Authors in Literature
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I Let Him Go.
BROPHY, John.Original price $162.00 - Original price $162.00Original price $0.00$162.00$162.00 - $162.00Current price $162.00| /First edition, signed presentation copy to the author's mother; 8vo (198 x 139 mm); light spotting at extremities; publisher's cloth, dust-jacket,...
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Margery of Quether and Other Stories.
BARING-GOULD, Sabine.Original price $1,131.00 - Original price $1,131.00Original price $0.00$1,131.00$1,131.00 - $1,131.00Current price $1,131.00| /A rare example of an early vampire story. The eponymous Margery of Quether is discovered by a bell-ringer, George Rosedhu on Christmas Eve. She ex...
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The Blue Lamp.
WILLIS, Ted.Original price $123.00 - Original price $123.00Original price $0.00$123.00$123.00 - $123.00Current price $123.00| /Dixon of dock green. A compelling copy of this novelisation for the 1950 film The Blue Lamp, which introduced Jack Warner as PC Dixon who would bec...
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The Sweet Shop Owner.
SWIFT, Graham.Original price $485.00 - Original price $485.00Original price $0.00$485.00$485.00 - $485.00Current price $485.00| /The first edition of the author's first novel, uncommon signed and especially in such condition (the dust-jacket is notorious for fading to the sp...
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Remains of Elmet.
HUGHES, Ted; GODWIN, Fay (photographer).Original price $323.00 - Original price $323.00Original price $0.00$323.00$323.00 - $323.00Current price $323.00| /A series of poems inspired by the photographs taken by Fay Godwin, preceded by the Rainbow Press limited edition, which only had four of the sixty...
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The Mystery of a Hansom Cab.
HUME, Fergus W.Original price $1,099.00 - Original price $1,099.00Original price $0.00$1,099.00$1,099.00 - $1,099.00Current price $1,099.00| /With autograph letter. An attractive early issue of this classic of Victorian detective fiction, further enhanced by a letter from the author to a ...
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Seneca's Oedipus.
HUGHES, Ted (adapted by).Original price $969.00 - Original price $969.00Original price $0.00$969.00$969.00 - $969.00Current price $969.00| /A very good first edition example of this translation of Seneca's Oedipus by Ted Hughes, presented at the time of publication to his friends John ...
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Show Business is No Business.
HIRSCHFELD, Al.Original price $194.00 - Original price $194.00Original price $0.00$194.00$194.00 - $194.00Current price $194.00| /Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003), American caricaturist best known for his black and white portraits of celebrities and Broadway stars.First edition, fir...
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The Piccadilly Puzzle.
HUME, Fergus W.Original price $711.00 - Original price $711.00Original price $0.00$711.00$711.00 - $711.00Current price $711.00| /Inscribed from the author "To Miss C Crommelin with the kindest regards of The Author Fergus Hume 28. 6. 89." Miss C. Crommelin is presumably one ...
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The Man with a Secret.
HUME, Fergus W.Original price $1,938.00 - Original price $1,938.00Original price $0.00$1,938.00$1,938.00 - $1,938.00Current price $1,938.00| /An uncommon first edition three-decker mystery novel by Hume, author of The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886), in very good condition.First edition; ...
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Miss Cayley's Adventures.
ALLEN, Grant.Original price $227.00 - Original price $227.00Original price $0.00$227.00$227.00 - $227.00Current price $227.00| /The first US edition of these thrilling mini adventures starring one of the first female detectives. After working on the Gazetteer of India in th...
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Hilda Wade.
ALLEN, Grant.Original price $414.00 - Original price $414.00Original price $0.00$414.00$414.00 - $414.00Current price $414.00| /After working on the Gazetteer of India in the early 1880s, Grant Allen turned his attention to fiction, publishing more than thirty books between...
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An African Millionaire.
ALLEN, Grant.Original price $840.00 - Original price $840.00Original price $0.00$840.00$840.00 - $840.00Current price $840.00| /The most sought-after of the various novels by prolific writer Grant Allen: 'More successful were the detective stories, written later in his life...
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Thrilling Stories of the Railway.
WHITECHURCH, Victor L.Original price $10,982.00 - Original price $10,982.00Original price $0.00$10,982.00$10,982.00 - $10,982.00Current price $10,982.00| /The first railway detective stories. An extremely rare early detective fiction title, with only one previous auction record we could find, describi...
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In Minden Town.
CURTOIS, M.A.Original price $485.00 - Original price $485.00Original price $0.00$485.00$485.00 - $485.00Current price $485.00| /A very good first edition of this mystery title.First edition, first impression; 8vo; browning to free endpapers; publisher's brown cloth lettered...
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Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor.
PEAKE, Mervyn.Original price $356.00 - Original price $356.00Original price $0.00$356.00$356.00 - $356.00Current price $356.00| /The 1939 Country Life printing of this book (the first edition), was almost completely lost due to 'enemy action' during the war and is now an alm...
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Heidi kann brauchen,
SPYRI, Johanna.Original price $1,938.00 - Original price $1,938.00Original price $0.00$1,938.00$1,938.00 - $1,938.00Current price $1,938.00| /The scarce first edition of the continuation to Spyri's classic Heidi (1880), the tale of a young Swiss girl who lives in the Alps with her grandf...
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The Soldier's Art.
POWELL, Anthony.Original price $162.00 - Original price $162.00Original price $0.00$162.00$162.00 - $162.00Current price $162.00| /The eighth title in Powell's twelve novel masterpiece A Dance to the Music of Time. The Soldier's Art follows the central character of Nicholas Je...
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