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Photo of "The story of little dombey"
DICKENS, Charles. The story of little dombey. London. Bradbury & Evans, 1858. First edition, first issue. 16mo. [2], 121pp, [3]. With a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary dark green half-morocco, tooled in gilt and black, marbled paper boards, T.E.G. Original publisher's green pictorial wrappers bound in. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Very occasional light spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 30819
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BROOKE, Richard Sinclair. The story of parson annaly. Dublin. George Drought, 1870. First edition. 8vo. [2], 429pp., [2]. With a tipped-in errata slip. Original publisher's half-calf with gilt-tooled morocco lettering piece. Rubbed, with wear to corners and edges. Marbled endpapers and edges. Pencilled inscription to FFEP: 'M Rolleston, 1908'. Inked presentation inscription to page [iii]: 'To William Grahame Brooke. from his loving father R. S. Brooke. Wyton. Christmas 1870'. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 32053
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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
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STATHAM, E[dward] [Phillips]. The story of the "britannia" the training ship for naval cadets; with some account of previous methods of naval education, and of the new scheme of 1903. London, Paris, New York and Melbourne. Cassell and Company, Limited, 1904. First edition. 8vo. xii, 274pp. With a lithograph frontispiece and numerous in-text photographic and engraved illustrations. Original publisher's gilt-decorated navy cloth boards. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine dulled, with light wear to extremities. Inked ownership inscription of Cyril H. G. Benson, 'joined "Britannia" 1899', to FFEP, along with two further inscriptions relating to Captain Blake, Royal Navy 'Killed at Namsos 1939'. Endpapers browned. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 34800
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KING, C. Cooper. The story of the british army. London. Methuen & Co., 1897. First edition. 8vo. x, 426, 48pp publisher's catalogue. With a half-title, photographic portrait frontispiece, and 32 monochrome plates of maps, plans, and illustrations. Original publisher's gilt-tooled red cloth. Extremities a trifle soiled, spine sunned. Internally clean and crisp but for foxing to blank endpapers and publisher's catalogue, recent armorial bookplate to FEP of Cefntilla, family seat of the Raglan baronetcy. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 13630
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CARRICK, J. C., Rev.. The story of the burning bush. A simple narrative of the church of scotland. Edinburgh. James G. Hitt, 1890. First edition. 8vo. 119pp, [1]. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in black. A trifle rubbed, marked, and bumped, spine sunned. Internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'To the Most Noble the Marquess of Lothian KJ. With sincere respect from His Humble and Obedient servant The Author' More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21913
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SHERWOOD, Mrs. [Mary Martha]. The stranger at home. London. Printed for Houlston and Son, 1830. 12mo. 65pp, [5]. With an engraved frontispiece and two final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's green paper-backed printed buff paper boards. Extremities worn and marked, loss to spine, pen-trials to upper board, lower board held by cords only. Upper margin of first leaf of text shaved, two early manuscript corrects to text, inked gift inscription to verso of RFEP. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 28705
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LIEBER, Francis. The stranger in america; or, letters to a gentleman in germany: comprising sketches of the manners, society, and national peculiarities of the united states. Philadelphia. Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1835. First edition, second issue. 8vo. 356pp, [8]. With four final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Uncut in original publisher's dark green cloth-backed green paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Extremities marked and worn. Upper hinge exposed, foxed and creased throughout. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 21925
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[COBB, James]. The strangers at home; a Comic Opera, In Three Acts: As performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane.. London. Printed for Harrison & Co., 1786. Second edition. 80pp. With an engraved title page. ESTC T55507.

[Bound with:] [MURPHY, Arthur]. The way to keep him: a comedy. Performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane. London. Printed for T. Cadell, 1787. vi, 121pp, [2]. ESTC T45419.

[And:] The first floor; a farce. In two acts. As it is now acting At the Theatre Royal in drury lane. London. Printed for C. Dilly, 1787. 54pp. ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 34342
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LAMPLUGH, Lois . The stream way. London. Golden Galley Press Limited, 1948. First edition. 8vo. 137pp, with 9 original full colour lithographs. Original publisher's pale cloth boards lettered in brown, with the unclipped green decorative dust wrapper. Internally bright and clean. Corners bumped, spine a trifle cocked, wrapper slightly worn and marked. Inscribed to Henry Williamson from the author on the half-title. A.LS. from the author to Williamson loosely inserted. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28337
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MORTIMER, Thomas. The student's pocket dictionary; or, compendium of universal history, chronology, and biography. From the earliest Accounts to the present Time. With authorities. In two parts. Part I. containing a compendium of universal history. Part II. containing a compendium of biography. London. Printed for J. Johnson, 1777. First edition. 12mo. In two parts. [112pp]; [258pp]. With a half-title. Contemporary calf, paper lettering-piece with title in manuscript. Rubbed, partially repaired surface loss to lower board, some splitting to joints but boards holding, loss to head and foot of spine, lettering-piece chipped. Upper hinge cracked, near contemporary ink inscription to FEP of 'C. Bendal, 1779', light toning to leaf margins. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 13105
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[GLEIG, George Robert]. The subaltern. Edinburgh. William Blackwood, 1828. Third edition. 12mo. 372pp. Contemporary half-calf, marbled paper boards, tooled in gilt and blind. Heavily rubbed, without lettering-piece. Hinges exposed, bookplate of Nelson Matcham to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 11976
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[HOBHOUSE, John Cam, Baron Broughton De Gyfford]. The substance of some letters, written by an englishman resident at paris during the last reign of the emperor napoleon... London. Printed for Ridgways, 1816. First edition. 8vo. In two volumes. [3], vi-xv, [1], 490; [2], 253, [1], 135pp, [1]. Without half-titles. Contemporary half-calf, marbled paper boards, contrasting red and green morocco lettering-pieces. Lightly rubbed, spines dulled. Armorial bookplates of Kilberry to FEPs, book-labels of Kilberry to title pages, scattered spotting. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 32458
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YOUNGHUSBAND, Sir Francis. The sum of things. London. John Murray, [1939]. First edition. 8vo. vii, [1], 149pp, [1]. With a half-title. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt, with original publisher's printed buff paper dustwrapper. A trifle rubbed and cocked, dustwrapper browned, a trifle stained, chipped at edges. Endpapers browned. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'Daisy Kleinwort with much love from Francis Younghusband. May 1939'. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 29583
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LEDGER, Edmund. The sun: its planets and their satellites. A Course of Lectures upon the solar system... London. Edward Stanford, 1882. First edition. 8vo. xiv, [2], 432pp. With a half-title, a folding lithographed frontispiece, a further five lithographed plates, three Woodburytype plates, and 94 woodcut illustrations in the text. Original publisher's pictorial green cloth, stamped in gilt and black. Lightly rubbed, spind dulled, a trifle cocked. Initial six gatherings dampstained at fore-edge, frontispiece torn at gutter. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of half-title: 'With the Author's Compliments 13/1/83'. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 34852