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The Canterbury Tales.
[GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS]; CHAUCER, Geoffrey; GILL, Eric (illustrator).Original price £8,000.00 - Original price £8,000.00Original price £0.00£8,000.00£8,000.00 - £8,000.00Current price £8,000.00| /One of 500 copies. One of the major titles of the Golden Cockerel Press and an extraordinary collaboration between the press director and book desi...
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La Divina Commedia or The Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri in Italian & English.
[NONESUCH PRESS]; ALIGHIERI, Dante.Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00| /A sumptuous edition bound in orange vellum, this beautiful book was the most over-subscribed of all the Nonesuch publications. The production was ...
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A Farewell to Arms.
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00| /First issue dust-jacket. A really good copy in the correct dust-jacket with the name 'Katherine Barclay' so spelled on the front flap.First edition...
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Biggles - Air Commodore.
JOHNS, Captain W.E.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00| /The true first edition of this early, and uncommon, Biggles title.First edition, first impression; 8vo; illustrations, including colour frontispie...
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Winner Take Nothing.
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.Original price £975.00 - Original price £975.00Original price £0.00£975.00£975.00 - £975.00Current price £975.00| /'one of the best short stories ever written'. A 1933 collection of short stories by Nobel Prize Winner Ernest Hemingway, including A Clean, Well Li...
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In Our Time.
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.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| /Hemingway's first collection of short stories and his first book published in the US. One of only 1335 copies printed.The chapters describe acts o...
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You Only Live Twice.
FLEMING, Ian.Original price £15,000.00 - Original price £15,000.00Original price £0.00£15,000.00£15,000.00 - £15,000.00Current price £15,000.00| /Presentation copy. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, 'To Jonathan from Ian'. The identity of Jonathan h...
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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 £9,500.00| /First 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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This Side of Paradise; The Beautiful and Damned; The Great Gatsby; Tender is the Night; The Last Tycoon.
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.Original price £19,500.00 - Original price £19,500.00Original price £0.00£19,500.00£19,500.00 - £19,500.00Current price £19,500.00| /Superb set of five first editions. A superb set of first editions by one of the leading authorial voices of the Jazz Age, uniformly bound in an att...
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Out of Africa.
BLIXEN, Karen.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00| /The UK edition precedes the much more common Random House printing. Memorably filmed. This is by far the best copy we have handled.Out of Africa i...
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The Naked Lunch.
BURROUGHS, William.Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00| /One of the triumphs of the Beat movement. An exceptional copy of Burroughs masterpiece, one of the triumphs of the Beat movement. Not common in thi...
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Ostanovka v Pustyne [A Stop in the Desert].
BRODSKY, Joseph.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| /First edition of Ostanovka v Pustyne [A Stop in the Desert] Brodsky's second book of poetry in Russian to be published in America. Described as hi...
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[Don Quixote].
[ASHENDENE PRESS]; CERVANTES, Miguel de.Original price £9,500.00 - Original price £9,500.00Original price £0.00£9,500.00£9,500.00 - £9,500.00Current price £9,500.00| /A near-fine set of this superb private press edition, undoubtedly one of Ashendene's finest achievements.Limited edition, one of only 225 copies; ...
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.
DICKENS, Charles.Original price £2,200.00 - Original price £2,200.00Original price £0.00£2,200.00£2,200.00 - £2,200.00Current price £2,200.00| /'the pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again'. The first edition, first issue in book form of Dickens' The Life and Adventures of Ni...
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Brighton Rock.
GREENE, Graham.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00| /First edition. The first edition, published in New York, of Greene's (1904-1991) classic murder-thriller Brighton Rock. The original pictorial dust...
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Twenty-Five Poems.
THOMAS, Dylan.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /First edition of Thomas' second collection of poems. Uncommon thus.First edition, first impression; 8vo; light spotting to prelims and endpapers, ...
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