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James Herriot – If Only They Could Talk – UK Edition 1970
£185.00A first edition, second printing of ‘If Only They Could Talk’ by James Herriot published by Michael Joseph in 1970. A very good book without inscriptions in a very good…
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Lee Child – Killing Floor – First UK Edition and Proof 1997
£385.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Killing Floor’ [with] the rare Book Proof, by Lee Child published by Bantam Press in 1997. A near fine book without inscriptions in like…
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Christopher Paolini – Eragon – First Edition 2004 – SIGNED & LINED
£475.00A first edition, first printing published by Doubleday in 2004. A fine book in like dust wrapper SIGNED on the title page by the Author – Paolini has also written…
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Elisabeth Beresford – The Wandering Wombles – First UK Edition 1970
£175.00A first edition first printing published by Ernest Benn Limited in 1970. The book is near fine with no inscriptions and clean pages in a very good clipped wrapper with…
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Richard Adams – Watership Down – First UK Edition 1972 – SIGNED
£2,750.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Watership Down’ by Richard Adams, published by Rex Collings in 1972. A very good example of the book. Absolutely no spotting or inscriptions within…
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Deborah Devonshire – Home To Roost and Other Pickings – SIGNED by the Author and Alan Bennett
£185.00A first edition, first printing published by John Murray in 2009. No inscriptions. Very near fine in near fine very slightly creased and marked dustwrapper which has not been price-clipped….
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Field Marshal Montgomery – The Memoirs of Field-Marshal The Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, K.G. – SIGNED
£750.00A first edition, first printing of The Memoirs of Field-Marshall Montgomery, published by Collins, London in 1958. A near fine copy, signed by the author on the front free end…
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Nigel Hinton – Buddy’s Song – First Edition 1987 – SIGNED
£175.00A first edition, first printing published by Dent in 1987. A near fine book in like unclipped wrapper SIGNED by the Author on the title page. A story which spawned…
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Bruce Robinson – Withnail and I / How To Get Ahead In Advertising – SIGNED and INSCRIBED
£375.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Withnail and I/How to Get Ahead in Advertising’ published in 1989 by Bloomsbury. Spine showing NO creasing. INSCRIBED on the title page ‘To Kieth…
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Pat Reid – The Colditz Story – First Edition 1952
£475.00A first edition, first printing published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1952. A very good book without inscriptions (one blank sticker over previous owner’s name to front endpaper) with some…
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Ted Hughes – Signed Letter – with connections to Sylvia Plath
£600.00Single sheet, on one side, dated 14th October, 1985: A short typed letter from Hughes thanking the recipient for their letter and stating:
‘Here is something to put in your album:
“The…
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Chris Bonington – Everest The Hard Way, The First Ascent Of The South West Face – SIGNED by Doug Scott, Charles Clarke, and Dougal Haston
£895.00A first edition, first printing published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1976. Octavo. Original blue cloth gilt. Dustwrapper. Pp. 239. Bonington’s narrative of the first successful ascent of Everest via…
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Anthony West – John Piper – First Edition 1979 – SIGNED by Piper
£385.00A first edition, first printing published by Secker and Warburg in 1979. Quarto. Original maroon cloth gilt. Dustwrapper. Pp. 224 + plates. A detailed and well-illustrated account of his life…
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Evelyn Waugh – Brideshead Revisited – in the first issue dust wrapper
£3,500.00A first edition, first printing published by Chapman and Hall in 1945. A very good book with some spotting to the page block and a little staining to the top…
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Salman Rushdie – The Satanic Verses – A Comprehensive Collection of Rushdie’s Own Annotated Photostat Transcript [SIGNED], Proof, Signed Booker/First Edition with Whitbread Band and Signed First Edition in the rare Purple Dust Wrapper
£6,500.00A set of four items relating to one of the most controversial books from the last century. Consisting: ‘Transcript of the novel – photo-stat copies of typed pages and with…
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Anthony Powell – Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant [with] The Kindly Ones – A Pair of Author Annotated First Editions with Handwritten Corrections in the Author’s Hand
£3,000.00A pair of author annotated copies – both first edition, first printings published by Heinemann in 1960 and 1962. Consisting of: ‘Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant’: with textual corrections in the novelist’s…
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