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London : William Heinemann, (1973). First edition. A sparkling collection of essays, etc. – on J. M. Barrie, Roger Fry, William Gerhardie, Patrick Hamilton, A. E. Housman, Augustus John, Wyndham Lewis, Bertrand Russell, Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf, etc., etc.
Demy 8vo (23cm). vi,266pp. Original boards; two corners a little bumped; a few spots to top edge, but otherwise a very good copy in a price-clipped dust-jacket – similarly bumped and lightly sunned, with a few tiny marks, but otherwise very good.

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London : Enitharmon Press, 1972 [i.e. 1971]. First edition : one of a small number of copies of the first issue, with two sequences of text printed in the wrong order, with the two errors “Immortality” for “Immorality” on p.15, and the publisher’s corrections slip pasted to the verso of the front wrapper. A presentation copy, signed by Hugo Manning, and with his five-line inscription explaining that some of these faulty copies were distributed in advance of the corrected and reprinted text [the British Library Catalogue note notwithstanding]. Loosely inserted is a signed single-page 1976 autograph letter from Manning confirming the gift of this “dud” copy of “my essay on Henry Miller” as a “collector’s item” given to him by the publisher, Alan Clodd.
Demy 8vo (22cm). (32)pp. Original white wrappers, lettered and decorated in brown; a very good copy, with the original envelope (addressed by Manning) in which the book was sent to the recipient. Halliwell 30n – “it is likely that these were very few in number”.

£40

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London : Oxford University Press, 1956. First edition. A highly-regarded survey of nineteenth-century theatre and drama – in fact covering the period 1792-1914 – with much incidental reference to Harley Granville Barker, Dionysius Lardner Boucicault, Sir William Schwenck Gilbert, Sir John Hare, Sir Henry Irving, Charles Kean, William Charles Macready, Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, James Robinson Planché, Thomas William Robertson, etc. – and much also on the London theatres themselves.
Demy 8vo (23cm). (xiv),(204),[ii]pp. Plates. Original cloth; a very good, clean and sound copy in a lightly used dust-jacket.

£20

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Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, (1992). First edition. A mine of material on Victorian publishing and the influence of the market-place on authorial ambition and choice. With much passing reference to Bradbury & Evans, Chapman & Hall, Charles Dickens, Harper & Brothers, Charles Lever, George Smith and Smith, Elder & Co., Anthony Trollope, etc. In the “Victorian Literature and Culture” series.
Medium 8vo (24cm). (xiv),(302),[iv]pp. Original cloth-backed boards; a few faint marks, but a very good copy in a very good dust-jacket.

£25

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London : Sidgwick & Jackson, (1977). First edition. Absorbing reminiscences of John Bayliss, Roy Campbell, Ian Hamilton Finlay, G. S. Fraser, Wrey Gardiner, Robert Greacen, John Heath-Stubbs, J. F. Hendry, Nicholas Moore, Herbert Read, Julian Maclaren-Ross, Muriel Spark, Dylan Thomas, etc., with much on the London literary haunts of the period.
Demy 8vo (23cm). viii,242pp. Plates. Original boards; top edge lightly spotted, but a very good copy in the original John Sewell dust-jacket – lightly tanned and somewhat sunned at spine, with one short nick, but otherwise good.

£15

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