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King Solomon's Mines
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King Solomon's Mines

by Haggard, H. Rider

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London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1885. [5]-vi, [1], 8-320pp, [16]. Rebound in full morocco, raised bands, spine in six panels, leather title label to second panel, author label to fourth, single line border to covers, triple line to inner edges, a.e.g. with marbled endpapers. Externally bright and clean. Text with a hint of browning, very occasional light spotting, but generally quite bright and clean. Closed tear to map frontispiece, with small tear to central fold, browned to reverse. The first edition, with the textual misprints and the correctly dated advertisements to rear. Sadleir 1089; Wolff 2863; Bleiler, page 137; Allen 31; Scott 4. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good. 8vo.
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Virtue in Humble Life: Containing Reflections on Relative Duties, Particularly Those of Masters...
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Virtue in Humble Life: Containing Reflections on Relative Duties, Particularly Those of Masters and Servants. Thoughts on the Passions, Prejudices and Tempers of Mankind, Drawn from Real Characters Etc.

by Hanway, Jonas

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London: Dodsley, Sewel and Bew, 1777. Two volumes in one - [4], xvii, [1], vii, [1], 411pp, [1]; [4], vii [actually v], [1], 523pp, [1]. Contemporary full calf, raised bands, spine in six panels, second panel with green morocco title label, remaining panels with red morocco labels and differing central devices, first panel with an 'all seeing eye', third with volume numbers, fourth with a cross, fifth with a winged hour-glass device and sixth with a flower. Covers with a rope rolled border, large flower corner pieces with the same central winged hour-glass device surrounded by the motto on the upper cover, 'Let Every Virtue Shine and Every Bliss Be Thine', which is in turn surrounded by a circle made up of stars, with the lower cover continuing 'Humility and Peace Thy Name Shall Ever Grace' again with the surrounding circle, spot patterned marbled endpapers. Joints split but holding, small chip with loss to rear joint, corners bumped and rubbed, chip to head of spine with small… Read More
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A Wonder Book
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A Wonder Book

by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1922. [2], viii, 206pp, [2], original gilt decorated cloth, t.e.g., illustrated endpapers. Slightly rubbed, previous owners gift inscription to ffep, but generally bright and clean. With twenty-four illustrations including sixteen tipped in full colour illustrations with titled tissue guards. Signed by Rackham to limitation leaf, this being number three hundred and ninety-two of six hundred copies. Housed in a leather entry cloth slipcase. Riall, page 146. Signed by Artist. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good. Illus. by Rackham, Arthur. 4to. Limited Edition.
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Fiesta
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Fiesta

by Hemingway, Ernest

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London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. [8], 9-286pp. Original cloth in DJ. DJ lightly browned, lower panel very lightly browned, minor chipping to corners, slightly rubbed, especially to joins, and very lightly creased. Spine of book lightly faded, endpapers lightly browned from the glue, small stain to top margin of A6-B4, otherwise internally quite bright and clean. Now housed in a morocco backed drop back box, with raised bands, spine in six panels, title lettered direct to second panel, author to fourth, and date to foot, all panels with double line gilt border, made by Temple Bookbinders. An early Hemingway work, published in the US as 'The Sun Also Rises', in the rare first issue dust jacket. A cornerstone of modernist fiction, Connolly notes that "here the post-war disillusion and the post-war liberation are united in the physical enjoyment of living and the pains of love", further opining that Hemingway became "an immediate symbol of an age" (Connolly, The Modern Movement,… Read More
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One Hundred and Eleven Poems
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One Hundred and Eleven Poems

by Herrick, Robert

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[Chiswick]: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1955. 127pp, [1], original quarter vellum and cloth, title in gilt to spine, with a cockerel gilt device to upper cover, t.e.g. Spine very slightly browned, very slightly rubbed to extremities. Internally bright and clean. In the original cloth slipcase, which is rubbed, especially to extremities. Limited edition of 500 copies, this being number 285. Cock-A-Hoop 199. First Thus. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket (as Issued). Illus. by Flint, W. Russell. 4to. Limited Edition.
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The British Herbal: An History of Plants and Trees, Natives of Britain, Cultivated for Use, or...
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The British Herbal: An History of Plants and Trees, Natives of Britain, Cultivated for Use, or Raised for Beauty

by Hill, John

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London: T. Osborne and J. Shipton; J. Hodges; J. Newbery; B. Collins and S. Crowder and H. Woodgate, 1756. [4], plates, [1], 2-533pp, [3], dated 1756, but actually 1757-8. Original calf, recently rebacked with original back strip laid on, spine in seven panels, title label to second panel, remaining panels gilt with floral sprays, covers with gilt roll border, floral corner pieces, gilt roll to edges, all edges marbled, shell pattern marbled endpapers with old joins due to sheet size difficulties. Gilt to spine faded, small hole to fourth panel of original back strip, recornered, gilt touched up in a couple of places, small amounts of loss to leather covering fore edges of boards, covers rubbed with a few minor scratches. Internally some light spotting and browning, especially to title, first few plates, and first few pages of text, otherwise fairly bright and clean. Several plates with a few minor repairs, plate one has had the bottom corner infilled and plate thirty-nine has had the top corner… Read More
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The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith WITH A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith with a Selection of...
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The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith WITH A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith with a Selection of His Letters

by Holland, Lady and Austin, Mrs (Ed)

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London: Longman et al., 1840. Two works in five volumes - 'Works', (published 1840), Volume One - viii, 462pp; Volume Two - 467pp, [1] and Volume Three - iv, 465pp, [1]: 'Memoir', (published 1855), Volume One - xvi, 436pp and Volume Two - xxiv, 546pp. Uniform, slightly later, straight grain morocco, raised bands, spines in six panels, morocco title label to second panel, contrasting volume label to third, remaining panels with gilt central lozenge and volute corner pieces, covers with gilt double fillet border and tudor rose corner pieces, with central gilt device and initials, nonpareil marbled endpapers with all edges marbled. Spines slightly faded, very minor rubbing to extremities, light foxing to endpapers and engraved portrait, occasional spotting to margins, but generally quite bright and clean. Smith, Sydney (1771 - 1845), author and wit, co-founder of the Edinburgh Review (See ODNB). Second Edition. Full Morocco. Very Good. 8vo.
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The Natural History of Barbados - In Ten Books
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The Natural History of Barbados - In Ten Books

by Hughes, Rev. Griffith

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London: Printed for the Author, 1750. [17], ii-vii, [2], 2-250, *251-*254, 251-314pp, [20]. Slightly later half calf and marbled paper over boards, smooth back, divided into seven panels by gilt rules, title label to second panel. Outer joints slightly split and repaired with coloured Japanese tissue, inner joints also strengthened with Japanese tissue, slightly rubbed to extremities. Internally some light browning and occasional foxing throughout, map and several plates with off-setting, couple of small nicks to page edges, small tear to map. Complete with double-page map and thirty, (actually thirty-one, with two copies of plate 23), full-page uncoloured engravings, twenty-two of which are botanical, by G. D. Ehret (For Ehret, see Alexander, page 321) and G. Bickham (for Bickham, see Alexander, pages 115-116). Alexander, in his piece on Ehret, notes that only thirteen of the plates were designed by him, and only ten were actually engraved by him, with five being engraved by James Mynde, (see… Read More
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Shakespeare's Poem WITH Crow's Song About Prospero and Sycorax Manuscript
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Shakespeare's Poem WITH Crow's Song About Prospero and Sycorax Manuscript

by Hughes, Ted

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London: Lexham Press, 1971. 22pp, [3], original card covers inside the original card folding case. Slightly rubbed to extremities, top corners bumped, very minor white mark to front cover. Internally bright and clean, unopened to fore edge. Signed and dated by Hughes to the first page. One of seventy-five copies from a total of one hundred and fifty copies. Crow's Song About Prospero and Sycorax appears here as a frontispiece. WITH the original manuscript poem 'Crow's Song About Prospero and Sycorax', in Hughes' holograph, with an illustration at the foot of the page of a whale and a viking long boat, again signed by Hughes. Sagar and Tabor A30. Signed by Author. First Edition. Card Covers. Very Good. Illus. by Hughes, Ted. 8vo (Oblong). Limited Edition.
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The Revelation of Saint John the Divine
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The Revelation of Saint John the Divine

by Hughes-Stanton, Blair [Designer]

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Montgomeryshire: The Gregynog Press, 1932. [60]p, original red Hermitage calf, title blocked in black to spine and upper cover, bevelled edges, top edge sprinkled. Rubbed to extremities, spine very slightly faded and slightly rubbed, internally quite bright and clean. In the original card slipcase, with extensive repairs. Printed in Benbo type, with Perpetua titling on Japanese vellum, printed in Tyrian red and black, the first three words of the title on the title-page are wood engraved, and with forty-one wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. One of two hundred and thirty copies, priced at six guineas, with another eighteen in special bindings at twelve guineas. See Harrop, page 197. Harrop 24. First Edition. Hardback. Good+/No Jacket (as issued). Illus. by Hughes-Stanton, Blair. Folio. Limited Edition.
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Thoughts on the Trinity; Charges and Other Theological Works

Thoughts on the Trinity; Charges and Other Theological Works

by Huntingford, Henry (Ed); Huntingford, George Isaac

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London and Edinburgh: T. Cadell and W. Blackwood, 1832. xi, [1], 503pp, [1]. Later half calf and marbled paper over boards, raised bands, spine in six panels, title in gilt to second panel, author to third, remaining panels with gilt triple fillet framing volute tooling in blind. Rubbed to extremities, especially spine ends, internally fairly bright and clean. From the library of Earl Eldon, with his name and bookplate to front pastedown. Second Edition. Half Calf and Boards. Good+. 8vo.
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