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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 sunne...
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Spencer, Reverend Thomas & Raffles, Thomas.
Memoirs of the Life and Ministry of the Late Reverend Thomas Spencer, of Liverpoo...
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 blac...
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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 fox...
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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 wo...
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Russell, John.
Henry Moore.
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd., Harmondsworth, Middlesex;
Date of publication: 1973
£40.00
Softcover, pp. 274. Monochrome illustrations throughout. Publisher’s pictorial card wraps. INSCRIBED in red ink by Henry Moore to title page. Light surface rubbing to spine. Overall a clean, neat ...
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Lort-Phillips, Violet.
Violet Goes to Russia.
Publisher: Privately printed.
Date of publication: 0
£40.00
Undated, circa 1990. Softcover octavo, pp. [4], 44. Cartoon vignette to title page. Plain red card wraps. Pictorial cat bookplate to verso title page inscribed ”Robin with love from”Violet” otherw...
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Darton, J. M.
Brave Boys Who Have Become Illustrious Men of Our Time Forming Bright Examples fo...
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...
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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 ...
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Besant, Walter.
Captain Cook.
Publisher: Macmillan and Co., Limited, London;
Date of publication: 1904
£35.00
Octavo, pp. vi, 191. Full polished tan calf, with 5 raised bands and gilt titles to spine, and gilt decoration to compartments; gilt border to boards, board edges and turn-ins with gilt armorial of...
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Burnside, W. F. & Owen, A. S.
Short Lives of Great Men.
Publisher: Edward Arnold, London;
Date of publication: 1910
£30.00
Octavo, pp. viii, 296. Frontispiece and 7 further plates. Prize binding of full polished burgundy calf, with 5 raised bands, black label with gilt titles to spine, and gilt decoration to compartmen...
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Stuart, Charles.
David Blythe, The Gypsy King: A Character Sketch.
Publisher: J. & J.H. Rutherford, Kelso;
Date of publication: 1883
£150.00
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. [2] prospectus, 27, 7 catalogue. Original photograph of David Blythe aged 82, approx 9 cm x 6 cm, mounted to captioned leaf as frontispiece. Contemporary green cloth with...
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Hill, Alexander.
Boilerman's Heid: A Biography of Trade Union Leader John Hill (1863- 1945).
Publisher: Privately printed, Ambleside;
Date of publication: 2000
£45.00
Reprint. Softcover quarto, pp. vi, 178. Limp cloth to spine and lower cover, with transparent front cover showing pictorial title page below. A littler annotation in pencil to title page, which is...
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