Le Retour au Pays (Fragments), par Jacques Bens. First edition, 8vo, 20cm, 60[4]p, Editions Gallimard, Paris, 1968.
One of 200 hors commerce copies (numbered 2001-2200). Semi-stiff covers printed in black and red, just faintly soiled at the extremities. A very good copy indeed.
With a fulsome inscription from the author to the translator Barbara Wright: 'Pour Barbara Wright, qui aime les promenades biographiques et imaginaires, bien amicalement, Jacques Bens.'

Poems, by H.Cumberland Bentley. First edition, 8vo, 22cm, pp.vii[1], 184, London: Published by Arthur L. Humphreys and Sold by Hatchards, 1900.
Title-page in red and black; bound in olive-green cloth elaborately blocked in gold with an art nouveau design, gilt top, spine titled in gilt. Spine edges a trifle rubbed. Neat ownership inscriptions. A very good copy indeed.
 

Cinemas de quartier suivi de La Cantilene de la Mal-baisee avec les Remembrances du vieux barde idiot et une Conclusion provisoire. Illustrations d'Odette Blavier. First edition, 12mo, 19cm, 48p, Plein Chant, Bassac, 1985.
Three full-page illustrations in line; overlapping green paper wrappers, titled in red and black, with slight browning to the fore-edge. A very good copy.
With a lengthy inscription from the author to Barbara Wright.

Alfieri di Sostegno (Carlotta Melania). In Morte di Carlotta Melania Duchi Alfieri versi e prose. [With an introductory eulogium by G.F. Galeani Napione and a biographical sketch by C.E. Alfieri.] 8vo, 151p, Parma: Co'tipi Bodoniani, 1807.

Handdsomely set in Bodoni and printed with occasional ornaments on good quality wide-margined paper. Full calf, upper board detached, lower board distressed, lacking spine label. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate. A few leaves lightly browned. A good copy.

(Brooks 1028)

Gruach and Britain's Daughter. Two Plays by Gordon Bottomley. Small 4to, pp.iv,132, Chiswick Press for Constable and Co, London 1921.

Done on Abbey Mills 'Greenfield' paper; orange and red cloth boards to a design by Charlees Ricketts. Slight wear to spine. A very good copy.

Johnson and Queeney: Letters from Dr Johnson to Queeney Thrale from the Bowood Papers. Edited with an Introduction by the Marquis of Lansdowne. Demy 8vo, pp.xxvi,64, facsimiles, London: Cassell, 1932.

Set in Monotype Bembo. One of 500 copies printed on Curwen watermarked white wove paper. Inserted facsimiles. Marbled cloth-covered boards with leather spine label, titled in gilt. A fine copy.

Topo: A Tale about English Children in Italy. With 44 pen-and-ink illustrations by Kate Greenaway. 12mo, 17cm, 140 + iv ads, London: Marcus Ward & Co., 1880.
Frontispiece printed in colours; green pictorial cloth, titled and decorated in black, blocked in gilt. Slight wear to corners and freckling to endpapers. A very good copy.

Tan and Teckle, by Charles Lee Bryson.  Illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull. First U.K edition, from American sheets and with American ads, 8vo, 20.5cm, 238p, plates, Oliphants Ltd, London and Edinburgh, n.d.
8 inserted plates and many line drawings within the text; maize cloth, spine gilt, upper board titled in red, onlaid with a picture of four field mice in white on a green background,
Not listed on COPAC. The date of the second edition (American) is 1908.

The Memoirs of Giacomo Casanova di Seingalt. Translated into English by Arthur Machen. 12 vols, 4to, c. 250 pages per volume, Privately Printed for Subscribers Only. The Casanova Society, London, 1922.
Number 235 of 1000 sets on antique laid paper; frontis. Portrait and decorative title-pages. Quarter vellum with black spine titling (rubbed), blue paper-covered boards decorated with gilt fleur-de-lys (some wear to corners). A clean set in about very good condition.

Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius. Cum C. Galli (vel potius Maximiani) fragmentis. Serio castigati. 16mo, 12cm, 239p, Amstaeledami : Apud I. Haring 1686.

Engraved title-page; contemporary leather binding, decorated in blind with neat contemporary ownership signature. A very good copy.

A well-printed edition including the Pervigilium Veneris.