DRINKWATER John

A Book for Bookmen. Being edited Manuscripts & Marginalia with Essays on several Occasions [dedicated to Thomas J Wise].

Dulau,, 1926. 8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, bevelled boards, a very good, clean copy.

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Book number: 2042

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[DRIVER] [G. R.]

Magdalen College Library. List of Books printed before 1641 not in the Bodleian Library. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL ISSUE

For Oxford Bibliographical Society by Oxford University Press, Oxford,, 1929. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with fine facsimile frontispiece; original printed wrappers, yapped edges, uncut and largely unopened, a near fine copy. Oxford Bibliographical Society, Proceedings & Papers, Vol. II, Part iii. VERY SCARCE.

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Book number: 8784

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DUNNE Tom

Gerard Manley Hopkins. A Comprehensive Bibliography. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Clarendon Press, Oxford,, 1976. 8vo., First Edition; navy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 31272

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Keywords: bibliography, hopkins, manley hopkins, gerard manley hopkins, tom dunne

EATON P.

Marie Stopes. A Checklist of her Writings.

Croom Helm,, [1977]. 8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper.

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Book number: 202

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EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

[Catalogue of] An Exhibition in Honour of the Eightieth Birthday of Hugh MacDiarmid. NEAR FINE COPY

Edinburgh University Library, Edinburgh,, [1972]. 8vo., First Edition; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers very lightly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. The catalogue lists 132 items; the exhibition ran from 26th May to 31 August 1972.

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Book number: 11501

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ELKIN MATHEWS, Ltd.

A Catalogue of Books by or relating to Dr. Johnson and Members of his Circle. With an Introduction by John Drinkwater. Catalogue No. 5. 'A MILESTONE IN THE HISTORY OF BOOKSELLING': NEAR FINE COPY IN BOARDS

Elkin Mathews,, 1925. 8vo., First Edition; modern boards, backstrip with printed paper label, ORIGINAL WRAPPERS PRESERVED, a near fine copy. Listing 619 entries, this outwardly humble catalogue boasts a bibliophilic importance far beyound its printed wrappers. 'The effective beginning of what was to become within five years one of the widest and deepest movements of taste in the whole history of bibliophily' (John Carter, 'Taste and Technique'). 'This catalogue is a milestone in the history of bookselling, for in it appeared books priced from ten shillings to two guineas which had never appeared in any West End catalogue before' (W.S. Lewis). VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 44238

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ENSER A. G. S.

A Subject Bibliography of the Second World War and the Aftermath. [Complete set]. Vol.I: 1939-1974; Vol. II: 1975-1987. NEAR FINE SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS

Andre Deutsch [and] Gower,, [1977-1990]. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition; cloth (red/black respectively); gilt backs, a near fine set in dustwrapper. Near fine set of an indispensable English-language reference to 1987. Includes invaluable index of invididual titles.

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Book number: 42490

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ENSER A. G. S.

A Subject Bibliography of the First World War. Books in English 1914-1978. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Andre Deutsch,, [1979]. 8vo., First Edition; maroon cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter heavily sunned at backstrip. Sold from an institution with its neat stamp on top and title. Includes invaluable index of invidual titles.

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Book number: 43906

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EVANS Joan

The Endless Web. John Dickinson and Co., Ltd., 1854-1954.

Jonathan Cape,, [1955]. Roy. 8vo., with a portrait frontispiece in photogravure, title in red and black, 49 plates, an endpaper pedigree and an endpaper map, fore-edges lightly spotted; buckram, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly soiled and creased (without material loss) at edges

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Book number: 7507

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FABES Gilbert H.

The First Editions of Ralph Hale Mottram. 350 COPIES WERE PRINTED

Myers & Co.,, 1934. 8vo., on laid paper, with a portrait frontispiece, a plate and a facsimile; cloth gilt, gilt back, covers just a trifle worn and faded else a good, clean copy of an uncommon work. EDITION LIMITED TO 300 COPIES (this copy out of series). The work also contains an essay by Mottram on the genesis of 'The Spanish Farm' (1924) in which he ackowledges help and guidance from Galsworthy, together with the first reprints of both his first essay and his first short story

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Book number: 157

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FABES Gilbert H.

The First Editions of A.E. Coppard, A.E. Herbert and Charles Morgan. With Values and bibliographical Points.

Myers & Co.,, [1933]. 8vo., First and Sole Edition, on laid paper; original black cloth gilt, gilt back, a very good copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter a little frayed at edges

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Book number: 90

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FABES Gilbert H.

John Galsworthy. His First Editions, Points and Values. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED

Foyle,, [1932]. 8vo., First Edition; cloth gilt, gilt back, a very good copy in the dustwrapper, the latter chipped at edges. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES (this copy out of series). Loosely inserted is a disbound copy of 'John Galsworthy. An Appreciation together with a Bibliography' 1926 by Galsworthy's neice Miss Dorothy Easton

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Book number: 99

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FABES Gilbert H.

Modern First Editions: Points and Values. [First to Third Series complete]. 'POINTS' COMPLETE IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS

Foyle,, [1929-32]. 3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, first volume with errata slip; black buckram, upper boards lettered in gilt, gilt backs, uncut, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper, the wrappers lightly dust-soiled and chipped at extremities. The set comprises: First Series (No. 230 of 750 copies); Second Series (No. 147 of 1000 copies); Third Series (No. 244 of 750 copies signed by Fabes). A VERY NICE SET OF AN IMPORTANT WORK SELDOM FOUND COMPLETE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 91

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FARMER, ed John S.

The Tudor Facsimile Texts. Everyman. Under the Supervision and Editorshop of John S. Farmer. THE EVERYMAN MSS

Tudor Facsimile Texts,, 1912. Roy, 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with many fine full-page facsimiles in collotype throughout, mounted section titles, interleaved with blanks, free endpapers browned, some light spotting to title and interleaves (not facsimiles), neat ownership inscription on front free endpaper; green cloth, ivory buckram back with printed paper label, uncut, a very good, bright copy. Splendid facsimiles of the two versions in the BM: the complete Scott-printed copy (Huth 32) and (2) the fragment of an edition printed by Pynson (C21. c17). John Alexander (Dept. of MSS), in comparing this facsimile with the original copies, reports that 'it is admirably reproduced, especially in the case of the Pynson fragment which is practically faultless'. EXTREMELY SCARCE.

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Book number: 28189

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FFINCH Michael

Donald Maxwell 1877-1936. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Titus Wilson for The Maxwell Estate, Kendal,, 1995. Roy. 4to., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations throughout; original cloth gilt, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Detailed and wonderfully illustrated biography, together with the most comprehensive bibliography to date listing over 1000 entries. EXTREMELY SCARCE

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Book number: 21214

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