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Poems by Thomas Gray

By: Gray, Thomas

Price: £95.00

Publisher: London, The Chiswick Press 1887: 1887

Seller ID: 55783

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Very Good

xxxvi., 169 pp. Full tan calf Riviera Eton prize binding. All edges gilt, with pretty decorative spine. Endpapers marbled. Text is large and well-spaced, and this volume usually comes with generous margins. However, at 33 cms tall, this appears to be a Large Paper copy. Eton prize page gifted by Edmond Warre in 1895
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Poems by Thomas Gray

By: Gray, Thomas

Price: £95.00

Publisher: London, Eton College Press 1902: 1902

Seller ID: 57791

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Very Good

xiv., 165 pp. Full tan Eton prize binding by Spottiswoode and Co. All edges gilt, with pretty decorative spine. Endpapers marbled. Text is large and well-spaced, with generous margins. Eton prize page gifted by Herman Sim in 1908. Frontispiece and 3 fine steel engraved plates.
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Poems

By: Gray, Thomas

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, Privately printed for Eton College by The Medici Society 1937: 1937

Seller ID: 58208

Binding: Full Vellum

Condition: Near Fine

87 pp. Eton prize with prize leaf after first blank. Lord Craigmyle's copy. Full vellum with gilt device to front board & gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. Bevelled edges. Vellum fresh. Internally clean. A nice copy.
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The Life of Thomas Chatterton

By: Gregory, G.

Price: £120.00

Publisher: London, G. Kearsley 1789: 1789

Seller ID: 23065

Binding: 1/4 Calf

Condition: Very Good

viii., 264 pp. Engraved frontispiece of text from 'Kew Gardens' bound in a recent 1/4 brown speckled calf with red morocco title label, marbled edges. Some spotting to prelims, and pencil notes in the margins.
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Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World [Gulliver's Travels]

By: Gulliver, Lemuel [Swift, Jonathan]

Price: £300.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co. 1894: 1894

Seller ID: 61700

Binding: Half Calf

Condition: Near Fine

First Charles Brock illustrated edition. xxx, 381, (2) pp. Recently bound in brown half calf over marbled boards. Raised bands to spine with gilt devices and maroon leather title label. In new cloth slipcase. New endpapers. Occasional light spotting. With 100 illustrations by Charles E. Brock.
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Food in England

By: Hartley, Dorothy

Price: £175.00

Publisher: London, Macdonald 1962: 1954

Seller ID: 56099

Binding: 1/4 Morocco

Condition: Very Good

xii, 13-676 pp. Recently bound in quarter maroon morocco over marbled boards. Raised bands to spine with gilt decorations & lettering. New endpapers. No ownership names. Numerous in-text illustrations.
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The Works of W. E. Henley. In seven volumes

By: Henley, William Ernest

Price: £600.00

Publisher: London, David Nutt 1908: 1908

Seller ID: 61925

Binding: Half Vellum

Condition: Very Good

In 7 volumes complete. Contemporary half vellum over blue cloth. Decorative gilt design to spines with leather title labels. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Bound by Hatchards. Minor marks to boards. All internally clean. Frontis portrait. Gift inscription on first blank is from publisher, editor and cricketer Sydney Pawling. The one-legged Henley was Robert Louis Stevenson's model for Long John Silver in Treasure Island. A nice set.
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Herodoti Halicarnassei Historiarum Libri IX 3 Volumes in 2

By: Herodoti [ Herodotus ]

Price: £175.00

Publisher: London, W. Baxter 1820: 1820

Seller ID: 40347

Binding: Full Vellum

Condition: Very Good

GREEK-LATIN TEXT 3 vols in 2. 1300 pp, some marks to vellum and foxing to pages dated 1820-1822
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Lost Horizon

By: Hilton, James

Price: £1,250.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., Limited 1933: 1933

Seller ID: 40490

Binding: Half Calf

Condition: Very Good

281 pp, dustwrapper is bound in rear of book. A Sotherans binding in grey half leather with grey boards t.e.g. gilt lettered spine with green title labels. Bottom front leather corner is initialled R.K. with previous owners book plate on f.e.p. some rubbing to hinges and mark to spine label .
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The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite

By: Homer and translated by F. L. Lucas

Price: £1,500.00

Publisher: London, The Golden Cockerel Press 1948: 1948

Seller ID: 62539

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Near Fine

This is copy no. 26 of 100 (of a total of 750 copies) specially bound & signed copies. Signed by the translator F. L. Lucas. 35 pp. Bound in full crimson morocco with decorative gilt designs to front & rear boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. In grey cloth slipcase. With ten engravings by Mark Severin. No ownership names. Bump to one corner. Boards bright and fresh. Internally clean. A nice copy.
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Wedgwood Ware

By: Honey, W. B.

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Faber and Faber 1948: 1950

Seller ID: 57168

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Very Good

Specially bound edition. xv, 35, + 96 plates, pp. Full green morocco with vertical gilt lines to front & rear boards and gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. New endpapers. Binding by the Collectors Book Club. Some fading to spine. Two leaves loose. Boards bright. Internally clean. No ownership names. With four colour and 96 b&w plates.
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An Historical Essay on Architecture. In Two Volumes

By: HOPE, Thomas

Price: £475.00

Publisher: London, John Murray 1840: 1840

Seller ID: 5506

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Very Good

Two volumes with Analytical Index [1836] at rear of Vol. 1. xx, 525, verso errata, (iv), 90; xii, [98 plates]. Contemporary red levant morocco. Spines gilt. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers and inner dentelles. Slight wear to extremities and boards slightly marked. Bookplate to front paste-downs. Scattered foxing, affecting most plates. 98 full-page engraved architectural plates.
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Standard Novels No XXVI Anasthius [Bentley Standard Novels]

By: HOPE, Thomas

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Richard Bentley 1833: 1833

Seller ID: 46985

Binding: Half Morocco

Condition: Very Good

414 pp., Mildly foxed engraved frontis and full title, folding map. Contemporary blue morocco half calf with blue boards and marbled edges by Riviere. Very strong copy, with strikingly clean text block. A touch of rubbing to edges, and a hint of fading to boards.
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Of Aucassin and Nicolette : A Translation in Prose and Verse From the Old French Together With Amabel and Amoris

By: Housman, Laurence

Price: £225.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus 1925: 1925

Seller ID: 55933

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Near Fine

This is copy no. 117 of an edition limited to 160 copies signed by Paul Woodroffe and Laurence Housman. 106 pp. Full morocco with gilt decoration to boards. Raised bands to spine with gilt decoration & lettering. Marbled endpapers. Small bookplate to front pastedown. Illustrations by Paul Woodroffe. Head and tail-pieces and decorated initials. Printed at The Shakespeare Head Press. In Near Fine condition.
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Venetian Life. Collection of British Authors Tauchnitz Edition Vol. 2132

By: Howells, William D.

Price: £950.00

Publisher: Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz 1883: 1883

Seller ID: 57951

Binding: Full Vellum

Condition: Near Fine

Fore-Edge Painting. 391 pp. Contemporary elaborately painted full vellum with gilt decoration and inital letter in gilt frame to front board. Painted calligraphy title to spine. All edges gilt. With recent fore-edge painting of scene of Venice by modern artist Martin Frost. Label signed by Martin Frost tipped-into verso of front endpaper. Boards clean. Internally clean. Painted decoration to front panel bright and fresh. A very attractive copy.
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Hawk in the Rain

By: Hughes, Ted

Price: £350.00

Publisher: London, Faber and Faber 1957: 1957

Seller ID: 59375

Binding: Half Calf

Condition: Fine

59 pp. Recently bound in half black morocco over dark blue cloth. Raised bands to spine with maroon leather title & author labels. New endpapers. Hughes' first collection of poems.
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Tom Brown's School-Days

By: Hughes, Thomas

Price: £150.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers N.d.:

Seller ID: 62531

Binding: Half Morocco

Condition: Near Fine

Early reprint. xxiv, 376 pp. Maroon half morocco over maroon cloth. Raised bands to spine with gilt devices & lettering. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Bound by Bayntun-Riviere. Colour frontis and numerous b&w illustrations by Louis Rhead. No ownership names. Bright fresh copy in fine condition.
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Oeuvres de Victor Hugo. In twenty-one volumes

By: Hugo, Victor

Price: £600.00

Publisher: Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, Editeur N.d. [c. 1875]: 1875

Seller ID: 59271

Binding: Half Morocco

Condition: Near Fine

In 21 volumes. Contemporary dark brown half morocco over marbled boards. Raised bands to spines with gilt panels & lettering. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Bound by Kauffmann-Petit. All bindings fresh. Gilt spines bright. All internally clean. No foxing. Head and tail-pieces. Text in French. Nicely bound selection of Hugo's works in Near Fine to Fine condition.
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Histoire D'Angleterre, Depuis L'Invasion de Jules-Cesar Jusqu'a la Revolution de 1688. Forty volumes bound as twenty

By: Hume, David, et continuee par Goldsmith et W. Jones

Price: £450.00

Publisher: Paris, A. Hocquart Jeune, Editeur / P.-H. Krabbe, Editeur 1830 / 1834: 1830

Seller ID: 50560

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Very Good

40 volumes bound as 20. 9cm x 14cm. Contemporary brown full leather. Decorative gilt to spines with maroon leather title labels. Marbled endpapers. All edges red. Ribbon markers. Bound by Relieur Bazas. Occasional minor marks to boards. Scattered light foxing. Frontis portrait engraving. Additional engravings, some folding. Text in French. Gilt spines bright. A fresh and handsome VG to Near Fine set.
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Brave New World : A Novel

By: Huxley, Aldous

Price: £795.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus 1932: 1932

Seller ID: 60927

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Near Fine

[vi], 306 pp. Bound in a recent dark blue full morocco with gilt lines to boards. Raised bands to spine with gilt devices and maroon leather title & author labels. Top edge gilt. New endpapers. No ownership names. Handsomely bound copy of this classic work.
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