A Summer Miscellany
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A Treatise on the Games of Chess;
SARRATT, J. H.Original price $1,918.00 - Original price $1,918.00Original price $0.00$1,918.00$1,918.00 - $1,918.00Current price $1,918.00| /First edition. A handsome two-volume set of the first edition of Jacob Henry Sarratt's (d.1819) first chess manual, A Treatise on the Games of Ches...
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A History of Eton College (1440-1898).
LYTE, Sir H.C. Maxwell.Original price $320.00 - Original price $320.00Original price $0.00$320.00$320.00 - $320.00Current price $320.00| /Gift inscription for Sir James Horlick. A handsome presentation copy of Lyte's (1848-1940) popular history of Eton College. Inscribed to 'James Noc...
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
SMITH, Adam.Original price $268,404.00 - Original price $268,404.00Original price $0.00$268,404.00$268,404.00 - $268,404.00Current price $268,404.00| /First and greatest classic of modern economic thought. The first edition of the 'first and greatest classic of modern economic thought' (PMM). Smit...
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Miscellanies in Prose and and Verse;
CHATTERTON, Thomas.Original price $192.00 - Original price $192.00Original price $0.00$192.00$192.00 - $192.00Current price $192.00| /The first edition of the poet Thomas Chatterton's (1752-1770) supposedly non-Rowleyan works. The result, edited by John Broughton, was a confusing...
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Out of Africa.
BLIXEN, Karen.Original price $9,000.00 - Original price $9,000.00Original price $0.00$9,000.00$9,000.00 - $9,000.00Current price $9,000.00| /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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Saved.
BOND, Edward.Original price $863.00 - Original price $863.00Original price $0.00$863.00$863.00 - $863.00Current price $863.00| /First hardback edition - with autograph material. First hardback edition of Saved, a play focussing on the cultural poverty and frustration of a ge...
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The Naked Lunch.
BURROUGHS, William.Original price $3,515.00 - Original price $3,515.00Original price $0.00$3,515.00$3,515.00 - $3,515.00Current price $3,515.00| /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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Sonnets for Caresse.
CROSBY, Harry.Original price $2,876.00 - Original price $2,876.00Original price $0.00$2,876.00$2,876.00 - $2,876.00Current price $2,876.00| /One of 100 copies - inscribed by the poet. Inscribed by the poet in green ink to the first blank: '"Il erre, éveillant les échos, / et ses pas, son...
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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 $23,500.00 - Original price $23,500.00Original price $0.00$23,500.00$23,500.00 - $23,500.00Current price $23,500.00| /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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A Burnt-Out Case.
GREENE, Graham.Original price $4,154.00 - Original price $4,154.00Original price $0.00$4,154.00$4,154.00 - $4,154.00Current price $4,154.00| /Presentation copy. The first English language edition, preceded by a translation in Swedish published by P.A. Norstedt & Soners in the previous...
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Snowblind. A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade.
HIRST, Damien; SABBAG, Robert.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| /Special limited edition - signed by Damien Hirst. Special limited edition of this cult novel about Zachary Swan's adventures in the narcotics trade...
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The Man Without Qualities:
MUSIL, Robert.Original price $1,918.00 - Original price $1,918.00Original price $0.00$1,918.00$1,918.00 - $1,918.00Current price $1,918.00| /One of the most prestigious novels of the 20th century'. A very pleasing near-fine set of the Austrian writer's masterpiece. The Man Without Qualit...
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Alfie.
NAUGHTON, Bill.Original price $1,918.00 - Original price $1,918.00Original price $0.00$1,918.00$1,918.00 - $1,918.00Current price $1,918.00| /Presentation copy. Warmly inscribed by the author to the actor Alfred Marks: 'To Alfred Marks with affection and respect from Bill Naughton - and w...
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Down and Out in Paris and London.
ORWELL, George.Original price $12,143.00 - Original price $12,143.00Original price $0.00$12,143.00$12,143.00 - $12,143.00Current price $12,143.00| /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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Inside the Whale.
ORWELL, George.Original price $9,000.00 - Original price $9,000.00Original price $0.00$9,000.00$9,000.00 - $9,000.00Current price $9,000.00| /First edition of this uncommon collection of Orwell essays, consisting of 3 lengthy pieces: 'Charles Dickens', 'Boys' Weeklies' and 'Inside the Wh...
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Animal Farm.
ORWELL, George.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| /The first edition of Orwell's socio-political classic, intended by the author to serve as a satirical take on the events that led up to the Russia...
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Titus Groan [and] Gormenghast [and] Titus Alone.
PEAKE, Mervyn.Original price $2,650.00 - Original price $2,650.00Original price $0.00$2,650.00$2,650.00 - $2,650.00Current price $2,650.00| /The Gormenghast trilogy - first editions. A set of three first editions from Mervyn Peake's (1911-1968) Gormenghast trilogy, comprising Titus Groan...
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Ninety-Two Days.
WAUGH, Evelyn.Original price $4,154.00 - Original price $4,154.00Original price $0.00$4,154.00$4,154.00 - $4,154.00Current price $4,154.00| /Presentation copy to Juliet Duff. An account of Waugh's travels in British Guiana and Brazil. Inscribed by the author to Lady Juliet Duff (1881-196...
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Summer Moonshine.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.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| /First issue dust-jacket. An impressive example of the first U.K. printing of Summer Moonshine in the correct first issue dust-jacket. Former big-ga...
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