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MASON, Walt. Uncle Walt. Chicago. George Matthew Adams, 1911. First edition, second printing. 8vo. 189pp, [1]. With a photographic portrait frontispiece, numerous line illustrations in the text. Uncut and unopened in original publisher's pictorial brown cloth, pictorial dustwrapper. Light shelf-wear to extremities, chipping and short tears to dustwrapper edges, upper panel detached. Internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, inscribed by the publisher to recto of FFEP: 'To Charlie Horne / super friend / and lover of books / George ... More > £ 300.00 Antiquates Ref. 21737
MASON, Walt. Uncle Walt. Toronto. The Musson Book Company Limited, [1910]. First Canadian edition. 8vo. 189pp, [1]. With a photographic portrait frontispiece, numerous line illustrations in the text. Uncut and unopened in original publisher's pictorial brown cloth, pictorial dustwrapper. Light shelf-wear to extremities, chipping and short tears to dustwrapper edges, some small clear tape repairs to verso. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 21736
BENSON, E. F.. Up and down. London. Hutchinson & Co., 1918. First edition. 8vo. 256pp, [16]. With 16 pages of publisher's advertising bound in at rear. Original publisher's blue cloth boards, lettered in black. Bottom edge untrimmed. Shelf-wear to boards, bumping to corners and spine ends, else a crisp copy. All edges foxed, with further minor foxing throughout. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 30027
ABLEMAN, Paul. Vac. London. Victor Gollancz, 1968. First edition. 8vo. 159pp. Original publisher's burgundy cloth boards lettered in gilt, with the unclipped dustwrapper. Significant smoke damage to wrapper, with additional staining and tearing; the book has also held the odour of smoke. With the author's inscription 'For My good Lady Olwyn Love Paul' to half-title. From the estate of Olwyn Hughes, recently dispersed. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 29559
K. L. H. [HOARE, Katherine Louisa Hart]. Verses. Bedford. The Beds. Times Publishing Co., Ltd., 1914. First edition. 8vo. 76pp, [4]. Uncut in original publisher's drab wrappers, lettered in black. Very lightly marked, spine sunned. Recent bookplate of R. C. Fiske to verso to upper wrapper, foxed. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'C. M. H. from K. L. H., Christmas 1914'. With five loosely inserted contemporary leaves of manuscript verse initialed by the author, a later (1921) printed single leaf poem, ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 20812
DUCRAY-DUMINEL, M. [Francois-Guillaume]. Victor, ou l'enfant de la foret. A Paris. Chez le Prieur, Libraire, [1798]. Third edition. 12mo. Four volumes. 242, [2]; 257, [1]; 275, [1]; 325pp, [1]. With half-title and engraved frontispiece to each volume. Finely bound in contemporary red half-morocco over marbled boards, gilt. Slightly rubbed to spines, bumping to corners. Marbled endpapers. Early ink inscription of E. Matheiu to head of each title, occasional marginal loss to text blocks. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 11086
HEAD, Sir Edmund [trans.]. Viga glum's saga. The story of viga-glum. Translated from the icelandic... London. Williams and Norgate, 1866. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 124pp. With a half-title and two folding charts. Title page in red and black. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-vellum, burgundy cloth boards, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed and marked, spine dulled. Marbled endpapers, contemporary inked ownership inscription of J. T. Coleridge to verso of front blank fly-leaf. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 27703
[SCOTT, Walter]. Waverley; or, 'tis sixty years since. Edinburgh. Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co., 1814. Second edition. 12mo. In three volumes. [4], 358, [2]; [4], 370, [2]; [4], 371pp, [1]. With half-titles. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces. Rubbed and bumped. Later armorial bookplates of Serjeantson of Hanlith to all FEPs. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 28177
STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Weir of Hermiston: An Unfinished Romance. London. Chatto and Windus, 1896. First edition. 8vo. [8], 289, [3], 32pp. With a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue (dated March, 1896). Title in red and black. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt.Minor shelf-wear. Armorial bookplate of Baron de Spon and booksellers ticket of Gilbert & Field of London to FEP. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 27464
GITTINGS, Robert. Wentworth place. London. William Heinemann Ltd, 1950. First edition. 8vo. [viii], 75pp. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered silver. A little rubbed and bumped, though internally bright and clean. Inscribed on the FFEP 'From the Author in deepest admiration for the first Chichester season and gratitude for the recording, Robert Gittings'.’ More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 31092
KINGSLEY, Charles. Westward Ho! Or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight. Part I. London. The Masterpiece Library, "Review of Review's" Office, [s.d., c.1900] 60pp, iv. With two final advertisement leaves.

[Together with:] KINGSLEY, Charles. Westward Ho! Or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight. Part II. London. The Masterpiece Library, "Review of Review's" Office, [s.d., c.1900]. 60pp. iv. With two final advertisement leaves.

8vo. Original publisher's printed pictorial blue wrappers. Extremities spotted, lightly rubbed and dust-soiled. Leaves browned. More >
£ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 21269
HAWKS, Olive. What hope for green st?. London. Jarrolds Publishers Limited, [1945]. First edition. 8vo. 128pp. Original publisher's black cloth boards lettered in gilt, with the unclipped green dustwrapper. Minor shelf-wear, chipping to edges, losses to spine with some further marks. A note on the front free endpaper in Williamson’s hand: 'I rewrote a rather crude TSS for a newcomer, & I suppose about 60% of this is mine - but not the characters. I did dialogue & improved some ... More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 27240
RETY, John. What's in a Word? . London. Hearing Eye, 1996. 8vo. [12pp] A5 staple-bound pamphlet, in the original peach card wraps lettered in black. Smoke damage to wraps, internally bright and clean. Inscribed ‘For John [struck through] For Olwyn’. With an additional poem ‘Sailor Ashore’ added within the text in blue ink, and repeated on a loosely inserted green record card. From the estate of Olwyn Hughes, recently dispersed; the smoke damage is the result of ... More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 29575
BLOOMFIELD, Robert. Wild flowers; or, pastoral and local poetry. London. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816. Third edition. 12mo. 12, x, [2], 132pp. With an engraved frontispiece and an initial publisher's advertisement catalogue. Uncut in original publisher's buff paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Lightly rubbed and marked, chipping to lettering-piece. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 27715
BLOOMFIELD, Robert. Wild flowers; or, pastoral and local poetry. London. Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe...and Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806. First edition. 12mo. v, [4], viii-x, 132pp. With an engraved frontispiece and seven engraved plates. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Rubbed, splitting to joints. Marbled endpapers, near contemporary inked gift inscription to head of title-page; 'F. G. Spencer / given to him by his Father / 1811', internally clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 18719
GARNETT, Richard. William shakespeare pedagogue & poacher: a drama. London. John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1905. First edition. 8vo. 111pp, [1]. With a half-title. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed, spine dulled. Internally clean and crisp. Bookplate of William Barclay Squire to FEP. Presentation copy, inked inscription to half-title: 'W. Barclay Squire, Esq. / with R. Garnett's / very best regards / November 1904.' More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 27858