Authors in Literature
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
FLEMING, Ian.Original price $1,102.00 - Original price $1,102.00Original price $0.00$1,102.00$1,102.00 - $1,102.00Current price $1,102.00| /The second title in the "Blofeld trilogy", preceded by Thunderball (1961) and concluding with You Only Live Twice (1964). In the novel Bond adopts...
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Thunderball.
FLEMING, Ian.Original price $972.00 - Original price $972.00Original price $0.00$972.00$972.00 - $972.00Current price $972.00| /The ninth James Bond book by Ian Fleming, also memorable as a film version with Sean Connery featuring a theme tune sung by Tom Jones.First editio...
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On the Beach.
SHUTE, Nevil.Original price $324.00 - Original price $324.00Original price $0.00$324.00$324.00 - $324.00Current price $324.00| /First edition of Shute's chilling dystopian novel, the basis for the 1959 film starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, and Anthony Perki...
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
STOPPARD, Tom.Original price $389.00 - Original price $389.00Original price $0.00$389.00$389.00 - $389.00Current price $389.00| /First edition of Tom Stoppard's first play, a development on the story of two of the minor characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet. The National Thea...
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The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck
POTTER, Beatrix.Original price $8,424.00 - Original price $8,424.00Original price $0.00$8,424.00$8,424.00 - $8,424.00Current price $8,424.00| /Inscribed and dated by the author. The inscription from Beatrix Potter reads; 'Beatrix Potter, Castle Cottage, Sawrey, Nov 22. 40'; the gift inscri...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
TWAIN, Mark.Original price $486.00 - Original price $486.00Original price $0.00$486.00$486.00 - $486.00Current price $486.00| /A sweet edition of Mark Twain's classic novel in red calf gilt by Bayntun, with colour-plate and in-text illustrations by Cyril Walter Hodges (190...
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The Swiss Family Robinson.
WYSS, Johann David.Original price $454.00 - Original price $454.00Original price $0.00$454.00$454.00 - $454.00Current price $454.00| /A sweet, illustrated edition of Johann David Wyss' classic novel about a Swiss family shipwrecked in the East Indies en-route to Port Jackson, Aus...
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Just So Stories
KIPLING, Rudyard.Original price $1,944.00 - Original price $1,944.00Original price $0.00$1,944.00$1,944.00 - $1,944.00Current price $1,944.00| /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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Troubles.
FARRELL, J.G.Original price $1,264.00 - Original price $1,264.00Original price $0.00$1,264.00$1,264.00 - $1,264.00Current price $1,264.00| /Winner of the 'lost' Booker Prize. The winner of the so-called 'lost' Booker Prize, a special edition of the Booker Prize awarded after a decisive ...
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
ROWLING, J.K.Original price $389.00 - Original price $389.00Original price $0.00$389.00$389.00 - $389.00Current price $389.00| /This is second title in the Harry Potter series, confirming the author's standing alongside J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. It was nominated for th...
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
WOLFE, Tom.Original price $486.00 - Original price $486.00Original price $0.00$486.00$486.00 - $486.00Current price $486.00| /First edition of this remarkable record of the 1960s 'tune in, turn on, drop out' culture that defined the decade for many, preceding the UK editi...
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The Importance of Being Earnest.
WILDE, Oscar.Original price $4,536.00 - Original price $4,536.00Original price $0.00$4,536.00$4,536.00 - $4,536.00Current price $4,536.00| /One of 1000 copies. One of 1000 copies of Wilde's most celebrated play.First performed on 14th February 1895, The Importance of Being Earnest marke...
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An Ideal Husband.
WILDE, Oscar.Original price $22,678.00 - Original price $22,678.00Original price $0.00$22,678.00$22,678.00 - $22,678.00Current price $22,678.00| /One of 100 large paper copies - signed by the author. A masterpiece of intrigue, political corruption, blackmail and hypocrisy but also one of forg...
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A Small Town in Germany.
LE CARRÉ, John.Original price $843.00 - Original price $843.00Original price $0.00$843.00$843.00 - $843.00Current price $843.00| /Signed by the author. 'Only the Foreign Officer;, a junior diplomat remarks, 'could have sent a bull to catch a matador.' The bull is Alan Turner, ...
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The Spy Who Came in From the Cold.
LE CARRÉ, John.Original price $3,240.00 - Original price $3,240.00Original price $0.00$3,240.00$3,240.00 - $3,240.00Current price $3,240.00| /With an atmosphere of chilly hell. 'Superbly constructed with an atmosphere of chilly hell' (J.B. Priestley). Le Carré's Cold War spy thriller sees...
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Vet in a Spin.
HERRIOT, James.Original price $422.00 - Original price $422.00Original price $0.00$422.00$422.00 - $422.00Current price $422.00| /Signed. It was his wife, Joan, who finally pushed James Herriot to pursue his dream of being an author. Despite an abundance of enthusiasm, his ini...
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The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1918.
QUILLER-COUCH, Sir Arthur (editor).Original price $227.00 - Original price $227.00Original price $0.00$227.00$227.00 - $227.00Current price $227.00| /A handsome copy of this important anthology of English poetry spanning 650 years, attractively bound in tan calf gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe...
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The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson.
STEVENSON, Robert Louis.Original price $972.00 - Original price $972.00Original price $0.00$972.00$972.00 - $972.00Current price $972.00| /The complete works of Robert Louis Stevenson in 35 volumes, including his best known novels Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr H...
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Responses.
HEANEY, Seamus (Contributor).Original price $59.00 - Original price $59.00Original price $0.00$59.00$59.00 - $59.00Current price $59.00| /First edition, with contributions from Seamus Heaney ('Servant Boy'), D. J. Enright, Jon Silkin, among others.First edition, unnumbered issue; 4to...
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Tales from Shakespeare.
LAMB, Charles and Mary.Original price $162.00 - Original price $162.00Original price $0.00$162.00$162.00 - $162.00Current price $162.00| /A sweet copy of Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare, retelling twenty of the Bard's plays as short narrative stories intended for young...
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Hampstead Heath.
HAMPSTEAD SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY.Original price $195.00 - Original price $195.00Original price $0.00$195.00$195.00 - $195.00Current price $195.00| /The first edition of this interesting survey of Hampstead Heath, taking account of the topography, geology, plant and animal life of London's wild...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton.
MILTON, John.Original price $227.00 - Original price $227.00Original price $0.00$227.00$227.00 - $227.00Current price $227.00| /A sweet copy of Milton's collected poetry in three volumes, comprising his major blank verse works Paradise Lost and Paradise Regain'd, his closet...
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