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SITWELL, Osbert. Open the door!: A volume of Stories. London. Macmillan & Co., 1941. First edition. 8vo. v, [1], 281pp, [1]. Original publisher's burgundy cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Minor shelf-wear, dustwrapper rubbed and chipped. Internally clean and crisp. Inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'For / S. H. Gray / from / Osbert Sitwell / January 1942'. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 27107
[SKETCH]. A sketch from nature. A rural poem. London. Printed for Gale, Curtis, and Fenner et al., 1814. First edition. 8vo. vi, [3], 10-53pp, [1]. With half-title. Original publisher's drab paper boards, Extremities a trifle rubbed. Lightly spotted. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 17185
SKINNER, Rev. John. Amusements of Leisure Hours: Or Poetical Pieces, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect: By the Late Reverend John Skinner; At Longside, Aberdeenshire. To Which is Prefixed, a Sketch of the Author's Life, with Some Remarks on Scottish Poetry. Edinbugh. Printed By John Moir...and Sold By Stuart Cheyne...by Alexander Brown, 1809. First Edition. 12mo in 6s. 164pp. Uncut in original publisher's drab boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Rubbed, with some cracking to joints and a little loss to spine. Ink inscription to head of title. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 31805
SKINNER, Rev. John. Amusements of Leisure Hours: Or Poetical Pieces, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect: By the Late Reverend John Skinner; At Longside, Aberdeenshire. To Which is Prefixed, a Sketch of the Author's Life, with Some Remarks on Scottish Poetry. Edinburgh. Printed By John Moir...and Sold By Stuart Cheyne...by Alexander Brown, 1809. First edition. 8vo. 144pp. Original publisher's paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed, joints cracked, loss to spine and bumped corners. Ink inscription to title, occasional foxing. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 12051
SLEATH, Frederick. Sniper jackson. London. Herbert Jenkins, 1919. Second edition. 8vo. 303pp, [1]. Original publisher's red cloth, ruled and lettered in black. Lightly rubbed and marked, cocked, spine sunned. Book-label of J. S. Dykes to recto of FFEP, leaves browned. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 32084
SMALL, James. A treatise on ploughs and wheel carriages. Edinburgh. Printed for the Author, and sold by W. Creech and C. Elliot, 1784. First edition. 8vo. [6], 255pp, [1]. With four engraved plates (three folding). Uncut and partially unopened in original publisher's two-tone paper boards, recently rebacked to style, with recent paper lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed and marked. Some marking to title, and occasional light spotting to text; front free endpaper no longer present. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 32888
SMART, William. A short discourse (After sermon) Recommending the Service and Prayers of the Church; Delivered in a Meeting-House in Edinburgh, September 28th. 1712... Edinburgh. Printed by James Watson, 1712. First edition. Quarto. 12pp. Bound by Maclehose of Glasgow, nineteenth century calf-backed marbled board, lettered in gilt to spine. Rubbed. Book-label of J. R. P. Forrest to FEP, head of text-block shaved (with loss to running-title at times), loss to title page (not touching text), paper repairs to verso of title and fore-edge of the majority of leaves. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28591
S[MEDLEY], M[enella]. The story of queen isabel and other verses. London. Bell and Daldy, 1863. First edition. 8vo. vi, 111, [1], 31pp, [1]. With a half-title and a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's blind-stamped navy cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed and bumped. Internally clean and crisp. Inked ownership inscriptions to half-title: 'Mrs. Edward Smedley / Jan. 31st. 1863' and 'Fanny H. Wallace / Sept: 7 1865'. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 29694
[SMILEWELL, Samuel]. The art of joking; or, an essay on witticism; in the manner of Mr. Pope's essay on criticism: with Proper Examples to the Risible Rules. To which is addedd The laws of laughing, and the contrast, or A Joke and a Jest, In small compass exprest. London. Printed for Joseph Deveulle, [s.d., 1774?] First edition. 8vo. 63pp, [1]. With a half-title. Uncut. Stitched, as issued. Closed central horizontal tear to browned and stained half-title. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 25733
SMITH, Arthur D. Howden. The real colonel house. London. Hodder and Stoughton, [c.1918]. First edition. 8vo. xi, [2], 13-306pp. With half-title, a monochrome photographic frontispiece and five plates. Original red cloth, lettered in black. Slightly rubbed, spine sunned, corners bumped. One plate detached, lightly foxed. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 14516
[SMITH, Charles], [HARRIS, Walter]. The Antient and Present State of the County of Down. Containing A Chorographical Description, with the Natural and Civil History of the same... Dublin. Printed by A. Reilly, For Edward Exshaw, 1744. First edition. 8vo. xx, 271pp, [21]. With a large engraved folding map. Contemporary tree-calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Lightly rubbed. Later armorial bookplate to FEP M.A. of Dublin, and a member of the Irish Bar, Daniel De La Cherois (1825- 1905) of Donaghadee, County Down, inked ownership inscription to head of title: 'Danl. De La Cherois / Donaghadee 29 Decr. 1859', typed note (signed by De La ... More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 30940
SMITH, Charles John. Historical and literary curiosities, consisting of fac-similes of original documents; scenes of remarkable events and interesting localities; and birth-places, residences, portraits, and monuments, of eminent literary characters; with a variety of reliques and antiquities connected with the same subjects. London. Henry G. Bohn, 1845. First edition in book form. Quarto. [2], viii, [96]pp. With 95 engraved plates (five of them folding and nine with contemporary hand-colouring) and five woodcut vignettes. Original publisher's brown half-morocco, marbled boards, ruled and lettered in gilt, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. With a 4pp publisher's prospectus loosely inserted. With a tipped-in single sheet A.L.S. from the author to an unidentified recipient: 'Dear Sir, Iam going ... More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 19510
SMITH, Elizabeth. Poems on malvern. Worcester. Printed and sold by T. Eaton & Son, 1834. Second edition. 8vo. 116pp. Original publisher's dark green cloth, title lettered in gilt to upper board. Lightly rubbed and marked, with scratches and damp-staining to boards. Front hinge detached at title. Endpapers browned, light scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 34120