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(LONGMIRE, Caroline & Patricia Brougham. Editors). WOMAN'S OWN BOOK OF PLEASURE. £ 6.00

London. Hurst and Blackett. 1957. pp. 223. Coloured frontis, illustrations throughout. 8vo. Pink cloth, spine faded. Extracts from the magazine including Daphne du Maurier by Beverley Nichols.

Reference: 38643

 
(SACKVILLE, Lady Margaret). BERTRUD AND OTHER DRAMATCI POEMS. By the Author of A Hymn to Dionysus. £ 30.00

Edinburgh. William Brown. 1911. pp. xii, 160. Frontis. 8vo. Quarter vellum, boards, browned. No. 168 of a limited edition of 200 copies. Signed by the author on the title page.

Reference: 14195

 
ARCHARD, David. MARXISM AND EXISTENTIALISM. The Political Philosophy of Sartre and Merleau-Ponty. £ 8.00

Belfast. Blackstaff Press. 1980. pp. xv, 126. 8vo. D/W.

Reference: 167380

 
AUSTIN, L.J.; Garnet Rees and Eugene Vinaver. (Editors). STUDIES IN MODERN FRENCH LITERATURE presented to P. Mansell Jones by Pupils, Colleagues and Friends. £ 5.00

Manchester University Press. 1961. pp. xix, 343. Frontis, 2 plates. 8vo. Blue cloth. Notations in the text, mainly in pencil.

Reference: 20759

 
BACON, Alan. (Editor). THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY HISTORY OF ENGLISH STUDIES. £ 30.00

Aldershot. Ashgate Publishing Ltd. 1998. pp. x, 321. 8vo. D/W, spine faded. The Nineteenth Century Series General Editors Vincent Newey & Joanne Shattock. ISBN 1840142782. A very good, bright, clean copy.

Reference: 312160

 
BAILEY, John. A QUESTION OF TASTE. £ 5.00

London. The English Association. 1926. pp. 20. 8vo. Printed wrapper stitched as issued. English Association Pamphlet No. 65.

Reference: 17426

 
BAILIN, Miriam. THE SICKROOM IN VICTORIAN FICTION. The Art of Being Ill. £ 26.00

Cambridge University Press. 1994. pp. x, 169. 8vo. D/W. Pencil markings in the margins. ISBN 0521445264. A good copy.

Reference: 13001

 
BALDICK, Chris. IN FRANKENSTEIN'S SHADOW. Myth, Monstrosity, and Nineteenth-Century Writing. £ 20.00

Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1987. pp. xii, 207. 5 illustrations. 8vo. D/W. Endpapers very slightly foxed. ISBN 0198117264. A very good copy.

Reference: 12455

 
BALLARD, J.G. A USER'S GUIDE TO THE MILLENNIUM. Essays and Reviews. £ 20.00

London. Harper Collins Publishers. 1996. pp. (viii), 304. 8vo. D/W. 1st edition. Text block slightly browned. ISBN 0002555522.

Reference: 72750

 
BALLARD, J.G. COCAINE NIGHTS. £ 300.00

London. Flamingo. 1996. pp. 329. 8vo. D/W, not price clipped. Text block browned. 1st edition, 1st printing. ISBN 000224135. Signed on title page 'To Sue JG Ballard'.

Reference: 47844

 
BALLARD, J.G. KINGDOM COME. £ 10.00

London. Fourth Estate. 2006. pp. 280. 8vo. D/W, not price clipped. 1st edition. ISBN 0007232462. A very good, bright, clean copy.

Reference: 10370

 
BALLARD, J.G. MILLENNIUM PEOPLE. £ 75.00

London. Flamingo. 2003. pp. (vi), 294. 8vo. D/W. 1st edition. Text block edge beginning to brown. ISBN 000225848X. 'Signed Copy' with authors signature on title page.

Reference: 96441

 
BALLARD, J.G. MILLENNIUM PEOPLE. £ 15.00

London. Flamingo. 2003. pp. (vi), 294. 8vo. Paperback. Uncorrected proof copy. ISBN 000225848X.

Reference: 96441pb

 
BALLARD, J.G. RUNNING WILD. £ 75.00

With Illustrations by Janet Woolley. London. Hutchinson. 1988. pp. 72. 6 illustrations. 8vo. D/W. ISBN 0091734983. Signed by Ballard on the title page. A very good, bright, clean copy.

Reference: 93420

 
BALLARD, J.G. SUPER-CANNES. £ 75.00

London. Flamingo, 2000. pp. 392. 8vo. D/W, not price clipped. Text block browned. 1st edition, 1st printing. ISBN 0002258471. Signed on title page 'To John JG Ballard'.

Reference: 20858

 
BALLARD, J.G. THE DAY OF CREATION. £ 50.00

London. Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1987. pp. 254. 8vo. D/W not price clipped. 1st edition. Signed by the author on the title page. ISBN 057504152. A very good, bright, clean copy.

Reference: 10393

 
BALLARD, J.G. Edited by Simon Sellars and Dan O'Hara. EXTREME METAPHORS. Selected Interviews with J.G. Ballard 1967 - 2008. £ 16.00

London. Fourth Estate. 2012. pp. xxiv, 503. 8vo. D/W. ISBN 9780007454853. A very good, clean copy.

Reference: 29291

 
BARCLAY, Glen St. John. ANATOMY OF HORROR: The Masters of Occult Fiction. £ 8.00

London. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1978. pp. 144. 8vo. D/W. ISBN 0297774735. A very good, clean copy.

Reference: 140590

 
BASON, Fred. FRED BASON'S DIARY. £ 12.00

Edited and introduced by Nicolas Bentley. London. Wingate. 1950. pp. 176. Frontis. 8vo. D/W, slightly frayed. Previous owner's bookplate. With a post card of Bason, signed by Bason loosely inserted.

Reference: 8424

 
BASON, Fred. THE LAST BASSOON from the diaries of Fred Bason. £ 20.00

Edited and Introduced by Noel Coward. London. Max Parrish. 1960. pp. 208. Frontis. 8vo. D/W, slightly frayed. Two post cards of Bason, inscribed by Bason, loosely inserted.

Reference: 82650

 
BELFORD, Barbara. BRAM STOKER. A Biography of the Author of Dracula. £ 6.00

London. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1996. pp. xv, 381. Illustrated. 8vo. D/W. ISBN 0297813315. A very good, bright, clean copy.

Reference: 282640UK

 
BENNETT, Alan. TALKING HEADS. £ 35.00

London. BBC. 1999. pp. 95. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Reprint. ISBN 0563206225. Inscribed by the author on the title page 'To Eddie with best wishes Alan Bennett'.

Reference: 123810

 
BLACKWELL, Sir Basil. THE ORIGIN OF CLASSICS. £ 8.00

London. The English Association. 1970. pp. 13. 8vo. Wrapper stapled as issued. The English Association Presidential Address 1970.

Reference: 11294

 
BLOOMFIELD, Barry. BROUGHT TO BOOK. Philip Larkin and his bibliographer. Some reminiscences. £ 30.00

The Friends of Edinburgh University Library. 1995. pp. iv, 17. 8vo. Printed wrapper stapled as issued. A very good copy.

Reference: 86945

 
BLOW, Simon. NO TIME TO GROW. A Shattered Childhood. £ 60.00

London. John Murray. 1999. pp. (vi), 282. 8vo. D/W. Some underlining of the text. Signed by the author on the title page and inscribed by him 'To Rupert in memory of four days hunting for 'things' for South A. With love from Simon 24 June 1999 & who cheered me up after all this unhappiness.' Also loosely inserted a post card from Blow.

Reference: 206941

 
BLUNT, Wilfrid Scawen. THE POETICAL WORKS. A Complete Edition. Vol 2 only. £ 12.00

. London. MacMillan & Co. Ltd. 1914. pp. vi, 471. 8vo. Original blue cloth, spine slightly dulled.

Reference: 13477

 
BOWRA, Sir Maurice. THE PROPHETIC ELEMENT. £ 6.00

London. The English Association. 1959. pp. 19. 8vo. Wrapper stitched as issued. The English Association Presidential Address 1959.

Reference: 9596

 
BRAVERMAN, Richard. PLOTS AND COUNTERPLOTS. Sexual politics and the body politic in English literature, 1660 - 1730. £ 20.00

Cambridge University Press. 1993. pp.xviii, 333. 8vo. D/W. ISBN 9780521356206. Neat inscription to previous owner on front free endpaper. A very good copy.

Reference: 46605

 
BRETON, Nicholas; George Wither; & William Browne (of Tavistock). PASTORAL POEMS; Selected Poetry; Pastoral Poetry. £ 5.00

Hull. J.R. Tutin. 1906. pp. 64. Small 8vo. Foxed. Unopened. Original printed wrapper. The Pembroke Booklets (First Series) III.

Reference: 28115

 
BREWER, Derek. TRADITIONAL STORIES AND THEIR MEANINGS. £ 8.00

London. The English Association. 1983. pp. (xxvi). 8vo. Wrapper stapled as issued. The English Association Presidential Address 1983.

Reference: 18613

 
BROWN, Ben. LARKIN WITH WOMEN. £ 25.00

London. Faber & Faber. 1999. pp. (xii), 88. 8vo. Paperback. Script with a programme signed by the cast - Suzy Aichison, Carolyn Backhouse, Susie Blake, and Oliver Ford Davies.

Reference: 80541

 
BRYDEN, Ronald. THE UNFINISHED HERO and other essays. £ 6.00

London. Faber & Faber. 1969. pp. 242. 8vo. D/W, slightly frayed.

Reference: 9630

 
BURNS, Edward. (Editor). READING ROCHESTER. £ 10.00

Liverpool University Press. 1995. pp. (viii), 232. 1 illustration. 8vo. D/W, spine faded. ISBN 0853230382. A very good, clean copy.

Reference: 822035

 
CAMMELL, Charles Richard. THE TRIUMPH OF BEAUTY. £ 45.00

Geneva. For the Author. 1925. pp.18. 8vo. Quarter cloth, front board label. Inscribed ' To Meta from her loving brother the author. Geneva July 1925'.

Reference: 60232

 
CAREW, Thomas. POEMS. £ 5.00

Cottingham. J.R. Tutin. 1903. pp. 32. Small 8vo. Original printed wrapper. The Orinda Booklets II.

Reference: 26577

 
CHURCH, Richard. A LOOK AT TRADITION. £ 5.00

London. The English Association. 1965. pp. 9. 8vo. Wrapper stitched as issued. The English Association Presidential Address 1965.

Reference: 9569

 
CLARK, John W. THE LANGUAGE AND STYLE OF ANTHONY TROLLOPE. £ 4.00

London. Andre Deutsch. 1975. pp. 238. 8vo. D/W. The Language Library edited by Eric Partridge & Simeon Potter.

Reference: 8647

 
CLARK, Sir Kenneth. PROVINCIALISM. £ 6.00

London. The English Association. 1962. pp. 12. 8vo. Wrapper stitched as issued. The English Association Presidential Address 1962.

Reference: 15762

 
CLIFFORD, James L. ROBERT MERRY: A Pre-Byronic Hero. £ 6.00

Manchester. Manchester University Press & The John Rylands Library. 1943. pp. 24. 8vo. Printed wrapper stitched as issued. Unopened.

Reference: 78770

 
COLONY, Horatio. THE MAGIC CHILD. £ 6.00

Boston. Branden Press. 1966. pp. 80. 8vo. D/W, beginning to brown. A good copy.

Reference: 13183

 
COLONY, Horatio. THREE LOVES THE SAME. £ 10.00

Boston. Bruce Humphries. 1961. pp. 46. 8vo. D/W, very slightly frayed and faded. Inscribed. 'From Horation Colony 83 Chestnut Stree, Boston.' From the estate of the late Sir Compton Mackenzie, by family descent, with his bookplate.

Reference: 72270

 
CRUIKSHANK, George. Introduction by Joseph Grego. CRUIKSHANK'S WATER COLOURS. £ 65.00

London. A & C Black. 1903. pp. xxvi, (ii), 326. Colour frontis, 66 colour plates all with tissue guards, 1 woodcut. 4to. Original decorated cream cloth, spine darkened, top edge gilt. Top of front hinge and base of spine frayed. Endpapers foxed. The plates are clean. No.216 of a limited edition of 300 signed by the publishers. Contains Oliver Twist; The Miser's Daughter; & Histroy of the Irish Rebellion in 1798 and Emmett's Insurrection in 1803. A good copy.

Reference: 69540

 
CRUM, Margaret. (Editor). FIRST-LINE INDEX OF ENGLISH POETRY 1500 - 1800 in Manuscripts of The Bodleian Library Oxford. £ 10.00

Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1969. 2 vols. pp. xi, 630; (iv), 631 - 1257. Demy 4to. D/Ws, slightly frayed. Corners bumped.

Reference: 12872

 
CULLINGFORD, Elizabeth. (Editor). YEATS. POEMS, 1919 - 1935. A Casebook. £ 6.00

London. MacMillan. 1984. pp. 240. 8vo. D/W, faded. Edges browned. Previous owners inscriptionon front free endpaper.

Reference: 18322

 
DAVIE, Donald. (Editor). THE NEW OXFORD BOOK OF CHRISTIAN VERSE. £ 5.00

Oxford University Press. 1981. pp. xxix, 320. 8vo. D/W.

Reference: 7414

 
DAYAN, Peter. MALLARME'S DIVINE TRANSPOSITION. Real and Apparent Sources of Literary Value. £ 5.00

Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1986. pp. ix, 226. 8vo. D/W. Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs. A very good, clean copy. ISBN 0198158416

Reference: 13710

 
DE GROFF, R. Scott. POWDER AND OTHER SKIING POEMS. £ 10.00

R. Scott De Groff. 1995. pp. 29. 8vo. Printed wrapper stapled as issued. 2nd printing. A very good copy.

Reference: 17624

 
DEKKERS, Odin. J.M. ROBERTSON: Rationalist and Literary Critic. £ 6.00

Aldershot. Ashgate Publishing Ltd. 1998. pp. x, 281. 8vo. D/W. The Nineteenth Century Series General Editors Vincent Newey & Joanne Shattock. ISBN 1840146680. A very good, bright, clean copy.

Reference: 19216

 
DICKENS, Charles. THE SPEECHES OF CHARLES DICKENS. £ 35.00

Edited by K.J. Fielding. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1960. pp. xxiv, 456. 8vo. Blue cloth. Edges of text block foxed, otherwise a very clean, very good copy.

Reference: 80751

 
DIO. Earnest Cary (Translator on the basis of the version of Herbery Baldwin Foster). DIO'S ROMAN HISTORY in Nine volumes. Loeb Classical Library No. 32. £ 10.00

Harvard University Press. 1990. pp. xxxii, 449. Small 8vo. D/W. Reprint. ISBN 0674990366. Text in English and Greek. A very good copy.

Reference: 65790

 
DOUGLAS, Lord Alfred. IRELAND AND WAR AGAINST HITLER. £ 150.00

. London. The Richards Press Ltd. 1940. pp. 36, (4). 8vo. Printed wrapper stitched as issued and included in the pagination. Foxed.

Reference: 51115

 
DOUGLAS, Lord Alfred. THE PRINCIPLES OF POETRY: An Address delivered by Lord Alfred Douglas before The Royal Society of Literature on September 2nd, 1943. £ 200.00

London. The Richards Press Ltd. 1943. pp. 26, (ii). 8vo. Printed wrapper, foxed. Edition of 1000 copies. Inscribed on the title page by Douglas 'Marjorie Flack from Alfred Dougls December 1943.' Marjorie Flack (1897 - 1958) was an American artist and writer of children's picture books

Reference: 8555

 
DRABBLE, Margaret. SAFE AS HOUSES. £ 5.00

London. Chatoo & Windus. 1990. pp. 44. Paperback. Chatto CounterBlasts No. 17. Signed by the author on title page.

Reference: 11764

 
DRYDEN, John. Edited by James Kinsley. THE POEMS. £ 100.00

Oxford at the Clarendon Press. 1970. 4 vols. pp. xxi, 466; vii, 467 - 1001; (v), 1003 - 1436; vi, 1437 - 2104. Frontis - Vol I. 8vo. D/Ws faded, foxed and slightly torn. Edge of text block foxed. Previous owner's name on inside of front board. Reprint. Internally a very clean copy.

Reference: 16702

 
DUNN, Douglas. POLL TAX: The Fiscal Fake. £ 5.00

London. Chatto & Windus. 1990. pp. (v), 58. Paperback. Chatto CounterBlasts No. 12. Signed by the author on title page.

Reference: 7026

 
DUNN, Douglas. UNDER THE INFLUENCE. Douglas Dunn on Philip Larkin. £ 20.00

Edinburgh University Library. 1987. pp. (iv), 13. 8vo. Printed wrapper stapled as issued. A very good copy. Bloomfield App 10.

Reference: 39774

 
DUNN, Douglas; Robert Whitaker. TERRY STREET. £ 30.00

Hull. Bete Noir. 1994. pp. 102. Illustrtaed with Whitaker's photographs. Royal 8vo. Paperback.

Reference: 14951

 
DYSON, Brian, with Maeve Brennan and Geoff Weston. PHILIP LARKIN: His Life and Work. Catalogue of an Exhibition held in the Brynmor Jones Library 2 June - 12 July, 1986. £ 5.00

Brynmor Jones Library University of Hull. 1986. pp. 24. 2 illustrations. 8vo. Card wrappper. Stapled as issued.

Reference: 1059

 
DYSON, Brian. (Editor). THE MODERN ACADEMIC LIBRARY. Essays in memory of Philip Larkin. £ 20.00

The contributors are David M. Baker, Barry C. Bloomfield, Maeve M. Brennan, Charles F. Brook, Douglas Dunn, Brian Dyson, Thomas W. Graham, Peter A. Hoare, Brenda E. Moon, Robert F. Smeaton, & Lynne Wallace. London. The Library Association 1989. pp. xviii, 157. 1 plate. 8vo. D/W. ISBN 0853658870 Bloomfield App 11.

Reference: 9344

 
EDINBURGH, H.R.H. The Duke of. COMMUNICATION. £ 8.00

London. The English Association. 1968. pp. 10. 8vo. Wrapper stapled as issued. The English Association Presidential Address 1968.

Reference: 78475

 
EDWARDS. P.D. DICKENS'S 'YOUNG MEN'. george Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates and the World of Victorian Journalism. £ 12.00

Aldershot. Ashgate Press Ltd. 1997. pp. x, 229. 16 illustrations. 8vo. D/W. Edge of text block slightly browned. The Nineteenth Century Series General Editors Vincent Newey & Joanne Shattock. ISBN 1859280439. A very good, clean copy.

Reference: 20376

 
FERRIER, Janet M. FORERUNNER OF THE FRENCH NOVEL. An Essay on the Development of the Nouvelle in the late Middle Ages. £ 6.00

Manchester University Press. 1954. pp. ix, 124. 8vo. D/W, slightly foxed.

Reference: 16810

 
FLETCHER, John. CLAUDE SIMON and Fiction Now. £ 6.00

London. Calder & Boyars. 1975. pp. 240. 8vo. D/W. Very occasional pencil markings in the margins. Corners bumped.

Reference: 13930

 
FRANK, Judith. COMMON GROUND. Eighteenth-Century English Satiric Fiction and the Poor. £ 10.00

Stanford University Press. 1997. pp. xi, 230. 8vo. D/W, spine faded. ISBN 9780804729086. A very good copy.

Reference: 101390

 
FUJIMURA, Thomas H. THE TEMPER OF JOHN DRYDEN. £ 5.00

East Lansing Colleagues Press. 1993. pp. viii, 245. Frontis, 1 plate. 8vo. D/W, spine slightly faded.

Reference: 17619

 
G, J.F. (John F. Gore). THE SILLY SEASON. £ 8.00

London. Elkin Mathews. 1910. pp. 104. Small 8vo. Original red coth, head & tail of spine slightly rubbed.

Reference: 77030

 
GLEN, Michael Hamish. ONCE UPON A THYME. £ 10.00

With illustrations by Isobell and Rosemary Johnstone. Edinburgh. The Salamander Press. 1962. pp. 32. Illustrated. Small 8vo. D/W, marked. Stapled as issued. Signed by the author on the half title. From the estate of the late Sir Compton Mackenzie, by family descent, with his bookplate.

Reference: 14590

 
GRANT, Patrick. LITERATURE AND THE DISCOVERY OF METHOD IN THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE. £ 5.00

Athens, GA. University of Georgia Press. 1985. pp. ix, 188. 8vo. D/W.

Reference: 5745

 
GRAY, Thomas. Edited by the late Paget Toynbee and Leonard Whibley. CORRESPONDENCE OF THOMAS GRAY. £ 65.00

Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1935. 3 vols. pp. lx, 453; xxxvi, 455 - 909; xxxiv, 911 - 1360. 3 frontis’s, 25 plates, some folded. 8vo. Red cloth unevenly faded. A very good set. Volume 1 1734 - 1755; Volume 2 1756 - 1765; Volume 3 1766 - 1771.

Reference: 23073

 
GREGORY, Gill. THE LIFE AND WORK OF ADELAIDE PROCTER: Poetry, Feminism and Fathers. £ 12.00

Aldershot. Ashgate. 1998. pp. xii, 293. 5 illustrations. 8vo. D/W. The Nineteenth Century Series General Editors Vincent Newey & Joanne Shattock. ISBN 1840146702. A very good, bright, clean copy.

Reference: 20749

 
GRIFFIN, Dustin. REGAINING PARADISE. Milton and the eightenth century. £ 16.00

Cambridge University Press. 1986. pp. xi, 299. 8vo. D/W, unevenly faded and slightly torn. ISBN 0521309131. A very good copy.

Reference: 80390

 
GROSSMAN, Marshall. AUTHORS TO THEMSELVES. Milton and the Revelation of History. £ 8.00

Cambridge University Press. 1987. pp. xii, 243. Frontis. 8vo. D/W. There are the remains of occasional pencil marginalia which has been erased.

Reference: 70154

 
HARRIS, Michael. POEMS. £ 25.00

With an Introduction by Sir Compton Mackenzie. Dublin. The Dolmen Press. 1965. pp. 28. 8vo. Wrapper, slightly marked, Stitched as issue. Limited edition of 500 copies. Inscribed by the author 'To Monty with gratitude and affection for one who has always helped from Mick Feb 1965.' From the estate of the late Sir Compton Mackenzie by family descent. Mackenzie's full name was Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie.

Reference: 154500

 
HARTLEY, George. (Editor). PHILIP LARKIN 1922 - 1985. A Tribute. £ 6.00

London. The Marvell Press. 1988. pp. xii, 308. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. ISBN 0900533110 Bloomfield App 15

Reference: 71952

 
HARTLEY, Jean. PHILIP LARKIN, THE MARVELL PRESS AND ME. £ 1.75

London. The Sumach Press. 1993. pp. 219. 15 illustrations. Paperback.

Reference: 53510

 
HARTOG, Dirk den. DICKENS AND ROMANTIC PSYCHOLOGY. The Self in Time in Nineteenth-Century Literature. £ 6.00

Basingstoke. MacMillan. 1987. pp. x, 177. 8vo. D/W. Edge of text block foxed. ISBN 0333352378. A very good copy.

Reference: 16092

 
HARWOOD, Anthony. 8 POEMS. £ 85.00

Paris. Maurice Darantiere. 1952. pp. 21 unnumbered. 8vo. Original wrapper covered in clear, yellow plastic. No. 48 of a limited edition. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper 'R peu a peu T London. 23.x.67'

Reference: 91910

 
HARWOOD, Anthony. SWAN SONGS and other poems. £ 40.00

London. The Favil Press. 1961. pp. (viii), 53. 8vo. Red cloth, slightly marked. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. 'R Ca fait aussi a rouge (?) T 26.x.67'

Reference: 104010

 
HARWOOD, Anthony. TEN POEMS. £ 45.00

Venice. Klootz Ltd. 1959. pp. 21 unnumbered. 4to. Printed wrapper. No 4 of an edition limited to 100 copies on Carta Ingres di Fabriano of which those numbered from 1 - 66 are on ivory paper & those numbered from 67 - 100 are on white paper. Inscribed by the author on ffront free endpaper ' For Rupert always T 11.x.67'

Reference: 117740

 
HOEVELER, Diane Long. GOTHIC FEMINISM. The Professionalization of Gender from Charlotte Smith to the Brontes. £ 20.00

Liverpool University Press. 1998. pp. xix, 250. 8vo. D/W. With the bookplate of The Friends of Coleridge. ISBN 0853239932. A very good, clean copy.

Reference: 92881

 
HOGG, James (Editor). STUDIES IN NINETEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE. £ 10.00

Resolution and Independence by Horiya A. Borno; Imagery in Wordsworth's Lucy Poems by B.G. Tandon; King Victor and King Charles reconsidered by Ashok Sengupta; The Return of the Druses reconsidered by Ashok Sebgupta; Gladstone's Homer by Eric Glasgow. Salzburg. Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universitat Salzburg. 1982. pp. 81. 8vo. Paperback. Spine faded, front cover stamped Review Copy. Salzburg Studies in English Literature under the Direction of Professor Erwin A. Sturzl. Romantic Reassessment. Editor: Dr. James Hogg. No.87.5. Includes chapters on Wordsworth, Browning & Gladstone.

Reference: 17249

 
HOGG, James. (Editor). STUDIES IN NINETEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE. £ 10.00

The Imminent Imagination by William Oxley; Anglo-Greek Relations: 1800 - 1832 by Eric Glasgow; Lord Byron and His Religious Pronouncements in Cain, Don Juan, and A Vision of Judgement by Maria Emanuela Eisl; Edward Lear in Greece by Eric Glasgow; Pippa Passes reconsidered by Ashok Sengupta; Swinburne's Debt to Greek Literature by Eric Glasgow; Benjamin Jowett and The Greeks by Eric Glasgow. Salzburg. Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universitat Salzburg. 1981. pp. 102. 8vo. Paperback. Front cover stamped Review Copy. Salzburg Studies in English Literature under the Direction of Professor Erwin A. Sturzl. Romantic Reassessment. Editor: Dr. James Hogg. No.87.3. Includes chapters on Byron, Lear & Swinburne

Reference: 108370

 
HOLLAND, John. THE HOPES OF MATRIMONY: A Poem. £ 75.00

London. Francis Westley. 1822. pp. viii, 68. Frontis. 8vo. Modern, marbled wrapper with front board label. Title page off set. With the bookplate of J O Edwards.

Reference: 7458

 
HOLLAND, Merlin. THE WILDE ALBUM. £ 30.00

London. Fourth Estate. 1997. pp. 192. Well illustrated. Small 4to. D/W. Signed by the author, Merlin Holland, who was Wilde's grandson. A very good bright, clean copy.

Reference: 470883

 
HOLLIS, Christopher. LETTERS TO A SISTER. £ 6.00

London. Hollis & Carter. 1947. pp. vii, 190. 8vo. D/W, frayed.

Reference: 45290

 
HOLTBY, Winifred. THE ASTONISHING ISLAND. £ 35.00

Being a veracious record of the experiences undergone by Robinson Lippingtree Mackintosh from Tristan da Cunha during an accidental visit to unknown territory in the year of grace MCMXXX- ? London. Lovat Dickson Ltd. 1933. pp. (viii), 184. Frontis, 12 plates and line drawings in the text by Batt (Oswald Barrett). Small 4to. Black cloth. 1st edition. Handley-Taylor p4.

Reference: 73285

 
HOLTBY, Winifred. TRUTH IS NOT SOBER. £ 25.00

London. W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1934. pp. 284. 8vo. Purple cloth, front board slightly marked, spine badly faded. 1st edition. Handley-Taylor p5.

Reference: 7120

 
HOPE, T.E.; T.B.W. Reid, Roy Harris & Glanville Price. (Editors). LANGUAGE, MEANING AND STYLE. Essays in Memory of Stephen Ullman. £ 5.00

Leeds University Press. 1981. pp. (vii), 173. Frontis. 8vo. D/W.

Reference: 19690

 
IRESON, J.C.; I.D. McFarlane & Garnet Rees. (Editors). STUDIES IN FRENCH LITERATURE presented to H.W. Lawton by colleagues, pupils and friends. £ 5.00

Manchester University Press; New York. Barnes & Noble. 1968. pp. vii, 335. Frontis. 8vo. D/W, spine faded.

Reference: 11912

 
JACKSON-HOULSTON, C.M. BALLADS, SONGS AND SNATCHES. The Appropriation of Folk Song and Popular Culture in British Nineteenth-Century Realist Prose. £ 12.00

Aldershot. Ashgate Publishing Ltd. 1999. pp. xii, 221. 8vo. D/W. The Nineteenth Century Series General Editors Vincent Newey & Joanne Shattock. ISBN 1840142960. A very good, bright, clean copy.

Reference: 23898

 
JONES, P. Mansell. THE ASSAULT ON FRENCH LITERATURE and Other Essays. £ 5.00

Manchester University Press. 1963. pp. xvii, 197. 8vo. D/W. Occasional pencil markings in the margins.

Reference: 176787

 
LARKIN, Philip. Richard Palmer & John White (Editors). REFERENCE BACK. Philip Larkin's Uncollected Jazz Writings 1940 - 1984. £ 16.00

Foreword by Alan Plater. University of Hull Press. 1999. pp. xi, 170, (xix) of Glossary and Appendix. 8vo. D/W. ISBN 9780859586986. A very good, bright, clean copy.

Reference: 10734

 
LEACHMAN, E.W. THOSE DREADFUL CHOIR-BOYS. Formerly entitled "Diverting Stories of Clerical Life". £ 8.00

London. H.R. Allenson Ltd. (Circa 1923). pp. 281, (xvi) of adverts. 8vo. Green cloth unevenly faded. Cheaper editon. A very good copy.

Reference: 7803

 
LERANBAUM, Miriam. ALEXANDER POPE'S 'OPUS MAGNUM' 1729 - 1744. £ 5.00

Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1977. pp. xv, 187. Frontis. 8vo. D/W

Reference: 21539

 
LEWIS, Wyndham. EZRA POUND. Un saggio e tre disegni. £ 10.00

Milano. Pesce d'Oro. 1958. pp. 19. 3 plates. 8vo. Printed wrapper, stapled as issued. No. 476 of a limited edition of 1000 copies. Fascicoli del Verri N. 1. A very goods copy.

Reference: 10875

 
MAJID, Farida. (Editor). THURSDAY EVENING ANTHOLOGY. £ 8.00

Drawings by Feliks Topolski. London. The Salamander Imprint. 1977. pp. 72. Illustrated. Royal 8vo. Paperback. Limited edition of 500 copies.

Reference: 14847

 
McGANN, Jerome J. SOCIAL VALUES AND POETIC ACTS. The Historical Judgment of Literary Work. £ 6.00

Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1988. pp. xii, 279. 8vo. D/W, faded and frayed. ISBN 0674814959. A good copy.

Reference: 2440

 
McSWEENEY, Kerry. SUPREME ATTACHMENTS. Studies in Victorian Love Poetry. £ 20.00

Aldershot. Ashgate Publishing Ltd. 1998. pp. xii, 186. 8vo. D/W. The Nineteenth Century Series General Editors Vincent Newey & Joanne Shattock. ISBN 1840142022. A very good, bright, clean copy.

Reference: 130360

 
MEE, Huan. (Walter E. and Charles H. Mansfield) A DIPLOMATIC WOMAN. £ 750.00

London. Sands & Co. 1900. pp. (vi), 181, (i), (ii) of adverts. 8vo. Pictorial cloth. 6 stories entitled The Russian Cipher; Le Diable; The Abducted Ambassador; Prince Ferdinand's Entanglement; A Deal with China; & Monsieur Roche's Defeat featuring the early female spy Mademoiselle Aide Lerestelle

Reference: 6432

 
MEYNELL, Alice. THE WARES OF AUTOLYCUS. Selected Literary Essays of Alice Meynell. £ 5.00

Chosen and Introduced by P.M. Fraser. London. Oxford University Press. 1965. pp. xv, 170. Frontis. 8vo. D/W, foxed, faded and frayed. Includes Andrew Marvell; The Ancient Mariner; The Five Odes of Keats; Blake; & Coleridge.

Reference: 9149

 
MEYNELL, Francis. POEMS & PIECES 1911 to 1961. £ 25.00

London. The Nonesuch Press. 1961. pp. 59. 8vo. D/W. Limited edition of 750 copies printed by the Stellar Press in Bembo types on Van Gelder handmade paper. Out of series copy. WEith the prospectus for the book loosely inserted.

Reference: 51932

 
MOTION, Andrew. PHILIP LARKIN. A Writer's Life. £ 30.00

London. Faber & Faber. 1993. pp. xx, 570. 55 illustrations. 8vo. D/W. 1st edition. ISBN 0571151744. Signed by the author on the title page. A very good copy.

Reference: 70030

 
MURRAY, Richard Hollins. RANDOM THOUGHTS IN VERSE. £ 30.00

Illustrated by Margaret Morris, Barbara Fisher and Theodore Buttner. Stockport. The Cloister Press. (1952). pp. 113. Illustrated. 8vo. D/W, slightly torn. Richard Hollins Murray was the man who invented 'cat's eyes'.

Reference: 20329

 
MYERS, William. THE PRESENCE OF PERSONS. Essays on Literature, Science and Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century. £ 12.00

Aldershot. Ashgate Publishing Ltd. 1998. pp. x, 246. 8vo. D/W. The Nineteenth Century Series General Editors Vincent Newey & Joanne Shattock. ISBN 1840146451. A very good, bright, clean copy.

Reference: 13120

 
NEWEY, Vincent. CENTRING THE SELF. Subjectivity, Society and Reading from Thomas Gray to Thomas Hardy. £ 10.00

Aldershot. Scolar Press. 1995. pp. xviii, 273. 8vo. D/W. ISBN 9781859281512. A very good copy.

Reference: 8237

 
NICHOLSON, Derek E.T. THE POEMS OF THE TROUBADOUR PEIRE ROGIER. £ 6.00

Manchester University Press. 1976. pp .ix, 171. 8vo. D/W, spine slightly dulled.

Reference: 14815

 
O'FLAHERTY, Kathleen. THE NOVEL IN FRANCE 1945 - 1965. A General Survey. £ 6.00

Cork University Press. 1973. pp. 168. 8vo. D/W, badly faded. Occasional pencil markings in the margins.

Reference: 11035

 
OUEIJAN, Naji B. THE PROGRESS OF AN IMAGE. The East in English Literature. £ 25.00

New York. Peter Lang. 1996. pp. (viii), 144. 8vo. Laminated boards. American University Studies. Series IV. English Language and Literature Vol 181. Inscribed on front free endpaper. Edge of text block slightly foxed. Internally clean, a good copy. ISBN 0820427128

Reference: 18181

 
OWEN, Harold. JOURNEY FROM OBSCURITY. Wilfred Owen 1893 - 1918. Memoirs of the Owne Family. £ 60.00

London. Oxford University Press. 1963 - 1965. 3 vols. pp. xiii, 274; ix, 292; xi, 263. 3 frontis's, 23 plates. 8vo. D/Ws, all three rubbed at base of spine. Vol 1 - Childhood; Vol 2 - Youth; Vol 3 - War. A good set, internally clean, all volumes 1st editions.

Reference: 71370

 
PAGE, Norman. AN OSCAR WILDE CHRONOLOGY. £ 30.00

London. MacMillan. 1991. pp. x,105. 8vo. D/W. MacMillan Author Chronologies series. ISBN 033346073. A very good copy.

Reference: 9428

 
PALMER, William J. DICKENS AND NEW HISTORICISM. £ 10.00

London. MacMillan. 1997. pp. x, 190. 8vo. D/W. Edge of text block foxed. ISBN 0333731077. A very good unmarked copy.

Reference: 44643

 
PEPYS, Samuel. THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. £ 125.00

Edited by Robert Latham & William Matthews. Contributing Editors:- William A. Armstrong, Macdonald Emslie, Oliver Millar & the late T.F. Reddaway. London. G. Bell & Sons Ltd; Bell & Hyman; Unwin Hyman. 1971 - 1983. 11 vols. pp. clii, 349; xi, 267; xi, 329; xi, 465; xi, 386; xi, 368; xi, 450; xi, 626; xi, 590; xiv, 626; xv, 344. 10 frontis's, 45 plates, 2 folded plates, 20 maps, 1 plan, 2 genealogical tables. 8vo. D/W's, some slightly torn. Front hinge of Vol 1 tender. Vols 1, 2, 3 &10 are reprints, the rest 1st editions. A very good set ADDITIONAL SHIPPING REQUIRED.

Reference: 4200

 
PLOTINUS. Translated from the Greek by Stephen MacKenna. THE ETHICAL TREATISES being the Treatises of the first Ennead with Porphyry's Life of Plotinus, and the Preller-Ritter Extracts forming a conspectus of the Plotinian System. Vol 1. £ 50.00

London & Boston. The Medici Society. 1926. pp. viii, 158. Royal 8vo. Quarter cloth, boards with front board and spine labels. Slightly warped. Volume 1 only. Charles Cammell's copy with his bookplate, MS notes and MS poems on the endpapers, two of which are addresses to his son, Donald Seton Cammell, author and co-director of the film Performance starring Mick Jagger and James Fox. The book was given to Cammell by the painter John Duncan December 31st 1935.

Reference: 8725

 
POE, Edgar Allan. THE BELLS AND OTHER POEMS £ 300.00

With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac. London. Hodder & Stoughton. (1912). pp. (xii), 172. Frontis and 27 plates with tissue guards. 4to. Original green cloth with gilt decoration.

Reference: 119280

 
POUND, Ezra. LE NUVOLE DI PISA. £ 20.00

Con un ritratto inedito di Giuseppe Vivani. Milano. 1973. pp. 36. Frontis. Minature paperback. 2.25" x 2.75".

Reference: 209800

 
PROUDFIT, Charles L. (Editor). LANDOR AS CRITIC. £ 5.00

London. Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1979. pp. xiv, 358. 8vo. D/W, spine faded. Routledge Critics Series General Editor B.C. Southam.

Reference: 10919

 
QUINN, Patrick J. THE GREAT WAR AND THE MISSING MUSE. The Early Writings of Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon. £ 5.00

Selinsgrove. Susquenhanna University Press. 1994. pp. 297. 8vo. D/W. Previous owners bookplate stamp on half title and blind stamp of front free endpaper. A very good bright, clean copy.

Reference: 10273

 
RAMSEY, The Most Reverend A.M. ORATORY AND LITERATURE. £ 5.00

London. The English Association. 1960. pp. 9. 8vo. Wrapper stitched as issued, slightly dusty. The English Association Presidential Address 1960.

Reference: 17258

 
REID, Forrest. WALTER DE LA MARE. A Critical Study. £ 6.00

London. Faber & Faber Ltd. 1939. pp. 256. Frontis. 8vo. D/W, dulled, frayed, & torn. Endpapers foxed.

Reference: 7351

 
RICHARDS, I.A. COMPLEMENTARIES. Uncollected Essays. £ 5.00

Edited by John Paul Russo. Manchester. Carcanet New Press. 1977. pp. xxiv, 293. 8vo. D/W, spine faded, slightly marked.

Reference: 8463

 
RIGG, A.G. A GLASTONBURY MISCELLANY OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. A Descriptive Index of Trinity College, Cambridge MS. O.9.38 £ 10.00

Oxford University Press. 1968. pp. vii, 161. 8vo. D/W, frayed. From the library of John Fowles with his blindstamp and 2 pencil marks and a notation in the Introduction.

Reference: 10102

 
ROBERTS, Adam. ROMANTIC AND VICTORIAN LONG POEMS. A Guide. £ 12.00

Aldershot. Ashgate Publishing Ltd. 1999. pp. (viii), 223. 8vo. D/W.

Reference: 15138

 
ROLFE, Leonard H. THE NOVELS OF ANDRE CHAMSON. £ 6.00

New York. Vantage Press. 1971. pp. 204. 8vo. D/W, slightly faded & frayed.

Reference: 26900

 
ROSSEN, Janice. PHILIP LARKIN. His Life's Work. £ 10.00

london. Harvester Wheatsheaf. 1989. pp. xx, 156. 8vo. D/W, spine faded. ISBN 0745007058. With a letter from the author loosely inserted.

Reference: 7993

 
ROSSETTI, W.M. THE DIARY OF W.M. ROSSETTI 1870 - 1873. £ 20.00

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Odette Bornand. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1977. pp. xxiii, 302. Frontis. 8vo. D/W.

Reference: 18413

 
RUSSELL, William. CELLAR. A Play. £ 6.00

London. Allan Wingate. 1945. pp. (iv), 61. Fromtis. 8vo. D/W, slightly frayed.

Reference: 12408

 
SADRIN, Anny. PARENTAGE AND INHERITANCE IN THE NOVELS OF CHARLES DICKENS. £ 16.00

Cambridge University Press. 1994. pp. xiv, 168. 8vo. D/W. Edge of text block very slightly foxed. ISBN 0521390869. A very god copy.

Reference: 11467

 
SADRIN, Anny. PARENTAGE AND INHERITANCE IN THE NOVELS OF CHARLES DICKENS. £ 16.00

Cambridge University Press. 1994. pp. xiv, 168. 8vo. D/W. Edge of text block very slightly foxed. ISBN 0521390869. A very god copy.

Reference: 11467

 
SALWAK, Dale (Editor). A PASSION FOR BOOKS. £ 6.00

London. MacMillan 1999. pp. xviii, 208. 8vo. D/W. ISBN 0333714482. A very good, bright, clean copy inscribed by the editor on the title page.

Reference: 81952

 
SALWAK, Dale (Editor). THE LITERARY BIOGRAPHY. Problems and Solutions. £ 6.00

London. MacMillan. 1996. pp. xvi, 182. 8vo. D/W. ISBN 0333626397. A very good, bright, clean copy signed by the editor on the title page.

Reference: 10988

 
SALWAK, Dale. A.J. CRONIN. £ 20.00

Boston. Twayne Publishers. 1985. pp. (xii), 154. Frontis, 8vo. D/W. ISBN 080576884X. Twayne's English Authors Series 398. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. A very good, clean copy.

Reference: 68671

 
SALWAK, Dale. JOHN WAIN. £ 20.00

Boston. Twayne Publishers. 1981. pp. 155. Frontis. 8vo. D/W. ISBN 0805768068. Twayne's English Authors Series 316. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpapers. A very good clean copy.

Reference: 10512

 
SALWAK, Dale. MYSTERY VOICES. Interviews with British Crime Writers. £ 20.00

The writers are Catherine Aird, P.D. James, H.R.F. Keating, Ruth Rendell, & Julian Symons. San Bernardino. The Borgo Press. 1991. pp. 112. Illustrated. 8vo. Laminated boards. ISSN 10556859. Brownstone Mystery Guides Volume Eight. Inscribed by the author on front free endpaper.

Reference: 8909

 
SCHEIWILLER, Giovanni e Vanni. EDIZIONI DI GIOVANNI E VANNI SCHEIWILLER 1925 - 1968. £ 10.00

Con uno scritto di Ezra Pound 1937. Milano. Pesce d'Oro. 1968. pp. 91. 8vo. Paperback.

Reference: 9706

 
SHAKESPEARE, William. Edited by Henry N. Hudson. THE WINDSOR SHAKESPEARE. £ 50.00

London. The Caxton Publishing Company. (1910 - 1914). 20 volumes. All volumes with frontis's and further illustrations throughout. 8vo. Red cloth with gilt decoration of the spines, spines dulled. Very slight damage to the spine of Volume 2. Foxing throughout.

Reference: 39443

 
SIDNEY, Sir Philip; Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke; & Matthew Royden. SONNETS AND MISCELLANEOUS VERSE; Hymn to Astraea etc; Friend's Passion for his Astrophel. £ 5.00

Hull. J.R. Tutin. 1905. pp. 64. Small 8vo. Foxed. Unopened. Original printed wrapper becoming detached. The Pembroke Booklets (First Series) I.

Reference: 8543

 
SINGH, Pratap. POETS' VISION OF HISTORY. £ 10.00

Salzburg. Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universitat Salzburg. 1981. pp. iv, 106. 8vo. Paperback, front cover stamped Review Copy. Small amount of pencil markings in first chapter. Salzburg Studies in English Literature under the Direction of Professor Erwin A. Sturzl. Romantic Reassessment. Editor: Dr. James Hogg. No. 103. Includes chapters on Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Meredith, Hardy, & T.S. Eliot

Reference: 88830

 
SMITH, Allan Gardner Lloyd. EVE TEMPTED. Writing and Sexuality in Hawthorne's Fiction. £ 10.00

London. Croom Helm; Totowa, NJ. Barnes and Noble Books. 1984. pp. (vi), 182. 8vo. D/W, slightly frayed.

Reference: 188440

 
SPENCER, Michael. MICHEL BUTOR. £ 6.00

New York. Twayne Publishers Inc. 1974. pp. 187. 8vo. D/W. Twaynes World Author Series No. 275.

Reference: 69430

 
STAMY, Cynthia. MARIANNE MOORE AND CHINA. Orientalism and a Writing of America. £ 6.00

Oxford University Press. 1999. pp. xvi, 220. 8vo. D/W.

Reference: 79910

 
STOKER, Bram. THE GREAT WHITE FAIR IN DUBLIN; THE WORLD'S GREATEST SHIP-BUILDING YARD. Two articles in The World's Work Irish Number. Vol IX, No. 54. £ 450.00

London. William Heinemann. May 1907. pp. xvi, 563 - 672, xvii- xxvi, vi, xxvii - xxxiv. 1 colour plate, 1 monochrome plate, many monochrome illustrations in the text, illustrated adverts. 8vo. Cloth with original wrapper bound in. The Great White Fair in Dublin pp. 570 - 576; The World's Greatest Ship-Building Yard (Harland & Wolff in Belfast) pp 647 - 650. Dalby and Hughes H9 and H10.

Reference: 171040

 
SWARBRICK, Andrew. OUT OF REACH. The Poetry of Philip Larkin. £ 10.00

Basingstoke. MacMillan. 1995. pp. xii, 202. 8vo. Paperback. ISBN 0333596617. Inscribed by the author on the half title 'To Edwin Dawes With all good wishes, Andrew'

Reference: 11088

 
THOMSON, David Cleghorn. I WOULD BE ACOLYTE. £ 25.00

Edinburgh. For the Author by Oliver & Boyd Ltd. 1960. pp. 64. Frontis. 8vo. Tissue wrapper marked and frayed. From the estate of the late Sir Compton Mackenzie by family descent. Inscribed by the author 'For Monty with affectionate 88th birthday greetings from David Cleghorn Thomson'. Mackenzie's full name was Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie.

Reference: 67220

 
TROLLOPE, Anthony. THE NOBLE JILT. A Comedy. £ 120.00

Edited with a Preface by Michael Sadleir. London. Constable & Co. 1923. pp. xxiii, 182. 8vo. Original blind stamped red cloth, spine faded. Limited edition of 500 copies. With the bookplate of Carroll Atwood Wilson inside the front board and a previous owners nam on the front free endpaper. A very good copy. Sadleir 70

Reference: 15888

 
WARNER, The Rev Graham N. THE MUSE OF MORAYLAND. Being the County Lecture delivered to the London Morayshire Club on 17th October 1930. £ 20.00

Elgin. The Courant and Courier Office. (1931). pp. 40. 8vo. Printed wrapper, marked. The pamphlet was issued stapled together, the staples have rusted leaving a mark on all pages at the point of contact.

Reference: 102421

 
WAUGH, Alec. AUTOGRAPH LETTER to John Montgomery. £ 40.00

January 15th 1974. Folded air-letter form of blue paper posted in Gibralter with Waugh's Tangier address on reverse. 'No, I missed your piece about Evelyn in Gay News. That is one of the disadvantages of living abroad. I don't see many magazines and there's no TV. I never saw the A.G. Macdonald cricket match. I wonder when Christopher Sykes will get down to the biography of E.W. He is very dilatory. I won't say that he is in danger of missing the bus, but he has been preceded.'

Reference: 8853

 
WELDON, Fay. SACRED COWS. £ 6.00

London. Chatto & Windus. 1989. pp. 44. Paperback. Chatto CounterBlasts No. 4. Signed by the author on the half title page.

Reference: 8986

 
WHITE, Hugh. NATURE AND SALVATION IN PIERS PLOWMAN. £ 5.00

Cambridge. D.S. Brewer. 1988. pp. vii, 128. 8vo. D/W. ISBN 085991271X. A very good copy.

Reference: 33302

 
WILLIAMS, Iolo A. BY-WAYS ROUND HELICON. A Kind of Anthology. £ 6.00

With an Introduction by J.C. Squire. London. William Heinemann. 1922. pp. xxiv, 152. 8vo. D/W, slightly frayed.

Reference: 13745

 
WILLIAMSON, George. SEVENTEENTH CENTURY CONTEXTS. £ 5.00

London. Faber & Faber. 1960. pp. 291. 8vo. D/W, slightly frayed. A good copy.

Reference: 77441

 
WINTLE, Irene. PATCHWORK. Verse. £ 15.00

Hove. The Hove Shirley Press Ltd 1964. pp. 55. Small 8vo. Wrapper stapled as issued. From the estate of the late Sir Compton Mackenzie by family descent. Mackenzie's full name was Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie and the book has loosely inserted a two page letter from the author addressed to 'My dear Monty' reminiscing about the 1900s.

Reference: 37205

 
YARROW, P.J. CORNEILLE. £ 5.00

London. MacMillan & Co. Ltd. 1963. pp. ix, 325. 8vo. D/W, frayed. Edges foxed. Occasional markings in the margins.

Reference: 8086

 
YEATS, W.B. REFLECTIONS. £ 35.00

Transcribed and edited by Curtis Nradford from The Journals. Dublin. The Cuala Press. 1970. pp. (iv), 63. 8vo. Quarter cloth, boards, with plain wrapper. Unopened. No. 330 of a limited edition of 500 copies

Reference: 89920

 
 
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