Rare Literature Books
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The Holy Bible:
[ILLUSTRATED BIBLE].Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /A fine illustrated family bible according to the King James Version in contemporary diced blue calf.Large 4to (32.5 x 25.5 cm); engraved additiona...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare,
SHAKESPEARE, William.Original price £300.00 - Original price £300.00Original price £0.00£300.00£300.00 - £300.00Current price £300.00| /A sweet copy of Shakespeare's complete dramatic works, comprising his 36 canonical plays together with the late romance Pericles, Prince of Tyre, ...
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Danny, The Champion of the World.
DAHL, Roald; BENNETT, Jill (illustrator).Original price £475.00 - Original price £475.00Original price £0.00£475.00£475.00 - £475.00Current price £475.00| /Danny, The Champion of the World remains one of Dahl's most beloved titles, in part due to the highly successful TV-movie adaptation in 1989 starr...
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Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes.
DAHL, Roald; BLAKE, Quentin, (illustrator).Original price £285.00 - Original price £285.00Original price £0.00£285.00£285.00 - £285.00Current price £285.00| /Roald Dahl's mischievous verse play on traditional folk tales, reinterpreting six well-known fairy tales and replacing the more traditional, happy...
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An Alphabet.
NICHOLSON, William.Original price £1,200.00 - Original price £1,200.00Original price £0.00£1,200.00£1,200.00 - £1,200.00Current price £1,200.00| /Nicholson had been working with Heinemann since the mid-1890s. As well as designing their windmill device, Nicholson created a number of books for...
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The Caretaker.
PINTER, Harold.Original price £200.00 - Original price £200.00Original price £0.00£200.00£200.00 - £200.00Current price £200.00| /True first edition, preceding the Methuen hardback edition of the same year. Pinter's first commercial success, first performed at the Arts Theatr...
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Chips with Everything.
WESKER, Arnold.Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00Original price £0.00£125.00£125.00 - £125.00Current price £125.00| /First edition of a major English Stage Company play. 'A drama of striking power, intensity and conviction' (New York Post).First edition, first im...
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The Doomsday Book.
MACLAREN-ROSS, J.Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £0.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00| /First edition of one of the scarcest Maclaren-Ross titles.First edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's red cloth, silver...
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The Dark.
MCGAHERN, John.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00| /The author's scarce second novel, banned in Ireland by the Censorship Board for obscenity in 1965.First edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked i...
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The Novels.
AUSTEN, Jane.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| /Comprising: Sense and Sensibility, 1886; Northanger Abbey; Emma, 1886; Pride and Prejudice, 1891; Mansfield Park; A Memoir...by Her Nephew J.E. Au...
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Love on the Coast.
[HOFF, Harry Summerfield] COOPER, William (pseud).Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00Original price £0.00£125.00£125.00 - £125.00Current price £125.00| /Inscribed by the author in black ink to the front free endpaper, 'with love to Ralph + Arnaud[?] from the author Harry London 31 March 1973'.First...
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Shame.
RUSHDIE, Salman.Original price £85.00 - Original price £85.00Original price £0.00£85.00£85.00 - £85.00Current price £85.00| /The author's third novel and the second in his series of books dealing with Islam and the countries of the East, beginning with Midnight's Childre...
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The Laird of Abbotsford:
WILSON, A.N.Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00Original price £0.00£125.00£125.00 - £125.00Current price £125.00| /Signed by the author. First edition of this biography of Sir Walter Scott, signed by the author in black ink on the title page.First ediiton, first...
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The Time of the Crack.
TENNANT, Emma.Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00Original price £0.00£125.00£125.00 - £125.00Current price £125.00| /The author's second book and first Science Fiction novel. Preceded by her earlier novel, The Colour of Rain (1964), published under the pseudonym ...
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The Ever-Interesting Topic.
[HOFF, Harry Summerfield] COOPER, William (pseud).Original price £85.00 - Original price £85.00Original price £0.00£85.00£85.00 - £85.00Current price £85.00| /First edition of this satirical novel set in a boys school.First edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's blue cloth, gilt...
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Gone With the Wind.
MITCHELL, Margaret.Original price £475.00 - Original price £475.00Original price £0.00£475.00£475.00 - £475.00Current price £475.00| /Margaret Mitchell was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in November 1900. After a broken ankle immobilised her in 1926, Mitchell started writing a novel t...
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Three Men in a Boat
JEROME, Jerome K.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00| /Three Men in a Boat is considered an important work of the Victorian comic texts, affording the reader a genuine insight into the morals and socia...
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You Only Live Twice.
FLEMING, Ian.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /A first edition, first Impression (stating 'First Published 1964' versus the second state 'March 1964'). This was the final book in the 'Blofield ...
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[The Novels]
AUSTEN, Jane; THOMSON, Hugh (illustrator); BROCK, Charles E. (illustratorOriginal 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| /Hugh Thomson (1860-1920) renowned illustrator, in pen and ink, of classic titles; he was born in Ireland where his skills as an illustrator were r...
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Winnie-the-Pooh.
MILNE, A.A.; SHEPARD, E.H. (illustrator).Original price £5,500.00 - Original price £5,500.00Original price £0.00£5,500.00£5,500.00 - £5,500.00Current price £5,500.00| /How lucky am I?. 'How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard?' A lovely copy of this perennial children's classic, decidedl...
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An Almanac of Twelve Sports.
NICHOLSON, William (illustrator); KIPLING, Rudyard.Original price £1,200.00 - Original price £1,200.00Original price £0.00£1,200.00£1,200.00 - £1,200.00Current price £1,200.00| /A wonderful example of this book, in an edition thought to run to two hundred & seventy-five copies.Nicholson had been working with Heinemann ...
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