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Modern first editions - A-H
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[6] [1] pp 2-119 [120] The First Edition of this uncommon BB title with an interesting association with the Churchill family. The book was owned by Winston Churchill's grandson, Jeremy Soames, with hi...
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This is an audio recording - in all likelihood unique - of the funeral speech given by the author Christopher Isherwood for his friend, the Hollywood actor, and fellow British ex-patriate Charles Laug...
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Death is So Fair £85
[8] pp 1-272 [8] Advertisements. A First Edition of a novel of the Irish Revolutionary Period dealing with the contrasting impact of the Easter Uprising on two young men. This copy is found in the s...
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Death Valley £95
[4] pp 5-55 [1] A signed First Edition of Ansel Adams' photographic study of Death Valley. Adams has signed his name with a flourish on the reverse of the title page, writing in black biro. The tex...
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[10] pp 11-217 [1] A First Edition of Anita Loos' classic novel with a signed letter from the author laid in. The letter is typed on yellow line paper with Loos' letterhead in September 1973. In it t...
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Inigo Sandys £65
[viii] [2] pp 3-246 A signed First Edition of Emily Beatrix Coursolles Jones's 1924 novel. Jones has inscribed the front free endpaper 'Dennis Proctor from the author May 1928'. Emily Jones was a mo...
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[7] pp 8-303 The 1950 reprint of this difficult Chalet School title. The book is in sky blue boards with dark blue spine lettering - both clean and fresh. Internally the book is Fine with just a littl...
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Memoir of a Survivor £135
[6] pp 7-190 [2] Adverts Doris Lessing's Memoirs of a Survivor with a memorable gift inscription from Julie Christie who played the lead role in the 1981 film adaptation. Christie has written diagonal...
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Moonlight £235
[3] 1-94 (single sided text) A comb-bound typescript of this Harold Pinter play from the early nineties which is inscribed to his typist Georgina Gooding above the list of characters: 'To Georgina Wit...
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Nineteen Eighty-Four £1195
pp 1-312 A first edition, first printing published by Secker and Warburg in 1949. A very good book with no inscriptions, marks or stamps with red top-stain still present and a little fading to the spi...
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Peace in Our Time £250
xii, pp 1-308 [Portrait Frontispiece with Tissue Cover] A fascinating association copy inscribed by the author, Austen Chamberlain: 'To Warden Chilcott, on whose yacht Dolphin I have twice carried for...
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Racine £190
[4] pp 5-35 [2] An inscribed copy of Giraudoux's Racine given to Iris Murdoch for her thirty first birthday. The inscription from an unidentified friend identified here only as 'K' reads: 'I from K. J...
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6] pp 7-95 [96] The English translation of Return to My Native Land in a version annotated and prepared for performance by the actor Cy Grant. The Guyanese actor premiered the poem at the Royal Court ...
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This extraordinary work of homage to D H Lawrence is in the form of a large box with a draw that has been designed to look like a gigantic copy of Lawrence's St Mawr. The construction is of wood with ...
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[frontispiece] [2] [i] ii-vii [2] pp 8-409 [1] A fine example of this 1885 printing of Oliver Twist in the rare original Dustjacket printed in black on tan paper and reproducing in part the design of ...
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[6] pp 7-216 The scarce First Edition of The Chalet Girls' Cookbook. Bound in its original blue boards the text is clean and complete; the boards show some marks and fading down the spine. The Dustjac...
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The Clockwork Orange £125
[8] pp 1-195 [1] The Second Impression of Anthony Burgess's most influential novel, A Clockwork Orange. This reprint appeared in 1970 and appears so similar to the First Edition that there must be som...
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[6] pp 7-135 [136] A First Edition that describes itself as 'stories of the Pahouin negroes of the Great Forest of Gaboon. True stories these, not invented.' The book is bound in its original boards...
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[9] pp 10-320 An early edition of The Mystery of Diamond Creek with an intriguing, and lengthy, inscription by the author. Alexander Macdonald has written on the front free endpaper: 'To Dr Tom Nicol...
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A typed letter from Evan Hunter, also known as Ed McBain, offering 'the rough draft of Sadie When She Died' to a manuscript collector. Hunter comments that 'I cannot send you the original pages becaus...
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Van Dyck £195
vi, pp 1-83 [1] A monograph on the Dutch old master Van Dyck with an interesting gift inscription by the early twentieth century artist Jacob Kramer. Using black ink Kramer has written on the half-ti...
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