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Ballet magazine. Black and white photographs throughout plus a double page spread of drawings of the dancers from the Covent Garden Cinderalla including Moira Shearer. Articles include pieces on ballet in Covent Garden, Ballet Glacés, Soviet Ballet, Folk Dance Festival 1949, Ballet in the Provinces, Alexandra Danilova, Olga Preobrajenska,etc. very clean and neat copy. Very good copy . Paperback. 1948.

Ballet magazine. Black and white photographs throughout. Articles include pieces on ballet in Covent Garden, dance in Paris, Madeleine Guimard, Ballet in Bratislava, Soviet Folk Dance, The Metropolitan Ballet, and a review of Moira Shearer in Powell and Pressburger's The Red Shoes as well as letters pages (ballet compared to football!) and other items. very clean and neat copy. Very good copy . Paperback. 1948.

Chatto & Windus,. Hardback. 184pp. First edition. A contemporary view written by 'The Times' correspondent in Italy 1927-1937 and 1939-1940. Dust wrapper designed by Maurian. A first edition contemporary account in dust wrapper which can be hard to find. Dust wrapper is dust soiled with a number of chips and a few short ters to edges including fore-edges and with a small nick to middle of the spine. Terracotta cloth with gilt titles to spine is generally clean with just a hint of dustiness to edges which are also slightly sunned. Good+, sound copy in chipped and torn dust wrapper . Hardback. First Edition. 1944.

London: Folio Society. Hardback. 222pp. Novel - witty look at an Anglican mission to Turkey. Introduced by Joanna Trollope. Illustrated by Natasha Ledwidge. Black and white frontis and nine further illustrations. bound in turquoice cloth illustrated in black and gilt. Blue slip case. book is very clean, bright and neat. Slipcase is ;lightly faded with a few very faint, minor marks. Near fine set in very good slipcase . Hardback. 2005.

Rupert Hart-Davis. Hardback. 864pp. Selected by G. M. Young. The Reynard Library. Paper covered boards printed to resemble a quarter binding with black to the spine and a red marl to the boards. Gilt device to the front. Gilt titles to spine. Faint mark to front else very clean and sound. Good+, sound copy . Hardback. 1967.

William Collins,. Hardback. 382+288pp. Letters to a Friend 1950-1952 is a second impression and Last Letters to a Friend 1952–1958 is a first edition. These letters are from the novelist Rose Macaulay to Father Hamilton Johnson, an Anglican priest. Edited by Constance Babington Smith who was a cousin of Rose Macaulay. Both volumes have a black and white frontis. Last Letters to a Friend 1952–1958 also has four further black and white plates. Letters to a Friend 1950-1952 is bound in pink cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Dust jacket has some uneven faded and is rubbed to edges with a few faint scratches to the front. This dust jacket also has a tear and crease to the very top edge of the front and a closed tear to the back. Last Letters to a Friend 1952–1958 also bound in pink cloth with gilt titles to the spine has to the dust jacket an uneven chip with some creasing to the back, is slightly faded and has a few small areas of… Read More

Longmans, Green & Co.. Hardback. Full leather. Fine binding in tree-calf by Riviere. Raised bands to spine with gilt title to one compartment and gilt decorations to the remaining compartments. Decorative floral boarder in gilt to both boards. Inner gilt dentelles, Marbled endpapers and marbled page edges. Small inscription on second prelim. Occasional small marks and some foxing spots else very clean and tight. A very nice copy. Very good copy . Hardback. 1902.

Longmans, Green & Co.. Hardback. Half bound in maroon leather with marbled paper to sides. Raised bands to spine with gilt titles to one compartment and gilt decorations to the remaining compartments. Marbled page edges. Possibly ex library with some numbering to endpapers and a small brown label to the reverse of the title page possibly covering a stamp. Last compartment has a few white specs and some surface damage as though a library number has been removed. Very rubbed and scuffed and the leather has faded to spine on the spine. Clean and sound. Good, sound, ex-library copy . Hardback. 1902.

Collins,. Hardback. 48pp. First edition. 8 colour plates and 26 black and white illustrations. Britain in Pictures series no. 31. A little rubbed to points but paper covered boards are clean and neat. Dust wrapper is rubbed with a tiny amount of loss to head of spine and a closed tear to the fore-edge. Very good copy in good dust wrapper . Hardback. First Edition. 1942.

Double issue of the literary and current affairs periodical guest edited by Colin MacCabe. Includes articles: Broken English by Colin MacCabe; Great Things of Us forgot - Seeing Lear Better; Hamlet - the Mona Lisa of Literature by Jacqueline Rose; Shakespeare's Sonnet 94; Macbeth - History, Ideology and Intellectuals by Alan Sinfield; Feminism and the Augustans; Psychopathia Sexualis - Stevenson's Strange Case; Joseph Conrad and the Last Gentleman by Tony Tanner; Modernism and Empire - Reading The Waste Land by David Trotter; etc. A little rubbed to edges and creased to cover. Clean and sound. Good+, sound copy . Paperback. 1986.

London: Life and Letters. Paperback. 80pp+adverts. The first issue of MacCarthy's journal which had throughout its short run a very distinguished set of contributors. This issue's contributors include Max Beerbohm, Thomas Hardy, George Santayana, Clive Bell, etc. Red and cream patterned card wraps are dust marked yet sound. Text is clean. Good+, sound copy . Paperback. 1928.

London: Life and Letters. Paperback. 427-514+adverts. The twenty-fifth issue of MacCarthy's journal which had throughout its short run a very distinguished set of contributors. This issue's contributors include Osbert Sitwell, John Hayward, etc. Red and cream patterned card wraps are dust marked. Binding is sound. Good+, sound copy . Paperback. 1930.

London: Life and Letters. Paperback. 409-488+adverts. The eighth issue of MacCarthy's journal which had throughout its short run a very distinguished set of contributors. This issue's contributors include Lytton Strachey, E. M. Forster, George Santayana etc. Red and cream patterned card wraps are dust marked. Binding is slightly cocked but sound.Faint contemporary ink name to front. Good copy . Paperback. 1929.

London: Life and Letters. Paperback. 441-532pp+adverts. The sixth issue of MacCarthy's journal which had throughout its short run a very distinguished set of contributors. This issue's contributors include Bertrand Russell, André Maurois, Robert Byron, etc. Red and cream patterned card wraps are dust marked. Binding is slightly cocked but sound. Faint contemporary ink name to front. Good copy . Paperback. 1928.

London: Life and Letters. Paperback. 81-158pp+adverts. The second issue of MacCarthy's journal which had throughout its short run a very distinguished set of contributors. This issue's contributors include A. J. A. Symons on Baron Corvo, Augustine Birrell on Nathaniel Hawthorne, Constance Lambert, Peter Quennell and Harry Graham, etc. Red and cream patterned card wraps are dust marked. Binding is slightly cocked but sound. One article has some pencil underlining else the text is clean. Good+, sound copy . Paperback. 1928.

London: Life and Letters. Paperback. 161-242pp+adverts. The third issue of MacCarthy's journal which had throughout its short run a very distinguished set of contributors. This issue's contributors include Elizabeth Dalyrush, Arnold Ward, James Laver, Robert Graves, etc. Red and cream patterned card wraps are dust marked. Binding is sound. Occasional pencil underlining else the text is clean. Good+, sound copy . Paperback. 1928.

London: Life and Letters. Paperback. 80+adverts. The eighth issue of MacCarthy's journal which had throughout its short run a very distinguished set of contributors. This issue's contributors include Augustine Birrell, George Santayana, Arnold Bennett etc. Red and cream patterned card wraps are unevenly dust marked. Binding is slightly cocked but sound. Faint contemporary ink name to front. Good copy . Paperback. 1929.

Folio Society,. Hardback. 270pp. Full pictorial cloth. Beige slipcase. Black and white photographs throughout. Very clean, bright and neat. Near fine, bright copy in very good slipcase . Hardback. 2000.

Oxford: Blackwell,. Paperback. xvii, 424pp. Contributors include, Jerry Fodor, Zenon Pylyshyn, etc. Slightly rubbed. Minor shelf wear. Clean and sound. Good+, sound copy . Paperback. 1995.

Oxford: Blackwell,. Paperback. 495pp. Debates on psychological explanation. Contributors include Jerry A. Fodor, Jaegwon Kim, Frederick Dretske, etc. Old price label to back. Bumped to tail of spine. Somewhat rubbed. Text is clean. Binding is sound. Good+, sound copy . Paperback. 1995.