Authors in Literature
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The Story of Grettir the Strong.
MORRIS, William & MAGNUSSON, Eirikr (translators).Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00Presentation copy - inscribed to Charles Kingsley. Limited to just 500 copies, with the present copy inscribed by William Morris in black ink to th...
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
WOLFE, Tom.Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £0.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00First edition, published a year before the UK edition, of this remarkable record of the 1960s 'tune in, turn on, drop out' culture that defined th...
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In a Green Night. Poems 1948 - 1960.
WALCOTT, DerekOriginal price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00The Nobel Laureate's first book to be published in the UK.First edition, first impression; 8vo; Publisher's cream cloth-backed green boards, title...
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[A Farewell to Arms]. A rare sample binding (or 'blad') with A.L.s. on headed paper from the Printing Department, Charles Scribner's Sons.
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00The key to this rare curiosity is the hand-written letter with the salutation to 'George' and signed by a A. R. Warnock or Warwick, dated 5th Feb'...
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The Sixpence that Rolled Away.
BAWDEN, Edward (illustrator); MACNEICE, Louis.Original price £1,100.00 - Original price £1,100.00Original price £0.00£1,100.00£1,100.00 - £1,100.00Current price £1,100.00Edward Bawden's own copy. 'Once upon a time there was a One Pound Note and he married a Ten Shilling Note and they had three children, a half-crown...
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The Mime of Mick, Nick and the Maggies.
JOYCE, James.Original price £975.00 - Original price £975.00Original price £0.00£975.00£975.00 - £975.00Current price £975.00A beautiful piece of Dutch book production, with Lucia's characteristic illustrations. Prints a famous section of Finnegans Wake (the known as Wor...
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Anna Livia Plurabelle.
JOYCE, James.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £3,500.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00Rare special edition. The first edition of Anna Livia Plurabelle by James Joyce, the text that was to become chapter eight in Finnegans Wake, and i...
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Down and Out in Paris and London.
ORWELL, George.Original price £9,500.00 - Original price £9,500.00Original price £0.00£9,500.00£9,500.00 - £9,500.00Current price £9,500.00First edition of the author's first book. Orwell's first book was printed in a run of just 1500 copies many of which sold to the circulating librar...
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The Mandrake Booklets:
[MANDRAKE PRESS]; STEPHENSEN, P.R.; CROWLEY, Aleister [et al.].Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00Complete set of The Mandrake Booklets - with nine presentation copies. The complete set of The Mandrake Booklets in the original dustjackets, publi...
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Hold Fast By Your Teeth.
BAWDEN, Edward (author & illustrator).Original price £1,650.00 - Original price £1,650.00Original price £0.00£1,650.00£1,650.00 - £1,650.00Current price £1,650.00From the author to his daughter. Nine short stories written and illustrated by Bawden.First edition, signed presentation inscription from the autho...
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The Maze.
SANDOZ, Maurice; DALI, Salvador (illustrator).Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00Signed by the illustrator. An attractive first edition, signed by Salvador Dali on the front free endpaper.A macabre tale by the pioneering Swiss f...
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Where The Wild Things Are.
SENDAK, Maurice.Original price £8,500.00 - Original price £8,500.00Original price £0.00£8,500.00£8,500.00 - £8,500.00Current price £8,500.00The true first edition. The true first edition with the correct first state dustjacket. A fine, well-preserved copy of what is perhaps the best-lov...
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A Prefect's Uncle.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00The author's uncommon second book, here in the earliest issue.First edition, first impression, first issue of the author's second book (with adver...
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[Winnie-the-Pooh Books].
MILNE, A.A.; SHEPARD, E.H. (illustrator).Original price £15,000.00 - Original price £15,000.00Original price £0.00£15,000.00£15,000.00 - £15,000.00Current price £15,000.00A complete set. Milne's first volume, When We Were Very Young, was published in November 1924 and was such a resounding success that the subsequent...
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