Besant, Walter (1836-1901)

THE BELL OF ST PAUL'S A New Edition

London, Chatto & Windus New Edition 1890 . Octavo blue decorated cloth (spine rubbed/tips worn) vi +328pp +32pp catalogue dated Oct.1890. Names to half title Lilian Gregson and (crossed out) Captain George Phillips. Blindstamp to corner of flyleaf. Very clean bright and tight.

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Besant, Walter and James Rice

THE CHAPLAIN OF THE FLEET A New Edition

London, Chatto & Windus New Edition 1882 . Octavo grey decorated coth (spine browned/wear to head and foot of spine/tips worn) vi +314pp +32pp catalogue dated Nov. 1881. Name to pastedown. A very few spots of foxing but remarkably clean throughout.

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Bickle,Judith

FURTHER POEMS

London, Hale 1st edition 1953 . Presentation copy with personalized inscription + holograph letter (2 sides) octavo boards in dust jacket (tips rubbed) 63pp V.G+ in V.G jacket with a slight mark and 1 small tear without loss. *Her 4th book of poetry (not counting her children's anthology). She also had published a novel by this date.

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Bobbins,Godfrey

THE POEMS OF GODFREY BOBBINS [and] An Ennead of Verse Festivals in the Eastern Cape.

N.P., G. & S. 1969 . PRESENTATION COPY from the author to John & Kathleen Allan 1969. Octavo blue cloth with title gilt to cover (spine sunned/lower cover bit speckled) 55pp +32pp. *Poetry by Bobbins and (the second part) various poems by students who contributed to a local Festival in South Africa.

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Bourne, John (editor)

TWENTY-FIVE MODERN ONE-ACT PLAYS

London, Victor Gollanz Ltd First edition 1st printing 1938 . Small octavo dark navy cloth with red titling to spine (spine sun-faded/tips sl.rubbed) 670pp inscribed "to Nan Xmas 1938" else V.G. *Plays by Stephen Vincent Benet, Laurence Housman, Clifford Bax et al.

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Boyle,Kay

GENTLEMEN I ADDRESS YOU PRIVATELY

London, Faber and Faber 1st first edition 1934 . Octavo green cloth gilt spine title (unevenly sunned and faded/tips slightly rubbed) 311pp very clean and crisp except that endpaper pastedowns have a show through from the cloth turn-ins - ie around the edge of the pastedowns and the endpapers show very slight pale foxing. Text entirely white with no writing inside and looks unread. An early work about an unfrocked priest in France which she re-wrote in 1990. This is the first edition as originally written by the budding novelist.

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Braine,John

JEALOUS GOD, The

London, Eyre&Spottiswoode 1st edition 1964 . Octavo boards in dust jacket (tips slightly bumped & rubbed) 286pgs slight EP foxing else V.G in slightly edge rubbed dust jacket with 2 small closed tears (less than 1cm).

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Braine, John

THE JEALOUS GOD

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode 1st edition 1964 . Octavo green boards (rubbed/with rubbing to head & foot of spine) 286pp +[1]p last few lines of text. Stamp of "Officer's Mess R.A.F. Innsworth" & "Cancelled" stamp. Contents clean and tight. *Braine's fourth book.

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Braithwaite,William C.

VERSES

London, Swarthmore Press 1922 . Octavo beige buckram spined boards with spine and cover paper labels (tips sl.rubbed fore-edge sl.sunned) 128pp Edges uncut only lightest of edge foxing to uncut edges else V.G. *Quaker author and poet, country poems mainly Gloucestershire a few relate to War.

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O'Brien,Edna

HIGH ROAD, The

London, Weidenfeld&Nicolson 1st edition 1988 . Octavo boards in dust jacket (tips sl.rubbed) 180pp v.sl.paper edge yellowing else near fine in near fine jacket

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O'Brien,Ena

MRS REINHARDT AND OTHER STORIES

London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1978 SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLEPAGE . Octavo brown boards gilt titling to spine in dust jacket 207pp rear dust wrapper has 1cm edge tear else mint inside and out. *Irish Author's collection of short novellas or stories. Included in the twelve are romantic, comic and eerie stories as only she can tell them.

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Bronte,Emily

WUTHERING HEIGHTS

London, Zodiac Press 3rd impression 1955 . Octavo patterned cloth (tips worn/spot to fore-edge/spine darkened and marked) ix+(308pp) gift cerificate tipped onto FEP else V.G+

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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

POEMS .. Selected and Arranged by Mr. Robert Browning

London, Smith, Elder & Co. 1896 . 16mo tan half calf with green cloth sides gold rules and spine lettering by Truelove & Hanson (tips rubbed/sl.fading) Top Edge Gilt 356pp minor isolated foxing else V.G.

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Browning, Robert

A SELECTION FROM THE WORKS

London, Edward Moxon & Co. 1865 Engraved portrait of Browning engraved from a photograph taken by W.Jeffrey by Moxon + some nice headpieces incorporating owls, windmills, fish, harp etc . Red tooled morocco 16mo on 5 raised bands with gilt title to cover and spine & gilt ownership initials C.B. to cover (tips rubbed) All Edges Gilt vii +224pp. Presentation inscription to preface "Constance Bagnall from L.S.H."

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Burnett,Frances Hodgson

LOUISIANA + THAT LASS O'LOWRIE'S two stories

London, Macmillan 1887 . 185x113mm pictorial cloth (worn, spine damaged but tight) advert EPs xii;322pgs name on TP (neat) inner hinges pulled paper slightly browned 2 vols in one.

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Sonstige Stichworte: American childrens 19th century