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.
The Canterbury Tales
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1971). First Edition, First Printing. 8vo. 461 pp. Original burgundy cloth, in illustrated purple dust jacket. Edited with an introduction by JOHN HALVERSON. Uncommon. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; unmarked.
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.....
The Oxford Book of Ballads
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969. First Thus. Crown 8vo. 5 x 7.5 in. 711, [1 blank] pp. Publisher's Oxford blue cloth, titled and ornamented in gilt. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer, with his ownership signature in orange pencil to front flyleaf, and several notes in.....
Daily Missal with Vespers for Sundays and Feasts (Saint Andrew Daily Missal)
Bruges / London: Liturgical Apostolate (Abbey of St. André / Geo. E.J. Coldwell), 1924. First Edition. 32mo. 3.75 x 6.25 in. xxxvi, 1918 pp. + xiv, 81, iv, 32, [3 blanks] pp. Original black pebbled leatherette, titled in gilt on spine, Chi-Rho Christogram with Alpha & Omega stamped in blind.....
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.....
Shakespeares Sonnets; Being a Reproduction in Facsimile of the First Edition 1609 from the Copy in the Malone Collection in the Bodleian Library
Oxford: Clarendon Press, (1905). First Thus. 4to. 8.25 x 10 in. 71 pp. + facsimile pages. Uncut. Original full limp vellum, titled and ornamented in gilt. With introduction and bibliography by SIDNEY LEE. Limited edition, numbered 324 of 1000 copies.
Corrodies in the English Monasteries; A Study in English Social History of the Middle Ages
Philadelphia: University of Pennyslvania, 1923. First Edition. Thin 8vo. 6.125 x 9.125 in. 54, [2 blank] pp. Plain typographic wrappers, stapled. A Thesis in Medieval History, Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor.....
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......
A Myth of Shakespeare (Inklings Heritage Series)
Berkeley: Apocryphile Press, (2010). First Apocryphile Edition. 12mo. 146 pp. Original glossy wrappers. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; unmarked.
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