Peter Pan or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up (The Uniform Edition of the Plays of J.M. Barrie)
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1928. First Edition. Crown 8vo. 5 x 7.375 in. xxx, [i], 160 pp. Blue cloth, with printed title lables to upper cover & spine.
MERRY ENGLAND
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Thomas Wolsey late Cardinal his Life and Death written by George Cavendish his gentleman-usher
London: Folio Society, 1962. First Folio Society Edition. 8vo. 5.75 x 8.625 in. 242 pp. Purple buckram blocked with gilt design, purple top-stain; presented in publisher's plain slipcase. With several black & white illustrations. A nice copy overall.
Humorous Poems
London: Macmillan, 1893. First Thus. Crown 8vo. 5.125 x 7.375 in. xxxi, [i blank], 236 pp. From Macmillan's charming Cranford series, bound in publisher's forest green cloth, elaborately decorated in extra gilt, all edges gilt. Profusely illustrated, with 130 black & white reproductions including tissue-guarded frontis., by CHARLES E. BROCK.....
The Poems of Henry Howard Earl of Surrey
London: Bell and Daldy, [1871]. First Thus, Second Printing. Small 8vo. 4.375 x 6.875 in. lxxiv, 180 pp. Bound by Zaehnsdorf in brown polished half-calf over reddish brown cloth, titled & ornamented in gilt on spine in six compartments, with dark brown morocco spine labels; marbled endpapers. Illustrated with decorated.....
Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters, Complete in One Volume
(New York): Harper Collins, (2003). First Thus. Demy 8vo. 5.75 x 8.5 in. 449 pp. Blue and grey paper boards in glossy blue pictorial dust jacket.
The Englishman in the Alps; Being a Collection of English Prose and Poetry Relating to the Alps
London: Oxford University Press, 1927. Second Edition. 16mo. 4.375 x 6.625 in. xx, 300 pp. Contemp. dark blue polished half-calf over blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine with 5 raised bands, top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. First published in 1913, this New Edition includes the Appendix 'In Praise of.....
Apologia pro Vita Sua; Being A History of his Religious Opinions
London: Sheed & Ward, 1948. Second Printing. Large Crown 8vo. 5.5 x 8 in. xv, 234 pp. Rebound by Zaehnsdorf in full red morocco, ruled & titled in gilt, with five raised bands, headbands, all edges gilt; elaborate gilt dentelles & bright red marbled endpapers. An exquisitely rebound copy of.....
English Pleasure Gardens
New York: Macmillan, 1902. First Edition. Large 8vo. 6.75 x 9.25 in. 324 pp. [+ 2 pp. adverts.]. Publisher's cream buckram, titled & decorated in gilt & green, top edge gilt. Tissue-guarded photographic frontis. Illustrated with 'eleven plans drawn by ALLEN H. COX, and nearly three hundred reproductions of original.....
This Burning Heat
New York: Sheed & Ward, 1941. First Edition. 8vo. 5.375 x 7.75 in. [x], 160 pp. Red cloth, titled in black on spine, in pictorial dust jacket. Maisie Ward's collection of letters & other writings from England during the blitz, reflecting on Divine Providence & human suffering and 'creating a......
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