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Where Love Lies Deepest

By: Ashford, Daisy

Price: £8.00

Publisher: London, Rupert Hart-Davis: 1966

Seller ID: 004181

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Blue hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Good with light shelfwear and light sunning to spine. Price-clipped. 77pp. Beautifully illustrated with b/w drawings by Ralph Steadman. Daisy Ashford was twelve when she wrote this book, three years older than when she completed her most famous book, "The Young Visiters". Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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The Maze Maker

By: Ayrton, Michael

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London, Longmans, Green and Co.: 1967

Seller ID: 006037

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Grey hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with some light suning to top edge of front cover. Binding sound. Boards are bowing very slightly. Front endpaper bears the signature in blue biro of the author Elspeth Huxley whose collection this book came from. Dustjacket condition: Good, jacket design is fresh and bright, with general light shelfwear. 282pp. In this book, Michael Ayrton (also an artist and sculptor) retells the myth of Daedalus and Icarus in a wider context.
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A Few Words on the Advantages of a More Common Adoption of the Mathematics as a branch of Education, or Subject of Study

By: Barnes, William

Price: £280.00

Publisher: London, Whittaker and Co. (et al.): 1834

Seller ID: 006330

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Pale green paper wrappers with title printed in black on front cover. Condition: Very good with light shelfwear and very light soiling to covers. Light foxing to title page. Dedicated to Major Shrapnel (1761-1842), the inventor of the shrapnel shell. 23pp.
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Views of Labour and Gold

By: Barnes, William

Price: £185.00

Publisher: London, John Russell Smith: 1859

Seller ID: 006510

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Ex-Library. Very dark navy cloth with blindstamped decoration and title in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear and scuffing to covers. , and light bumping to head and tail of spine and cover corners. Front cover bears the label of a 19th century library, the McIntyre Ethical Library (see image). Front pastedown has the remains of an old paper label to top nad previous owners neat reference number to base. Front endpaper bears a presentation label to the library stating "This book was presented to the Ethical Library by Lavinia Bidlake in Memory of Jane Anne McIntyre", with a s...
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A Glossary of the Dorset Dialect with a Grammar

By: Barnes, William

Price: £20.00

Publisher: St.Peter Port, Guernsey via Britain, Stevens-Cox, The Toucan Press: 1970

Seller ID: 006659

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Second edition.Pale grey card covers with title in black on front cover. Softcover. Condition: Good, with light foxing and shelfwear to covers, including light creasing to top right corner of front cover. Some heavier foxing to endpapers and first and last few pages of text, and more faintly to textblock edges. Binding sound. 124pp. plus index.
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Facet, Vol.1 No.s 1-5, 1946-47

By: Britton Austin, P. (ed.)

Price: £22.00

Publisher: Bristol, Quest Publications: 1946

Seller ID: 004797

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Five issues of Facet magazine bound in a dark green library binding. Condition: Very good, the endpapers of the binding bear the stamp of Bristol Polytechnic Library Faculty of Art and Design, no other library marks. The five issues are in very good condition, having been protected by the binding, and issue no.1 includes a two page essay on Mervyn Peake by Quentin Crisp, together with two b/w images by Peake. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
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Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine with other records of his early career in England & America

By: Cobbett, William

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, The Nonesuch Press: 1927

Seller ID: 006454

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Marbled paper-covered boards with title in gilt on black linen spine. Condition: Good, with general shelfwear to cover edges, and head and tail of spine. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Some browning to endpapers. Previous owners bookplate on front pastedown. 163pp. Colour frontispiece after the cartoon by Gillray is coloured through stencils by the Curwen Press, London. One of a limited edition of 1800 copies, this is no.99.
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Jane Austen - The Parson's Daughter

By: Collins, Irene

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London and Rio Grande, The Hambledon Press: 1998

Seller ID: 006679

ISBN: 1852851724

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Blue hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, with just a hint of shelfwear to covers. Previous owners name neatly written at top of front endpaper. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear. 282pp. 21 b/w illustrations. Jane Austen was a clergyman's daughter, related to other clergy, born and brought up in a parsonage. This book explores many of her attitudes, expressed in her novels, which reflect this directly or indirectly.
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Jane Austen and the Clergy

By: Collins, Irene

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London and Rio Grande, The Hambledon Press: 1994

Seller ID: 006680

ISBN: 1852851147

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Blue hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, with previous owners name on front endpaper. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with just a hint of shelfwear. 242pp. Several b/w illustrations. In this book the author draws on a wide knowledge of the literature and history of the period to describe who the clergy were, both in novels and in life: how they were educated and appointed, the houses they lived in and the gardens they designed and cultivated; the women they married; their professional and social context; their income; their duties, their moral outlook and their belief...
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The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

By: Defoe, Daniel

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London and New York, John Lane the Bodley Head/Dodd, Mead and Company: 1929

Seller ID: 006215

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Black hardcover with title in gilt on sine and front cover. Condition: Good, covers are generally lightly shelfworn, with the fading to the gilt titling on the spine, but not the front cover. Endpapers are quite foxed. Text and illustrations within volume are clean and bright. Dustjacket condition: Good, with a small area of tiny paint splashes to front of the jacket, general light shelfwear, more so to head and tail of spine with some loss and chipping. 333pp. Beautifully illustrated by John Austen.
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The War-Workers

By: Delafield, E.M.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A.Knopf: 1918

Seller ID: 004839

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fair

Purple cloth with title in purple on paper label pasted on to spine. Top edge yellow. Condition: Fair to good, covers have general light shelfwear with some rubbing and bumping. the Paper title label on the spine is sunned with some rubbing and foxing. Binding sound, no inscriptions. 295pp. Size: 12mo - over 6" - 7" tall
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The Cocktail Party

By: Eliot, T.S

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Faber and Faber: 1950

Seller ID: 002775

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Green cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers and light foxing and browning to endpapers. Binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Fair, generally shelfworn with a few repaired tears to spine and cover edges. Some sunning to spine. Not price-clipped. Has the misprint of "here" for "her" at the top of p.29. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Thomas Hardy's English

By: Elliott, Ralph W.V.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Oxford and London, Basil Blackwell in association with Andre Deutsch: 1984

Seller ID: 006297

ISBN: 0631136592

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dark green hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Very good with light shelfwear. 387pp. Largely self-educated, Thomas Hardy drew his language from many different sources; from the dialect of his native Dorset, from his familiarity with the English Bible, his architectural training, his interest in the arts and his wide reading. He was especially interested, however, in the history of the English language, and he exploited this learning in his writing, reviving old and obsolete works and coining new ones. In this book ...
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The Horse Whisperer

By: Evans, Nicholas

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, The Bantam Press: 1995

Seller ID: 006709

ISBN: 0593038894

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Maroon hardcover with title in gtil on spine. Condition: Good, with light browning to endpapers and lightly to pages throughout. Signed by the author in blue on title page, just underneath the title. Dustjacket condition: Good, with light shelfwear and light sunning to spine.
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A Time of Gifts

By: Fermor, Patrick Leigh

Price: £69.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1984

Seller ID: 006177

ISBN: 0719533481

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Published in 1984, this is the fourth printing of the 1977 first edition. Blue hardcover with an image of a flying goose in gilt on front cover and title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with light sunning to spine. Not price-clipped. 291pp.
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Where Angels Fear to Tread

By: Forster, E.M.

Price: £795.00

Publisher: Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons: 1905

Seller ID: 006540

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Blue cloth with title in black on front cover and in gilt on spine. Maroon endpapers. Condition: Good, with general shelfwear to covers, slightly more so to head and tail of spine and ocver corners. Sopme light soiling to spine. Previous owners name at top of half-title and first page of text. Binding is cracked internally in a couple of places but otherwise sound. Some occasional light foxing to text. The publisher's 32 page catalogue to rear is dated 10/05. 319pp.
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No Love

By: Garnett, David

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1929

Seller ID: 006699

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Plum and black speckled cloth with title in gilt within gilt cartouche on spine. Condition: Good, with light foxing to endpapers and very occasionally within books. Light foxing also to textblock edges. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Fair to good, generally lightly sunned, with heavier sunning to spine, and a couple of small chips missing to head and tail of spine. There is also small (quarter-inch) vertical tear to top of front of dustjacket. Not price-clipped. 275pp.
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Sylvia & David - The Townsend Warner/Garnett Letters

By: Garnett, Richard (ed.)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Sinclair-Stevenson: 1994

Seller ID: 006458

ISBN: 1856193411

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Maroon hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, with some very light browning to very edges of text throughout. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with just a hint of shelfwear. Not price-clipped. 246pp. David Garnett and Sylvia Townsend Warner established their reputations with their first novels, he with "Lady into Fox" (1922), and she with Lolly Willowes (1925). The correspondence between them records a friendship which began shortly before the publication of "Lady into Fox" and lasted until Sylvia's death fifty-six years la...
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Cranford

By: Gaskell, Elizabeth

Price: £9.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1930

Seller ID: 002305

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fair

1930 reprint of the 1925 first edition thus. Volume II of eight volumes in the Knutsford edtiion series, printed on thin India paper. Scarlet leather prize binding with the arms of the Royal Drawing Society and the authors monogram stamped in gilt on front cover, with titles in gilt on spine. Condition: Fair, covers are generally shelfworn, with quite heavy rubbing to spine. Prize bookplate on front pastedown, dated 1942. Binding sound, text clean, apart from small waterstain to top edge of pages 272 to 549, with some associated light wrinkling. 549pp. plus publishers list. Good reading copy. ...
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Cranford

By: Gaskell, Mrs

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, George G.Harrap & Co.: 1940

Seller ID: 007029

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Grey cloth with title in blue on spine. Pale grey and red floral patterned endpapers. Top edge red. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Light browning to page edges. Dustjacket condition: Poor, quite shelfworn with some losses to head and tail of spine, and the lower edge of inner front flap of jacket (which also appears to have been trimmed back by about an inch in comparison with the rear inner flap) as well as a small chip missing to edge of spine where it meets the front cover of the jacket. Jacket is also generally a little grubby and creased w...
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Category: English Literature

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