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The Strand Magazine Volume VII / Vol 7 January to June 1894

Newnes, London
Thick, heavy Quarto size (4to). in the publishers original black and gilt embosses and printed blue cloth, bevel edge boards, patterned end-papers, all page-block edges gilt, 672pp, full page plates, numerous illustrations in text, index etc
An extremely well preserved very near FINE clean and tight copy (minute speck of shelf rub to cover corner tips, thin sliver of very slight creasing to spine ends, hint of foxing to a very few mainly preliminary leaves). An excellent copy
1st editionHardcover
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Fears of Fragmentation

Jonathan Cape, London
Octavo size (8vo) in blue faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 127pp
An extremely well preserved AS NEW unread copy (page-block edges faintly tanned) in a very slightly edge-nicked and faintly tanned but otherwise about FINE complete Dust Jacket (looks fine in its removable transparent protector)
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Martha Peake (SIGNED COPY)

Viking, London
1st printing. Large Octavo size (8vo) in bright red faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 339pp. Signed by author on title-page (no other inscription)
A FINE copy (faint shelf rub to cover bottom edges, pages faintly tanned) in a very faintly edge-rubbed but otherwise FINE complete Dust Jacket (looks almost as new in its removable transparent protector)
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Cinq-Mars (Notices et annotations par Gauthier- Ferrieres - Tomes 1 et 2 Complet)

Bibliotheque Larousse, Paris
Two volumes complete, bound as one in quarter brown leather with marbled boards, ornate gilt art nouveaux decorations to spine, 196pp and 201pp, frontispieces, plates etc. Text in French. This copy from the collection of the noted barrister Sir Percy Maurice Maclardie Sheldon Amos with his engraved bookplate on the front paste-down end-paper and his signature (dated 1917) on the first half title leaf
A well preserved, very clean and tight FINE copy (cover corner tips and spine ends very slightly shelf rubbed, pages slightly browned)
1st editionHardcover
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Hugh Macdiarmid - The Raucle Tongue - Hitherto Uncollected Prose Volume III / Vol 3

Carcanet, Manchester
1st printing. Octavo size (8vo) in black faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 670pp, bibliography, index etc
AS NEW in an AS NEW complete Dust Jacket
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Emerson the Enraptured Yankee

Jonathan Cape, London
Octavo size (8vo) in light brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 444pp
An extremely well preserved FINEvery clean and tight unread copy (end-papers and page-block edges lightly tanned) in a FINE complete Dust Jacket (tiny speck of rub to flap fold corner tips, 3 minute nicks to head of spine panel, looks almost as new in its removable transparent protector). Ane excellent copy
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The Marble Kiss (Signed Copy)

Macmillan, London
1st printing. Octavo size (8vo) in blue faux cloth, silver lettering to spine. 319pp, signed by author on the title-page (no other inscription)
An extremely well preserved almost AS NEW copy (thin sliver of very slight creasing to spine ends) in an almost AS NEW complete Dust Jacket (hint of creasing to head of spine panel, looks new in its removable transparent protector)
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The Alchemist's Daughter (SIGNED COPY)

Weidenfeld, London
1st printing. Octavo size (8vo) in black faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 311pp. Signed by author on the title-page (no other inscription)
NEW unread copy in NEW complete Dust Jacket
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The Pall Mall Magazine - Volume XX11 / Vol 21 September to December 1900

Pall Mall, London
Thick, heavy Quarto size (4to). in decoratively black and gilt embossed pale blue cloth, bevelled edges, 592pp, plates in colour and b/w, illustrations in text, etc
A well preserved clean and tight VERY GOOD+ copy (sliver of light creasing and mild shelf rub to spine ends, covers just a little dusty and with a few barely noticeable spots of mild soil, end-papers and page-block edges a little tanned, gilt printing on spine and covers still very bright)
1st editionHardcover
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April Galleons

Carcanet Press, Manchester
Large Octavo size (8vo) in black faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 97pp
An extremely well preserved AS NEW copy in an AS NEW complete Dust Jacket (faint crease to top edge of rear panel, looks new in its removable transparent protector)
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
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This Day's Death

Macgibbon and Kee, London
1st printing. Octavo size (8vo) in black faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 255pp
A well preserved FINE copy (page-block edges slightly tanned, hint of shelf rub to cover bottom edges) in a slightly tanned near FINE complete Dust Jacket (minute chip to bottom corner tip of front flap fold and top edge of rear panel, looks fine in its removable transparent protector)
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Arty Books - May 2004 No 15

Arty, London
Octavo size (8vo) in stiff card covers, 58pp
Cover very faintly dusty else FINE
1st editionSoftcover
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Mantissa

Jonathan Cape, London
1st printing. Octavo size (8vo) in tan cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 192pp
An extremely well preserved almost AS NEW unread copy (edges very faintly tanned) in an almost AS NEW complete Dust Jacket (tiny speck of rub to front flap fold corner tips and front spine tips, looks fine in its removable transparent protector)
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The Man Who Died - The Ladybird - The Captain's Doll

Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig
1st Printing Thus. Octavo size (8vo) in original printed paper wraps, 286pp, publishers ads at rear. First Tauchnitz printing with the ads dated March 1932
VERY GOOD, a well preserved clean and tight copy (tiny chips to wrappers at spine ends and cover corner tips, covers slightly dusty, name on fly-leaf)
1st editionSoftcover
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Climbers Glory

Bodley Head, London
1st printing. Octavo size (8vo) in light grey faux cloth, black lettering to spine. 156pp
An extremeley well preserved FINE copy (prize bookplate on front blank fly-leaf) in a faintly tanned but otherwise FINE price-clipped Dust Jacket (looks almost as new in its removable transparent protector)
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
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Frozen Music

Hutchinson, London
1st printing. Large Octavo size (8vo) in black cloth backed boards, gilt lettering to spine, 104pp, full page plates by Procktor
An extremely well preserved AS NEW unread copy in an AS NEW complete Dust Jacket
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
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A Treat for Minikin

J M Dent, London
1st printing. Octavo size (8vo) in blue cloth, yellow lettering to spine and yellow line illustration to front cover, 128pp, colour frontispiece, illustrations in text. One of the scarcer titles of the Minikin series
VERY GOOD, a well preserved clean and tight copy (pages slightly tanned) in a moderately edge-chipped VERY GOOD- complete Dust Jacket (rear panel slightly tanned and dusty with a small spot of soil to the bottom edge, looks very presentable in its removable transparent protector)
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
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The Blockade Runners - Author's Illustrated Edition

Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, London
1st printing thus. Octavo size (8vo) in illustrated stiff card covers, 120pp, portrait frontispiece, advert end-papers, 14 full page steel engraved plates by Ferat, 16pp publishers ads at rear dated April 1876. The 'Author's Illustrated Edition' is effectively the 3rd British edition
VERY GOOD (paper tape over spine with title in ink, covers a little soiled and lightly rubbed, page-block edges tanned and dusty, contents clean and tight)
Softcover
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Rabbit is Rich

Andre Deutsch, London
1st printing. Heavy, large Octavo size (8vo). in dark red faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 467pp
An extremely well preserved FINE copy (page-block edges faintly dusty and tanned, slight shelf-rub to bottom edge of spine) in an AS NEW complete Dust Jacket
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
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The Outing

Dent, London
1st printing thus. Small landscape Quarto size (4to) in illustrated orange stiff card covers, unpaginated, approx. 32pp
An extremely well preserved almost AS NEW copy (covers very faintly dusty)
1st editionSoftcover
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The Song of the Evening Stars

Gay & Hancock, London
Octavo size (8vo) in blind embossed red cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, 108pp, frontispiece and 13 other full page caricatures by Caruso. Humorous poems on the American opera world
VERY GOOD (gilt spine lettering dulled, mild rub to cover corner tips, slight crease to very top corner tip of a few leaves)
1st editionHardcover
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Droll Stories - Collected in the Monasteries of Touraine and Given to the Light by Honore de Balzac

Folio Society, London
Extra large Octavo size (8vo) in decorated textured brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 408pp, frontispiece, and 23 full page duotone plates by Peake
A well preserved very near FINE copy (slight sunning to spine, pages very slightly tanned)
1st editionHardcover
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Moon-Whales

Faber & Faber, London
1st printing. Quarto size (4to) in black faux cloth, white lettering to spine. 95pp
A well preserved FINE copy (slight shelf-rub to cover bottom edges) in a very faintly edge-creased but otherwise FINE complete Dust Jacket (looks almost as new in its removable transparent protector)
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
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A House of Pomegranates

Methuen, London
Octavo size (8vo) in green cloth, gilt lettering and rule to spine and front cover, 179pp. This is the 4th edition which was printed on high quality laid paper, top edge gilt, other edges deckle cut
A well preserved, very clean and tight near FINE copy (name on fly-leaf, few spots of slight shelf rub to cover edges, page-block edges slightly tanned)
Hardcover
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Poet's Choice (A Spoken Anthology) A Programme Anthology of the poems read by their authors at the poetry reading in the Wigmore Hall September 14th 1943

National Council of Women of Great Britain, Folkestone
Octavo size (8vo) in stiff card covers, 47pp, index of first lines at rear
VERY GOOD+ (covers slightly tanned and with two mild partial cup rings to front cover)
1st editionSoftcover
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The Hunter and the Horns

Hutchinson, London
1st printing. Octavo size (8vo) in black faux cloth, red and white lettering to spine. 189pp
An exceptionally well preserved very clean and bright almost AS NEW unread copy (slight flat crease to top corner tip of two leaves, few faint specks of foxing to page-block edges) in an AS NEW complete Dust Jacket
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
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The Favorite Story Book for Little Folk

Darton and Hodge, London
Small Quarto size (4to). in in ornately gilt and blind embossed red cloth, all page-block edges gilt, 255pp, frontispiece plus 15 full page plates all hand coloured. States 9th edition, but probably actually only a 2nd or 3rd edition thus - this publisher was known to skip a few editions, or print in very small editions of only one or two hundred copies to make it look like the book was selling better than it may have been to encourage sales (a trick later taken up by other publishers)
VERY GOOD, a well preserved clean and tight copy (thin sliver of loss to cloth at spine ends, slight wear to spine edges, copperplate name on front free end-paper dated 1960, inscription on following blank fly-leaf dated 1863)
Hardcover
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The Professor

Faber & Faber, London
Octavo size (8vo) in dark green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 143pp
A well preserved FINE copy in a tanned and lightly edge-rubbed VERY GOOD complete Dust Jacket (looks very presentable in its removable transparent protector)
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
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A Yank in England

Fortune Press, London
Slim Octavo size (8vo) in tan cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 39pp, line drawings by Anatole Kovarsky
An extremely well preserved FINE+ unread copy (name on fly-leaf)
1st editionHardcover
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Wyndham Lewis 1882 - 1957 (Austin / Desmond Fine Art, London, 1990)

Austin / Desmond Fine Art, London
Square Quarto size (4to) in colour printed stiff card covers, 48pp, colour plates, etc
Covers faintly dusty else FINE, an otherwise well preserved and very clean and tight copy
1st editionSoftcover
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