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Physologie de l'Amour Moderne - Fragments Posthumes d'un Ouvrage de Claude Larcher Recueillis et Publies par Paul Bourget

Alphonse Lemerre, Paris
Small 8vo. in 1/2 olive green leather, marbled boards and page-block edges, 435pp
About VERY GOOD, a clean and tight copy (spine darkened and rubbed, slight wear and rub to corner pieces, page-block edges tanned)
1st editionHardcover
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Romano Lavo-Lil Word-Book of the Romany or, English Gypsy Language - With Specimens of Gypsy Poetry ... etc

John Murray, London
8vo bound in 1/2 red leather with gilt lettering, gilt decorations and raised bands to spine, matching leather corner pieces and red cloth covered boards, marbled end-papers, top edge gilt. 274pp
VERY GOOD, a clean and tight copy (mild wear to corner piece edges, some surface scuffing to leather spine, sliver of sunning or blooming to leather spine margin on rear cover, page-block edges a little foxed and tanned)
Hardcover
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The Letters of Henry James (Volumes 1 and 2 / I & II Complete)

Macmillan & Co, London
Both volumes matching thick, heavy 8vo in navy blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 441pp and 529pp, both with frontispiece, index and extra plate in volume 2.
VERY GOOD, a well preserved clean and tight set (gilt spine lettering dulled, mild cover edge-rub, pages slightly tanned)
1st editionHardcover
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Why Can't A Woman Be More Like A Man - the Evolution of Sex and Gender

Faber & Faber, London
8vo in black faux cloth, silver lettering to spine. 206pp, bibliog, index etc
NEW copy in NEW Dust Jacket
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
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£4.50
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Conundrum - Why Every Government Gets Things Wrong - and What We Can Do About it

Biteback, Londonunts Committee That Examines the Accounts of Government Departments, Look At A Wide Variety of Cases Where Hundred
8vo in blue faux cloth, silver lettering to spine. 371pp, index etc
NEW copy in NEW Dust Jacket
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
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Thinking Practice - Reflections on Architectural Research and Building Work

Black Dog, London
Heavy 4to. in photo illustrated stiff card covers, 191pp, colour plates, illustrations in text, etc
An almost AS NEW unread or barely read copy (minute speck of shelf rub to cover corner tips)
1st editionSoftcover
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That Sort of Bear - E H Shepard's Winnie-the-Pooh From the Collection of Stanley J Seeger and Christopher Cone (Sotheby's, Auction Catalogue - London 17 December 2008)

Sotheby's, London
Large 4to. in illustrated stiff card covers, 102pp, 42 lots all fully described and beautifully illustrated.
AS NEW (minute speck of shelf rub to cover corner tips)
1st editionSoftcover
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The London of Charles Dickens - Being An Account of the Haunts of His Characters and the Topographical Setting of His Novels

Grant Richards, London
Thick 8vo in marine blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, 317pp, plates, index.. Prize bookplate on front blank fly-leaf (an evocative and very unusual colour printed and photo illustrated prize bookplate from the Passmore Edwards Teacher's Orphanage Sydenham, dated 1925), with the recipients' later and much smaller personal bookplate on the opposing paste-down end-paper
An extremely well preserved and very clean and tight FINE copy (few spots of very slight shelf rub to spine ends, pages very slightly tanned, top edge of page block dusty)
1st editionHardcover
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Motif - Number 2 - February 1959 - A Journal of the Visual Arts (SIGNED COPY)

Shenval Press, London
Extra Large 4to. in colour printed boards to a design by Robert Stewart. 92pp on various types of paper, colour plates, illustrations in text, type samples etc. This copy inscribed and signed by Ruari McLean (as Ruari) on the title-page.
A well preserved clean and tight VERY GOOD+ copy (tiny speck of wear to cover corner tips, head of spine slightly creased and rubbed, spine and covers slightly tanned)
Signed copy1st editionHardcover
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Art for Children

The Studio, London
4to in orange cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, top edge gilt, 150pp, tipped in colour plates with printed tissue guards, etc. Collated complete, though pages 117 to 134 have been duplicated in this copy, a minor binding fault we have seen in other copies of this edition.
An extremely well preserved FINE very clean and tight copy
1st editionHardcover
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Here and Now - Paul Auster and J M Coetzee - Letters 2008 - 2011

Faber & Faber / Harvill / Secker, London
8vo in photo illustrated boards, 248pp
NEW unread copy
1st editionHardcover
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Anywhere Or Not At All - the Philosophy of Contemporary Art

Verso, London
Large 8vo Paperback.
NEW unread copy
1st editionSoftcover
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The Symbolism of Habitat - An Interpretation of Landscape in the Arts

University of Washington Press, Seattle and London
8vo in blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 113pp, plates, index etc
A few scattered ink linings in text else FINE an otherwise well preserved and very clean and tight copy still close to new in an AS NEW Dust Jacket
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
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The Aurelian Legacy - British Butterflies and Their Collectors

Harley Books, Colchester
Very Heavy 4to. in blue faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine., 432pp, colour plates, illustrations in text, bibliog, index etc
NEW copy in NEW Dust Jacket
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
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Yorkshire Folk-Talk - With Characteristics of Those Who Speak it in the North and East Ridings

Henry Frowde, London / John Sampson, York
8vo in olive green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, black rule and lettering to front cover, 418pp, index (includes an extensive 136pp glossary of colloquialisms etc.
A well preserved near FINE clean and tight copy (neat ink name on half title leaf dated 1892, mild shelf rub to spine ends and cover corner tips, end-papers neatly and barely noticeably repaired or strengthened at centre-folds)
1st editionHardcover
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Not Guilty - A Defence of the Bottom Dog

Clarion Press, London
8vo in dark blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, 261pp, publishers ads at rear dated 1905. This copy from the private collection of Michael Foot (MP and onetime leader of the Labour Party) with his pencil signature on the front blank fly-leaf which is accompanied by a pencil inscription 'To ..... of the Old Bailey - from Michael's library in Pilgrim's Lane - Tom Foot May 2010'
VERY GOOD, a clean and tight copy (very slight spot of wear to head of spine, small bump to top edge of rear cover)
1st editionHardcover
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£11.00
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Dictionaries British and American

Andre Deutsch, London
8vo in grey faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 107pp, index
A well preserved near FINE clean and tight copy (small spot of mild tanning to bottom edge of spine, end-papers slightly tanned) in a VERY GOOD Dust Jacket (small chip to base of spine panel, neatly repaired tear to top edge of front panel, looks fine in its protector)
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
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£9.00
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The Holy Barbarians

W H Allen, London
Large 8vo in red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 318pp, plates, glossary etc
A well preserved near FINE clean and tight copy (slight crease to head of spine and bottom corner tip of front cover from mild bumping, end-papers and page-block edges slightly tanned) in a very lightly edge-worn but otherwise VERY GOOD Dust Jacket (looks very presentable in its protector)
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
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£35.00
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His Other Half - Men Looking At Women Through Art

Harvard University Press
8vo in pale blue cloth, black lettering to spine. 294pp, bibliog, index
An extremely well preserved AS NEW unread or barely read copy in an AS NEW Dust Jacket
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
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Mit Haut Und Haaren - Der Korper in Der Zeitgenossischen Kunst

Dumont, Koln
Large 4to. in colour printed boards, 159pp, numerous illustrations in text, etc. Text in German
NEW copy
1st editionHardcover
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£30.00
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Ferdinand Bauer - the Australian Natural History Drawings

British Museum of Natural History, London
Large 4to. in colour printed stiff glossy card covers, 120pp, colour plates, illustrations in text, bibliog, index etc
NEW unread copy
1st editionSoftcover
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Domesday Book - A Complete Translation (Folio Society 3 Volume Boxed Set)

Folio Society, London
3 volumes complete, all with gilt embossed brown leather spines and faux vellum boards. 1430pp on wove paper. Housed in a matching brown printed slipcase with brown leather top and bottom sides.
AS NEW unread or barely read copies in an AS NEW slipcase
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
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John Soane and J M W Turner - Illuminating A Friendship (Sir John Soane's Museum, London 26 January - 5 May 2007)

Sir John Soane's Museum, London
4to in colour printed stiff card covers, 36pp, illustrated in colour throughout
NEW unused copy
1st editionSoftcover
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The Seven Lamps of Architecture

George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington
4to in brown cloth (large paper edition), gilt lettering to spine, 222pp, 14 full page engraved plates (including frontispiece) each with a facing blank leaf (as issued)
An extremely well preserved very near FINE copy (thin sliver of very slight creasing to spine ends and cover corner tips, end-papers and page-block edges slightly tanned, all the plates are especially clean, bright and crisp)
Hardcover
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Old Domestic Architecture of Holland - Bing A Series of Photographs by . ... . . F R Yerbury

Architectural Press, London
Heavy Folio in cream cloth backed boards, black lettering to spine and front cover, brief text plus 102 mainly full page plates
VERY GOOD- (spine cloth torn but repaired, small chip to head of spine, slight wear to cover corner tips)
1st editionHardcover
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Shipwreck

Jonathan Cape, London
landscape 4to in faux cloth gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated, approx. 52pp, plates etc.
VERY GOOD, a clean and tight copy (edges slightly tanned) in a tanned and lightly edge-chipped but otherwise VERY GOOD Dust Jacket
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
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India - A Wounded Civilization

Andre Deutsch, London
First Impression. 8vo in marine green faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 174pp
A well preserved FINE clean and tight copy (thin sliver of very slight creasing to spine ends, name on front blank paste-down end-paper (entirely covered by wrapper front inner flap), page-block edges faintly tanned) in a very near FINE Dust Jacket (minute speck of rub to flap fold corner tips, looks fine in its protector)
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
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October - the First Decade - 1976 - 1986

MIT Press, Massachusetts and London
4to in red cloth, black lettering to spine. 456pp, plates and illustrations in text, etc
A well preserved FINE very clean and tight copy in an almost AS NEW Dust Jacket (tiny nick to bottom edge of front panel (looks new in its protector)
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
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Old English Mezzotints

The Studio, London
Thick, heavy 4to in 1/2 brown leather. Black panelled gilt lettering, raised bands and gilt embossed decoration to spine, matching brown cloth covered boards with leather corner pieces, red deckle page-block edges. 43pp text plus 128pp full page plates, some tipped in with tissue guards.
VERY GOOD, a clean and tight copy (small patch of fading or soiling to cloth on upper cover, mild rub to spine ends and cover corner tips)
1st editionHardcover
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The Life of Samuel Johnson - Vol I / 1 1709 - March 18 1776 and Vol II / Volume 2 March 19 1776 - Dec 13 1784 (Two Volumes Complete)

George Bayntun, Bath
Both volumes large heavy 4to in matching red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, gilt embossed portrait to front cover, top edge gilt. 1172pp, plates numerous illustrations in text, index etc
VERY GOOD+ (spines and cover margins moderately faded (gilt lettering still bright), page-block edges tanned and slightly dusty)
1st editionHardcover
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