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“Plain or Ringlets?”, in twelve parts
- £20.00
- Robert Smith Surtees (1805-1864) was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer, widely known as R. S. Surtees. He was the second son of Anthony Surtees of Hamsterley Hall, a member of an old County Durham family. He is remembered for his invented character of Jorrocks, a vulgar but good-natured…
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Continual Dew, a little book of bourgeois verse
- £25.00
- Facsimile edition of Betjeman's second book of verse but the first to have wide readership (first published in 1937, with illustrations by Osbert Lancaster and de Cronin Hastings.
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Down-Adown-Derry: a book of Fairy Poems (limited & SIGNED)
- £400.00
- Limited and signed first edition of de la Mare's children's anthology of fairy poems, illustrated by the American artist Dorothy P. Lathrop (this was the second of six de la Mare books she would go on to illustrate during the following two decades). A numbered limited edition in vellum.
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Merry Mr. Punch
- £25.00
- From the 'Larger Dumpy Books for Children' series (which I suppose is a reasonable description of the book. It is all very silly and not a little violent.
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Roughing it, and, The Innocents at Home
- £20.00
- A fascinating picture of the American frontier emerges from Twain's fictionalized recollections of his experiences prospecting for gold, speculating in timber, and writing for a succession of small Western newspapers during the 1860s. Combined with Innocents at Home.
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Secret Seven on the Trail (book 4)
- £30.00
- Solve the mystery with the Secret Seven - everyone's favourite detective club! In book four, something mysterious is going on at Tigger's Barn, and the Secret Seven are intrigued. Peter thinks it's all just gossip, but Jack isn't so sure when he overhears a strange conversation. It looks like the…
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The Life And Strange Surprising Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe
- £30.00
- First published in 1719, presented as an autobiography in epistolary, confessional and didactic form. Thought to be based on the life of Alexander Selkirk, held to be first English novel. Beautiful edition with 120 b/w illustrations by Paget.
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The students’ quarter; or, Paris five-and thirty years since
- £30.00
- Thackeray's memoir of his time in Paris as a student in 1839-40. Title page states Camden Hotten as publisher but Chatto and Windus publisher in gilt at bottom of spine. With 5 handcoloured plates presumed to be by the author.
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“Plain or Ringlets?”, in twelve parts
- £20.00
- Robert Smith Surtees (1805-1864) was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer, widely known as R. S. Surtees. He was the second son of Anthony Surtees of Hamsterley Hall, a member of an old County Durham family. He is remembered for his invented character of Jorrocks, a vulgar but good-natured…
- Add to basket
-
Continual Dew, a little book of bourgeois verse
- £25.00
- Facsimile edition of Betjeman's second book of verse but the first to have wide readership (first published in 1937, with illustrations by Osbert Lancaster and de Cronin Hastings.
- Add to basket
-
Down-Adown-Derry: a book of Fairy Poems (limited & SIGNED)
- £400.00
- Limited and signed first edition of de la Mare's children's anthology of fairy poems, illustrated by the American artist Dorothy P. Lathrop (this was the second of six de la Mare books she would go on to illustrate during the following two decades). A numbered limited edition in vellum.
- Add to basket
-
Merry Mr. Punch
- £25.00
- From the 'Larger Dumpy Books for Children' series (which I suppose is a reasonable description of the book. It is all very silly and not a little violent.
- Add to basket
-
Roughing it, and, The Innocents at Home
- £20.00
- A fascinating picture of the American frontier emerges from Twain's fictionalized recollections of his experiences prospecting for gold, speculating in timber, and writing for a succession of small Western newspapers during the 1860s. Combined with Innocents at Home.
- Add to basket
-
Secret Seven on the Trail (book 4)
- £30.00
- Solve the mystery with the Secret Seven - everyone's favourite detective club! In book four, something mysterious is going on at Tigger's Barn, and the Secret Seven are intrigued. Peter thinks it's all just gossip, but Jack isn't so sure when he overhears a strange conversation. It looks like the…
- Add to basket
-
The Life And Strange Surprising Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe
- £30.00
- First published in 1719, presented as an autobiography in epistolary, confessional and didactic form. Thought to be based on the life of Alexander Selkirk, held to be first English novel. Beautiful edition with 120 b/w illustrations by Paget.
- Add to basket
-
The students’ quarter; or, Paris five-and thirty years since
- £30.00
- Thackeray's memoir of his time in Paris as a student in 1839-40. Title page states Camden Hotten as publisher but Chatto and Windus publisher in gilt at bottom of spine. With 5 handcoloured plates presumed to be by the author.
- Add to basket