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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. Hardback. Very Good. FIRST US TRADE EDITION. Large 8vo. Quarter beige cloth, lettered in gilt, cream paper with blind-stamped motif to upper board. Pushing to heel of spine, else, clean, tight and bright. In Lisa Amoroso's vivid dust jacket: creasing to spine ends, chip to top corner of rear panel. Very good/ very good. A pleasing copy.
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The Hundred Secret Senses
by TAN, Amy
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Ancient and Medieval Science: From the beginnings to 1450 (A General History of the Sciences)
by TATON, Rene (editor); POMERANS, A. J. (translator)
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Thames and Hudson, 1963. Very Good. The Thames and Hudson edition. Large 8vo. With b/w plates. Red cloth with gilt-stamped lettering to spine and T&H's twin dolphin insignia to upper board. Top edge red. Musty, else, clean and tight. In VG original DJ (laminated) - creasing to rear cover. A smart, square copy. N.B. This is a weighty book and will require additional international postage.
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Heathcliff's Tale
by TENNANT, Emma
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Leyburn: Tartarus Press, 2005. Near Fine. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, 1 of 500. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt stamped lettering to spine and upper board. Matching green endpapers. Red ribbon marker. Signed by author in black pen on title page. Postcard flier for Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights laid-in. In the original dust jacket: light edgewear, a little grubby, score to front panel, three patches of staining and scoring to rear panel. A near fine copy of this attractive edition in a bright dust jacket. Near fine/ very good.
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The Virginians
by THACKERAY, W. M.
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London & Glasgow: Collins Clear-Type Press, 1920. Very Good. n.d. [c. 1920s] 16mo, pp. viii, 890, [6 catalogue] + b/w preface and illustrations by Harold Piffard. Burgundy cloth, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, blind ruling to boards. Plum endpapers. Gentle bruising and rubbing to extremities, top edge dusty. POI to recto of frontis, else clean and tidy. In original colour dust jacket (with advertisement to rear panel and List of Titles to reverse): spine sunned, lightly soiled and rubbed, chipping to spine ends and corners, a few short closed tears. Very good/ good+. Unusual in the original dust jacket. Collins' Illustrated Pocket Classics, no. 83.
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54 Original Programmes (1963-1978)
by THE NATIONAL THEATRE; [BRIGGS, Kenneth; CHENNELLS, Susan and BIRD, Richard (graphic designers)]
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London: National Theatre, 1963. 54 programmes, incl. The Royal Coburg Theatre 1818 to the Old Vic 1968/ A history of 150 years of the Old Vic (1968), and with: four National Theatre at the New Theatre programmes (one repeat). Side-stapled booklets, measuring 22.8 x 13.2cm, with colour and b/w advertisements, b/w and/or colour illustrations throughout. Original illustrated colour card wrappers, 38 with cast lists laid in. Not a consecutive nor complete collection, but featuring numerous high spots in the NT's first fifteen years, with its first decade, and the work of celebrated modernist graphic designer Ken Briggs, best represented and programmes becoming sparser from 1974. The majority in very good order, edgewear and shelf-soiling, some fading and blotching. Internally, some fading and toning, occasional rusty staples, else clean and bright. Featuring both the original light blue and later grey cast lists: occasional underlining and starring; cast list extracts pasted into Hedda Gabler and Eden…
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Let's Dress Up! Dressing up with costumes of many countries
by The United Council for Missionary Education; BARTON, Theodora (costume notes); OWEN, Olwen M. (diagrams)
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London: Edinburgh House Press/ The United Council for Missionary Education, 1949. FIRST EDITION. Side-stapled pamphlet (18.3 x 12.3cm), pp. 56, incl. b/w line illustrations throughout. Original beige wrappers, lettered in red. Wrappers gently used, pushing to spine ends, corners creased and dog-eared, else, clean and tidy. A pleasing copy of a pamphlet that provides a glimpse into colonial missionary leisure activities and the construction of racial difference. Unusual both in the trade (despite it having been reprinted at least four times, and as late as 1964) and in British and Irish research libraries: Jisc LHD lists only six copies (BL, UoBirmingham, Bodleian, NLS, NLW/LGC & TCD). A theatrical guide aimed at Missionary Society members, advising on the correct way to wear and create "overseas costumes" for performances, with each Missionary Society, it tells us, having a Costumes department. Comprising, 'I: Dressing Up with Borrowed Costumes'; II. Improvisation of Costumes' and 'III. Make-Up', the…
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Over Our Dead Bodies: Women against the bomb
by THOMPSON, Dorothy (editor); CARTER, Angela; LIDDLETON, Jill; MOWLAM, Marjorie (contributors).
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London: Virago Press Limited, 1983. Paperback. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. Trade paperback, pp. xiii, 253, [3], incl. b/w headpieces and illustrations. Black wrappers, lettered in white and pink. Light edgewear, tanned edges, a few spots to top edge. Gently toned, else, clean and tight. A lovely copy of this important Virago collection, with commissioned contributions challenging nuclear weapons in Britain. Very good Featuring 'The Women's Peace Crusade' by Jill Liddington, 'Fuel for the Nuclear Arms Race' by Mo Mowlam, an illustration by Edith Simon, and 'Anger in a Black Landscape' by Angela Carter. In her essay, the novelist urged women to protest and "rage as if against the dying of the light". The British Library holds a section of wire cut from RAF Greenham Common's perimeter fence that was sent to Carter by the Women's Peace Camp. Contributors include a wider group of women than those who wrote essays, including documentary filmmaker Jill Craigie.
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Sybil Thorndike
by THORNDIKE, Russell
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London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1929. FIRST EDITION, DOUBLE SIGNED by both THORNDIKES. Large 8vo, pp. 320 + b/w frontis and plates. Original orange and yellow patterned cloth, spine and upper board lettered in black and blind ruled, Sybil Thorndike's facsimile signature black-stamped to upper board. Spine sunned, pushing and wear to spine ends and corners. Signed in black pen to tanned half-title by both subject and author, dated (in the latter's hand?) "June 6th 1929", ink offsetting from Russell's signature, page separating at heel, but holding firm. Blue Westminster Abbey service sheet (24,10.1982; incl. details about a short ceremony for the centenary of Sybil's birth) tipped in to rear fep gutter, newspaper clipping 'On This Day: March 27 1924' pasted to rear pastedown. Else, clean and tidy. A rare signed familial two-hander, marking the arrival of the doyenne of the twentieth century Shakespearean stage. Good+ The Thorndike siblings began their theatrical training and careers together,…
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Thucydides: Book I
by THUCYDIDES; MARCHANT, E.C. (editor)
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Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1950. Good. 8vo. In Greek, with introductory sections in English. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Spine sunned. Top corners bruised. POI to ffep, residual tape marks to feps. Else, clean and tight.
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Cities Seen: In East & West
by TIBBITS, Mrs. Walter; [LAMINGTON, Lady Mary;] [COCHRANE-BAILLIE, Hon. Grisell]
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London: Hurst & Blackett, Ltd, 1912. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo, pp. xix, [1], 338 + 34 b/w plates. Original green cloth, spine and upper board lettered in gilt, gilt-stamped bamboo motif to upper board. Top edge gilt. Bruising and wear to spine ends and corners, spine rubbed. Photograph showing two women in nursing uniform, inscribed with: "May Lamington & Grisell," tipped in to front pastedown, light offsetting to ffep, plus PO inscription in sepia pen and the same hand: '"Each of us has so much to give/ that we never meet in Vain, and/ so much to receive that we part/ with thanks" - Carmen Sylva.' Newspaper clipping, 'Scottish Society Wedding,' announcing the marriage of Grisell and Lieutenant-Commander Hastings at Lamington Chapel laid in. Foxed, else, clean and tight. A pleasing copy of Tibbits' genre-crossing second book. Jisc LHD lists eight British and Irish holdings (BL, Bodleian, UoCambridge, UoExeter, NLW/LGC, NLS, UoSwansea & TCD) Despite having some significance to the…
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Rosamond Lehmann: An appreciation
by Tindall, Gillian
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Chatto & Windus/ The Hogarth Press, 1985. Good. Trade paperback, pp. vii, 201. Sunned spine, tanned edges, else a clean, tight copy.
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The Acreage of the Heart
by TODD, Ruthven; MAXWELL, John (illustrator)
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[Glasgow]: William MacLellan/ Poetry Scotland Series, 1944. Quarter cloth, paper boards. Good+. FIRST EDITION. Slim 8vo, pp. 32 + colour frontis by Maxwell. Quarter red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, white paper boards. Gently soiled, darkened in patches (from losses to DJ), creased, bottom corners bumped and chipped, nick to top edge of rear board. Toned, POI in blue pen to ffep: "Anne Grant/ May 28 1945/ Edinburgh." Else, clean and tight. In John Maxwell's wonderful original dust jacket: soiled, a number of closed tears and losses. Good+/ good+ Ruthven Todd (1914-1978), was a Scottish poet, artist, novelist, and William Blake expert. The year of publication was otherwise an annus horribilis for Todd, who had recently separated from his wife, Cicely (n�e Crew) and whose Bloomsbury flat was hit by a flying bomb, necessitating a move to Essex. The collection closes with poems on artists and writers, including Blake, Paul Klee, Picasso, Arthur Rimbaud and H. G. Wells.
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The Death of Ivan the Terrible: A drama in verse
by TOLSTOI, Alexis K.; HAYES, Alfred (translator); NABAKOFF, C. (preface)
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Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1926. Good. 8vo, pp. viii, (2), 185, (1) + b/w frontis: 'Ivan the Terrible (As impersonated by the Russian singer Chaliapin).' Blue cloth with paper label to spine. Rubbed, bumped and worn corners, title label faded and yellowed. Tanned edges. Inner front hinge starting, but binding holding secure. POI to ffep and label to front pastedown, feps browned. Else, clean and bright.
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Let's Look at Design
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Frederick Muller, 1969. Good. 4to. With colour and b/w illustrations by Geoffrey Trenaman throughout. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Band of sunning to top edge of boards, light bruising to extremities. Dusty top edge. Else, clean. In fair price-clipped DJ - soiled, ragged top edge.
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Woman & Rococo in France Seen through the life and works of a contemporary Charles-Pinot Duclos
by TOTH, Karl; ABINGDON, Roger (translator)
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London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1931. FIRST UK EDITION. Large 8vo, pp. + tipped-in colour frontis and numerous b/w plates and illustrations. Blue cloth, silver stamped lettering and decoration to spine and boards. Gilt top edge. Fore- and bottom edges untrimmed, a few pages uncut. Spine sunned, pushing to spine ends. 'Easton Neston Library' shelf sticker to front pastedown, but no other library markings. Else, clean, bright and tight. Near fine. An attractive copy, unusual in gilt-stamped boards.
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A Spirit Rises
by TOWNSEND WARNER, Sylvia; BARKER, Carol (DJ illustrator)
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1962. Hardback. Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Pushing to spine ends, light mottling to boards, light foxing to edges, front and rear, POIs to ffep and pastedown. In the original dust jacket: price-clipped, spine sunned, extremities chipped, rear panel rubbed and soiled. Good+/ good+ A later collection of 14 short stories, with printed dedication to William Maxwell, STW's good friend and fiction editor at The New Yorker, where many of the stories first appeared.
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Some World Far From Ours and 'Stay, Corydon, Thou Swain'
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London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1929. LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED BY STW, no. 3 of 530. Small 4to, pp. [32]. Illustrated buff and lavender paper boards, with matching endpapers. Edges rough trimmed. Lightly soiled, hair line crack to head of front joint, wear and bruising to extremities, loss and short closed tear to heel of spine. Offsetting to endpapers. Flat signed in black pen to limitation page. Very good. No. eighteen of The Woburn Books: the final title in the short-running series. Boards illustrated by 'J. G. P. '28'.
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T. H. White: A Biography
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London: Jonathan Cape with Chatto & Windus, 1967. Hardback. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 352 + b/w frontis, plates & illustrations. Red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, blind-stamped facsimile initials 'T.H.W.' to upper board. Top edge black. Illustrated endpapers. Pushing to spine ends, a few fox spots to leading edge, PO gift inscription to recto of frontis, else, clean and tidy. In the original dust jacket: spine gently sunned, wear to joints and edges, a few chips to spine ends and corners. Still, a pleasing copy of Warner's only foray into biography. Very good/ very good
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The Museum of Cheats: And other stories
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1947. Cloth. Good+. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo. Original green buckram, spine lettered in gilt. Bottom edge untrimmed. Spine cocked, pushing to ends. Top edge tanned, others spotted. Endpapers toned, some foxing. Else, clean and tight. A good+ copy of STW's later short story collection.
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A Garland of Straw: And other stories
by TOWNSEND WARNER, Sylvia; PLANK, George (DJ designer)
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1943. Cloth. Good+. Second impression. 8vo. Original pink cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Spine cocked, spine ends bruised, heavy knock to top edge of bottom board. Edges foxed. Else, clean and tight. In George Plank's original pink and brown illustrated dust jacket: tatty and foxed, spine sunned, losses to head of spine and front panel, nevertheless Plank's cover design shines. A solid copy of this wartime edition of STW's short stories, many of which first appeared in The New Yorker. Good+/ good
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