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The Museum Dramatists. The Pardoner And The Friar The Curate And Neighbour Pratt. The Four P.P. By John Heywood. Edited, with an introduction, Note-Book and Word-List, by John S. Farmer.

FARMER, JOHN S. (1854-1916) / HEYWOOD, JOHN . · 1906 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Published by Gibbings & Co. for the Early English Drama Society, 18, Bury St. (Near British Museum), MCMVI. [1906] . 0. First edition. A very good orignal binding. 8vo. 7.0" x 4.5" . pp.12/pp.78 . Green cloth covered boards, Blind stamp decoration and title to front bo...

The Museum Dramatists. Ralph Roister Doister By Nicholas Udall. Edited, with an introduction, Note-Book and Word-List, by John S. Farmer.

FARMER, JOHN S. (1854-1916) / UDALL, NICHOLAS . · 1907 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Published by Gibbings & Co. for the Early English Drama Society, 18, Bury St. (Near British Museum), MCMVII. [1907] . 0. First edition. A very good orignal binding. 8vo. 7.0" x 4.5" . pp.12/pp.151 . Green cloth covered boards, Blind stamp decoration and title to front ...

Armageddon.

PHILLIPS, STEPHEN. · 1905 · Chilton Books

£12.50 (€14.99 | $16.52 | ¥2,638)

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1905. 1st edition. A Modern Epic Drama in a Prologue Series of Scenes and an Epilogue Written Partly in Prose and Partly in Verse. Pp.94, rough-cut page edges, occasional minor spotting, toning to endpapers. Green ribbed cloth, gilt title to...

Eon The Good and Other Poems.

MURRAY, CHARLOTTE. · 1896 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London: James Nisbet & Co. Limited, 1896. 1st edition. Pp.viii/125, black & white portrait photograph frontispiece. White pebbled cloth a little soiled. Scarce. G+.

Contemporary Scottish Studies. (First Series).

GRIEVE, C.M. · 1926 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Leonard Parsons, 1926. 1st edition. Ex Priory libary. Pp.344, library ownership inkstamp to front free endpaper, small number notation to inside front board. Navy blue cloth, gilt title to spine, minor scuff to spine. VG.

Poems in Pamphlet 1952. III. Drift. Poems and Sonnets.

BULL, A.J. · 1952 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Aldington: The Hand and Flower Press, 1952. 1st edition. Poems in Pamphlet was a monthly publication with each devoted to the work of a different poet. Pp.88, initialled dedication "For John Atkins, with sincerest good wishes, AJB" to title page, a couple of marginal notations...

An Upton Sinclair Anthology.

EVANS, I.O. (COMPILER) · 1934 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: T.Werner Laurie Ltd, 1934. 1st British edition. "In these works, as indeed in all his writings, Sinclair manifests himself as a worthy exponent of the ideals characteristic of his own nation, their dogged determination and unbounded energy, their love of freedom, thier...

King and Rebel, A Historical Drama... / Meted Out. An Original Modern Drama.... by Dr Vellère.

VELLERE, EDOUARD RAPHAEL WELLER. · 1873 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London: Samuel French, 89, Strand, [Printed by Thomas Scott, 1 Warwick Court, Holborn], 1873 . 0. Scarce edition of two plays, signed by the author. pp.72/42. Original maroon buckram with gilt titles to the front board: "King & Rebel. - Meted Out." Maroon leather spine careful...

Sudbury Leaflets : Poetry and Prose, Original And Selected.

[ WRIGHT, JAMES ] . · 1864 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London : A. W. Bennett, Bishopsgate Street. / Sudbury: J. Wright, 1864. 0. First edition. A very good original Victorian Binding. 8vo. 7.5" x 4.5" x 0.75". pp.8/pp.156 . Green cloth covered boards, with blind-stamped decoration. Gilt title: "Sudbury Leaflets." to top of the fr...

Chromatic Airs. A Selection of Verse.

BULL, ARTHUR J. · 1948 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

Chorley: The Chorley Guardian Co Ltd, 1948. 1st edition. Collection of poetry. Pp.80, signed by the author "Most Faithfully Yors, Arthur J.Bull" to reverse of title page.Paperback, faded to edges. Good.

Jousts of Aphrodite. Erotic Verse Translated from the Original Greek.

KELLY, MICHAEL. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Chingford: Forest Books, 1986. 0948259345. 1st edition. "The erotic content of the Greek Anthology, a collection of poems assembled by Byzantine scholars nearly a thousand years ago, has long been consigned to the obscurity of specialized academic study. Here, in his humorous ...

Natural Causes. (Signed).

MOTION, ANDREW. · 1987 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

London: Chatto & Windus, 1987. 070113271X. 1st edition. Collection of poems written by the future Poet Laureate (1999 to 2009). Pp.57, inscribed by the author (Robin love Andrew) to title page with a line through the author's printed name, owner's name "Robin Duthy" to front f...

Nuremberg. A Poem.

LONGFELLOW, HENRY W. · 1890 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

Nuremberg: Joh.Leonh. Schrag, nd (c.1890). 3rd edition. 16cms x 12cms. All edges gilt. Pp.13/6(ads), 7 engravings. Black cloth over flexible card cover, gilt title to front, covers rubbed with uneven discolouration. G+.

The Muleskinner.

MACLEOD, ROBERT. · 1972 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Gold Lion Books, 1972. 1st edition. "Among the savage, ceaseless horizons of this godforsaken country, nobody cared who or what a man really was. All that counted was what he seemed to be. An Ben Davis seemed to be a walking, breathing challenge to every brawling drift...

Mildred's Mistake. A Still Life Study.

LEVIEN, F. · 1877 · Chilton Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London: Marcus Ward & Co, 1877. 1st edition. By the author of "Little Ada's Jewels". Pp.256, colour title page and colour chromolithograph frontispiece + 4 black & white illustrated plates, owner's names to front free endpaper and reverse of frontispiece, spotting to endpapers...

"Week In, Week Out". Little Lessons in Labour.

LANGBRIDGE, REV. FREDERICK. · 1891 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: George Cauldwell, nd. (c.1891). Victorian moral stories and poems for children. Pp.176, occasional black & white illustrations throughout, some internal cracking but holding, a few marginal spots. Red illustrated cloth rubbed with minor edge wear. Good.

"Ask Mamma" or The Richest Commoner in England. (Illustrated by John Leech). Jorrocks Edition.

[SURTEES, R.S]. · 1926 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Bath: George Bayntun, 1926. Jorrocks Edition. Pp.x/425, coloured frontispiece + 19 full page wood engravings and many further wood engravings in the text, a couple of spots to endpapers. Blue illustrated cloth with gilt title to spine, slightly rubbed with small bumps to corne...

Accepted Addresses By George Augustus Sala.

SALA, GEORGE AUGUSTUS . · 1862 · Chilton Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

London: Tinsley Brothers, 18, Catherine Street, Strand, 1862 . 0. First edition. A very good half calf binding. [4pp.]/pp.307/[1p. - Adverts] . Green calf spine and corners over marbled boards. Boards lightly rubbed and bumped. Spine with 4 raised bands and leather title label...

When We Were Boys. (A Novel).

O'BRIEN, WILLIAM. (M.P). · 1890 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1890. 1st edition. A Fenian romance with a land reform theme set in 1860 Pp.550/16(ads), occasional minor spotting throughout, cracking to inner rear hinge but holding. Green cloth, gilt title to spine, bumps to corners and minor edge wear. Good...

The Scottish Orphans.

STODDART, LADY ISABELLA [MRS BLACKFORD]. · 1888 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London: Grifith, Farran & Co, nd.(c.1888). A moral tale founded on historical fact. 17cms x 1.5cms. Pp.128/16(ads for other publications), engraved frontispiece, gift message to front free endpaper, endpapers browned, cracking to front inner hinge but holding. Blue decorated c...