Category: Literature

Les Songes du Chevalier de la Marmotte

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Paris, Editions d'Histoire Sociale : 1970

Seller ID: 013758

Condition: Very Good

[Originally published 1745). Facsimile reprint, slim 12mo, pp 108, marbled endpapers, extremely clean internally, full calf with gilt decorated spine, corners very slightly bumped, otherwise a very good copy. [Number 84 of a limited edition of 250 copies.]
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Fragment of a Novel, written by Jane Austen, January - March 1817, now first printed from the manuscript. (Sanditon).

By: Austen, Jane

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Oxford, at the Clarendon Press : 1925

Seller ID: 006154

Binding: Cloth-backed boards

Condition: Very Good

Second impression. Small slim 8vo, pp (10), 170, (34), a little age-toned internally, edges lightly untrimmed, original grey boards with cloth spine, paper label, binding slightly marked and browned, spine more browned, lower corners slightly worn, slight stain to rear corner. (A spare paper label is lightly tipped-in at the rear. A wide-margined copy - possibly Large Paper ?? Often known as Sanditon.)
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The Hidden Orchis

By: Bone, Gertrude

Price: £3.50

Publisher: London & Boston, The Medici Society : 1928

Seller ID: 014035

Binding: Cloth-backed boards

Condition: Very Good

Small 12mo, pp 49, with six plates by Stephen Bone (printed in blue), top edge gilt, other edges uncut, cloth-backed boards, very slightly worn, [Chiswick Press printing for Medici Society]. Postage will be reduced.
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The Four Gardens.

By: Buchanan, Emily Handasyde

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London, G.T. Foulis & Co Ltd : 1924

Seller ID: 018060

Binding: Boards

Condition: Good

New and revised edition. Illustrated with 4 tipped-in colour plates by Mary G.W. Wilson, small octavo, pp (4), 178, edges uncut, very slight age-toning otherwise very good internally, white and grey printed boards, slightly marked and worn. [Four fictional essays - The Haunted Garden, The Old-Fashioned garden, The Poor Man's Garden, The Rich Man's Garden.]
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Hudibras. New edition, with notes by the Rev. Treadway Russel Nash

By: Butler, Samuel

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, John Murray : 1835

Seller ID: 000068

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

New edition, with notes by the Rev. Treadway Russel Nash. 2 VOLS, pp xl, 346; 403, engraved frontispiece (foxed), 2 engraved title page vignettes, contemporary dark green watered silk cloth, a small red spot on one spine, paper labels a little dull & worn, (with contemporary inscription on front endpaper - "the Rev. Dr Burney from William Nicol". With the bookplate of the garden designer and plantsman Jim Russell (designed by Felix Kelly).
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Proverbs of the Mountain

By: Clark. Thomas A.

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Moschatel Press : 1980

Seller ID: 014328

Binding: Loose in folder

Condition: Very Good

12 loose sheets, each with a proverb illustrated with a charming line drawing by Laurie Clark, in very good condition, in the original printed blue folder wich is very slightly age-toned and slightly worn. [Limited edition, signed by author and artist, number 106 of 300 copies]. {Thomas A Clark was born in Greenock, Scotland. His poetry has been consistently attentive to form and to the experience of walking in the landscape, returning again and again to the lonely terrain of the Highlands and Islands. In 1973, with the artist Laurie Clark, he started Moschatel Press. At first a vehicle for s...
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Coleridge : Select Poetry and Prose

By: Coleridge (edited by Stephen Potter)

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London & New York, The Nonesuch Press & Random House : 1933

Seller ID: 017582

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Small thick octavo, pp xxx, 821, very slight age-toning but otherwise extremely clean internally, red bevelled cloth slightly rubbed, a little faded on the spine.
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Octopi, and Other Beasts Less Rude.

By: Costa, Elsa

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Private printing

Seller ID: 000073

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Octavo, pp (36), original buff sewn wrappers, a little chipped and browned. A book of (only slightly !) risque poems. Privately printed, presumably in Italy as the cover price is 100 lire. A note on the rear flap states "For broad-minded adults only. A limited edition of this remarkable book, which will be published shortly in New York and London". (n.d. c.1920?)
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The Cattle of St Mochua - a paraphrase of the Irish tale

By: Darling, Frank

Price: £9.00

Publisher: Edinburgh and London, Oliver & Boyd : 1950

Seller ID: 007738

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

With four (scraperboard ?) illustrations by George C. Leslie, 16mo, (168mm x 105mm), pp 14, paperback, covers very slightly sunned and marked. [From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter, with his stamp on the half-title, and with a tiny presentation inscription - "with good wishes from Frank and Avril Darling"]
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Contes Militaires (Contes Du Lundi). [ Army Series of French and German Novels]

By: Daudet, Alphonse (Perowne, J.T.W. Ed.)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Williams and Norgate : 1892

Seller ID: 001175

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Illustrated with 1 folding map, 12mo, pp.viii, 242, red decorated cloth with gilt crossed swords motif on both front cover and spine and black lettering, some wear and fading to cloth and a little dusty, two corners slightly bumped, owner's bookplate pasted to front pastedown endpaper, some foxing internally and uneven browning of grey endpapers. [Part of the "Army Series" of French and German novels printed in their respective languages.](The stories are taken mostly from Daudet's "Contes du Lundi")] SCARCE.
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Doctor Marigold

By: Dickens, Charles (notes by Percy H. Muir)

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London, Westhouse : 1945

Seller ID: 017664

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated by Robin Jacques, slim square octavo, pp 48, clean internally, green cloth with just a slight suggestion of fading, a tiny mark on the rear cover; the dustwrapper is not price-clipped, it is just very slightly worn, the lower cover is a little marked from sellotape residue, it is now nicely protected in a removable clear cover.
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Image for An Anatomie of the World, wherein by occasion of the vntimely death of Mistris Elizabeth Drvry the frailtie and the decay of this whole world is represented

An Anatomie of the World, wherein by occasion of the vntimely death of Mistris Elizabeth Drvry the frailtie and the decay of this whole world is represented

By: Donne, John

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Shaftesbury, The High House Press : 1929

Seller ID: 010000

Binding: Cloth-backed boards

Condition: Good

Large slim 8vo, pp 32, uncut and unpressed, a little age-browning to the edges, slightly uneven browning to the endpapers, otherwise very clean and sound internally, cloth backed marbled boards a bit rubbed, paper title label on spine slightly chipped. [Limited numbered edition of 170 copies].
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Silas Marner : The Weaver of Raveloe

By: Eliot, George

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood & Sons

Seller ID: 011623

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Stereotyped edition, not dated - c. 1880 ?), small 8vo, pp (4), 158, extra vignette title page, two plates, half-title and front endpaper creased, otherwise very clean internally, original red cloth, a small central vignette in gilt on upper cover, cloth a bit rubbed and marked, but otherwise sound.
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Amelia (three volume edition, being Vols 7, 8 & 9 of The Works of Henry Fielding)

By: FIELDING, Henry (edited by George Saintsbury)

Price: £12.50

Publisher: London, J.M. Dent & Co at Aldine House : 1893

Seller ID: 006140

Three vols, 12mo, illus, edges uncut, original olive-green cloth stamped in gilt, a little worn, the spines fraying. [From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter].
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The Blacks - a clown show

By: Genet, Jean

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Faber & Faber : 1960

Seller ID: 010067

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

First UK edition. Translated by Bernard Frechtmann, small slim 8vo, pp 96, a very good clean copy, in a dustwrapper which is not price-clipped, but which is a little age-toned (particularly on the lower cover), very slightly chipped and frayed, and slightly marked on its inner surface. Overall though a rather good copy.
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An English Garner - Later Stuart Tracts

By: George A Aitken (introduction)

Price: £7.00

Publisher: London, Archibald Constable & Co Ltd : 1903

Seller ID: 006385

Large 8vo, pp xxx, 404, with title pages for each pamphlet reproduced, very slightly age-toned, endpapers browned, cloth very slightly worn with slight wear to the spine-head. [Introduction.--Sir William Petty: Political arithmetic (1690)--Daniel Defoe: An appeal to honour and justice (1715) The trueborn Englishman (1701) The history of the Kentish petition (1701) Legion's Memorial (1701) The shortest way with the Dissenters (1702) A hymn to the pillory (1703) The Review (prefaces and extracts) (1704-12) Papers from the Review (1704) The revolution of 1688 (1710) The education of women (1697)-...
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Shelley - Selected Poetry, Prose and Letters

By: Glover, A.S.B. (editor)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, The Nonesuch Press : 1951

Seller ID: 017463

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Small thick octavo, pp xviii, 1142, a minute hole in the title page, otherwise exceptionall clean internally, blue cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is price-clipped, is a little age-toned on its lower cover and is very slightly worn on its margins with one small closed tear to the rear cover.
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The Vicar of Wakefield

By: Goldsmith, Oliver

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London, Frederick Warne & Co : 1867

Seller ID: 000160

Binding: Pictorial Cloth

Condition: Fair

12 plates printed in oil colour, square 8vo, pp viii,248, weak and becoming loose internally, decorated red cloth, dull and marked, a bit worn and frayed, (spine more so). A cheap copy of a scarce edition.
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The Schoole of Abuse, and a Short Apologie for the Schoole of Abuse (1579)

By: GOSSON, Stephen

Price: £13.50

Publisher: 35, Wheelys Road, Birmingham, Privately Published ? : 1868

Seller ID: 006383

Binding: Boards

Condition: Fair

Edited by Edward Arber (English Reprints series). Small slim 12mo, pp 80, uncut edges, grey paper-covered boards, rubbed and frayed, joints cracking on the spine, but all still tight and sound. [Stephen Gosson (April 1554 - 13 February 1624) was an English satirist. He was baptized at St George's church, Canterbury, on 17 April 1554. He entered Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1572, and on leaving the university in 1576 he went to London. In 1598 Francis Meres in his Palladis Tamia mentions him with Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Abraham Fraunce and others as the "best for pastorall", but n...
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Hieroclis Philosophi commentarius in aurea Pythagoreorum carmina; Joan. Curterio interprete. bound with: Hierocles De providentia et fato; una cum fragmentis ejusdem notisque Merici Casauboni ad commentarium Hieroclis in Aurea Carmina.

By: Hierocles

Price: £350.00

Publisher: London, Roger Daniels : 1654

Seller ID: 017048

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Good

[1654, and the second work 1655]. Text in Greek and Latin. Thick 12mo, (measures 95mm x 149mm binding size), pp (30), 433,(i), (corrigenda page),(i), second title page, (32), 271, some age-toning, the first title page a little soiled and with slight tears, a tiny contemporary signature on the title page (possibly Jas Brown ?), very smartly bound in a modern full calf, lightly blind-stamped, new endpapers. The binding is a little tight, so the inner margins are slightly awkward to read. [Hierocles of Alexandria was a Greek Neoplatonist writer who was active around AD 430. The only complete ...
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