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PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR. 'Mani. Travels in the Southern Peloponnese,' signed by author, unclipped dj, original cloth, John Murrary & The Book Society...

EVELYN WAUGH. 'Black Mischief,' first edition, original cloth, lacking dj, some spotting, Chaman and Hall, 1932; 'A Handful of Dust,' first editio...

Capt WILLIAM EDWARD PARRY. 'Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific,' 4to, rebound, ...

CHARLES DICKENS. 'Sketches by Boz,' original cloth, some sun bleaching, rubbed and bumped, cracked joint, frontis engraving by Cruikshank, Chapman...

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE. 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' first UK edition, contemporary binding, chipped and bumped, illustrations by George Cruikshank includi...

CULINARY and DOMESTIC SCIENCE Interest. 'The Economical Cook and Frugal Housewife,' by Mrs Mary Holland, a new edition, original cloth, cracked jo...

NATURAL HISTORY Interest. 'Synopsis of the Natural History of Great Britain and Ireland,' by John Berkenhout,' second edition, rebound, loss to bo...

FRANK HOWARD. 'The Sketcher's Manual; Or, The Whole Are of Picture Making,' original cloth, rebacked with loss to spine, plates throughout, toning...

JOHN CARY. 'Cary's New Itinerary: Or, Accurate Delineation of the Great Roads, Both Direct and Cross, Throughout England and Wales,' third edition...

WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH. 'The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance,' two vols, original cloth, chipped and rubbed, advertisements, G. Routledge ...

Rev F. O. MORIS. 'A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland,' four vols, highly decorative gil...

Mrs BRASSEY. 'Sunshine and Storm in the East, or Cruises to Cyprus and Constantinople,' original decorative cloth as designed by Gustave Dore, lac...

AUSTEN H. LAYARD. 'Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon,' contemporary full leather, rubbed and bumped, foldout frontis engraving, copi...

'The Life and Adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew Commonly Called the King of the Beggars.....with his travels twice through great Part of America...

DAPHNE DU MAURIER. 'Gerald. A Portrait,' first edition, original cloth, nibbles to unclipped dj, ink inscription to free endpaper, some spotting, ...

SIGNED WORKS. 'Verses in Peace and War,' signed by author Shane Leslie, with a signed letter sent fro m 'HQ Home Guard' Feb 5 1942, original cloth...

WINSTON GRAHAM. 'Demelza,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, foxing to edge of textblock, Ward, Lock and Co, London, 1946; 'Jeremy Pold...

SILAS K. HOCKING. 'Her Benny,' original decorative cloth, engraved frontis, Frederik Warne and Co, London, 1890; 'The Wizard's Light,' original de...

A. E. COPPARD. 'The Collected Tales of.....,' original cloth with some slight water damage, Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1951; WILLIAM ROTHENSTEIN. '...

T. SMOLLETT. 'The Present State of All Nations,' Volume III, full leather, ten plates, R. Baldwin, London, 1769; CONYERS MIDDLETON. 'The Life of M...

JOSEPH GREGO. 'Cruikshank's Water Colours,' 4to, de-luxe edition, 70/300 copies, original cloth, chips to top of spine, ex libris label to pastedo...

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY. 'The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century,' first edition, 20 only of 24 original parts, yellow card wraps in varyi...

GRAHAM GREENE. 'The Quiet American,' first edition, original cloth, staining to unclipped dj, spotting to edge of texblock and front and rear leav...

GRAHAM GREENE. 'It's a Battlefield,' first edition, original cloth, lacks dj, William Heinemann, 1934; 'The Heart of the Matter,' first edition, o...

'The Dramatic Congress. A Short State of the Stage Under the Present Management. It Lately Passed between the illustrious Bashas of Dr--ry Lane an...

A series of engravings depicting Pope Pius VII's life in conjunction to Napoleon Bonaparte's capture of the Papal States. Thirteen engravings in o...

ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH. 'Dead Man's Rock: A Romance,' first edition, fifth thousand, original pictorial cloth, bleaching to spine, Cassell & Company...

SILAS K. HOCKING. 'Chips, Joe and Mike,' fourteenth thousand, original decorative cloth, Frederik Warne and Co, London, n.d; 'Caleb Carhtew: A Lif...

HOWARD WILLOUGHBY. 'Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil,' original decorative cloth, 107 illustrations, 1 map, The Religious Tract Socie...

CARTOON INTEREST. 'the Works of James Gillray, The Caricaturist,' edited by Thomas Wright, original pictorial cloth, small tidemark to foot of eng...

ALFRED TENNYSON. 'The Devil and The Lady,' edited by Charles Tennyson, limited edition of 1500, handmade paper, decorative boards, MacMillan and C...

HENRY SHAW. 'Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages,' volume the second, rubbed and bumped boards, numerous hand coloured engravings, some spo...

THOMAS HARDY. 'Jude the Obscure,' first edition, original cloth, published as volume VIII of the Wessex novels, etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn and ...

G.K. CHESTERTON. 'The Napoleon of Notting Hil,' pictorial cloth, frontis, plates, spotting throughout, John Lane The Bodley Head, London,1904; 'Th...

FERGUS W. HUME. 'The Mystery of a Hansom Cab. A Sensational Novel,' one hundred and seventy-fifth thousand, original pictorial wraps, rusted stapl...

E. C. BENTLEY. 'Trent's Last Case,' first edition, original cloth, loss to free endpaper, colour frontis, Thomas Nelson and Sons, London, 1913; HE...

'The Illustrated Pocket Library of Plain and Coloured Books,' twenty-three volumes, uniformly bound, bumped ends of spines, sun bleaching, colour ...

Prof Sir ALEXANDER FLEMING. 'Penicillin. It's Practical Application,' first edition, original cloth, 8vo, illustrations, advertisements, Butterwor...

JOHN BETJEMAN. 'Pocket Poets,' serie, card wraps, Edward Hulton, 1958; 'Altar & Pew,' Pocket Poets series, editte by Betjeman, Edward Hulton, 1959...

General BOOTH. 'In Darkest England and The Way Out,' first edition, original cloth, sporadic spotting, folded lithograph pasted to titlepage, orig...

EDITH SITWELL. 'Selected Poems,' first Penguin Poets edition, card wraps, toning throughout, Penguin Books, 1952; TED HUGHES. 'Poetry in the Makin...

ROBERT NICHOLS. 'The Budded Branch,' limited edition, 122/200, quart cloth with card boards, mand-made paper, decorations by Anne Estelle Rice, Be...

HUMBERT WOLFE. 'Cursory Rhymes,' signed by author, illustrated by Albert Rutherson, quarter cloth, some staining to cloth, one of 500, Ernest Benn...

OLIVER GOLDSMITH. 'TheTraveller A Poem,' steel engravings by Birket Foster, original highly ornate gilt embossed boards, rebacked, some spotting, ...

KATE GREENWAY Illustrations. 'Little Ann and Other Poems,' by Jane and Ann Taylor, original pictorial boards, some soiling, George Routledge & Son...

WYNDHAM LEWIS. 'America and Cosmic Man,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, some uncut leaves, spotting to edge of textblock, ex libris ...

DENIS TEGETMEIER. 'The Seven Deadly Virtues,' signed by author and by Eric Gill, 65/250, slight warping to boards, spotting to endpapers, Lovat Di...

WILLY POGANY Illustrations. 'The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner,' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, original publisher’s green cloth, with gilt decoration...

C. HAZELWOOD SHANNON (ed). The Pageant,' vol I of II, limited edition, 20/150, slight bubbling to original cloth, illustrated throughout, Henry & ...

MINIATURES. 'Original Poems, on Various Occasions. By a Lady,' revised by William Cowper, third edition, contemporary full leather, gilt, contempo...

HARRY CLARKE Illustrations. 'The Years at the Spring: An Anthology of Recent Poetry Compiled by L. D. O. Walters,' first edition, original green c...

F. S. ELLIS. 'The History of Reynard the Fox....,' decorative devices by Walter Crane, original cloth, unclipped edge to textblock, ex libris labe...

CHILDRENS ILLUSTRATED WORKS. 'Orlando's Home Life', 'Orlando's Evening Out', 'Orlando's Invisible Pyjamas', 'Orlando The Judge,' by Kathleen Hale,...

W. HEATH ROBINSON. 'Hans Anderson's Fairy Tales,' original cloth, small nibbles and tears to unclipped dj, spotting to edge of textblock, Boot's t...

D. CROAL THOMSON. 'the Life & Work of Luke Fildes,' original decorative cloth with gold tooled title, illustrated throughout, frontis, The Art Jou...

JOHN LEHMANN (Ed). 'Pleasures of New Writing,' typed and signed letter to author K. B. Poole, handwritten letter to Poole from John Lehmann. free ...

KRONHEIM Illustrations. 'Aunt Louisa's London Gift Book,' rebacked, rubbed and bumped, spotting throughout, twenty-four full page colour lithograp...

RICHARD DOYLE Illustrations. 'The Princess Nobody: A Tale of Fairy Land,' original cloth backed boards, loosening of textblock from bindings, cont...

LEWIS WINGFIELD. 'Notes on Civil Costume in England from The Conquest to the Regency. As Exemplified in The International Health Exhibition, South...

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