The Works of John M Synge. 1910
Synge, John M. The Works of John M Synge. Dublin, Maunsel And Company Limited, 1910., 1910. 1st Edition. Buckram Cloth, gilt title to spines. Top edge Gilt, others untrimmed. Four volumes comprising, Plays, pp.179, Plays Poems and Translations, pp.252, The Aran Islands, pp.256 In Wicklow West Kerry Etc. pp. 259, each with tissue guarded black and white portrait frontis showing Synge at different ages. Boards a little bumped and rubbed, wear to top edge spines. Lift offset and foxing to endpapers, the pages and illustrations are in excellent clean and bright condition. Loose in Vol three is a publishers note explaining that due to demand they found it impossible to have sufficient number of complete sets bound for publication day, they are therefore delivering two volumes now and the other two volumes in a few days. Wear suggests these four volumes have always been together. A Very Good set of this 1st Edition keystone collection. | 
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The Kings Threshold. W B Yeats. 1904
Yeats,W.B. The King's Threshold: and On Baile's Strand: Being Volume Three of Plays for an Irish Theatre. A.H. Bullen, London, 1904. 1st Edition. 8vo. Original quarter cloth on boards. Printed label to spine. Binding boards a little bumped and tanned at edges. Label a little darkened. All pages, untrimmed, tightly bound in excellent bright and clean order throughout. A neat copy of a scarce volume. | 
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Ideas of Good and Evil. W.B. Yeats. 1903
Yeats,W.B. Ideas of Good and Evil. A.H. Bullen, London, 1903. 1st Edition. 8vo. Original quarter cloth on boards. Printed label to spine. Very small booksellers label on inner corner of front pastedown. Neat ownership dignature in fountain pen ink dated 1903 on front free endpaper. Some wear to top edge of spine and label, without loss. Binding boards bumped on corners, with light marks to lower board. All pages, untrimmed, tightly bound in excellent bright and clean order throughout. A neat copy of a scarce volume. | 
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Doctor Zhivago. Boris Pasternak. 1958
Pasternak. Boris, Doctor Zhivago. London, Collins and Havill Press, 1958. 1st Edition,. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt titles to spine. Clipped dustwrapper with reviews of book on front fold-in and advert for Pasternaks 'An essay in autobiography' on rear fold-in, in loose protective clear cover. Pp510. Neat ownership mark dated November 1958 on front free endpaper. Binding, dust wrapper and pages in fine condition throughout. | 
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Decline and Fall. Evelyn Waugh. 1928
Waugh. Evelyn. Decline and Fall. An Illustrated Novelette. Chapman and Hall. 1928. 1st Edition. Small octavo 175mm x125mm. Brown library cloth, gilt titles to spine. Covers marked and splitting at front spine, holding. With Boots Book Lovers Library Label affix to front. Half title [ i ], publishers imprint "Originally Published September 1928" to verso, blank, Full page frontis illustration by Waugh to verso "The wedding was an unparalleled success Among the Lower Orders". Title, Dedication to Harold Acton, Author's note ix, contents xi-xii Boots Library book purchase label tipped onto contents page xii. PP288. with four full page illustrations by Waugh (total five including Frontis). One page loose, all pages cropped without loss to print area. Boots Library label pasted on back pastdown. A scarce first edition which has experienced a little decline in condition through the fall into hands of the Boots Book Lovers Library. A rare survivor. | 
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Responsibilities: Poems and a Play. W B Yeats. 1914.
Yeats. William Butler. Responsibilities: Poems and a Play. Cuala Press, Dundrum, 1914. 1st Edition, limited 188 of 400 copies. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. Title, Contents, Red printed preface, [1] - 75, 6, colophon. Small binders label, Galwey and Co, Dublin, on front pastedown, offset from boards onto free endpapers. Covers lightly rubbed with some small staining. All pages in bright and clean condition with strong imprint. | 
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Synge and the Ireland of His Time. W B Yeats. 1911.
Yeats., William Butler. Synge and the Ireland of His Time, by William Butler Yeats, with a Note Concerning a Walk Through Connemara with him by Jack Butler Yeats. Cuala Press, Dundrum, Dublin 1911. 1st limited edition of 350 copies. Original cloth-backed boards with Michall France watermark on both boards. Black title to front. PP44, colophon. With dustwrapper, now protected but with wear damage and loss to edges. Light water stain to upper cover and small split at spine joint of cloth not affecting tight binding. Two small marks on lower blank margins of pages 6 and 7. All other pages bright and clean with good strong imprint. | 
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The Shadowy Waters. W B Yeats. 1900.
Yeats, William Butler. The Shadowy Waters. Hodder and Stoughton, 1900. 1st Edition. Small 4to. Blue cloth, gilt decoration to front, title to spine. Top edge gilt. PP57. Binding edges have very light shelfwear. All pages in fine condition. Presentation copy, inscription on front endpaper reads "To Townsend Walsh, with the sincere regards of John Quinn, my birthday April 24, 1901". John Quinn (1870-1924) was a second generation Irish-American lawyer in New York and patron of modernist literature. He was a friend of Yeats, Joseph Conrad, and Ezra Pound and legal defender of James Joyce and T.S. Eliot, and organized the 1913 Armory Show of modern art in New York. Townsend Walsh (1872-1935) was a theatrical agent, playwright and author, and a close friend of Walsh. | 
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Arasmanes or The Seeker. E Bulwer Lytton. Ca 1905
Bulwer Lytton, E. Arasmanes or The Seeker. London, Maclaren an Co. nd Ca 1905. 12mo. Marbled paper design slipcase. Paper covers with title in black to front and spine, red letter device to front and printers black devise to verso. With armorial bookplate of Geoffrey Drew Wood on front pastedown. Illustrated frontis. pp66. Slip cases is age soiled, covers age toned where not protected by slipcase. All pages in fine condition, the frontis print, strong and bright with good plate indent. A scarce book. | 
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The Portrait of Mr W.H. Oscar Wilde. 1904
Wilde, Oscar. The Portrait of Mr W.H.. Mosher, Portland, Maine. 1904. 12mo. 2nd edition. Floral design slipcase. Original paper covers with title in black to front and spine, red letter device to front and printers black devise to verso. Limited to 425 copies on Japon vellum. pp76. With armorial bookplate of Geoffrey Drew Wood on front pastedown. Slip cases is age soiled, covers age toned where not protected by slipcase. All pages in fine condition. | 
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The Works of Henry Seton Merriman. 14 Vol. 1924-31
Merriman, Henry Seton. The Works of Henry Seton Merriman. London John Murray, 1924 - 1931, reprints. Small 8vo., 14 volumes, complete set. Blue cloth, gilt titles and decoration to spine, gilt monograph to front. All in clean and bright condition. Vol i. The Slave of the Lamp. 1925. Vol ii. The Sowers. 1935.Vol iii. From One Generation from another. 1926.Vol iv. With Edged Tools. 1927.
Vol v. The Grey Lady. 1926. Vol vi. Flotsam. 1928. Vol vii. In Kedar's Tents. 1936. Vol viii. Roden's Corner. 1926.Vol ix. The Isle of Unrest. 1924. Vol x. The Velvet Glove. 1931. Vol xi. The Vultures. 1925. Vol xii. Barlasch of the Guard. 1931. Vol xiii. Tomaso's Fortune. 1930. Vol xiv. The Last Hope. 1926. A lovely set. | 
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The Wide Net and Other Stories. Eurdora Welty. 1945
Welty, Eudora: The Wide Net and Other Stories. John Lane/Bodley Head 1945. PP 144. 19 x 12.6 cms. War Economy Standard. Green cloth, black titles to front and spine. Dustwrapper, unclipped, age toned to edges and spine. The reverse of the dustwrapper has printed the Bodley Head wrapper for Unlucky Farm by F.E. Mills Young. Contents clean, bright, Good condition. | 
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The Robber Bridegroom By Eudora Welty. 1944
Welty, Eudora.The Robber Bridegroom: London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1944. PP 196. 20x 13 cms. Green cloth, White title to spine and front. Illustrated throughout by James Holland, the end papers showing James Holland portrait sketches and the front board shows James Holland figures. Binding is age toned to edges and sunned on spine, the contents are a very clean, bright, good condition. | 
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Mother. Maxim Gorky. 1950
Gorky, Maxim. Mother. Foreign languages Publishing House. Moscow 1950. Printed in the USSR. Small 8vo 170mm x 110mm. Translated from the Russian by Margaret Wettlin. Designed by E Kogan. Illustrated by G Veseloy. Designed by E Kogan. Tipped in frontis portrait of author. Red Cloth gilt titles to front and spine. With dust wrapper bumped and age toned to edges. 718 pages. In very good order. In good order throughout. |
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Childhood. Maxim Gorky. 1950
Gorky, Maxim. Childhood. Foreign languages Publishing House. Moscow 1950. Printed in the USSR. Small 8vo 170mm x 110mm, Translated from the Russian by Margaret Wettlin. Designed by E Kogan. Tipped in frontis portrait of author. Red Cloth gilt titles to front and spine. With dustwrapper bumped and age toned to edges. Pp444. In good order throughout. |
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Horatio Hornblower. C S Forester. 1952
Forester, C. S. Horatio Hornblower. An omnibus volume comprising The Commodore and Lord Hornblower. London, Michael Joseph, 1952. Ist Edition. 8vo. Blue cloth, silver titles to spine. Pp219. With price clipped dustwrapper, a little chipped at edges with some loss to top and lower spine area. Binding lightly sunned at spine edges. All pages tight bright and clean. |
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Pis'ma [ Correspondence. ] Aleksandr Blok.1925
Blok, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich. Pis'ma. so vstupitel'nymi stat'iami i primechaniiami S. M. Solov'eva .. [et al.] Leningrad, Kolos, 1925. 1st. 12mo, later hardcover red cloth, gilt title "Alexander Blok - Letters" to spine. Pp 228, 1p ads. In Cyrillic. Pages age toned. Front free end paper missing, small tear without loss on last page of publishers ads. Book plate of Ian Grey, russian historian and author on front pastedown. Scarce. |
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Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck. 1937
Steinbeck. John,: Tortilla Flat. Covici Friede. New York. 1937. 8vo Approx 195mm x 140mm. Pp317. Grey soiled cloth with blue banding and titles to spine. Library stamp on front endpaper and neat pencil ownership inscription. All pages clean and bright with numerous illustrations by Ruth Gannett, some full page. |
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