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425
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COOKERY & HUSBANDRY - [G. MARKHAM (c.1568-1637)]. The English House-Wife, London, 1668, 4to (browned and spotted throughout), later boards. The Eighth edition. With 12 other books, most related, including works by Hannah Glasse and Elizabeth Raffald. (13)
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£300 - £500
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£480
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426
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CUNINGHAME, Margaret, Lady (d.1622). A Pairt of the Life of Lady Margaret Cuninhame ... that she had with her first husband, the Master of Evandale, Edinburgh, 1827, 4to, engraved frontispiece, contemporary paper boards. FIRST EDITION. [?ONE OF 50 COPIES]
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£200 - £300
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427
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DERLETH, August (1909-71). Someone in the Dark, Sauk City, Arkham House, 1941, 8vo, black cloth, dust-jacket. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of this collection of fourteen stories and two "novelettes", and the second book to be printed at Arkham House.
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£200 - £300
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£200
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428
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DERLETH, August (1909-71). Something Near, Sauk City, Arkham House, 1945, 8vo, original black cloth gilt, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION.
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£200 - £300
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£100
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429
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DERLETH, August (1909-71). The Mask of Cthulhu, Sauk City, Arkham House, 1958, 8vo, original black cloth gilt, dust-jacket. AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION.
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£200 - £300
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£280
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430
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DERLETH, August (1909-71). The Trail of Cthulhu, Sauk City, Arkham House, 1962, 8vo, original black cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION.
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£100 - £150
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£50
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431
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DICKENS, Charles (1812-70). A Christmas Carol, London, 1843, 8vo, 4 hand-coloured etched plates by John Leech, original brown decorated cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, of "the greatest Christmas book ever written in any language" (Eckel).
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£5,000 - £8,000
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£4,500
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432
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DICKENS, Charles (1812-70). Oliver Twist, London, Richard Bentley, 1838, 3 volumes, 8vo, half titles in vols. I and II [as called for], 24 etched plates by George Cruikshank, original plum cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION, second issue. (3)
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£700 - £1,000
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DOCUMENT ON VELLUM - Letters patent granting a baronetcy to Christopher Baynes of Harefield Place, Middlesex, on 2 sheets of vellum, with an engraved portrait of George III at the head of the first sheet, marginal decoration, wax seal, in shaped box.
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£70 - £100
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£190
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434
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DONNE, John (1572-1631). The Holy Sonnets, London, 1938, 8vo, 4 illustrations by Eric Gill, original black buckram gilt, inscribed to Clarissa Churchill by "Bluey". ONE OF 550 COPIES SIGNED BY ERIC GILL. With 5 other related works in 10 volumes. (11)
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£300 - £500
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£1,900
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435
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DRAYTON, Michael (1563-1631) & William HOLE (d.1624, engraver). Glocester Shyre ... Worcester Shyre. [London: c.1612]. Engraved map including Gloucestershire and Worcestershire, allegorical figures, 250 x 330mm., framed and glazed. With 3 other maps. (4)
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£70 - £100
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£90
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436
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DYKE, Zoë, Lady Hart (1896-1975). So Spins the Silkworm, London, 1949, 8vo, 27 plates, original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper beneath her original drawing of a silkworm.
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£70 - £100
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EDWARDS. Lionel (1878-1966, illustrator). My Hunting Sketch Book, London, 1928, 4to, 15 coloured plates, original vellum-backed cloth boards. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 226 OF 250 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. With another book of related interest. (2)
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£200 - £300
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438
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FOTHERGILL, Jessie (1851-91). An autograph manuscript of Walt Whitman's poem "O Me! O Life!", probably in the hand of Fothergill rather than that of the poet himself, inscribed at the foot, "Jessie Fothergill, Jan. 16. 1887", on one page, 204 x 126mm.
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£70 - £100
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439
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FURNEAUX, William (1855-1940). Philips' Popular Mannikin or Model of the Human Body, London, [c.1930], very tall folio, chromolithographed figures, original cloth-backed pictorial boards (stained and rubbed).
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£40 - £60
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440
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GUNN, Thom (1929-2004). My Sad Captains, London, 1961, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION, 2nd impression, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed, "Thom Gunn, with best wishes for Clive." With 5 other books by Thom Gunn, all SIGNED BY THE POET. (6)
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£1,000 - £1,500
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[HANWAY, Jonas (1712-86)]. A Journal of Eight Days Journey from Portsmouth to Kingston upon Thames, London, 1756-58, 4to, 4 engraved plates, contemporary calf. FIRST EDITION. With 3 other works in 5 volumes. (6)
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£400 - £600
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£500
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442
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HARTLEY, L. P. (1895-1972). The Go-Between, London, 1953, 8vo, original red cloth gilt, dust-jacket (a few short tears to the upper edge without loss, some minor creasing to the head of the backstrip). FIRST EDITION.
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£100 - £150
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£50
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443
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HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). A Farewell to Arms, London, 1929, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST U.K. EDITION. With the same author's The Old Man and the Sea (London, 1952, original cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST U.K. EDITION). (2)
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£200 - £300
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£220
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444
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HUBBARD, Elbert (1856-1915). Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors ... William Morris, New York, Roycrofters, 1900, 4to, coloured decorations, wrappers. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 767 OF 925 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. With another related book. (2)
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£200 - £300
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HUXLEY, Aldous (1894-1963). Eyeless in Gaza, London, 1936, 8vo, half title, original tan hessian lettered in red, top edges red, dust-jacket (some minor creasing and rubbing at the head of the backstrip). A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION.
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£70 - £100
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£70
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446
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HUXLEY, Aldous (1894-1963). Limbo, London, 1920. 8vo, original buckram, paper label, with 2 fragments of the dust-jacket. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST PUBLISHED FICTION. RARE.
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£100 - £150
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£60
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447
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HUXLEY, Aldous (1894-1963). Point Counter Point, London, 1928, 8vo, original orange cloth lettered in gilt, dust-jacket (a few short tears, some light creasing at edges, some very light staining). FIRST EDITION.
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£70 - £100
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£50
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448
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HUXLEY, Aldous (1894-1963). Those Barren Leaves, London, 1925, 8vo, original buckram, dust-jacket (backstrip darkened, frayed). FIRST EDITION. With 14 other books by the same author. (15) Please see the full listing below.
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£500 - £800
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