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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. 1868-1901 The Works of Francis Bacon
      1868-1901 The Works of Francis Bacon
      London: 1868-1901
      A fine fourteen volume collection of the works of Sir Francis Bacon, uniformly bound in half morocco, and from the library of industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
      £2,750.00
      Stock Code: 953F64D
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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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    3. 2013 The Charleston Bulletin Supplements
      2013 The Charleston Bulletin Supplements
      London : 2013
      The first edition this deatiled historical analysis of the Charleston Bulletin Supplement.
      £30.00
      Stock Code: 878V12
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    4. 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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    5. 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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    6. 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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