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The Dream and the Business.
BEARDSLEY, Aubrey; HOBBES, John Oliver [pseud. RICHARDS, Pearl Mary Teresa].Original price $1,095.00 - Original price $1,095.00Original price $0.00$1,095.00$1,095.00 - $1,095.00Current price $1,095.00| /In the original dust-jacket. The first edition of Hobbes'/Richards' last work, as she died unexpectedly that same year. This copy in the remarkably...
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Keats.
[DOVES PRESS]; KEATS, John; COBDEN-SANDERSON, Thomas James (selected & arranged by).Original price $3,540.00 - Original price $3,540.00Original price $0.00$3,540.00$3,540.00 - $3,540.00Current price $3,540.00| /After establishing the Doves Bindery in 1893, Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson partnered with Emery Walker to found the Doves Press in 1901. Alongsid...
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Crazy Tales.
[STEVENSON, John Hall].Original price $194.00 - Original price $194.00Original price $0.00$194.00$194.00 - $194.00Current price $194.00| /A poetic satire originally published in 1762, by a notorious friend of Laurence Sterne and author of Makarony Fables (1768).Number 147 of 210 copi...
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Almanach...
BOUTET, Henri.Original price $1,223.00 - Original price $1,223.00Original price $0.00$1,223.00$1,223.00 - $1,223.00Current price $1,223.00| /A great run of this neat French almanac published under the aegis of French engraver & illustrator Henri Boutet, nicknamed 'little master of c...
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London Types.
NICHOLSON, William (illustrator); HENLEY, W.E.Original price $1,288.00 - Original price $1,288.00Original price $0.00$1,288.00$1,288.00 - $1,288.00Current price $1,288.00| /The rare special issue of Nicholson's London Types, in an uncommon variant vellum binding. The Bus Driver was omitted from this edition and only a...
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An Almanac of Twelve Sports.
NICHOLSON, William (illustrator); KIPLING, Rudyard.Original price $1,288.00 - Original price $1,288.00Original price $0.00$1,288.00$1,288.00 - $1,288.00Current price $1,288.00| /A wonderful example of this book, in an edition thought to run to two hundred & seventy-five copies; the tissue guards have kept the illustrat...
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Cathleen ni Hoolihan.
YEATS, W.B.Original price $869.00 - Original price $869.00Original price $0.00$869.00$869.00 - $869.00Current price $869.00| /A very good example of this uncommon title, decorated, engraved, printed, and bound by H.D & H.G. Webb at the Caradoc Press. The play first ap...
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The Butterfly.
WELLS, H.G.; ROLFE, Frederick, Baron Corvo; BEERBOHM, Max; and others.Original price $612.00 - Original price $612.00Original price $0.00$612.00$612.00 - $612.00Current price $612.00| /A complete run of the relaunched magazine The Butterfly, originally created by Walter Haddon in 1893; extremely uncommon in the original wrappers....
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Oscar Wilde Recollections by Jean Paul Raymond & Charles Ricketts.
[NONESUCH PRESS]; WILDE, Oscar; RICKETTS, Charles.Original price $515.00 - Original price $515.00Original price $0.00$515.00$515.00 - $515.00Current price $515.00| /A fine copy of Charles Ricketts' recollections of Oscar Wilde for the Nonesuch Press. Charles Ricketts was a well-known artist/illustrator and typ...
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Makarony Fables.
[STEVENSON, John Hall].Original price $226.00 - Original price $226.00Original price $0.00$226.00$226.00 - $226.00Current price $226.00| /A poetic satire originally published in 1768, by a notorious friend of Laurence Sterne and author of Crazy Tales (1762), written in the form of ei...
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La Fille aux Yeux d'Or.
BALZAC, Honoré de; CONDER, Charles (illustrator).Original price $966.00 - Original price $966.00Original price $0.00$966.00$966.00 - $966.00Current price $966.00| /The original prospectus announced that the book would be bound in royal blue cloth, however this first issue was bound in a mustard yellow, and de...
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Renascence.
CRANE, Walter.Original price $290.00 - Original price $290.00Original price $0.00$290.00$290.00 - $290.00Current price $290.00| /This lovely and scarce volume is Crane's only book of poetry; extremely uncommon in this condition.First edition, number 35 of 350 copies for Engl...
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A Demi-Mot.
BÉNIGNE, Ange.Original price $322.00 - Original price $322.00Original price $0.00$322.00$322.00 - $322.00Current price $322.00| /A charming illustrated book, by the author of La Vie Parisienne (under the pseudonym of Satin, Gratin, Pascaline).Number 10 of 30 copies on Japon,...
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Some Winchester Letters...
JOHNSON, Lionel.Original price $258.00 - Original price $258.00Original price $0.00$258.00$258.00 - $258.00Current price $258.00| /The collected correspondence between Rhymers' Club member Lionel Johnson and Frank Russell, 2nd Earl Russell, primarily of a religious nature foll...
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Amoris Victima.
SYMONS, Arthur.Original price $194.00 - Original price $194.00Original price $0.00$194.00$194.00 - $194.00Current price $194.00| /A thematically linked series of poems dedicated to a 'typical phase of modern love', apparently.First edition, one of 400 copies; 8vo; foxing to f...
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The Colour of Life
MEYNELL, Alice.Original price $194.00 - Original price $194.00Original price $0.00$194.00$194.00 - $194.00Current price $194.00| /Synesthesic ponderings by Aesthetic critic Alice Meynell: 'Red is the colour of violence, or of life broken open, edited, and published.'First edi...
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The Child Set in the Midst.
[THOMPSON, Francis]; MEYNELL, Wilfrid (editor).Original price $161.00 - Original price $161.00Original price $0.00$161.00$161.00 - $161.00Current price $161.00| /A compilation of poems for children, most notable for the first appearance in print of Francis Thompson, whom Wilfrid and Alice Meynell had saved ...
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The Imaginative Faculty
TREE, Herbert Beerbohm.Original price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $0.00$110.00$110.00 - $110.00Current price $110.00| /'When the gift of the Imagination was conferred upon mankind, a double-edged sword covered with flowers was thrust into its baby-hands...' (openin...
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Green Arras.
HOUSMAN, Laurence.Original price $322.00 - Original price $322.00Original price $0.00$322.00$322.00 - $322.00Current price $322.00| /A delightful illustrated book, in the original publisher's cloth binding, the design for which the artist himself thought 'an extra good one...: i...
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Literary London.
RYAN, W.P.Original price $194.00 - Original price $194.00Original price $0.00$194.00$194.00 - $194.00Current price $194.00| /This book was initially withdrawn due to a threatened libel action to be brought against Smithers by Marie Corelli, one of the subjects of the boo...
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An Anthology of 'Nineties' Verse.
SYMONS, A.J.A. (compiler).Original price $258.00 - Original price $258.00Original price $0.00$258.00$258.00 - $258.00Current price $258.00| /Inscribed by symons. An inscribed first edition of this anthological homage to the eighteen-nineties, compiled by The Quest for Corvo 'biographer' ...
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