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W. B Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds and The Herne's Egg, Manuscript Materials. Published by Cornell University Press (1993) scarce with dust covers, very fine condition within.

Scarce edition, another low sale price.Very slight wear to cover with some discoloration, cloth on board, bound tight, slight split on inner of front cover, pages near fine, slight tear to one page, text unaffected. 399 pages plus some adverts at end. Please view the photographs for more information.Excellent Customer service is a priority.Items are guaranteed to be very well packaged prior to postage. Tracking details will be forwarded to the purchaser.

Extremely rare First editions, 1983 and 1987 First editions, with 224 and 216 pages. Both measure 29 by 37 cm's and weigh approx 2.5 kilo's each without wrapping. A unique 1983 Edition being a presentation copy to the lord mayor of Cork city. Excellent condition with the full dust jacket, no rips or tears, has some slight knocks, very good. The inside is near fine, all prints are Fine with little or no wear. Fine strong pages with a dedication from Wendy Walsh and Charles Nelson.Please view the images for more information.Excellent Customer service is a priority.Items are guaranteed to be very well packaged prior to postage. Tracking details will be forwarded to the purchaser.

11 copper plates, 52 woodcuts listed in the embellishment text, minus the autograph page. 8vo. [178 x 108 mm. xviii, [ii], Embellishment and Preface, 502 pages, 504 grams. Very good, wear to contemporary half leather cover, tightly bound, slight foxing on some of the plates, majority of pages clear and crisp. Scarce. Descriptive list of the Embellishments, and large discount in price having no autograph page. Please view the images for more information.

The Waters or Walter Family of Cork. With very large folding genealogical chart, see last image, (very small rip, well repaired with tape). Cork: Guy, 1939. pp. [vi], 95. Cream buckram, titled in brown. Signed from the author. A very good copy, some staining to cover. Extremely rare. COPAC locates 1 copy only. WorldCat 1. Please view the photographs for more information. Excellent Customer service is a priority. Items are guaranteed to be very well packaged prior to postage. Tracking details will be forwarded to the purchaser.

Preface VIII, Contents 8, 440 pages. Green cloth cover with gold title to spine. Uncropped side papers, cropped top and bottom. Knocks to cover corners and some splitting at page 170, first and last pages loose, tightly bound throughout with all pages. Pages are overall very good, no foxing, slight browning from age. Collectible Scarce first edition. 22.5 by 15 cm's. 661 grams. Please view the images for more information.

1 of only 125 proof Engravings, from a limited edition set for the first publication of The Gallery of Portraits, very few left, if any up to this standard of preservation, from a collection that has been well cared for, and would be a centerpiece of any residence. A proof engraving on Indian paper, with incredible detail, by the masters of engraving of the time, from 1837. Extremely scarce, if at all available in this condition, which is exemplary. Folio page, 29 by 43 centimetres, on thick Indian paper, Proof printing, etched Proof bottom left. Technique, stipple, etching, engraving. Inscription content: Lettered with production detail: Engraved by "W. Holl", title, "Elizabeth", continuing: "From the picture in His Majesty's collection at St James Palace" and "under the Superintendance of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge", and publication line: "London, Published by Charles Knight, Ludgate Street & Pall Mall East". Proof bottom left. Please view the other rare prints from the same… Read More

Vol I 374 pages, Vol II 411 Pages, 14.5 cm's by 22 cm's, 1328 grams. The first edition of this biography of Gregory the Seventh, Bowden was an English writer on church matters. He was a close friend of John Henry Newman, who described their relationship in his Apologia. In the spring of 1840 he published his Life of Gregory the Seventh. This work had been first suggested to him by Newman. Covers not attached Vol I, Front cover loose Vol II, full leather, slight foxing to just a couple of prelim pages and very good and better thereafter. Please view the photographs for more information.