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Item #60957 The Witch of Clatteringshaws. Joan AIKEN

The Witch of Clatteringshaws.

AIKEN, Joan (1924-2004).

London: Jonathan Cape, 2005. [Children's Fantasy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[4] 150 [6]. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Paul Hess, priced at £10.99. A fine, as-new copy. The final book in the Wolves Chronicles, published posthumously. More

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Item #61399 Pride and Prejudice. Jane AUSTEN

Pride and Prejudice.

AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1817).

London: The Zodiac Press, 1974. [Classic Literature] FINE COPY, the ninth impression of the Zodiac Press edition. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.299 [3]. Publisher's grey and white patterned paper over boards, with gilt titles to blue backing on spine. With the dust-jacket showing a painting by John Sergeant, price-clipped and..... More

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Item #60503 Ancient Light. John BANVILLE, born 1945

Ancient Light.

BANVILLE, John (born 1945).

London: Viking, 2012. [Modern Literature] DOUBLE SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 245 [3]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page, and signed also to tipped-in 'Exclusive Signed Edition' leaf. Publisher's black cloth with bronze titles to spine and dark green endpapers. With the photographic..... More

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Item #61039 Angels and Spaceships. Fredric BROWN

Angels and Spaceships.

BROWN, Fredric (1906-1972).

London: Victor Gollancz, 1955. [Science Fiction] FIRST UK EDITION, REVIEW COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.224. The publisher's review slip loosely inserted. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pink typographic dust-jacket, priced at 10/6. A little light spotting to edges and endpapers. Gilt slightly dulled to..... More

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Item #61405 Black Venus. Angela CARTER

Black Venus.

CARTER, Angela (1940-1992).

London: Chatto & Windus, the Hogarth Press, 1985. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.121 [3]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the black dust-jacket designed by Don Macpherson. A lightly handled copy in a price-clipped jacket. Near fine. More

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Item #60768 4.50 From Paddington. Agatha CHRISTIE, Dame

4.50 From Paddington.

CHRISTIE, [Dame] Agatha (1890-1976).

London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1957. [Crime fiction] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] 256 [6]. Finely bound by the Baker Bindery, Anniston, Alabama in green full morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, green patterned paste-paper endpapers, generous turn-ins ruled in gilt..... More

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Item #60610 Nemesis. [A Miss Jane Marple Story]. Agatha CHRISTIE, Dame

Nemesis. [A Miss Jane Marple Story].

CHRISTIE, [Dame] Agatha (1890-1976).

London: The Crime Club [Collins], 1971. [Murder mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's orange cloth in grey typographic dust-jacket with printed price of £1.50. A clean, fine copy in a superior example of the jacket which shows wear too readily. This one is only lightly handled with..... More

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Item #61270 Passenger to Frankfurt. Agatha CHRISTIE, Dame

Passenger to Frankfurt.

CHRISTIE, [Dame] Agatha (1890-1976).

London: The Crime Club, Collins, 1970. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.256. Elegantly bound in half red oasis morocco over cloth sides, spine ruled in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt. Contents clean, exterior as new. A fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding. A...... More

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Item #60810 They Do it With Mirrors. Agatha CHRISTIE, Dame

They Do it With Mirrors.

CHRISTIE, [Dame] Agatha (1890-1976).

London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1952. [Crime fiction] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Finely bound by the Baker Bindery, Anniston, Alabama in green full morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, green patterned paste-paper endpapers, generous turn-ins ruled in gilt, with gilt motifs of..... More

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Item #60621 Third Girl. Agatha CHRISTIE, Dame

Third Girl.

CHRISTIE, [Dame] Agatha (1890-1976).

London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1966. [Crime fiction] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.256. Finely bound by the Baker Bindery, Anniston, Alabama in green full morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, green patterned paste-paper endpapers, generous turn-ins ruled in gilt, with gilt motifs of..... More

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Item #59936 The Great Train Robbery. Michael CRICHTON

The Great Train Robbery.

CRICHTON, Michael (1942-2008).

London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. [Locomotive thievery] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.255, [1]. Publisher's mid brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Leigh Taylor. Signed by the author to the title page. Internally fine. Bright dust-wrapper, not faded or clipped, with just some light..... More

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Item #61105 Dombey and Son. Or, Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail and...

Dombey and Son. Or, Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail and Exportation.

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870), [PHIZ, pseudonym of H.K. BROWNE, illustrator].

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. [Classic literature] FIRST EDITION, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED includes errata leaf within prelims, bound from the parts, without half-title. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[xvi]; 624. Illustrated with frontispiece and vignette and a further thirty-eight plates, plus three additional portrait plates by H.K. Browne ('Phiz'). Period-style half brown oasis..... More

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Item #60384 Our Mutual Friend. Charles DICKENS, Marcus STONE

Our Mutual Friend.

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870), [STONE, Marcus, illustrator].

London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. [English Literature] FIRST EDITION. First issue text with 'pricipal' for 'principal', page 115 of volume II, line 38. Two volumes. Octavo, pp.[2] xii; 320 [2]; pp.[2] viii; 309 [3]. With 40 engraved plates by Stone, including a frontispiece to each volume. Complete with the half-titles..... More

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Item #61181 Tales of Sherlock Holmes. A Study in Scarlet; The Sign of the Four; A Scandal in...

Tales of Sherlock Holmes. A Study in Scarlet; The Sign of the Four; A Scandal in Bohemia; A Case of Identity.

DOYLE, [Sir] Arthur Conan (1859-1930).

New York, NY: Triangle Books, 1940. [Sherlock Holmes] VINTAGE HARDCOVER EDITION. Third Triangle Books printing. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[viii]; 415; [5] blank. Publisher's green cloth titled in silver to black label on spine, silver decoration to spine and upper board, edges coloured yellow, pictorial dust-jacket. Textblock toned, spine a...... More

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Item #60661 The Millstone. Margaret DRABBLE, born 1939, Dame

The Millstone.

DRABBLE, [Dame] Margaret (born 1939).

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1965. [English Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.223; [1], blank. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, colourful dust-jacket illustrated by Quentin Blake, priced at 18s. net. Near fine, with one shallow chip to crown. The author's third novel. More

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Item #60630 The Family Reuion. A Play. T. S. ELIOT

The Family Reuion. A Play.

ELIOT, T.S. (1888-1965).

London: Faber and Faber, 1939. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.136. Publisher's grey cloth with pink titles to spine. With the first issue typographic dust-jacket, priced at 7/6. Very light general wear and some light toning. Near fine. More

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Item #61037 Our Man in Havana. Graham GREENE

Our Man in Havana.

GREENE, Graham (1904-1991).

London: William Heinemann, 1958. [Spy Satire] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6]; 273; [1]. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Donald Green. No inscriptions, jacket price clipped, toned to edges and extremities. An attractive copy. Greene's classic comic thriller, memorably brought to the..... More

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Item #60953 We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Shirley JACKSON

We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

JACKSON, Shirley (1916-1965).

London: Michael Joseph, 1963. [Strange Tale] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.190 [2]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Charles Gorham, priced at 18s. Blue ink ownership to flyleaf. Toning and spotting to edges, with some light wear to cloth. Jacket..... More

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Item #59812 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Omar KHAYYAM, Edward FITZGERALD, René BULL

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

KHAYYAM, Omar (1048-1131), [FITZGERALD, Edward, translator], [BULL, René, illustrator].

London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1913]. [Metaphysical Poetry] FIRST BULL ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto, unpaginated. With 29 very fine tipped-in colour plates, including a frontispiece, by Rene Bull. Also blue border decorations and vignette illustrations to every page. Recently bound in brown half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and..... More

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Item #60967 The Historian. A Novel. Elizabeth KOSTOVA, born 1964

The Historian. A Novel.

KOSTOVA, Elizabeth (born 1964).

London: Little, Brown, 2005. [Gothic fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.x; 642 [1]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the title page. Publisher's red cloth with white titles to spine, and endpapers showing a map of Cold War Europe. With the typographic dust-jacket designed by..... More

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Item #61052 The Night Manager. John LE CARRÉ, David John Moore CORNWELL

The Night Manager.

LE CARRÉ, John [pseudonym of CORNWELL, David John Moore] (1931-2020).

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1993. [Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Presentation copy. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.443; [5]. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, red endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket priced at £15.99. Signed, with a brief four-line inscription by the author to the title page, dated within a month of..... More

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Item #61154 The Spy Who Came In From The Cold. John LE CARRÉ, born 1931, David John Moore...

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold.

LE CARRÉ, John [pseudonym of CORNWELL, David John Moore] (born 1931).

London: The Reprint Society, 1964. [Spy Thriller] first UK book club edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.240. Publisher's red quarter paper with gilt titles to spine and black paper over boards. Top edge black. With the red dust-jacket. Some light spotting to edges, minor wear to jackets. Near fine. A...... More

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Item #60387 The Sixpence that Rolled Away. Louis MACNEICE, Edward BAWDEN

The Sixpence that Rolled Away.

MACNEICE, Louis (1907-1963), [BAWDEN, Edward, illustrator].

London: Faber and Faber, 1956. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.24. With five colour plates and six line drawn illustrations by Bawden. Publisher's colour illustrated paper covered boards, with the matching dust-jacket, priced at 10/6. Some offsetting to endpapers, otherwise internally clean. Wear to extremities and some..... More

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Item #60439 Bring Up The Bodies. Hilary MANTEL, born 1952

Bring Up The Bodies.

MANTEL, Hilary (born 1952).

London: Fourth Estate, 2012. [Historical fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xviii; 410; [1], Acknowledgements; [2], blank. SIGNED by the author to the title page, dated 14th August 2012. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Andy Bridge, priced at £20, illustrated endpapers. A...... More

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Item #61442 The Sacred and Profane Love Machine. Iris MURDOCH

The Sacred and Profane Love Machine.

MURDOCH, Iris (1919-1999).

London: Chatto and Windus Ltd., 1974. [Modern literature]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.328: Publisher's green cloth boards and pictorial dust-jacket designed by John Sutcliffe, priced at £2.50. A clean, near fine copy. More

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