Lucas,St.John (selects)

OXFORD BOOK OF FENCH VERSE xiiith Century - xixth Century

Oxford, Clarendon Press 1923 . Small quarto blue cloth gilt lettered (tips sl.rubbed) xxxv+491pp Prize label on FEP & one page sl.stained from laid in bookmark (still present) else V.G+

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Book number: F55660

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: poetry France French verse poetry

Macaulay,Rose

LETTERS TO A FRIEND 1950-1952

London, Collins 1st edition 1961 . Octavo cloth in price clipped dust jacket (tips rubbed) 381pp V.G *Written to her cousin, an Anglican priest by this grand dame of english writers. V.G+ in V.G+ jacket

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Book number: F60245

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: letters

Macquoid,Kathartine S.

MOLLY MONTAGUE'S LOVE STORY with four full-page coloured illustrations

London, National Society's depository 1890s Color plates (4) by W.S. Stacey . Octavo emerald pictorially gilt cloth pictorially gilt spine (tips slightly worn/upper corner sl.faded) 243pp+catal. Rear EP with Nat'l Soc. label & stamps & minor fore-edge dusting.

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Book number: F67026

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: historical romance

Macvane,Edith

TARANTELLA

London, Hurst & Blackett Ltd 1st edition 1912 Color frontis by A? Learned . Octavo blue cloth gilt lettered (edges sl.sunned/tips rubbed) 255pp +publisher's catalogue for Spring 1912 which includes this title among their New Novels. Unfortunately there is a marginal tan stain from the pastedown entirely faded out by p88 never touching the printed area except at the frontis. Unused blue bookplate to FEP else aside from the stain a nice fresh copy and quite scarce.

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Book number: F67980

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: romantic novel American woman novelist

Marsh,Ngaio

SCALES OF JUSTICE

Boston USA, Little,Brown&Co first US edition 1955 . Octavo boards in edge-torn dust jacket (tips slightly worn) 303pgs EPs bit foxed in jacket slightly stained on inside and missing 1" strip from head of spine and part of rear of dust jacket a few edge tears without loss.

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Book number: F50324

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: crime fiction first edition

Marshall,(Emma) Mrs.

THE OLD GATEWAY a story

London, Seeley Service & Co. 1912 Plates (6 are posed actors photographed in situations matching the story + 2 are after CEGM (? Initials)) . Octavo gilt red ribbed cloth spine extra gilt (tips sl.worn/spine sunned) 220pp + publisher's catalogue. Lacks front free endpaper & frontisplate re-inserted with old gummed paper tape else V.G.

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Book number: F67844

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: fiction Victorian moral novel

Martin,Beverley

JUFFIE KANE

London, Macdonald&Co 1st edition 1989 . PROOF COPY UNCORRECTED in proof wraps 510pp *American Author's 1st novel to be published in Britain. It involves Mafia links that haunt the Broadway actress's life.

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Book number: F49493

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: fiction first edition

Mason,A.E.W.

THE COURTSHIP OF MORRICE BUCKLER a Romance [also known as Courtship of Maurice Buckler]

London, Macmillan 1911 Frontispiece in photogravure. . Duodecimo blue blindstamped cloth gilt spine title etc. (spine faded/tips bit worn/1cm of rear cover edge nibbled to 1mm depth) half title/frontis + decorated titlepage + 255pp. Romantic fiction set in the seventeenth century by this prolific and very popular writer.

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Book number: F70962

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: historical Romantic fiction

Masur,Harld Q

BURY ME DEEP

London, Boardman American Bloodhoud series 1st English edition 1961 . Octavo orange boards with bloodhound logo (tips slightly rubbed) 191pp V.G+

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Book number: F47404

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: American crime fiction first edition

Du Maurier,Daphne

KING'S GENERAL

New York, Doubleday & Co. 1st American edition 1946 . Octavo pale green cloth (faded esp. to edges & spine/1" split to one hinge/slight rust marks) 371pp name crossed out on FEP slight paper toning but neat and clean.

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Book number: F57086

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: fiction first edition

Du Maurier,George

PETER IBBETSON .. introduction by His Cousin Lady *** (Madge Plunket)

London, Osgood&McIlvaine first edition 1895 Illustrations by Du Maurier . Octavo gilt blue cloth (tips worn/worn at head/foot of spine/some bumping) Top Edge Gilt 381pp name on half title and newer EPs. Slight pale foxing, mainly marginal.

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Book number: F52436

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: fiction first edition Victorian 19th century novel

McCandless,Anthony

THE BURKE FOUNDATION

London, Macmillan 1st first edition 1985 . Octavo boards in dust jacket (tips slightly rubbed) [8]+328pp *A second novel by this ex Royal Marine commando turned diplomat. Writing about what he knows about war and a mysterious charitable foundation based in Canada. A novel of suspense and the shadowland between good and evil.

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Book number: F69175

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: fiction suspense

Milton,John edited & intro. By W. Bell

LYCIDAS, SONNETS &c.

London, Macmillan and Co. 1904 . Small octavo red blind-stamped art nouveau cloth with title impresses in the blindstamp and spine having gilt title (tips worn/edges sl.darkened/bit soiled) half title wrongly reads L'Alledgro, Il Peneroso, etc. xv+183pp+publisher's catal. 27 pages at the beginning have some pencil marginalia and underlining. Only 1" of FEP left, rest removed, some signs of use but no damage, still a tight copy with copious sommentary by Bell.

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Book number: F66753

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: poetry classic

Moore,John

BRENSHAM VILLAGE, The

London, Collins first edition 1946 Frontis. by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis . Octavo cloth in dust jacket (sl.bump to fore-edge/tips sl.rubbed) 223pp inscription on FEP else V.G in edge rubbed jacket

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Book number: F52465

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: Cotswolds country life first edition

Mortimer, John (1923-2009)

RUMPOLE FOR THE DEFENCE

London, Penguin Books Ltd. 1984 . Paperback (tips sl.rubbed) 186pp +[6]pp publisher's book list. One ink spot to margin of 9 leaves never touching text. Slight edge tanning else neat and clean. *Seven stories of courtroom drama.

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Book number: F73948

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: courtroom humorous fiction