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The Letters and Journals of Lady Mary Coke 1756 - 1774 4 Volumes
Bath Kingsmead Reprints 1970 Facsimile Edition Cloth Very Good Very Good 8vo
Originally published 1889-96. This edition limited to 500. Bw frontis plates to each volume and Argyll coat of arms on final leaf. Pp: cxxxviii (introduction) 250; 439;495; 544 inc index. A nice set with a little wear to dust wrappers and a faint water stain affecting top page edges of Volumes III & IV. Extra shipping necessary for this four volume set.
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The Life of Arthur Vandeleur, Major, Royal Artillery
London James Nisbet 1862 Fourth thousand. Very Good 12 Mo
Red cloth with gilt titles and decoration, engraved portrait frontis with vignette on title page, second title page,303pp + publisher's list. Ownership name and date (1888). Some creasing at head and tail of spine. Minor spotting to prelims.
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'BLACK KNIGHT' The Diary of a Freeman
London Cassell 1953 First Edition Cloth Very Good Very Good 8vo Alfred Munnings
"This unique little dog has attended so many important functions - occasions such as the Lord Mayors Banquets...even Princess Elizabeth's wedding..(but) it is on the racecourse, that Black Knight achieves his greatest glory. For he is a remarkably reliable tipster. Surveying the field critically, he barks at his fancy, and so often proves correct that Lady Munnings has opened a special account for him with a bookmaker." Colour frontis, bw drawings, 182pp. Dw (not price clipped, chipped). Light foxing to prelims.
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ALLAN, MEA E. A. Bowles & His Garden at Myddleton House (1865-1954)
London Faber & Faber 1973 0571103065 / 9780571103065 First Edition Cloth Fine Nr Fine 8vo
A gardening biography "which tells the story of Edward Augustus Bowles, one of our greatest gardeners and most lovable personalities, who regarded plants as individuals and banished botanical misfits and curiositiesto his Lunatic Asylunm under the keepership of a sane-minded magnolia." Colour and black and white plates, 264pp inc index. Dw(small joined tear).
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ARNOLD, BRUCE Jack Yeats
Yale University Press 1998 0300075499 / 9780300075496 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 4to
"This book explores Yeats' friendships with John Masefield, John Millington Synge, Samuel Beckett, and others; his self-identification with his chosen country; and his struggle against indifference and mockery. It provides a compelling portrait of the complex and enigmatic artist whose reputaion and artistic vision have become increasingly admired in the years since his death. " Bw illustrations, 356 + colour plates, index and notes.
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BAGSHAW, ROBERT Poppies to Paston a Norfolk Boyhood
Wymondham Geo. R Reeve 1986 0900616210 / 9780900616211 First Edition Cloth Nr Fine Fine 8vo
"Bob Bagshaw is, above all else, a countryman. Born in Cromer, he has always had an unswerving love for his native county..In this book..he turns his mind back to his boyhood and to the Norfolk scene of the twenties and early thirties." Black and white photographs, 158pp.
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BARNES, JOHN E George Ratcliffe Woodward 1848-1934 Priest, Poet and Musician
Norwich The Canterbury Press 1996 1853111279 / 9781853111273 First Edition Soft Cover Fine Fair 8vo
"Dr G R Woodward is best remembered as the writer of such well-known carols as 'This Joyful Eastertide, Ding Dong! Merrily on High, and Past Three a Clock'. But besides his work with carols - which included his compilation of the popular 'Cowley Carol Book' - he also played a part in the revival of plainsong, the enrichment of hymnody, and the story of Walsingham, where he was Vicar in the 1880s" 168pp inc index.
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BERKELEY, GRANTLEY F My Life and Recollections in Two Volumes
London Hurst & Blackett 1865 First Thus Hard Cover Very Good 8vo
Two volume set, half leather over buckram with gilt crest, and decoration, raised bands, frontis portrait to volume I, pp383; 358. Some minor wear to covers otherwise in excellent condition. Multiple volumes. Please enquire about shipping costs.
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