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John Inglesant: A Romance (in two volumes)

Shorthouse, Joseph Henry · 1882

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

MacMillan, London, 1882. New Edition, Hardcover (Half Leather). Very Good Condition. bound in red half leather with 5 raised bands, gilt titles & gilt decoration to panels; marbled boards; marbled end-papers; a new edition published a year after the first. John Inglesant is a ...

Hugo Wolf Ausgewahlte Lieder Fur Eine Singstimme Und Klavier herausgegeben Von Elena Gerhardt

Wolf, Hugo (Elena Gerhardt - compiler) · 1932

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

C. F. Peters, Leipzig, Germany, 1932. First Edition, Hardcover (Half Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. half-cloth binding with marbled grey boards & blue spine; German and English language text throughout; a volume offering 51 of this composer's finest & most popular song...

Poetry for Children. To which are added Prince Dorus and some uncollected Poems by Charles Lamb. Edited, prefaced and annotated by Richard Herne Shepherd.

Lamb, Charles & Mary Lamb · 1878

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Chatto & Windus, London, 1878. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. decorated end-papers; 'Poetry for Children', a series of rhymed fables, stories & moral precepts for children, was first published in 1809 but appears in this edition ...

The Life and Exploits Of Don Quixote De la Mancha Translated from the original Spanish Of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra By Charles Jarvis In Four Volumes

Jarvis, Charles (translator) · 1821

£600.00 (€719.20 | $792.68 | ¥126,581)

Printed by W. Wilson for J. Bumpus et al, London, 1821. Later Edition, Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. A four volume set beautifully bound in textured green leather with, to the spines, 4 raised bands, gilt titles & gilt decoration to the other panels; front & r...

Restoration and the Eighteenth Century

Price, Martin (editor) · 1973

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Oxford University Press, New York, 1973. Reprint, Softcover. Near Fine Condition. 9780195016147 b/w. frontis. map of the British isles; further section of 61 b/w. illustrations between pages 400 & 401; a volume in the 'Oxford Anthology of English Literature'. Size: 8vo - over ...

T. S. Eliot: Poet and Dramatist.

Chiari, Joseph · 1972

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Vision Press Limited, London, 1972. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Near Fine. One of T. S. Eliot's closest friends has here written an important new appraisal of the poet's work. Dedicated with her approval to Eliot's widow Valerie, the book com...

Hours with the Mystics: A Contribution to the History of Religious Opinion (Two Volume Set)

Vaughan, Robert Alfred · 1856

£600.00 (€719.20 | $792.68 | ¥126,581)

John W. Parker and Son, London, 1856. First Edition, Hardcover (Full Leather). Near Fine Condition. Marbled end-papers; Robert Alfred Vaughan (1823–1857) was an English Congregationalist minister and author. Published a year before his death in 1857 "Hours with the Mystics" co...

Sir Thomas Overbury His Wife. With Additions of new Characters, and many other Witty Conceits never before printed. The sixteenth Impression.

Overbury, Sir Thomas · 1638

£650.00 (€779.13 | $858.74 | ¥137,130)

Printed by John Haviland, for A. Crooke, London, 1638. Sixteenth Impression, Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Overbury's poem, A Wife, was published posthumously in 1614 & ran through six editions within a year, the scandal connected with the murder of the author...

Legends of the Lakes: Or, Sayings and Doings at Killarney. Collected chiefly from the manuscripts of R. Adolphus Lynch, Esq. H. P. King's German Legion (two volume set)

Croker, Thomas Crofton · 1829

£500.00 (€599.33 | $660.57 | ¥105,484)

John Ebers and Co. London, 1829. First Edition, Hardcover (Half Leather). Very Good Condition. Croker published Legends of the Lakes: Or, Sayings and Doings at Killarney in 1829, The legends were collected chiefly from the manuscripts, of R. Adolphus Lynch, Esq. of London & ar...

Jingling Rhymes

Hammond, Charles Edward · 1905

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

G. H. Tyndall, The Minster Press, Ely, Cambridgeshire, 1905. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. illustrated title page printed in red & black; these light-hearted rhymes by Charles Edward Hammond, of the Newmarket banking family, are...

Chronicles of Uganda

Ashe, Robert Pickering · 1894

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1894. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. tissue-guarded sepia photogravure frontis. portrait plus illustrated throughout by 25 b/w. photographs & 1 b/w. drawing; 14 pages of titles; dedication; preface; co...

Growing Up In Cambridge: From Austerity to Prosperity

Forshaw, Alec · 2009

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

The History Press, Stroud, Gloucestershire, 2009. First Edition, Softcover. Near Fine Condition. 9780752450049 This fascinating story of life in Cambridge is written from the idiosyncratic perspective of an author who not only grew up in the city during the 1950’s and 1960’s b...

Where Joy Resides: An Isherwood Reader

Isherwood, Christopher (Don Bachardy & James P. White - editors) · 1989

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Methuen, London, 1989. First Paperback Edition, Softcover. Near Fine Condition. 9780413661708 preface by Gore Vidal; This selection from Christopher Isherwood's writings, taken from his published works over fifty years, is a remarkable tribute to one of this century's most elo...

My Cambridge

Hayman, Ronald (Introduced By) · 1986

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Robson Books Ltd, London, 1986. First Paperback Edition, Softcover. Near Fine Condition. 9780860513827 Representative of different age groups, attitudes and professions, the twelve eminent contributors to "My Cambridge" - M. C. Bradbrook, Eleanor Bron, Lord Caradon (Hugh Foot)...

Talks with A Class

Besant, Annie · 1921

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Theosophical Publishing House, Madras, India, 1921. First Edition, Hardcover (Printed Boards). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Annie Besant was a former British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer, orator, and supporter of both Irish and Indian self-rule. In...

The Ideals of Theosophy: Four Lectures delivered at the Thirty-sixth Annual Convention of the Theosophical Society, held at Benares, on December 27th, 28th, 29th and 30th, 1911.

Besant, Annie · 1912

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

The Theosophist Office, Madras, India, 1912. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Annie Besant was a former British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer, orator, and supporter of both Irish and Indian self-rule. In 1890 B...

The Lost Priory: A Cambridge Story

Hales-Tooke, Ann · 2009

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Milton Contact Limited, Cambridge, 2009. First Edition, Softcover. Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. 9780956264916 When Henry VIII destroyed Barnwell Priory, Cambridge, in 1538 he altered the locality for ever. In two parallel stories, one Tudor, the other set in 1990, we se...

The Provost

Galt, John · 1913

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

T. N. Foulis Ltd. Edinburgh, 1913. First Thus, Hardcover (Original Cloth), Illustrated by: John M. Aiken. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. tipped-in colour frontis; titles; lists of chapters & illustrations. 11 further tipped-in plates from water-colour drawings by John M. ...

The Makers of the Kirk

Barnett, T. Ratcliffe · 1915

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

T. N. Foulis Ltd. Edinburgh, 1915. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. grey end-papers; frontis. illust.; titles; contents; illustrations list; 24 tissue-guarded, tipped-in illustrations in b/w. Printed dedication page reads: "To all ...

Akros Volume 5, Number 15, August 1970

Glen, Duncan (Editor) · 1970

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Akros Publications, Preston, Lancashire, 1970. First Thus, Softcover (Saddle-stapled), Illustrated by: John Patience. Very Good Condition. white card covers printed in b/w. & published with the assistance of a Scottish Arts Council grant, this issue includes Editorial; Reviews...