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Sparks, Jared.
The Life of George Washington.
Publisher: Alphons Durr, Leipzig;
Date of publication: 1859
£45.00
FIRST THUS. Published originally as the first volume in the 12 volume set “The Writings of Washington”, and here presented in an abridged form as a separate work. Octavo, pp. xii, 371, [1]. Brown half-calf ...
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Kirk, Rev. John.
The Mother of the Wesleys: A Biography.
Publisher: Jarrold & Sons, London;
Date of publication: 1866
£50.00
Fourth Edition. Octavo, pp. xxii, [2], 351, [9] catalogue. Portrait frontispiece of Mrs Wesley engraved by W.H.Gibbs. Publishers’ pebbled bottle-green cloth with bevelled boards, gilt titles and decoration to spine and double border ...
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Sisman, Adam.
John Le Carre: The Biography.
Publisher: Bloomsbury, London;
Date of publication: 2015
£110.00
SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. xx, 652. Numerous monochrome photographic images to plates. Publishers’ black cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Very minor creasing to spine tips and an almost imperceptible ...
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Phillimore, Sir Robert
Laocoon Translated From the Text of Lessing
Publisher: Macmillan and Co, London;
Date of publication: 1874
£85.00
FIRST EDITION. Large octavo, pp. lxii, [2] List of Illustrations and errata, 360. Three mounted Woodbury type illustrations to plates including frontispiece portrait of Lessing, each with tissue guard. Publishers’ umber cloth with gilt titles ...
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Bestic, Alan.
The Girl Outside.
Publisher: Barrie and Rockliff, London;
Date of publication: 1959
£50.00
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp 238. Publishers’ dark blue cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Cover cloth unobtrusively stained top edge. Top edge of leaves faintly damp-stained and foxed, mainly up to ...
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Greenwell, George Clementson.
The Autobiography of George Clementson Greenwell [Inscribed].
Publisher: Quarry Publishing Co (for Private Circulation) London;
Date of publication: 1899
£50.00
Privately printed. Octavo, pp., viii, 304. With 6 plates including frontispiece photographic portrait of the Author. Original dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt border to boards. Spine tips a little creased ...
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Anon.
The World's Great Men [2 volume set].
Publisher: London Printing and Publishing Company Limited, London;
Date of publication: 1880
£200.00
Undated circa 1880. Small quarto, pp 204 & [205]-408. Illustrated with 101 captioned tissue-guarded steel-engraved plates of each subject together with a short biography of each. Half calf with 5 raised bands, gilt titles to maroon leather labels to spine, gilt tooling to compartments and gilt borders, with pebbled cloth boards; all edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Spines lightly sunned and boards partially so; edges rubbed with minor wear at corners. Ffep glued to front pastedown Vol I. A ...
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Moore, Thomas.
Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan [2 volume set].
Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London;
Date of publication: 1825
£75.00
THIRD EDITION, complete in 2 volumes. Octavo, pp viii, 543 & iv, 492. \portrait frontispiece and fold-out facsimile letter to Vol I. Half polished green calf with 4 raised bands, red labels with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to compartments; marbled boards and sprinkled edges. Silk placemarkers. Corners bumped with wear and boards lightly scuffed; very minor loss at head of spine Vol I ...
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Wordsworth, Christopher.
Memoirs of William Wordsworth, Poet-Laureate, DCI [2 volume set].
Publisher: Edward Moxon, London;
Date of publication: 1851
£400.00
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp xii, 457,[1] Volume I and viii, 524 vol II. Frontispiece portraits of William and Dora Wordsworth. Full vellum binding by Riviere & Son with red and black labels with gilt titles to spine, gilt scale design to spines, gilt border to boards; gilt dentelles and t.e.g. Marbled endpapers ...
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