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The Lord of the Rings.
TOLKIEN, J.R.R.Original price $325.00 - Original price $325.00Original price$325.00$325.00 - $325.00Current price $325.00| /At first, Tolkien intended The Lord of the Rings to be a children's tale in the style of The Hobbit but it quickly grew darker and more serious in...
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
ROWLING, J.K.Original price $169.00 - Original price $169.00Original price$169.00$169.00 - $169.00Current price $169.00| /Published on 21st June 2003.First edition, first impression, ownership insscription to upper fly-leaf dated ' 21 June 2003', the date of publicati...
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Robbery Under the Law: The Mexican Object Lesson.
WAUGH, Evelyn.Original price $3,566.00 - Original price $3,566.00Original price$3,566.00$3,566.00 - $3,566.00Current price $3,566.00| /Presentation copy. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in black ink to the front free endpaper, 'Frederick Godber, with kindest regards from...
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Wine in Peace and War.
WAUGH, Evelyn.Original price $4,214.00 - Original price $4,214.00Original price$4,214.00$4,214.00 - $4,214.00Current price $4,214.00| /One of 100 copies - numbered & signed by the author. First edition of this essay commissioned by Evelyn Waugh's London vintners Saccone & S...
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Noblesse Oblige.
MITFORD, Nancy (editor); LANCASTER, Osbert (illustrator).Original price $2,269.00 - Original price $2,269.00Original price$2,269.00$2,269.00 - $2,269.00Current price $2,269.00| /Presentation copy inscribed by Evelyn Waugh. Presentation copy of the first edition of this 'great tease', with pieces on 'U' and 'Non-U,' inscribe...
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Scott-King's Modern Europe.
WAUGH, Evelyn.Original price $3,566.00 - Original price $3,566.00Original price$3,566.00$3,566.00 - $3,566.00Current price $3,566.00| /Presentation copy. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in pencil to the front free endpaper, 'For Christopher / with love from / Evelyn / Ch...
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A Tourist in Africa.
WAUGH, Evelyn.Original price $163.00 - Original price $163.00Original price$163.00$163.00 - $163.00Current price $163.00| /First edition, documenting Waugh's voyage to East Africa in 1959.First edition, first impression; 8vo; black and white illustrations, including fr...
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The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold.
WAUGH, Evelyn.Original price $195.00 - Original price $195.00Original price$195.00$195.00 - $195.00Current price $195.00| /First edition, trade issue, of Waugh's semi-autobiographical work based on the hallucinations he endured from bromide poisoning while self-medicat...
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Midnight's Children.
RUSHDIE, Salman.Original price $649.00 - Original price $649.00Original price$649.00$649.00 - $649.00Current price $649.00| /'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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WAUGH, Evelyn.Original price $2,918.00 - Original price $2,918.00Original price$2,918.00$2,918.00 - $2,918.00Current price $2,918.00| /One of 110 copies - numbered & signed by the author. Number 13 of 110 copies, signed by the author. With an original manuscript leaf bound in, ...
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Edmund Campion.
WAUGH, Evelyn.Original price $4,214.00 - Original price $4,214.00Original price$4,214.00$4,214.00 - $4,214.00Current price $4,214.00| /Presentation copy. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in black in to the front free endpaper, 'E.A. Chapman-Andrews O.B.E / with best wishe...
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Basil Seal Rides Again or The Rake's Regress.
WAUGH, Evelyn.Original price $3,566.00 - Original price $3,566.00Original price$3,566.00$3,566.00 - $3,566.00Current price $3,566.00| /Presentation copy. First edition limited to 750 copies, this being an out-of-series presentation copy with limitation crossed out and inscribed by ...
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Tactical Exercise.
WAUGH, Evelyn.Original price $3,566.00 - Original price $3,566.00Original price$3,566.00$3,566.00 - $3,566.00Current price $3,566.00| /Presentation copy. Presentation copy of this first edition of short stories, for which there is no British equivalent, inscribed by the author to t...
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Helena.
WAUGH, Evelyn.Original price $973.00 - Original price $973.00Original price$973.00$973.00 - $973.00Current price $973.00| /Evelyn Waugh's personal favourite of his novels and 'a superlatively well done book' (Chicago Tribune) set in the age of Emperor Constantine.First...
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Mr Loveday's Little Outing and other Sad Stories.
WAUGH, Evelyn.Original price $3,890.00 - Original price $3,890.00Original price$3,890.00$3,890.00 - $3,890.00Current price $3,890.00| /First edition of Waugh's first collection of short stories. The title story was the basis for Sam Hopkinson's 2006 film of the same name, starring...
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Work Suspended.
WAUGH, Evelyn.Original price $2,269.00 - Original price $2,269.00Original price$2,269.00$2,269.00 - $2,269.00Current price $2,269.00| /Presentation copy - twice inscribed by the author. Presentation copy, twice inscribed by the author, of this first edition of Waugh's unfinished wo...
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Waugh in Abyssinia.
WAUGH, Evelyn.Original price $3,242.00 - Original price $3,242.00Original price$3,242.00$3,242.00 - $3,242.00Current price $3,242.00| /First edition, with the printed overslip on the front flap of the dustjacket correcting the blurb that the author had originally objected to. Copi...
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Black Mischief.
WAUGH, Evelyn.Original price $3,242.00 - Original price $3,242.00Original price$3,242.00$3,242.00 - $3,242.00Current price $3,242.00| /One of 250 copies - signed & numbered by the author. Waugh's third novel, written whilst staying at Madresfield Court, Worcestershire as the gu...
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The Shadow over Fairholme.
[VICKERS, Roy] KYLE, Sefton (pseud.).Original price $487.00 - Original price $487.00Original price$487.00$487.00 - $487.00Current price $487.00| /First edition of this mystery novel.First edition; 8vo; light spotting to prelims, light partial toning to half-title, some splitting at foot of g...
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Lessinger Laughs Last.
[STARR, Richard] ESSEX, Richard.Original price $649.00 - Original price $649.00Original price$649.00$649.00 - $649.00Current price $649.00| /First edition of this detective novel following the suave Lessinger. 'The best Lessinger story Mr. Essex has given us since Slade of the Yard.' (b...
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Dilemmas.
MASON, A.E.W.Original price $746.00 - Original price $746.00Original price$746.00$746.00 - $746.00Current price $746.00| /First edition of Mason's final short story collection.First edition; 8vo; minor offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked internally; publisher's blu...
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The Witness for the Defence.
MASON, A.E.W.Original price $973.00 - Original price $973.00Original price$973.00$973.00 - $973.00Current price $973.00| /First edition of one of Mason's finest mysteries.First edition; 8vo; ownership signature to front free endpaper, spotting to prelims and edges, so...
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Top Storey Murder.
BERKELEY, Anthony.Original price $2,269.00 - Original price $2,269.00Original price$2,269.00$2,269.00 - $2,269.00Current price $2,269.00| /Publisher's file copy. The publisher's file copy of this murder mystery featuring gentleman sleuth and crime novelist Roger Sheringham.First editio...
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No Alibi.
COBB, Geoffrey Belton.Original price $1,135.00 - Original price $1,135.00Original price$1,135.00$1,135.00 - $1,135.00Current price $1,135.00| /First edition of the author's first book. A lovely copy of the first edition of the author's first book, in which he introduces the detective Chevi...
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