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A HISTORY OF THE MARLBOROUGH COLLEGE PRESS. 1934-1984. 1984. Whittington. Introduced by R Russell. One of only 220 numbered copies
with tipped-in specimen pages & facsimile broadsides. £65.00

THE BOOK OF FLEET STREET. Ed, T M POPE. Cassell. 1930. Dw frayed.
(H Williamson; M Armstrong, H Belloc, A Machen, J B Priestley, E Shanks, Huddleston, J C Squire, etc.) Illustrated. Top edge of blank front end paper cut to remove a signature. Uncommon. £25.00

THE DOLMEN. Ed. JOHN MONTAGUE. 1962. Dolmen Press. A Miscellany of Irish Writing with contributions by the Editor, A Higgins, J Jordan,
J Mcgahern, J Plunkett, T Kinsella (Poetry Editor), P Hutchinson, J Liddy, R Weber, R Murphy, V Iremonger, etc. Original wraps. £17.50

FIRST COMMENT TREASURY. Ed, Sheila MACLEOD & Victor NEUBERG. 1937. Dw. Presentation copy for a prize winner (?) inscribed "with congratulations from", dated December 1936, by both Editors. Contributors include P Hansford Johnson, H Cory, Dylan Thomas, J Symons, H Manning, R Todd, E Milne, I Davies, F Berry, all of whom had won major prizes in the periodical, "COMMENT". £65.00

FISHING AT HOME & ABROAD. 1913. London & Counties Press Association. Edition limited to 750 numbered copies. Contributors include H MAXWELL, Editor, F G Affalo, R B Marston, etc. Includes 59 plates in colour, monochrome, photographure, as well as black & white. Original gilt lettered full morocco. Edges very slightly rubbed but apart from 3 small defunct worm holes in the front blank end paper a very good copy. Large 4to. 414pp. £200.00

FLEURON ANTHOLOGY. 1973. Benn. Dw. Chosen from the seven volumes of The Fleuron & with a Retrospectus by Francis MEYNELL & Herbert SIMON. Contributors include F Meynell, S Morison, C Lovat Fraser, O Simon,
D B Updike, Holbrook Jackson, F Sidgwick, A J A Symons, etc. £45.00

FOX'S BOOK OF MARTYRS. Ed, Rev. John CUMMING. Vol 1. nd.
John Childs & Son, Bungay. A strange volume without any indication of date, publisher or printer. Portrait/frontis. Engraved title page, engraved plates & text; illustrated throughout. Conforms to the pagination of the 1847 & 1875 editions.
Half leather, marbled boards, text & plates in very good condition. 1157 double column pages. £40.00

THE GREAT TUDORS. Ed, Katharine GARVIN. 1935. Nicholson & Watson. Contributors include W H Auden, J Dover Wilson, A Noyes, A L Rowse, H Belloc, R H Mottram, A Noyes, A F Pollard, H Massingham, M Bowen, C Hollis, etc.) £15.00

PAGES. Ed, M J BRUCCOLLI & C E FRAZER CLARK, Jr. 1976. USA . Dw. The World of Books, Writers & Writing with articles on Erskine Caldwell,
Scott Fitzgerald, J O'Hara, M Sendak, H Miller, etc. Interview with J Heller
& other articles on book-collecting, buying & publishing, etc. (R Bradbury, J Dickey, R Lardner, J Gardner, M Cowley. Etc.) £20.00

STORIES FROM THE DIAL. 1924. Cape. Dw dusty & very slightly frayed.
(P Colum, James Stephens, C Aiken, D H Lawrence, Mary Butts, A E Coppard ,
Thomas Mann, Sherwood Anderson, I Bunin, A Schnitzler, P Morand, etc.) £25.00

A DIAL MISCELLANY. Ed. W WASSERSTROM. 1963. Syracuse University. USA. Dw. Contributors include W B Yeats, E Pound, D H Lawrence, A MacLeish, C Aiken, P Colum, W Carlos Williams, L Aragon, M Moore, J Dos Passos, James Joyce, Hart Crane, S O'Faolain, L Zukofsky. Contains unfinished version of Eliot's "Hollow Men" & an early version of Pound's "Fifth Canto".
Most of the material had not been printed elsewhere. £20.00

OXFORD AND THE GROUPS. 1934. Blackwell. Introduced by W B Selbie.
THE GROUP MOVEMENT AND THE MIDDLE CLASSES with contributions
from R H S CROSSMAN - Editor, W H Auden, Rev M C D'Arcy, J Maud,
B E Gwyer, C R Morris, L P Jack, etc. Name on front end paper. £70.00

THE POET'S TONGUE. Ed, W H AUDEN & JOHN GARRETT. 1935.
Introduced by W H Auden. Volumes 1 & 2, Volume 1 being stamped
"Publisher's Complimentary Copy". Spine faded. £45.00

W H WILLCOX & CO LTD GENERAL CATALOGUE. 1930. Privately Printed. A bound catalogue of "Engineer's stores, boiler mountings, pumps, hose, tools, lubricants, etc." from W H Wilcox & Co ltd of Soutwark Street , London SE1.“ In hard covers lettered in gilt it runs to some 658 pp with a further 12 pages of British Standard Tables. Illustrated throughout, including pictures of the Board of Directors & their premises. It provides a fascinating glimpse of a
bygone age. Name on front end paper & date on front paste down. Contents excellent. Uncommon. £25.00

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