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John Wyndham – The Midwich Cuckoos – First UK Edition 1957
£750.00
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Josephine Bell – Death in Retirement – First Edition 1956
£65.00
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Josephine Tey – The Daughter of Time – First UK Edition 1951
£1,275.00
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Julia Strachey – The Man On The Pier – First Edition 1951 – Ernest Frost’s Copy
£375.00
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Keith Waterhouse – Billy Liar – First Edition 1958
£450.00
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Keith Waterhouse – Billy Liar [with] Billy Liar On The Moon – First Editions
£595.00
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Keith Waterhouse – There Is A Happy Land – First Edition 1957
£125.00
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Keith Waterhouse – There Is A Happy Land – First UK Edition 1957
£185.00
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Kingsley Amis – I Like It Here – First UK Edition 1958
£50.00
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L.M. Boston – The Children At Green Knowe – First Edition 1954
£1,250.00
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L.P. Hartley – A Perfect Woman – First UK Edition 1955
£85.00
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L.P. Hartley – The Go-Between – First Edition 1953 – SIGNED by the Author and with Wrap-Around Band
£2,750.00
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L.P. Hartley – The Go-Between – First UK Edition 1953
£275.00
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L.P. Hartley – The Go-Between – First UK Edition 1953 – SIGNED by Val Biro
£750.00
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Laurie Lee – Autobiographical Trilogy – Cider With Rosie/Midsummer Morning/Moment of War – First Editions
£425.00
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Laurie Lee – Cider With Rosie – First Edition 1959 – THE libel case copy – UNIQUE
£3,750.00
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Laurie Lee – Cider With Rosie – First UK Edition 1959
£275.00
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Laurie Lee – Cider With Rosie – First UK Edition 1959
£250.00
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Laurie Lee – Cider With Rosie – First UK Edition 1959 – SIGNED by the Author
£975.00
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Lawrence Durrell – Mountolive – First Edition 1958
£65.00
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Lawrence Durrell – The Alexandria Quartet [Justine/Balthazar/Mountolive/Clea] – First UK Editions 1957-60
£750.00
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Len Hutton – Just My Story – SIGNED – First UK Edition 1956
£145.00
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Len Hutton – Just My Story – SIGNED First UK Edition 1956
£95.00
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Leonard R. Gribble – They Kidnapped Stanley Matthews – First Edition 1950
£85.00
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Limited Edition Photograph 1/300 – ‘Marilyn’ – Getty Original – Mounted and Loose Framed
£350.00
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Lt-Col. J.H. William – Elephant Bill – First Edition 1950 – in the John Minton dust jacket
£45.00
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Ludwig Bemelmans – Madeline – First UK Edition 1953
£875.00
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Margery Allingham – The Beckoning Lady – First Edition 1955
£75.00
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Margery Sharp – The Rescuers – First US Edition – Signed and Inscribed by the Illustrator Garth Williams
Original price was: £450.00.Current price is: £225.00.
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Mario Soldati – The Commander Comes To Dine – First Edition 1952
£150.00
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Mark Twain – A Tramp Abroad – First UK Edition 1880 – A true first issue
£275.00
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Mark Twain – A Tramp Abroad – First UK Edition 1880 – A true first issue
£275.00
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Martin Luther King – Stride Towards Freedom – First Edition 1959
£485.00
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Mary Norton – The Borrowers – First UK Edition 1952
£300.00
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Michael Bond – A Bear Called Paddington – First UK Edition 1958
£4,250.00
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Michael Bond – More About Paddington – Proof Copy in Dust Wrapper 1959
Original price was: £1,500.00.Current price is: £750.00.
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Michael Bond – The Paddington Bear First Edition Set – All First Printings 1958-74
£7,500.00
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Michael Bond – The Paddington Bear First Edition Set 1958-70 – ALL SIGNED presentation copies – With accompanying archival material
£22,500.00
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Michael Hastings – The Digger of the Pit – First Edition 1955 – in the John Minton dust wrapper
£275.00
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Michele Prisco – Heirs of the Wind – First Edition 1953 – with John Minton dust jacket
£95.00
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Mike Hawthorn – Carlotti Takes The Wheel – First Edition 1959
£45.00
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Mike Hawthorn – Challenge Me The Race – First Edition 1958
£45.00
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Muriel Spark – The Comforters – First UK Edition 1957 – Author’s first novel
£600.00
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Nancy Mitford – The Blessing – First UK Edition 1951
£225.00
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Nancy Mitford – Voltaire In Love – First UK Edition 1957
£75.00
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Nat Lofthouse – Goals Galore – First UK Edition 1954 – SIGNED by Nat Lofthouse and the 1954 Bolton Wanderers Team
£485.00
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Nevil Shute – A Town Like Alice – First UK Edition 1950
£875.00
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Nevil Shute – A Town Like Alice – First UK Edition 1950 – SIGNED Bound In Full Leather
£850.00
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Nevil Shute – A Town Like Alice – Proof Copy
£975.00
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Nevil Shute – In The Wet – First UK Edition – Double Signed by the Author
£850.00
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Nevil Shute – On The Beach – First UK Edition 1957
£65.00
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Nevil Shute – On The Beach – First UK Edition 1957
£95.00
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Nevil Shute – On The Beach – First UK Edition 1957
£185.00
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Nevil Shute – Requiem For A Wren – First UK Edition 1955
£95.00
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Nevil Shute – Requiem For A Wren – First UK Edition 1955
£45.00
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Nevil Shute – Requiem For A Wren – SIGNED First Edition 1955
£975.00
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Nevil Shute – Slide Rule – First UK Edition 1954
£150.00
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Nevil Shute – Slide Rule – First UK Edition 1954
£125.00
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Nevil Shute – The Far Country – First Edition 1952
£85.00
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Nevil Shute – The Far Country – First Edition 1952 – SIGNED
£750.00
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Nevil Shute – The Rainbow and the Rose – First UK Edition 1958
£50.00
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Nevil Shute – The Rainbow and the Rose – First UK Edition 1958
£75.00
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Ngaio Marsh – Off With His Head – First Edition 1957
£75.00
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Ngaio Marsh – Scales Of Justice – First Edition 1955
£65.00
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Ngaio Marsh – Singing In The Shrouds – First Edition 1958
£95.00
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Nicholas Monsarrat – The Cruel Sea – First UK Edition 1951 – Bound In Blue Leather
£600.00
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Nicholas Monsarrat – The Cruel Sea – First UK Edition 1951 – With Signed Slip
Original price was: £625.00.Current price is: £312.50.
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Noel Coward – Quadrille – First UK Edition – SIGNED and DATED 1952
Original price was: £275.00.Current price is: £137.50.
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Noel Coward – The Noel Coward Song Book – First Edition 1953 – Noel Coward’s Personal Copy
£600.00
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Noel Streatfeild – The Day Before Yesterday – First Edition 1956 – with letter from Streatfeild
£385.00
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Norman Mailer – Barbary Shore – First Edition 1952
£85.00
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P.G. Wodehouse – The Old Reliable – First Edition 1951 In Slipcase
£185.00
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P.L. Travers – Mary Poppins In The Park – First Edition 1952
£385.00
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Par Lagerkvist – Barabbas – First UK Edition 1952
Original price was: £275.00.Current price is: £137.50.
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Pat Frank – Alas Babylon – First Edition 1959
Original price was: £600.00.Current price is: £300.00.
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Pat Reid – The Colditz Story – First Edition 1952
£475.00
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Pat Reid – The Colditz Story [with] The Latter Days – First Edition Books
Original price was: £675.00.Current price is: £337.50.
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Pat Reid – The Colditz Story [with] The Latter Days – First Edition Double Set 1952 – both with rare film wrap-around bands
Original price was: £975.00.Current price is: £487.50.
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Patricia Highsmith – The Blunderer – First Edition 1956
£1,250.00
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Patricia Highsmith – The Talented Mr Ripley – First UK Edition 1951 – a FINE Copy
£3,500.00
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Patrick Leigh Fermor – MANI – First UK Edition 1958 + band
Original price was: £475.00.Current price is: £237.50.
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Patrick Moore – Guide to the Moon – Double SIGNED with Agent Slip – First UK Edition 1953
£600.00
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Patrick Pringle [eds] – The Boys’ Book of Soccer 1960 – First Edition 1959 – SIGNED by Jimmy Greaves, Tom Finney, Stanley Matthews, Nat Lofthouse, Bobby Charlton, John Charles and many more!
£385.00
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Patrick White – The Tree Of Man – First Edition 1956
£45.00
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Patrick White – VOSS – First Edition 1957
£150.00
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Patrick White – VOSS – First Edition 1957
£175.00
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Paul Brickhill – Reach For The Sky – First UK Edition 1954
£95.00
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Paul Brickhill – Reach For The Sky – First UK Edition 1954 – SIGNED by Paul Brickhill
£385.00
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Paul Brickhill – The Dam Busters – First UK Edition 1951
£375.00
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Paul Brickhill – The Great Escape – First UK Edition 1951 – SIGNED by Brickhill to his Aunt
£975.00
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Paul Gallico – Ludmila – A Legend Of Liechtenstein – First Edition 1955
£75.00
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Paul Gallico – Snowflake – First Edition 1952
£50.00
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Paul Gallico – Snowflake – SIGNED First Edition 1952
£225.00
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Peter Bryant [Peter George] – Two Hours To Doom [Dr. Strangelove] – SIGNED and INSCRIBED First Edition 1958
£3,000.00
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Philip Roth – Goodbye, Columbus – First UK Edition 1959
£750.00
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Philip Thody – Albert Camus; A Study Of His Work – First Edition 1957 – with Nobel Prize wraparound band
£195.00
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Philippa Pearce – Tom’s Midnight Garden – First UK Edition 1958
£650.00
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Philippe Jullian – The Snob Spotter’s Guide – First Edition 1958
£225.00
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Primo Levi – If This Is A Man – First Edition
£1,850.00
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R. Prawer Jhabvala – To Whom She Will – First UK Edition 1955
£75.00
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R.E.S. Wyatt – Three Straight Sticks – SIGNED First Edition 1951
£50.00
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Rachel L. Carson – The Sea Around Us – First Edition 1951 – with wrap-around band
Original price was: £750.00.Current price is: £375.00.
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Rachel L. Carson – Under The Sea-Wind – First Edition 1952
£185.00
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Ralph Izzard – The Innocent On Everest – First Edition 1954
£75.00
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Raymond Toole Scott – Maughamiana – First UK Edition 1950
£75.00
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Raymond Toole Stott – The Writings of William Somerset Maugham – A Bibliography (with Supplement 1961)
£125.00
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Raymond Toole Stott The Writings of William Somerset Maugham – First UK Edition 1956
£75.00
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Rayner Heppenstall – The Lesser Infortune – First UK Edition 1953 – SIGNED by Victor Menzies
£225.00
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Rebecca West [Anthony West] – The Return of the Soldier [with] Heritage [with] hand written ALS From Rebecca West to publisher Hamish Hamilton discussing her son Anthony and the breakdown of their relationship
£4,500.00
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Reginald Arkell – Old Herbaceous – First UK Edition 1950
£150.00
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Richard Condon – The Manchurian Candidate – First Edition 1959
£250.00
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Richard Condon – The Manchurian Candidate – First Edition 1959
£150.00
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Richard Condon – The Oldest Confession – First Edition 1959
£45.00
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Richard Curtis – Four Weddings and a Funeral [Collected Shorter Poems by W. H. Auden] – ‘Stop All The Clocks’ Poem – First Editions
£450.00
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Richard Wright – The Colour Curtain – The Banding Conference – First Edition 1956
£250.00
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Richmal Crompton – William and the Space Animal – First Edition 1956
£50.00
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Richmal Crompton – William and the Space Animal – First Edition 1956
£175.00
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Richmal Crompton – William and the Witch – First UK Edition 1964
£150.00
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Richmal Crompton – William The Bold – First Edition 1950
£325.00
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Roald Dahl – Kiss Kiss – First US Edition 1959
£195.00
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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
£7,500.00
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Robert Bloch – Psycho – First UK Edition 1959
£1,250.00
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Robert Graves – Stories, Talks, Essays, Poems, Studies In History – First Edition 1958
£50.00
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Robert Graves – They Hanged My Saintly Billy – First Edition 1957
£45.00
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Robert Raymond – Stirling Moss – First UK Edition 1953
£375.00
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Robert Shaw – The Hiding Place – First Edition 1959 – The author’s first novel
Original price was: £1,250.00.Current price is: £625.00.
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Robert Van Gulik – The Chinese Bell Murders – First UK Edition 1958
£185.00
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Robin Maugham – Behind The Mirror – First Edition 1955
£65.00
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Robin Maugham – Behind The Mirror – First Edition 1955 – Inscribed by the Author
£95.00
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Roger Bannister – First Four Minutes – SIGNED First Edition 1955
£475.00
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Roland Camberton – Rain On The Pavements – First Edition 1951
£245.00
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Rosemary Sutcliff – Brother Dusty Feet – First UK Edition 1952
£375.00
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Rosemary Sutcliff – The Lantern Bearers – First Edition 1959
£285.00
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Rosemary Sutcliff – The Roman Britain Trilogy: The Eagle of the Ninth/The Lantern Bearers/The Silver Branch – First Edition 1954-59
Original price was: £2,250.00.Current price is: £1,125.00.
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Rosemary Sutcliff – The Silver Branch – First Edition 1957
£185.00
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Saul Bellow – Henderson The Rain King – First Edition 1959
£60.00
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Seaforth Mackenzie – Dead Men Rising – First Edition 1951
£95.00
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Shelagh Delaney – A Taste Of Honey – First Edition 1959
£175.00
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Simone De Beauvoir – The Second Sex – First Edition 1953
£750.00
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Stephen Spender – Learning Laughter – First Edition 1952 – SIGNED
£175.00
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Stevie Smith – Not Waving But Drowning – First Edition 1957
£385.00
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Stirling Moss – In The Track Of Speed – First UK Edition 1957
£95.00
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Stirling Moss – In The Track of Speed – SIGNED – First UK Edition 1957
£375.00
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Stirling Moss – Stirling Moss’s Book of Motor Sport – SIGNED First Edition 1955
£275.00
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Susan Colling & E.H. Shepherd – Frogmorton – First Edition 1955
£50.00
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T.H. White – The Once And Future King – First UK Edition 1958
£600.00
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T.S. Eliot – The Elder Statesman – First Edition 1959
£150.00
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Ted Hughes – The Hawk in the Rain – First UK Edition 1957
Original price was: £450.00.Current price is: £225.00.
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Ted Hughes – The Hawk in the Rain – SIGNED First Edition 1957
£2,250.00
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Theodore Bonnet – The Mudlark – First Edition 1952
£45.00
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