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Howard Pyle. A Chronicle

By: Abbot, Charles D.; Wyeth, N. C.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: New York and London, Harper & Brothers, Publishers 1925: 1925

Seller ID: 30116

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

250pp. 38 b&w and 7 colour illustrations (most of these are full-page plates, some of the b&w are in-text illustrations). Very nicely typeset, in a slightly folksy American style. A lot of lightish foxing to colour frontispiece and title page, some lighter foxing immediately before and after. A few spots of light foxing in the text and along the fore-edge and a tiny bit of grubbying to very bottom corner, but otherwise nice and bright. Grey paper jacket quite grubbied and very chipped along the head, with some losses and is a bit speckled; spine is a tad rolled. Affectionate biography of the m...
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In the Footsteps of Borrow and Fitzgerald

By: Adams, Morley

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Jarrold and Sons [1913]: 1913

Seller ID: 54160

Binding: Hardback

Condition: Good

262 pp, gilt lettered blue cloth, illustrated in b/w, foxing to some pages, some pencil notation in text and name in ink on f.e.p.
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Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth. In two volumes

By: Aikin, Lucy

Price: £95.00

Publisher: London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown 1819: 1819

Seller ID: 55460

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Very Good

Two volumes. xvi, 488; vii, 522 pp. Contemporary calf with blind-stamped borders to front & rear boards. Recently rebacked in brown calf with black leather title labels. All edges marbled. Boards marked & rubbed. New endpapers. Bookplate to front endpapers. Foxing to prelims. Frontis portrait.
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Treadmill to Oblivion

By: Allen, Fred

Price: £60.00

Publisher: U S A, Little Brown & Co 1955: 1955

Seller ID: 45719

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

240 pp, illustrated in b/w, dustwrapper has faded spine, a presentation by Fred Allen to film critic David Lewin.
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Histoire de la Famille Bonaparte : Depuis son Origine Jusqu'en 1860. La Famille Imperiale

By: Ambrosini, D. L. and Adolphe Huard

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Paris, Lebigre-Duquesne Freres, Editeurs 1860: 1860

Seller ID: 61980

Binding: Half Calf

Condition: Very Good

Presentation copy from one of the authors with his inscription to the half-title. viii, 694 pp. Late 19th-century half calf over marbled boards. Raised bands to spine with brown leather title label. Marbled endpapers. Small bump to edge of front board. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally clean. Text in French.
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The Modern Portrait Gallery. In six volumes

By: Anon

Price: £150.00

Publisher: London, Paris & New York, Cassell, Petter & Galpin c. 1880: 1880

Seller ID: 49410

Binding: Decorated Cloth

Condition: Very Good

In six volumes. 160 pp each volume. Original publisher's blue cloth with decorative gilt design to front boards and spines. All edges gilt. Yellow endpapers. Wear to spines at head & foot. Each volume contains 20 short biographies and a colour tissue-guarded chromolithograph of a Victorian worthy. Internally very clean. Gilt bindings bright. A VG set.
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Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

By: Ataturk and compiled by Ilhan Aksit

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Istanbul, Aksit Kultur Turizm Ticaret Ltd. Sti. 1998: 1998

Seller ID: 61932

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

263 pp. Hardback in dust jacket and in original pictorial slipcase. Ink owner's inscription to half-title. Clean copy. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographic illustrations.
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Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, to Which are Added, Hearne's Journeys to Reading...and Lives of Eminent Men. In three volumes

By: Aubrey, John

Price: £125.00

Publisher: London, Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown 1813: 1813

Seller ID: 54771

Binding: Boards

Condition: Very Good

Three volumes (Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 in two parts). xxiii, 304; 352; 353-668 pp. Ex-library copies with usual markings. Quarter brown cloth over boards. Gilt lettering to spines. Boards covered in clear laminate. Internally clean. 'The whole now first published from the originals in the Bodleian Library and Ashmolean Museum, with biographical and literary illustrations.' Bindings firm.
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A Memoir of Jane Austen By Her Nephew J. E. Austen Leigh : To Which is Added Lady Susan and Fragments of Two Other Unfinished Tales By Miss Austen

By: Austen Leigh, J. E. and Jane Austen

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., Limited 1906: 1906

Seller ID: 60541

Binding: Publisher's Cloth

Condition: Very Good

ix, 364, (4) pp. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Boards clean. Internally clean. Frontis portrait. Includes 'The Watsons' and 'Lady Susan.'
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The Questing Beast : An Autobiography

By: Baldwin, Oliver

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, Grayson & Grayson 1932: 1932

Seller ID: 54761

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

244 p. Original orange cloth with lettering in black to front board & spine. Slight fading to spine. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally clean. Know as Viscount Coverdale, and son of conservative PM Stanley Baldwin, he was a Labour MP for many years. He was openly homosexual.
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Bamford's Passages in the Life of a Radical and Early Day. In two volumes

By: Bamford, Samuel and edited by Henry Dunckley

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin 1893: 1893

Seller ID: 61479

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

In 2 volumes complete. 253; 348 pp. Publisher's cloth. Marks to front board of vol. II. Bookplate to front pastedowns. Internally clean.
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Sherlock Holmes : A Biography of the World's First Consulting Detective

By: Baring-Gould, William S.

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Rupert Hart-Davis 1962: 1962

Seller ID: 63136

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

284 pp. Publisher's boards in pictorial dust wrapper. Jacket slightly edgeworn. Boards clean. No ownership names. Press cuttings laid in that have left offsetting to a few leaves. Illustrations.
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In Memory

By: Bedford, Sybille

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Eland Publishing Ltd. 2007: 2007

Seller ID: 62195

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

This is copy no. 302 of an edition limited to 365 copies. 128 pp. Paperback. Minor wear to cover edges. Internally clean. No ownership names. Illustrations.
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The Letters of Gertrude Bell. In two volumes

By: Bell, Gertrude and edited by Lady Florence Bell

Price: £300.00

Publisher: London, Ernest Benn Limited 1927: 1927

Seller ID: 61518

Binding: Half Morocco

Condition: Near Fine

In 2 volumes. xiii, 402, (1); 405-791 pp. Recently bound in half dark green morocco over marbled boards. Raised bands to spines with gilt decorations & brown leather title labels. New endpapers. Internally clean. Illustrations. Plates complete. Folding map at rear of volume two.
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Cyprian His Life His Times His Work

By: Benson, E.W. Archbishop

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, MacMillan and Co 1897: 1897

Seller ID: 63031

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

636 pp, wear and marks to boards, large ink inscription, bookplate and address stamp on front endpapers.
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The Life of Horace Binney

By: Binney, Charles Chauncey

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Philadelphia and London, J.B. Lippincott Company 1903: 1903

Seller ID: 33929

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

xi., 460 pp., illustrated in b/w, top edge gilt, includes letter from the author, pinned to f.e.p no less. Binding loosening slightly, a touch of wear, bit of spotting to spine.
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Percy Grainger

By: Bird, John

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Oxford, Oxford University Press 1999: 1999

Seller ID: 61318

ISBN: 0198166524

Binding: Hardback

Condition: Near Fine

xxvi., 379 pp., and 16 illustrations on 8 pp. A very short tear to the top edge of the front panel, and a dent at the head of the spine, but otherwise a very nice copy of an uncommon work. This extensively revised edition of John Bird's acclaimed biography of Percy Grainger gives the first circumstantial account of the life and works of one of the strangest figures in twentieth-century music. Behind Grainger's highly original compositional achievements, folksong collecting and glittering career as a virtuoso concert pianist lay a tragic and chaotic personal lifelong domination by his mother,...
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Petrarch and His World

By: Bishop, Morris

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A., Indiana Univ Press 1963: 1963

Seller ID: 45157

Binding: Half Calf

Condition: Very Good

399 pp. Tan half calf over cloth. Spine gilt. Top edge gilt. Previous owner's gilt initials to lower corner of front board. Scattered pencil notations, especially to rear endpapers.
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. In three volumes

By: Boswell, James

Price: £250.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., Limited 1912: 1912

Seller ID: 54513

Binding: Half Morocco

Condition: Very Good

In 3 volumes. Dark green half morocco over green cloth. Raised bands to spines with gilt panels & lettering. Top edge gilt. Title pages in red & black. From Macmillan's Library of English Classics. Clean copies. No ownership names. Bindings clean and bright.
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Boswell's Life of Johnson. Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales. In six volumes

By: Boswell, James and edited by George Birkbeck Hill

Price: £150.00

Publisher: New York, Bigelow, Brown & Co., Inc. N.d. [c. 1900]: 1900

Seller ID: 51252

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Complete in 6 volumes. Edition De Luxe. Publisher's full cloth with paper title labels to spines. Top edge gilt. Some dampstaining & marks to boards of vol. VI. One label slightly chipped. Occasional light foxing. Attractive bookplate to front pastedowns. Frontis to each volume. A VG set.
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