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JENNINGS, Elizabeth. A Way of Looking. Deutsch, 1955. First edn. Boards, dust-wrapper; LEONTIEF, Estelle. Razerol. Janus Press, Vermont, 1973. First edn. No. 1 of 150 copies. Cloth, six additional typescript poems inserted; and 12 other poetry first edns by Jennings, Leontief, Pitter et al. (14) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 32 | RIDLER, Anne. Poems. Oxford University Press, 1939. First edn. Cloth; A Dream Observed and other poems. Poetry London, nd. First edn. Printed wrappers, press cuttings inserted; RAINE, Kathleen. The Pythoness and other poems. Hamish Hamilton, 1949. First edn. Cloth, dust-wrapper; and 11 other poetry first edns by Raine, Stevie Smith, Sackville-West et al. (13) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 33 | MAIDMENT, James, ed. Scotish Elegiac Verses MDCXXIX-MDCCXXIX. With notes and appendix of illustrative papers. Stevenson, Edinburgh, 1842. One of 90 copies. Cloth; SHARPE, Charles Kirkpatrick. A Ballad Book…reprinted with notes and ballads from the unpublished MSS of Sharpe and Sir Walter Scott. Coloured portrait, one other etching. Blackwood, 1880. Roxburghe binding. SHELDON, Frederick. Minstrelsy of the English Border, being a collection of ballads. Longman, 1847. First edn. Three-quarter morocco, marbled boards; PATTISON, Thomas. Selections from the Gaelic Bards. Sinclair, Glasgow, 1866. Cloth; and 9 other, Scottish or ballad poetry. (13) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 34 | WOODHOUSE, James. Poems on Several Occasions by James Woodhouse, Journeyman Shoemaker. Second edition corrected. For the Author, 1766. Contemporary calf, rebacked; CUMBERLAND, Richard. Calvary; or The Death of Christ. A Poem in eight books. C. Dilly, 1792. 4to, modern half calf; and 2 others, verse. (4) £150-200 | Nil |
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| 35 | DYER, John. Poems. [Two engravings.] Dodsley, 1761. Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked; PRIOR, Matthew. A New Collection of Poems on Several Occasions. [Portrait, two engravings.] Osborne, 1725. Contemporary calf; and 4 others, eighteenth century poetry. (6) £120-180 | Nil |
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| 36 | CUNNINGHAM, John. Poems chiefly Pastoral. [Frontispiece by Isaac Taylor.] Printed for the Author, 1766. First edn. Contemporary quarter calf, boards; FORREST, John, ed. Coelii sedulii Scoti poemata sacra, denuo recognita, collate & brevibus notis illustrata. Andrew Anderson, Edinburgh, 1701. Old calf; AIKMAN, James. Poems chiefly Lyrical. Edinburgh, 1816. First edn. Contemporary half calf, title browned; MARRIOTT, John. A Short Account of John Marriott, including Extracts from some of his Letters. To which are added, some of his Poetical Productions. Doncaster, 1803. First edn. Contemporary calf, rebacked; and another. (5) £100-150 | Nil |
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| 37 | WILDE, Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol, by C.3.3. Leonard Smithers, 1898. Sixth ed. Cloth; ROSSETTI, Christina. Poems. Illustrations and cover design by D.G. Rossetti. Macmillan, 1891. Cloth, signature and note of Ruari McLean; CLOUGH, A.H. Poems. Macmillan, 1862. First edn. Cloth, book-label of John Johnson; and 15 others, Victorian poetry. (17) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 38 | STEVENSON, Robert Louis. A Child's Garden of Verses. Longmans, 1885. Second edn. Cloth; ROGERS, Samuel. Poems [and] Italy. Vignettes by Turner, Stothard et al. Cadell, 1830-34. 2 vols, contemporary green morocco gilt; and 12 others, poetry. (15) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 39 | FABER, F.W. The Cherwell Water-Lily, and other poems. Rivington, 1840. First edn. Contemporary morocco gilt, a.e.g. HEMANS, Felicia. The Vespers of Palermo; Records of Woman; Miscellaneous Poems. Blackwood, 1840. Contemporary morocco gilt, a.e.g.; and 28 others, poetry. (30) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 40 | THOMSON, James. The City of Dreadful Night and other poems. Reeves and Turner, 1880. First edn. Cloth; LLOYD, John. The English Country Gentleman, his sports and pastimes. Longman, 1854. Second edn. Cloth; and other poetry. (22) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 41 | NEWMAN, J.H. Verses on Various Occasions. Burns, Oates, 1868. Cloth, lacks half-title; THOM, William. Rhymes and Recollections of a Hand-Loom Weaver. Gardner, Paisley, 1880. Cloth; BLOOMFIELD, Robert. The Banks of Wye; a poem. Vernor, Hood, 1811. First edn. Half roan; and other poetry. (17) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 42 | AUSTEN, Jane. Sanditon. Reproduced in facsimile from the manuscript. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1975. Quarter cloth, boards; HOUSMAN, A.E. The Manuscript Poems, ed. Tom Burns Haber. OUP, 1955, First English edn. Buckram, dust-wrapper; THOMPSON, Francis. The Mistress of Vision…now reprinted…essay by Henry Williamson. Saint Albert's Press, 1966. One of 500 numbered copies; HORACE. Carminum libri IV. Decorations by Vera Willoughby. Peter Davis, 1926. One of 500 copies. Cloth, gilt; and 8 others, literature. (12) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 43 | WOOLF, Virginia. Life as We Have Known It, by Co-Operative Working Women. Introductory Letter by Virginia Woolf. Hogarth Press, 1931. First edn. Cloth; BARNES, William. Select Poems, chosen and edited by Thomas Hardy. Humphrey Milford, 1922. Cloth; and 20 others, mostly modern literature and criticism. (Box) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 44 | LAWRENCE, D.H., Aldous HUXLEY, T.F. POWYS, Nancy CUNARD et al. The New Coterie. Nos. 1-6. November 1925 - Autumn 1927. Six issues complete, 4to, wrappers with cover designs by William Roberts; and 2 issues of The Paris Review. (8) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 45 | BRAMAH, Ernest. Kai Lung's Golden Hours. Grant Richards, 1922. First edn. Cloth; The Kai Lung Omnibus. Philip Allan, 1936. First edn. Cloth; Kai Lung beneath the Mulberry-Tree. Richards Press, 1940. First edn. Cloth; LE QUEUX, William. An Eye for an Eye. Ward, Lock, 1911. First edn. Cloth; The House of Whispers. Eveleigh Nash, 1909. First edn. Cloth; and 6 others by Bramah, Le Queux, E.W. Hornung et al. (12) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 46 | LEE, Vernon. For Maurice; five unlikely stories. Lane, 1927. First edn. Cloth; FORTUNE, Dion (i.e. Violet Firth). The Winged Bull, a romance of modern magic. Williams & Norgate, 1935. First edn. Cloth; CLUTE, John et al. The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. Orbit, 1997. Boards, dust-wrapper; DERLETH, August, ed. Beachheads in Space. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1954. First English edn. Boards, dust-wrapper; HOBAN, Russell. Fremder. Cape, 1996. First English edn. Boards, dust-wrapper, inscribed by the author; and 18 others, fantasy, horror and science fiction. (22) £100-150 | Nil |
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| 47 | SHERLOCK HOLMES. De Waal, R.B. The World Bibliography of Sherlock Holmes. New York Graphic Society, 1974. First edn. 4to, cloth, slipcase; and 22 others, folio and 4to, on Holmes, Conan Doyle and cognate subjects. (Box) £80-120 | Nil |
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| 48 | SHERLOCK HOLMES. Hall, Trevor. Sherlock Holmes: The Higher Criticism. Carr Meadow, 1971. No. 2 of 12 copies on special paper, signed by the author. Buckram; and ca. 20 more books and pamphlets on Holmes, Conan Doyle &c, with ca. 60 issues of The Sherlock Holmes Journal. (Box) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 49 | SHERLOCK HOLMES. Starrett, Vincent. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. Allen & Unwin, 1961. Cloth, dust-wrapper; and 25 others on Holmes and Conan Doyle, all in dust-wrappers. (Box) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 50 | WAUGH, Evelyn. Black Mischief. Chapman and Hall, 1932. First edn., one of 250 numbered copies signed by the author. Quarter morocco, patterned boards; and 6 other first edns by Evelyn, Alec and Auberon Waugh. (7) £300-500 | Nil |
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| 51 | CORVO, Frederick Rolfe, Baron. Songs of Meleager. First Edition Club, nd. First edn. Cloth gilt; Nicholas Crabbe. Chatto & Windus, 1958. First edn. Cloth, dust-wrapper; Don Renato. Chatto & Windus, 1963. First edn. Cloth, dust-wrapper; Without Prejudice, ed. Cecil Woolf. Privately printed, 1963. One of 600 copies; Letters to Harry Bainbridge. Enitharmon Press, 1977. First edn, one of 350 copies. Cloth; and 11 others, Corvine. (16) £80-120 | Nil |
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| 52 | RUSSELL, George, 'AE'. The Avatars, a futurist fantasy. Macmillan, 1933. First edn. Cloth, dust-wrapper. DONLEAVY, J.P. A Singular Man. Bodley Head, 1964. First edn. Boards, dust-wrapper; and 8 others, Irish and Scottish first edn fiction, all in dust-wrappers. (10) £100-150 | Nil |
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| 53 | WHITE, T.H. The Goshawk. Cape, 1951. First edn. Cloth, dw; BELL, Adrian. The Shepherd's Farm. Cobden-Sanderson, 1939. First edn. Cloth, signed by the author; and 15 others, similar. (17) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 54 | ECO, Umberto. Foucault's Pendulum. Secker & Warburg, 1989. First English edn. Boards, dust-wrapper; and 18 others similar, recent foreign fiction in translation. (Box) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 55 | GIDE, Andre. If it Die… Translated by Dorothy Bussy. Secker & Warburg, 1950, One of 1500 numbered copies. Cloth, dust-wrapper; RADIGUET, Raymond. The Devil in the Flesh, translated by Kay Boyle, introduction by Aldous Huxley. Grey Walls Press, 1949. Cloth, dust-wrapper; and 18 others, continental literature in translation. (Box) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 56 | FLEMING, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Cape, 1963. First edn. Boards, dust-wrapper; FORESTER, C.S. The Commodore. Michael Joseph, 1945. First edn. Cloth, dust-wrapper; another by the same, and 7 anthologies. (10) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 57 | LEWIS, Wyndham. The Red Priest. Methuen, 1956. First edn. Boards, dust-wrapper; ISHERWOOD, Christopher. A Single Man. Methuen, 1964. First edn. Boards, dust-wrapper; and 14 others, most first edn fiction in dust-wrappers, by Graves, Connolly et al. (16) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 58 | POWYS, T.F. Mark Only. Chatto & Windus, 1924. First edn. Cloth, label; Bottle's Path and other stories. Chatto & Windus, 1946. First edn. Cloth, dust-wrapper; POWYS, J.C. Homer and the Aether. Macdonald, 1959. First edn. Cloth, dust-wrapper; 7 others by or about the Powyses and 5 first edns by Sylvia Townsend Warner. (17) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 59 | GOLDING, William. The Pyramid. Faber, 1967. First edn. Cloth, dust-wrapper; and 11 other first edns in dust-wrapper by Aldiss (3), Naipaul (6) et al. (11) £50-100 | Nil |
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SHARPE, Tom. Porterhouse Blue. Secker & Warburg, 1974. First edn. Boards, dust-wrapper; and 12 other first edns by Sharpe, Amis, Burgess et al., all in dust-wrappers. (13) £50-100 |
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