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COPPARD, A. E · 0 · Charles Agvent

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.60 | ¥19,963)

London. Jonathan Cape. First Edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper for William Macey Stone, long- time secretary of the Carteret Book Club. Below his inscription, Coppard has added a quote from Thomas Hardy identified by him as "(T.H.)": "the whole ro…

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1979 - 30th Anniversary

FERMAN, EDWARD (PUBLISHER) · 1979 · S. Howlett-West Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York: Mercury Press, Inc, 1979. Paperback. Trade PB. Illustrated by David Hardy. Cover Art; This is a trade sized paperback magazine. The magazine is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is some generalized rubbing and wear to the covers. The f…

The Country Habit: An Anthology

Joanna Trollope · 1993 · Book Haven

NZ$15.50 (€7.77 | $8.56 | £6.48 | ¥1,367)

Bantam Press 1993 Hardback, 356pp. For centuries the English lived on the land and even today, as cities encroach further and further on the remaining green fields and the number of working country villages dwindles, there is still a particularly powerful feeling for the country…

The North American Review Volume 190 (July 1909 - December 1909)

George Harvey, ed · 1909 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

New York, North American Review Publishing Co, 1909. Hardcover. 856p. Ex-library; REBOUND. A hardcover book that has been rebound in 3/4 beige cloth, with marbled boards and leather spine labels. Spine labels crackled and chipped, boards scuffed, and corners fraying. Page 1 deta…

The first report of the Committee of Secrecy of the House of Commons, on the papers belonging to The Society for Constitutional Information, and The London Corresponding Society, seized by order of gorvernment, and presented to the House my Mr. Secretary Dundas, on the the 12th and 13th of May 1794.

RADICALS in Great Britain during the French Revolution. · 1794 · Antiquariaat Brinkman, sinds 1954

€90.00 ($99.20 | £75.07 | ¥15,843)

London, Sold by T. Chapman (printed by order of the House of Commons), 1794. 8vo. 43 pp. No cover. (untrimmed, edges slightly frayed; some staining) ¶ Interesting report. Although published by the Government, the extensive reports and full copying of adresses and letters by memb…

Nip in the Air

John Betjeman · 1974 · Rooke Books

£36.00 (€43.16 | $47.57 | ¥7,597)

London , John Murray, 1974 . First edition. Hardback. A collection of thirty six poems by John Betjeman. The first edition. In a clipped dust wrapper. A collection of thirty-six poems by John Betjeman. Each poem explores themes of light and darkness. Betjeman suffered looniness …

Bits of Oak Bark [in] Longman's Magazine. Volume I, March 1883. FIRST PUBLICATION OF JEFFERIES' 'OAK BARK'

JEFFERIES Richard · 1883 · Island Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

Longman's Magazine, 1883. 10pp., 8vo., First Edition; modern grey boards, upper board with printed paper label, a near fine copy. Jefferies's essay remains a landmark in pastoral literature, collected later in 'The Life of the Fields' (1884). It comprises 1: The Acorn-Gatherer; …

Exposure: Journal for the Society of Photographic Education, Volume XXIII, Nos. 1-4, 1985

Jacobs, David (ed.); Grover, Jan Zita (ed.) · 1985 · Wittenborn Art Books

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

New York: Society for Photographic Education, 1985. 4to. 40 - 53 pp. Very good. Black and white plates. Issue No. 1 includes an interview with Jonathan Green and writings by Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Vincent Leo and Joachim Brohm, James R. Hugunin, Lew Thomas and Allan Coleman. Is…

Famous English Short Stories. Englische Meistererzählungen. Zweisprachige Ausgabe Englisch - Deutsch: Zweisprachige Klassiker-Ausgaben Englisch - Deutsch

Anaconda · 2009 · LLU Buchservice

€26.90 ($29.65 | £22.44 | ¥4,735)

, Anaconda , 2009. 288, 19,2 x 13,2 x 3,2 cm, Hardcover. Zustand: 2. Ohne die Kurzgeschichte wären die Literaturen der Welt um vieles ärmer. Zahllose Autoren seit dem 19. Jahrhundert erprobten sich an dieser wunderbaren Form, in der formale Strenge und stilistische Offenheit ein…

Ways of Life. On Places, Painters and Poets.

MOTION, Sir Andrew · 2008 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

Faber & Faber 2008, 288pp, Hardcover, with dust jacket. In very good condition. Andrew Motion was appointed Poet Laureate in 1999, but alongside his work as a poet he also had a significant career as a prize-winning biographer and an illuminating critic. Ways of Life celebrates …

Settlers of the Marsh

Cameron Farley, Frederick Philip Grove · 1989 · Klondyke BV

€6.00 ($6.61 | £5.00 | ¥1,056)

Paperback; 1989; Mcclelland & Stewart Ltd; redelijk - goed -- Conditie: Redelijk; Settlers of the Marsh was first published in 1925, after a struggle by the author to persuade publishers that his first novel would meet public acceptance. Some critics immediately condemned this h…

Men of Letters of the British Isles: Portrait Medallions from the Life by Theodore Spicer-Simson

Sherman, Stuart P. · 1924 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$70.00 (€63.51 | £52.98 | ¥11,179)

NY, William Edwin Rudge, 1924. Hardcover. terra-cotta boards w/ gilt stamped printing; tan cloth spine, gilt printed. 133 pp. 29 bw plates. cream paper portfolio w/ terra cotta cloth spine, title plate. Pages remain bright; may have instances of light smudges, marks. Includes po…

30th October, 1931. A Day in the Life. Three Letters by T. E. Lawrence. Compiled and annotated by Adam Newell.

T. E. LAWRENCE. · 2019 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Phrodis Press, [no place], 1st Edition, First edition, limited to 125 numbered copies (this being #17). Slim 8vo. 16pp stapled into lettered card wrappers. With a tipped-in linocut frontispiece by Sharon Newell with a loose tissue protector. Includes transcripts of three letters…

The North American Review Volume 201 (January 1915 - June 1915)

George Harvey, ed · 1915 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

New York, North American Review Corporation, 1915. Hardcover. 953p. Ex-library; REBOUND. A hardcover book that has been rebound in 3/4 tan cloth, retaining the original marbled boards and leather spine labels. Spine labels crackled and chipped and boards scuffed. Library stamps …

Educating Women: Cultural Conflict and Victorian Literature

Green, Laura Morgan · 2001 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$42.00 (€38.11 | £31.79 | ¥6,708)

Athens, OH, Ohio University Press, 2001. Hardcover. Plum colored boards with gilt spine lettering; purple illustrated dj, mylar cover; xiii, 153 pp. "In 1837, when Queen Victoria came to the throne, no institution of higher education in Britain was open to women. By the end of t…

Gone To Earth

Mary Webb · 1931 · Book Haven

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Jonathan Cape 1931 Hardback 320 "Gone to Earth" by Mary Webb is the cry of fox hunters as the fox takes to its den and they lose the chase. Here, Mary Webb tells the story of Hazel Woodus whose understanding of her half tame fox cub contrasts with her misunderstanding of humanit…

Twenty-Four Portraits

William Rothenstein · 1920 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.60 | $449.26 | ¥71,750)

London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1920. First edition. Cloth. A superior copy of the first edition of William Rothenstein's portraits of various prominent figures. Containing twenty-four portraits of figures including Thomas Hardy, H. G. Wells, Edward Elgar, Max Beerbohm an…

Mr Tasker&Apos;S Gods

Theodore Francis Powys · 1925 · Rooke Books

£42.00 (€50.35 | $55.50 | ¥8,863)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1925. First edition. Cloth. A novel by Theodore Francis Powys. First edition. Lacking the dustwrapper. Theodore Francis Powys was a British novelist and short-story writer. Many of his works were allegorical due to his influences being the Bible, John …

Invisible Woman. The Story Of Nelly Ternan And Charles Dickens

Claire Tomalin · 2012 · Klondyke BV

€4.95 ($5.46 | £4.13 | ¥871)

Paperback; 1e druk, 2012; Penguin Books Ltd; 352pp.; Conditie: Goed; Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan met in 1857; she was 18, a hard-working actress performing in his production ofThe Frozen Deep, and he was 45, the most lionized writer in England. Out of their meeting came a l…

Here's Flowers. An Anthology of Flower Poems. Compiled by Joan Rutter. With an introduction by Walter de la Mare and wood-engravings by John O'Connor.

JOHN O'CONNOR. · 1937 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 198pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge gilt. With a title page decoration and six splendid wood-engraved plates, each one introducing a new section. Some light toning and spo…