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The Grass is Singing.
LESSING, Doris.Original price £475.00 - Original price £475.00Original price £0.00£475.00£475.00 - £475.00Current price £475.00| /Signed first edition of the author's first novel. An exceptional copy of the author's first novel, signed by her in black ink on the title page.Fir...
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Swanson on Swanson.
SWANSON, Gloria.Original price £550.00 - Original price £550.00Original price £0.00£550.00£550.00 - £550.00Current price £550.00| /Multiple signatories. First edition of Swanson's memoirs, signed by the author and seven other celebrities who attended a Foyles Literary Luncheon ...
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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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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 edition, 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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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.
[DE QUINCEY, Thomas].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| /An excellent copy in the original boards of 'the most famous account of drug addiction in English literature' (Norman).First published in the Lond...
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The Method of Ethics.
SIDGWICK, Henry.Original price £975.00 - Original price £975.00Original price £0.00£975.00£975.00 - £975.00Current price £975.00| /One of the few indisputable classics in the history of moral philosophy'. The first edition of this systematic study of ethics often considered the...
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The Third Policeman.
O'BRIEN, Flann.Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £0.00£500.00£500.00 - £500.00Current price £500.00| /One of The Master's masterpieces. A mystery story concerning the disappearance of a policeman and the strange presence of strange bicycles....Firs...
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I am Lazarus.
KAVAN, Anna.Original price £875.00 - Original price £875.00Original price £0.00£875.00£875.00 - £875.00Current price £875.00| /First impression of the true first edition, produced to wartime economy standards, in its original thin boards. Scarce in its original fragile war...
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Loot.
ORTON, Joe.Original price £325.00 - Original price £325.00Original price £0.00£325.00£325.00 - £325.00Current price £325.00| /Orton's second staged play, widely regarded as a comic masterpiece. Winner of the 1966 Evening Standard Drama Award for best play.First edition, c...
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Stories and Plays.
O'BRIEN, Flann.Original price £175.00 - Original price £175.00Original price £0.00£175.00£175.00 - £175.00Current price £175.00| /A collection of stories in which the writer reveals himself in all his incarnations - as playwright, as novelist, as short-story writer and critic...
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The Poor Mouth (An Béal Bocht).
[O'BRIEN, Flann] GOPALEEN, Miles na (pseud.); POWER, PATRICK C. (translator); STEADMAN, Ralph (illustrator).Original price £175.00 - Original price £175.00Original price £0.00£175.00£175.00 - £175.00Current price £175.00| /First English-language edition of Flann O'Brien's comic masterpiece, first published in the original Gaelic and Anglo-Irish dialect in 1941.First ...
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The Case of the Perjured Parrot.
GARDNER, Erle Stanley.Original price £600.00 - Original price £600.00Original price £0.00£600.00£600.00 - £600.00Current price £600.00| /First edition of the author's fourteenth title to feature the character of Perry Mason.First edition, first impression; 8vo; very slight age-tonin...
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Dictionnaire Abrégé du Surréalisme.
[SURREALISM].Original price £525.00 - Original price £525.00Original price £0.00£525.00£525.00 - £525.00Current price £525.00| /Containing valuable information about the poets and visual artists of the movement, the work was compiled to accompany the 1938 Exposition Interna...
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Le Nouveau Candide.
PENROSE, Valentine.Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00| /Superb association copy - inscribed to André Breton. A superb association copy, inscribed by the author to André Breton on the half-title, 'à André...
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