Adamson, Jean and Gareth:

Topsy And Tim Go On Holiday.

Glasgow/London, Blackie, 1965 Paperback, larger format, approx. 9.5" x 7", Good, spine rubbed/paper splitting a little at ends, top corner lightly creased, hinges inside at front and rear pulling a little but holding, contents nice, bright and tight, v. occas. small soil mark.

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Book number: 9846

Catalogue: juvenile literature

Keywords: Topsy Tim children's literature holiday seaside Lion Garage buckets picnic

Adamson, Jean and Gareth:

Topsy And Tim At The Seaside.

Glasgow/London, Blackie, 1965 Paperback, larger format, approx. 9.5" x 7", Fair+, spine rubbed a little, taped with clear tape, some damage to wraps - picture rubbed off at btm of upper wrap and on two small pieces at rear, corners scuffed, edges a little rubbed, contents clean and tight, a little nimor handling wear, pp30.

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Book number: 9848

Catalogue: juvenile literature

Keywords: Topsy Tim children's literature holidays seaside fisherman fishing trip seals

Adamson, Jean and Gareth:

Topsy And Tim At School.

Glasgow/London, Blackie, 1968 Paperback, larger format, approx. 9.5" x 7", Fair+, spine rubbed a little, double taped with clear tape, wrap edges a little bumped/rubbed, corners scuffed, contents clean and tight, one small pink soil mark on pge 26/27, a little nimor handling wear, occas. small closed tear to pge edge margins, 'Nursery School' written at top of half title, pp30.

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Book number: 9850

Catalogue: juvenile literature

Keywords: Topsy Tim children's literature school Miss Maypole Janet Wendy House slide painting

Ashley, Bernard:

I'm Trying To Tell You.

Kestrel Books, 1981 1st Ed, Hard cover blue cloth bds, VG, unclipped d/w, VG, sl. faded at spine, ex-lib so usual markings, contents clean and tight, a little handling wear, pp79, ffep missing, illust. by Lyn Jones. A nice reading copy.

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Book number: 9761

Catalogue: juvenile literature

Keywords: Lyn Jones children school juvenile literature children's stories 0722657250

Ashton, H:

Selections from La Bruyere.

Cambridge at the University Press, 1928 Hard cover green cloth bds, Good, a little scuffing light marking, text in French, neatly annotated with translation words in red through text to pge 99, pp172, name in pencil on ffep. A nice sound ref. copy, incl. 72 pges of notes etc...

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Book number: 11556

Catalogue: literature

Keywords: French La Bruyere characters sources style influence notes study guide social history literary critic moralist vocabulary syntax author 000000000

Bagehot, Walter:

Literary Studies: Volume Two.

London, J M Dent & Sons Ltd, 1927 Hard cover faded red cloth bds, spine a little age darkened otherwise Good-, no dust jacket, contents clean and tight, pp381 +adverts, neat name to ffep.

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Book number: 13013

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Everyman's Library Ernest Rhys essays Belles lettres literary studies George Sampson Edward Gibbon Bishop Butler Sterne Thackeray Waverley Dickens Babington Macaulay Beranger Clough poems Wordsworth

Ballam, Harry Phyllis Digby Morton (Ed. by):

The Christmas Book.

Sampson Low, no date Hard cover red cloth bds, gilt decoration to upper bd, gilt lettering to spine, VG, unclipped dust jacket, some edgewear, chipping at spine ends and corners, picture of 'angelic child' holding a Christmas tree, front endpapers in green with The Coventry Carol, words and music, rear endpapers in green with The Wassail Song words and music, 'To' and 'From' clean on fep, contents nice and tight, pges 15-48 have had btm corners turned, many b/w illustrations and 4 colour plates of 'The Four Nativities, pp261

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Book number: 13617

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Christmas Aubrey Rix Dickens Beverley Baxter B J Kidd Rev W R Matthews Osbert Sitwell John L Bott Irving Huxley Katie Gandy Haynes Bayly Kay Boyle Constance Spry Perkins Gilman Stoker Sansom Harcourt

Barzun, Jacques (transl.):

Flaubert's Dictionary of Accepted Ideas.

London, Max Reinhardt, 1954 1st Ed., Hard cover red cloth bds, VG+, unclipped d/w, VG, contents fine and crisp, pp84.

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Book number: 11363

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Flaubert dictionary ideas inanities humour irony phrase French idiom life work 000000000

Birkenhead, Earl of:

The Hundred Best English Essays.

London, Cassell And Company, 1929 1st Ed., black cloth bds, gilt titles to spine, upper bd a little bowed otherwise VG, no dust jacket, contents clean and tight, neat name to ffep, pp923. A nice sound reading copy.

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Book number: 13942

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: English essays Hugh Latimer Francis Bacon Ben Jonson Izaak Walton John Earle Thomas Fuller John Bunyan Isaac Newton John Ruskin Defoe Swift Lord Chesterfield William Paley Walter Scott Sydney Smith

Borrow, George With Intro. and Notes by Humphrey S Milford:

Borrow Selections: With Essays by Richard Ford; Leslie Stephen & George Saintsbury.

Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1928 Hard cover navy blue cloth bds, title to upper bd in gilt, age-mottling to spine and to bds, rear has light crease to cloth, contents nice and tight, v. occas. annotation, neat names to fffep, pp223. A nice sound reading copy.

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Book number: 13386

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: George Borrow essays Richard Ford Leslie Stephen George Saintsbury selections Viper Gipsies Snake hunter quaker Jasper Petulengro Danish Book Pugilism Thurtell London Bridge Good Ale Romany Murtagh

Boswell, James Ed. by W H D Rouse:

The Life of Samuel Johnson 1763 - 1767. Boswell's Life Of Johnson 1763 - 1767.Blackie's English Texts.

London, Blackie & Son Ltd, no date Limp blue wraps, dec. in black, black titles to spine, Good, some age-darkening, pge edge blocks a bit dusty/marked, contents nice and tight, v. rare pencil mark to margin, pp126 + adverts, pencil list of biographies to rear, neat name to ffep.

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Book number: 12545

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Boswell life Johnson Blackie's English Texts Mrs Sheridan Miss Williams Religion Easter Day Garrick Harwich

Brodribb, Gerald:

Hastings And Men Of Letters.

Old Hastings Preservation Society, 1971 Pbk, Good, some pink splashes to cover, contents fine and tight, pp51, with b/w plates in centre. A history of the men of letters who have resided in or visited the Hastings district, such as: Charles Lamb; Lord Byron; D G Rossetti; Edward Lear; Lewis Carroll; Augustus Hare; Rider Haggard; Aleister Crowley; T H White; Henry Handel Richardson; Denton Welch; Warwick Deeping; Sheila Kaye Smith.

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Book number: 9663

Catalogue: literature

Keywords: Hastings writers Charles Lamb; Lord Byron; D G Rossetti; Edward Lear; Lewis Carroll; Augustus Hare; Rider Haggard; Aleister Crowley; T H White; Henry Handel Richardson; Denton Welch; Warwick Deeping;

Bronte, Charlotte (Currer Bell):

Shirley: A Tale.

London, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd, no date Hard cover brown full leather, Good, some scuffing to extrem.s, spine top a little chipped, bds sl. bowed, gilt lettering to spine and upper bd, 'CHAR' of author's name faded at top, contents clean and tight, pp578, neat inscript. dated 1929 on 2nd fep.

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Book number: 9760

Catalogue: literature

Keywords: leather classic novel story Yorkshire Currer Bell

Brown, Dr John:

Rab And His Friends.

London, Henry Frowde, no date Small leather bound volume, approx. 2.5" x 4", Good, leather rubbed a little in places, small embossed pattern to corners, gilt lettering to spine, pge edges gilded, wonderfully illust. endpapers with water colour pictures and frontis. of Dr John Brown (presumed), contents fine and tight, neat inscript. to half title, a lovely little copy.

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Book number: 9742

Catalogue: literature

Keywords: Rab dog story historical

Butler, Michael and Malcolm Pender:

Rejection And Emancipation: Writing in German-Speaking Switzerland 1945 - 1991.

New York/Oxford, Oswald Wolff Books Berg, 1991 Hard cover cream dec. bds, VG+, no d/w, contents have some marking to margins in first third of book, age-spotting to leading pge edge block, prev. owners address label to ffep, pp257.

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Book number: 11114

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Switzerland World War II literature social political cultural evolution Max Frisch Friedrich Durrenmatt writing trends German Speaking Otto F Walter Peter Bichsel Adolf Muschg Hugo Loetscher K Marti 0854967486