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A HISTORY OF THE HEREDITARY SHERIFFS OF GALLOWAY. With Contemporary Anecdotes, Traditions and Genealogical Notices of Old Families of the Sheriffdom, 1330-1747.

AGNEW, Sir Andrew.

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Edinburgh: Adam and 8vo., pp.xxii,646,(i), uncut, rebacked with new endpapers, pictorial brown cloth, gilt, with original spine laid down over new spine, engraved frontispiece with tissue-guard, further b/w plates with tissue-guards; pencilled ownership inscription to title...

ISABELLA, OR THE POT OF BASIL.

KEATS, John. Illustrated by Jessie M. King. · 1908

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

Edinburgh/London: T.N. Foulis, Slim 8vo., pp.39, grey cloth, gilt, with inlaid colour plate to front board, tipped-in colour plates by Jessie M. King, mounted on grey paper - frontispiece, pictorial title, Contents page, and three further colour plates, small b/w headpiece;...

BACON'S SCIENCE OF MEMORY SIMPLIFIED AND EXPLAINED; Or, a Rational System for Improving the Memory and Rapidly Acquiring Knowledge; with an application to Languages, History, Geography, Prose, Poetry, Etc. In Two Parts.

BACON, J.H. · 1862

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London: J.B. Bateman, 1862. 12mo., pp.(vi),108, textured brown cloth, lettered in gilt to front board; light foxing/toning to prelims, slight sunning to spine, a very good, fresh copy.

EAST END, WEST END: THE FACE OF LEEDS DURING URBANISATION, 1684-1842. Publications of the Thoresby Society, Volumes LX and LXI, for 1985 and 1986.

BERESFORD, Maurice. · 1988

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Leeds: The Thoresby Society, 1988. 8vo., pp.562, paperback, b/w plates and figures, folding plan; very good indeed.

YORK MINSTER: A CATALOGUE OF MEDIEVAL STAINED GLASS. Fascicule 1. The West Windows of the Nave (wI, wII, nXXX, sXXXVI). (Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi - Great Britain, Volume III.)

FRENCH, Thomas; O’CONNOR, David. · 1987

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London: Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1987. 4to., pp.xxii,96,31(plates),(iv), black hardcover, gilt, 16 colour plates and 15 b/w plates, b/w figures, 2 microfiche plates; light toning to edges, a very good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which...

YAACOV AGAM. Texts by the Artist. (from the series ‘The Sculpture of the Twentieth Century’, edited by Michael Joray)

AGAM, Yaacov. Edited with the assistance of Paul Kanelski. Translated from the French by Haakon Chevalier. · 1962

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

Switzerland: Editions du Griffon Neuchatel, 1962. 4to., pp.129, grey cloth lettered in white, numerous b/w plates as well as several colour plates; slight tone to upper edges, a fresh and near-fine copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is just lightly toned to marg...

THE SONGS OF THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD.

HOGG, James. Illustrated by Jessie M. King. · 1916

£185.00 (€221.75 | $244.41 | ¥39,029)

London/Edinburgh: T.N. Foulis, First edition, small 8vo., pp.(ii),152,(iv) adverts, bound in decoratively blindstamped reverse calf wrappers, gilt, t.e.g., untrimmed paper, 6 tipped-in colour illustrations by Jessie M. King (frontispiece, decorative title, one double-page p...

JAKE ATTREE: VIEWS FROM A HILL.

Text by, WORTHINGTON, Caroline.

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London, Hart Gallery, 4to.,pp. unpaginated, exhibition catalogue, colour illustrations, colour frontispiece; a very good copy.

SLAVERY AND THE CULTURES OF ABOLITION. Essays marking the Bicentennial of the British Abolition Act of 1807.

Edited by, CAREY, Brycchan; KITSON, Peter J. · 2007

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Woodbridge, D.S. Brewer, 2007. 8vo.,pp. viii,227, hardcover, gilt lettering, b/w illustrations; a fine copy, in a fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.

THE STATE OF DRAWING: GESTURE AND ACT. Selected from the Tate Collection.

Selected by, NEWMAN, Avis; Curated by, DE ZEGHER, Catherine; Organized by, The Drawing Center, Tate. · 2003

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

New York, Tate Publishing and The Drawing Center, 2003. 4to.,pp. 284, pictorial hardcover, white lettering, b/w and colour illustrations and fold-outs, colour frontispiece; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, occasional underlining and annotation in pencil, a very go...

MASCULINITY AND THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS. Studies in Victorian Autobiography and Fiction.

LEE, Ying S. · 2007

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

New York, Routledge, 2007. 8vo., pp.xi,252, glazed hardcover, b/w illustrations; splash marks to rear paste down and rear free endpapers, otherwise clean, a near-fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.

A PACKET FOR EZRA POUND.

YEATS, William Butler. · 1970

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

Shannon: Irish University Press/T.M. MacGlinchey, 1970. Facsimile reprint of the Cuala Press edition of 1929, 8vo., pp.(iv),38,(i), quarter oatmeal cloth, blue paper-covered boards lettered in black, with plain translucent paper jacket; owner’s neat nameplate to upper ...

SELECTED POEMS. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

SEXTON, Anne. · 1964

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

London: Oxford University Press, 1964. First edition, 8vo., pp.ix,94, black cloth, gilt; small (12mm) spilt to front endpapers along inner hinge, else fresh and very good indeed, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is sunned to spine and inner margins of boards, with two small c...

THE HOLLOW HILL AND OTHER POEMS 1960-1964. The Choice of the Poetry Book Society.

RAINE, Kathleen. [Author’s signed presentation copy] · 1965

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1965. 8vo., pp.70, purple hardcover lettered in silver; ex libris Wilfrid Mellors, front free endpaper inscribed ‘To Wilfrid Mellors,/from Kathleen Raine’, sunning to very head anf foot of spine, else very good indeed, in unclipped dust-j...

THE CAMEL. A Tale.

BERNERS, Lord. With three illustrations by the Author. · 1936

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London: Constable and Co. Ltd., 1936. First edition, 8vo., pp.174, cerise cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece and 2 further b/w plates, top edges red; upper 2mm of spine sunned, with very light sunning to remainder of spine, slight roll to spine, a very good copy, in very good unc...

TRADITIONAL GAELIC BAGPIPING, 1745-1945.

GIBSON, John G. · 1998

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

Edinburgh: NMS Publishing, 1998. 8vo., pp.xii,406, oatmeal cloth lettered in black, 7 b/w plates; a fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.

THE HIGHLAND BAGPIPE AND ITS MUSIC.

CANNON, Roderick D. · 1988

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers Ltd., 1988. 8vo., pp.xi,203, black hardcover, gilt, 18 b/w plates; very good indeed, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.

EYELESS IN GAZA.

HUXLEY, Aldous. · 1936

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

London: Chatto and Windus, 1936. First edition, 8vo., pp.620, beige cloth with front board and spine lettered in red, top edges red; foxing to fore-edges, otherwise fresh and very good indeed, in a fine unclipped dust-jacket.

ENDS AND MEANS. An Enquiry into the Nature of Ideals and into the Methods employed for their Realization.

HUXLEY, Aldous. · 1937

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London: Chatto and Windus, 1937. First edition, 8vo., pp.336, terracotta cloth, gilt, top edges red; foxing to fore- and lower edges, very slight roll to spine, an otherwise near-fine copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which has light loss from chipping to front lower LH corner...

POEMS. The Centaur’s Booty; The Rout of the Amazons; The Gazelles, & Other Poems; Pan’s Prophecy; To Leda, and other Odes; Theseus, Medea, and Lyrics.

STURGE MOORE, T. · 1903

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

London: Duckworth and Co., 1903-1904. 8vo., box set comprising six paperback volumes in brown paper wrappers; all volumes contain a neat ink gift inscription to their half title page, all dated 1910, slight wear to paper wrappers at foot of spines, a very good, fresh set, in...