DESPERATE REMEDIES
Written by Thomas Hardy.
Stock no. 1331184
Published by MacMillan. 1979. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The New Wessex Edition with introduction by C.J.P. Beatty. Green cloth, gilt title to spine and monogram to front cover. 415 pages, top edge dyed green. ISBN: 0333177665. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Light score mark to front cover. Name, town and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Contents clean. Price-cut dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed and worn.

DAN LENO AND THE LIMEHOUSE GOLEM
Written by Peter Ackroyd.
Stock no. 1831307
Published by Sinclair-Stevenson. 1st 1994. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A novel set in London, 1880. A series of gruesome murders attributed to the mysterious 'Limehouse Golem' strikes fear into the heart of the capital. Inspector John Kildare must track down this brutal serial killer in the damp, dark alleyways of riverside London. Red cloth boads, gilt title to spine. 279 pages. ISBN: 1856195074. Top edge of text block browned else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly sunned to spine.

THE DIVINE COMEDY
Written by Dante Alighieri; Henry Francis Cary. Illustrated by John Flaxman.
Stock no. 1831302
Published by Oxford University Press. 1950. Very good condition.

Being the Vision of Dante Alighieri. This edition translated by Henry Francis Cary. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. List of illustrations mentions a fronitispiece which this copy does not have. B/w illustrations to the text. xlv and 578 pages including index. Top edge blue. Reprint. Boards lightly rubbed at corners, a few light scuff marks. Name in ink to front endpaper. Text block lightly browned. Contents otherwise clean.

NUNS AND SOLDIERS
Written by Iris Murdoch.
Stock no. 1331083
Published by Chatto & Windus Ltd. 1st 1980. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

This is a story about honour and innocence, lost and found, and about vicissitudes of a deep friendship between two women. Grey boards, gilt title to spine. 505 pages. ISBN: 0701125195. Minimal bumping to spine. Name and date to front free-endpaper. Textblock is slightly dusty. Dustwrapper is very slightly faded to spine.

NINETEENTH CENTURY STUDIES
Written by Basil Willey.
Stock no. 1331082
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1950. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Coleridge to Matthew Arnold. Red cloth, gilt title to spine. 287 pages, lower edges untrimmed, top edge red. Second impression. Spine and corners bumped. Covers lightly damp spotted. Name, address and date to front free-endpaper. Foxing to textblock. Price-cut wrapper is edge worn, foxed on verso and browned to spine. Wrapper is slightly grubby.

HENRY AND CATO
Written by Iris Murdoch.
Stock no. 1831270
Published by Chatto & Windus Ltd. 1st 1976. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A novel. Henry is an art historian who returns to England from the United States upon inheriting his family estate, and Cato is a Roman Catholic priest who is losing his faith and has secretly fallen in love with a seventeen-year-old boy. Their stories, separate at the beginning of the novel, converge as it progresses. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 339 pages. ISBN: 0701121955. Boards clean. Minor foxing to top edge of text block, lower edge of text block has a minor mark at end. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is sunned to spine and lightly browned to rear panel.

GEORGE GISSING: A LIFE
Written by Paul Delany.
Stock no. 1831266
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1st 2008. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

George Gissing was an English novelist. Throughout his adult life, Gissing's difficult financial situation was exacerbated by the responsibility he felt to support his family. But the focus of Delany's book is on Gissing's mistakes as a young man and on his lifelong difficulty with women and sexuality. Maroon cloth boards, gilt title to spine. A few b/w photos. xiii and 444 pages including index. ISBN: 9780297852124. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed to rear panel. A lovely copy.

A LAODICEAN: A STORY OF TO-DAY (THE NEW WESSEX EDITION)
Written by Thomas Hardy; Barbara Hardy; Ernest Hardy.
Stock no. 1831231
Published by Macmillan London Limited. 1981. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A novel. Paula Power inherits a medieval castle from her industrialist father who had purchased it from the aristocratic De Stancy family. She employs two architects, one local and one, George Somerset, newly qualified from London... Introduction by Barbara Hardy, notes by Ernest Hardy. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine and circular TH logo to front. 429 pages. Top edge green. ISBN: 0333177657. Green dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at edges, lightly browned to spine, minor mark to rear panel. A lovely copy.

POETRY AND PROSE OF WILLIAM BLAKE
Written by William Blake; Geoffrey Keynes.
Stock no. 1831229
Published by The Nonesuch Press. 1961. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Complete in one volume. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Fourth Edition. The Compendious Series. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xi and 936 pages including index. Reprint. Boards clean. Text block lightly browned with foxing to top edge. Name in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is browned to spine and rear panel, is edge-worn and torn with slight loss, a bit grubby.

A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN
Written by James Joyce. Illustrated by Robin Jacques.
Stock no. 1831227
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1958. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Illustrated Edition. The story of Stephen Dedalus, a boy growing up in Ireland at the end of the nineteenth century, as he gradually decides to cast off all his social, familial, and religious constraints to live a life devoted to the art of writing. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine and vignette to front board. 6 full-page b/w illustrations. 257 pages. Top edge green. Boards clean. Text block browned. Gift inscription in ink to front endpaper. Light browning to endpapers, else contents clean. Green pictorial dustwrapper is grubby and edge-worn.

THE ATLAS OF LITERATURE
Written by Malcolm Bradbury.
Stock no. 1831224
Published by De Agostini Editions. 1st 1996. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

This book explores the fascinating connection between writers and place. This ambitious and exciting book focuses on writers and works that are intimately bound up with a place and a time, capturing a town, a city, a region, in its literary heyday. More than 80 essays edited by Malcolm Bradbury. Large format. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. 352 pages including index. ISBN: 1899883673. Lower edge of boards lightly knocked and rubbed. Verso of endpapers and prelims lightly browned. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper has a few minor marks and a small closed tear to top rear edge of spine. Musty odour present.

HARDY: AN ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY
Written by Alan Hurst; Thomas Hardy.
Stock no. 1831223
Published by Kaye & Ward. 1st thus 1980. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

This book may be used as a dictionary and read as a book. Arranged alphabetically, are entries related to Thomas Hardy and his works. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 215 pages. ISBN: 0718212452. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.