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BARTON, Bernard. Napoleon, and other poems. London. Printed for Thomas Boys, 1822. First edition. 8vo. xv, [3], 256pp. With a half-title. Uncut in original publisher's drab paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Rubbed, joints starting, loss to spine, lettering-piece chipped, corners bumped. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29256
GRAY, David. The luggie and other poems. Cambridge. Macmillan and Co., 1862. First edition. 8vo. xlviii, 151pp, [1]. With a half-title. Contemporary green morocco, tooled in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed, spine dulled. Endpapers browned, bookplate of Thomas Gaisford to FEP More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29277
ALIQUIS [i.e. MARKS, Richard]. The retrospect: or, review of providential mercies: with anecdotes of various characters and an address to naval officers. London. James Nisbet, 1833. Fifteenth edition. 12mo. vii, [1], 346pp, [2]. With a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary navy calf, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. A trifle rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, scattered spotting, small chip to foot of leaf I1. Presentation copy, inked inscription to verso of front blank fly-leaf: 'James Rumsey esq. / M.D. / as a small token of gratitude & esteem ... More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29293
RUTHERFORD, W. TELFORD, J. A selection of Poems and Songs. Gateshead-on-Tyne. Howe Brothers, 1878. First edition. 8vo. 103pp, [1]. Original publisher's blind-stamped purple cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and upper board. Rubbed, marked, spine dulled. Recent bookplate of R. W. Martin to FEP, upper board and initial gathering held by cords only. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29296
ARKWRIGHT, John S.. The supreme sacrifice. London. Skeffington and Son, Ltd., 1919. First edition. 8vo. 78pp, [2]. With a terminal colophon leaf. Original publisher's black rexine, lettered and tooled in gilt. Top edge gilt, ribbon frayed. Corners bumped with small losses to spine. Internally bright save light toning. Loosely inserted are two hymn sheets, one bifold with music for The Supreme Sacrifice, and a single lyric leaf of 'hymn for the new year'. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29345
ORPEN, Sir William. An onlooker in France: 1917-1919. London. Williams and Norgate, 1921. First edition. Quarto. 123pp, [1]. With a half-tone portrait frontispiece and a further 95 half-tone plates. Original publisher's green buckram, lettered in gilt to spine. Extremities marked and lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29637
BURGOYNE, Alan H. [editor]. The navy league annual: 1908-1909. (Corrected to October 10th, 1908). London. The Navy League, 1908. First edition. Quarto. 277pp, [1]. With a frontispiece, a further 19 plates, and eight ship plans in the text. Original publisher's presentation binding of gilt-stamped red roan, A.E.G. Rubbed, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, very occasional light spotting. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of title page: 'With the Editor's compliments and thanks'. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29644
BOWDLER, Mrs. [Jane]. Poems and essays... Bath. Printed by R. Cruttwell, 1787. Fourth edition. 8vo. In two volumes. vii, [3], 233, [1]; [6], 216pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled tree-calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces, later rebacked and recornered, preserving contemporary back-strips. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, inked ownership inscriptions of R. J. Wilkinson to front blank fly-leaves, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29665
THORNTON, Thomas Henry. General sir richard meade and the feudatory states of central and southern india. London. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898. First edition. 8vo. xxv, [3], 390, [2], 32pp. With a portrait frontispiece, a further 16 plates, a folding map, and a terminal catalogue of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Later endpapers. A trifle rubbed and marked, remnants of printed Edinburgh reading club label to upper board. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29749
KHAYYÁM, Omar. Quatrains of omar khayyám. London. Elkin Mathews, 1909. Quarto. [60pp]. With half-title. Contemporary gilt-ruled vellum, lettered in gilt to spine. Marbled endpapers, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked. Bookplate of A. A. Piggot to FEP, with inked ownership inscription of the same dated 1910 to first blank fly-leaf. Spotting to endpapers and initial leaves. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29895
BLUNDEN, Edmund. Masks of time. London. Beaumont Press, 1925. First edition. 8vo. [16], 58pp. Original publisher's quarter vellum, lettered gilt, with green and orange paper pattern boards. Fore and bottom edge untrimmed. Minor bumping to corners, spine a little sunned, internally bright save a little toning to edges. One of eighty printed on Japanese vellum, of which this is no 33. With the signatures of the author, illustrator Randolph Schwabe, and publisher Cyril William Beaumont. A further ... More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 29903