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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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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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Jack Hobbs and Herbert Sutcliffe – My Life Story – Double Signed [with] For England and Yorkshire Signed
Original price was: £750.00.£500.00Current price is: £500.00.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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Graham Greene – Stamboul Train – First Edition 1932
£175.00A first edition, first printing published by 1932. A very good copy without inscriptions with spotting to the page edges. The second issue with Quin Savoury to page 77.
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Evelyn Waugh – They Were Still Dancing – First US Edition 1931 – A Superb Copy
£6,000.00A first edition, first printing published by Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, New York, USA. Waugh’s second travel book. Originally published in the same year in the UK as ‘Remote…
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Stribling – Clues of the Caribees – First UK Edition 1930
£95.00A first edition, first printing published by Heinemann in 1930. A good copy with internal spotting and some fading and fraying of the cloth. Rare.
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T.S. Eliot – Murder in the Cathedral – First UK Edition 1935
£375.00A first edition, first printing published by Faber in 1935. Original purple cloth; dust jacket. Slightest toning to jacket; endleaves lightly spotted, generally a very good copy. Two small inscriptions…
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E.F. Benson – Trouble For Lucia – First UK Edition 1939
£225.00A first edition, first printing published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1939. A near fine copy with some ageing to the text block, however, clean internally. Binding is slightly loose…
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Arthur Ransome – Secret Water – First UK Edition 1939
£375.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Secret Water’ published by Jonathan Cape in 1939. A near fine book without inscriptions. Some slight bumping to the head and base of the…
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