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: Warren Editions, 1983. Limited edition, no. 56 of 80 signed copies from a total edition of 380 copies, signed by Betjeman, Harte, Piper and Gili, 8vo, (28) pp. Cloth backed boards, d.w., a fine copy.

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London: The Waverley Book Company, Ltd., 1927. Limited edition, set number 205 of 250 copies for Great Britain (there being another 750 sets for the US). Ten volumes. 8vo. Publisher's quarter dark red morocco over matching sides, gilt lettered to the spines, top edges gilt. 69 plates, the majority photogravures.....

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London: Eveleigh Nash, 1912. Second edition, 8vo, 236, (2, 2 advertisement) pp. Contemporary inscription from Conrad to his fellow author Eden Phillpots on the fly leaf. Endpapers foxed, pencil sketches of ships to the front blanks and half title, small hole to the fly leaf, not affecting the inscription, rear.....

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London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1891. Third edition, 8vo, (xiv), 648 pp. 2 folding maps and 5 folding plates, including a hand coloured geological section, light staining to the top edge of the plates at the end as folded, hinges slightly cracked but sound. Original gilt titled green cloth, mild.....

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London: John Murray, 1839. Eight volumes. 8vo. Contemporary purple straight grain morocco, spines faded to brown, twin olive gilt lettered spine labels, gilt decoration to the edges of the boards, endpapers and all edges marbled, armorial bookplate of Frederick Wildman Burnett to the front pastedowns. Frontispiece portrait and 8 engraved.....

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London: Duckworth, 1930. First edition. 4to. xii, 67, (1) pp. Pink beaded cloth backed white boards, these decorated with large gilt circles, early pencilled gift inscription. Colour frontispiece and numerous illustrations in the text plus 27 photographic portrait plates. Slight sunning to the spine, two small marks to the cloth.....

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London: Sold only for the Author, 232 Piccadilly, [1795]. First edition. 8vo. 170 pp. (i-v), vi-vii, (viii-xi), 12-170 pp. Contemporary red full straight grained morocco, neatly rebacked to style, gilt tooled compartments with a gilt lettered green label. Some light wear and marking to the boards, occasional browning within, very.....

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London: Putnam, (1937). First edition, 8vo, (x), 416 pp. Recent red full morocco, a lovely copy. The true first edition, the book being written in English and only later translated into the author's native Danish. The American first edition appeared under her pen name, Isak Dinesen.

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London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 1832. Folio, (iv), viii, (vii)-xvi, 406, (2) pp. 18 plates, including 3 not listed - one of the latter the binder is directed to transfer to the volume on Bramber, plus six maps and plans, four of which are double page, one plate hand.....

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London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1881. Limited edition, no. 24 of 200 India proofs signed by Crane, oblong folio, (1), 56 leaves. Limitation leaf with the lower half spotted and some other marks, otherwise a clean copy with only some occasional faint foxing. Unbound.

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(Harmondsworth): Penguin Books, (1963). 8vo, 364, (2) pp. Inscribed from the author to Joan Baylis "...Greetings for Christmas 1963" on the half title, marginal browning throughout, original covers bound in at the end, marbled endpapers. Recent dark green full morocco, a.e.g.

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