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A story to read or tell...
SCHOLASTIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS; FICKLING, David (editor).Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00A rare complete set of this wonderful series of books for children, comprising fairy & folk tales retold by notable authors of the time and fe...
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Salammbô.
FLAUBERT, Gustave.Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00Author's Presentation Copy. Inscribed by the author to his fellow novelist and friend, Charles Hamilton Aidé. Described by his friend Henry James a...
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The Lost Ones.
BECKETT, Samuel.Original price £1,150.00 - Original price £1,150.00Original price £0.00£1,150.00£1,150.00 - £1,150.00Current price £1,150.00One of 100 copies - signed by the author. First edition in English, number 15 of 100 specially bound copies signed by the author; 8vo; publisher's ...
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A Passionate Pilgrim
JAMES, Henry.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £0.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00A very good first edition example of the first book by Henry James. One of approximately 1500 copies with the correct imprint 'J.R.Osgood & Co...
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Lyonnesse.
PLATH, Sylvia.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00One of only ten copies. '...the poems in this volume are hitherto uncollected. A few of them will be included in Winter Trees, a collection of Poem...
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A Visit to Morin.
GREENE, Graham.Original price £1,450.00 - Original price £1,450.00Original price £0.00£1,450.00£1,450.00 - £1,450.00Current price £1,450.00Presentation copy to ralph richardson. The inscription reads: 'For Ralph & Mur, with love from Graham. Christmas 1960.' Ralph Richardson's book...
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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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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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Oeuvres complètes de Molière,
MOLIÈRE.Original price £9,500.00 - Original price £9,500.00Original price £9,500.00£9,500.00£9,500.00 - £9,500.00Current price £9,500.00Extra-illustrated copy with fine provenance. This beautiful set has been bound by the art deco binder Henri Noulhac (1866-1931). Noulhac set up his...
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Kim.
SCHMIED, François-Louis (illustrator); KIPLING, Rudyard.Original price £9,500.00 - Original price £9,500.00Original price £9,500.00£9,500.00£9,500.00 - £9,500.00Current price £9,500.00One of 20 hors commerce copies . with 15 supplementary plates and two extra suites of all the illustrations. Set in the period between the second a...
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Madame Bovary. Moeurs de province.
FLAUBERT, Gustave; HUARD, Charles; van ELSEN, Théodore; FARNETI, Carlo (illustrators).Original price £15,000.00 - Original price £15,000.00Original price £15,000.00£15,000.00£15,000.00 - £15,000.00Current price £15,000.00A unique copy with original watercolours. A unique example extra-illustrated by Charles Huard with two copper plates and numerous original drawings...
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In Our Time.
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.Original price £15,750.00 - Original price £15,750.00Original price £15,750.00£15,750.00£15,750.00 - £15,750.00Current price £15,750.00Hemingway's American debut. The collection of short stories and vignettes that marked Ernest Hemingway's American debut and brought him fame.When I...
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The Body in the Blue Room.
WILLIAMS, Sidney.Original price £580.00 - Original price £580.00Original price £580.00£580.00£580.00 - £580.00Current price £580.00Locked room mystery. Sidney Williams' The Body in the Blue Room is a classic example of golden age detective fiction, with a locked room mystery at...
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England Made Me.
GREENE, Graham; YOUNGMAN CARTER, [Philip] (artist).Original price £16,500.00 - Original price £16,500.00Original price £16,500.00£16,500.00£16,500.00 - £16,500.00Current price £16,500.00In the iconic dust-jacket. A superior first edition of an early Graham Greene, in an iconic dust-jacket designed by one of the leading jacket artis...
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Memoirs Of Joseph Grimaldi.
DICKENS, Charles.Original price £2,200.00 - Original price £2,200.00Original price £2,200.00£2,200.00£2,200.00 - £2,200.00Current price £2,200.00From the library of Eric Quayle. The first issue Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi by Charles Dickens is identifiable via the appearance of the plate at p...
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.
DAHL, Roald; SCHINDELMAN, Joseph (illustrator).Original price £480.00 - Original price £480.00Original price £0.00£480.00£480.00 - £480.00Current price £480.00The continuing adventures of the Bucket family and the splendid Willy Wonka, catapulted into the heavens via Wonka's special glass elevator, where...
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I Capture the Castle.
SMITH, Dodie.Original price £1,100.00 - Original price £1,100.00Original price £1,100.00£1,100.00£1,100.00 - £1,100.00Current price £1,100.00I write this sitting in the kitchen sink'. First edition. 8vo; top edge stained red. Publisher's blue cloth, spine and upper board lettered and dec...
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[Essay on Man]. Ensaio sobre o homem...
POPE, Alexander.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £6,500.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00A beautiful presentation set in deluxe velvet binding with Portuguese royal coat-of-arms gilt-stamped to the covers. This edition of Pope's famou...
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Imagination Dead Imagine.
BECKETT, Samuel.Original price £1,300.00 - Original price £1,300.00Original price £1,300.00£1,300.00£1,300.00 - £1,300.00Current price £1,300.00One of 100 copies - signed by the author. A short prose text, first published in French in Les Lettres Nouvelles the same year, it evolved from the...
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The Island of Sheep.
BUCHAN, John.Original price £600.00 - Original price £600.00Original price £600.00£600.00£600.00 - £600.00Current price £600.00A lovely copy with the rare original wrap-around, simply stating "The New 'Hannay' Adventure". This is the final story featuring John Buchan's mos...
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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 £5,850.00George 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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