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  W. J. Carlton: a tribute. With a list of his writings on Dickens
UK, Privately printed. 8vo, wrappers. Pp 6. The tribute to William John Carlton, the biographer of Dickens, is by "KJF"; presumably K. J. Fielding. There is no date, possibly around 1970.
USD 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.25 | £UK 3.75 | JP¥ 530] Book number: 11414
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  Florence Nightingale at Harley Street
London, J.M. Dent. 1970. Paper Board. Pp 36. Paper covered boards with purple spine. Florence Nightingale's reports to the Governors of her Nursing Home 1853 -4 with an introduction by Sir Harry Verney, Bt. With plates and facsimiles. Very Good/No Jacket.
USD 13.20 [Appr.: EURO 9 | £UK 8 | JP¥ 1165] Book number: 8010
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R. S.  George Chapman: a narrative of a devoted life
London, Swan Sonnenschein. 1893, First. Hard Cover. 8vo, black cloth. Pp XVI, 276, with frontispiece portrait of George Chapman and four plates. The biography of a vicar in the Church of England, 1846-1891.
USD 36.00 [Appr.: EURO 24.25 | £UK 21.75 | JP¥ 3177] Book number: 9446
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/  Ludwig Wittgenstein: a memoir. With biographical sketch by Georg Henrik von Wright
Oxford, Oxford Paperbacks. 1966, Repinted with revisions. 8vo, black and white wrappes. Pp 100, with frontispiece of Wittgenstein. Both biographical sketch and memoir make wonderful reading.
USD 24.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.25 | £UK 14.5 | JP¥ 2118] Book number: 22439
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  Philomorus. Notes on the Latin poems of Sir Thomas More
London, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer. 1878, Second Edition. 8vo, original half calf, raised bands, gilt fleurons in compartments on spine, marbled boards and endleaves, top-edge-gilt. Pp XV, 275, with frontispiece portrait of More from drawing by Holbein, arms on title-page, headpeices and ornamental initial letters. A study of the fate of More's Latin poems, beginning with his "Epigrammata," first published in 1518 by Froben in Basel. A very fine copy.
USD 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 100.25 | £UK 90.25 | JP¥ 13239] Book number: 20507
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  C.P. Scott 1846-1932. The making of the "Manchester Guardian"
London, Frederick Muller. 1946, First. 8vo, black cloth, gilt letering on cover and spine, dust-wrapper showing bearded C.P. Scott. Pp 252, with illustrations. The centernary of his birth is chosen as a survey by colleagues of Scott's achievement in turning a local newspaper into one of international standing. Presentation copy in January 1959 by Christopher Chancellor, general manager of Reuters, to Graham Storey, then engaged in writing "Reuters' Century.
USD 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 30.25 | £UK 27.25 | JP¥ 3972] Book number: 22781
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ACKROYD, PETER  Dickens
London, Sinclair-stevenson. 1990, First Edition. Cloth. Pp 1083, LVIII, X, XL. Dark blue cloth. Many illustrations. Fair/No Jacket.
USD 30.25 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 | £UK 18.25 | JP¥ 2670] Book number: 7514
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ACLAND, ALICE  Coroline Norton
London, Constable. 1948, First. 8vo, black cloth. Pp 236, with frontispiece and four plates. The biography of a controversial figure in the political and social life of nineteenth century England, whose struggle to be allowed custody of her children led to reforms which improved the legal status of women.
USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 | £UK 11 | JP¥ 1589] Book number: 9322
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ADRIAN, ARTHUR A.  Mark Lemon, first editor of Punch
London, Oxford University Press. 1966, First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo, green cloth, dust wrapper. Pp XIV, 241. A biography of the man who was chiefly responsible for the survival of Punch in its early days, who edited the magazine for close on thirty years, and whose genial diplomacy and tact fused a miscellaneous band of writers and artists into the brotherhood of the Punch Table.
USD 32.00 [Appr.: EURO 21.5 | £UK 19.25 | JP¥ 2824] Book number: 9884
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ALDINGTON, RICHARD  Introduction to Mistral
London, William Heinemann. 1956, First Edition. Hardback. 8vo, black cloth, dust wrapper. Pp 209, with frontispiece portrait of Frederic Mistral. Mistral (1830-1914) was a Nobel prize-winning poet who devoted his life to the revival of Provencal as the living language of a people.
USD 32.00 [Appr.: EURO 21.5 | £UK 19.25 | JP¥ 2824] Book number: 9080
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AMADO, JORGE  Dona Flor and her two husbands
New York, Alfred A. Knopf. 1969, First Edition. Cloth. 8vo, with green cloth binding and gold lettering, a moral and amorous tale translated from the portuguese by Harriet de Onis. Pp 553. Very Good.
USD 58.00 [Appr.: EURO 38.75 | £UK 35 | JP¥ 5119] Book number: 8287
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AMIS, MARTIN  Experience
London, Vintage. 2001. (ISBN: 0099285827) Paperback. Paper back. Pp 385. Many ilustrations. In this remarkable work of autobiography, the son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis explosres his realtionship with his father. Fair/No Jacket.
USD 6.60 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 | £UK 4 | JP¥ 582] Book number: 7858
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ANONYMOUS  Remarkable Men
London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1880. Cloth. with frontispiece and plates. Good/No Jacket.
USD 29.04 [Appr.: EURO 19.5 | £UK 17.5 | JP¥ 2563] Book number: 6657
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ARETZ, GERTRUDE  Die Marquise von Pompadour. Ein Lebensbild aus dem Rokoko
Dresden, Carl Reissner Verlag. 1921, Opal-Bücherei. 8vo, half calf, rebacked with richly tooled original spine, marbled boards. Pp 316, with ten plates.
USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 | £UK 30.25 | JP¥ 4413] Book number: 22024
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ARETZ, GERTRUDE  Napoleon and his Women Friends
London, George Allen & Unwin. 1927, First English Edition. Cloth. Translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul. With frontispiece and 16 illustrations. Good/No Jacket.
USD 30.25 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 | £UK 18.25 | JP¥ 2670] Book number: 6609
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ARETZ, GERTRUDE  Queen Louise of Prussia 1776-1810
London, G.P. Putnam's Son. 1929. Cloth, Large 8vo. Pp 338. Pink cloth with gilt lettering on the front. Translated by Ruth Putnam. With 16 portraits. Frontispiece with tissue gard. Good/No Jacket.
USD 42.35 [Appr.: EURO 28.25 | £UK 25.5 | JP¥ 3738] Book number: 6868
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ATTALLAH, NIAM  Singular Encounters
London, Quartet Books. 1900, First Edition. (ISBN: 0704327686) Cloth with dust jacket, 24.5 x 16 cm. 8vo, black cloth with gold lettering on spine, dustjacket. Pp 628. Conversational interviews with twenty-nine eminent men. Very Good/Good.
USD 30.25 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 | £UK 18.25 | JP¥ 2670] Book number: 2870
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AUBRY, OCTAVE  La jeunesse du Roi de Rome
Paris, Flammarion. 1935. Small 4to, portrait of King of Rome on front cover, lacking back cover. Pp 124, avec quatre planches hors-texte.
USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 | £UK 5 | JP¥ 706] Book number: 22929
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AUBRY, OCTAVE  Napoleon
London, Paul Hamlyn. 1964, First English Edition. Blind stamped cloth, 4to. Pp 376, full of illustrations. Translated by Margaret Crosland and Sinclair Road. Green cloth, lettering on spine. Fair/No Jacket.
USD 24.20 [Appr.: EURO 16.25 | £UK 14.75 | JP¥ 2136] Book number: 6936
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BAC, FERDINAND  Jean Paul, ou l'amour universel. l'Allemagne Romantique 1763-1825
Paris, Louis Conard. 1927, First. 8vo, decorative wrappers. Pp 325. A sympathic biography of Jean-Paul Richter (1763-1825), the Bavarian, humourist, novelist and eccentric precursor of romanticsm.
USD 22.00 [Appr.: EURO 14.75 | £UK 13.25 | JP¥ 1942] Book number: 22921
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BALAGUER, JOAQUIN & CESAR A. HERRERA  Maximo Gomez
Santo Domingo, Taller. 1986, First Edition. Original Wrapper, 8vo. Pp 30, with frontispiece of last portrait of Maximo Gomez. Addresses by Balaguer and Cesar Herrera, director of the Biblioteca Nacional, in Bani, Maximo Gomez' birth-place, on the 150th anniversary of his birth. Very Good/No Jacket.
USD 24.20 [Appr.: EURO 16.25 | £UK 14.75 | JP¥ 2136] Book number: 3072
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BARHAM, REV. R.H. DALTON  The Life and
London, Richard Bentley. 1880. Cloth. Pp 421, frontispiece portrait of Richard Harris Barham. Rev. Richard Harris Barham is the author of The Ingoldsby Legends. This book is written by his son. Red cloth with gild lettering on spine. Good/No Jacket.
USD 145.20 [Appr.: EURO 97 | £UK 87.5 | JP¥ 12815] Book number: 7211
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BARINE, ARVÈDE  Alfred de Musset
Paris, Hachette. 1893, First. Wrappers. 8vo, broché. Pp 182, 4 Les grands écrivains français. Good.
USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 | £UK 11 | JP¥ 1589] Book number: 23039
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BATAILLON, MARCEL  Etudes sur Bartolomé de Las Casas
Paris, Institut d'études hispaniques. 1965, First. Small folio, wrappers. Pp XXXIX, 345. Collection Thèses, Mémoires et Travaux. A formidable work of scholarship, analyzing Las Casas' life and "legend." The sections are: Le "Clerigo;" Apogée et déclin; Fama postuma. Etudes réunies avec la collaboration de Raymond Marcus.
USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 | £UK 30.25 | JP¥ 4413] Book number: 22268
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BEACONSFIELD, LORD  Home Letters- written by Lord Beaconsfield 1830-1852
London, Cassell & Company. 1928. Cloth with dust jacket. Red cloth with torn dust jacket. Cassell's Pocket Library. With an introduction by The Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, K.C. Pp 315, V. Letters from abroad and to his sisters. Good/Fair.
USD 33.88 [Appr.: EURO 22.75 | £UK 20.5 | JP¥ 2990] Book number: 7512
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