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Nancy Mitford – Noblesse Oblige – First UK Edition 1956
£150.00A first edition, first printing published by Hamish Hamilton in 1956. A very good book with some spotting to the end papers and some offsetting present to end papers. In…
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Gavin Holt – No Curtain For Cora – First Edition 1950
£50.00A first edition, first printing published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1950. A good book with one name, place and date to the front endpaper. Light spotting to the page…
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Ludwig Bemelmans – Madeline – First UK Edition 1953
£875.00A first edition, first printing, published by Derek Verschoyle in 1953. Published thirteen years after the American first edition. In the original dust wrapper lightly rubbed and priced correctly at…
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Vivian Fuchs & Edmund Hillary – The Crossing Of Antarctica – First Edition 1958 – SIGNED on original expedition paper by Fuchs and with Signature of Edmund Hillary
£450.00First edition, first printing. Published by Cassell in London, 1958. This is a fine copy. The dust wrapper, finely presented with pictorial illustrations of Antarctica is immaculate and very fine….
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Agatha Christie – Ordeal By Innocence – First UK Edition 1958
£95.00First edition, first printing of ‘Ordeal by Innocence’ by Agatha Christie, published by Collins Crime Club in London, 1958. This is a very good copy, with one neat name, in…
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John Bratby – Breakdown – First Edition 1960
£85.00A first edition, first printing published by Hutchinson in 1960. A very good book without inscriptions in a very good dust wrapper with wear and rubbing to the head of…
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Kenneth Mellanby – The Birth of Nigeria’s University – SIGNED First Edition 1958
£75.00A first edition, first printing published by Methuen in 1958. A very good book with SIGNED slip tipped into the front endpaper. In a very good unclipped wrapper with wear…
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Alan Sillitoe – The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner – First UK Edition 1959
£265.00First edition, first printing. Published by W. H. Allen in London, 1959. This is a very good copy. The dust wrapper, famously illustrated by Mona Moore, has some slight wear…
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Edmund Hillary – High Adventure – First UK Edition 1955 – SIGNED by Hillary
£675.00A first edition, first printing published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1955. A very good book with spotting to the page edges – some spotting to the prelims. SIGNED without…
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Gordon Daviot (Josephine Tey) – The Privateer – First Edition 1952
£475.00A first edition, first printing publised by Peter Davies in 1952. The penultimate work by Scottish author Gordon Daviot/Josephine Tey, a fictionalised reconstruction of the life of the privateer Henry…
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Nancy Mitford – The Blessing – First UK Edition 1951
£175.00First edition, first printing. Published by Collins in London, 1951. A very good copy. The dust wrapper has not been price clipped. Some wear to the spine tips and corners…
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Barbara Pym – Less Than Angels – First UK Edition 1955
£75.00A first edition, first printing published by Cape in 1955. A near fine book without inscriptions with spotting to the page edges. Without the dust wrapper.
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C.H.B. Kitchin – The Secret River – First Edition 1956 – with wrap-around band
£95.00A first edition, first printing published by Secker and Warburg in 1956. A very good book with some spotting to the prelims and to the text block edge – no…
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Mike Hawthorn – Carlotti Takes The Wheel – First Edition 1959
£45.00A first edition, first printing published by Cassell in 1959. A very good book without inscriptions in a very good dust wrapper with some light edgewear and rubbing with the…
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Enid Blyton – Secret Seven Mystery – First Edition 1957
£65.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Secret Seven Mystery’ published by Brock Books in 1959. A very good book without inscriptions in like unclipped wrapper with chipping to the spine…
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Anthony Powell – At Lady Molly’s – First Edition 1957 – With a signed letter discussing the novel in progress and ‘The Music of Time’
£1,250.00A first edition, first printing published by Heinemann in 1957. A near fine book without inscriptions. Clean internally and tightly bound. Some slight wear to the corners and bumping to…
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