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John Masefield – The Box of Delights – First Edition 1935
£600.00First edition, first printing. Published by Heinemann in London, 1935. This is a very good copy. Without the dust wrapper. The deep blue clothbound boards are slightly bumped at the…
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G.K. Chesterton – The Scandal of Father Brown – First UK Edition 1935
£175.00First edition, first printing. Published by Cassell in London, 1935. This is a very good copy. Without the dust wrapper. The navy blue clothbound boards are worn at the spine…
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John Betjeman – Ghastly Good Taste (or a depressing story of the rise and fall of English Architecture) – First UK Edition 1933
£175.00First edition, first printing. Published by Chapman and Hall in London, 1933. This is a near fine copy. Issued without a dust wrapper, the quarter-blue buckram and pink paper-covered boards…
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P L Travers – Mary Poppins – First US Edition 1934
£3,750.00First US edition, first printing. Published by Reynal & Hitchcock in New York, 1934. This is a very good copy. The dust wrapper, profusely illustrated by the daughter of E.H….
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J.M. Barrie – The Greenwood Hat – First UK Edition 1937
£85.00First edition, first printing. Published in London by Peter Davies in November 1937. This is the reissue of the first, privately printed edition. It is a in very good condition….
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E.V. Lucas & E.H. Shepard – As The Bee Sucks – First Edition 1937
£75.00First edition, first printing. Published by Methuen in London, 1937. This is a very good copy. The dust wrapper is beautifully illustrated by Shepard but suffers from a major tear…
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Eve Garnett – The Family From One End Street – First Edition 1937
£150.00A first edition, first printing published by Muller in 1937. A very good book with fading to the spine and some light stains to the board edges. One neat previous…
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John Drinkwater & E.H. Shepherd – Christmas Poems – First Edition 1931
£40.00First edition, first printing. Published by Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd. in London, 1931. This is a very good copy. The red soft covers, illustrated by Ernest E. Shepherd, are mildly…
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Nancy Mitford – Christmas Pudding – First Edition 1932
£325.00First edition, first printing. Published by Thornton Butterworth in London, 1932. This is a very good (or better) copy. Without the rare dust wrapper. The original publisher’s cloth, in an…
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Dorothy L. Sayers – In The Teeth Of The Evidence and Other Stories – First Edition 1939
£95.00First edition, first printing. Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1939. No dustwrapper. This is a very good copy. The boards are generally clean and straight. There is a neat,…
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John Steinbeck – Of Mice and Men – First US Edition 1937 – First Issue with ‘pendular’ to page 9
£5,000.00A first edition, first printing published by Covici-Friede in 1937.
A near fine book, a little browned to the edges of the boards. No inscriptions, marks etc. The first issue…
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Arthur Ransome – Peter Duck – First Edition 1932
£175.00A first edition, first printing published by Jonathan Cape in 1932. A very good book with previous owner’s name inscribed neatly to the front free end paper. Some fading to…
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Jack Hobbs and Herbert Sutcliffe – My Life Story – Double Signed [with] For England and Yorkshire Signed
Original price was: £750.00.£375.00Current price is: £375.00.A first edition, first printing published by The Star Publications in 1935.A very good+ book SIGNED by Hobbs without dedication to the half-title page (above a gift inscription) and to…
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Graham Greene – The Old School – First Edition 1934 – in the original dust wrapper
Original price was: £600.00.£300.00Current price is: £300.00.A first edition, first printing published by Cape in 1934. A very good+ book with some light spotting to the preliminary pages and a little spotting to the page edges….
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Evelyn Waugh – Black Mischief – First UK Edition 1932
£385.00A first edition, first printing published by Chapman and Hall in 1932. A near fine copy with frontispiece-map (pp.303), original patterned ‘Snakeskin’ cloth, with spine letteredin gilt. A little fading…
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W. Somerset Maugham – First Person Singular – First Edition 1931
£275.00A first edition, first printing published by William Heinemann Ltd in 1931. A near fine book showing some wear to the edges and head/base of the spine. Binding is a…
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