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THE CRAFT OF DYING: A STUDY IN THE LITERARY TRADITION OF THE ARS MORIENDI IN ENGLAND. Yale Studies in English, 175.

BEATY, Nancy Lee. · 1970

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 1970. 8vo., pp.xii,299, brown cloth, gilt neat ownership nameplate to front paste-down endpaper, light sunning to spine, a very good, internally fresh copy.

RUSSIAN PICTURES

MICHELL, Thomas. · 1889

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London: The Religious Tract Society, 1889. 4to., pp.224, pictorial blue cloth, decorative gilt, gilt lettering, a.e.g., b/w frontispiece, b/w illustrations; prize presentation bookplate to front paste-down endpaper (dated 1907), toning to front free endpaper, spots of foxing...

THE BOER WAR DIRECTION, EXPERIENCE AND IMAGE.

Edited by GOOCH, John. · 2000

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

London: Portland, 2000. 8vo., pp.xxi,310, black hardcover, gilt, b/w plates; a very good indeed copy in a vg+ unclipped dust-jacket.

THE FRENCH OF MEDIEVAL ENGLAND. Essays in Honour of Jocelyn Wogan-Browne.

Edited by FENSTER, Thelma and COLLETTE, Carolyn P. · 2017

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2017. 8vo., pp.xvii,340, pictorial hardcover, b/w frontispiece, 6 b/w illustrations; very slight soiling to rear board and to p.197, slight knock to fore edge of text block, a very good copy indeed. No dust-jacket.

HOLY MOTHERHOOD. Gender, Dynasty and Visual Culture in the Later Middle Ages.

L'ESTRANGE, Elizabeth. · 2008

£26.00 (€31.17 | $34.35 | ¥5,485)

Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2008. 8vo., pp.xvii,282, brown hardcover, gilt, 16 colour plates, 52 b/w illustrations; a near fine copy, in near fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.

FRENCH OPERA: A Short History.

GIROUD, Vincent. · 2010

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

New Haven, Yale University Press, 2010. 8vo.,pp. x,366, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; a very good copy, in a lightly rubbed and soiled pictorial dust-jacket, otherwise very good.

ENGLISH MONASTIC LITANIES OF THE SAINTS AFTER 1100. Volume III: ADDENDA, COMMENTARY, CATALOGUE OF SAINTS, INDEXES.

Edited by, MORGAN, Nigel J. · 2018

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

Woodbridge, The Boydell Press, 2018. 4to.,pp. xi,375, black hardcover, gilt; ownership bookplate to front paste down endpaper, otherwise a near-fine copy. No dust-jacket.

ADMIRAL EUGENIUS OF SICILY. His Life and Work and the Authorship of the Epistola Ad Petrum and the Historia Hugonis Falcandi Siculi.

JAMISON, Evelyn. · 1957

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

London: published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1957. 8vo., pp.xxiii,400, maroon hardcover, gilt, b/w plates; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, light partial toning to endpapers, a few spots of foxing to top edge of text block, margins unaffec...

THE MACHINE STOPS, AND OTHER STORIES. The Abingdon Edition of E.M. Forster, Volume 7.

FORSTER, E.M. Edited by Rod Mengham. · 1997

£200.00 (€239.73 | $264.23 | ¥42,194)

London: Andre Deutsch, 1997. First edition, 8vo., pp.xvii,190, black cloth, gilt; a fresh and near-fine copy in very good indeed unclipped dust-jacket with a few light surface scratches.

THE MAXIMUS POEMS.

OLSON, Charles. · 1960

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London: Cape Goliard Press, 1960. First UK printing, 4to., unpaginated, two-tone yellow cloth, metallic blue lettering, frontispiece; foxing to top edges, a fine, fresh copy, in slightly scruffed glassine wrapper.

LIFE OF LIEUT.-GEN. HUGH MACKAY OF SCOURY, Commander in Chief of the Forces in Scotland, 1689 and 1690, Colonel Commandant of the Scottish Brigade in the Service of the States General, and a Privy Counsellor in Scotland. A New Edition Revised, With a Memoir of the Author.

MACKAY, John. [Military commander in Scotland during the 1689 Jacobite Rising, and leader of the Scottish Brigade during the Glorious Revolution] · 1842

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London: Edward Bull, 1842. Pocket 8vo., pp.228, full dark brown morocco with five raised bands and with decorative borders and compartments in gilt, inner dentelles gilt, a.e.g., b/w frontispiece portrait with tissue guard; ink presentation inscription signed by Isabella Mac...

ANOTHER TIME. [First edition]

AUDEN, W.H.

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London: Faber and Faber, First edition, 8vo., pp.125, red cloth, gilt, uncut; toning to endpapers, foxing throughout, else a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with a small area of loss to headband, a few chips to extremities, light sunning to spine, and small pencil...

BOFFIN A Personal Story of the Early Days of Radar, Radio Astronomy and Quantum Optics. [First Edition]

BROWN, R Hanbury. · 1991

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Bristol: Adam Hilger, 1991. 8vo., pp. 184, black hardcover, gilt, b/w figures and illustrations; a very good indeed copy in a vg unclipped dust-jacket with some light surface scratches.

THE REXROTH READER.

MOTTRAM, Eric, ed. · 1972

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

London: Jonathan Cape, 1972. First edition, 8vo., pp.437, red hardcover, gilt; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, foxing to edges, else very good, in a lightly chipped price-clipped dust-jacket.

THE POETRY OF DEREK MAHON.

HAUGHTON, Hugh. · 2007

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Oxford University Press, 2007. 8vo., pp.vii,402, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece; light foxing to endpapers, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.

ARAB CIVILIZATION TO A.D. 1500.

DUNLOP, D.M. · 1985

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

Harlow, Longman, 1985. 8vo.,pp. x,368, black hardcover, gilt; lightly toning to edges of text block, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.

'WE HAVE NO KING BUT CHRIST': Christian Political Thought in Greater Syria on the Eve of the Arab Conquest (c.400-585).

WOOD, Philip. · 2011

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011. 8vo., pp. ix,295, pictorial hardcover, b/w illustrations and map; a near-fine copy. No dust-jacket.

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY. Five Secret Occasions in the Life of James Bond.

FLEMING, Ian. · 1960

£675.00 (€809.09 | $891.77 | ¥142,404)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1960. First edition, 8vo., pp.252, black hardcover with pictorial detail blocked in white to front board and gilt lettering to spine; toned and lightly foxed to edges of text block, with light toning to margins, spine slightly rolled, a very good copy,...

LOAVES AND FISHES: Poems.

MACKAY BROWN, George. · 1959

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)

London: The Hogarth Press, 1959. First edition, 8vo., pp.46, pale blue hardcover, gilt; foxing and partial toning to endpapers, foxing to edges, slight sunning to very head and foot of spine, a very good copy, in unclipped dust-wrapper, which shows slight chipping to edges, ...

KINGSFORD’S STONOR LETTERS AND PAPERS, 1290-1483.

Edited and introduced by: CARPENTER, Christine. · 1996

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996. 8vo., pp. xii,519, black hardcover, title blocked in burgundy with gilt lettering to front board and spine, b/w maps and tables, b/w frontispiece; a near-fine copy. No dust-jacket.