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![The Turn of the Years. The Seasons' Course, Selected Engravings by Reynolds Stone [and] As Old as...](/pictures/thumb/56336.jpg?v=1586190661)
The Turn of the Years. The Seasons' Course, Selected Engravings by Reynolds Stone [and] As Old as the Century, V.S. Pritchett.
Wilton: Michael Russell, 1982. FIRST TRADE EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.48. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Humphrey Stone with printed price of £3.95. Lightly handled. A fine copy. A selection of Reynolds Stone's wood engravings followed by a reflective essay by V.S. Pritchett originally..... More
The Black House.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1974. [Strange Tale] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[10] 245 [1]. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine. With the purple illustrated dust-jacket, price-clipped and repriced by the publisher twice, latterly to £10.95. Some creasing to rear cover. One heavy bump and tear to inside..... More
![My Secret History [two variant copies]. Paul THEROUX, born 1941](/pictures/thumb/55718.jpg?v=1584027969)
My Secret History [two variant copies].
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1989. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITIONS. Two volumes, one as published, one with proof or trial jacket. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.468; [2]. Publisher's red cloth titled in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jackets priced at £13.95 (one of which lacks the gold print). Some gentle toning to text..... More
Murder in Mount Holly.
London: Alan Ross, 1969. FIRST EDITION: Publisher's red cloth boards in original pictorial dustwrapper. Both book and jacket in fine condition. The American travel writer and novelist's fourth book, a thriller which was only ever published in the UK and consequently is very SCARCE indeed. More
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