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Kingsley Amis – Lucky Jim – First UK Edition 1953
£2,500.00A first edition, first printing published by Gollancz in 1953. A very good book, bound in the green cloth lettered gilt to the spine which is faded as usual. The…
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Beryl Bainbridge – A Weekend With Claud – First UK Edition 1967
£225.00A first edition, first printing published by New Authors Limited [Hutchinson] in 1967. A very good book in very good unclipped wrapper with a little edgewear and wrinkling. Rare first…
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Joe Simpson – Touching The Void – First UK Edition – 1988 – SIGNED by Yates and with Cape review slip
£300.00A first edition, first printing published by Cape in 1988. Owner’s signature to front and rear pastedown, small inscription to rear of front endpaper. A very good book in like…
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Irvine Welsh – Trainspotting – First UK Edition 1993 – Grey Titles
£875.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Trainspotting’ published by Secker and Warburg in 1993. A very good book without inscriptions. Clean pages. Some wear to the corners and edges. Spine…
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Helen Douglas Irvine – Fray Mario – First UK Edition 1939 + Band
£125.00A first edition, first printing published by Longmans in 1939. A near fine book without inscriptions, complete with Clare Leighton woodcut included. In a near fine unclipped wrapper with a…
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Raymond Briggs – The Snowman – Building The Snowman – First Edition 1985
£30.00First edition, first printing. Published by Hamish Hamilton, London, in 1985. This is a near fine copy. The pictorial boards, with illustrations of the snowman, are clean throughout but with…
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John Le Carrre – The Karla Trilogy ~ Comprising Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy/The Honorable Schoolboy/ Smiley’s People – a near fine set – ALL SIGNED by the Author at Hatchards
£8,750.00Three separate books, all first editions, first printings. Tinker Tailor, Soldier Spy published in 1974; The Honourable Schoolboy published in 1977; Smiley’s People published 1980. All books are near fine/near…
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Penelope Fitzgerald – The Golden Child – First UK Edition – 1977 –
£285.00A first edition, first printing published by Duckworth in 1977. A fine book without inscriptions in a very good (or better) unclipped wrapper with a little creasing to the top…
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Stephen King – IT – First UK Edition 1986
£385.00A first edition, first printing of It by Stephen King, published by Hodder and Stoughton, London in 1986. A very good book with small former owner’s name to the top…
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Chuck Palahniuk – Fight Club – First US Edition 1996
£650.00A first edition, first printing published by Norton (USA) in 1996. A fine book in like wrapper with the full numberline on the copyright page. ‘The First Rule of Fight…
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Gordon Banks – Banksy – First UK Edition 2002 – SIGNED
£125.00A first edition, first printing published by Penguin/Michael Joseph in 2002. This is a fine book. The dust wrapper has not been price clipped and is without notable wear. The…
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John Buchan – The Thirty-Nine Steps – First UK Edition 1915
£375.00First edition, first printing. Published by William Blackwood and Sons in Edinburgh and London, 1915. This is a very near fine rebound copy. Rebound in calf, with fine gilt titling,…
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Daphne Du Maurier – Frenchmen’s Creek – First UK Edition 1941
£575.00First edition, first printing. Published by Gollancz in London, 1941. This is a very good copy. The dust wrapper suffers from some light creasing and spotting throughout, with the top…
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Pierre Boulle [Xan Fielding] – Monkey Planet [Planet of the Apes] – First UK Edition 1964
£975.00First UK edition, first printing. Published by Secker and Warburg in London, 1964. This is a fine copy. The dust wrapper is designed by Margaret Eastoe and has some very…
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Gerald Durrell – Birds, Beasts and Relatives – First UK Edition 1969
£145.00First edition, first printing. Published by Collins in London, 1969. This is a very good (or better) copy. The dust wrapper suffers from a moderate tear to the front panel,…
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Len Deighton – Billion Dollar Brain – First UK Edition 1966
£95.00First edition, first printing. Published by Jonathan Cape in London, 1966. This is a very good copy. The dust wrapper, designed by Raymond Hawkey, is bright and mostly clean. There…
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