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MAGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS ON THE EARLY MODERN ENGLISH STAGE Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama.

Edited by HOPKINS, Lisa and OSTOVICH, Helen. · 2014

£48.00 (€57.49 | $64.56 | ¥10,201)

Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. 8vo., pp.ix,265, black hardcover, silver lettering; a near fine copy in a vg unclipped dust-jacket.

POETIC REMARKS IN THE HUMAN WORLD.

HUA, Jen Chien Tz’u. · 1972

£35.00 (€41.92 | $47.08 | ¥7,438)

Published and printed in Hong Kong, 1972. 8vo., pp.iii,60, paperback; light foxing to edges, rust marks from staples, a very good copy of this scarce volume.

A TALE OF A TUB. With Other Early Works, 1696-1707.

SWIFT, Jonathan, edited by Herbert Davis. · 1965

£38.00 (€45.51 | $51.11 | ¥8,076)

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1965. Reprint (third impression in this edition: first published 1939), 8vo., pp.xxxvii,311, green cloth, gilt, top edges green, b/w frontispiece and 9 further b/w plates, facsimiles of title pages; a couple of early leaves fused at margins (pp.xxxvi...

THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN MILTON.

MILTON, John. With illustrations after Henry Fuseli, Richard Westall and John Martin. · 1846

£120.00 (€143.73 | $161.41 | ¥25,502)

London: J.J. Chidley, 1846. New edition, 8vo., pp.vii,527, full claret morocco with ruled compartments, decorative gilt compartments and boards, a.e.g., frontispiece portrait of Milton engraved by J. Cochran after a portrait by Sam Cooper, six further plates engraved by J. R...

A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE.

WILDE, Oscar. · 1903

£295.00 (€353.33 | $396.79 | ¥62,693)

Paris: (Leonard Smithers), 1903. Limited edition of 250 copies, this copy unnumbered, 8vo., pp.(ix),154, uncut, brown cloth, gilt; ink ownership gift inscription, dated 1909, to front free endpaper, heavy foxing and toning to prelims and ultimate leaves, foxing to edges, Tou...

HORNBLOWER and the ATROPOS.

FORESTER, C.S. · 1953

£65.00 (€77.85 | $87.43 | ¥13,814)

London: Michael Joseph, 1953. First edition, 8vo., pp.302, brown cloth, gilt; foxing to endpapers and edges of text block, very slight roll to spine, else a very good copy in a very good unclipped dust-jacket with extremities rubbed and lightly toned to verso.

THE CROSS OF CARL.

OWEN, Walter · 1931

£200.00 (€239.55 | $269.01 | ¥42,504)

Boston: Little, Brown and Company 1931 First edition, 8vo., pp.(xxvii),99, orange cloth lettered in black; light toning and foxing to endpapers, text margins and edges, extremities lightly rubbed, with slight creasing to head and tail of spine, slight surface soiling to clot...

THE HAUNTED MAN AND THE GHOST'S BARGAIN. A Fancy for Christmas-Time.

DICKENS, Charles. Illustrated by TENNIEL, J., LEECH, J., STANFIELD, C., and STONE, F. · 1848

£495.00 (€592.88 | $665.81 | ¥105,197)

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition of Dickens’ fifth and final Christmas book, in the original cloth, pocket 8vo., pp.(v),188, decorative red cloth, gilt, a.e.g., b/w frontispiece and pictorial title (both by J. Tenniel), fourteen further engraved illustra...

THE POETICAL WORKS OF THE REVEREND GEORGE CRABBE. [Set of Eight Volumes] With his Letters and Journals, and his Life, by his Son.

CRABBE, George. · 1834

£125.00 (€149.72 | $168.13 | ¥26,565)

London: John Murray, 1834. Eight volumes, pocket 8vo., pp.xi,322,(ii);viii,335;viii,311;viii,317,(ii);viii,297,(vi);viii,295,(vi);viii,298,(vi);viii,317, uncut, decoratively blindstamped brown cloth, gilt, decorative endpapers, engraved frontispieces and pictorial titles; en...

CONCERNING FAMOUS WOMEN.

BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. Translated, with Introduction and Notes, by GUARINO. Guido A. · 1963

£45.00 (€53.90 | $60.53 | ¥9,563)

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1963. 8vo., pp.xxxix,257, grey cloth, gilt; pale foxing to edges, else very good indeed, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities, with very slight chipping at headband, and now in a protective ...

THE BELL

MURDOCH, Iris. · 1960

£45.00 (€53.90 | $60.53 | ¥9,563)

London: Readers Union, in collaboration with Chatto and Windus, 1960 Readers Union edition, 8vo., pp.204, white hardcover, purple lettering; previous owner’s authograph to front free endpaper, slightly foxed fore-edge, clean within, lightly rolled, with light toning to...

DISTRICT AND CIRCLE.

HEANEY, Seamus. · 2006

£18.99 (€22.75 | $25.54 | ¥4,036)

London: Faber and Faber, 2006. First edition, first impression, 8vo., pp.(vii),76, green hardcover, gilt; a fine copy, in fine complete dust-jacket.

THE POETICAL WORKS OF SIR WILLIAM ALEXANDER, EARL OF STIRLING. The Tragedy of Croesus; the Tragedy of Darius; The Alexandraean Tragedy; The Tragedy of Julius Caesar.

KASTNER, L.E. (editor) · 1921

£55.00 (€65.88 | $73.98 | ¥11,689)

Manchester: Manchester University Press/Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1921. 8vo., pp.ccxix,482, paperback in plain unlettered wrappers, b/w frontispiece; creasing to spine, a very good, clean copy.

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D.H. Lawrence: THE WHITE PEACOCK.

LAWRENCE, D.H., edited by Andrew Robertson. · 1983

£60.00 (€71.86 | $80.70 | ¥12,751)

Cambridge University Press, 1983. First edition, 8vo., pp.liii,451, red cloth, gilt; foxing to top edges, otherwise near-fine, in a very good complete and unclipped dust-jacket.

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D.H. Lawrence: ST. MAWR AND OTHER STORIES.

LAWRENCE, D.H., edited by Brian Finney. · 1983

£48.00 (€57.49 | $64.56 | ¥10,201)

Cambridge University Press, 1983. First edition thus, 8vo., pp.xliii,270, red cloth, gilt; foxing to top edges, otherwise near-fine copy, in a very good complete and unclipped dust-jacket.

A NEW INDEX OF MIDDLE ENGLISH VERSE

BOFFEY, Julia and EDWARDS, A.S.G. · 2005

£60.00 (€71.86 | $80.70 | ¥12,751)

London: The British Library, 2005. 4to., pp.xvi,344, navy cloth, gilt; author’s gift inscription to title page, a fine copy.

THE WORKS OF SIR JOHN CLANVOWE. The Boke of Cupide and The Two Ways.

Edited by, SCATTERGOOD, V.J. · 1975

£35.00 (€41.92 | $47.08 | ¥7,438)

Cambridge, D.S. Brewer, 1975. 8vo.,pp. 96, hardcover, silver lettering; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, light soiling to upper edge of text block, in a price-clipped dust-jacket, with publishers price sticker stuck down partially to front paste down endpaper and ...

THE INDEX OF MIDDLE ENGLISH PROSE: Handlist XIX. Manuscripts in the University Library, Cambridge (Dd-Oo).

CONNOLLY, Margaret. · 2009

£75.00 (€89.83 | $100.88 | ¥15,939)

Cambridge, D.S. Brewer, 2009. 8vo.,pp. lx,467, orange hardcover, white lettering; light creasing to head of spine, a very good, clean copy. No dust-jacket.

LETTERS TO ALLEN GINSBERG 1953-1957.

BURROUGHS, William. · 1982

£35.00 (€41.92 | $47.08 | ¥7,438)

New York, Full Court Press, 1982. 8vo.,pp. 203, paperback, b/w frontispiece; foxing to upper edge of text block, sunning to spine, otherwise very good.

THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, Volumes I and II: Volume I. The Beginnings to 1066; Volume II. 1066-1476.

HOGG, Richard M.; BLAKE, Norman, ed. · 1994

£125.00 (€149.72 | $168.13 | ¥26,565)

Cambridge University Press, 1994;1992. Two volumes, Volume I reprinted, Volume II first edition, 8vo., pp.xxiii,609;xxi,703, red cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece to Volume I; ex libris D.E. Luscombe, with small ownership inscription to front free endpaper and ownership blindsta...