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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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      1949 Knole and the Sackvilles
      1949 Knole and the Sackvilles
      London: 1949
      A signed presentation copy of Vita Sackville-West's ode to her ancestral home Knole House, in Kent.
      £1,275.00
      Stock Code: 878F43
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    2. 1929 The Eighteen-Seventies
      1929 The Eighteen-Seventies
      New York: 1929
      The first edition of these historical essays on the Victorian era by Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature, in the original scarce dustwrapper.
      £34.00
      Stock Code: 782P9
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    3. 1959 Daughter of France
      1959 Daughter of France
      New York: 1959
      The first U.S. edition of Vita Sackville-West's intriguing biography on la Grande Mademoiselle, illustrated throughout with the original decorative dustwrapper.
      £50.00
      Stock Code: 781P61
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    4. 1936 Saint Joan of Arc
      1936 Saint Joan of Arc
      London: 1936
      A bright first edition of Vita Sackville-West's fascinating biography of the national heroine of France, Joan of Arc. In the very scarce dust wrapper.
      £295.00
      Stock Code: 781A60
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    5. 1751 An Enquiry Into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers
      1751 An Enquiry Into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers
      London: 1751
      An uncommonly bright copy of this tract by Henry Fielding regarding the growing crime rates in the 1750s.
      £950.00
      Stock Code: 754L12
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    6. 1753 A Clear State of the Case of Elizabeth Canning Who Hath Sworn that She Was Robbed
      1753 A Clear State of the Case of Elizabeth Canning Who Hath Sworn that She Was Robbed
      London: 1753
      A scarce account demonstrating Henry Fielding's humanitarian commitment to justice. Regarding the case of Elizabeth Canning, this pamphlet is one of Fielding's final works.
      £475.00
      Stock Code: 754L2
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