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  • Christianna Brand – Green For Danger – First Edition 1945

    A first edition, first printing of Green for Danger by Christianna Brand, published by The Bodley Head in 1945. A very good book with gift inscription to the front free…


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    £750.00
  • H.E. Bates – The Tinkers Of Elstow – SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 1945

    First edition of The Tinkers of Elstow by H. E. Bates, privately printed for Lyons & Co. in 1945 with illustrations by Randolph Schwabe. One of 300 numbered copies on…


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    £125.00
  • Agatha Christie – Taken At The Flood – First Edition 1948

    First edition, first printing of ‘Taken at the Flood’. Published by Collins Crime Club in London, 1948. This is a very good (or better) copy. The very good dust wrapper…


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    £650.00
  • Cecil Beaton – Far East – First Edition 1945

    A first edition, first printing published by Batsford in 1945. This is a very good copy. The dust wrapper is finely illustrated by Beaton but suffers from rubbing at the…


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    £85.00
  • H.E. Bates – The Jacaranda Tree – First UK Edition 1949

    Published by Michael Joseph in 1949. A near fine book in a near fine wrapper with a closed tear to the head of the front panel.


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    £40.00
  • Arthur Rimbaud (Keith Vaughan) – A Season In Hell – First Edition 1949

    A first edition, first printing published by John Lehmann in 1949. A very good book without inscriptions, some bumping to the foot and head of the spine with a small…


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    £750.00
  • Enid Blyton – The Island Of Adventure – SIGNED First Edition 1944

    A first edition, first printing of ‘The Island of Adventure’, published by Macmillan in 1944. A very good book without inscriptions and no browning to the spine whatsoever. In a…


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    £750.00
  • George Orwell – The English People – First Edition 1947

    First edition, first printing of The English People by George Orwell, published by Collins, London in 1947. A very good book with former owner’s signature and date in black ink…


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    £185.00
  • Katharine Tozer – Mumfie Marches On – First Edition 1942

    A first edition, first printing of Mumfie Marches On by Katherine Tozer, published by John Murray in 1942. A very good book with internals free from inscriptions, the front and…


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    £65.00
  • Jacques Natanson – The Intrigue – First Edition 1947

    A first edition, first printing, published by Hamish Hamilton in 1947. A very good book with internals free from inscriptions, some spotting, ghosting and browning on the front and rear…


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    £85.00
  • Josephine Bell – Total War At Haverington – First Edition 1945

    A first edition, first printing, published by Longmans in 1945. A very good book with internals free from inscriptions, some browning and spotting to the text block, with front board…


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    £50.00
  • C.S. Lewis – Miracles – First Edition 1947

    A first edition, first printing published by Geoffrey Bles in 1947. A very good book with some spotting to the page edges and minor bumping to the top corners of…


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    £185.00
  • Katharine Tozer – Noah – The Story of Another Ark – First Edition 1940

    A first edition, first printing published by John Murray in 1940. A good book without inscriptions. Off-setting to the endpapers, with some fairly heavy spotting to the first few pages….


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    £95.00
  • Evelyn Waugh – Put Out More Flags – First UK Edition 1942

    First edition first printing published by Chapman and Hall in 1942. Grey mottled cloth boards with titles in black to spine, no marks to covers, just slight toning and a…


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    £50.00
  • Winston S. Churchill – Into Battle – First Edition 1941

    A first edition, first printing published by Cassell in 1941. A very good with previous owner’s bookplate to the front endpaper. Spotting throughout and to the page edges. No inscriptions….


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    £375.00
  • Simon de Beauvoir – She Came To Stay – First UK Edition 1949

    A first edition, first printing of ‘She Came To Stay’ by Simon de Beauvoir published by Secker and Warburg in association with Lindsay Drummond in 1949. A very good (or…


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    £875.00