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Hardcover. 292pp. Lightly bumped top corners else near new condition, covers bright, text clean and binding tight without a dust jacket.

paperback. Condizione: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Significantly worn exterior; text block has light age toning and waving, as well as slightly shaken spine, but is readable. 368 pages. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. ORIGINAL PUBLICATION; HARDCOVER; hinges a bit shaken with paper covering of hinge split; o/w in good condition. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. This is a small format hardback book (approx. 6" x 4"). The book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and wear. The text pages are generally clean, though there is some light generalized toning / yellowing. "Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 27 December 1834) was an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb (17641847). Friends with such literary luminaries as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth and William Hazlitt, Lamb was at the centre of a major literary circle in England. He has been referred to by E. V. Lucas, his principal biographer, as "the most lovable figure in English literature". ".

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. ORIGINAL PUBLICATION; HARDCOVER; ex-library; corners bumped, o/w in very good condition. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good-. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; Tenth Printing. 10th Printing (1904) of the First edition of 1878. Dates of all previous printings given on copyright page. Printed by R. Clarke, Edinburgh. (xvii, 377pages, 4 page of ads in rear, all advertising the Golden Treasury Series, dated "10.12.04") Very good minus in royal blue cloth with gilt titles on spine, and gilt "GTS" lozenge on front board; edgewear and scuffing to head and tail of spine, gutters and corners, two 1/4 inch drip spots on front board; tidemark on bottom corner of front endpaper, frontis and tissue guard (about one inch by one inch, not affecting text; text is unmarked. Literature. ; Golden Treasury Series; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 368 pages.

No Binding. Condizione: VG+. A G/VG or better complete set of eight original release 11 x 14 lobby cards. Size: 11" X 14". Poster.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. with 8 colour plates and line drawings in the text by Arthur Rackham (illustratore). Reprint. Jacket is price clipped, there are tears, scuffing and creases on it. Reprint of an edition first published in 1957.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good condition. Condizione sovraccoperta: dj. xxvi, 832 pp. Dustjacket. LCC: 9144272.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Permanent Photography from the Boydell Gallery (illustratore). This book is in good condition. On the front cover is embossed The Abbey School. Beckenham. On the inside of the front cover is a book plate from The Abbey School. Beckenham. Summer Term 1878. " Adjudged to Clifton being the Prize for History & Geography in the 1st Class." Signed by a Mr. T. Floyd Phillifs, M.A. The hinge is loose on the front cover. There is wear along the edges of the boards. There is soiling along the edges of the pages. There is foxing along the edges of the pages. The lithographs are wonderful. The spine is covered with gold art work in six sections. Leather. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Shakespearean Tales.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 128 pages. Stephen Spender "A. Modern Writer In Search Of A Moral Subject" / C E M Joad "A Philosopher Looks At America" / E V Lucas "Recollections Of Charles Lamb" / W B Yeats "Supernatural Songs" (poetry) / W G Constable "Art In Industry - At Burlington House" / Julian Ward "Courage" / Arnold Palmer "The Two O'Clock At Manchester" / G R Malloch "The Hero".

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. (USA) Edition Not Stated Owner's name in pencil, pages generally clean, hinges solid, wear to the edges of cover showing the boards beneath the cover paper, some rubbing to head of leather spine with tiny tear there, Good only copy; no dust jacket as published. 14 x 10 cm, quarter green leather with 5 raised bands and titles in gold, patterned end papers, top edge gilt, 402pp. Tissue-protected frontis and B&W plates. This book first appeared in 1807. Mary Lamb is responsidble for the comedies and Charles for the tragedies. Mary's name didn't even appear on the first few editions even though the book's success is more attributable to her. (1.3 Jm HOQ 100/2 Size: 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall.

Cloth / Embossed. Illustrated with Engravings (illustratore). Hardback : hard cover edition in good or better condition, some slight wear to edges, as normal for age of book. Gutter crack at ffep, remainder of book is clean, and tighly bound. Excellent read. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand. Or would make a great gift for the fan / reader in your life. Please send us a note if you have any questions. Thank you. Book.

Half-Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 395 numbered pp; HB. Pages: clean, bright, tight, portrait frontis; a.e. tanned, front hinge starting. Cover: decorative wood veneer boards, green backstrip, green titles front, gilt titles spine; modest shelfwear, extrems moderately worn. A charming little book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. Part of The New English series edited by E E Speight with an introduction by George Birdwood, third edition revised. Grey/blue cloth hard cover with dark titles on front, and cover wear involves some discolouration of boards and wear to spine ends with thin split of front hinge. Frontispiece with tissue guard, xx, 100 pages. Published in 1905 this relatively scarce volume is in fair to good condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 12 by 8 cm, all page edges gilt, 186+117+123 pages. In Navy blue binding with gilt line edging front cover and gilt flour du lys decorating spine. Wear to all edges and corners, still solidly bound.Bound by W Bone and son Fleet st. sticker to rear endpaper. ALSO Sheridan and Goldsmith Vol 2., W Kent and co, 1884. 10 by 6 cm size, 312 pages all edges gilt. Mia blue cover, wear , rear hinge loose.

Oficial. Condizione: Excellent condition. 372pp.

Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, (illustratore). xii, 31, [1] p. Nine hand coloured plates, facsimile of the original printed wrapper on blue paper, line drawings in the text. No 300 of 500 copies. Signed by the Publisher. Half Japanese vellum binding with blue paper boards. Lettered in gilt on front board. Spine and boards a little dusty. Endpaper lightly toned, otherwise the contents are clean, crisp and bright. A very good copy.

On upper half of a piece of quarto paper, unevenly torn to make a piece roughly 11 x 18.5 cm. Fair: on aged paper. Part of address from previous letter to 'W. Jerdan | 267 Strand ' on reverse, which is docketed 'Procter | Miss Proby | Cornwalls poems'. Reads 'I inclose you a note left here for you | George says he will review the book for you next week - in the meantime give a flourish in your notice - 'The time does not admit of doing just to the vol. &c &c We are all a Party in this success -'. Jerdan acquired the premises at 267 Strand with his purchase of 'The Satirist' from George Manners, and retained them during the early days of his editorship of the 'Literary Gazette' (beginning circa 1819).

See his entry, and those of his brother and Kenney, in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. Bifolium. Twenty-two lines of text, addressed to 'C. L. Kenney Esq' and signed 'Aug: Mayhew'. In good condition, lightly aged, with thin strip of glue from mount adhering to blank reverse of second leaf. Begins: 'Dear Charlie/ Of course, we have to act under legal guidance. I will submit your letter to Mr Clare, for his opinion, but do not make yourself too sure of receiving the legacy, as your son's guardian.' He will submit Kenney's letter to Clare, but the matter having been discussed, 'the opinion was rather plainly stated, that the legacy must be invested for the benefit of the infant, & kept at interest until he reached his 21st year, the legacy being intended for the benefit of the infant, & the non-carrying out of that intention being at the risk of the Trustees of the will.'.

Condizione: Very Good. Original single sheet folded souvenir theatre programme 7½'' x 5'' with black lettering. In Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. THEATRE PROGRAMMES.

12mo, 1 p. Text clear and complete. Fair, on lightly-aged paper. Lucas's handwriting is not straightforward, and the recipient's name is unclear. His 'Shakespeare drawings' are 'first rate'. Lucas retires 'into private life again' on the Monday, when 'O. S.' returns.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. H. M. Brock; Charles E. Brock (illustratore). A lovely collection of books published by J. M. Dent & Co. with illustrations from C. E. Brock and H. M. Brock. Early illustrated editions in original publisher's bindings of four books published by J. M. Dent & Co. in 1902 and 1917. Includes the following books:The Professor at the Breakfast Tableand The Autocrat of the Breakfast Oliver Wendell Holmes (1902).As part of a volume of three, the'Breakfast-table' series was the poet's breakthrough. This series of table talk books was inspired by and aimed to mimic the conversational pleasantries and debates that occur around the breakfast table.The Professor includes 47 illustrations throughout the text and The Autocratincludes 51, including the front pieces which are monochrome plates. Illustrations by H. M. Brock.The Professorhas an ink inscription from prior owner to the recto of the first free endpaper.The Essays of Elia, Charles Lamb (1902).This collection of essays first appeared inThe London Magazine in 1820. His popular essays were credited for their conversational tone.Includes an introduction by Augustine Birrell and 69 illustrations by Charles E. Brock including a monochrome plate as the front piece.Includes an ink inscription from prior owners to the front pastedown.Pebbles on the Shore, Alpha of the Plough (1917).Also known as Alfred George Gardiner,Pebbles was one of many collections of essays written under this pseudonym.Includes 99 illustrations by Charles E. Brock throughout the text and a monochrome plate as the front piece. In original publisher's cloth bindings. Externally, smart. There is some bumping to the heads and tails to the spine resulting in some wear, in particular to 'The Professor'. There is minor bumping to the extremities. The boards are slightly marked and faded. The front hinges to 'The autocrat' and 'Pebbles' are starting but firm. 'Elia' has an ink inscription from prior owners to the front pastedown. 'The Professor' has an ink inscription from prior owner to the recto of the first free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. There is some spotting to the title page and front piece to 'Autocrat'. Very Good. book.

On 7.5 x 14 cm piece of laid paper, laid down on part of a leaf from an album. In fair condition, on aged and spotted paper. The letter reads: 'G Dr. respects to Miss Lusada - begs she will please to accept the enclosed - 3 more Letters will follow - wch. shall be sent. to Miss Lusada - Dr. is gone to dine with Mr. Morgan, who desires his Compts. and informs Miss L. that he will send to her soon the little Mathematician'. The recipient was in fact Abigail Lousada, the bluestocking daughter of Isaac Barrow Lousada [sic] of Devonshire Square. See her obituary in the Gentleman's Magazine, April 1833, where her 'superior talents' are described. She translated the works of the Greek mathematician Diophantus into English, and in 1817 Benjamin Gompertz dedicated his 'Hints on Porisms' to her, declaring: 'the mathematical studies are among the number of your scientific researches'.

First Edition. THE BRIC-A-BRAC SERIES, Scribner & Armstrong, 1874 -1876, first editions, 10 volumes complete, spines uniformly tanned, some slight chipping to the spine extremities of several of the volumes, else a tight, bright vg+ set in the publishers original highly decorated gold and black pictorial stamped cloth. This series contains personal reminiscences of famous novelists, poets, wits, humorists, actors, artists, musicians and the like, each edited by Richard Henry Stoddard. Some contributors are PROSPER MERIMEE, Charles Dickens, Willaim Thakeray, Charles Lamb, Walter Hazlitt, Henry Fothergill Chorley, J. R. Planchà , Julian Charles Young, The Greville memoirs, Thomas Ingoldsby, William Harness, George Hodder,Thomas Moore, William Jerdan, John O'Keeffe, Michael Kelly, John Taylor, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Thomas Raikes, Archibald Constable, R. P. Gillies, et.al.

1. ALS from Lower Street, n.d. (but 1827 when Hood left 50 Lower Street) to unnamed correspondent, probably the editor of the Literary Gazette, William Jerdan, 27 lines on 2pp 8vo. Hood writes of a parcel gone astray, sale of his lease and now that he 'is nearer to you, I think I can be useful to the Gazette.'. 2. ALS from 2 Robert Street Adelphi, n.d. (paper watermarked 1826, probably written in 1828), 1p 4to, thanking his publisher for a copy of Hood's Gems, particularly the 'handsome bound copy' and referring to good notices. Hood lived at Robert Street 1828-30; this may concern Whims and Oddities, the first series published by Lupton Relfe, the second series by Hurst, Chance. 3. ALS from 17, Elm Tree Road, St. John's Wood, 'Looking down upon Lords' to Edward Moxon, publisher, (December 1841), 20 lines on 1p 8vo, advising him of his new address: 'I have had no time to bring you a card.'. 4. ALS from Devonshire Lodge, New Finchley Road, St. John's Wood, 28 Feby. (1845), to an unnamed correspondent, 18 lines on 1p 8vo, laid on piece, bookplate of Stephen Coleridge to verso. Acknowledging authorship of his most famous poem, The Song of the Shirt: 'My Old friends Bradbury and Evans. could show you the documents conclusive on the subject. But I trust my authority will be sufficient as it comes from a man on his death bed.'. Thomas Hood, 1799-1845, close friend of Lamb (see: Walter Jerrold's Thomas Hood and Charles Lamb, 1930). They were colleagues at the London Magazine and joined in opposing William Henry Bodkin's drive against vagrancy and rough sleeping in London. PLEASE NOTE: For customers within the UK this item is subject to VAT at 20%.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB, which states that he had two children - Charles Horace Kenney and the actress Rosa Kenney - by his marriage to Miss Rosa Stewart at the Paris embassy in 1859. 4pp, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. On bifolium, with thin strip of tape from mount adhering to the reverse of the second leaf. Folded once. Sixty-six lines of text, addressed to 'Dearest Wife' and signed 'Your affectionate husband / C. L. Kenney.' Begins: 'I dare say you have thought it unkind of me not to write for so many days, but the fact is I had nothing to say that was either interesting or particularly pleasant, for I have been very dull and [?] as well as out of health.' Besides a visit from 'Mrs Jeafferson' he has been 'engaged the whole time writing letters to and receiving visits of governesses. The number of ladies who were seen to enter my house on those days must have made the neighbours fancy I was indemnifying myself for your absence at a nice rate. You are sure to hear of it on your return.' A pigeon pie supplied by Mrs Jeafferson has been 'polished off in no time' by him and 'the boys'. He wishes he could have 'added my little quota' to her birthday presents, but 'Jack' brought something with him 'from the Exhibition'. He intended to have his 'photographic portrait done en carte de visite but the weather has been so dark'. He wants to 'bring Sallie a photograph of some statue in the Exhibition [?]. What would she like? The Reading Girl? The Dream of Joy? or what?' He complains of the weather, then refers to 'Mrs & Miss Jerdan'. He then writes: 'I have seen Dick Lee whom I took on Sunday to see the Picture Gallery. The same day I dined with Thackeray who was very kind in his enquries afer you & the babies., so were the Miss T's. Miss Crook asked also kindly for them. Kiss them both well for me and tell them I will bring them a penny toy or piece from dear old London - Also [same old?] of the [German Court?].'.

Both items excessively scarce, with the only copies traced on OCLC WorldCat and COPAC at the British Library. The leaves of both have been separated, but comparison with other copies confirms that they are both complete, and otherwise in good condition, with slight wear, and the two leaves of the second item laid down on a piece of paper. ONE: By 'J. M. G.' Title-page: 'The Old Oaken Chair: | Addressed to | Different Members of his Family. | By J. M. G.' 8pp., 12mo. A neat production, originally on two bifoliums. Gutch's name completed in pencil on title-page, with note: 'Only 12 printed'. Prefatory note: 'WRITTEN in my 76th year, upon receiving from my Brother, GEORGE GUTCH, an OAKEN CHAIR, as a companion to a curiously carved LIBRARY TABLE he had previously sent me.' The poem, in blank verse, covers pp.5-8, and begins: 'OLD OAKEN CHAIR! I love thy antique form, | Thou bring'st to my remembrance the review | Of by-gone days and scenes; - the love I bear | To him, who sent another gift to suit | This room, the shelves of which contain | Volumes of early lore, of poetry divine; | Of that which helps to meditation, | And recalls the mind from earth to heav'n.' The poem refers to the loss of a parent (his wife?), 'kind Mary Anne'. The latter part of the poem concerns the travels in the Aegean of his son J. W. G. Gutch, with six footnotes, the first two reading: 'My son, a Queen's Foreign Messenger, was at this period sent with despatches to Sir William Parker and Mr. Wyse, respecting the settlement of the affairs of Greece.' and 'After delivering the despatches, he was permitted to land at Athens, and had sufficient time and opportunity to visit the celebrated classical scenes which surround the city.' TWO (by 'H. B. T.)': Title-page: 'The Old Oaken Chair. | Dedcated | (without permission) | to | Mrs. Gutch.' 2pp., 12mo. Originally a bifolium, with title-page on recto of the first leaf and poem on the recto of the second. Uniform in design with Item One. Poem dated at end: 'H. B. T. | Worcester, | 7th October, 1850.' Twelve-line poem in three four-line stanzas: 'FULL many chairs on dais placed, | Have held both knaves and fools; | Some who their Country's cause betrayed, | Some who were party's tools. | But here's an honest chair of oak, | Which holds an honest man; | Whose life will bear the scrutiny | Of Honour's closest scan. | Dear Madam, let me breathe a wish, | (As you will breathe a prayer,) | That years may pass ere you shall sigh, | "Ah! there's the VACANT CHAIR!"'.

Both poems excessively scarce, with the only copies traced on OCLC WorldCat and COPAC at the British Library. The three items wrapped in letterhead of 'Merrixton House, | near Stepaside, | Pembrokeshire', with anonymous manuscript note, dated 3 July 1915, stating that 'only about a dozen copies were printed'. (Another copy consulted bears the pencil note 'Only 12 printed'.) ONE: By 'J. M. G.' Title-page: 'The Old Oaken Chair: | Addressed to | Different Members of his Family. | By J. M. G.' 8pp., 12mo. A neat production on two bifoliums, unbound and unstitched. In good condition, lightly aged. Prefatory note: 'WRITTEN in my 76th year, upon receiving from my Brother, GEORGE GUTCH, an OAKEN CHAIR, as a companion to a curiously carved LIBRARY TABLE he had previously sent me.' The poem, in blank verse, covers pp.5-8, and begins: 'OLD OAKEN CHAIR! I love thy antique form, | Thou bring'st to my remembrance the review | Of by-gone days and scenes; - the love I bear | To him, who sent another gift to suit | This room, the shelves of which contain | Volumes of early lore, of poetry divine; | Of that which helps to meditation, | And recalls the mind from earth to heav'n.' The poem refers to the loss of a parent (his wife?), 'kind Mary Anne'. The latter part of the poem concerns the travels in the Aegean of his son J. W. G. Gutch, with six footnotes, the first two reading: 'My son, a Queen's Foreign Messenger, was at this period sent with despatches to Sir William Parker and Mr. Wyse, respecting the settlement of the affairs of Greece.' and 'After delivering the despatches, he was permitted to land at Athens, and had sufficient time and opportunity to visit the celebrated classical scenes which surround the city.' TWO: Another copy of Item One. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn, with the leaves detached and folded and mounted on stubs. Autograph note by Gutch on the title page: 'To his dear Daughter | Frances Gutch'. The Oxford DNB states that Gutch's only child was his son J. W. G. Gutch. THREE: By 'H. B. T.' Title-page: 'The Old Oaken Chair. | Dedicated | (without permission) | to | Mrs. Gutch.' 2pp., 12mo. Bifolium, with title-page on recto of the first leaf and poem on the recto of the second. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn, with discoloration and slight damage along gutter. Uniform in design with Item One. Poem dated at end: 'H. B. T. | Worcester, | 7th October, 1850.' Twelve-line poem in three four-line stanzas: 'FULL many chairs on dais placed, | Have held both knaves and fools; | Some who their Country's cause betrayed, | Some who were party's tools. | But here's an honest chair of oak, | Which holds an honest man; | Whose life will bear the scrutiny | Of Honour's closest scan. | Dear Madam, let me breathe a wish, | (As you will breathe a prayer,) | That years may pass ere you shall sigh, | "Ah! there's the VACANT CHAIR!"'.