Authors in Literature
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Cranford.
GASKELL, Elizabeth; BROCK, C. E. (illustrator).Original price $159.00 - Original price $159.00Original price $0.00$159.00$159.00 - $159.00Current price $159.00| /A charming edition, illustrated by the well-known illustrator Charles Edmund Brock (1870-1938).First edition thus, third printing; 8vo (200 x 130 ...
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The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.
KHAYYÁM, Omar; POGANY, Willy (illustrator).Original price $1,451.00 - Original price $1,451.00Original price $0.00$1,451.00$1,451.00 - $1,451.00Current price $1,451.00| /A beautiful copy of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám with 16 colour-plate illustrations after the Hungarian artist Willy Pogany (1882-1955).This editi...
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The Works of William Shakespeare.
SHAKESPEARE, William.Original price $1,055.00 - Original price $1,055.00Original price $0.00$1,055.00$1,055.00 - $1,055.00Current price $1,055.00| /A charming set of Shakespeare's complete works, comprising his 36 canonical plays, together with the late romance Pericles, Prince of Tyre, his so...
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone.
ROWLING, J.K.Original price $15,821.00 - Original price $15,821.00Original price $0.00$15,821.00$15,821.00 - $15,821.00Current price $15,821.00| /A near-fine example of the correct first UK Bloomsbury paperback edition. This copy has all the important issue points, with the Wendy Cooling rev...
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Diamonds are Forever.
FLEMING, Ian.Original price $3,296.00 - Original price $3,296.00Original price $0.00$3,296.00$3,296.00 - $3,296.00Current price $3,296.00| /The first edition, first impression of the fourth novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series.Fleming was inspired by a 1954 Sunday Times story on th...
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The Holy Bible.
MACKLIN, Thomas (editor).Original price $9,888.00 - Original price $9,888.00Original price $0.00$9,888.00$9,888.00 - $9,888.00Current price $9,888.00| /The grandest English gallery Bible. Macklin's sumptuous edition of the King James Bible 'Embellished with engravings, from pictures and designed by...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare.
SHAKESPEARE, William.Original price $363.00 - Original price $363.00Original price $0.00$363.00$363.00 - $363.00Current price $363.00| /A very handsome copy in contemporary binding.Thick 4to (245 x 180 mm);illustrated with engraved full-page plates, after various artists, sporadic ...
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Winnie-The-Pooh.
MILNE, A.A.; SHEPARD, E.H. (illustrator).Original price $1,846.00 - Original price $1,846.00Original price $0.00$1,846.00$1,846.00 - $1,846.00Current price $1,846.00| /The publisher's deluxe bindings came in three colours with green being the most favoured due its similarity to the green cloth of the regular trad...
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The Pursuit of Love.
MITFORD, Nancy.Original price $627.00 - Original price $627.00Original price $0.00$627.00$627.00 - $627.00Current price $627.00| /Nancy Mitford's most successful novel dedicated to Gaston Palewski, with whom she had fallen madly in love, and for whom she moved to Paris at the...
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Moonchild.
CROWLEY, Aleister.Original price $4,615.00 - Original price $4,615.00Original price $0.00$4,615.00$4,615.00 - $4,615.00Current price $4,615.00| /Moonchild was the second of Crowley's interwar novels - following Diary of a Drug Fiend in 1922. It is a wild fantastical roman-à-clef and inciden...
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Just So Stories
KIPLING, Rudyard.Original price $989.00 - Original price $989.00Original price $0.00$989.00$989.00 - $989.00Current price $989.00| /Kipling's famous stories include: How the Whale Got His Throat, How the Camel Got His Hump, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, How the Leopard Got H...
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Time Was Away. A Notebook in Corsica.
MINTON, John (illustrator); ROSS, Alan.Original price $2,637.00 - Original price $2,637.00Original price $0.00$2,637.00$2,637.00 - $2,637.00Current price $2,637.00| /Signed by the illustrator. Signed and dated (1955) by the artist on the title page. Minton was a parsimonious inscriber of books; we have seen only...
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A Clockwork Orange.
BURGESS, Anthony.Original price $1,154.00 - Original price $1,154.00Original price $0.00$1,154.00$1,154.00 - $1,154.00Current price $1,154.00| /Signed by the author. Second Penguin printing of Burgess' cult classic, with the now iconic cover design by David Pelham. Signed by the author.Firs...
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'Pears' Edition of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books.
DICKENS, Charles.Original price $627.00 - Original price $627.00Original price $0.00$627.00$627.00 - $627.00Current price $627.00| /A complete set of this delightful edition of Dickens' Christmas classics, published by the world renowned soap manufacturer.First editions thus; 5...
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The Drowned World.
BALLARD, J.G.Original price $1,813.00 - Original price $1,813.00Original price $0.00$1,813.00$1,813.00 - $1,813.00Current price $1,813.00| /Key climate change novel. A truly excellent first hardback edition of this key climate change novel, as with his 1966 novel The Crystal World antic...
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The Go-Between.
HARTLEY, L.P.Original price $2,967.00 - Original price $2,967.00Original price $0.00$2,967.00$2,967.00 - $2,967.00Current price $2,967.00| /Presentation copy. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in blue ink on the title page: 'For Leon Drucker, with all my good wishes, Leslie Har...
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Mansfield Park.
AUSTEN, Jane.Original price $86.00 - Original price $86.00Original price $0.00$86.00$86.00 - $86.00Current price $86.00| /8vo (185 x 120 mm); frontispiece illustration of the author, internally fine; publisher's maroon leatherette, gilt lettering to spine, top edge gi...
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Sense and Sensibility.
AUSTEN, Jane.Original price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $0.00$99.00$99.00 - $99.00Current price $99.00| /Austen's debut novel and one of her several masterpieces, it tells the story of Marianne and Elinor Dashwood and their parallel experience of love...
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The Works of William Shakespeare.
SHAKESPEARE, William.Original price $1,253.00 - Original price $1,253.00Original price $0.00$1,253.00$1,253.00 - $1,253.00Current price $1,253.00| /A very handsomely bound 6 volume set of the Bard's works, including the poems and sonnets.6 vols, large 8vo (220 x 155 mm); engraved frontispiece ...
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The Good Citizen's Alphabet.
RUSSELL, Bertrand.Original price $3,626.00 - Original price $3,626.00Original price $0.00$3,626.00$3,626.00 - $3,626.00Current price $3,626.00| /Signed limited edition. A superb copy of the scarce limited edition of Russell's witty guide to the alphabet for 'immature minds', one of only 100 ...
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.
DAHL, Roald; SCHINDELMAN, Joseph (illustrator).Original price $3,296.00 - Original price $3,296.00Original price $0.00$3,296.00$3,296.00 - $3,296.00Current price $3,296.00| /Signed by author. A near-fine, signed, first edition of the continued adventures of Charlie Bucket and his family, in the company of mad confection...
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The Invisible Man.
WELLS, H.G.Original price $2,901.00 - Original price $2,901.00Original price $0.00$2,901.00$2,901.00 - $2,901.00Current price $2,901.00| /Rare inscribed copy. Probably the most famous of H.G. Wells' 'scientific romances', in which a scientist finds a way of turning himself invisible w...
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Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes.
POTTER, Beatrix.Original price $3,956.00 - Original price $3,956.00Original price $0.00$3,956.00$3,956.00 - $3,956.00Current price $3,956.00| /In the original glassine dust jacket. A very good copy in the rare dust-jacket.First edition, first printing (with the correct front and rear endpa...
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