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Some Victorian Women. Good, Bad and Indifferent
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1923. A very good copy of the First Edition, in the original blue pictorial cloth with navy blue illustration and title to front and spine. Frontis illustration of Lillie Langtry. Women featured and illustrated in b/w line drawing include Kate Greenaway and Florence Nightingale, amongst others. 226 pages plus two page publisher's catalogue to the rear. 225 x 150 mm (8¾ x 6 inches).
Book ID: 3123More details Price: £20.00 -
Songs and Sonnets
Edition: First Edition
Farnborough: St Michael's Abbey Press, 1954. First edition. Salmon pink paper covers. Perfect bound. Cream paper. Very nice condition. The pink covers are clean and tidy, with a touch of handling, and a little fading to the spine only. Internally clean and tidy throughout. Several of the pieces had previously appeared in the Catholic Gazette, the Catholic Times and the Irish Rosary. As expected, many of the poems are expressing Roman Catholic beliefs, but others are quite light-hearted (such as "To a pair of Golden Slippers". 32 pages. .
Book ID: 1251More details Price: £10.00 -
Songs for my little ones from "Punch"
London: J. Saville & Co. Hardback decorated boards, with linen spine. Corners are a little rubbed. Twelve songs set to music by the composer Sir Frederic H. Cowen. Lovely b/w text illustrations throughout by Belloti. Small neat owner's name to FFEP. Otherwise very clean and tidy. 36 pages. 285 x 225 mm (11¼ x 8¾ inches).
Book ID: 3060More details Price: £20.00 -
Songs of Sion
Edition: First Edition
Dublin: Browne and Nolan, Ltd, 1898. First edition. Hardback. Portrait frontispiece pasted down to the front end paper (looks as if this is to hide a gift inscription to the verso of the end paper). Inside front board there is a label from the Library of Syon Abbey, Chudleigh, Devon. Four plates. Original blue printed and bevelled cloth, uncut, leaf-patterned end papers, a bit of foxing to the ends, else a very good copy. vii, (i), 160 pp.
Book ID: 1048More details Price: £20.00 -
Songs of the Cornfield.
London: Raphael Tuck & Son, 1900. First edition. Unusual oval shaped lithographed covers - depicting a straw hat, some flowers, straw and a sickle. A good example. Comprising ten poems, each with a charming illustration on the facing page, and a vignette border. Front cover was most likely once detached, but has been very nicely repaired. Signs of a crease on front, now flat and neat. Undated. Circa 1900. 215 x 160 mm (8½ x 6¼ inches).
Book ID: 2277More details Price: £75.00 -
Songs to Our Lady of Silence
Edition: Reprint
London: Burns and Oates, 1958. Original cloth backed grey paper boards, a faded strip at the top of each board, some foxing at the ends, two leaves carelessly opened, half title with top corner turned over. Originally printed an published in 1921 by St Dominic's Press, Ditchling - this edition printed at Ditchling, copyright held by W.D. Woellwarth. The woodcuts were long misattributed to Eric Gill. (vi), 56 pp. Two woodcut plates, three woodcut figures in text. All by Desmond Macready Chute.
Book ID: 1028More details Price: £25.00 -
Sous La Colline.
Book ID: 2919More details Price: £75.00
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South Wales
part of "A Set of Fifty New and Correct Maps of England and Wales"
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1277More details Price: £70.00 -
Southern Harvest
London: Victor Gollancz, 1943. First edition. Blue cloth hardback. Lacks dust jacket. Boards a little sun faded and lightly rubbed. A collection of short stories, written and engraved by Claire Leighton. Illustrating her love of America, its land and its people. Full of gorgeous woodcuts. Fall in love with the USA all over again! 124 pages. 250 x 190 mm (9¾ x 7½ inches).
Book ID: 3772More details Price: £35.00 -
Souvenir De Voyage 1895-1899.
Book ID: 2916More details Price: £395.00
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Souvenires Exotiques.
Schilderijen / Paintings 1999-2005
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Book ID: 2685More details Price: £80.00 -
Souvenirs de la Maison des Fous. Dessins de Gérard Vulliamy.
Book ID: 4310More details Price: £85.00
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Souvenirs des vues de la Bretagne.
Book ID: 3201More details Price: £250.00
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Soviet Political Posters
Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1973. First edition. Stiff card folding portfolio containing a booklet (Text In English, French and Russian) and an attractive set of 32 Soviet Political Posters. Each poster is 400 mm x 295 mm. The portfolio has design in Russian to the front cover. There is a little fading and marking to the predominantly white boards. The booklet is tipped onto the front board. Posters are in excellent condition. To the rear of each poster is the name of the artist and date.
Book ID: 2832More details Price: £125.00 -
Spectropia; or, Surprising Spectral illusions showing Ghosts everywhere, and of any Colour.
Book ID: 3834More details Price: £450.00
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Sport in War.
Book ID: 3794More details Price: £35.00
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St. Luke's Life of Christ.
London: Collins, 1956. First Edition. Hardback. Black cloth, gilt title to spine. In original dust jacket. Translated into modern English, with Edward Ardizzone's wonderful b/w illustrations. A good copy in a good dust jacket. 115 pages. 225 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 2859More details Price: £15.00 -
St Roche. A Romance
Edition: First Thus
Book ID: 1901More details Price: £255.00 -
Star Strangled Banger.
London: Harrap, 1987. First edition. Blue hardback in dust wrapper. Both wrapper and book are in very good, unblemished condition. A touch of bumping to the edges of the wrapper only. A very nice copy. Unpaginated. 295 x 220 mm (11½ by 8¾ inches).
Book ID: 3352More details Price: £30.00 -
Stars Were Born.
London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1934. First edition. Hardback in original unclipped dust jacket. Barbara Lucas wrote this novel aged just 21. Lucas was the granddaughter of the British poet and essayist Alice Meynell. This novel tells the story of two sisters, the daughters of artists, who resolve to not lose sight of their own talents, and become like their mother - a plodding middle-class housewife. Dust jacket has some chips and creases, with a little loss to head of spine. Book clean and tidy inside. A scarce slice of 1930's fiction! 314 pages + 24 pages of adverts to rear. 190 x 130 mm (7½ x 5 inches).
Book ID: 4005More details Price: £25.00