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Printed by Order of the Trustees [of the British Museum],, 1924. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 16 plates and 217 photographs and illustrations in the text; original printed boards, sewed as issued, backstrip lettered in white, backstrip lightly faded (but all lettering entirely legible) else a very good, clean, firm copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

University Press, Cambridge,, 1946. 8vo., First Edition, with front and rear endpaper maps; original brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. The original edition of this recreation in novel form, drawn from original sources, of the life of a citizen of Athens during the period of war with Sparta.

Batsford,, [1955]. 8vo., First and Sole Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 49 plates on 30 and numerous illustrations and facsimiles in the text, faint tape marks on free endpapers; cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Ottley 2441.

Ian Allan, [Shepperton,, 1980]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographic title-spread and very numerous photographs in the text; original red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip. Ottley 8115.

A&C Black,, [1974]. Roy. 8vo., Second Impression, with numerous photographs and diagrams throughout; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Published a year after the first edition.

Batsford,, [1949]. 8vo., Second Edition, with coloured frontispiece and 117 sepia-toned plates on 68; red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Post-nationalisation version of the first edition of 1947. Ottley, 122.

Patrick Stephens, Cambridge,, [1983]. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrated title-spread, photographs and diagrams throughout, and pictorial endpapers; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Obelisk Gallery,, 1961. Oblong 4to., with portrait and 8 full-page monochrome facsimiles in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly soiled else a near fine copy. The exhibition comprised 28 works. The catalogue includes biographical notes, appreciations by Arp, Bosmans, Breton, Copley, Ernst, Man Ray and several others, an extended bibliography and a listing of exhibitions. SCARCE.

Pabel, Rastatt,, [1975]. 8vo., Third Impression, text in German, with photographs and illustrations in the text, page-edges lightly tanned; green cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. WITH THE AUTHOR'S PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT AND SEPARATE SIGNATURE MOUNTED ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. The signature records a return flight from RAF Wildenrath to RAF Farnborough in one of four Harrier aircraft of no. 4 Squadron. Hermann Graf (1912 – 1988) was a WWII German fighter ace. He served on both Eastern and Western Fronts, becoming the first pilot in aviation history to claim 200 aerial victories. In over 830 combat missions he claimed a total of 212 aerial victories, most of them achieved on the Eastern Front. EXTREMELY SCARCE.

[Redundant Churches Fund],, [1993]. Oblong 8vo., with photographs in the text; photographs wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. Redundant Churches Fund, Third Series, No.164. SCARCE.

Frank Cass,, [2001]. 8vo., First Edition, with diagrams in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Oxford University Press,, [1977]. 8vo., original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. WC 560. First published in WC in 1957. Includes Moore, Somerville & Ross, Corkery, Joyce, Stephens, O'Flaherty, Strong, O'Faolain, O'Connor, Cross, McLaverty, MacMahon, Lavin, Plunkett, Bowen.

Folio Society,, 2019. 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece and 6 coloured illustrations (one double-page); pictorial boards, backstrip lettered in silver and blue, a near fine copy in publisher's pictorial board slip-case.

Isle of Wight Executive Committee,, 1990. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.

Cassell,, [1961]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.

Cassell,, [1966]. 8vo., Second Impression, with plates; plum cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, dustwrapper panels mounted on endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Published a month after the first edition.

Clover Hill Editions,, 1979. 4pp., 8vo., with title in green and black and illustration; single-fold, a fine copy.

Folio Society,, 2020. 8vo., First Edition thus, text in orange and black; orange cloth, upper board and backstrip letterd in blue, blue top, ribbon marker, a near fine copy in publisher's blocked board slip-case.

Eyre & Spottiswoode for SPCK,, 1859. 8vo., 'Preacher's' Edition, with occasional neat underlining, two neat late nineteenth century signatures on blank preliminary; attractively bound and cased in publisher's original 'preacher's' roan portfolio with folding yapped edges and closing flap with pencil holder (empty), sides with double gilt frame border, owner's initials blocked in gilt on upper board, back with five bands ruled in gilt, all edges gilt, chocolate endpapers, hinges cracked (but binding entirely sound), a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean, crisp copy. bright, crisp example of a 'preacher's' version, printed in large type to facilitate oration in public. COPIES WITH ORIGINAL PORTFOLIO ARE VERY SCARCE.

[Nonesuch Press], Folio Society,, 1924, [2017]. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with fine wood-engraved illustrations throughout; Facsimile in black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper; Essay 4pp; the whole housed in publisher's custom-made terracotta board solander case lettered in gilt with mounted illustration (repeated from text). EDITION LIMITED TO 750 NUMBERED COPIES.. Splendid facsimile reissue of the renowned Nonesuch Press edition of 1924.