EADS Peter

H.E. Bates. A Bibliographical Study. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

St. Paul's Bibliographies, Winchester,, 1990. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Twentieth Century Writers No. 6. Splendid copy of the standard bibliography.

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Book number: 50395

Catalogue: Bibliography0

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EATON P.

Marie Stopes. A Checklist of her Writings.

Croom Helm,, [1977]. 8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper.

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Book number: 202

Catalogue: Bibliography0

Keywords: bibliography, marie stopes, birth control, contraception, medicine, p. eaton, m. warnick, bibliography, general, marie, stopes

EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

[Catalogue of] An Exhibition in Honour of the Eightieth Birthday of Hugh MacDiarmid. NEAR FINE COPY

Edinburgh University Library, Edinburgh,, [1972]. 8vo., First Edition; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers very lightly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. The catalogue lists 132 items; the exhibition ran from 26th May to 31 August 1972.

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Book number: 11501

Catalogue: Bibliography0

Keywords: bibliography, hugh macdiarmid, edinburgh university, exhibition catalogues, edinburgh university library

ELKIN MATHEWS, Ltd.

A Catalogue of Books by or relating to Dr. Johnson and Members of his Circle. With an Introduction by John Drinkwater. Catalogue No. 5. 'A MILESTONE IN THE HISTORY OF BOOKSELLING': NEAR FINE COPY IN BOARDS

Elkin Mathews,, 1925. 8vo., First Edition; modern boards, backstrip with printed paper label, ORIGINAL WRAPPERS PRESERVED, a near fine copy. Listing 619 entries, this outwardly humble catalogue boasts a bibliophilic importance far beyound its printed wrappers. 'The effective beginning of what was to become within five years one of the widest and deepest movements of taste in the whole history of bibliophily' (John Carter, 'Taste and Technique'). 'This catalogue is a milestone in the history of bookselling, for in it appeared books priced from ten shillings to two guineas which had never appeared in any West End catalogue before' (W.S. Lewis). VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 44238

Catalogue: Bibliography0

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ENSER A. G. S.

A Subject Bibliography of the Second World War and the Aftermath. [Complete set]. Vol.I: 1939-1974; Vol. II: 1975-1987. NEAR FINE SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS

Andre Deutsch [and] Gower,, [1977-1990]. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition; cloth (red/black respectively); gilt backs, a near fine set in dustwrapper. Near fine set of an indispensable English-language reference to 1987. Includes invaluable index of invididual titles.

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Book number: 42490

Catalogue: Bibliography0

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ENSER A. G. S.

A Subject Bibliography of the First World War. Books in English 1914-1978. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Andre Deutsch,, [1979]. 8vo., First Edition; maroon cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter heavily sunned at backstrip. Sold from an institution with its neat stamp on top and title. Includes invaluable index of invidual titles.

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Book number: 43906

Catalogue: Bibliography0

Keywords: bibliography, ww1, wwi, great war, first world war, enser

EVANS Joan

The Endless Web. John Dickinson and Co., Ltd., 1854-1954.

Jonathan Cape,, [1955]. Roy. 8vo., with a portrait frontispiece in photogravure, title in red and black, 49 plates, an endpaper pedigree and an endpaper map, fore-edges lightly spotted; buckram, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly soiled and creased (without material loss) at edges

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Book number: 7507

Catalogue: Bibliography0

Keywords: bibliography, company history, publishing, printing, stationery, paper, paper-mills, joan evans, bibliography, printing, typography, the, endless, web

FABES Gilbert H.

The First Editions of Ralph Hale Mottram. 350 COPIES WERE PRINTED

Myers & Co.,, 1934. 8vo., on laid paper, with a portrait frontispiece, a plate and a facsimile; cloth gilt, gilt back, covers just a trifle worn and faded else a good, clean copy of an uncommon work. EDITION LIMITED TO 300 COPIES (this copy out of series). The work also contains an essay by Mottram on the genesis of 'The Spanish Farm' (1924) in which he ackowledges help and guidance from Galsworthy, together with the first reprints of both his first essay and his first short story

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Book number: 157

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FABES Gilbert H.

The First Editions of A.E. Coppard, A.E. Herbert and Charles Morgan. With Values and bibliographical Points.

Myers & Co.,, [1933]. 8vo., First and Sole Edition, on laid paper; original black cloth gilt, gilt back, a very good copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter a little frayed at edges

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Book number: 90

Catalogue: Bibliography0

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FABES Gilbert H.

John Galsworthy. His First Editions, Points and Values. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED

Foyle,, [1932]. 8vo., First Edition; cloth gilt, gilt back, a very good copy in the dustwrapper, the latter chipped at edges. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES (this copy out of series). Loosely inserted is a disbound copy of 'John Galsworthy. An Appreciation together with a Bibliography' 1926 by Galsworthy's neice Miss Dorothy Easton

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Book number: 99

Catalogue: Bibliography0

Keywords: bibliography, galsworthy, gilbert h. fabes, bibliography, general, john, galsworthy

FABES Gilbert H.

Modern First Editions: Points and Values. [First to Third Series complete]. 'POINTS' COMPLETE IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS

Foyle,, [1929-32]. 3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, first volume with errata slip; black buckram, upper boards lettered in gilt, gilt backs, uncut, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper, the wrappers lightly dust-soiled and chipped at extremities. The set comprises: First Series (No. 230 of 750 copies); Second Series (No. 147 of 1000 copies); Third Series (No. 244 of 750 copies signed by Fabes). A VERY NICE SET OF AN IMPORTANT WORK SELDOM FOUND COMPLETE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 91

Catalogue: Bibliography0

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FARMER, ed John S.

The Tudor Facsimile Texts. Everyman. Under the Supervision and Editorshop of John S. Farmer. THE EVERYMAN MSS

Tudor Facsimile Texts,, 1912. Roy, 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with many fine full-page facsimiles in collotype throughout, mounted section titles, interleaved with blanks, free endpapers browned, some light spotting to title and interleaves (not facsimiles), neat ownership inscription on front free endpaper; green cloth, ivory buckram back with printed paper label, uncut, a very good, bright copy. Splendid facsimiles of the two versions in the BM: the complete Scott-printed copy (Huth 32) and (2) the fragment of an edition printed by Pynson (C21. c17). John Alexander (Dept. of MSS), in comparing this facsimile with the original copies, reports that 'it is admirably reproduced, especially in the case of the Pynson fragment which is practically faultless'. EXTREMELY SCARCE.

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Book number: 28189

Catalogue: Bibliography0

Keywords: bibliography, palaeography, everyman, richard pynson, manuscripts, mss, john herbert alexander, the, tudor, facsimile, texts., everyman

FFINCH Michael

Donald Maxwell 1877-1936. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Titus Wilson for The Maxwell Estate, Kendal,, 1995. Roy. 4to., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations throughout; original cloth gilt, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Detailed and wonderfully illustrated biography, together with the most comprehensive bibliography to date listing over 1000 entries. EXTREMELY SCARCE

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Book number: 21214

Catalogue: Bibliography0

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FIFOOT Richard

A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell.

1963. 8vo., First Edition, with three facsimiles; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY TO NAN AND ARTHUR WISE, INSCRIBED, SIGNED AND DATED (1963) BY THE COMPILER ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Soho Bibliography, XI.

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Book number: 198

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FIFOOT Richard

A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Hart-Davis,, 1963. 8vo. First Edition, with three facsimiles; red buckram, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Soho Bibliography XI.

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Book number: 27228

Catalogue: Bibliography0

Keywords: bibliography, sitwell, fifoot, richard fifoot, bibliography, general, bibliography, edith, osbert, sacheverell, sitwell