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Arthur Conan Doyle – Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [with] The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes – First UK Editions – 1892-1894
£4,750.00Newnes 1894, 1892. Two volumes, both first editions, first issues. Original light and dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and Strand Library design on upper covers and gilt labels on…
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Graham Greene – The Quiet American – First UK Edition 1955
£95.00First edition, first printing. Published by Heinemann in London, 1955. This is a very good copy. The dust wrapper is toned to the front and rear panels, with some mild…
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Peter Benchley – JAWS – First UK Edition 1974 – True first edition
£375.00A first edition, first printing published by Andre Deutsch in 1974. A very good book without inscriptions in a very good unclipped wrapper with some slits to the top of…
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Boris Pasternak – Doctor Zhivago – First UK Edition 1958
£485.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Doctor Zhivago’ published by Collins Harvill in 1958. A very good book (or better), just light toning to the endpapers and a small name…
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J.K. Rowling – The Tales of Beedle The Bard – First UK Edition 2008
£50.00A first edition, first printing of ‘The Tales of Beedle The Bard’ by J K Rowling, published by Bloomsbury in 2008. A near fine book without inscriptions, marks or stamps.
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John Berger – G – A Novel – First UK Edition 1972
£175.00A first edition, first printing published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in 1972. Tan boards with black and red titles to the spine. Gift inscription to the top corner of the…
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Luke Rhinehart – The Dice Man – First UK Edition 1971
£300.00A first edition, first printing of ‘The Dice Man’ published by Talmy Franklin in 1971. A very good+/near fine book (a little spotting to the page edges) without inscriptions in…
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Michael Morpurgo – War Horse – First UK Edition 1982
£650.00A first edition, first printing published by Kaye and Ward in 1982 – bound in publisher’s glazed boards as issued. A very good book without inscriptions. Spine tips a little…
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Nancy Mitford – Love In A Cold Climate – First UK Edition 1949
£675.00A first edition, first printing published by Hamish Hamilton in 1949. A near fine book without inscriptions in a very good unclipped wrapper with shallow chipping to the head of…
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J K Rowling – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – First Edition – The Proof-Reader’s Personal Copy
£18,500.00A first edition, first printing of ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ published by Bloomsbury in 1997. Softcover octavo, pp. 223, [1]. Pictorial card wraps by Thomas Taylor with Harry…
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Gavin Maxwell – Ring of Bright Water – First UK Edition 1960 – With the rare wrap-around band
£250.00A first edition, first printing published by Longmans in 1960. A very good book without inscription with some minor spotting to the text block and some pushing to the head…
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Angelo Dundee – I Only Talk Winning – SIGNED First UK Edition 1983
£275.00A first edition, first printing of I Only Talk Winning by Angelo Dundee, published by Arthur Barker in 1983. A near fine book signed by the author in blue ink…
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Evelyn Waugh – Edmund Campion – First UK Edition 1935 – In the first issue dust wrapper
£375.00A first edition, first printing published by Longmans in 1935. A very good book with light fading to the spine, some spotting to the page edges and to the prelims….
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Dodie Smith – One Hundred and One Dalmatians – SIGNED – First UK Edition 1956
£2,500.00A first edition, first printing published by Heinemann in 1956. A very good book without inscriptions – some spotting to the spine – scattered foxing to the prelims. In a…
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David Attenborough – Zoo Quest to Guiana [with] Zoo Quest for a Dragon [with] Zoo Quest in Paraguay [with] Quest in Paradise [with] Zoo Quest to Madagascar [with] Quest under Capricorn. THE ZOO QUEST’ SERIES COMPLETE IN DUSTWRAPPERS – the first volume SIGNED WITHOUT DEDICATION
£2,000.00First Edition, first printings between 1956-63, with coloured frontispieces and a number of coloured and monochrome plates throughout. All in original cloth with gilt backs. A very good, clean set…
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Richard Bach – Jonathan Livingston Seagull – First UK Edition 1972
£450.00A first edition, first printing published by Turnstone in 1972. A near fine book with a neat name and date to the dedication page. In a near fine (lightly rubbed)…
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