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[The Rabbit Quartet].
UPDIKE, John.Original price $3,236.00 - Original price $3,236.00Original price $0.00$3,236.00$3,236.00 - $3,236.00Current price $3,236.00| /Signed by Updike on each title page. A great set of this classic of modern American literature, uniformly signed by John Updike to the title-page o...
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The Tenth Man.
GREENE, Graham.Original price $4,530.00 - Original price $4,530.00Original price $0.00$4,530.00$4,530.00 - $4,530.00Current price $4,530.00| /Author's corrected copy with autograph revisions. The revisions include the changing of 'Gare de l'Ouest' to 'Gare Montparnasse' on several pages; ...
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The Red Thumb Mark.
FREEMAN, R. Austin.Original price $1,618.00 - Original price $1,618.00Original price $1,618.00$1,618.00$1,618.00 - $1,618.00Current price $1,618.00| /Haycraft queen cornerstone. A Haycraft Queen Cornerstone, The Red Thumb Mark was the first of many Dr Thorndyke novels by R. Austin Freeman, a medi...
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Passions Spin the Plot.
FISHER, Vardis.Original price $486.00 - Original price $486.00Original price $0.00$486.00$486.00 - $486.00Current price $486.00| /Signed. A stunning signed copy of this the second book in Vardis Fisher's 'Vridar Hunter' tetralogy, a series of semi-autobiographical novels set l...
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The Red King Dreams
WHISTLER, Rex (artist); CRUMP, C.G.Original price $842.00 - Original price $842.00Original price $0.00$842.00$842.00 - $842.00Current price $842.00| /Rex whistler dust jacket. A delightful copy of this first edition, in the splendid Rex Whistler dust-jacket. Rex Whistler (1905-1944) was one of t...
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Safari with Fear.
YORK, Jeremy [pseud. CREASEY, John].Original price $550.00 - Original price $550.00Original price $0.00$550.00$550.00 - $550.00Current price $550.00| /A strikingly dust-jacketed thriller by master of the genre John Creasey, here writing under his pseudonym of Jeremy York. The book has been heavil...
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The Midnight Folk.
MASEFIELD, John.Original price $356.00 - Original price $356.00Original price $0.00$356.00$356.00 - $356.00Current price $356.00| /A very good first edition copy of this modern children's classic by the poet & author John Masefield, rare in the dust-jacket and in such cond...
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Frozen Hearts.
APPLETON, G[eorge] Webb.Original price $1,748.00 - Original price $1,748.00Original price $0.00$1,748.00$1,748.00 - $1,748.00Current price $1,748.00| /Rare three-decker. An very good three-decker first edition of this Hubin-listed Victorian novel. This work would probably be best classified as a ...
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The Mystery of a Hansom Cab.
HUME, Fergus W.Original price $1,100.00 - Original price $1,100.00Original price $0.00$1,100.00$1,100.00 - $1,100.00Current price $1,100.00| /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 $971.00 - Original price $971.00Original price $0.00$971.00$971.00 - $971.00Current price $971.00| /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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The Piccadilly Puzzle.
HUME, Fergus W.Original price $712.00 - Original price $712.00Original price $0.00$712.00$712.00 - $712.00Current price $712.00| /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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Thrilling Stories of the Railway.
WHITECHURCH, Victor L.Original price $11,000.00 - Original price $11,000.00Original price $0.00$11,000.00$11,000.00 - $11,000.00Current price $11,000.00| /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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The Experiences of a Lady Detective.
[HAYWARD, William Stephens (attributed to)].Original price $4,206.00 - Original price $4,206.00Original price $0.00$4,206.00$4,206.00 - $4,206.00Current price $4,206.00| /One of the very first female detectives in fiction. Though originally believed to have first been published in 1861, experts in the genre have dete...
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My Name is Love.
MACLAREN-ROSS, Julian.Original price $874.00 - Original price $874.00Original price $0.00$874.00$874.00 - $874.00Current price $874.00| /The authors last novel, written whilst living in abject poverty. In part autobiographical, the narrative details the amorous pursuit of the beauti...
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The Black Book.
DURRELL, Lawrence.Original price $1,100.00 - Original price $1,100.00Original price $0.00$1,100.00$1,100.00 - $1,100.00Current price $1,100.00| /A very good example of the true first edition of The Black Book by Lawrence Durrell, published as the first volume in The Villa Seurat Series crea...
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Bottom Dogs.
DAHLBERG, Edward.Original price $233.00 - Original price $233.00Original price $0.00$233.00$233.00 - $233.00Current price $233.00| /An unusually good copy of Dahlberg's first book, published first in London in both a limited and trade edition; recounting the author's childhood ...
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Waterfront.
BROPHY, John.Original price $874.00 - Original price $874.00Original price $0.00$874.00$874.00 - $874.00Current price $874.00| /An uncommon book in dust jacket, strikingly similar to, and coeval with, Malcolm Lowry's first book Ultramarine (1933). Waterfront was the source ...
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The Quests of Paul Beck.
BODKIN, M. McDonnell.Original price $486.00 - Original price $486.00Original price $0.00$486.00$486.00 - $486.00Current price $486.00| /The second collection of Bodkin's short stories to feature the understated genius of late Victorian & early Edwardian detection, Paul Beck; an...
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The Flood.
RANKIN, Ian.Original price $874.00 - Original price $874.00Original price $0.00$874.00$874.00 - $874.00Current price $874.00| /The elusive hardback first edition of Ian Rankin's first book, preceding his Inspector Rebus stories. Rankin utilised a few different motifs in hi...
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The Sheltering Sky.
BOWLES, Paul.Original price $2,750.00 - Original price $2,750.00Original price $0.00$2,750.00$2,750.00 - $2,750.00Current price $2,750.00| /First edition of Bowles' first novel. The first edition of the author's first novel, a landmark title in modern literature, and in many ways a prog...
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The Story of a Puppet or The Adventures of Pinocchio.
COLLODI, Carlo [pseud. LORENZINI, Carlo].Original price $3,624.00 - Original price $3,624.00Original price $0.00$3,624.00$3,624.00 - $3,624.00Current price $3,624.00| /Rare first UK edition of Pinocchio. The rare first UK edition of Collodi's classic for children, originally published in book-form in Florence, Ita...
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A Devil in Downing Street.
LADLINE, Robert [GAUNT, Charles Edward].Original price $1,489.00 - Original price $1,489.00Original price $0.00$1,489.00$1,489.00 - $1,489.00Current price $1,489.00| /Signed presentation copy. A stunning first edition of the very scarce seventh novel by this elusive author, centred around the then topical politic...
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Mike.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.Original price $1,942.00 - Original price $1,942.00Original price $0.00$1,942.00$1,942.00 - $1,942.00Current price $1,942.00| /A superior example of this very rare early first edition novel by P.G. Wodehouse, bringing together two stories (Jackson Junior, subsequently know...
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