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The Literature category is still being written, please review after a period! Meanwhile, here are the first drafts ... Some best-selling writers and modern works may be found on the Fiction page.
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Elegant Epistles being a Copious Collection of Familiar and Amusing Letters selected for the Improvement of Young Persons and for General Entertainment from Cicero, Pliny, Sydney, Bacon, Raleigh, Howel, Lady Russell, Clarendon, Temple, Locke, Shaftesbury, Pope, Swift, Addison, Steele, Arbuthnot, Gay, Atterbury, Tillotson, Herring, Rundle, Secker, Watts, Shenstone, Duchess of Somerset, Gray, West, Sterne, Johnson, Lyttelton, Hoadly, Chesterfield and Many Others, with an Appendix, containing Letters from Sevigny, Balzac, Maintenon etc
Anon (Longman, Law, Dodsley et al) London, 1794
A New Edition, Improved and Enlarged, antiquarian out-of-print hardback in leather boards with tooled spine sans label, Medium octavo over 9x6inches, xii + contents + 873pp with appendix & editor's preface, owner's name or signature inscribed 'A Portass' in elegant script on ffep, while the obverse of the frontis bears the following legend in a neat hand, "At half past 12 o'clock on the 9th of May in the year 1800, a remarkable clap of thunder was known to last half continually without ceasing (?) which was taken notice of by several people of this Kingdom (?); at the same time Hailstones were known to fall at several places the circumference of which were 5 Inches - some sight (?), [signed] Jos Pickering Houghton", and added in a different hand, "I'm truly astonished"; condition of this copy is unfortunate, as the upper board is detached, spine has a little loss at the head but is split right down the middle and across the textblock also, resulting in loose pgs, boards are naturally rubbed & edges dusty though the textblock itself is in good shape with very clean pgs overall & only a few minor blemishes; this copy is sold as is, with all faults {illustrious authors include: Cicero, Pliny, Sydney, Bacon, Raleigh, Howel, Lady Russell, Clarendon, Temple, Locke, Shaftesbury, Pope, Swift, Addison, Steele, Arbuthnot, Gay, Atterbury, Tillotson, Herring, Rundle, Secker, Watts, Shenstone, Duchess of Somerset, Gray, West, Sterne, Johnson, Lyttelton, Hoadly, Chesterfield and Many Others, with an Appendix, containing Letters from Sevigny, Balzac, Maintenon etc} [NB. this heavy book/set is subject to special arrangements: non-standard item for delivery] [LL 23472] £75.00 ($119.00) |
Anonymous 1871-1935
Anon (John Murray) London, 1936
First edition UK, out-of-print hardback in blue cloth/gilt, Medium octavo over 9x6inches, 336pp with index, portrait frontis & b/w plates, boards show little wear & only faint blemishes, no inscriptions, clean unmarked textblock. VG. [DD* 25616] £16.50 ($26.00) |
Mountbatten. Eighty years in pictures
Anon (Macmillan) London, 1979
First edition UK, out-of-print hardback in dustjacket [not price-clipped], Crown quarto over 10x7.5inches 10"x7.5", 224pp with index, unblemished blue boards/gilt, no inscriptions, family tree endpapers, colour portrait frontis plate with family crest on reverse, profuse illustrations in colour + b/w, foreword by Lord Mountbatten, fine copy. Fine/Fine. [NB non-standard item for delivery non-standard item for delivery] [DD* 25617] £6.75 ($11.00) |
Elegant Epistles being a Copious Collection of Familiar and Amusing Letters selected for the Improvement of Young Persons and for General Entertainment from Cicero Pliny Sydney Bacon Raleigh Howel Lady Russell Clarendon Temple Locke Shaftesbury
Anon (Longman, Law, Dodsley et al) London, 1794
A New Edition, Improved and Enlarged, antiquarian out-of-print hardback in leather boards with tooled spine sans label, Medium octavo over 9x6inches, xii + contents + 873pp with appendix & editor's preface, owner's name or signature inscribed 'A Portass' in elegant script on ffep, while the obverse of the frontis bears the following legend in a neat hand, "At half past 12 o'clock on the 9th of May in the year 1800, a remarkable clap of thunder was known to last half continually without ceasing (?) which was taken notice of by several people of this Kingdom (?); at the same time Hailstones were known to fall at several places the circumference of which were 5 Inches - some sight (?), [signed] Jos Pickering Houghton", and added in a different hand, "I'm truly astonished"; condition of this copy is unfortunate, as the upper board is detached, spine has a little loss at the head but is split right down the middle and across the textblock also, resulting in loose pgs, boards are naturally rubbed & edges dusty though the textblock itself is in good shape with very clean pgs overall & only a few minor blemishes; this copy is sold as is, with all faults {illustrious authors include Cicero, Pliny, Sydney, Bacon, Raleigh, Howel, Lady Russell, Clarendon, Temple, Locke, Shaftesbury, Pope, Swift, Addison, Steele, Arbuthnot, Gay, Atterbury, Tillotson, Herring, Rundle, Secker, Watts, Shenstone, Duchess of Somerset, Gray, West, Sterne, Johnson, Lyttelton, Hoadly, Chesterfield and Many Others, with an Appendix, containing Letters from Sevigny, Balzac, Maintenon etc} [NB. this heavy book/set is subject to special arrangements non-standard item for delivery] [DD* 25620] £59.50 ($95.00) |
Methodist School Hymnal
Anon (Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School Department) London, 1900
Out-of-print hardback in black morocco/gilt, sq Foolscap octavo over 6.5x4.5inches, xii + 244pp with index of first lines, quite clean boards rubbed & chafed with gilt titling on upper, bottom rear corner broken but taped internally, backstrip has disintegrated, front inner hinge reinforced with sellotape [DD* 25621] £4.50 ($7.00) |
Methodist Hymn-Book
Anon (Methodist Conference Office) London, 1933
First edition UK thus, out-of-print hardback in black morocco/gilt, sq Foolscap octavo over 6.5x4.5inches, xv + 446pp with indexes of first lines, verses & authors, translators and sources, quite clean bright covers, corners bumped with bottom rt chafed, owner's inscription to ffep, all-edges-gilt, textblock clean bright & unmarked except for [DD* 25622] £7.95 ($13.00) |
Book of Common Prayer And Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the Use of The Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches; and
Anon (for William Clowes & Sons at the University Press) Oxford, 1920
Out-of-print miniature hardback in black faux-leather/gilt, Ruby 32mo 4.5x3, 208pp with index & reference table of hymns in old & new editions, covers quite bright but edge-rubbed with gilt rubbed off, pseudo-raised spine bands, British crest blindstamped to both boards with legend 'Of [DD* 25623] £16.50 ($26.00) |
Rustic Greeting
Anon. (Ballantyne) London, 1909
1st printing, out-of-print hardback in olive cloth, Crown octavo over 7.5x5inches, 83 pp, only slightly marked boards, owner's name or signature inscribed on pastedown, ghosting on endpapers o/w clean bright textblock. VG. *see another X books of poems in the poetry section of our website. [LP 33230] £9.50 ($15.00) |
Some Moods of a Teacher In Peace and War. A record of the influence of the Great War on some common people in an obscure corner
Anon. (Chance & Bland) London, 1919
First edition, Memorial Fund copy for charity, out-of-print softback in printed linen-paper covers, Crown octavo over 7.5x5inches, 56 pp, no inscriptions, few age-spots o/w nice clean copy. VG. *see another X books of poems in the poetry section of our website. [LP 33243] £15.50 ($25.00) |
Poems. Early poems Narrative poems and Sonnets
Arnold, Matthew (Macmillan) London, 1885
First edition UK thus, out-of-print hardback in protected navy blue cloth/gilt, vii + 272pp with notes + adverts, nice clean bright boards with minimal shelf-wear, very lightly rubbed at extremities, unmarked colour endpapers, owner's inscription to flyleaf, very faint spotting to prelims & endpapers, textblock clean bright & unmarked, edges little dusty. [LL 17538] £49.50 ($79.00) |
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