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Cedric Salter – Introducing Spain – First Edition 1953 – in the John Minton dust jacket
£50.00A first edition, first printing, published by Methuen in 1953. A very good book (some light marks to the boards) in a very good unclipped dust wrapper with some minor…
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Lt-Col. J.H. William – Elephant Bill – First Edition 1950 – in the John Minton dust jacket
£45.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Elephant Bill’ published Rupert Hart-Davis in 1950. A very good book without inscriptions in a good unclipped John Minton designed dust wrapper which has…
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Roland Camberton – Scamp – First Edition 1950
£750.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Scamp’ published by John Lehmann in 1950. A very good (or better) book with one neat name to the front endpaper. Light toning to…
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Christopher Landon – Ice-Cold in Alex – First Edition 1957 – with the rare wrap-around band and SIGNED Photograph of Sir John Mills
£675.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Ice-Cold in Alex’ published by Heinemann in 1957. A near fine book in a very good unclipped wrapper with rubbing to the edges and…
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Stevie Smith – Not Waving But Drowning – First Edition 1957
£385.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Not Waving But Drowning’ published by Andre Deutsch in 1957. A very good book with a little rubbing to the edges and to the…
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T.H. White – The Once And Future King – First UK Edition 1958
£365.00A first edition, first printing of The Once and Future King by T. H. White, published by Collins, London in 1958. A near fine book with a former owner’s name…
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Hilary Pugh’s Opera Book – Signatures From The Stars of Opera 1952
£1,250.00A very good autograph book compiled by Hilary Pugh circa 1952-1954, with collected autographs from contemporary stars of the opera and classical music scene. Boards bound in faux grained crimson…
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Hermann Wouk – The Caine Mutiny – First UK Edition 1951
£150.00A first edition, first printing published by Cape in 1951. A near fine book (small name) with a beautifully rich red topstain. A very good clipped wrapper but retaining publishers…
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James M. Cain – Mignon – First Edition 1950
£95.00First U.K. edition, first printing of ‘Mignon’. 8vo. Publisher’s original cloth, in the original dust wrapper.
A very good copy in very good dust wrapper. The binding remains firm and square…
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Norman Mailer – Barbary Shore – First Edition 1952
£85.00First U.K. edition, first printing of ‘Barbary Shore’. 8vo. Publisher’s original cloth, in the original dust wrapper.
A very good copy in very good dust wrapper. Clean boards and firm binding….
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Truman Capote – The Muses Are Heard – First Edition 1956
£85.00First U.K. edition, first printing of ‘The Muses Are Heard’. 8vo. Publisher’s original cloth, in the original dust wrapper.
A very good copy in very good dust wrapper. The book remains…
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Paul Gallico – Ludmila – A Legend Of Liechtenstein – First Edition 1955
£75.00A first edition, first printing published Michael Joseph in 1955. 8vo. Publisher’s original cloth, in the original dust wrapper.
A very good copy in very good dust wrapper. The book is…
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Various – Evergreen Review. No. 3. – First Edition 1958
£75.00First edition. 8vo (original paperback format). Publisher’s printed wrappers.
A very good copy. The binding remains sound with light surface wear and minor creasing to extremities. Internally clean. The pictorial cover…
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John Updike – Hoping For A Hoopoe – First Edition 1959
£60.00A first edition, first printing published by Gollancz in 1959. A near fine book in like unclipped (repriced) wrapper.
First English edition of the author’s first book, published in America as…
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Richard Condon – The Oldest Confession – First Edition 1959
£45.00First edition, first printing published by Longmans in London, 1959. This is a very good (or better) copy. In a very good clipped wrapper with a closed tear to the…
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Herman Wouk – Marjorie Morningstar – First Edition 1955
£45.00First edition, first printing published by Jonathan Cape in London, 1955. This is a very good (or better) copy. In a very good unclipped wrapper with a little rubbing to…
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