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London: Hesperus, 2003. (UK) 1st of this edition. No msrkings, Fine. Wraps with flaps, 98pp. This is one of Hesperus Press's 100 pages Classics. "...the Revd Amos never came near the borders of a vice. His very faults were middling-he was not very ungrammatical. It was not in his nature to be superlative in anything; unless, indeed, he was superlatively middling, the quintessential extract of mediocrity." (1.0 JM LVR 206/b2. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

London: The Folio Society, 1993. (UK) 1st of this edition. No markings, Fine; no dust jacket as published, in Very Good slipcase with a crease to the back edge (a manufacturing fault) . Illus patterned cloth, 240 pp. index B&W illus. This amusing foray into eighteenth-century literature is an entertaining tabloid biography of an age not unlike our own; men and women of fashion led their lives under the avid scrutiny of a public who had a sharp appetite for scandal and sensation. (1.8 JM LVR 205/4. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

NY: Rarity Press, 1931. (USA) Presumed First Edition No markings, but the spine is faded with sun fading to the top portions of front and back covers, Good used copy; lacking the dust jacket. Red cloth, 356pp. Frontis illus and 4 B&W plates presumably by Jean de Bosschere (the illustrations are uncredited). This is a novel by the author of The Decameron. (2.5 JM HOQ 101/a1. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Cambridge: Cambridge Univeristy Press, 1991. (UK) First Edition No markings, Fine and Fine dust jacket. Maroon boards, 180pp, index. No illus. Professor Maddox's study of Cretien de Troyes represents a significant contribution to Arthurian scholarship. (1.5 Jm HOJ 300/b2. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

NY: Harry N Abrams Inc, 1985. (USA) First of this edition No markings, tiny spot to the spine edge, otherwise Fine; no dust jacket as published in Fine cloth covered slipcase with gold lettering. Dark blue cloth with gold titles, 40pp text then 49 pages of colour plates reproducing the manuscript. This is a Hebew manuscropt of the 15th century from the collecrtion of the British museum written and illuminated by Joel Ben Simeon called Feibusch AShkenazi with commentary atributed to Eleazar Ben Judah of Worms. A heavy oversize book. (5.5 JM LVR 206/0. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

London: De Agostini Editions, 1996. (UK) 1st publication. No markings, Fine in unclipped Fine dust jacket. Boards, illus. end papers, 352pp, index, colour and B&W illus and photos. This book focusses on writers and works that are intimately bound up with a place and time, and capturing towns, cities, and regions in their literary heyday. More than 80 essays explore places including Shakespeare's Stratford, Jane Austen's Bath, Hawthorne's New England, James Joyce's Dublin, Paris in the twenties, Harlem, Broadway, Hollywood, and many others. 500 illustrations, including color photos and maps. This is a useful book to help you place yourelf in the geographical locations of literary places. A heavy book. (4.7 JM LVR 202/b0. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12".

USA: Prospero Books, 2001. (USA) Presumed 1st American edition. No markings, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Boards, 352pp, index, colour and B&W photos and illus; maps. This is a compendium of places of writers and their works: Cervantes' Spain, Joyce's Dublin, the Brontes' Yorkshire, Kafka's Prague, Paris in the 1920s. A great reference to literary geography A heavy book, (3.9 JM HOJ 302/2. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12".

Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1982. (USA) No markings, tiny faint mark to gilt fore-edge pages, otherwise Fine; no Dj as issued. Quarter bound with navy leatherette spine, and blue cloth with gold floral designs, all edges gilt, "marbled" end papers, ribbon marker, 534pp. The line drawings by Ardizzone are from the Crown edition published by Oxford University Press in 1953. Trollope's 2nd novel satirises the then raging antipathy in the Church of England between High Church and Evangelical adherents in the mid 19th century, (2.5 JM LVR 201/b5. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by ARDIZZONE, Edward. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: The Athlone Press, 1988. (UK) this book originally appeared in 1968; this is the first printing of the revised and expanded (second) edition. No markings, Fine in Fine(-) dust jackdt with a hint of rubbing to the head of spine of DJ and rubbing to panel gloss of rear panel. Hardcover, 160pp, index, no illus. This new edition is considerably epanded to take account of the Waley literature of the past 20 years. It is an essential reference for all researchers concerned with Chinese and Japanese literature. (1.4 JM LVR 205/b1. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine (-). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1850. (USA) No markings, some loss to the head of spine, otherwsie solid VG(-) copy. 18.5 x 12 cm, brown cloth with gilt spine titles, 284pp. Essays on Shakespeare, Pope, Charles Lamb, Goethe, and Schiller. (1.5 JM HOQ 100/b4. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1946. (UK) Stated fourth edition to the title page, reprinted 1946 to the copyright page. Owner's name to the end paper, there is a stain to the top edge of the pages along about half their length, the pages are clean except where the stain has penetrated ino the top margin about 1/8" or less, some faint spotting and soiling to cover cloth,one page of the prologue has 8 words underlined in red, no other markings, thus Acceptable copy; lacking the dust jacket. Dark red cloth, 304pp. This book was "produced in complete conformity with the authorized economy standards". This novel , possibly one of the best novels in English, deals with the role of divine Grace in the lives of the Marchmain family as seen by the protagonist, Charles Ryder. (1.6 JM HOQ 101/a5. 4th. Hardcover. Acceptable/Lacking the Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1945. (USA) this is first American edition after the Limited edition, as the Book Club edition preceeded the first trade edition which appeared in 1946. 1945 to the title page. No markings, covers slightly bowed, thus Good in Good only dust jacket with rebbing and wear to fold edges.DJ is in mylar sleeve. Red cloth, 351pp. This novel , possibly one of the best novels in English, deals with the role of divine Grace in the lives of the Marchmain family as seen by the protagonist, Charles Ryder. (1.7 JM HOQ 103/b3. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: The Folio Society, 2003. (UK) Presumed 1st edition. No markings, 2 leaves have folded corners, otherwise about Fine, no dust jackt as published in Near Fine slipcase with a couple of marks to the top and bottom edges. Hardcover, 268pp, B&W illus. This collection includes material from Chaucer to Groucho Marx, from Mae West to NM the Queen. (1.9 JM HOZ 402/b2. 1st. Hardcover. Fine (-)/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by COX, Paul. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Edinburgh / London: Cadell & Company / Simpkin and Marshall, 1830. (UK) Bookplate, foxing to end paper, hinges good, wear to head of spine, pages clean,the paper label to the spine is worn away, small split to head of spine, Fair copy. Dark red cloth, 370pp.[2]pp publshers ads. Frontis illus and illus wto title page which is toned. (1.5 JM HOQ 100/2. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

NY: The National Alumni, 1906. (USA) No markings, spine very slightly darkened, VG; no Dj as issued in Very Good slipcase covered with blue cloth. 23 x 16 cm, white vellum over boards with gold border, gold floral edge to inside cover edges, top edge gilt, ribbon marker,tipped-in series frontis with another B&W frontis illus, two other tissued protected plates, x, 304pp. Translated by Dora Knowlton Ranous; ;intro by Ranous. This is one of an original set of 16 volumes in the History of Italian Literature series, The Edizione Vaticano, limited to 100 copies. The first volume (A History of Italian Literature) contains the certificate signed by Rossiter Johnson, secretary. Serao was the first woman called to edit an Italian newspaper, Il Corriere di Roma and later Il Giorno. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize six times but never won. This novel was writte in 1885 and explores her characters' lives in 19th century Rome. (2.8 JM HOQ 100/b5. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo -… Read More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. (USA) First Edition No markings, sererval page corners had been folded, Near Fine in VG Dj with small tear to head of spine and with the spine panel faded. Brown bds, 231pp, index. This book investigates James's strong dedication to the aesthetic culture that the writer foud in Egland and in Europe, and demonstrates James's indebtedness to an intellectual tradition that had been developed by such writer as Ruskin and Pater, and in particular by Matthew Arnold. Berland was one-time Dean of Humanities at McMaster Unversity. (1.5 JM HOQ 100/a3. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

NY: Schocken Books, 1971. (USA) Presumed 1st edition. No markings, slight darkening of spine, tight and square, Good only used copy; lacking the dust jacket. Vermilion cloth, 486pp, no illus. biblio, editors and tranlators, chronology. selected writings on Kafka. (1.8 JM LVR 201/b2. 1st. Hardcover. Good/Lacking the Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. (CAD) 1st edition, No markings, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Boards, 384pp, a few B&W illus. From the jacket: This collection explores strategies of reading space and conflict in Canadian and Québécois literary and cultural performances. How do literary texts and popular cultural performances produce and contest spatial practices? What is the role of the nation, the city, the community, and the individual subject in reproducing space, even during times of global hegemony and neocolonialism? In what ways do marginalized individuals and communities represent, contest, or appropriate spaces through counter-narratives and expressions of culture from below? And how does space itself shape conflict, counter-memory, and culture from below? (1.9 JM HOJ 301/a2. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011. (USA) Presumed first edition. No markings, Fine; no dust jacket as pulbished. Glossy boards, 363pp. This is a jewel of late medieval European literature and is one of the most successful romances of chivalry. This translation into English is based on the 2008 edition by Antoni Ferrando. A hravy book. (2.5 JM LVR 200/b2. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Philadelphia: Univ of Pennsylvania Press, 1982. (USA) Preseumed first edition. No markings, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Boards189pp, index, 5 B&W reproductions of paintings. Lawrence's art is discussed in relation to his experience in Italy. (1.5 JM HOJ 303/0. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".