ARISTOPHANES

The Knights. Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Introduction and Notes by Gilbert Murray.

Allen & Unwin,, [1956]. 8vo., First Edition thus; original green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly age-soiled at backstrip and fold-ins.

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ARISTOTLE

The Politics of Aristotle. Translated with an Introduction, Notes and Appendixes by Ernest Barker. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

Clarendon Press, Oxford,, 1946. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; navy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. With the trade ticket of Bowes & Bowes of Cambridge on front paste-down. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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ARNE Thomas

Artaxerxes (1761). Introduction by William Gillis. [Facsimile reissue]. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles CA,, 1963. 8vo., First Edition thus; original buff wrappers printed in black, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Augustan Reprint Society, Publication No. 99. This facsimile is a high-quality photographic reprint of the copy in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. VERY SCARCE.

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ARNIM] [Elizabeth von

The Adventures of Elizabeth in Ruegen. By the Author of 'Elizabeth and her German Garden'. IN FULL MOROCCO

Macmillan,, 1904. 8vo., First Edition, with folding coloured map as frontispiece; handsomely bound in full burgundy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame borders, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, uncut, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With 4pp publisher's catalogue (lightly age-soiled) bound in at end.

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ARNIM] [Elizabeth von

Elizabeth and her German Garden. [Third Impression.] IN FULL MOROCCO

Macmillan,, 1898. 8vo., Third Impression; handsomely bound in green full crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, uncut, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Published three months after the first edition.

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ARNIM] [Elizabeth von

Fraulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther. Being the Letters of an Independent Woman. IN FULL MOROCCO

Smith Elder & Co.,, [1907]. 8vo., First Edition; handsomely bound in full burgundy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, uncut, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.

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ARNIM] [Elizabeth von

Introduction to Sally. By the Author of 'Elizabeth and her German Garden'. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

Heinemann,, 1926. 8vo., First Edition, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original green cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in black, gilt back, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy. With 2pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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ARNOLD Matthew

Discourses in America.

Macmillan,, 1885. 8vo., First Edition, endpapers moderately browned; original green cloth, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. Sold from an institution with bookplate on front paste-down, markings on free endpapers, small blind stamp on title and light tape marks on boards. Collects three discourses. 'Numbers' was originally given in New York, 'Literature and Science' as the Rede Lecture at Cambridge, 'Emerson' in the subject's home town of Boston.

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ARNOLD Matthew

Irish Essays and Others. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Smith Elder,, 1882. 8vo., First Edition, neat signature on half-title; original blue buckram, boards framed in blind, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, uncut, neatly recased, a very good, bright, clean copy. Collects seven essays, together with Prefaces to Poems (1853 and 1854).

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ARNOLD Matthew

The Poems of Matthew Arnold, 1840-1867. With an Introduction by Sir A. . Quiller-Couch. FIRST OXFORD EDITION IN SIGNED BIRDSALL BINDING

Oxford University Press, Oxford,, 1913. 8vo., First Edition thus, with a fine portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present); handsomely bound in red half morocco gilt BY BIRDSALL, cloth boards, back with three raised bands ruled in gilt, first compartment framed and lettered in gilt, all other compartments, framed and tooled in gilt, gilt top, marbled endpapers, uncut, joints a little rubbed but a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. The first 'Oxford' edition.

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ARNOLD Matthew

Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING

Macmillan,, 1896. 8vo., with a fine portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), free endpapers very lightly spotted, small pencilled signature on front free enpaper; original diced green cloth, gilt back, uncut, a near fine copy. With 6pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end

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ARNOLD Matthew

Poetical Works. Edited by C. B. Tinker and H. F. Lowry. [Oxford Standard Authors]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Oxford University Press, Oxford,, [1969]. 8vo., original series binding of navy cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in this form in OSA in 1950. The dustwrapper illustration is by Reynolds Stone.

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ARNOLD Bruce

The Scandal of Ulysses. The Sensational Life of a Twentieth-Century Masterpiece. [First US Edition]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

St. Martin's Ptess, New York NY,, [1992]. 8vo. First Edition thus; yellow boards blue cloth back lettered in gilt a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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ARNOLD Matthew

St. Paul and Protestantism. Paul and Protestantism; with an Essay on Puritanism and the Church of England. Second Edition.

Smith Elder,, 1870. 8vo., Second Edition, neat personal stamp on half-title and title, contemporary signatures on half-title; original brown cloth, gilt back, brown endpapers, uncut, case a little shaken else a good, firm working copy. With the publisher's advertisement leaf at rear. With the trade ticket on Thornton of Oxford on front paste-down.

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ARNOLD Matthew

The Study of Celtic Literature. Popular Edition.

Smith, Elder,, 1912. 8vo., original ribbed cloth, boards with blind frame border, gilt back, uncut, an unusually bright, clean copy. First published in 1867 from a series of four lectures delivered in Oxford. Smart, 53; CBEL III p.267 (recording the first edition).

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