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[pseud. CLEMENS, Samuel] TWAIN, Mark
Mark Twain's Library Of Humour
London: Chatto & Windus, 1888
8vo, pp. 719, 32pp. publisher's advertisements dated April 1888 bound in at rear. Original illustrated red boards, lettered in gilt and with... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[pseud. CLEMENS, Samuel] TWAIN, Mark
A Tramp Abroad
London: Chatto & Windus, 1880
8vo, pp. 564, 32pp. publisher's advertisements bound in at rear. Original illustrated red boards, lettered in gilt and with line illustrations... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[AUDEN, W.H.] SPENDER, Stephen
A Memorial Address By Stephen Spender
London: Faber, 1973
8vo, pp. 10. Original cream stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to front panel. Compliments slip laid in.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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SOMERVILLE, Edith and SOMERVILLE, Boyle
Records Of The Somerville Family Of Castlehaven And Drishane From 1174, To 1940
Cork: Guy & Co., 1940
Large 8vo, pp. 134. Original blue three-quarter boards, lettered in back to front panel and black to white to spine.
First edition. One of... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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SOMERVILLE, E. OE, and ROSS, Martin [pseud. MARTIN, Violet]
Stray-aways
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1920
8vo, pp. 280. Original blue boards, lettered in white and black to front panel and black to spine. Tissue guard to frontispiece. Lacking... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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SOMERVILLE, E. OE, and ROSS, Martin [pseud. MARTIN, Violet]
Four Titles,
London: Methuen, V.d
Four 8vos. Original red boards, spine labels to each. Tissue guards to frontispieces.
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SOMERVILLE, E. OE, and ROSS, Martin [pseud. MARTIN, Violet]
Notions In Garrison
London: Methuen, 1941
Square 8vo, pp. 134. Original orange boards, lettered in black to spine. Leading and bottom edges uncut.
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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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SOMERVILLE, Boyle Townshend
Commodore Anson's World Voyage
London: Heinemann, 1934
8vo, pp. 317. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine, sea horse device in gilt to front panel. Maps at endpapers.
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SOMERVILLE, E. OE, and ROSS, Martin [pseud. MARTIN, Violet]
An Incorruptible Irishman 1767-1843
London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson, 1932
Large 8vo, pp. 265. Original blue boards, lettered in black on red spine label to spine, Bushe coat of arms in gilt on red label to... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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SOMERVILLE, Boyle Townshend
Commodore Anson's World Voyage
London: Heinemann, 1934
8vo, pp. 317. Original boards. Portions of illustrated dustwrapper pasted in to preliminaries. Maps at endpapers. Plain brown homemade dustwrapper,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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JACOBS, W.W.
The Lady Of The Barge
London: Harper & Brothers, 1902
8vo, pp. 300, 8pp. publisher's advertisements bound in at rear. Original orange illustrated boards, lettered in black to front panel and gilt... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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FERRES, Arthur
His First Kangaroo
London: Blackie, N.d.
8vo, pp. 288, 32pp. publisher's illustrated advertisements bound in at rear. Illustrated olive green boards, lettered in cream, gilt and black to front... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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SOMERVILLE, E. OE
Slipper's ABC Of Fox Hunting
London: Longmans, Green, 1903
Large 4to, pp. 81. Original green illustrated boards, lettered in black to spine.
First edition.
An alphabet of... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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DOUGLAS, Norman
Paneros
London: Chatto & Windus, 1931
8vo, pp. 103. Original three-quarter decorated boards, lettered in gilt to blue spine. Top edge gilt, leading and lower edges uncut. Printed... [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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REID, Forrest
Following Darkness
London: Edward Arnold, 1912
8vo, pp. 320. Original brown boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine. Lower edge uncut.
First edition.
A coming-of-age novel from an Ulster novelist at the beginning of the twentieth century is always going to invite comparisons with Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and comparisons are always made, but Reid is more than able to stand on his own two feet, not only because of the calibre of his writing, but because of the homosexual sensibility which permeates his work, never explicit but always there. This book is no exception. Reid was the bridge between the ornate crypticism of the Uranians and the beginning of the genre we now know as Gay Lit. He's both important and scarce -- which is why this less than beautiful copy is offered.
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[pseud. ABBOTT, Edwin A.] SQUARE, A.
Flatland: A Romance Of Many Dimensions
London: Seeley & Co., 1884
8vo, pp. 100. Original printed stiff paper wrappers. Leading edge uncut.
First edition.
One of literature's very few geometric Victorian social satires. Set in a two-dimensional world, A. Square visits the one-dimensional community of Lineland, where he is dismissed as a lunatic, and is then visited by a sphere from Spaceland. Convinced of the existence of a third dimension, Square starts to entertain the possibility of a fourth. And a fifth...
All of which made this text something of a sensation when Einstein published his general theory of relativity in 1915, and Flatland was taken up as a text which foreshadowed major scientific findings. Since then, it has been cited by scientists as eminent as Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking, inspired films and books, and - of course - has been name-checked in an episode of The Big Bang Theory.
This, the first edition, is now very scarce.
