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[GRAHAM, Dougal]. The comical tricks of lothian tom; with a selection of anecdotes. Glasgow. Printed for the booksellers, [s.d., c. 1840] 12mo. 24pp. Woodcut on title page. Title within ornamental border. Single folded sheet, unopened, as issued. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 28601

[LITTLE WHITE MOUSE]. The story of the little white mouse: or the overthrow of the tyrant king. Glasgow. Printed for the booksellers, [s.d., c. 1840] 12mo. 24pp. Woodcut on title. Title within ornamental border. Single folded sheet, unopened, as issued. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 28604

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ARMSTRONG, Douglas B. GREENWOOD, Chas. H. War Stamps of the Allies. 1914-1920. An Historical Record. London. The Offices of "Stamp Collecting", [1920]. Popular edition [i.e. first edition]. 8vo. 116pp. With xvi pages of photographic plates. Original publisher's printed buff wrappers. Rubbed, chipping to dulled spine. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 28639

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CUCKOW, J[ohn] G[eorge]. Our native england; or, the historical "house that jack built:" being the history of england made easy; in familiar verse... London. J. and C. Mozley, 1868. Fourteenth edition. 12mo. vi, [1], 8-60pp. With 47 woodcuts in the text. Original publisher's printed blue wrappers. Rubbed and creased, loss to spine panel. Contemporary inked gift inscription to recto of FFEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 28697

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RUSKIN, John. "Unto this last:" four essays on the first principles of political economy. Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent. George Allen, 1877. Second edition. 8vo. xxi, [1], 174pp. With a half-title. Contemporary blind-tooled navy calf, lettered in gilt to spine, A.E.G. Rubbed, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 28711

LLOYD, W. Watkiss. The history of sicily to the athenian war; with elucidations of the sicilian odes of pindar. London. John Murray, 1872. First edition. 8vo. x, [2], 396, 12pp. With an engraved folding map and a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Unopened in original publisher's blind-stamped purple cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt to spine. Rubbed, a trifle marked, heavily sunned. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 28713

DRINKWATER, John. Olton Pools. London. Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1916. Second impression. 8vo. 42pp, [6]. Original publisher's red cloth, paper title label to sunned spine. Toned endpapers, internally bright and clean, with an ink inscription 'Alfred Hayes from John Drinkwater, Jan 1917' to verso of half-title. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 28733

HÖLDERLIN, Friedrich. Poems and Fragments. London. Anvil Press Poetry, 1994. Third edition. 8vo. xlvi, 748pp [4]. Original publisher's yellow card wraps lettered in blue. Lightly scuffed, with some smoke damage/odour. The smoke damage is the result of an errant cigarette dropped by Olwyn down the back of her sofa, which caused a serious fire. Inscribed by translator Michael Hamburger on the half title 'For Olwyn in old friendship Michael Hamburger 19/3/94'. From the estate of Olwyn Hughes, recently ... More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 28758

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KYLE, Barry. Sylvia plath a dramatic portrait. London. Faber & Faber, 1976. First edition. 8vo. 70pp. Original publisher's pink monochrome laminate wrappers, lettered in black. Lightly scuffed, internally bright and clean. From the estate of Olwyn Hughes, recently dispersed, though no indications of such. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 28763

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WILKES, John. GREEN, Emanuel [editor]. Some Bath love letters of John Wilkes... Bath. George Gregory, 1918. First edition. 8vo. 54pp, [2]. With a final leaf of advertisements. Stitched, as issued, in original publisher's printed grey wrappers. Inked ownership initials to upper wrapper, lightly sunned. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 28977

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[LAWRENCE, T. E.] [JARRY, Alfred] [ZUKOFSKY, Louis]. Lawrence, Jarry, Zukofsky: A Triptych - Manuscript Collections at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. Austin. University of Texas, [1987]. First edition. Quarto. 182pp, [2]. Original publisher's pictorial wrappers. A trifle rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 28978

MACKINTOSH, James. A discourse on the study of the law of nature and nations... London. Printed [by S. Gosnell] for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1800. Third edition. 8vo. [2], 72pp. Without half-title. Disbound. Title page laid-down, scattered spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 28980

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MARSHALL, Edward Shearburn. A Supplement to the Flora of Somerset. Taunton. Published by the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 1914. First edition. 8vo. iv, 242pp. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. A trifle rubbed. Hinges exposed, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 29013

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MARSHALL, Mr. [William]. General view of the agriculture of the central highlands of scotland: with observations on the means of their improvement. London. Printed by T. Wright, 1794. First edition. Quarto. 68pp. With a half-title. Stitched, as issued. Early ownership inscription of Duncan Grant Esq. to head of half-title, marginal damp-staining, scattered spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 29074

STAFFORD, Wendell Phillips. Dorian days. New York. The Macmillan Company, 1909. First edition. 8vo. vi, [1], 112pp, [4]. With 2 leaves of publisher's advertisements at rear. Original publisher's gilt-tooled green cloth. Slightly rubbed, bumping to corners. Author's ink inscription to Margaret Bell Merrill on FEP dated Christmas 1909. William St. Clair's copy, with his pencilled ownership inscription. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 29195

TENNYSON, Frederick. Days and hours. London. John W. Parker and Son , 1854. First edition. 8vo. viii, 346pp, [6]. With 6 pages of publisher's advertisements at rear. Original publisher's brown cloth boards tooled in gilt and blind. Boards and spine slightly marked, slight bumping to corners. Small green paper label on FEP displaying 'Gilbert Brothers, Booksellers'. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 29201

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[LE MORTE ARTHUR]. Le Morte Arthur, a romance in stanzas of eight lines... London. Published for the Early English Text Society by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1903. 8vo. xxx, 148pp. Bound for the University College Reading in contemporary gilt-stamped half-morocco, brown cloth boards, T.E.G. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, prize plate to FEP, bookplate of Eric Gerald Stanley to FFEP More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 29269

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SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley. Pizarro; a tragedy, in five acts; as performed at the theatre royal in Drury-Lane: taken from the german drama of kotzebue; and adapted to the english stage. London. Printed for James Ridgway, 1799. First edition. 8vo. [8], 76pp, [4]. Without two terminal advertisement leaves. Final line of Act 4 [p. 64] reads: ‘No!---thought and memory are my Hell.’, a variant edition reads: ‘No living---thought and memory are my Hell.’ Disbound. Title page browned and marked, scattered spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 29278

DIBDIN, T[homas]. Five miles off: or, the finger post; a comedy... London. Printed and Published by Barker and Son, 1806. First edition. 8vo. 56pp, [4]. With a terminal leaf of publisher’s advertisements. Disbound. Stab-stitch holes to gutter, title page browned, scattered spotting, loss to gutter of final leaf - very nearly detached. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 29281

REYNOLDS, Frederick. Speculation; a comedy... London. Printed for T. N. Longman, 1795. First edition. 8vo. [4], 76pp, [4]. With a terminal leaf of publisher’s advertisements. Disbound. Stab-stitch holes to gutter, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 29282