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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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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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Agatha Christie – Sparkling Cyanide – First UK Edition 1945
A first edition, first printing of ‘Sparkling Cyanide’ published by Collins in 1945. A very good (or better) book without inscriptions – small faded patch to the foot of the…
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E.B. White – Stuart Little – True First US Edition 1945
A first edition, first printing published by Harper in 1945. A very good book without inscriptions (showing B-E on the copyright page) in a very good+ unclipped wrapper showing $2.00….
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Nancy Mitford – Love in a Cold Climate – SIGNED and INSCRIBED First Edition 1949
A first edition, first printing published by Hamish Hamilton in 1949. A very good book without inscriptions – SIGNED and inscribed to ‘Roland Carpenter/from Nancy Mitford’ to the front endpaper…
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Nancy Mitford – The Pursuit of Love – First UK Edition 1945 – in the first issue wrapper
First edition, first printing. Published by Hamish Hamilton in London, 1945. This is a very good (or better) copy. The dust wrapper, illustrated by Roger Furse, has some slight nicks…
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Richard Hillary – The Last Enemy – First UK Edition 1942
A first edition, first printing published by Macmillan in 1942. A very good+ book with one neat name and date to the head of the front endpaper and one small…
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Agatha Christie – N or M? – First UK Edition 1941 –
First edition, first printing. Published by Collins, London, in 1941. This is a near fine copy. The dust wrapper, designed by Thompson, has not been price clipped and shows the…
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Daphne Du Maurier – Frenchmen’s Creek – First UK Edition 1941
First edition, first printing. Published by Gollancz in London, 1941. This is a very good copy. The dust wrapper suffers from some light creasing and spotting throughout, with the top…
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Nancy Mitford – Love In A Cold Climate – First UK Edition 1949
A first edition, first printing published by Hamish Hamilton in 1949. A near fine book without inscriptions in a very good unclipped wrapper with shallow chipping to the head of…
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Edmund Crispin – The Moving Toyshop – First UK Edition 1946
A first edition, first printing published by Gollancz in 1946. A very good+ book with some lightening to the spine tips. no inscriptions. In a very good+ unclipped wrapper with…
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J.M. Richards – Castles On The Ground – First UK Edition 1946
A first edition, first printing published by The Architectural Press in London in 1946. A near fine book without inscriptions, with a little spotting to the endpapers and edges. In…
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C.S. Forester – The Sky and the Forest – First UK Edition 1948
A first edition, first printing published by Michael Joseph in 1948. A fine book without inscriptions in a near fine unclipped wrapper with wear to the head of the spine….
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