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    Windows into worlds gone by, a vast store of history. Both the iconic and the less well-known is here. Together with forgotten byways and things not found anywhere else. Here is also Americana, Crime, Feminism, Occultism,Archaeology, and Ethnography.
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    1. 1955 The Mint: A Day-Book of the R. A. F. Depot Between August and December 1922
      1955 The Mint: A Day-Book of the R. A. F. Depot Between August and December 1922
      London: 1955
      An exceptional limited edition example of the first edition of T. E. Lawrence's memoirs of his time enlisted in the Royal Air Force.
      £425.00
      Stock Code: 978F38
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    2. 1952-1963 4vol A Collection from the Yale Edition of the Private Papers of James Boswell
      1952-1963 4vol A Collection from the Yale Edition of the Private Papers of James Boswell
      London: 1952-1963
      A collection of four smart volumes from the Yale Editions of The Private Papers of James Boswell.
      £170.00
      Stock Code: 977T9
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    3. 1986-1986 2vol Boswell: The English Experiment & The Great Biographer
      1986-1986 2vol Boswell: The English Experiment & The Great Biographer
      London: 1986-1989
      Two smart volumes from the Yale Editions of The Private Papers of James Boswell.
      £55.00
      Stock Code: 977T8
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    4. 1955 The Mint: A Day-Book of the R.A.F. Depot Between August and December 1922
      1955 The Mint: A Day-Book of the R.A.F. Depot Between August and December 1922
      London: 1955
      A smart first edition of T. E. Lawrence's insightful memoirs of his time as an enlisted man in the Royal Air Force.
      £118.00
      Stock Code: 964T65
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    5. 1925 2vols The Life of Samuel Johnson
      1925 2vols The Life of Samuel Johnson
      Bath: 1925
      A two-volume illustrated edition of Boswell's important biography of Samuel Johnson, edited with notes by Roger Ingpen.
      £80.00
      Stock Code: 932M16
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    6. 1859 The Life of Samuel Johnson
      1859 The Life of Samuel Johnson
      London: 1859
      A lovely ten volume edition of Boswell's life of Johnson, in half morocco bindings, and illustrated throughout.
      £1,700.00
      Stock Code: 880F25
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    7. 1955 The Mint: A Day-Book of the R.A.F. Depot Between August and December 1922
      1955 The Mint: A Day-Book of the R.A.F. Depot Between August and December 1922
      London: 1955
      A smart first edition of T. E. Lawrence's insightful memoirs of his time as an enlisted man in the Royal Air Force.
      £125.00
      Stock Code: 874T79
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    8. 1792-1796 3Vols in 1 Burke's Letters and Biographical Sketches of Leading Men
      1792-1796 3Vols in 1 Burke's Letters and Biographical Sketches of Leading Men
      London; Edinburgh: 1792-1796
      A smart tree calf volume consisting of one very scarce first edition work of biographical sketches of French figures, and two early impression works of letters from statesman, Whig politician and philosopher Edmund Burke.
      £750.00
      Stock Code: 821F2
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    9. 1955 The Mint
      1955 The Mint
      London: 1955
      T. E. Lawrence's memoirs of his time in the Royal Air Force, the first trade edition of this volume in its unclipped dust wrapper.
      £130.00
      Stock Code: 798A66
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    10. 1955 The Mint
      1955 The Mint
      London: 1955
      The first edition of T. E. Lawrence's memoirs of his time enlisted in the Royal Air Force.
      £110.00
      Stock Code: 780F52
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    11. 1951-60 6vols The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell
      1951-60 6vols The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell
      London: 1951-60
      A wonderful set of Yale's limited edition works containing the private papers of James Boswell, illustrated throughout, all small printing runs.
      £695.00
      Stock Code: 773P31
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    12. 1955 The Mint
      1955 The Mint
      London: 1955
      The first edition in original dustwrapper of T. E. Lawrence's memoirs of his time as an enlisted man in the Royal Air Force.
      £210.00
      Stock Code: 755A48
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    13. 1922 10vol The Life of Samuel Johnson James Boswell Whitman Bennett Binding
      1922 10vol The Life of Samuel Johnson James Boswell Whitman Bennett Binding
      New York: 1922
      An attractively-bound copy of Boswell's famous 'Life of Johnson'.
      £1,900.00
      Stock Code: FIN4-E-1
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