Literature
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Pride and Prejudice.
AUSTEN, Jane; BROCK, H.M (illustrator).Original price £575.00 - Original price £575.00Original price £0.00£575.00£575.00 - £575.00Current price £575.00| /A beautifully illustrated copy of Jane Austen's classic novel of manners, first published in 1813. Pride and Prejudice follows the character devel...
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The History of the Valiant Knight Arthur of Little Britain.
BOURCHIER, John, Baron (translator); HEATH, Charles (illustrator).Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| /Illustrated with 25 hand-coloured plates. A lovely copy in burgundy morocco of Bourchier's History of the Valiant Knight Arthur of Little Britain, ...
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The Lorax.
SEUSS, Dr [pseud., GEISEL, Theodor Seuss].Original price £550.00 - Original price £550.00Original price £0.00£550.00£550.00 - £550.00Current price £550.00| /One of the most famous and much-loved of the Dr Seuss titles, an environmental tale pitting the Lorax, speaking on behalf of the trees, against th...
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The Cat's Quizzer.
SEUSS, Dr. [pseud. GEISEL, Theodor Seuss].Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /A very rare title from the Dr. Seuss canon and more so in such good condition. It is one of the six titles Dr. Seuss Enterprises withdrew from pub...
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Emma.
AUSTEN, Jane; THOMSON, Hugh (illustrator).Original price £550.00 - Original price £550.00Original price £0.00£550.00£550.00 - £550.00Current price £550.00| /Published on the back of the success of Thomson's highly successful, illustrated edition of Pride and Prejudice in 1894.Hugh Thomson (1860-1920) r...
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Lady Chatterley's Lover.
LAWRENCE, D.H.Original price £10,000.00 - Original price £10,000.00Original price £0.00£10,000.00£10,000.00 - £10,000.00Current price £10,000.00| /One of 1000 copies - signed by the author. This novel shines as an example of Lawrence's finite skill in conveying the nature of relationships and ...
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The Bostonians.
JAMES, Henry.Original price £18,750.00 - Original price £18,750.00Original price £0.00£18,750.00£18,750.00 - £18,750.00Current price £18,750.00| /A superb set of one of James' most famous but controversial novels. The Bostonians was from its initial publication in serial form, a divisive wor...
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A Girl Like I:
LOOS, Anita.Original price £875.00 - Original price £875.00Original price £0.00£875.00£875.00 - £875.00Current price £875.00| /Presentation copy. Presentation copy to the actress Rosalind Russell and stage manager Charles Forsythe, inscribed by the author on the half-title:...
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An Artist of the Floating World.
ISHIGURO, Kazuo.Original price £475.00 - Original price £475.00Original price £0.00£475.00£475.00 - £475.00Current price £475.00| /Signed by the author. The author's second novel. A lovely signed example of the author's breakthrough work.First edition, first issue, signed by th...
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The Grapes of Wrath.
STEINBECK, John.Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00| /'muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man'. Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of t...
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Kiss Kiss.
DAHL, Roald.Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00| /Presentation copy. A collection of short-stories by one of the masters of that medium, Kiss Kiss includes the apiologically disconcerting 'Royal Je...
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Islands in the Stream.
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.Original price £325.00 - Original price £325.00Original price £0.00£325.00£325.00 - £325.00Current price £325.00| /The first of Hemingway's fictional works to be published posthumously.First edition, first printing; 8vo; internally fine; publisher's green cloth...
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Blood Meridian.
McCARTHY, Cormac.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /First UK edition of McCarthy's epic novel Blood Meridian. This is McCarthy at his most baroque and apocalyptic.First UK edition; 8vo; slight tonin...
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Matilda.
DAHL, Roald; BLAKE, Quentin (illustrator).Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £0.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00| /A first edition of Dahl's superb tale of a little girl whose innate genius has her pitted against her inane parents and irate headmistress. A clas...
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The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner [together with] The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
DEFOE, Daniel; CRUIKSHANK, George (illustrator).Original price £225.00 - Original price £225.00Original price £0.00£225.00£225.00 - £225.00Current price £225.00| /A charming second impression of the first edition featuring George Cruikshank's illustrations.First edition thus, second impression with Cruikshan...
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Thoughts on Life and Literature.
CAMERON, Norman E.Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £0.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00| /Rare first edition by the founder of Guyanese drama, dedicated to 'A New Guiana'.First edition; 8vo; portrait frontispiece, bookshop stamp to vers...
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The Cutlass Is Not For Killing.
MAHABIR, Dennis J.Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00Original price £0.00£125.00£125.00 - £125.00Current price £125.00| /'The Cutlass Is Not For Killing is a story of today, written by a knowledgeable author of today, in the hope of a better future for the Trinidad o...
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Green Days by the River.
ANTHONY, Michael.Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00Original price £0.00£125.00£125.00 - £125.00Current price £125.00| /Presentation copy. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in blue ink to the dedication page: 'To John La Rose / from / Michael Anthony / April...
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Heartland.
HARRIS, Wilson.Original price £75.00 - Original price £75.00Original price £0.00£75.00£75.00 - £75.00Current price £75.00| /Scarce short novel by the acclaimed Guyanese author, his first published work following the conclusion of the 'Guyana Quartet'.First edition, firs...
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Some Spanish Ballads.
MERWIN, W.S.Original price £35.00 - Original price £35.00Original price £0.00£35.00£35.00 - £35.00Current price £35.00| /A collection of Spanish poems translated from the Spanish by Merwin and dedicated to Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.First edition, first printing; 8v...
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The French Lieutenant's Woman.
FOWLES, John.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /Signed by the author. A near-fine copy of Fowles' best-known work, signed by the author on the title page.First US edition, first impression, signe...
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The Naked Lunch.
BURROUGHS, William.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /First edition of Burroughs masterpiece, one of the triumphs of the Beat movement.First edition, first impression; 8vo; one or two small marks to t...
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One Hundred Years of Solitude.
MÁRQUEZ, Gabriel García.Original price £1,875.00 - Original price £1,875.00Original price £0.00£1,875.00£1,875.00 - £1,875.00Current price £1,875.00| /Regarded as Garcia Marquez's masterpiece (the novel was originally published in 1967 as Cien Años De Solidad) which won the author worldwide recog...
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