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Cooke, Rev. Edward Alexander.
Saint Columba: His Life and Work.
Publisher: St. Giles’ Printing Company, Edinburgh;
Date of publication: 1893
£65.00
Second edition. Octavo, pp. [2], x, 153, [1], [6] catalogue. Monochrome frontispiece of Iona. Publishers’ cream cloth with gilt titles to spine and on brown panel to upper board. Dark brown end-papers. Spine toned and ...
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Bates, H. E.
The Vanished World: An Autobiography Volume One [with] The Blossoming World Volume Two [and] The ...
Publisher: University of Missouri Press, Columbia;
Date of publication: 1969
£50.00
First American Editions. Three vols, octavo’s, pp., 188, [2]; 181, [1]; 152. All illustrated with line drawings by John Ward. Publishers’ blue cloth with silver titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jackets in orange ...
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Laver, James.
Whistler.
Publisher: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, New York;
Date of publication: 1930
£50.00
INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 318. 22 captioned plates including frontispiece. Publishers’ quarter dark green cloth with gilt titles and fillets to spine and light green cloth covered boards. Slightly shaken with gilt dull and ...
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Ballard, J. G.
Miracles of Life.
Publisher: Fourth Estate, London;
Date of publication: 2008
£75.00
SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo, pp. viii, 278. Publisher’s dark grey cloth with amber titles to spine in an unclipped pictorial jacket; pictorial endpapers; housed in a matching dark grey slipcase with amber titles to ...
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Raine, James.
A Memoir of the Rev. John Hodgson
Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, London;
Date of publication: 1857
£180.00
FIRST EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo, pp. viii, 408; v, [1], 472. Frontispiece with tissue guard to each volume, and fold-out plan of the ‘Workings of Felling Colliery’ to Vol I. Polished half calf with 5 ...
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Craig, John D.
Danger Is My Business.
Publisher: Arthur Barker Limited, London;
Date of publication: 1938
£50.00
FIRST EDITION. Large octavo, pp. xii, [2], 287, [1]. Pictorial double-spread title page and monochrome photographic plates. Publishers’ maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine. Spine lightly sunned and paint-spattered with slight wear at tail ...
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Spencer, Reverend Thomas & Raffles, Thomas.
Memoirs of the Life and Ministry of the Late Reverend Thomas Spencer, of Liverpool: With ...
Publisher: Printed by G.F. Harris’ Widow and Brothers & Published by Reston and Taylor, Liverpool;
Date of publication: 1813
£45.00
Second Edition, Corrected and Improved. 12 mo, pp. xi, [1], 302, xxxiii, [1]. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Spencer aged 20 from a miniature by N Branwhite. Full vellum with gilt titles to black label to ...
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Orwell, George; Davison, Peter (editor).
The Lost Orwell.
Publisher: Timewell Press, London;
Date of publication: 2006
£85.00
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Octavo, pp. x, 258. Illustrated with 4 plates of black and white photographs. Bound in black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the publisher’s unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Near Fine ...
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Butscher, Edward.
Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness.
Publisher: The Seabury Press, New York;
Date of publication: 1976
£30.00
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 388. Bound in black cloth and crimson paper over boards, with silver spine titles. In a black and crimson pictorial dustjacket depicting Plath. Some light scattered foxing mainly to fore-edges and ...
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Bewick, Thomas & Bain, Iain (editor).
A Memoir of Thomas Bewick.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford;
Date of publication: 1979
£28.00
SIGNED and DATED softcover, pp. xxviii, [2], 276. Bewick’s woodcuts and other illustrations throughout, with 4 double-sided monochrome photographic plates. Publisher’s cream card wraps with swan woodcut image. Spine sunned. Some modest underlining ...
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Darton, J. M.
Brave Boys Who Have Become Illustrious Men of Our Time Forming Bright Examples for Emulation ...
Publisher: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., London;
Date of publication: 1890
£65.00
Seventh Edition. Octavo, pp. [2], vii, [1], 288. 3 plates by Harrison Weir; numerous head- and tail-piece decorations. Bound in superb full tree-calf with 5 raised bands, gilt titles to black label to spine, gilt ...
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Ackroyd, Peter.
Blake.
Publisher: Folio Society, London;
Date of publication: 2008
£35.00
FIRST THUS. Large octavo pp. 455. Illustrated including frontispiece self-portrait of Blake. Pictorial cloth with gilt & black titles and decoration, and pictorial endpapers; housed in plain black slipcase.
Head of spine very slightly creased otherwise clean and bright. Slipcase very slightly ...
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