Port Louis: R.W. Brooks, 1934. First edition, no. 135 of 150 copies, 4to, xx, (ii), 231, (1) pp. Frontispiece and 34 plates - 3 folding, plus a map to the front endpapers, contemporary signature to front blank. Original half sheep, some rubbing to extremities otherwise very good.

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Amsterdam: Daniel van den Dalen and François Halma; Utrecht: Wilhelm vande Water, 1700. Two volumes. Second edition. Folio. (28), 666, (10) [pp. 183-184 repeated and page numbers 343-348 omitted as usual, the text and signatures continual]; (18), 390, (6), 393-608, 61, (1) pp. Contemporary mottled full calf, spine with raised.....

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Londini [London]: Typis T. Roycroft, 1668. First edition, 8vo, (xxxiv), 420 pp. Portrait frontispiece. 19th century quarter parchment, somewhat marked and with some scuffing to the upper board, red morocco label. A posthumous collected edition - Cowley having died the year before - with a life by Thomas Sprat, his.....

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London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1974. Fifth impression. 8vo. (iv), 127, (1) pp. Publisher's glossy boards, inscribed on the front free endpaper "Natasha, Love, Roald Dahl" in bright blue ink, the recipient's full name signed in green felt tip to the opposing inner cover, original printed gold sticker promoting.....

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London: Faber & Faber, 1937. Second edition, third impression. 8vo. 89, (1) pp. Publisher's grey cloth, blue lettered to the spine, signed by Auden on the front free endpaper. Marking and wear to the cloth, else very good. Bloomfield and Mendelson, A2b. First published in 1930, the second edition originally.....

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Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1930. Limited edition, no. 77 of 750 copies signed by the author, 4to, xxxi, (i), 177, (11) pp. Coloured frontispiece and 115 plates, mostly in colour, patterned endpapers. Original cloth backed patterned boards, spine slightly dull, recently rebacked retaining the original backstrip.

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London: Stainer & Bell, 1920. Two copies of the same publication, each large 8vo, (ii), 210 pp. Both copies from Boughton's own library, with his monogrammed ink stamp to the title page. Copy 1 otherwise unannotated, the printed wrappers strengthened with later black cloth. Copy 2 with his signature and.....

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London: The Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust, 1978. Limited edition, no. 248 of 376 copies from a total edition of 440. Oblong folio. (14) pp. Publisher's brown quarter morocco over grey cloth sides, matching cloth slipcase. 7 plates and 11 further illustrations. An attractive copy.

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London: Arthur Barker Limited, (1979). First edition, 8vo, 158, (2) pp. Cloth, second state d.w., a little rubbed with some loss to the spine ends and corners.

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London: Odhams Press Limited, 1951. First edition. Large 8vo. 190, (2) pp. Publisher's fawn cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, Beaton designed dust jacket, price clipped, inscribed by Beaton on the front free endpaper "To Bill with all good wishes from..." 60 pages of black and white photogravure illustrations, some.....

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London: G.W. Bacon & Co., Limited, 1910. Second edition. 4to. (iv), (4), 20, 16, 4, 2 pp. Publisher's red cloth, gilt lettered to the upper panel, rebacked to style. Frontispiece illustrating the "flags of all nations", 6 full page maps including individual maps of the north and south polar regions.....

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London: The Folio Society, 2005. Three volumes - two volumes folio, the commentary 8vo. Folios bound in midnight blue goatskin over blue-grey silk boards, illustrated and with matching leather title labels to the upper covers, commentary bound in dark teal cloth, silver lettered to the spine with a blue-grey title.....

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