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WHITEHOUSE, Mary
Whatever Happened To Sex?
London: Wayland, 1977
8vo, pp. 224. Original mauve boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO BOB 'BLOCKBUSTERS' HOLNESS: 'To Bob ... [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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MASEFIELD, John
Victorious Troy
London: Heinemann, 1935
8vo, pp. 309. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt on front panel and spine.
First edition, published simultaneously with a signed limited edition of 125 copies.
A very nice example.
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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.
First edition, first issue, with no mention of this book in the... [more]
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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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MANN, Thomas
This Peace
New York: Knopf, 1938
Small 8vo, pp. 38. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine, and with Mann's initials embossed in blind to front panel.
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MANN, Thomas
This Peace
New York: Knopf, 1938
Small 8vo, pp. 38. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine, and with Mann's initials embossed in blind to front panel.
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SCOTT, Sir Walter
The Two Drovers
Westwood: Kindle Press, 1971
8vo, pp. 35. Original grey and green boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Slipcase.
Kindle Press edition, printed to commemorate the... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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DESMOND, Shaw
The Tale Of A Coat
Manchester: Burberry's, N.d. [?1937]
12mo, pp. 26. Original oversized stiff paper wrappers, title label to front panel.
First edition. Burberry's directors'... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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AMIS, Kingsley
The King's English
London: Harper Collins, 1997
Large 8vo., pp. 270. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition.
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PERELMAN, S. J.
The Ill-Tempered Clavichord
London: Max Reinhardt, 1953
8vo, pp. 211. Original green boards, lettered in black on spine.
First UK edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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[intro. SITWELL, Sacheverell] BEAUMONT, Cyril W.
The History Of Harlequin
London: C. W. Beaumont, 1926
Large 8vo, pp. 156. Original illustrated boards, vellum spine lettered in gilt. Pages uncut.
First edition, no. 25 of 325 copies published by the author. With a preface by Sacheverell Sitwell to whom, with his brother Osbert, the book is dedicated.,
Cyril Beaumont was one of the pre-em
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KING, Jessie M.
The Grey City Of The North
Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis, 1910
Small 8vo, pp. 51. Original boards with oversized dustwrapper, colour illustrations to front and rear panel, spine lettered in grey. Publisher's ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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WALTON, Isaac
The Complete Angler
London: Strahan & Co., 1844
8vo, pp. 445. Original boards, vellum tips, lettered in gilt on vellum spine. Tissue guards to engravings. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Bookplate... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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GREEN, Michael
The Art Of Coarse Acting
London: Hutchinson, 1964
8vo, pp. 143. Original black boards, lettered in red on spine.
First edition.
Hilarious dismantling of the acting profession which... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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SELF, Will
Sore Sites
London: Ellipsis: 2000
12mo, pp. 237. Original stiff paper wrappers.
First edition of this collection of essays which first appeared in the magazine Building Design.
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CARPENTER, Edward
Sex-Love, And Its Place In A Free Society
Manchester: The Labour Press Society, 1894
12mo, pp. 24. Original paper wrappers in raw sienna, hand-sewn, lettered in gilt on front panel.
First edition.
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[ed. ANSTEY, Sandra] THOMAS, R.S.
Selected Prose
Bridgend: Poetry Wales Press, 1983
8vo, pp. 187. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Dustwrapper.
First edition. With an introduction by Ned... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
