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Gossip in a Library
London: William Heinemann, 1891. First edition. In original brown waxed cloth, with gilt stamped title to front board and spine. Quote from the book:"There are men all through the civilised world to whom a book is a jewel - an individual possession of great price. I have been asked to gossip about my books, for I also am a bibliophile. But when I think of the
great collections of fine books, of the libraries of the magnificent, I do not know whether I dare admit any stranger to glance at mine." vii, 337 pp. 190 x 145 mm (7½ x 5¾ inches).Book ID: 2087More details Price: £25.00 -
Graham Greene: A Bibliography And Guide To Research
New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc, 1979. First Edition. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, volume 173. Ex-library book, hardback in green cloth covered boards. Expected library marks and stamps. Cloth and closed page edges slightly darkened by smoke damage, but internally clean and in good condition. 440 pages. 225 x 150 mm (8¾ x 6 inches).
. Première édition. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, volume 173. Livre sorti d'une bibliothèque, couverture rigide en toile verte. Marques et tampons de bibliothèque habituels. La toile et les bords des pages fermées sont légèrement assombris par la fumée, mais l'intérieur est propre et en bon état. 440 pages. 225 x 150 mm
Book ID: 4381More details Price: £40.00 -
Histoire des trois bossus de Besancon.
Scarce. First edition. Small chapbook / booklet with woodcuts to front and back covers. Undated but likely late 18th century or early 19th century. The story of three hunchback brothers from the Franche-Comté region, in the reign of Charles V. Sewn BindingHolding firm, in very good shape. 22 pages. 165 x 105 mm (6½ x 4¼ inches).
. Rare. Première édition. Petit chapbook / livret avec gravures sur bois sur les couvertures avant et arrière. Non daté mais probablement fin du XVIIIe siècle ou début du XIXe siècle. L'histoire de trois frères bossus franc-comtois, sous le règne de Charles V. Reliure cousue. Holding en très bonne forme. 22 pages. 165 × 105 mm
Book ID: 3817More details Price: £300.00 -
Hudibras, in Three Parts, written in the Time of the Late Wars:
corrected and amended. With large Annotations and a Preface by Zachary Grey. Adorn'd with a new set of Cuts.
Book ID: 2320More details Price: £325.00
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Hunter of the Moon.
Poems of John Loveridge.
Sharrington, Norfolk: Clement (Publishers) Ltd, 1983. First edition. In original unclipped dust jacket. Protected in protective clear wrap. Light rubbing to the covers of the dust jacket, some small areas of loss. Inside a neat previous owner's name to FFEP. Otherwise clean pages, no other markings. Sir John Warren Loveridge (9 September 1925 – 13 November 2007) was a British Conservative M. P. He was also a published poet and an abstract sculptor. 150 pages. 225 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 2887More details Price: £38.00 -
Hurrah for St Trinian's
and other lapses
London: Macdonald, 1954. Early reprint (11th impression) of this St Trinian's illustrated work. Red, white and black illustrated dust wrapper, a little fading to the spine and slight nicking to the top edge. Red boards are clean and tidy. Internally clean with an owner's inscription to the half title. 96 pages. 205 x 130 mm (8 x 5 inches).
Book ID: 2796More details Price: £15.00 -
Index verborum ac phrasium Luciani sive Lexicon lucianeum ad editiones omnes maxime novissimam Westenianam concinnatum a Car. Conr. Reitzio
Book ID: 2799More details Price: £150.00
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Initials and Pseudonyms: A Dictionary of Literary Disguises.
First series.
London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1886. Scarce edition. Hardback in dark green / grey cloth, with black floral decoration to border of boards. Gilt title to spine. Top edge gilt. In good condition, inside and out. iv, 603 pp. 265 x 180 mm (10½ x 7 inches).
Book ID: 3945More details Price: £30.00 -
Into the Night Life. (Promotional pamphlet)
Book ID: 2186More details Price: £200.00
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Kristus Mysterium Díl první
Book ID: 3917More details Price: £20.00
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La Femme et le Pantin.
Book ID: 2571More details Price: £50.00
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Le Don Quichotte romantique, ou voyage du Docteur Syntaxe,
à la recherche du pittoresque et du romantique. Poëme en XX chants, traduit librement de l'anglais, et orné de 26 gravures, par M. Gandais.
Book ID: 2718More details Price: £250.00
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Le livre de sa vie.
Book ID: 3152More details Price: £160.00
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Le siège de Calais / Histoire d'Eustache de Saint-Pierre
Book ID: 4166More details Price: £175.00
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Les caractères de La Bruyère
suivis des Caractères de Théophraste, traduits du grec par le même, précédés d'une notice sur La Bruyère, considéré comme écrivain et comme moraliste, par M. J. Simonnin. Tome I & Tome II
Paris: Emler Frères, 1829. First Edition. Two volumes, uniformly bound in lovely half red Morocco with gilt title to spines and red marbled boards. Bards lightly rubbed at corners only. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Contents have some areas of light to medium foxing. Overall a good set. Tome I: xxxvi, 366 pp. Tome II: 388 pp. 230 x 140 mm (9 x 5½ inches). Première édition. Deux volumes, reliés uniformément en beau maroquin demi-rouge avec titre doré aux dos et plats marbrés rouges. Bardes légèrement frottées aux coins seulement. Gardes et bords de pages marbrés. Le contenu présente certaines zones de rousseurs légères à moyennes. Dans l'ensemble un bon ensemble. Tome I : xxxvi, 366 pp. Tome II : 388 pp. 230 x 140 mm
Book ID: 3590More details Price: £100.00 -
Les Etrangers à Paris;
par J. Janin, Old-Nick - Stanislas Bellanger - E. Guinot, Marco Saint-Hilaire - E. Lemoine - Roger de Beauvoir - Ch. Schiller - A. Frémy - F. Mornand - P. Merruau - A. de Lacroix - A. Royer - Destigny - L. Couailhac - L. Huart - Capo de Feuillide. Illustrations de MM. Gavarni - Th. Frère - H. Emy - Th. Guérin - Ed. Frère
Book ID: 3143More details Price: £150.00
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Les vers de vingt ans.
Paris: P. Rouquette et fils éditeurs, 1891. First edition. Soft covers with b/w illustration. All vignettes by Teramond. Introduction by Pierre de Lano. Poems dedicated to the beauty of women. Limited edition of 320 on Hollande. Covers in good shape, but slightly darkened. 105 pages. 140 x 100 mm (5½ x 4 inches).
. Edition originale, broché, illustrée de vignettes par Guy de Teramond. Préface par Pierre de Lano. Poèmes dédiés à la beauté des femmes. Tirage limité à 320 exemplaires sur papier de Hollande. Couvertures en bon état, mais légèrement assombries. Intérieur en bon état, propre. 105 pages. 140 x 100 mm.
Book ID: 3969More details Price: £70.00 -
Letters of George Wyndham
Book ID: 4392More details Price: £170.00
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Literary Blunders. A Chapter in the "History of Human Error".
London: Elliot Stock, 1893. Large paper edition. On of a small (but unspecified) number of copies on superior quality paper. Half leather. The spine has cracking to the edge of this, and across the back. Has been lightly repaired with archival glue. Green buckram boards. End papers are somewhat darkened, but the rest of the book is in good clean condition. xii, 226, [ii]. pages.
Book ID: 3348More details Price: £70.00 -
Little Constructions
Book ID: 4223More details Price: £80.00