AUSTEN Jane

Sanditon. An Unfinished Novel by Jane Austen. Reproduced in Facsimile from the Manuscript in the Possession of King's College, Cambridge. Introduction by B.C. Southam. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Clarendon Press, Oxford [with] Scolar Press,, 1975. 8vo., First Edition, with 120pp of facsimile in sepia; grey speckled boards, olive cloth back lettered in gilt, brown endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's glassine dustwrapper.

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AUSTEN Jane

Two Chapters of Persuasion. Printed from Jane Austen's Autograph. [Edited with a Preface and Notes by R.W. Chapman].

Clarendon Press, Oxford,, 1926. 8vo., First Edition thus, with two pages of facsimile toned in sepia, half-title mildly browned; original blue-grey boards, ivory cloth back, backstrip with printed paper label (worn but legible), uncut, a very good, clean copy. With spare paper label at rear. Contains chapters 10 and 11 as first written. Two new chapters were afterwards written in place of chapter 10, and chapter 11 became chapter 12. This fragment [now in the BL] s the only surviving portion of the author's MSS of the novels. Chapman 29(1926); Gilson F8; Keynes 178.

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Book number: 16875

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AUSTEN Jane

Volume the First. Now first printed from the Manuscript in the Bodleian Library. [Preface by R W Chapman].

Clarendon Press, Oxford,, 1933. Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus; original boards, cloth back, paper label (a little browned), uncut, backstrip lightly browned else a very good, clean copy. With spare paper label tipped-in at rear. Contains 'Frederic & Elfrida', 'Jack & Alice', Edgar & Emma', 'Henry & Eliza', 'Mr. Harley', 'Sir William Montague', 'Mr. Clifford', 'The beautifull Cassandra', 'Amelia Webster', 'The Visit', 'The Mystery', 'The three Sisters', 'Detached Pieces', 'Ode to Pity'. The first trade printing of the first volume of Austen's three volumes of juvenilia. A limited edition of 100 copies was issued in 1932. Chapman 24 (recording the limited edition of the previous year); Gilson, F12.

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AUSTEN Jane

Volume the Second. Edited by B. C. Southam. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Clarendon Press, Oxford,, 1963. Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with facsimile as frontispiece and folding plate, neat signature on front free endpaper; boards, cloth back, paper label ruled and lettered in black, uncut, a near fine copy in price-clipped, very lightly browned dustwrapper. Contains 'Love and Friendship', 'Lesley Castle', 'The History of England', a collection of Letters, and Scraps. 'Volume the Second' is the only text of Austen's juvenilia of which Chapman was unable to produce a definitive separate edition. Accordingly, Southam's new text follows the manuscript as closely as possible, and is published in the same elegant form as the well-known Chapman volumes. Uncommon in this condition. Gilson, F18.

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AUSTEN Jane

Volume the Third. Now first printed from the Manuscript. [Preface by R W Chapman].

Clarendon Press, Oxford,, 1951. Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, some mild offsetting to free endpapers; original boards, cloth back, paper label (with spare label as issued), uncut and partially unopened, backstrip lightly browned else a very good, clean copy. With spare paper label tipped-in at end. Contains 'Evelyn' and 'Kitty, or the Bower'. Of Austen's three volumes of juvenilia, 'Volume the Second' was published as 'Love and Freindship [sic]' in 1922, and 'Volume the First' by Oxford in 1933. The present volume, printed from the MS held by R A Austen-Leigh, completes the series. Chapman 25; Gilson, F14

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BACON Francis

Bacon's Essays with Annotations. [Edited] By Richard Whately. FINE EXTENDED HARROW PRIZE BINDING

Longmans,, 1873. 8vo., handsomely bound in contemporary calf, sides diced within a double gilt fillet border stopped at corners with a gilt rosette and enclosing in corners the Harrow 'crossed arrows' tool in gilt, back gilt extra with five raised bands, compartments tooled alternately to a geometric 'key' design and the 'crossed arrows' tool within a filigree frame, edges of boards gauffred in gilt, doublures tooled in blind, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, A FINE EXAMPLE OF AN EXTENDED HARROW PRIZE BINDING with the School's engraved prize armorial bookplate of the period, inscribed to Bertram Hunt in the name of Henry Butler and dated 1875.

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Book number: 252

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BAILEY Elmer James

The Novels of George Meredith. A Study. BRIGHT CLEAN COPY OF THE TWELFTH EDITION

T Fisher Unwin,, 1908. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), free endpapers mildly browned; red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy. Early study of the novelist and author of 'Diana of the Crossways'. Includes list of characters in the novels cross-referenced by chapter. VERY SCARCE.

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BAIN, trans. Francis William

The Livery of Eve. Translated from the Original [Sanskrit] Manuscript by F.W. Bain. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CRISP LARGE PAPER COPY

Methuen,, [1917]. Sm. 4to., First Edition thus, LARGE PAPER, on laid paper, with coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), and title in red and black; original boards, faux-vellum back, printed paper label on backstrip, uncut, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy.

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BALZAC Honore de

The Unpublished Correspondence of Honore de Balzac and Madame Zulma Carraud 1829-1850. Translated into English for the first Time by J. Lewis May. NEAR FINE COPY

Bodley Head,, [1937]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, tiny neat signature on front free endpaper; green buckram, gilt back, green top, a near fine copy.

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BARBER R.

Samuel Pepys Esquire. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

National Portrait Gallery,, 1970. 4to., First Edition, with a coloured portrait frontispiece and numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; white cloth patterned in gilt, gilt back, green endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip.

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BARING-GOULD Sabine

Jacquetta and other Stories. [Second Edition]. IN WHOLLY UNRESTORED PUBLISHER'S BINDING

Methuen,, 1894. 8vo., Second Edition, contemporary signature on front free endpaper, later signature on half-title; original red buckram, gilt back, uncut, boards mildly age-stained, upper hinge starting (but binding wholly sound), a very good, bright, clean copy. With 32pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Collects three extended tales first published in periodicals: Jael (English Illustrated Magazine), Jacquetta (English Illustrated Magazine) and Moth-Mullein (Cornhill Magazine). First collected in book form in 1890. In keeping with Baring-Gould's habitual topographical settings, the three stories are based respectively in Essex, Guernsey and the Thames Estuary. Extremely scarce. Not in Sadleir or Wolff; apparently not listed in BLPC. CBEL III, 1035 (recording the first edition).

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Book number: 21402

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BARING-GOULD Sabine

Mehalah. A Story of the Salt Marshes. With an Introduction, Glossary and Appendix by John Fowles. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Chatto & Windus,, [1969]. 8vo., First Edition thus; brown cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Baring-Gould's classic tale of the Mersea district of Essex was first published in two volumes in 1880. THIS EDITION IS NOW VERY SCARCE IN ITS OWN RIGHT.

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BARING-GOULD Sabine

Mehalah. A Story of the Salt Marshes. Edited by C.A. McIntyre. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Forbes Robertson,, [1950]. 8vo., First Edition thus, neat inscription on front free endpaper; olive cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at edges and with loss at bottom of front panel. First edited edition, with biographical note of the author, of Baring-Gould's most successful novel. First published by Smith Elder in 1880, it has been variously re-issued by a succession of publishers including Newnes and Murray, but always in small editions. SCARCE IN ANY EDITION.

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BARKER Juliet

The Brontes. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Weidenfeld & Nicolson,, [1994]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, green endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 42331

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BARKER Juliet

The Brontes: A Life in Letters. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Viking,, [1997]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and pictorial endpapers; purple cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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