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1 Essays of the Year (1929-1930)
London Argonaut Press Cloth Good No Jacket 
Large paper edition limited to 250 copies (number 154) signed by editor and J C Squire. Authors inclued Drinkwater, Belloc, Milne, Ransome, Priestley and Louis Golding. There is also an essay "Prolegomena to the Life of Dr Watson" by JC Roberts. 325pp. The yellow cloth covers are darkened and worn - spare printed label at back, TEG. 
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2 Selected Modern English Essays
Oxford University Press 1949 Reprint Nr Fine 12 Mo 
Oxford World's Classics No. 280. Faux leather covers in slip case which is slightly worn, silk marker, 
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3 (ANON) Out of School at Eton Being a collection of Poetry and Prose Writings By Some Present Etonians
London Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington 1877 First Edition G+ 16mo 
Lilac cloth boards with black decoration and gilt titles and school crest. 150pp + 48pp publisher's lists. Nice tight clean copy internally but covers faded and mottled with water stain. 
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4 ALAMICHEL, MARIE-FRANCOISE & BREWER, DEREK The Middle Ages After the Middle Ages in the English-Speaking World
Cambridge DS Brewer 1997 0859915085 / 9780859915083 First Edition Cloth Fine Not Issued 8vo 
Learned articles by different contributors. Contents include: From Written Record to Legend (Claire Vial); Influences of Medieval Thinkg on the Gaelic World (Derick S Thomson); Jan van Vliet (1620-1666) and the Study of Old English in the Low Countries (Kees Dekker); The Early Middle Ages + The Dark Ages + The Heroic Age of England and in English (Eric Stanley); Medieval Mirrors and Later Vanitas Paintings (Florence Bourgne); TheOld Wives' Tale and Dryden (Renate Haas); Modernising the Medieval: Eighteenth-Century Translations of Chaucer (Derek Brewer); The American Middle Ages: Eighteenth-century Saxonist Myth-Making (Laura Kendrick); Coleridge, Scholasticism, and German Idealism (Rene Gallet); The Mists of Avalon: A Confused Assault on Patriarchy (James Noble) The Arthurian Legend in the Cinema: Myth or History ? (Sandra Gorgievski). 166pp. 
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5 ALLAN, VICTOR Compiled By East-Anglian Enchantment an Anthology
Ipswich East Anglian Magazine 1947 First Edition Very Good Very Good Slader Hoare 
Bw illustrations, 127pp. Dw (price clipped). 
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6 AYSCOUGH, SAMUEL An Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words Made Use of By Shakspeare: Calculated to Point Out the Different Meanings to Which the Words are Applied
London Thomas Tegg 1827 2nd Edition Very Good +. Large 8vo. 
Rbkd incorporating original label over original publisher's drab boards.Unpaginated. Boards rubbed along edges. 
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7 BARBER, RICHARD Edited By Arthurian Literature I
Bury St Edmunds Brewer Rowman & Littlefield 0859910814 / 9780859910811 First Edition Cloth Very Good No Jacket 8vo 
Brown cloth covers, ex library with usual stamps. Contents include: Chretien de Troyes and England (Bullock-Davies); The Vera Historia de Morte Arthuri and its place in Arthurian Tradition (Barber); An Edition of the Vera Historia de Morte Arthuri (Lapidge); From Logres to Carbonek: the Arthuriad of charles Williams (Goller). 173pp. 
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8 BARBER, RICHARD Edited By Arthurian Literature II
Bury St Edmunds Brewer Rowman & Littlefield 0859910954 / 9780859910958 First Edition Cloth Very Good No Jacket 8vo 
Brown cloth covers, ex library with usual stamps. Colour frontis plate. Contents include: Geoffrey of Monmouth and Gildas (Wright); The Round Table: Ideal, Fiction, Reality (Schmolke-Hasselmann); The Tradition of the Troubadours and the Treatment of the Love Theme in Chretien de Troyes' Chevalier au Lion (Bogdanow); Kairo-ko: A Dirge; Twentieth-Century Arthurian Literature: an Annotated bibliography (Wilman); Update: Additional Manuscript Evidence for the Vera Historia de Morte Arthuri (Lapidge). 168pp. 
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9 BARBER, RICHARD Edited By Arthurian Literature III
Bury St Edmunds Brewer Rowman & Littlefield 0859911497 / 9780859911498 First Edition Cloth Very Good No Jacket 8vo 
Brown cloth covers, ex library with usual stamps. Contents include: The Prologue of Cresiten's LiContes del Graal (Luttrell); The Presentation of the Character of Lancelot: Chretien to Malory (Brewer); The Briar and the Vine: Tristan Goes Horth (Thomas; Vengeance and Love in 'The Book of Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere' (Joynt); Update: The Manuscripts of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (Dumville). 
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10 BRITTEN, BENJAMIN On Receiving the First Aspen Award
London Faber & Faber 1964 First Edition Wraps Fine 12 Mo 
23pp. 
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11 BROOKS, CLEANTH Historical Evidence and the Reading of Seventeenth-Century Poetry
University of Missouri Press 1991 First Edition Cloth Fine Fine 8vo 
169pp inc index. 
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12 BROOKS, COLLIN Tavern Talk
London James Barrie 1950 First Edition Cloth Fine Very Good 8vo 
197pp. Dw (chipped). 
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13 BROWN, GUIELMI HAIG Sertum Carthusianum Floribus Trium Seculorum Contextum 1630-1869
Cambridge Deighton Bell 1870 First Edition Very Good 8vo 
This is a collection of translations from scholars at Charterhouse School over 3 centuries: Greek into Latin, English into Latin, French into Greek . For instance a letter from the Duke of Burnswick to Captain Currie of 1837 which describes a balloon flight has been freely translated into a Latin verse play . Blue cloth covers with gilt and red school crest on front cover; title page printed in red and black with engraved vignette; decoated headpieces and initial letters, 397pp. Some foxing to the prelims otherwise a crisp clean copy. 
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14 BURGESS, GLYN S Edited By Court and poet. Selected proceedings of the 3rd Congress of the Intern.Courtly Literature Society, 1980
Liverpool Francis Cairns 1981 0905205065 / 9780905205069 First Edition Hard Cover Nr Fine Fine 8vo 
Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs 5. 364pp + publisher's catalogue. 
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15 BUTLER, MICHAEL The Novels of Max Frisch
London Oswald Wolff 1976 0854960597 / 9780854960590 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo 
175pp inc index. 
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16 CH'IEN, HSIAO The Dragon Beards Versus the Blueprints (meditations on Post-war culture)
London The Pilot Press 1944 First Edition Cloth Very Good +.  8vo 
Woodcut frontis by Leon Underwood, 34pp. Back panel and flap of dw laid in loose, spine faded.  
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17 CH'IEN, HSIAO The Dragon Beards Versus the Blueprints (Meditations on Post-war Culture)
London The Pilot Press 1944 First Edition Cloth Very Good No Jacket 8vo Leon Underwood 
Bw frontis from woodcut, 34pp. Covers faded 
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18 CHARLTON, HB Shakespearian Comedy
London Methuen 1938 First Edition Cloth Very Good No Jacket Large 8vo. 
303pp inc index. 
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19 COBDEN-SANDERSON, T J Ecce Mundus Industrial Ideals and the Book Beautiful
London Hammersmith Publishing Society. 1902 First Edition Very Good 8vo 
Printed at the Chiswick Press on handmade paper and bound in plain paper covered boards with vellum spine. Bookplate of Sydney Walker on pastedown. 
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20 COHEN, MARVIN The Monday Rhetoric of the Love Club and Other Parables
London Rapp + Whiting 1973 0853911967 / 9780853911968 First Edition Hard Cover Nr Fine Fine Tall 12mo 
128pp. Long, straggling gift inscription by the author reads thus: "To Chris, Sheila Murphy's gift to me, but God's gift to the world. From one of his "leading" followers, Marvin". Minor foxing to page edges. 
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