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Ackroyd (Peter) NOTES FOR A NEW CULTURE 1976. 1st edn. D/w. THE LAST TESTAMENT OF OSCAR WILDE 1983. 1st edn. Unclipped d/w. HAWKSMOOR 1985. 1st edn. U

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Dahl (Roald) SOMEONE LIKE YOU. 1954. 1st edn. Unclipped d/w. TWO FABLES Ills: G.Dean. 1986. 1st edn. Unclipped d/w. THE MINPINS Ills: P.Benson. 1991.

Aldington (Richard) TWO STORIES 1930. 1st edn. Ltd [110/530], signed by the author. Partly unopened. Orig. cloth-backed boards. D/w. WOMEN MUST WORK 1

Porter (Katherine Anne) FLOWERING JUDAS N.Y.1930. 1st edn. [600]. Orig. cloth-backed boards. FLOWERING JUDAS AND OTHER STORIES. N.Y. 1935. 1st edn. Or

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O'Brian (Patrick) THE UNKNOWN SHORE 1959. 1st edn. Unclipped d/w. Roberts (Kenneth) CAPTAIN CAUTION 1949. 1st edn. Unclipped d/w. Plus 4 other m...

Bellow (Saul) THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH N.Y. 1953. 1st edn. 1st issue. Orig. printed cloth in d/w with a few small tears & sl. loss at head ...

Huxley (Aldous) POINT COUNTER POINT 1928. 1st edn. Orig. cloth. D/w (sl. torn at upper corners at head of spine). Housman (A.E.) THE COLLECTED POEMS 1

Jacques (Brian) REDWALL Ills: G.Chalk 1986. 1st edn. Unclipped d/w. MOSSFLOWER Ills: G. Chalk 1988. 1st edn. Unclipped d/w. The first two books by thi

Fry (Christopher) THE FIRSTBORN Cambridge, 1946. 1st edn. Unclipped d/w. THE DARK IS LIGHT ENOUGH Ill: R.Searle 1954. 1st edn. Unclipped d/w. CURTMANT

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Wells (Herbert George) MEN LIKE GODS 1923. 1st edn. Endpapers sl. foxed. Orig. cloth gt. D/w. THE CROQUET PLAYER 1936. 1st edn. Orig. patterned boards

Kirkup (James) A CORRECT COMPASSION 1952. 1st edn. Inscribed by the author to Irene Worth on f.f.e.p. Orig. cloth. D/w. THE TRUE MYSTERY OF THE NATIVI

Patten (Brian) NOTES TO THE HURRYING MAN 1969. 3rd imp. Ltd edn. [43/50] with holograph of the 43rd poem in the volume. Orig. cloth. D/w.£30-50

Wells (Herbert George) BOON .... 1915. 1st edn. (written under the name of Reginald Bliss). With Ms. notes by the Managing Director of Fisher Unwin, f

Jones (David) THE KENSINGTON MASS 1975. 1st edn. B/w. ills. Orig. printed wraps. POETRY WALES - DAVID JONES NUMBER 1972. 1st edn. Some ink underlining

Lennon (John) IN HIS OWN WRITE 1964. 3rd imp. B/w ills. Orig. glazed boards. A SPANIARD IN THE WORKS 1965. 1st edn. B/w ills. Orig. glazed boards. Eps

Smith (Stevie) MOTHER, WHAT IS MAN? 1942. 1st edn. B/w ills. Orig. cloth. Sitwell (Edith) GREEN SONG. 1944. 1st edn. Orig. cloth. Unclipped d/w. Plome

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Housman (A.E.) MORE POEMS 1936. 1st edn. Port. frontis. Partly untrimmed. Orig. cloth gt. THE COLLECTED POEMS. 1939. 1st edn. Orig. cloth gt. Symons (

THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE Eds: Sir A.W.Ward & A.R. Waller. Cambridge, 1932. 15 vols. Orig. cloth gt.£80-100

Skeat (Walter W.) THE COMPLETE WORKS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER Oxford, 1963. 2nd edn. 8 vols. Frontis. Ex-library, but with stamps only to title verso. O/w

Swift (Jonathan) THE WORKS 1743 [1742]-1745. 11 vols. Containing the 1742, 4th edn. of 'Gulliver'. Titles in red & black. Engr. plates. ...

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Laing (Samuel) THE HEIMSKRINGLA, OR THE SAGAS OF THE NORSE KINGS Ed. R.B. Anderson 1889. 4 vols. Ltd edn. [310]. 2 maps. Orig. gt. pict. cloth. Plus 1

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Verner (Willoughby) MY LIFE AMONG THE WILD BIRDS IN SPAIN. 1909. 1st edn. Cr.8vo. B/w ills. Orig. gt. pict. cloth. Very slight cockling of spine.
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THE FUR, FEATHER (and Fin) SERIES RED DEER, 1912; THE HARE, 1896; THE PARTRIDGE, 1894; THE RABIT, 1898; THE PHEASANT, 1895; THE GROUSE, 1894. 6 vols.

Darwin (Erasmus) ZOONOMIA: OR, THE LAWS OF ORGANIC LIFE. 1801. 3rd edn. 4 vols. 10 plates, some hand-col. 2 gatherings loose. Cont. half calf gt. Some

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Humphreys (Henry Noel) THE GENERA AND SPECIES OF BRITISH BUTTERFLIES [1859]. Large 8vo. Added col. title & 32 hand-col. plates. Orig. gt. dec. c...

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Henrey (Blanche) BRITISH BOTANICAL AND HORTICULTURAL LITERATURE BEFORE 1800. 1975. 3 vols. 4to. Col. & b/w plates. Orig. cloth gt. Slip-case.
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Loudon (John Cladius) AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF TREES AND SHRUBS 1942. Thick 8vo. Engr. plates & ills. Booklists at beginning and end. Orig. cloth gt....

Stark (Robert M.) A POPULAR HISTORY OF BRITISH MOSSES n.d. [ca 1850]. Sq. 8vo. 20 col. plates; some light marginal staining. Orig. gt. dec. cloth. Moo

Georg (H.) BOTANIQUE PRACTIQUE SUISSE ET SAVOIE. Geneva, 1865. 2 vols. 319 col. plates. All with guards. Orig. cloth gt. Slip-case (one jo

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Freeman (R.B.) THE WORLD OF CHARLES DARWIN. 1977. 2nd edn. Frontis. Orig. cloth gt. Kerrich (G.J.) & others. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF KEY WORKS FOR THE I...

Montaigne (Michel Eyquem de) ESSAYS. Ills: G.E.Chambers 1928. 3 vols. B/w plates. Cont. green half morocco. Gt. dec. spines in compartments with raise

Kraft-Ebbing (R.von) PSYCHOPATHIA SEXUALIS Trans: C.G.Chaddock. Philadelphia, 1921. Orig. cloth gt. Plus 7 others, psychology & philosophy.£...

Jung (Carl Gustav) PSYCHOLOGY OF THE UNCONSCIOUS Trans: B.M.Hinkle [1916]. 1st UK edn. Orig. cloth gt. A little rubbed & sl. soiled.£100-125

Wittgenstein (Ludwig) TRACTATUS LOGICO - PHILOSOPHICUS Intro: B. Russell 1922. 1st edn. Half-title (with list of books on verso). Booklist at end. Ori

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Hardwicke (Robert) SCIENCE-G0SSIP Ed. M.C.Cooke & J.E.Taylor 1865-68; 1870-75; 1877-79; 1881. 14 vols. Engr. ills. Orig. gt. dec. cloth. A

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[David (Pierre)] HISTOIRE CHR0NOLOGIQUE DES OPERATIONS DE L'ARMEE DU NORD, ET DE CELLE DE SAMBRE ET MEUSE Paris (printed in London), 1796. A rea...

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[Anti Corporal Punishment} Wilson (Robert Thomas) AN ENQUIRY INTO THE PRESENT STATE OF THE MILITARY FORCE OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, WITH A VIEW TO ITS RE

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Lediard (Thomas) THE LIFE OF JOHN, DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH 1743. 2nd edn. 2 vols. Port. frontis. 16 fldg. maps & plans. Engr. plates. Cont. calf gt....

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