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LEARWIFE.

THORP, J.R. [Signed by the author] · 2021

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

Edinburgh, Canongate, in association with Goldsboro Books, 2021. First, limited edition, no.160 of 1500 copies numbered and signed by the author to the title page, 8vo.,pp. 328, black hardcover, silver lettering, decorative fore-edge of text block, pictorial title page; ligh...

JOHN WYCLIF. Great Medieval Thinkers.

LAHEY, Stephen E. · 2009

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,641)

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009. 8vo.,pp. xiii,290, paperback; light soiling to edges of text block, otherwise a near-fine copy.

LOUIS IX AND THE CHALLENGE OF THE CRUSADE. A Study in Rulership.

JORDAN, William Chester. · 1979

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Princeton University Press, 1979. 8vo., pp.xv,291, hardcover, gilt; three small marks to front board, one to rear, else a very good copy indeed in a vg+ unclipped dust-jacket which is very lightly sunned to spine and extremities.

THE OCCITAN WAR. A Military and Political History of the Albigensian Crusade, 1209-1218.

MARVIN, Laurence. · 2008

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Cambridge University Press, 2008. 8vo., pp.xxvi,328, black hardcover, gilt; a fresh and near-fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.

ENGLAND’S JEWISH SOLUTION. Experiment and Expulsion, 1262-1290.

MUNDILL, Robin R. · 1998

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 8vo., pp.xxviii,332, black hardcover, gilt; light roll to spine, a near-fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.

THE PLACE-NAMES OF RUTLAND English Place-Name Society Volume LXVII/LXVIII/LXIX For 1989-90. 1990-1 & 1991-2

COX, Barrie. · 1994

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

English Place-Name Society, 1994. 8vo., pp. lxxxvi,483, blue hardcover, gilt; ownership autograph in blue to front free endpaper, else a fine copy in a fine unclipped dust-jacket.

THE PLACE-NAMES OF LINCOLNSHIRE. Part One: The Place-Names of The County of The City of Lincoln; Part Two: The Place Names of Yarborough Wapentake; Part Three: The Wapentake of Walshcroft; Part Four: The Wapentakes of Ludborough and Haverstoe; Part Five: The Wapentake of Bradley; Part Six: The Wapentakes of Manley and Aslacoe; Part Seven: Lawress Wapentake. English Place-Name Society, Volumes LVIII, LXIV/LXV, LXVI, LXXI, LXXIII, LXXVII, with The Survey of English Place-Names Volume LXXXV.

CAMERON, Kenneth. In collaboration with, FIELD, John; INSLEY, John. · 1985

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

English Place-Name Society, 1985; 1991; 1992; 1996; 1997; 2001; 2010. Seven volumes, 8vo., pp.xliii,236;xix,326; xxiii,197;xv,201;xix,179;xviii,228;xxv,151, blue cloth, gilt, b/w figures; neat ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper (all volumes), a fine set, all in...

INADMISSABLE EVIDENCE. A Play.

OSBORNE, John. · 1965

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

London: Faber and Faber, 1965. First edition, 8vo., pp.115, green cloth, gilt; light foxing to edges, a near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, just lightly rubbed to edges.

The Hogarth Essays, IV: HOMAGE TO JOHN DRYDEN. Three Essays on Poetry of the Seventeenth Century.

ELIOT, T.S. With cover illustration by Vanessa Bell. · 1924

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Wolf at the Hogarth Press, 1924. 8vo., pp.46, pictorial wrappers with front cover illustration by Vanessa Bell; foxing to prelims, edges and margins throughout, toning and light surface soil to wrappers, loss to paper covering at hea...

PLATONOV. A Play in Four Acts and Five Scenes.

CHEKHOV, Anton. Translated by MAGARSHACK, David. · 1964

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

1964. First edition, 8vo., pp.195, brown cloth, gilt; edges foxed, else near-fine, in an unclipped dust-jacket, whch has 1.5cm closed tear to upper fold of spine, sunning to spine, and foxing to the fore-margins, still very good.

THE HOUSE OF BEAUFORT. The Bastard Line That Captured The Crown.

AMIN, Nathen. · 2017

£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.28 | ¥6,751)

Stroud: Amberley, 2017. 8vo., pp.328, black hardcover, gilt; a fresh and near-fine copy, in a fine unclipped dust-jacket.

THE GREAT FAMINE. Northern Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century.

JORDAN, William Chester. · 1996

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Princeton University Press, 1996. 8vo., pp.317, navy cloth lettered in silver; near-fine, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.

POEMS OF OSSIAN. Two Volumes.

MACPHERSON, James; Introduction by MACQUEEN, John. · 1971

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,283)

Edinburgh: The Mercat Press/James Thin, 1971 Fascimile of the 1805 edition, part of a limited edtion run of which this No. 409, 8vo., pp.lxix,579, light blue cloth, gilt; ownership bookplate to front paste-down of both volumes, a couple of light spots of foxing to endpapers,...

THE ST. ALBANS CHRONICLE, Volume I. 1376-1394. Volume II 1394-1422. The Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham.

Edited and translated by: TAYLOR, John; CHILDS, Wendy R.; WATKISS, Leslie. · 2003

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003, 2011. 8vo., pp.cxviii,1030,c,888, navy hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece and two further b/w plates to Vol I; a fine set, in vg unclipped dust-jackets, which are sunned to spine and are now in protective covers.

BRITISH LIBRARY HARLEIAN MANUSCRIPT 433. [Set of Four Volumes:] Volume I: Register of Grants for the Reigns of Edward V and Richard III; Volume II: Second Register of Richard III; Volume III: Second Register of Edward V and Miscellaneous Material; Volume IV: Index by Rosemary Horrox.

Edited by, HORROX, Rosemary; HAMMOND, P.W. · 1979

£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)

Gloucester, Alan Sutton Publishing/ London, The Richard III Society, 1979; 1980; 1982; 1983. Four volumes, the set, scarce, 8vo., pp.xlvii,289; 230; 260; x,258, navy hardcovers, gilt, b/w frontispiece; ink ownership signature to front free endpaper of all volumes, one small...

STUDIES IN THE ACCIDENCE OF THE LINDISFARNE GOSPELS.

ROSS, Alan S. C. · 1937

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Leeds: printed by Titus Wilson of Kendal for members if the School of English Language in The University of Leeds, 1937. 8vo., pp.179, paper wrappers; blue ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, light foxing to fore-edge of text block, wear to extremities of wrapp...

A HISTORY OF PALESTINE 634-1099.

GIL, Moshe. Translated from the Hebrew by, BROIDO, Ethel. · 1997

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Cambridge University Press, 1997. First edition, 8vo., pp.xxvi,968, black hardcover, gilt, b/w figures; very good indeed, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, with partial sunning to spine and to front upper margin.

THE YORK HOUSE BOOKS, 1461-1490. [In Two Volumes:] Volume I: House Books One and Two/Four. Volume II: House Books Five and Six.

ATTREED, Lorraine C., ed. · 1991

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

Stroud: Alan Sutton, for Richard III and Yorkist History Trust, 1991. Two volumes, large 8vo., pp.xxxv,410;411-788, red hardcover volumes, gilt, b/w frontispieces; a fresh and fine set, in fine unclipped dust-jackets.

A MILITARY HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR.

WANKLYN, Malcolm; JONES, Frank. · 2005

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Harlow, Pearson Education. 2005. 8vo., pp. xv,308, hardcover, gilt, b/w maps and figures; light toning to edges of text block, a very good, clean copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.

THE PILLARS OF PRIESTCRAFT SHAKEN: The Church of England and its Enemies 1660-1730. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.

CHAMPION, J.A.I. · 1992

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992. 8vo., pp.xiii,268, hardcover, gilt; ownership bookplate to front paste down endpaper, light foxing to upper edge of text block, otherwise a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.