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Enid Blyton – Five On A Treasure Island – First UK Edition 1942
First edition, first printing. Published by Hodder and Stoughton in London, 1942. This is a near fine copy. The dust wrapper, with its iconic design from the hand of Eileen…
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Dodie Smith – I Capture The Castle – First UK Edition 1949
A first edition, first printing of ‘I Capture the Castle’ by Dodie Smith published by Heinemann in 1949. A near fine (or better) book (with top stain still vibrant) without…
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W.R.M. McDonald – By Bomber to Britain – First Edition 1944 – SIGNED & INSCRIBED
A first edition, first printing published by The Telegraph Newspaper Company in 1944. A very good book SIGNED and INSCRIBED (with best wishes from) the Author on the title page…
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Elizabeth Smart – By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept – First UK Edition 1945
A first edition, first printing published by Poetry London Editions in 1945. A very good book with some spotting to the prelims and page edges. No dust wrapper. A highlight…
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Fitzroy Maclean – Eastern Approaches – First Edition 1949
First edition, first printing. Published by Jonathan Cape in association with The Book Society in London, 1949. This is a very good copy. The dust wrapper is clean and with…
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Arthur Ransome – The Picts and the Martyrs: or Not Welcome at all – First UK Edition 1941
A first edition, first printing published by Jonathan Cape in 1941. A near fine book without inscriptions. One neat bookplate. Some wear to the extremities. One neat gift inscription. In…
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Noel Coward – Australia Visited 1940 – First Edition 1941
A first edition, first printing published by Heinemann in 1941. A very good book without inscriptions. Some browning throughout and spotting on the front free end paper. Soft cover with…
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Henry Cotton – This Game of Golf – First Edition 1948 – SIGNED and INSCRIBED
A first edition, first printing published by Country Life in 1948. A very good book inscribed on the front free endpaper ‘To Fred Taylor/with best wishes/sincerely/Henry Cotton/1949’. Fading to the…
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Enid Blyton – Five Go To Smuggler’s Top – First Edition 1945
A first edition, first printing published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1945. A very good book (or better) with a small name and date inscription to the rear of the…
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Richard Starr – Gipsy Love – First UK Edition 1940
A first edition, first printing published by Herbert Jenkins in 1940. A near fine book with a trace of spotting to the top edge. In a very good unclipped wrapper…
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T.S. Eliot – The Four Quartets – All Four First Issue Softcovers – East Coker/Burnt Norton/Dry Salvages/Little Gidding – Housed in slip case
FIRST EDITIONS: East Coker 1940, Burnt Norton and The Dry Salvages 1941, Little Gidding 1942. Softcover octavo, pp. 15, [1]; 15, [1]; 15, [1]; 16. Stapled plain card wraps in…
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Enid Blyton – The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage – First UK Edition 1943
A first edition, first printing, published by Methuen in 1943. A good copy with one small ownership gift inscription to the front endpaper. Browning and fading to the spine with…
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Robert Greenwood – Mr. Bunting At War – First UK Edition 1941 – SIGNED
A first edition, first printing published by Dent in 1941. A very good book with previous owner’s bookplate to front endpaper beneath signature of the Author without dedication. Some bumping…
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Mervyn Peake – The Gormenghast Trilogy – All First UK Editions
A set of the three books in the trilogy.
‘Titus Groan’ A first edition, first printing published by Eyre and Spottiswoode in 1946. A very good book with some spotting to…
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Agatha Christie – The Labour of Hercules – First UK Edition 1947
A first edition, first printing of ‘The Labours of Hercules’ published by Collins in 1947. A very good book without inscriptions faint spotting to the prelims. Some wear to the…
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Noel Coward – Blithe Spirit – First UK Edition 1942
A first edition, first printing published by Heinemann in 1942. A very good book with some slight toning to the endpapers, but remarkably bright. Small name and date to the…
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