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BRITISH AUTHORS]. [DE LA MARE, WALTER]. Songs of Childhood. By Walter Ramal. 1902. Unopened; cloth case. Author's first book. Terry bookplate -- DAVIDSON, JOHN. Baptist Lake. 1894. Shaken; protective cloth jacket -- DAVIDSON. St. George's Day. A Fleet Street Eclogue. New York, 1895. Wire-stitched as issued (apparently this copy not issued in the printed tan wrappers seen on other copies). One of a small number of copies (12?) printed to secure American copyright -- LUCAS, E.V. Wisdon While You Wait [and] Wisdon on the Hire System. 1903. 2 vols., both in red printed wrappers; cloth case. TLS of Lucas, 1 p., 8vo, 1924, re the first title laid in -- PHILLPOTTS, EDEN. Children of the Mist. 1898 -- [SHORTHOUSE, JOHN HENRY]. John Inglesant: a Romance. Birmingham, 1880. White parchment boards, soiled, newsclippings pasted to front endpaper. Paul Lemberly copy, bookplate -- STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. Across the Plains. 1892. Front inner hinge cracked -- STEVENSON. In the South Seas. New York, 1896. Spine faded. First American Edition -- STEVENSON. In the South Seas. 1900. First Separate English Edition. Harry Glemby and James Wilson Bullock bookplates -- [STEVENSON]. Osbourne, Lloyd. A Letter to Mr. Stevenson's Friends. [Samoa]: For Private Circulation, 1894. Printed wrappers loose; half morocco slipcase. Issued the month after Stevenson's death -- And 16 others, virtually all London, 1891-1911, nearly all cloth, condition varies, 2 in half morocco slipcases, virtually all First Editions, including works by Barrie (2), de la Mare (2), Phillpotts (3), and Stevenson (4). London, except as noted. Together 27 vols., 12mo-8vo, original bindings (nearly all cloth). FIRST EDITIONS, except as indicated. (27)