Smollett, Tobias (1721-1771)

HUMPHRY CLINKER With an Introduction by V.S. Pritchett

London, Collins Classics 632 1954 Frontis portrait by S. Van Offen. . Post octavo green cloth in orange dust jacket (cloth V.G./jacket with 2mm chip to foot of spine) 352pp.

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Book number: F73865

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: classic novel 18th century

Snow,C.P.

IN THEIR WISDOM

London, Macmillan 1st edition 1974 . Octavo boards in dust jacket (slightly rubbed to extremities) 313pgs EPs slightly marked else V.G in V.G jacket

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Book number: F65759

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: fiction first edition

Stockdale,Louise

LOVERS OF THE LAND poems and illustrations foreword by Sir Arthur Bryant

Hampshire, For the author 1st edition 1975 Color (16) and b/w full page illustations by Louise Stockdale . PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR inscribed on TP quarto gilt boards in slightly edge torn dust jacket (tips sl.bumped/edges sl.rubbed) 86pp inscription on FEP else V.G in complete jacket

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Book number: F59243

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: signed copy poetry illustrated

Sutton,Margaret

THE MOST NOBLE ORDER

Ilfracombe, Devon, Arthur Stockwell Ltd. 1955 according to British Library . 178x121 blue card printed covers (edges faded) 24pp These poems "record the affection of our people for our Royal Family and our pride in the reward bestowed upon Sir Winston Churchill for the services he has rendered to the country and its people, and to mankind" (Preface). The author is listed as writer of verse in the British Library catalogue and there are later books of verse by her.

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Book number: F72084

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: poetry English poet Churchill Garter

Swain,Charles

THE MIND and other poems by Charles Swain

London, Tilt & Bogue 1st thus 1841 Proof engravings (17) with tissue guards . 226x138mm (in 4's) embossed and gilt lime cloth (rebacked using pink cloth with old spine relaid/tips bumped/some edge darkening & browning of the cloth) half-TP +TP +Dedication to Robert Southey v-viii (10-15)16-310pp+(notes) bound by Westley & Clark with their ticket on REP. Edges rough cut as issued & monogram on FEP else very little foxing/edge browning. A very handsome if strangely repaired copy, with all the vignette illustrations marked "proof".

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Book number: F67739

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: illustrated poetry

Tatum.J.W

VIEW OF THE TOWN, A

London, Dulwich Village 1st edition 1960 . Octavo stiff cream card covers (slightly marked) 12pp *POETRY

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Book number: F56037

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: poetry small press

Temple,Crona [pseudonym of Clara Corfield]

GRIFFINHOOF

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1884 by catalogue code Frontispeice + 2 plates and decorated head- & tail-pieces. . Octavo green cloth with forget-me-nots and gilt title to cover and spine (tips bit worn) 383pp +4pp publisher's list. Margin of titlepage torn away without loss to printed areas. A clean tight copy.

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Book number: F72531

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: Victorian novel

Tennyson, Alfred Lord (1809-1892) edited by Charles Tennyson his grandson

THE DEVIL AND THE LADY Edited by Charles Tennyson his grandson

London, Macmillan and Co. 1st edition 1930 Frontispiece facsimile. . LIMITED EDITION of 1500 copies on Whatman hand-made paper tall octavo parchment spined boards (tips slightly worn/spine darkened) xv +[68]pp UNCUT AND COMPLETELY UNOPENED thus V.G+ *Written when the poet was 14 years old.

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Book number: F51606

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: verse play juvenile poet English literature

Thackeray, W.M.] (title reads by Mr. M.A. Titmarsh)

MRS. PERKINS'S BALL by Mr. M.A. Titmarsh

London, Smith, Elder and Co. 1866 Hand coloured plates (22 incl folding frontis & TP). . 179x133mm half red calf raised bands (label partly gone/tips worn) vi +51pp. Name on front endpaper and inner hinge slightly pulled but a neat tight copy.

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Book number: F54497

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: hand colored illustrations

Thackeray,W.M.) (title reads by Mr. M.A. Titmarsh)

OUR STREET

London, Chapman & Hall 2nd edition printed by Vizetelly 1848 Hand colored plates (16) . Foolscap quarto half roan (spine leather nearly all rubbed off/tips quite worn and sides soiled but covers firmly attached) 54pp+advert leaf. Some isolated foxing but generally nice clean contents with the plates bright.

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Book number: F54494

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: hand colored plates humor 19th century fiction

Thackeray,William Makepeace (1811-1863)

THE WORKS OF WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY in 26 volumes Vol. XXI BALLADS and THE ROSE AND THE RING

London, Smith, Elder & Co. 1902 Illustrations by the author and George Du Maurier, John Collier, H.Furniss, Mrs.Butler, M.Fitzgerald & J.P. Atkinson . Octavo green decorated cloth Gilt lettered spine (tips sl.worn else nice tight and bright) xii + 410pp +publisher's leaf of books. *Contains all the poems that are scattered thoughout the author's various writings. The Rose and the Ring was written under the pseudonym of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh and was subtitled a fire-side pantomime for great and small children -written to amuse children over a Christmas holiday in Rome.

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Book number: F71551

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: Victorian literature poetry poems verse

Thomson,A.A. & Falkland L. Cary

MURDER AT THE MINISTRY

London, Jenkins 1st edition 1946 approx) . Octavo red cloth (tips rubbed/slightly marked and one corner bumped) 254pp usual paper browning else V.G

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Book number: F50976

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: crime fiction first edition

Catter Thun (pseudonym of Hugh Mackenzie Campbell)

EDINBURGH SKETCHES DURING ASSEMBLY TIME

Edinburgh, Hitt 2nd edition 1892) Plates (16)+ near full page text illustrations . Octavo half black roan (spine damaged but covers securely attached/tips worn) 118pp name on margin of titlepage V.G

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Book number: F59557

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: Scotland humor

Townley,Pamela

STONE MAIDEN

London, New English Library 1986 . PROOF COPY in PROOF WRAPS with Autograph presentation "The ending here is not as it is in the final version .. here it's a bit weak .." 471pp *Straddles English squirearchy to American aviation industy in this historical saga of revenge.

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Book number: F52930

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: fiction proof author's inscription historical

Tranter,Nigel

THE GILDED FLEECE a Novel

London, Ward, Lock & Co 1st first edition 1942 . Octavo beige cloth (foxed to cloth/worn to tips/dusty and with small vents at hinge/spine darkened) 224pp ownership stamp to half title, possibly newer endpapers? Some signs of use but mainly just War Economy standard dustiness. These wartime editions were not run off in such large print runs so the first editions are getting harder to come by. *Set in Scotland during the Napoleonic wars and the highland clearances.

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Book number: F70485

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: historical fiction