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Photo of "Jessy Allan, the lame girl: ..."
KENNEDY, Grace. Jessy Allan, the lame girl: a story founded on facts. Edinburgh. William Oliphant and Son, 1842. Tenth edition. 12mo. 107pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed, lightly marked. Ticket of McWatters, bookseller and stationer of Armagh to FEP, near contemporary inked gift inscription to recto of FFEP, foxed. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 26270
Photo of "Oriental assembly"
LAWRENCE, T. E.. Oriental assembly. London. Williams and Norgate, [1939]. First edition, second impression. 8vo. xii, 164pp. With a photographic frontispiece, and a further 130 photographic plates. Original publisher's tan cloth, lettered in gilt. Minor shelf-wear. Inked inscription of R. W. S. Livingstone to recto of FFEP. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 26298
Photo of "Edward Marsh: Patron of the ..."
HASSALL, Christopher. Edward Marsh: Patron of the Arts: A Biography. [London]. Longmans, [1959]. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 732pp. With a photographic portrait frontispiece, and a further 14 photographic plates. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed, slight chipping/marking to dustwrapper. Internally clean and crisp. From the reference library of the late Jeremy Wilson (1944-2017), the authorised biographer of Lawrence, with his distinctive inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 26303
Photo of "Patria mia and the treatise ..."
POUND, Ezra. Patria mia and the treatise on harmony. London. Peter Owen, [1962]. First U.K. edition. 8vo. 95pp, [1]. Original publisher's dark green cloth, lettered in gilt, printed paper dustwrapper. Lightly rubbed, dustwrapper a trifle sunned. Endpapers browned. From the library, though not identified as such, of English Movement poet and literary critic Donald Davie (1922-1995). More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 26322
Photo of "The Letters of T. E. ..."
LAWRENCE, T. E.. The Letters of T. E. Lawrence. London. Jonathan Cape, 1938. First edition, second impression. 8vo. 896pp. With 16 black and white plates and two folding maps. Original publisher's tan buckram, lettered in gilt, printed paper dustwrapper. Light shelf-wear, dustwrapper price-clipped, short closed tear to head of upper panel, spine chipped and soiled. Inked gift inscription to front blank fly-leaf, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 26336
Photo of "The Vicar of Wakefield"
GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. London. Macmillan & Co., 1891. Second edition. 8vo. xxxiv, [2], 305pp, [7]. With a frontispiece and a plethora of illustrations in the text by Hugh Thomson. Three final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's dark green cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt, A.E.G. Minor shelf-wear, cocked. Contemporary inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, occasional spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 27086
Photo of "Palestine Exploration Fund Annual No. ..."
HARDING, G. Lankester. Palestine Exploration Fund Annual No. VI: Four Tomb Groups from Jordan. [London]. Published by Order of the Committee, 1953. First edition. Folio. xi, [1], 72pp, [4]. With a photographic frontispiece and a further seven photographic plates. Original publisher’s printed light blue wrappers. Minor shelf-wear. Internally clean and crisp. From the reference library of the late Jeremy Wilson (1944-2017), the authorised biographer of Lawrence, with his distinctive inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 27190
Photo of "History of banking in Scotland"
KERR, Andrew William. History of banking in Scotland. London. Adam and Charles Black, 1902. Second edition. 8vo. xiv, 348, 6pp. With a half-title and three final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's navy cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. A trifle rubbed and marked. Inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP: 'W. R. Stall, Manager, Union Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh'. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 27643
Photo of "The eve of the conquest, ..."
TAYLOR, Henry. The eve of the conquest, and other poems. London. Edward Moxon, 1847. First edition. 8vo. 8, [10], 90pp, [4]. With an initial publisher's catalogue and a final leaf of advertisements. Unopened in original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. A trifle rubbed, spine sunned. Very occasional spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 27697
Photo of "Poems"
ROGERS, Samuel. Poems. London. Edward Moxon, 1839. 8vo. [8], viii, 311pp, [1]. With a half-title and an 8pp publisher's catalogue tipped-in to front pastedown. Original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Very minor shelf-wear, top-edge a trifle dusty. Inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP: 'George Farmer / Purchased at Penbryn sale April 28th / 1858', short tear to head of leaf O1, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 27710
Photo of "The life and voyages of ..."
IRVING, Washington. The life and voyages of Christopher Columbus. London. John Murray, 1831. 8vo. xi, [1], 354pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece, one further engraved plate, and two engraved folding maps. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, brown calf lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed and marked. Offsetting to title, scattered spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 27837
Photo of "Lollingdon downs and other poems, ..."
MASEFIELD, John. Lollingdon downs and other poems, with sonnets. London. William Heinemann, [1917]. First edition. 8vo. [8], 92pp, [2]. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Without dustwrapper. Housed in later red morocco-backed red cloth slipcase. A trifle rubbed. Leaves browned. Later bookplate of Jessie Stillman Taylor to FEP. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 27883
Photo of "The pleasures of memory, with ..."
ROGERS, Samuel. The pleasures of memory, with other poems. London. Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1803. New edition. 12mo. [8], 187pp, [1]. Handsomely bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled mottled calf, contrasting black calf lettering-piece, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 27910
Photo of "With lawrence in arabia"
THOMAS, Lowell. With lawrence in arabia. London. Booklover's Library. Hutchinson & co, ltd., [1935]. 107th Thousand. 8vo. 288pp, [3]. With six pages of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's cream cloth boards lettered in navy with the blue and green dustwrapper. Moderate shelf-wear, chipping to spine ends, and a few other marks. From the family library of Henry Williamson, recently dispersed, without indication of such. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 28040
Photo of "Genius of friendship 't. e. ..."
WILLIAMSON, Henry. Genius of friendship 't. e. lawrence. London. The Henry Williamson Society, 1988. First reprint. 8vo. 78pp. Printed peach card wraps. Edges sharp, internally fresh and bright. With the Shallonford misprint deliberately kept in. The proofs Williamson received did not include the typo and no-one caught the error until after printing was complete. In his own copy, he merely corrected it in pen, though it remains uncorrected in Faber's reprint and this 1988 facsimile edition. The last line of the book ... More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 28042