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MELMOTH, William Henry. The new universal story-teller; or, a modern picture of human life: consisting of A greater Variety of valuable Matter calculated for the Pleasure and Improvement of Readers of every Class, than was even given in any Book of the Kind: and including A Complete Collection of Genuine and Entertaining stories, tables, narrations... London. Printed for Alex. Hogg, No. 16 Pater-noster Row, [s.d., c.1780] First edition?. 12mo. iv, [1], 14-448pp [i.e.248pp]. With an engraved frontispiece referencing the story of 'Maria: An affecting Narrative', contained within the text of the volume. Contemporary sheep, rubbed and worn, with splitting to joints, loss to spine and extremities, boards holding by binding cords. Paper flaw to H5 without loss of sense. Contemporary ink inscription dated June 27th 1781 to FFEP. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 20467
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[GREEN, George Smith]. The nice lady: a comedy. London. Printed by J. Medley, 1762. First edition. 8vo. vi, [4], 107pp, [3]. Contemporary gilt-tooled green half-calf, marbled boards. Heavily rubbed, upper joint split, loss to head and foot of spine. Later manuscript notes regarding authorship to FEP and title page, foxed. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 25390
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LE CARRE, John. The Night Manager. London. Hodder & Stoughton, [1993]. First edition, second impression. 8vo. 443pp, [1]. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Very minor shelf-wear, dustwrapper price-clipped. Contemporary inked gift inscription to head of title page, else internally clean and crisp. Flat signed by the author to title page. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28379
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BALZAC, Honoré de. The novels of honoré de balzac; now for the first time completely translated into english. Philadelphia. Printed only for subscribers by George Barrie and Son. [s.d., c. 1898] Limited edition. 8vo. Limited edition of 1000 copies, of which this is copy No. 509. In two volumes. [6], 353pp, [1]; [6], 355pp, [1]. Titles in red and black. With half-titles, an engraved frontispiece to each volume and eight further engraved plates by Frédéric-Emile Jeannin. Later navy half-morocco, richly gilt-tooled, with red morocco onlays in fleur-de-lis pattern to spine compartments; blue cloth boards. Marbled endpapers, T.E.G. Very lightly ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 34761
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OWENSON, Miss. [i.e. MORGAN, Lady Sydney]. The novice of saint dominick. London. Printed for Richard Phillips, 1806. Second edition. 12mo. In four volumes. [2], 364; [2], 360; [2], 378; [2], 363pp, [1]. Contemporary gilt- tooled calf, supralibros of a swan and dragon to upper boards. Rubbed and marked, spines sunned, surface loss to lower boards of Vols. I and II, and upper board of Vol. III. Very occasional light spotting, very small hole to leaf O10 of Vol. I, not touching text, some loss to ... More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 29067
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TANSILLO, Luigi. The Nurse, a poem. Translated from the Italian of Luigi Tansillo. By William Roscoe. Dublin. Printed for B. Dornin, 1800. Third edition. 12mo. 31, [1], 89, [3], 34pp. In three parts; a life of Tansillo, the nurse, and notes - each has separate pagination, the register is continuous. The poem has parallel Italian and English texts. With a half-title. Contemporary calf, morocco lettering-piece, gilt, marbled endpapers and edges. Rubbed, joints cracked, some loss to head of spine. Upper hinge cracked, armorial bookplate of Roberti Bourne to FEP. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 13217
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BENSON, E. F. The oakleyites. London. Hodder and Stoughton, [1915]. First edition. 8vo. 318pp. Original publisher's blue cloth boards lettered black, with title to spine in gilt. Slightly rubbed, with a little bumping to corners and spine ends, some marking to the fore edge. Internally bright and clean, save minor toning to endpapers and half-title. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 30035
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ANACREON. The odes of anacreon, translated from the greek into english verse, with notes. Yarmouth. Printed by John Beart, for B. Crosby and Co. London, 1804. Second edition. 8vo. 27, [1], 144pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary olive green half-morocco, marbled boards, lettered in gilt. Extremities rubbed. Marbled endpapers, later book-label of Ed Grabhorn to FEP, offsetting to title-page, slight damp-staining to rear blank fly-leaf and RFEP. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 16787
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QUILLER-COUCH, A[rthur] T[homas]. The Oxford Book Of English Verse. Oxford. Clarendon Press, 1904. Ninth impression. 8vo. xii, 1084pp. With half-title. Attractively bound in contemporary gilt- tooled half-vellum, contrasting olive green morocco lettering-piece, marbled boards. Marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Very lightly rubbed. Armorial bookplate of Lt.-Col. John Trevor Spencer to FEP, with his inked gift inscription to his daughter, Lillian Mary Latina Spencer, from 'her affect. father', to verso of FFEP. Additional manuscript number to head of FFEP. Light scattered spotting. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 28871
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[BOONE, James Shergold]. The Oxford spy; in verse. Dialogue the first [-fifth]. Oxford. For Munday and Slatter, 1818. 8vo. 24, [1], 6-28, 32, 32, 55, [2], 60-74pp. Without half-title and title-page for the second dialogue, and divisional title for 'Notes to Canto V'. The first, second, and third dialogues are all third editions, the fourth a second edition, and the fifth and final dialogue a first edition. Contemporary green cloth-backed paper boards, recent printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Slight rubbing, some damp staining to ... More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 14714
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[PARALLEL]. The parallel: An essay on friendship, love and marriage. London. Printed for Henry Playford, at his shop near the Temple-Church, 1689. First edition. Quarto. [4], 35pp, [1]. Twentieth- century gilt-tooled red morocco backed cloth boards. With the modern bookplate of Peter Stewart Young to FEP. Some browning, two inked numerals to title, occasional pen trial and a single manuscript correction (shaved) to margins of text. More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 25653
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[HOOK, Theodore Edward]. The parson's daughter. London. Richard Bentley, 1833. First edition. 8vo. In three volumes. [2], 300; [2], 331, [1]; [2], 321pp, [1]. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting morocco lettering-pieces. Lightly rubbed, some staining to dulled spines. Scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 29255