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The Player of Games.
BANKS, Iain M.London: Macmillan, (1988). Limited edition, no. 76 of 201 copies, (viii), 309, (1) pp. Maroon cloth, slipcase with a colour illustration to one side, faint rubbing to the slipcase otherwise an excellent copy.
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War Speeches. Into Battle; The Unrelenting Struggle; The End of the Beginning;...
CHURCHILL, Winston S.London: Cassell and Company, 1943-50. Mixed editions. Nine volumes. 8vo. Seven volumes of the war speeches in publisher's blue cloth, the post-war volume in publisher's red cloth, gilt lettered to the spines, three volumes with early inscriptions, dust jackets, early Singapore bookseller's stamp to the front free endpaper of "Victory".....
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William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job. The Engravings and Related...
BLAKE, William.London: The William Blake Trust, 1987. Limited edition, one of five special sets from a total edition of 387 copies. Four parts, each containing subdivisions of text volumes and/or portfolios of illustrations. Dark blue half morocco, the text volumes and solander boxes over marbled boards with gilt labels, the portfolios.....
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G. Bradshaw's Map of Canals Situated in the Counties of Lancaster, York...
BRADSHAW, [George].Manchester: G. Bradshaw, 1830. Two large decorative folding maps of the northern and midland counties of England, both with bright original full hand colouring. I. Map dimensions 98.5 x 126.5 cm, showing the extents from Lancaster down to Nantwich and Tadcaster across to the Irish Sea; II. Map dimensions 131.....
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Photobiography.
BEATON, Cecil.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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The Comprehensive Family Bible; Containing the Old and New Testaments... with copious...
(BIBLE).London: Blackie & Son, [c.1850]. 4to, (xxii), 1475, (1), 72 pp. Frontispieces, engraved second titles, 57 plates and 9 maps. Owner's name at the front, marbled endpapers. Original gilt titled black morocco, a.e.g., some mild marks otherwise an excellent copy.
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The Trinity College Apocalypse. [with] An Introduction and Description by Peter H....
(APOCALYPSE).London: Eugrammia Press, 1967. An out-of-series copy from an edition of 600. Two volumes. Folio. Facsimile bound by Zaehnsdorf in period style gilt tooled full vellum, housed in plain black slipcase, introduction (56 pp.) bound in red cloth, gilt to upper cover, loosely inserted is the original prospectus for the.....
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Letters and Journals of... In My Hot Youth. Famous in My Time...
BYRON, Lord.London: John Murray, 1974-84, 1994. First edition, 13 volumes, 8vo. Frontispieces in all but the index volume, two in colour. Cloth, d.w.'s, that to volume I slightly worn otherwise very good.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. With... illustrations by John Tenniel.
CARROLL, Lewis.London: Macmillan and Co., 1871. 27th thousand, 8vo, (x), 192 pp. Frontispiece and black and white illustrations in the text. Original gilt decorated cloth, a.e.g., rebacked with the majority of the original backstip still present.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found...
CARROLL, Lewis.London: Macmillan and Co., 1889. "People's edition", 20th and 13 thousands, 8vo, (xii), 173, (1, xii), 208, (1, 3 advertisement) pp. Black and white illustrations, original green cloth covers bound in at the end, some foxing, marbled endpapers. Attractively bound in slightly later red morocco, t.e.g., covers with a striking.....
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Alle de Wercken, soo Oude als Nieuwe... De laatste Druk. Hier komen...
CATS, Jacob.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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The Microscope Made Easy: or, I. The Nature, Uses, and Magnifying Powers...
BAKER, Henry.London: Printed for R. Dodsley and sold by M. Cooper and J. Cuff, 1743. Second edition, 8vo, (ii), xvi, 311, (13 Index) pp. 15 plates (11 folding) plus a folding table. Contemporary calf, minor loss to extremities, joints recently repaired. First published 1742.
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