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A Book of Nonsense, with Strewwelpeter and other absurdities by various authors Price: £8.00
Lear, Edward Reprint. Traditional and original rhymes and tales from Lear, Lewis Carroll, Heinrich Hoffmann, William Brighty Rands, D'arcy W Thompson, 'Mother Goose' etc. Illustrated in b/w. Blue cloth cover faded and marked, gold lettering and decoration to the spine very dull, illustrative end-papers etc (Everyman Library), no inscriptions, gatherings loosening slightly, some grubby marks to pages, good. p240 J M Dent

ABC - the alphabetization of the popular mind Price: £5.00
Illich, Ivan and Sanders, Barry Subtitled 'The history and impact of literacy from Homer to Huxley and from UNIVAC to Uniquack', this has much to say on the transition from oral culture. Cover a little worn, generally VG p166 Pelican

Bee: the Princess of the Dwarfs Price: £12.00
France, Anatole Undated. A pocket-book in the King's Treasuries of Literature series, edited by Quiller-Couch. 'Done into English by Peter Wright'. Also includes an over-view of the story (by Q?) and two stories and a poem with similar themes - The Sorrow of Demeter by G W Cox, The King of the Golden Mountain by the Brothers Grimm and Persephone by Jean Ingelow. Illustrated with charming line drawings. Red cloth, gold lettering to spine rather faded, no inscriptions, endpapers a little browned, VG p159 E P Dutton/J M Dent

Guillaume D'Angleterre Price: £6.00
de Troyes, Chretien Translated into modern French largely from the mss P, which formed the basis of the 1927 edition by Maurice Wilmotte, with some additions from the mss C VG p96 Librairie Honore Champion

Hero on a Stolen Horse Price: £7.00
Evans, Hilary and Mary 'The highwayman and his brothers-in-arms the bandit and the bushranger'. The criminal as romantic hero. Cover rather worn, generally VG, in edge-worn and chipped but good DJ p177 Frederick Muller Limited

Hydriotaphia and the Garden of Cyrus Price: £18.00
Browne, Sir Thomas; W A Greenhill ed Reprint. In the Golden Treasury Series. Philosphical discourse on Urn Burial and on Gardens - the quincunx. First published in 1658. Blue cloth, bright gold lettering and initials, neat inscription to ffep and a partially erased price in purple pencil, pages just a little yellowed, occasional pencil underling now erased, o/w VG in lightly marked and edge-worn DJ, pencil inscription to front cover and to rear flap of DJ, a sound and still handsome copy. p208 MacMillan & Co.

My Dear Alexias - letters from Wellesley Tudor Pole to Rosemary Lehmann Price: £10.00
Pole, Wellesley Tudor, forword by Rosemary Lehmann, edited by Elizabeth Gaythorpe Extraordinary correspondence, from the founder of the Big Ben Silent Minute, the Chalice Trust, a Seer and explorer of alternate reality. VG, no inscriptions, in edge-worn, slightly marked but generally VG DJ p212 Neville Spearman

My Story as Told by Water Price: £15.00
Duncan, David James 'Confessions, Druidic rants, reflections, bird-watchings, fish-stalkings, visions, songs and prayers refracting light from living rivers, in the age of the industrial dark'. Slightly edge-worn, generally VG p294 Sierra Club Books

On Order and Purpose in Evolution Price: £5.00
Groves, CR The Blavatsky lecture, delivered to the annual convention of the Theosophical Society in 1949. Staped booklet, good. p28 Theosophical Publishing House

Parables from Nature Price: £30.00
Gatty, Margaret The two volumes of moral fables, based on sound natural history, gathered together, with a memoir of the author by her daughter Juliana Horatia Ewing, and illustrated with fine engravings by Holman Hunt, Burne-Jones, Tenniel and others Illustrative green cloth, a little worn, esp. to spine edges and top and tail, gilt all round, black eps, small name to back of ffep, no other inscriptions, tissue guarded frontis, pages yellowed, tight, sound and still a handsome copy. p492 George Bell and Sons

The Brownies and Other Tales Price: £8.00
Ewing, Juliana Horatia Contains: The Brownies, The Land of Lost Toys, Three Christmas Trees, An Idyll of the Wood, Christmas Crackers, and Amelia and the Dwarves. No date, is part of the SPCK authorized editions of Mrs Ewing's works. Good - corners and spine bumped and worn; inscribed by previous owner on FFEP, fold marks on the first three pages, pages have occasional marks and age spotting; hinge starting at rear. p238 Society for promoting Christian Knowledge

The Early Romances in Prose and Verse Price: £5.00
Morris, William Cover a little worn, split to spine, initials stamped to ffep, good p302 J M Dent - Everyman

The Four Little Brothers Price: £10.00
Bradby, Violet Good - Cover and spine has title and pictures imprinted. Age markings, marked on page 42/43, small corner tear on p 87, some gatherings loose, small pencil annotation. p127 Oxford University Press

The Granny Growler Stories Price: £30.00
Weltch, Ethel Undated. Illustrated by W F Coles. Blue illustrated boards, worn and marked, small neat name to front paste down, some age mottling and browning to pages, tight and sound, good p178 Henry J Drane

The Medieval Legacy - A Symposium Price: £15.00
journal The proceedings of the 6th International Symposium organised by the Centre for the Study of Vernacular Literature in the Middle Ages, 1981. With contributions by Ehrismann, Shippey, Gudmundsson, Bo,Mjoberg, Brondsted, Olsen and Glamann. VG p172 Odense University Press

They Travel Outside Their Bodies - the phenomenon of Astral Projection Price: £10.00
Baumann, Elwood D Describing both instantaneous and conscious astral travel. VG, no DJ p117 Franklin Watts

Wellesley Tudor Pole - Appreciation and Valuation Price: £14.00
Villiers, Oliver G A biographical memorial to the mystic and seer. With seven photographs. Privately printed. Stapled booklet, covers very slightly worn, creased and marked, good p48

William Marshal - Knight-errant, Baron, and Regent of England Price: £10.00
Painter, Sidney First published in 1933, this is a biography of the 12th century knight, revealing the wider historical background Neat name to ffep, o/w no inscriptions, cover just a little worn and lightly marked, generally VG p305 John Hopkins Press

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