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— Franz Kafka
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The Brading Collection.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1952. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket. Light offsetting to endpapers. Price-clipped jacket lightly rubbed to edges with some minor closed tears, tape to reverse. Near fine. The seventeenth of 32..... More
The Benevent Treasure.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1956. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.222 [2]. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Jarvis. Price-clipped jacket lightly sunned to spine, with some minor chips and closed tears to edges. Near fine. The twenty-sixth of 32..... More
The House by the Churchyard.
London: Richard Bentley, 1866. [Strange Tale] New Edition, being the FIRST ONE VOLUME EDITION. Features two engraved illustrations and expanded text). Publisher's ribbed bottle-green cloth, blocked in blind, decorated in gilt to spine, coated brown endpapers. We believe this to be the PRIMARY BINDING, having previously catalogued a variant (cheaper)..... More
A Journey In Other Worlds. A Romance of the Future
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1894. [Fantasy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp. viii; 476; [2], blank. With ten full page illustrations. Publisher's dark blue cloth opulently decorated in silver gilt and and titled in gilt to spine and front board with a silver planetary design to the..... More
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