SHAKSPERE [SHAKESPEARE], WILLIAM & KNGHT, CHARLES (Ed) & COPE, C W et al (Illus)

2 VOL SET, HEAVY ITEM (OVER 10KGS), elephant folio, half leather bound teal buckram boards, gilt lettering/tooling & raised bands to spines, gilt lettering & coat of arms to front boards, aeg, marbled eps, frontispiece, vignette to prelims, vol 1- unpaginated prelims + 810pp, vol 2- unpaginated prelims + 778pp, illus/plates, G+ (top half of spine of vol 1 flapping loose but present, 3cm loss to base of vol 1 spine, heavy scuffing to board corners, moderate scuffing & surface loss to boards, moderate soiling, some plates loose but present, minor tanning & foxing/soiling to prelims, very heavy scuffing & surface loss to leather work of vol 2 inc. spine- cracking to front hinge, patches of moderate water staining to boards & page edges, prev. owner's inscription in pencil to vol 2) Photos advised.

PUBLISHER: Virtue & Co N/D (c.1880s)

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SINBAD

FIRST EDITION, LACKS D/W, ocatvo, red cloth boards, black lettering to spine, 200pp, VG (spine cocked & lightly faded/foxed, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges & eps, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, sm ink marking to rear pastedown)

PUBLISHER: Robert Hale 1948

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FORSTER, E M & HARTE, GLYNN BOYD (Lithographs)

IN SLIPCASE, 2008 RE-ISSUE WITH NEW BINDING, super octavo, plum cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus to full front board, frontispiece, 292pp, illus, Near FINE, in slipcase, VG+ (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2008

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REICH, WILLHELM; STEIG, WILLIAM (illus.); WOLFE, THEODORE, P (transl.)

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PUBLISHER: Souvenir Press 1972

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ELKIN, STANLEY

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PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1980

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BOND, MICHAEL; FORTNUM, PEGGY (illus.)

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PUBLISHER: Collins 1964

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RUDZINSKI, CARRIE & IWASHITA-TAYLOR, GRACE (eds.)

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PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 2023

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THOMPSON, FLORA; SCULLARD, SUE (illus.)

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PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2009

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WALKER, DAVID

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PUBLISHER: Collins 1965

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TAN, SHUAN

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PUBLISHER: Lothian Books 2001

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FAMOUS NOVELISTS SERVING IN HIS MAJESTY'S FORCES (MASON, A E W et al)

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PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton N/D (c.1916)

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MACDONALD, JOHN D

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PUBLISHER: Fawcett Gold Medal / Ballantine 1988

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THOMAS, DYLAN & RASKIN, ELLEN (Woodcuts)

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PUBLISHER: J M Dent & Sons 1978

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PORTAL, COLETTE & NARDI, MARCIA (Trans)

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PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1965

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DELPORTE, Y & PEYO

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PUBLISHER: Dupuis 1973

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DELPORTE, Y & PEYO

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PUBLISHER: Dupuis 1972

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CHAPMAN, GEORGE et al & McILWRAITH, A K (Ed & Intro)

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PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1953

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PIRIE, MARK (Ed)

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PUBLISHER: The Night Press 2022

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ANDERSEN, JOHANNES

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PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1934

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SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM & BRYANT Jr, J A (Ed)

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PUBLISHER: Signet / Penguin 1998

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