Authors in Literature
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The Assassin.
O'FLAHERTY, Liam.Original price £975.00 - Original price £975.00Original price £975.00£975.00£975.00 - £975.00Current price £975.00| /Unusually Near-Fine Copy. Stemming from O'Flaherty's own political-activist experiences, this novel is an investigation of the mind and motives of ...
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Works
BROWNE, Sir Thomas.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| /Includes: Biographical memoirs of Browne; Personal Correspondence; Religio Medici; Pseudodoxia Epidemica; Garden of Cyrus; Hydriotaphia; Brampton ...
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The Writings.
ELIOT, George (pseud. EVANS, Marian).Original price £5,850.00 - Original price £5,850.00Original price £5,850.00£5,850.00£5,850.00 - £5,850.00Current price £5,850.00| /George Eliot (1819-1880) was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, one of the leading English novelists of the 19th century. Her novels are celebrated f...
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Singing Fool.
DAIL, Herbert.Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00Original price £125.00£125.00£125.00 - £125.00Current price £125.00| /Following the success of The Jazz Singer, Jolson starred in this musical drama, part-talkie film that assisted in helping to cement the popularity...
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The Magic Finger.
DAHL, Roald; William Pène du Bois, illustrator.Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £0.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00| /A near fine copy of Roald Dahl's third children's book The Magic Finger.First UK edition, small 4to, illustrations by William Pène du Bois, very s...
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Poem of the Month Club.
[VARIOUS].Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £350.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00| /Poems by C. Day Lewis, Stephen Spender, Thom Gunn, Alan Brownjohn, Gavin Ewart, Ian Hamilton, Harold Massingham, Philip Oakes, Peter Porter, Verno...
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The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel.
ORCZY, Baroness.Original price £395.00 - Original price £395.00Original price £395.00£395.00£395.00 - £395.00Current price £395.00| /The further adventures of Baroness Emmuska Orczy's elusive Scarlet Pimpernel, aka Sir Percy Blakeney, during the French Revolution. This time set ...
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Lady of the Night.
SWIFT, Benjamin.Original price £680.00 - Original price £680.00Original price £680.00£680.00£680.00 - £680.00Current price £680.00| /"An amusing couple of hours can be spent in the reading of this fantastic trifle. Vivian Darsay, a young man of great physical beauty and financia...
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The Story of Little Black Sambo.
BANNERMAN, Helen.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £4,500.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00| /Helen Bannerman originally wrote this story during a long railway journey in India, to send to her two small daughters that she had just left to b...
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The Darkwater Hall Mystery.
[Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan]; AMIS, Kingsley.Original price £185.00 - Original price £185.00Original price £185.00£185.00£185.00 - £185.00Current price £185.00| /A worthy contribution to the Sherlock Holmes mythos courtesy of one of England's more established authors.First edition, number 98 of 165 copies, ...
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Music for Chameleons:
CAPOTE, Truman.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £950.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00| /One of 50 special copies for presentation. Inscribed by the author: 'This is one of fifty copies designed and printed for friends of the author. No...
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Abecedary.
LOGUE, Christopher; KITCHEN, Bert (illustrator).Original price £80.00 - Original price £80.00Original price £80.00£80.00£80.00 - £80.00Current price £80.00| /An 'alphabet' comprising poems relating to historical and modern subjects including Muhammad Ali, Einstein, Marx & Engels, Wilde and Bertrand ...
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Paleface.
LEWIS, Wyndham.Original price £580.00 - Original price £580.00Original price £580.00£580.00£580.00 - £580.00Current price £580.00| /An adaptation of the essay that originally appeared in The Enemy, No.2, examining the presence and role of "race-consciousness" in contemporary li...
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The Ideal Giant.
LEWIS, Wyndham.Original price £2,800.00 - Original price £2,800.00Original price £2,800.00£2,800.00£2,800.00 - £2,800.00Current price £2,800.00| /Lewis's first, very scarce, separately published literary publication, preceded only by Timon of Athens (1913), a portfolio of his artwork. One of...
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The Rosy Crucifixion
MILLER, Henry.Original price £275.00 - Original price £275.00Original price £275.00£275.00£275.00 - £275.00Current price £275.00| /Sexus is the first novel in Miller's Rosy Crucifixion trilogy. Due to allegedly licentious content, the trilogy was initially banned in the United...
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Anglosaxony:
LEWIS, Wyndham.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £2,500.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| /One of the author's scarcest books, extremely rare in this condition. Of the 1500 copies printed only 310 copies had been sold by February 1944. N...
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One-Way Song.
LEWIS, Wyndham.Original price £300.00 - Original price £300.00Original price £300.00£300.00£300.00 - £300.00Current price £300.00| /A collection of satirical poetry by Wyndham Lewis. The loose card included here is from critic and Lewis disciple Hugh Gordon Porteus (1906-93), a...
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The Old Gang and the New Gang.
LEWIS, Wyndham.Original price £85.00 - Original price £85.00Original price £85.00£85.00£85.00 - £85.00Current price £85.00| /First edition, 8vo; publisher's grey cloth binding, very good, grey dust-jacket printed in red, rubbed and slightly marked, small closed tear to h...
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The Old Gang and the New Gang.
LEWIS, Wyndham.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £250.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00| /A very good copy of this work on political dictators, in the 'much rarer' (Morrow & Lafourcade) red cloth, possibly a trial binding.First edit...
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Blasting & Bombardiering.
LEWIS, Wyndham.Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £150.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00| /The first of two primarily autobiographical works, followed by Rude Assignment (1950).First edition, 8vo; portrait frontispiece, plates, original ...
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The Enemy. A review of art and literature.
LEWIS, Wyndham.Original price £400.00 - Original price £400.00Original price £400.00£400.00£400.00 - £400.00Current price £400.00| /Wyndham Lewis established The Arthur Press in 1926 specifically for the purpose of publishing The Enemy, outlining in the initial volume's Editori...
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The Enemy. A review of art and literature.
LEWIS, Wyndham.Original price £400.00 - Original price £400.00Original price £400.00£400.00£400.00 - £400.00Current price £400.00| /Wyndham Lewis established The Arthur Press in 1926 specifically for the purpose of publishing The Enemy, outlining in the initial volume's Editori...
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