Leland, Charles Godfrey.

Hans Breitmann's Party. With Other Ballads.

No place, no printer, 1868. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. First edition. 32pages. Original printed wrappers. The first edition in book form of Hans Breitmann's Ballads. Enclosed in a quarter calf and cloth slipcase. Good.

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Book number: 126

Catalogue: First Editions

Keywords: 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE, HUMOR FIRST EDITIONS

Liveing, Edward G. D.

Attack: An Infantry Subaltern's Impressions of July 1st 1916.

London: William Heinemann 1918. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. xvii-86, [iii], 47 pages. Decorated boards. Paper quite browned. Dustwrapper with a 1/2" piece missing at the bottom of the spine and a much smaller piece missing at the top of the spine. Good.

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Book number: 663

Catalogue: First Editions

Keywords: First Editions

Lloyd, Henry Demarest.

A Country Without Strikes: A Visit to the Compulsory Arbitration Court of New Zealand.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1900. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. xiv, [ii], 183pp. First edition. Cloth. Presentation copy to Judge J.B. Winslow of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, with a letter from the author to the same tipped in, and a typed letter from an influential Wisconsin lawyer, B. J. Stevens, addressed to the judge, thanking him for the lending of said book. Good.

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Book number: 2113

Catalogue: First Editions, Signed and/or Presentation Copies

Lobeira, Vasco [translated by Robert Southey]. [SOUTHEY'S & A.E. HOUSMAN'S COPY - WITH CORRECTIONS IN SOUTHEY'S HAND & MARKS IN HOUSMAN'S HAND].

Amadis of Gaul.

London: For T.N. Longman and O. Rees, Pater-Noster-Row, 1803. 0. Hardcover. Duodecimo. Four volumes. I: [vi], xxxvi, 288, [viii]pp.; II: [iv], 371, [i], [viii]pp.; III: [iv], 336, [viii]pp.; IV: [iv], 336, [xii]pp. First edition. Without the half-titles. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. From A.E. Housman's library. With manuscript notes by Southey and Housman. According to the previous owner's notes, purchased from Blackwell's on October 17, 1936. Southey was the translator of this work. Translated from the Spanish version of Garciordonez de Montalvo. Southey's Notes: Volume I: none found; Volume II: p. 1, p. 115, p. 211, p. 229, p. 230, p. 291, p. 339, p. 340; Volume III: p. 17, p. 79; Volume IV: p. 313 (?). There are also notes by Housman. I contacted Blackwell's; they informed me that their archives were deposited at Merton College. To date, I have not heard from Merton College with any additional information. John Sparrow was apparently involved in the transaction that saw the purchase of Housman's books by Blackwell's. The previous owner of the set (this set has been in my collection for well over twenty years) had purchased these books from Blackwell's on October 17, 1936. It has some manuscript notes by Southey (in his very distinctive small hand in red ink) as well as other marks or notes in pencil, which I presume (correctly, I think) are by Housman (William White's article in PMLA, 1943, 'A Note on some Housman marginalia,' indicates how Housman marked his books, and the Amadis is no exception). The set has the small B.H. Blackwell Ltd. Booksellers ticket on the front pastedown of volume one and was marked 25/-; it was crossed over and a new price 21/- added. I do not know if this set was owned by Southey at one time (I did not see it in his sale catalogue) and whether Housman had any notes regarding previous ownership that Blackwell's entered into their files. Good.

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Book number: 2108

Catalogue: First Editions, Nineteenth Century Books, Association Copies

Loccenius, Johannes.

De iure maritimo & navali libris tres.

Holmiae: ex officina J. Janssonii, 1651. 0. Hardcover. Duodecimo. [iii], 288pp. First edition. With an added engraved title-page. Printed title-page dated 1650, but engraved one 1651. Modern paper boards. Good.

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Book number: 2192

Catalogue: First Editions, Seventeenth Century Books, Law

Robin Waterfield Ltd.

Collection of 8 Robin Waterfield Ltd. catalogues. Catalogues 9, 36, 45-47, 49, 59, and, 61.

Oxford: Robin Waterfield Ltd. various dates, 0. Soft cover. Octavo and tall thin octavo. Various pagination. Stiff paper wrappers. Catalogues are; 9, 36, 45-47, 49, 59, and, 61. Very Good.

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Book number: 632

Catalogue: First Editions, Signed and/or Presentation Copies

Macready, William.

The Bank Note, or, Lessons for Ladies, a Comedy, in Five Acts. As performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. Partly an Alteration.

London: Printed for T.N. Longman, Paternoster-Row, 1795. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. [viii], 84pp. First edition. Disbound. ESTC N81 or ESTC T96400. Good.

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Book number: 2543

Catalogue: First Editions, Eighteenth Century Books, Theater

Mallet, David.

Amyntor and Theodora; or, The Hermit. A Poem. In Three Cantos.

London: Printed for Paul Vaillant, in the Strand, 1747. 0. Soft cover. Quarto. [iv], viii, 92pp. []2, A4-M4, N2. First edition. With the half-title present. Disbound. Foxon M44; ESTC T21858; CBEL II, 557. Good.

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Book number: 2544

Catalogue: First Editions, Eighteenth Century Books, Poetry

Mallet, David.

Elvira: a tragedy. Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane.

London: Printed for A. Millar, 1763. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [8], 69, [3]pp. A4, B8-E8, F4. First edition. Variant without press figure 4 on p.29. Light brown quarter morocco over cloth by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for Bernard Quaritch. There are a few minor variants in this first edition: some copies have the page number on p. 29 missing; and there were also a few copies printed on fine paper. Variant copies with and without press figure 4 on p.29. Press figures include 4 on p.29 - Variant; with different press figures on sig. C-F, including on p.27. Good.

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Book number: 1900

Catalogue: First Editions, Eighteenth Century Books, Theater

Keywords: English Literature, Drama

Marcel, Gabriel.

Rome n'est plus dans Rome.

Paris: Editions de la Table Ronde, 1951. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. 178, [ii] pages. In the publisher's original printed wrappers. From the library of Ernst Erich Noth. With a dedication from Marcel to Noth. Good.

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Book number: 1153

Catalogue: First Editions, Signed and/or Presentation Copies

Keywords: Autographed Books

Masefield, John.

The Dream.

New York: Macmillan and Co. 1922. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. Black cloth (spine) over grey quarter boards. Corners bumped, some staining on covers. Edition limited to 750 copies, this is No. 446. Signed by Masefield. Illustrated with 6 Judith Masefield woodcuts. Good.

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Book number: 598

Catalogue: First Editions, Signed and/or Presentation Copies

Keywords: First Editions

Masefield, John.

The Everlasting Mercy.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd. 1911. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. First edition. Blue cloth. Good.

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Book number: 2615

Catalogue: First Editions

Keywords: LITERATURE, ENGLISH MODERN POETRY, DRAMA First Editions

Masefield, John.

John Ruskin.

Bembridge, England: Yellowsands Press, 1920. 0. Soft cover. Large quarto. 10pp. First edition. Edition limited to 150 copies; this is no. 75. Signed by Howard Whitehouse, & Edward Daws. Original wrappers. Handley-Taylor, p. 51. "One hundred and fifty copies only have been printed of which this is no. 75." [signed] Howard Whitehouse, & Edward Daws. "This essay.was originally delivered by Mr. Masefield as a lecture at the Ruskin Centenary Exhibition held at the Royal Academy in the Autumn of 1919." Good.

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Book number: 1273

Catalogue: First Editions, Signed and/or Presentation Copies, Private Press/Fine Printing

Masefield, John.

John M. Synge: A Few Personal Recollections with Biographical Notes.

Letchworth: Garden City Press Limited, 1916. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. First edition. Blue cloth. Good.

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Book number: 2619

Catalogue: First Editions

Keywords: LITERATURE, ENGLISH MODERN POETRY, DRAMA First Editions

Masefield, John.

Lollingdon Down and other Poems.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917. 0. Hardcover. Slim octavo. 53pp. Publisher's brown and cream-colored boards, title label on upper cover. With the frontispiece portrait of Masefield in sepia. Limited edition (?). With an autograph letter from Masefield laid in. Good.

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Book number: 111

Catalogue: First Editions, Signed and/or Presentation Copies, Manuscript

Keywords: LITERATURE, ENGLISH POETRY, AUTOGRAPHED BOOKS First Editions