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Brendan Behan – Borstal Boy – First UK Edition 1958
£175.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Borstal Boy’, by Brendan Behan, published by Hutchinson in 1958. A very good book with one neat name and place to the front endpaper….
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Doris Lessing – This Was The Old Chiefs Country – First UK Edition 1951
£50.00A first edition, first printing published by Michael Joseph in 1951. A very good+ book without inscriptions. Some spotting to the page edges and a little to the prelims. In…
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William Golding – Lord of the Flies – First UK Edition 1954 With Band
£8,500.00A first edition, first printing of William Golding’s ‘Lord of the Flies’, published by Faber in 1954. A very good book with just a little mottling to the spine. White…
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Nevil Shute – Requiem For A Wren – First UK Edition 1955
£95.00First edition, first printing. Published by Heinemann in London, 1955. This is a near fine copy. The dust wrapper is nicely illustrated by Biro. It has some slight wear at…
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Nevil Shute – Beyond The Black Stump – First UK Edition 1956
£50.00A first edition, first printing published by Heinemann in 1956. A near fine book, if not better, without inscriptions. Some very slight rubbing to the corners and spine tips. Some…
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Evelyn Waugh – The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold – First UK Edition 1957
£145.00First edition, first printing. Published by Chapman and Hall in London, 1957. This is a near fine copy. The dust wrapper, illustrated by Biro, has some wear at the corners…
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Ian Fleming – Live and Let Die – First UK Edition 1954 – RAYMOND CHANDLER’S OWN COPY
£20,000.00A first edition, first printing published by Cape in 1954. Raymond Chandler’s ownership stamp to flyleaf (dated May 24 1954), original black cloth, lettered in gilt, design to upper board…
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H.E. Bates – Love For Lydia – First UK Edition 1952
£95.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Love For Lydia’ by H E Bates, published by Michael Joseph in 1952. A near fine book without inscriptions. In a near fine unclipped…
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Patrick Moore – The Amateur Astronomer – First UK Edition 1957
£250.00A first edition, first printing published by The Lutterworth Press in 1957. A very good+ book without inscriptions with some bumping to the corners. In a very good clipped wrapper…
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Boris Pasternak – Doctor Zhivago – First UK Edition 1958
£375.00A first edition, first printing published by Collins Harvill in 1958. A very good book (or better), toning to the endpapers and a neat previous owner’s bookplate to the front…
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Ted Hughes – The Hawk in the Rain – SIGNED First Edition 1957
£2,250.00A first edition, first printing published by Faber in 1957. A very good+ book with some spotting to the endpapers and to the page edges (as is common with this…
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Nancy Mitford – Voltaire In Love – First UK Edition 1957
£75.00First edition, first printing. Published by Hamish Hamilton in London, 1957. This is a very good copy. The dust wrapper, designed by Cecil Beaton, has some mild separation at the…
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Daphne Du Maurier – The Young George Du Maurier – First PROOF
£50.00A first proof copy. No wrapper. Peter Davies 1951.
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William Golding – The Inheritors – First UK Edition 1955
£475.00A first edition, first printing published by Faber in 1955. The book is very good with a small crease to the outer edge of the ffep and a little foxing…
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