Box 16

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H. BERSAN. MAYA. FIFTY-FIVE SONNETS.

Manaton, Devon: Boar’s Head Press, 1932.

8vo. NO. 8 OF AN EDITION OF 150 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR WITH INITIALS. Publisher’s marbled boards. Ransom II, p. 316, Boar’s Head Press, No. 8. Purchased 1999.

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W. A. YOUNGER. MADONNA.

Boar’s Head Press, 1935.

8vo. NO. 67 OF AN EDITION OF 100 COPIES. PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR. Publisher’s marbled cloth. Provenance: Stamps of Monteacute House Library on front pastedown and front free flyleaf. Ransom, II, p. 317, Boar’s Head Press, No. 17. Purchased 2001.

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Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Lectures. By Douglas Jerrold. With illustrations by Charles Keene.

New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1866.

Printed by Bradbury, Evans, and Co. Xx, 190 p.20.5 cm. Roman type.

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Gipsy Night and Other Poems. By Richard Hughes.

Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire, England, The Golden Cockerel Press. "The eighth book printed at the Golden Cockerel Press. This edition of 750 copies finished March 24th, 1922.”

Caslon Old Face type. 69 pages. 17 cm. Publisher’s cloth backed boards.

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JOHN CAREY. VEGETABLE GARDENING.

Rampant Lions Press, 1989.

8vo. Illustrated with linocuts in colour by Clare Melinsky. NO. 353 OF AN EDITION OF 500 COPIES. Publisher’s cloth backed pattern boards. Purchased 1998.

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In Thompson’s Woods by Forrest Crissey

Chicago: The Blue Sky Press, 1901.

No. 207 of 225 copies on L. L. Brown’s H.M.P. Ex-library. Caslon. 42pp. 19.5cm. Publisher’s cloth.

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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. A Paraphrase from Several Literal Translations. By Richard Le Gallienne.

New York: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1897.

No. 607 of an edition of 1250 copies, signed by Le Gallienne. Printed by Will Bradley at the Wayside Press. 22cm. 107 pp. Publisher’s boards, lacks spine.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley. The Cenci.

New Rochelle, NY, the Elston Press, 1903.

8vo. One of 180 copies. Initial letters by H.M. O’Kane. 87 pp. 25 cm. Publisher’s cloth backed boards.

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Selected Papers of Frank Hamilton Short

San Francisco: Privately Printed at the Grabhorn Press, 1923.

One of 250 Copies. German handmade paper. 30 cm. 219 pp. Garamont monotype. Publisher’s cloth backed boards

Scope and Contents: The Shaving of Shagpat. By George Meredith. With a preface by Sir Francis Meredith Meynell and illustrations by Honore Guilbeau. New York, The Centenary Edition for the Members of the Limited Editions Club, 1955.14p. Copy no. 567 of 1,500 copies, signed by Guilbeau. Designed & decorated by W. A. Dwiggins; printing by George Grady Press. Text in black (type?) with page numbers, page ornaments, and marginal chapter headings in blue....