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David Frankland & Carolyn Bear – The Last Loneliest Dodo – First Edition 1974
£275.00A first edition, first printing published by Roger Schlesinger in 1974. A near fine book with one name internally (Liam). A beautiful production. Exceptionally scarce and beautifully illustrated – what…
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David Hockney – The Blue Guitar – First Edition 1977
£150.00A first edition, first printing published by Petersburg Press in 1977. A near fine book in very good edge worn dust wrapper – not price clipped at £5.50.
“The Blue Guitar”…
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Gordon Anthony – Studies Of Robert Helpmann – First Edition 1946
£50.00A first edition, first printing published by Home and Van Tha; in 1946. A very good book without inscriptions in a very goo edgeworn and internally repaired dust wrapper with…
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Cameron Hawley – Cash McCall – First Edition 1956
£35.00A first edition, first printing published by Hammond Hammond in 1956. A very good book with some spotting to the edges and to the preliminary pages. No inscriptions. In a…
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Love in the Time of Cholera – First Edition 1988
£185.00First UK edition, first printing. Published by Jonathan Cape in London, 1988. This is a very good copy. The dust wrapper is sunned at the spine though has not been…
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Giuseppe Di Lampedusa – The Leopard – First UK Edition 1960
£185.00A first edition, first printing of ‘The Leopard’ published by Collins Harvill in 1960. A very good copy in a very good dust wrapper. The wrapper has not been price…
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Terry Pratchett – Eric – First Edition 1990
£175.00A first edition, first printing published by Gollancz in 1990. A near fine book without inscriptions in a clipped near fine dust wrapper. Rare.
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Patrick Leigh Fermor – Roumeli – First UK Edition 1966
£165.00A first edition, first printing of Roumeli by Patrick Leigh Fermor, published by John Murray in London, 1966, black and white photographs by Joan Eyres Monsell, with double-page sketch map…
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Joan Aiken – The Kingdom Under The Sea – SIGNED by Jan Pienkowski
£125.00A reissue published by Cape in 1984. A near fine book with some rubbing to the corners. Signed and inscribed ‘For Karen/with best wishes/Jan Pienkowski/’Aug ‘98’. In a very good…
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Kate Summerscale – The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House – SIGNED First Edition 2008
£150.00A first edition, first printing published by Bloomsbury in 2008. A fine book in like unclipped wrapper. SIGNED without dedication to the title page.
“The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher” is…
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Julia Donaldson – Superworm – First Edition 2012
£95.00First edition, first printing. Published by Alison Green Books in London, 2012. This is a near fine copy. The pictorial paper-covered boards are bright and clean, with slight bumping at…
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B S Johnson – The Unfortunates – First UK Edition
£300.00A first edition, first printing of The Unfortunates by B.S. Johnson, published by Secker and Warburg in association with Panther Books in 1969. A near fine example, the box has…
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Julia Donaldson – Tiddler – First UK Edition 2007
£275.00First edition, first printing. Published by Alison Green Books in London, 2007. This is a near fine copy. The pictorial paper-covered boards are bright and clean, with slight bumping at…
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Mary Whitehouse – Whatever Happened To Sex – First UK Edition 1977 – SIGNED
£375.00First edition first printing published by Wayland Publishers Ltd in 1977. A near fine book signed and inscribed on the front endpaper ‘To R G Gilbert, With best wishes, Mary…
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Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451 – First UK Edition 1954
£850.00A first edition, first printing published by Rupert Hart-Davis in 1954. A very good+ (or better) book without inscriptions – damp-staining to the lower boards with some spotting to the…
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Joe Brown – The Hard Years – First Edition 1967
£50.00A first edition, first printing publised by Gollancz in 1967. A very good book in like edgeworn wrapper which is unclipped. Notorious climber who made many first ascents including Cenotaph…
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