APOSTOLOU Anna

A Murder in Macedon. A Mystery of Alexander the Great. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

St. Martin's Press, New York NY,, [1997]. 8vo., First Edition; grey cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 48427

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APPLEBY John T

The Troubled Reign of King Stephen. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Bell,, 1969. 8vo., First Edition; black cloth, backstrip blocked in silver and lettered in black, a near fine copy in price-clipped, lightly dust-soiled dustwrapper.

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Book number: 30479

Catalogue: History0

Keywords: history, stephen king stephen, empress matilda, john appleby

APPLEMAN-JURMAN Alicia

Alicia. [Memoirs of a Survivor.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Bantam,, [1989]. 8vo., First Edition, with endpaper maps; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 39106

Catalogue: Military0

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APPS Michael

The Four Ark Royals. With a Foreword by Vice-Admiral Sir Michael Fell. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Kimber,, [1976]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; navy cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Law 0954.

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Book number: 36086

Catalogue: Naval0

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APULEIUS

The Golden Ass. Translated by E.J. Kenney. Introduced by James Wood. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES SIGNED BY QUENTIN BLAKE

Folio Society, 2015. Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece and numerous coloured illustrations in the text; burgundy morocco, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt top, purple endpapers, a fine copy in publisher's slip-case blocked in gilt. EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY BLAKE (THIS COPY NO. 195).

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Catalogue: Folio Society0

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APULEIUS Lucius

The Transformations of Lucius, otherwise known as The Golden Ass. Translated by Robert Graves. Lithographs by Michael Ayrton. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE

Folio Society,, 1960. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, plates and pictorial endpapers; ivory faux-vellum, blocked in sepia, gilt back, red top, backstrip very lightly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy in publisher's board slip-case, the case mildly rubbed and worn at extremities.

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Book number: 48255

Catalogue: Folio Society0

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[ARABIAN NIGHTS].

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night. Rendered into English from the Literal and Complete Translation of Dr. J.C. Mardrus by Powys Mathers. Illustrations by Eric Fraser. BRIGHT, CLEAN SET

Folio Society,, 1958. 4 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispieces and plates; gold and red patterned boards, faux-vellum backs lettered in gilt, red tops, a very good, bright, clean, crisp set.

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Book number: 46334

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ARBER] [Edward

An English Garner. [Ingatherings from our History and Literature. Complete set.] BEST EDITION OF THE ENGLISH GARNER COMPLETE

Constable,, 1903. 12 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, some endpapers mildly browned; original series binding of dark blue cloth, gilt backs, gilt tops (save Beazley), uncut, a very good, bright, firm set. Ten volumes have a uniform pictorial personal bookplate on front paste-down, two volumes have the fine armorial bookplate of the Signet Library [Edinburgh]. This valuable compilation of tracts, poetry, prose and other contemporary documents was first assembled under the editorship of Edward Arber and published in eight volumes between 1877 and 1896. Here the entire collection is reissued in greatly expanded form, rearranged and reclassified under the general editorship of Thomas Seccombe. There is much new material and the series as a whole benefits from fresh critical apparatus from some of the finest scholars of the day. The collection comprises: Aitken (G.A). Later Stuart Tracts (1903); Beazley (C.R). Voyages and Travels mainly during the 16th and 17th Centuries (2 vols) (1903); Bullen (A.H). Shorter Elizabethan Poems (1903); Bullen (A.H). Some Longer Elizabethan Poems (1903); Collins (J.C). Critical Essays and Literary Fragments (1903); Firth (C.H). Stuart Tracts 1603-1693 (1903); Lang (A). Social England Illustrated. A Collection of XVIIth Century Tracts (1903); Lee (S). Elizabethan Sonnets, newly arranged and indexed (2 vols; 1904); Pollard (A.F). Tudor Tracts 1532-1588 (1903); Pollard (A.W). Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse (1903). COMPLETE SETS ARE VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 12194

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ARBER Muriel A.

Landslips near Lyme Regis. Presidential Address delivered 2 March 1973. [Second Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY

[Serendip Books, Lyme Regis],, [1986]. Sm. 8vo., Second Edition, with 9 photographs and several diagrams in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy.

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Book number: 9469

Catalogue: Topography0

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ARBER, ed. Edward

More. Utopia [with] Ascham. Toxophilus [with] Ascham. Scholemaster [with] Earle. Micro-Cosmographie [with] Selden. Table Talk [with] Buckingham. Rehearsal. Edited by Edward Arber. SIX ARBER ENGLISH REPRINTS IN ONE VOLUME

[Privately Printed], Birmingham,, 1868-70. 6 works in 1 vol., 8vo., with titles in red and black; strongly and attractively bound in contemporary brown crushed half morocco, rose cloth boards, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second compartment lettered in gilt, red sprinkled edges, green-blue endpapers, a near fine copy. The works comprise: Thomas More. Utopia (Robinson translation 1556), 1869; Roger Ascham. Toxophilus (1545), 1868; Roger Ascham. The Scholemaster (1570 & 1572), 1870; John Earle. Micro-Cosmographie (1628, 1629, 1633), 1868; John Selden. Table Talk (1689), 1868; George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. The Rehearsal (1672), 1868. Arber English Reprints Nos. 14, 7, 23, 12, 6, 10 respectively. VERY SCARCE.

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Book number: 46193

Catalogue: Literature0

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ARBUCKLE Lt. Graeme

Customs and Traditions of the Canadian Navy. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Nimbus, [Halifax NS],, [1984]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 37645

Catalogue: Naval0

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ARBUTHNOT John

Arbuthnotiana. The Story of the St. Alb-ns Ghost (1712). A Catalogue of Dr. Arbuthnot's :Library (1779). Introduction by Patricia Koster. [Facsimile reissue]. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles CA,, 1972. 8vo., First Edition thus; original buff wrappers printed in black, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Augustan Reprint Society, Publication No. 154.This facsimile is a high-quality photographic reprint of the copy in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. VERY SCARCE.

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Book number: 19418

Catalogue: Literature0

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ARBUTHNOT Charles

The Correspondence of Charles Arbuthnot. Edited for the Royal Historical Society by A. Aspinall.

Royal Historical Society,, 1941. Sm. 4to., First Edition; original series binding of purple cloth, upper board framed in blind and blocked in gilt, gilt back, uncut AND LARGELY UNOPENED, backstrip very lightly faded else a very good, bright, clean copy. Camden Society, Third Series, Vol. LXV. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down and presentation bookplate on front free endpaper. This copy was presented by Professor Jack Morpurgo.

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Book number: 24164

Catalogue: History0

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND

Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Old London. Papers read at the London Congress, July 1866.

1867. 8vo., with illustrations in the text, neat signature on title; cloth, blocked in blind, gilt back, head and tail of backstrip worn else a sound copy. A useful collection, including 'The Chapter-House of Westminster' by Gilbert Scott and 'London and the Election of Stephen' by Green. Scarce.

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Book number: 1129

Catalogue: Topography0

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND

Report of the Transactions at the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, held at Chichester. With a detailed Catalogue of Antiquities and Works of Art exhibited.

1856. 8vo., with 12 plates, several engraved illustrations in the text (3 full-page) and a folding plan; handsomely bound in contemporary half calf, marbled boards, marbled edges, gilt back.

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Book number: 873

Catalogue: Topography0

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