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  • Graham Greene – The Confidential Agent – First US Edition 1939

    First American Edition. Basis for the 1945 espionage film directed by Herman Shumlin, and starring Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall and Peter Lorre. A very good book with one name and…


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    £1,250.00
  • Christopher Isherwood – Sally Bowles – First UK Edition 1937

    Handsomely re-bound in full black leather with raised bands and marbled end-papers – a superb copy A first edition, first printing published by The Hogarth Press in 1937. Internally a…


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    Original price was: £350.00.Current price is: £175.00.
  • Evelyn Waugh – Vile Bodies – First UK Edition 1930

    First edition, first printing. Published by Chapman and Hall in London, 1930. This is a very good copy, rebound in a basic green cloth and gilt titling. The internal pages…


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    £200.00
  • Graham Greene – The Name of Action – First UK Edition 1930

    A first edition, first printing published by Heinemann in 1930. Bound in the original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine, publisher’s device stamped in blind on lower board, FIRST…


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    £2,950.00
  • Frederick Manning – Her Privates We – First UK Edition 1930

    First expurgated trade edition. A near fine book without inscriptions. Some spotting to the top edge. Without inscriptions. In the rare glassine wrapper (some loss to the foot of the…


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    Original price was: £600.00.Current price is: £300.00.
  • Leonard R. Gribble – The Arsenal Stadium Mystery – First UK Edition 1939

    A first edition, first printing published by Harrap in 1939. A very good+ book without inscriptions in a good+ unclipped wrapper with one chip to the front corner of the…


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    Original price was: £650.00.Current price is: £325.00.
  • Karl Broger – Pillbox 17 – First UK Edition 1930

    A first edition, first printing published by Thornton Butterworth in 1930. A very good book without inscriptions. Some bumping and wear to the corners, board edges showing a little wear….


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    Original price was: £250.00.Current price is: £125.00.
  • Graham Greene – Brighton Rock – First UK Edition 1938

    A first edition, first printing published by Heinemann in 1938. A very good book without inscriptions with a touch of spotting to the top edge and a pin hole to…


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    £600.00
  • Daphne Du Maurier – Jamaica Inn – First UK Edition 1936

    A first edition, first printing published by Gollancz in 1936. A fine book without inscriptions. Lacking the dust wrapper. No rubbing, fraying nor foxing. A perfect copy.Scarce.


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    Original price was: £750.00.Current price is: £375.00.
  • Agatha Christie – Murder on the Orient Express – First UK Edition 1934

    A first edition, first printing of ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ by Agatha Christie, published by Collins [The Crime Club] in 1934. A very good copy with spotting and browning…


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    £12,500.00
  • Daphne Du Maurier – The Progress of Julius – First UK Edition 1933

    A first edition, first printing published by Heinemann in 1933. A near fine book without inscriptions. A touch of spotting to the edges. Spine lightly faded. A little rubbing to…


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    Original price was: £475.00.Current price is: £237.50.
  • Daphne Du Maurier – I’ll Never Be Young Again – First UK Edition 1932

    A first edition, first printing published by Heinemann in 1932. A very good book without inscriptions. Some light staining to the boards, a little fraying to the spine. Some light…


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    Original price was: £600.00.Current price is: £300.00.
  • H.E. Bates – Through The Woods – First UK Edition 1936

    A first edition, first printing published by Gollancz in 1936. A near fine book without inscriptions in a very good+ unclipped wrapper with chips to the spine tips and corners….


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    £175.00
  • Richard Llewelyn – How Green Was My Valley – First UK Edition 1939 – with the rare wrap-around band

    A first edition, first printing published by Michael Joseph in 1939. A very good book without inscriptions. In a very good wrapper which has chipping to the top of the…


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    £750.00
  • Elizabeth Bowen – The Death of the Heart – First UK Edition 1938 SIGNED

    A first edition, first printing published by Gollancz in 1938. A very good+ book (small tear to head of spine) with one previous owner’s bookplate to the ffep. Some spotting…


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    £450.00
  • Isak Dinesen – Seven Gothic Tales – First UK Edition 1934

    A first edition, first printing published by Putnam in 1934. A near fine book without inscriptions. Some darker shade spotting to the spine. In a fine unclipped wrap (7’6) with…


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    £2,500.00