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Fifty True Stories Stranger Than Fiction
London Odhams Press Limited 1948 Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket
A collection of true stories by authors such as Winston Churchill, Henry Rider Haggard, Alex Munthe, Alex Dixon, Leonard Handley, With 17 illustrations. 767 pages. Covers very clean and bright, a few foxing marks on page edges and faintly on pastedowns. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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10.00 GBP
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Gleanings from Popular Authors, Grave and Gay.
London Cassell & Company Limited 1883 Hard Cover Good
Contributions by a variety of authors including Wilkie Collins; W. M. Thackeray; Charles Dickens; Captain Marryat; Oliver Goldsmith; Mark Twain; Anthony Trollope; Lord Lytton and many more. Red cloth covers with decorative gilt title on front cover and spine. 376pp. Numerous very nice illustrations. A little red staining to lower edges of front and back pastedowns. Foxing on half-title and following page. Cover corners bumped. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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20.00 GBP
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Majority 1931-1935: An Anthology of 21 Years of Publishing
London Hamish Hamilton 1952 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket
From literary criticism by Bernard Shaw, a play by Jean-Paul Satre to biography by Frank Swinnerton and fiction by Nancy Mitford to name but a few; a positive cornucopia of literaray talent in 1035 pages. Comes with remnants of dust jacket, i.e. front and back only, no spine or flaps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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16.00 GBP
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The Cornhill Magazine No. 1008
London John Murray 1956 Soft Cover Very Good
This issued contained 'The Nun and the Dramatist' by Dame Laurentia McLachlan, the Abbess of Stanbrook; 'Hare Park' by Elizabeth Taylor; 'Shades of the Prison House' by John Verney; and 'Into the Desert' by Celia Dale. The covers are quite lightly worn at edges with a little soiling on the back cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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10.00 GBP
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The English Illustrated Magazine 1886-1887
London Macmillan and Co. 1887 Hard Cover Good
Contributions by a variety of authors accompanied by many splendid illustations and engravings. 824pp. Green/dark green decorated buckram covers with gilt title on front cover and spine. A little wear to top/tail of spine and cover corners, and bumped corners. Previous owners name faintly on front pastedown. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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22.00 GBP
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The Nibelungenlied. A Prose Translation
London J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd 1952 Hard Cover Good Good Jacket
Everyman's Library No. 312. Translated by Margaret Armour. 235pp. Light wear to dust jacket with small loss at top of spine. Previous owners name and date on front free endpaper. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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6.00 GBP
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The Strand Magazine. An Illustrated Monthly Vol. XV January to June
London George Newnes Ltd. 1898 Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket
Contains Arthur Conan Doyle's Round the Fire stories, No.1 The Story of the Beetle-Hunter. Blue cloth covers with black decoration of The Strand on front cover. 804 pages. Pastedown hinges both cracked. Occasional foxing, some on title page. Some soiling to covers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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28.00 GBP
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Ainsworth, William Harrison Old Saint Pauls: A Tale of the Plague and the Fire
London George Routledge and Sons Hard Cover Good John Franklin and
426 pages. Gilt title on spine with picture in black of man with his hands spread up, wearing a loin cloth; gilt title and black decoration on front cover. Hinges of front and back pastedowns cracked. Inscription of previous owner dated 1873 on front free endpaper. Some foxing at top of title page, and elswhere occasionally in the text. Originally 22 plates, now missing plate facing page 95, 'Blaize Purchasing the Infallible Antidotes', two other plates loose. Wear to cover extremities. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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28.00 GBP
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Alighieri, Dante The Vision of Hell
London Cassell and Company 1903 Hard Cover Good No Jacket Gustave Dore
182pp. 75 illustrations. With critical and explanatory notes, life of Dante and chronology. Red cloth covers with gilt title and portrait on front cover. Gutter cracked and page 23 to 26 loose. Gutter cracked at page 152. Back pastedown hinge cracked and back free endpaper insect nibbled down hinge. 340mm Tall.
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55.00 GBP
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Alighieri, Dante The Vision of Purgatory and Paradise
London Cassell and Company New Edition Hard Cover Good No Jacket Gustave Dore
Not dated [1894?] 337pp. 60 illustrations. With critical and explanatory notes. Red cloth covers with gilt title and portrait on front cover. Gutter cracked page 129. Back pastedown hinge cracked and back free endpaper insect nibbled down hinge. 340mm Tall.
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55.00 GBP
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Atwood, Margaret The Edible Woman
Toronto McClelland and Stewart Limited 1969 First Edition Hard Cover Good Poor Jacket
'off-beat and diverting novel'. 281 paginated pages. Maroon cloth covers. Name at top of front free endpaper. Dust jacket with large area of loss on spine and smaller losses on corners and top/tail of spine; edges creased and with some chips. Page edges slightly soiled. 205mm Tall.
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180.00 GBP
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Bailey, John Introductions to Jane Austen
London Oxford Univeristy Press 1931 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket
Discussions on the works of Jane Austen. Some discolouring to front cover; dedication on front free endpaper; small Foyles bookshop sticker on lower front pastedown corner. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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12.30 GBP
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