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Thor Heyerdahl – The Kon-Tiki Expedition – First UK Edition 1950
£325.00First edition, first printing. Published by George Allen and Unwin, London, in 1950. This is a near fine (or better) copy. The dust wrapper has some very slight wear at…
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Leonard R. Gribble – They Kidnapped Stanley Matthews – First Edition 1950
£85.00First edition, first printing. Published by Herbert Jenkins in London, 1950. This is a very good copy. The dust wrapper is nicely illustrated with a photograph of Matthews on the…
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W.E. Johns – Biggles and the Poor Rich Boy – First UK Edition 1961
£65.00First edition, first printing. Published by the Brockhampton Press, Leicester, 1961. This is a very good (or better) copy. The dust wrapper, as ever, is nicely illustrated by Leslie Stead….
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Roald Dahl – The Complete Roald Dahl Children’s Novels First Edition Collection – Consisting: The Gremlins, James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Magic Finger, Fantastic Mr Fox, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, Danny The Champion of the World, The Enormous Crocodile, The Twits, George’s Marvellous Medicine, The BFG, The Witches, The Giraffe, The Pelly and Me, Matilda, Esio Trot, The Vicar of Nibbleswicke and The Minpins
£7,500.00A set of the first edition, first printings of Roald Dahl’s seventeen novels for children. Published between 1943 to 1991 by numerous publishers including George Allen and Unwin and Cape…
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Tom Finney – Finney on Football – SIGNED First Edition 1958
£125.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Finney on Football’ published by Nicholas Kaye in 1958. A very good book with a spotting to the page block. SIGNED on the front…
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L.M. Boston – The Children At Green Knowe – First Edition 1954
£1,250.00A first edition, first printing published by Faber in 1954. A near fine book with a previous owner’s bookplate to the front endpaper (not filled in) and two small digits…
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Daphne Du Maurier – Mary Anne – First Edition 1954
£125.00A first edition, first printing published by Gollancz in 1954. A very good book, without inscriptions. Some spotting to the text block, title page, copyright page and dedication page. In…
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Hermann Hesse – Siddhartha – First UK Edition 1954 – in the first issue dust wrapper
£975.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Siddhartha’ published by Vision and Peter Owen in 1954. A near fine book with one name to the front endpaper with a little wear…
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Nevil Shute – The Rainbow and the Rose – First UK Edition 1958
£75.00A first edition, first printing published by Heinemann in 1958. A near fine book with one neat name to the top of the front end paper. Some slight browning to…
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Michael Bond – More About Paddington – Proof Copy in Dust Wrapper 1959
£1,500.00A proof copy in dust wrapper published by Collins in 1959. The book (limp softcover) is bound in blue and white covers. No inscriptions. In the very good proof wrapper…
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John Hunt – The Ascent of Everest – First UK Edition 1953 – With SIGNED First Day Covers By Sir Edmund Hillary
£375.00A first edition, first printing of ‘The Ascent of Everest’ published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1953. A near fine (or better) book in a very good square clipped wrapper…
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Julia Strachey – The Man On The Pier – First Edition 1951 – Ernest Frost’s Copy
£375.00A first edition, first printing published by John Lehmann in 1951. A very good book with some fading to the front board. The name of author Ernest Frost to the…
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David Attenborough – Zoo Quest For A Dragon – First Edition 1957
£350.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Zoo Quest For A Dragon’ published by Lutterworth Press in 1957. A fine book (small bump to the top edge) without inscriptions in like…
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William Goyen – The House Of Breath – First Edition 1951
£95.00A first edition, first printing published by Chatto and Windus in 1951. A very good book without inscriptions, some off-setting to the spine and a little spotting to the page…
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John Hunt – The Ascent of Everest – First UK Edition 1953 – SIGNED by Sir John Hunt
£475.00A first edition, first printing published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1953. A near fine book without inscriptions. In a near fine dust wrapper with some light fading to the…
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Clifford Simak – CITY – First UK Edition 1954
£185.00A first edition, first printing of ‘City’ by Clifford Simak, published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London in 1954. A very good book free from internal inscriptions, boards bound in original…
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