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William Mayne – A Grass Rope – First Edition 1957 – Winner and the Carnegie Medal and with rare wrap-around band
£175.00A first edition, first printing published by Oxford University Press in 1957. A near fine book without inscriptions in a near fine wrapper with a closed tear to the front…
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John Hampson – A Bag of Stones – First Edition 1952 – SIGNED by the Author
£225.00A first edition, first printing published by Verschoyle in 1952. A near fine book with a neat gift inscription to the front endpaper. SIGNED on the title page without dedication….
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C.S. Forester – Mr Midshipman Hornblower – First Edition 1950 – with the rare wrap-around band
£275.00A first edition, first printing published by Michael Joseph in 1950. A very good book with heavy spotting to the page edges. In a very good unclipped wrapper which has…
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H.E. Bates – The Darling Buds of May – First UK Edition 1958
£325.00First edition, first printing. Published by Michael Joseph in London, 1958. This is a very good copy. The Broom Lynne dust wrapper is so slightly worn at the corners and…
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James Kenward – The Suburban Child – First Edition 1955 – in the Edward Ardizzone-designed dust wrapper
£45.00A first edition, first printing published by the Cambridge university Press in 1955. A near fine book with spotting to the page edges and to the prelims. In a near…
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Enid Blyton – Secret Seven Fireworks – First UK Edition 1959
£185.00A first edition, first printing published by Brock Books in 1959. A near fine book without inscriptions – some spotting to the page edges in like unclipped wrapper with wear…
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Nevil Shute – The Rainbow and the Rose – First UK Edition 1958
£50.00A first edition, first printing published by Heinemann in 1958. A near fine book without inscriptions. Some slight browning to the text block and offsetting to the front free end…
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John Braine – Room At The Top – First UK Edition 1957
£150.00A first edition, first printing published by Eyre and Spottiswoode in 1957. A very good book without inscriptions in a very good+ unclipped wrapper. Some edge wear to the spine…
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Enid Blyton – Shock For The Secret Seven – First UK Edition 1961
£125.00A first edition, first printing published by Brock Books in 1961. A very good book (This Book Belongs to filled in) and some rubbing to the edges. In a very…
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Graham Greene [Norman Douglas] – Venus in the Kitchen – First UK Edition 1952
£95.00A first edition, first printing published by Heinemann in 1952. A near fine book with a neat inscription to the front endpaper. In a very good internally repaired dust wrapper….
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Evelyn Waugh – The Sword of Honour Trilogy – First UK Editions 1952-55 – COMPRISING: MEN AT ARMS, OFFICERS AND GENTLEMEN AND UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER
£1,250.00The first edition set of Waugh’s ‘Sword of Honour Trilogy’. All books are very good with volume 2 having a neat name and date to the front endpaper and some…
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Reginald Arkell – Old Herbaceous – First UK Edition 1950
£150.00A first edition, first printing published by Michael Joseph in 1950. A near fine book without inscriptions. Some fading to the edges and spine. Offsetting to the endpapers, however, clean…
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W.E. Johns – Biggles Gets His Men – First UK Edition 1950
£60.00A first edition, first printing published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1950. A very good book with the previous owners name neatly inscribed on the front free end paper. Some…
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Graham Greene – The End of the Affair – First UK Edition 1951
£875.00A first edition, first printing published by Heinemann in 1951. A near fine book without inscriptions. Internally very clean indeed – some light spotting to the top edge. In a…
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Len Hutton – Just My Story – SIGNED – First UK Edition 1956
£145.00First edition, first printing. Published by Hutchinson in London, 1956. This is a very good copy. The dust wrapper, though mostly ‘clean’ has some major lifting of the laminate to…
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Dr Seuss – The Cat in the Hat – First UK Edition 1958
£425.00First UK edition, first printing. Published by Collins in London, 1958. This is a near fine copy. Issued without a dust wrapper. The blue paper-bound boards are bright and mostly…
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