth's major Irish Tales. View more info
By: Huggett, Richard
Price: £10.00
Publisher: London, William Heinemann Ltd: 1969
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 016714
x + 195pp, index, 16pp illustrations, cartoons, illustrated endpapers. Brown boards, light ageing only, a VG clean tight copy in (clipped, but price still remaining, presumably re-priced therefore) dustwrapper. Interesting gift inscription to the title page from the author, dated Jan 20 1977. View more info
By: Keller, Lynn
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 022645
x + 298pp, notes. Red boards, VG in dustwrapper. The author examines the careers of John Ashbery, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Creeley and James Merrill. View more info
Price: £40.00
Publisher: London, Cassell, Petter & Galpin:
Edition: Fourth Edition
Seller ID: 017250
415pp, 44 illustrations. Black leather gilt, 5 bands to spine, title label, spine slightly dulled, rubs to edges and corners, marbled endpapers, general light foxing, a few marks to contents. A good tight very presentable of this classic. 4th edition, undated, circa 1884. View more info
By: Lowell, Robert / Edited and Introduced By Robert Giroux
Price: £15.00
Publisher: London, Faber & Faber: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 021557
xiv + 377pp, notes and sources, appendix, Black cloth boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper. This volume brings together for the first time Lowell's critical appreciation of poets ancient and modern; his thoughts on translation; and several pieces of autobiography, two of them unpublished. There are also extended interviews of 1961 and 1971. View more info
By: Macniven, Ian S / Peirce, Carol (Editors)
Price: £15.00
Publisher: USA, International Lawrence Durrell Society: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 019393
ix + 204pp + adverts. Softback, card covers, rubs to corners, light reading wear, general light browning to contents, overall a VG clean tight copy. Various sections cover essays, poetry, reviews, notes & queries, bibliography, plus a tribute to the late Alan G Thomas, (antiquarian, biographer, friend, bookdealer), by Gerald M Durrell. View more info
