London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1934-1939. Four volumes, 8vo. Numerous maps, plans and facsimiles. Original plum cloth, gilt crest to upper covers, t.e.g., d.w.'s with some loss to the spine ends and some minor spotting, otherwise an attractive set. The curiously named "Limited Presentation Edition," which used up extant.....

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London: Cassell & Co., 1948-54. First editions. Six volumes. 8vo. Recent russet half morocco over matching cloth boards, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels and dated at the feet, lion rampant device in gilt to the other compartments, top edges gilt. Numerous maps, some folding. An.....

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London: Jonathan Cape, (1968). Uncorrected proof, 8vo, 255, (1) pp. Original light green paperback, d.w. with some bumping to the spine ends, particularly at the top as a result of the wrapper being slightly taller. Very good.

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Kantabrigia [Cambridge]: Ioannou Phieldou [John Field], 1665, 1664. Two works in one volume, 12mo, xxxvi, 126, (2, ii), 115, (3), 117-171, (1) pp. Marginal loss to O6 in the second work without loss of text, contemporary signature to the title page of the first work. Contemporary calf, a little worn.....

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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: Duckworth, 1928. First edition. 8vo. 292 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, the ownership inscription of an Ianthi Zygounas dated July 1928 to the front free endpaper. Frontispiece and 32 black and white plates, mostly photographic and including many taken by the author. The.....

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London: J. Harding, 1815. Second edition, "considerably enlarged". 8vo. xix, (i), 492 pp. Nineteenth century tan half calf over plum cloth boards. Frontispiece, 3 plates of strata and a map of England - all geologically handcoloured, plus two black and white plates. Rebacked preserving much of the original spine, the.....

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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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New York: Private Circulation, 1882. Sole edition, 8vo, (iv), 275, (1) pp. Inscribed from the author on the dedication leaf to the chemist Sidney G. Thomas and his sister, Lilian, with her and her husband's bookplate to the fly leaf. Original gilt titled cloth, spine sunned with some wear to.....

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London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, (1939). First edition, 8vo, (ii), 252, (2 advertisement) pp. Contemporary inscription to fly leaf almost completely faded. Original cloth, spine dull, rather marked, top of the upper joint with some wear. Published in the US as "And Then There Were None."...

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Oxford: At the Clarendon Press... London: Sold by J. Dodsley, J. Robson [et al], 1776. First edition. 4to. (iv), xiv, (ii), 304 pp. Contemporary full calf, rebacked, retaining one of the original gilt lettered red labels, early ownership inscription, "Somerset Bridge Club," to the front free endpaper. 7 plates -.....

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New York: Bantam Books, (1969). Paperback edition, small 8vo. (x), 277, (1) pp. Limited edition, no. 30 of 50 copies with a custom made cover, signed and pasted on by Ayrton. Handwritten postcard from Ayrton also loosely inserted. Some mild bumping to the top of the upper wrapper, otherwise fine.....

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