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FENOLLOSA, Ernest. POUND, Ezra [editor]. The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry. [San Francisco]. City Lights Books, [1960]. 8vo. 45pp, [3]. Original publisher's illustrated paper wrappers. Extremities a trifle rubbed and marked. From the library of English Movement poet and literary critic Donald Davie (1922-1995), with his inked ownership inscription to title page. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 23610

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FELLOWES, P. F. M. et al.. First over Everest: the Houston-Mount Everest expedition 1933. London. John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 1933. First edition. 8vo. xix, [1], 279pp, [1]. With 57 illustrations from photographs, diagrams, and maps. Without the 3D Glasses for viewing the Anaglyph on p.222. Rebound in later green cloth, lettered in gilt. Extremities rubbed. Bookplate of George Lowe to FEP, ink-stamp of J. Garfield Anderson. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 23435

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DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. London. George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., [1932]. 8vo. 752pp. With an illustrated colour frontispiece and a further 15 illustrated plates by C. E. Brock. Handsomely bound by Bayntun-Riviere in later gilt-tooled navy morocco, A.E.G. Spine sunned, else clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23475

BESANT, Walter. Captain Cook. London. Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1904. 8vo. vi, 191pp, [3]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt. Without dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned. Hinges partially exposed, bookplate of George Lowe to FEP. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 23616

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PRESS, C. A. Canning. Norfolk Notabilities: A Portrait Gallery. London. Jarrold & Sons, 1893. First edition. Quarto. 287pp, [1]. With 54 photographic plates. Original publisher's gilt-stamped green cloth, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed and marked. Lightly foxed. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 23384

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STOWE, Harriet Beecher, Mrs.. Pink and White Tyranny. A society novel. Boston. Roberts Brothers, 1871. First edition. 8vo. [4], viii, 331pp, [9]. With two initial leaves publisher's advertisements and a terminal publisher's catalogue (dated summer 1871). Original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Rubbed and cocked. Upper hinge exposed. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 23379

COLVIN-SMITH, R. C. M.. The life and works of Colvin Smith, R.S.A. 1796-1875. Aberdeen. The University Press, 1939. First edition. 8vo. One of one hundred copies printed. viii, 134pp. With a photographic portrait frontispiece and a further nine photographic plates. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Dustwrapper worn and damp-stained. 'Review copy' inscribed to FFEP. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 23376

SMITH, G. Elliot. Elephants and Ethnologists. London. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1924. First edition. Quarto. viii, 135pp, [1]. With a woodcut frontispiece, a further 52 plates, and nine illustrations in the text. Original publisher's navy cloth-backed drab paper boards. Extremities rubbed. Occasional pencilled annotations. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 23385

WOODS, Margaret L.. Lyrics & ballads. London. Richard Bentley & Son, 1889. 8vo. viii, 100pp, [2]. With a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Uncut in original publisher's green cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed. Endpapers browned, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 22220

BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. Last poems. London. Chapmand & Hall, 1862. First edition. 8vo. xi, [1], 142pp. Contemporary red half-calf, red buckram boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Extremities worn, some surface loss to boards, splitting to joints. Internally clean and crisp. From the library of celebrated poet and playwright Christopher Fry (1907-2005), with his ownership inscription to recto of FFEP. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 19560

INGELOW, Jean. Poems. Boston. Roberts Brothers, 1865. Author's edition, thirteenth thousand. 8vo. 256, 10pp. With a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed. Later inked inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'John Linnell sen. 1865 from the Author' - likely landscape and portrait painter, and rival of Constable, John Linnell (1792-1882), with whom Ingelow corresponded. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 22218

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[HEY, Rebecca]. Recollections of the lakes, and other poems. London. Tilt and Bogue, 1841. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 284pp, [4]. With an engraved frontispiece, an additional engraved title page, and two final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Partially unopened in original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed, splitting to upper joint. Hinges partially exposed, ink-stamp of Mimpriss & Co., Cheltenham to FEP, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 22217

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STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Little foxes, or, the little failings which mar domestic happiness. London. George Bell & Sons, 1896. Author's edition, revised. 8vo. [8], 133pp, [3]. Original publisher's printed tan wrappers. Extremities sunned and browned, some chipping to spine. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21313

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L'ESTRANGE, Hamon. A Friendly and Charitable legacy to the world... Bury. Printed and Sold by W. Green et al., 1767. Second edition. 8vo. ix, [1], 90pp, [2]. With a final leaf of advertisements (not recorded by ESTC). Contemporary sheep, spine richly gilt, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Extremities worn, joints split, loss to head of spine. Hinges exposed, inked ownership signature to FFEP of Anna Maria Ewen Junr. (1786-1857) whose mother (according to neat pencilled notes on front endpapers), was the granddaughter of the author. With an acrostic poem ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 23175

HEMANS, Felicia. Moral and religious poems. Edinburgh and London. William Blackwood and Sons, 1850. First edition. 12mo. [3], vi-viii, 262pp. Attractively bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled red morocco, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Armorial bookplate of Margaret Schuster to verso of FFEP, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 22207

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[LAMB, Mary and Charles]. Mrs. leicester's school. The history of several young ladies, Related by Themselves. London. Griffith and Farran, late Grant and Griffith, [s.d., c.1865?] 12mo. xii, 118pp, [2]. With a woodcut frontispiece and a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Ink ownership inscription of L. J. Whatman, Printers to front blank fly-leaf. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 23169

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[VICKERS, William]. A Companion to the Altar: Shewing the Nature and Necessity of a Sacramental Preparation, In order to our Worthy Receiving the Holy Communion... London. Printed by Rider & Weed, [s.d., c.1810?] 12mo. 60pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Original publisher's drab paper boards. Extremities worn and soiled, without spine panel. Hinges exposed, without free-endpapers, early inked gift inscription to verso of frontispiece: 'Jane Young / the gift of Mrs Chandler'. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 23177

LANYON, Helen. The hill o' dreams. Dublin. Sealy, Bryers and Walker, 1909. First edition. 12mo. 32pp. Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed, some marking to boards. Endpapers browned, contemporary inked initials to recto of FFEP, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 22210

SYMINGTON, Maggie. The "snow queen.". London. James Clarke and Co., [1869]. First edition. 12mo. 142pp, [2]. With a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Binding cocked, a trifle rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. Inked ownership inscription of M. Louisa Symington and Robert Symington to recto of FFEP. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 22209

[SHERWOOD, Mrs. Mary Martha]. The flowers of the forest. London. The Religious Tract Society, 1839. Fifth edition. 12mo. 108pp. Original publisher's gilt-tooled black half-calf, marbled boards, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 22208