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Oasis Books, London., 1975. First edition. A collection of poems. Wrappers. Signed by the author.Head of spine very slightly bumped. Fine. ... more information

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George Allen & Unwin, London., 1945. First edition. Octavo. 75 pages. The author's second and last book of poems, with a 6-page Foreword by Robert Graves. Lewis died in mysterious circumstances in Burma in 1944. Covers a little bruised at lower edges. Near fine in very good indeed dustwrapper a little marked and creased at the edges and darkened at the spine. ... more information

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George Allen & Unwin, London., 1945. First edition. Octavo. 75 pages. Buckram covers. Six page introduction by Robert Graves, quoting extracts from some letters by the author, who had died in March 1944. Forty-eight poems divided into three sections: England, The Voyage and India. Top edge gilt.Number 31 of fifty specially bound copies on special paper.Fine. Not issued in dustwrapper. ... more information

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George Allen & Unwin, London., 1945. First edition. Octavo. 75 pages. Buckram covers. Forty-eight poems, divided into three sections: England, The Voyage and India. Six page Foreword by Robert Graves. Black and white frontispiece photograph of the author. Top edge gilt. Ribbon place marker.One of fifty copies, this being unnumbered.Spine very slightly faded. Near fine. ... more information

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Rupert Hart-Davis, London., 1953. First edition. Her first novel. Decorations and impressive dustwrapper design by Asgeir Scott.Fine in very good indeed dustwrapper a bit rubbed at the edges. ... more information

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Jonathan Cape, London., 1978. First edition. Oblong quarto. 64 pages. Decorated cloth gilt. Twenty-eight full-page colour reproductions, as well as several in the text. The first collection of the artist's paintings to be published.Presentation copy from the artist to Kaye Webb, inscribed on the front free endpaper: ''To Kay [sic] with all best wishes - love Vincent.'' Beneath the inscription there is an initialled drawing of a leaping horse. The initials are not at first sight obvious... more information

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Gurney and Jackson, London., 1933. First edition. Short anecdotes and ruminations by the author of The Private Papers of a Bankrupt Bookseller. Six-page Foreword by Sacheverell Sitwell who poses as the editor of this ''literary legacy''. Spare title-label at rear.Edges slightly spotted. Free endpapers partially browned. Near fine in very good indeed dustwrapper darkened at the spine and slightly nicked and creased at the edges. A bright copy. ... more information

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Heinemann, London., 1962. First U.K. edition thus: translated by W.G. Carey. A novel in which the Chechens are waging a Holy War against Russia. The recent film Prisoner of the Caucasus successfully adapted the story to the present day.Tail of spine very slightly bumped. Fine in near-fine dustwrapper very slightly crinkled at the edges. ... more information

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Haileybury College., 1936. First edition. Illustrated with drawings by the author (who was the art master at the school) and with photographsPresentation copy: "To all the Stokeses with best Xmas wishes from Wilfrid Blunt" and with a later Autograph Letter, dated 25 April 1968, signed by him, tipped in at rear: "For collectors of Bluntiana it is a rare item...". The letter is to the noted book collector Stanley Scott who had written to the author asking about the inscription. The '&... more information

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James MacLehose, Glasgow., 1905 - 1907. First edition thus. Twenty volumes. Illustrated with maps, most of them folding, and with proof engravings. Quarter gilt decorated parchment, blue cloth boards stamped in gilt with the Hakluyt "Auxilio Divino" medallion. Top edge gilt. Outer and lower edges uncut. The text follows the original edition of 1625 with the exception of some corrections, both of spelling and punctuation, and with modern orthography applied to the letters i, j, u, and v and with v... more information

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G. Howard Watt, New York., 1931. First edition. A novel set in Oklahoma before it went from a territory to a state.Contemporary ownership signature on front pastedown. Fine in very good indeed dustwrapper slightly nicked and rubbed at the edges. ... more information

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Pym-Randall Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts., 1964. First edition. The author's second book. Wrappers. 35 pages. One of 425 numbered copies.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the first blank: ''For R. Guedalla from Tim Reynolds. Stony Brook, 6.22.68''. The presentee is the bibliographer of Basil Bunting and friend of several Black Mountain poets.Spine slightly darkened. Tail of spine slightly bumped. Very good. ... more information

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Frederick Muller, London., 1967. First edition. Octavo. pp viii, 200. Illustrations.Tail of spine slightly bumped. Near fine in near-fine dustwrapper a bit creased at the edges. ... more information

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George Bell, London., 1904. First edition. Two volumes. pp. xiv, 72 + viii, 155. 65 photogravures, with tissue guards. Folio. Quarter parchment, red buckram lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Parchment discoloured and rubbed and split at head and tail of both spines. Very good. ... more information

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Heinemann, London., 1973. First edition. A novel set in nineteenth-century Abyssinia.Fine in dustwrapper. ... more information

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John C. Nimmo, London., 1897. First edition. pp. xviii, 244. Royal octavo. Original blue cloth, gilt crests on upper cover. Top edge gilt. Spine a little faded and marked. Corners bruised. Very good. ... more information

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[Saint Dominic's Press], Ditching Common., 1934. First edition. Royal octavo. Variant binding of brown wrappers. pp [viii], 79. Hand-printed by the author and Mark Pepler on a Stanhope Press. Joseph Batchelor & Son hand-made paper. The printing was completed on the Feast of the Assumption ''when men should abstain from servile work''.Wood-engravings by David Jones, Eric Gill, Desmond Chute etc. Facsimile reproductions of two title-pages. Pages unopened.One of 250 numbered copies sig... more information

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Privately printed at the Tragara Press, Edinburgh., 1977. First edition. Octavo. Unpaginated. One of 175 copies, this being R.S. Thomas's ad personam contributor's copy, the colophon page bearing the printed legend: "This copy, out of series, belongs to R.S. Thomas." The poem he contributes is "Mediterranean". Frontispiece of Kirby Hall by John Piper. Cloth-backed paper boards, printed label on spine. Other contributors include Samuel Beckett, John Betjeman, George Mackay Brown,... more information

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Collins, London., 1962. First edition. A 256-page whodunnit.Tail of spine slightly bumped. Near fine in very good indeed, slightly nicked, price-clipped dustwrapper slightly dusty on the rear panel. ... more information

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Victor Gollancz, London., 1993. First edition. A psychological thriller, the author's first after the Augustus Maltravers series of mysteries.Fine in fine dustwrapper. ... more information

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