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MUIR, Frank and NORDEN, Denis
You Can't Have Your Kayak and Heat It
London: Eyre Methuen, 1973
8vo, pp. 96. Original laminated boards, photographic portraits of the authors to rear panel.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY BOTH AUTHORS TO ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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SAYERS, Dorothy L.
Why Work?
London: Methuen & Co., 1942
Small 8vo pamphlet, pp. 24. Original salmon pink wrappers, printed in black to front panel.
First edition.
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[illus. HIRSCHFELD, Al] PERELMAN, S. J.
Westward Ha!
London: Reinhardt and Evans, 1949
8vo, pp. 159. Original pink boards, title panel to spine, design panel to front board. Top edge green. Illustrated dustwrapper. Small... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[St. Jerome]
Vita De Sancto Hieronymo
Cambridge: Cygnet Press, 1928
Small 8vo, pp. 36. Illustrated with woodcuts. Original green boards, lettered in gilt on black spine. Paper label lettered in black to front... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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YOUNG, Filson
Venus And Cupid
London: Elisina Grant Richards, 1906
8vo, unpaginated. Original quarter vellum, blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine, title label to front panel in black and red. Partially ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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HARRIS, Joel Chandler
Uncle Remus: His Songs And His Sayings,
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1881
8vo, pp. 231, 8 pp. advertisements bound in at rear. Original green cloth illustrated in black and gold.
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ORBEN, Robert
Three Vintage Joke Books
New York: Robert Orben/Louis Tannen, V.d.
3 8vos, bound in illustrated wrappers.
First editions, various printings.
Robert Orben [b. 1927] is an... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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BRISLEY, Joyce Lankester
Three Little Milly-Molly-Mandy Plays
London: George Harrap, 1938
Small 8vo, pp. 64. Original tan coarse grain illustrated wrappers, lettered in black to front panel.
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PHILLPOTTS, Eden
Thoughts In Prose And Verse
London: Watts, 1924
8vo, pp. 135. Original green boards, lettered in black on front panel and spine.
First edition.
A minor title in the prodigious output of 'The Dartmoor Scribe', but a particularly nice copy.
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[illus. HIRSCHFELD, Al] PERELMAN, S. J.
The Swiss Family Perelman
London: Reinhardt and Evans, 1951
8vo, pp. 152. Original orange boards, lettered in black to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
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[contrib. DOYLE, Arthur Conan]
The Strand, Christmas 1920 Issue
London: George Newnes, 1921
8vo, [pp. 1-84 advertisements] pp. 463-580 [pp. 85-136 advertisements]. Illustrated stiff paper wrappers.
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SOMERVILLE, E. OE
The States Through Irish Eyes
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930
Large 8vo, pp. 200. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Edges uncut.
First edition. One of 375 copies SIGNED BY THE... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[trans. FITZGERALD, Edward]
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
London: George Harrap, N.d. [c.1925]
8vo, unpaginated. Original burgundy leather boards, title in gilt to spine. Ivy leaf design to both panels, illustrated in green and gilt ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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CUDLIPP, Hugh
The Prerogative of the Harlot: Press Barons and Power
London: Bodley Head, 1980
8vo, pp. 304. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Printed dustwrapper, author's photographic portrait to rear panel.
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[Literary Periodical] [ed. LOCKE ELLIS, Vivian]
The Open Window Vols. 1 and 2 (all published)
London: Locke Ellis, 1910-11
2 vols. 12mos. Blue boards, lettered in gilt to vellum spines. Top edge gilt, leading and lower edges uncut. Ownership inscription of George J.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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SAYERS, Dorothy L.
The Lost Tools of Learning
London: Methuen & Co., 1948
Small 8vo pamphlet, pp. 30. Original salmon pink wrappers, lettered in black to front panel.
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[AUDEN, W.H.]
The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard
New York: David McKay, 1952
Small 8vo, pp. 225. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated endpapers. No dustwrapper, as issued.
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ATTENBOROUGH, David
The Living Planet
London: Reader's Digest Association/William Collins/BBC, 1985
Oblong 4to, pp. 368. Original photographic boards, lettered in silver on black to spine. Grey endpapers.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
