Authors in Literature
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Would you rather be a Bullfrog?
[SEUSS, Dr.] LESIEG, Theo. [pseud. GEISEL, Theodor Seuss]; McKIE, Roy (illustrator).Original price £575.00 - Original price £575.00Original price £0.00£575.00£575.00 - £575.00Current price £575.00| /A very good first edition example of this 'Bright & Early Book' by the good Doctor. Issued without a dust-jacket.First edition, first printing...
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Old Manor Houses.
ALDIN, Cecil.Original price £275.00 - Original price £275.00Original price £0.00£275.00£275.00 - £275.00Current price £275.00| /A sharp clean copy of this delightful study on Old Manor Houses of Britain, superbly illustrated by Cecil Aldin, and with a classic Aldin ink-dood...
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The Vicar Of Wakefield.
RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator); GOLDSMITH, Oliver.Original price £525.00 - Original price £525.00Original price £0.00£525.00£525.00 - £525.00Current price £525.00| /The specially bound deluxe issue of Rackham's illustrated edition of The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith.First edition thus, deluxe issue i...
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Madeline's Rescue.
BEMELMANS, Ludwig.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00| /A very good first edition of the second in the Madeline book series, which won the 1954 Caldecott Medal for 'most distinguished picture book'. The...
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The Iron Woman.
HUGHES, Ted.Original price £195.00 - Original price £195.00Original price £0.00£195.00£195.00 - £195.00Current price £195.00| /Inscribed by the poet to his friends John & Antoinette [Moat].First edition, first impression, signed presentation copy from the author; 8vo; ...
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.
DAHL, Roald; JAQUES, Faith (illustrator).Original price £300.00 - Original price £300.00Original price £300.00£300.00£300.00 - £300.00Current price £300.00| /An attractive first British edition of Dahl's sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, not easy to find in such condition.First UK edition, fi...
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Lucky Mrs. Ticklefeather.
KUNHARDT, Dorothy.Original price £400.00 - Original price £400.00Original price £0.00£400.00£400.00 - £400.00Current price £400.00| /An unusual children's book, without question uncommon. The adventures of Mrs Ticklefeather and her puffin called Paul as they try to find the perf...
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The King and Queen of Hearts.
[LAMB, Charles].Original price £185.00 - Original price £185.00Original price £0.00£185.00£185.00 - £185.00Current price £185.00| /In 1805, the British essayist and then would-be poet Charles Lamb wrote a children's poem, known as 'The King and Queen of Hearts: with the Roguer...
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The Mysteries of Berlin, from the Papers of a Berlin Criminal Officer.
[THIEL, Paul].Original price £480.00 - Original price £480.00Original price £0.00£480.00£480.00 - £480.00Current price £480.00| /One of the more significant early detective fiction titles, published in Germany the year before, with this the first edition in English published...
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Art and Literature: An International Review.
ASHBERRY, John; DUNN, Anne; MOYNIHAN, Rodrigo; ORWELL, Sonia (editors).Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00| /a complete set of this important literary review - an elegant showcase of new work from a broad range of sources. John Ashberry is lauded as one o...
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Clifden Community Arts Festival 2010.
HEANEY, Seamus [Programme].Original price £20.00 - Original price £20.00Original price £0.00£20.00£20.00 - £20.00Current price £20.00| /Heaney was a prime mover behind this extraordinary arts festival. Not only through his poetry readings and talks but also by dint of the sheer wei...
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Clifden Community Arts Festival 2009.
HEANEY, Seamus [Programme].Original price £20.00 - Original price £20.00Original price £0.00£20.00£20.00 - £20.00Current price £20.00| /Heaney was a prime mover behind this extraordinary arts festival. Not only through his poetry readings and talks but also by dint of the sheer wei...
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Spelling it Out: in honour of Brian Friel on his 80th birthday.
HEANEY, Seamus.Original price £525.00 - Original price £525.00Original price £0.00£525.00£525.00 - £525.00Current price £525.00| /An acrostic by chapter, Heaney works his way through the ten letters that constitute his subject's name. A touching and eloquent tribute to a trul...
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De geloofwaardigheid van de poezie [in] De Gids.No. 3.
HEANEY, Seamus [Contributes].Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00Original price £0.00£125.00£125.00 - £125.00Current price £125.00| /Signed by Heaney at his contribution. Loosely inserted is a letter from Peter Fallon to the previous owners despatching this and several other ite...
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Would They Had Stay'd [in] Poetry Review. Vol.87 No. 4.
HEANEY, Seamus [Contributes].Original price £85.00 - Original price £85.00Original price £0.00£85.00£85.00 - £85.00Current price £85.00| /One issue of the long running and influential periodical of London's Poetry Society. Signed by Heaney at his contribution.First edition, first imp...
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The Anthology of Popular Verse.
HEANEY, Seamus [contributes].Original price £30.00 - Original price £30.00Original price £0.00£30.00£30.00 - £30.00Current price £30.00| /Bit of a schlocky kind of publication, but our Seamus is included, by way of the reprinting of The Forge from Door Into the Dark. Issued without d...
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The Midnight Verdict.
HEANEY, Seamus.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /With the author's signed presentation inscription to the title page, "for Mary - 'lighting sky and heart' Seamus". A spectacular copy of the scarc...
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From Squarings [in] Agni 29/30.
HEANEY, Seamus [Contributes].Original price £45.00 - Original price £45.00Original price £0.00£45.00£45.00 - £45.00Current price £45.00| /Squarings is a very important middle period sequence - all manifestations of it are worthy of attention.First edition, first impression; 8vo; orig...
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Statement about his adjudication [in] New Poetry 36.
HEANEY, Seamus [Contributes].Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00Original price £0.00£125.00£125.00 - £125.00Current price £125.00| /Signed by Heaney at his contribution. Heaney was one of the panel of judges which instigated this publication.First edition, first impression; sig...
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