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Tender is the Night.
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.Original price $46,815.00 - Original price $46,815.00Original price$46,815.00$46,815.00 - $46,815.00Current price $46,815.00| /Fitzgerald worked for six years on his most accomplished and ambitious novel. Its complex structure and delayed publication met with little critic...
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A Single Man.
ISHERWOOD, Christopher.Original price $1,093.00 - Original price $1,093.00Original price$1,093.00$1,093.00 - $1,093.00Current price $1,093.00| /A near-fine, limited edition of which, purportedly, only about half the limitation was actually printed. The novel was more recently adapted for ...
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War with the Newts.
ČAPEK, Karel.Original price $4,058.00 - Original price $4,058.00Original price$4,058.00$4,058.00 - $4,058.00Current price $4,058.00| /Rare first edition in English of Čapek's classic science fiction novel, which extensively satirises contemporary European politics, including colo...
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The Games Were Coming.
ANTHONY, Michael.Original price $625.00 - Original price $625.00Original price$625.00$625.00 - $625.00Current price $625.00| /Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in blue ink to the front free endpaper: 'To John La Rose / with gratitude and admiration / Michael Anth...
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The London Aphrodite.
LINDSAY, Jack & STEPHENSEN P.R. (editors).Original price $469.00 - Original price $469.00Original price$469.00$469.00 - $469.00Current price $469.00| /'A deliberately outrageous and iconoclastic "little magazine," whose title was intended to challenge The London Mercury. Like most little magazine...
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Midnight's Children.
RUSHDIE, Salman.Original price $2,185.00 - Original price $2,185.00Original price$2,185.00$2,185.00 - $2,185.00Current price $2,185.00| /'An extraordinary novel. One of the most important to come out of the English-speaking world in this generation.' (Robert Towers, The New York Tim...
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Songs from the Classics.
GRINDROD, Charles F.; SPARE, Austin Osman (illustrator).Original price $313.00 - Original price $313.00Original price$313.00$313.00 - $313.00Current price $313.00| /The second series of Grindrod's Songs from the Classics, including 'The Riddle of Oedipus' and 'Arachne'. With superb illustrations by Austin Osma...
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The Shadow of the Raggedstone.
GRINDROD, Charles F.Original price $313.00 - Original price $313.00Original price$313.00$313.00 - $313.00Current price $313.00| /Originally published in 1887, this is the first edition with the much sought after cover art by Austin Osman Spare.First edition thus; 8vo; slight...
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Merry-Go-Down. A Gallery of Gorgeous Drunkards through the Ages.
[HESELTINE, Philip] NOOLAS, Rab (pseud.); COLLINS, Hal (illustrator).Original price $437.00 - Original price $437.00Original price$437.00$437.00 - $437.00Current price $437.00| /One of 600 copies. Limited to 600 numbered copies, of which this is number 133. With contributions from Genesis through Pliny, Plato, Seneca and Pe...
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Amorous Fiammetta.
BOCCACCIO, Giovanni; JOSLING, K.H. (editor); LEONE, M. (illustrator).Original price $281.00 - Original price $281.00Original price$281.00$281.00 - $281.00Current price $281.00| /One of 550 copies. A beautifully illustrated edition of Boccaccio's novel, reprinted from the original English translation of Bartholomew Young (15...
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A Tourist's Guide to Ireland.
O'FLAHERTY, Liam.Original price $344.00 - Original price $344.00Original price$344.00$344.00 - $344.00Current price $344.00| /Signed by the author. One of The Mandrake Booklets, signed by the author to the front free endpaper.In the manner of 18th-century satire, Liam O'Fl...
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The Well of Sleevelessness.
STEPHENSEN, P.R.; COLLINS, Hal (illustrator).Original price $281.00 - Original price $281.00Original price$281.00$281.00 - $281.00Current price $281.00| /Published by the short-lived Scholartis Press, a small private press in London, founded by Eric Partridge in 1927. The press closed in 1931, when ...
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A Tourist's Guide to Ireland.
O'FLAHERTY, Liam.Original price $157.00 - Original price $157.00Original price$157.00$157.00 - $157.00Current price $157.00| /The Mandrake Booklets. - No. I.In the manner of 18th-century satire, Liam O'Flaherty writes what purports to be a general guide to Ireland for for...
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Miss America: Altiora in the Sierra Nevada.
TURNER, W.J.Original price $344.00 - Original price $344.00Original price$344.00$344.00 - $344.00Current price $344.00| /One of 500 copies - signed by the author. One of 500 copies on Japanese vellum, signed and numbered by the author. Signed limited edition of Walter...
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You Only Live Twice.
FLEMING, Ian.Original price $18,726.00 - Original price $18,726.00Original price$18,726.00$18,726.00 - $18,726.00Current price $18,726.00| /With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, 'To Jonathan from Ian'. The identity of Jonathan has eluded us but o...
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The Outsider.
WEBB; Jon Edgar (editor); BUKOWSKI, Charles; BURROUGHS, William S. & PATCHEN, Kenneth et al. (contributors).Original price $2,185.00 - Original price $2,185.00Original price$2,185.00$2,185.00 - $2,185.00Current price $2,185.00| /The complete run of this unique and important magazine, best known for publishing the early work of Charles Bukowski. An extraordinary publication...
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