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Zustand: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, and may have sticker on cover, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.

. (illustrator). Good, solid, with these flaws: 1909 name at top of front free endpapers; pages adjacent to front and rear endpapers are heavily foxed; triangular 1" dark waterstain at top outer corner from front, on frontispiece and title piece, decreasing in size with each page until it disappears about halfway through the book. We ship all our books well protected in cardboard. Hardcover in blue cloth, gilt titles, octavo, 244 pp, patterned endpapers. . . .

Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Good condition book. No dust jacket. Edge wear to grey paper covered boards. Some card lost at both ends of the age toned spine. A tan to untrimmed page edges. Fontispiece loosened, but binding otherwise firm. Contents clear throughout. A nice, honest copy.

tapa dura. Zustand: Bien. English poetry - 20th century - History and criticism, Poetry St. James P. London. 1975. 24 cm. 1849 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial. Idioma Inglés. edited by James Vinson and Daniel Lane Kirkpatrick. Contemporary writers of the English language. Previous ed. / editor Rosalie Murphy ; deputy editor James Vinson, 1970. editor, James Vinson, associate editor, D. L. Kirkpatrick. Contemporary writers of the English language vol. 1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 1814-1832) . Cubierta deslucida. ISBN: 0900997206; 9780900997204 (=2746271=) LF110.

Zustand: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.

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Folio, pp. 8; in recent marbled boards. First edition. A satire on the government, in the form of a mock-conference between Sir Robert Walpole (the knight) and Edmund Gibson, Bishop of London (the prelate). The two men were long on intimate terms, and Gibson was Walpole's chief adviser on ecclesiastical affairs. They are depicted here as having a common interest in money. The ballad, in 23 four-line stanzas, concludes with Walpole's advice: Courage then, cries the K----t, I may yet be forgiven, Or at worst, buy the B----p's Reversions in Heaven. My frequent Escapes in this World shew how true 'tis That Gold is the only Elixir Salutis. Derry down, &c. All you then who into the Finances creep, Ne'er piddle, but by Thousands the Tr--s-ry sweep. Your Safety depends on the Weight of the Sum, For no Rope yet was made that could tie up a Plum. Derry down, &c. 'A plum' is defined in a footnote as a man worth £100,000. 'King John and the Bishop' was a traditional English folk-song of great antiquity. Foxon K97: a very good copy.

Full Calf. Zustand: Fine. First Edition, complete with half-title, of this "corner-stone of a huntsman's library." (Gee) Small 4to: [10],334pp (pp. 303-310 misnumbered 301-308), with engraved frontispiece of Diana preparing for the hunt by Bartolozzi after Cipriani and two engraved plates (plan and elevation of stables). Contemporary tree calf, spine in six compartments between raised bands, elaborately tooled in gilt, red morocco lettering piece gilt, marbled edges and end papers, three green silk ribbon markers. Fine, wide-margined copy on heavy paper, virtually pristine. Lowndes I, 136. Rothschild 350 (second edition, 1782). Schwerdt I, 56 ("A famous book on this subject"). Gee, p. 8. Sterling Library 35. Beckford was the first English writer to describe minutely and accurately the whole sport of hunting. "Beckford's works were remarkable because they detailed the grubby nitty-gritty of animal husbandry in a light, eloquent prose. . . . [He] offered detailed advice on all aspects of animal welfare, specializing at various periods in the breeding of harriers, foxhounds, and buck-hounds. Almost a hundred years later his tips on various practical topics were quoted in D. P. Blaine's authoritative An Encyclopædia of Rural Sports. (ODNB) "'Never,'" wrote a writer in the Retrospective Review, "had fox or hare the honour of being chased to death by so accomplished a hunter; never was huntsman's dinner graced by such urbanity and wit. He would bag a fox in Greek, find a hare in Latin, inspect his kennels in Italian, and direct the economy of his stables in exquisite French'". (DNB). N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

Inevitably sole edition of this evocative Home Front journal by and for the crews of a London A. R. P. (Air Raid Precautions) post as a local morale booster and fund raiser. Numbered 31 of an unknown limitation, only the Imperial War Museum lists a set, theirs complete in 36 issues through to May 1942. A scarce resource, offering genuine insights into London's, uncensored, mood under the Blitz. This is a typical wartime mix, carrying harrowing reports of the impact of war, "Calvary in St James'. almost half Jermyn Street was a shambles"; facetious humour, "Is it only a rumour that the favourite drink of the Italian Navy is port?"; local notes, "the oldest lamp post in London. now, unfortunately, it has suffered at the hand of the Vandal. destroyed"; some dubious recipes, "half a pint of Churchill sauce"; occasional reports from "other parts of the field"; appeals for volunteers; incitements to "carry on!"; all alongside not infrequent moments of genuinely moving introspection; "Piccadilly during the People's War (at 9 p.m.). Traffic lights flashing monotonously green - yellow - red. The noticeable ticking of the automatic lights' machinery. An occasional taxi and car. A rare bus. Perhaps fifty persons in Piccadilly Circus. The Statue of Eros boarded up and protected by rotting sandbags. The hot blast of exhausted air from the underground exits. The rush of fire-engines towards fire. The pleasing gap where the 'Fifty Shilling Tailors' had their shop. The stark picture of the blackened ruins of St James' church opposite. The whispered appeals of 'Hello darling' from mysterious female forms. The whizzing of shrapnel on the street. The criss-cross of searchlight beams in the heavens. Not a single newsboy. A solitary cat crossing the street". Circulation rose rapidly, issue 5 claiming 2,000 copies, and the following number proclaiming five times that, "Last week's issue was completely sold out. Although we keep on printing more and more copies we are quite unable to meet the demand. We claim the BIGGEST SALES of any Blitzkrieg News-sheet in Britain. Copies are being sent as historic mementoes to every part of the world". A "Final Notice" in issue 24 notes that there are for sale "a few bound volumes containing the first 24 issues at Six Guineas ($30)", maybe about £1,000 today in real terms. All moneys raised from the Lyre went to the local St James' Bomber Fund, "costs of production are borne privately". Folio. pp. 80 spirit-duplicated text in all on variously coloured paper stock. Original three-quarter - spine and fore-edges - greyish yellow buckram, spine lettered longitudinally in black, attractive matte black patterned paper boards, golden stars on a wavy grid pattern. Pictorial masthead. Just a little rubbed and soiled, endpapers slightly toned; text with occasional spots of foxing, but overall clean and sound, very good.

First edition, with half-title. First edition, with half-title. Engraved frontispiece and two engraved plates comprising depiction of the Goddess Diana, the plan and elevation of a kennel. [10], 334 pp. 1 vols. 8vo (7-3/4 x 6 inches). The definitive statement on foxhunting and hound management, written after many years of practical experience by an eloquent squire and former M.P.; its teachings form the basis of modern foxhunting. The work has gone into numerous editions, few of them so physically attractive as the original. Podeschi 64; Schwerdt I, p. 56; Gee, Sportsman's Library p. 8 ("The corner-stone of a huntsman's library"); Biscotti, Six Centuries of Foxhunting, pp. 40-41 Contemporary diced calf gilt, a.e.g. Neatly rebacked. Very good plus Engraved frontispiece and two engraved plates comprising depiction of the Goddess Diana, the plan and elevation of a kennel. [10], 334 pp. 1 vols. 8vo (7-3/4 x 6 inches).