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The Grass is Singing.
LESSING, Doris.Original price $607.00 - Original price $607.00Original price $0.00$607.00$607.00 - $607.00Current price $607.00| /Signed first edition of the author's first novel. An exceptional copy of the author's first novel, signed by her in black ink on the title page.Fir...
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Swanson on Swanson.
SWANSON, Gloria.Original price $702.00 - Original price $702.00Original price $0.00$702.00$702.00 - $702.00Current price $702.00| /Multiple signatories. First edition of Swanson's memoirs, signed by the author and seven other celebrities who attended a Foyles Literary Luncheon ...
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The Caretaker.
PINTER, Harold.Original price $256.00 - Original price $256.00Original price $0.00$256.00$256.00 - $256.00Current price $256.00| /True first edition, preceding the Methuen hardback edition of the same year. Pinter's first commercial success, first performed at the Arts Theatr...
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Chips with Everything.
WESKER, Arnold.Original price $160.00 - Original price $160.00Original price $0.00$160.00$160.00 - $160.00Current price $160.00| /First edition of a major English Stage Company play. 'A drama of striking power, intensity and conviction' (New York Post).First edition, first im...
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The Doomsday Book.
MACLAREN-ROSS, J.Original price $192.00 - Original price $192.00Original price $0.00$192.00$192.00 - $192.00Current price $192.00| /First edition of one of the scarcest Maclaren-Ross titles.First edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's red cloth, silver...
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The Dark.
MCGAHERN, John.Original price $320.00 - Original price $320.00Original price $0.00$320.00$320.00 - $320.00Current price $320.00| /The author's scarce second novel, banned in Ireland by the Censorship Board for obscenity in 1965.First edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked i...
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Shame.
RUSHDIE, Salman.Original price $109.00 - Original price $109.00Original price $0.00$109.00$109.00 - $109.00Current price $109.00| /The author's third novel and the second in his series of books dealing with Islam and the countries of the East, beginning with Midnight's Childre...
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The Laird of Abbotsford:
WILSON, A.N.Original price $160.00 - Original price $160.00Original price $0.00$160.00$160.00 - $160.00Current price $160.00| /Signed by the author. First edition of this biography of Sir Walter Scott, signed by the author in black ink on the title page.First edition, first...
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The Time of the Crack.
TENNANT, Emma.Original price $160.00 - Original price $160.00Original price $0.00$160.00$160.00 - $160.00Current price $160.00| /The author's second book and first Science Fiction novel. Preceded by her earlier novel, The Colour of Rain (1964), published under the pseudonym ...
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The Ever-Interesting Topic.
[HOFF, Harry Summerfield] COOPER, William (pseud).Original price $109.00 - Original price $109.00Original price $0.00$109.00$109.00 - $109.00Current price $109.00| /First edition of this satirical novel set in a boys school.First edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's blue cloth, gilt...
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.
[DE QUINCEY, Thomas].Original price $9,573.00 - Original price $9,573.00Original price $0.00$9,573.00$9,573.00 - $9,573.00Current price $9,573.00| /An excellent copy in the original boards of 'the most famous account of drug addiction in English literature' (Norman).First published in the Lond...
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The Method of Ethics.
SIDGWICK, Henry.Original price $1,245.00 - Original price $1,245.00Original price $0.00$1,245.00$1,245.00 - $1,245.00Current price $1,245.00| /One of the few indisputable classics in the history of moral philosophy'. The first edition of this systematic study of ethics often considered the...
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The Third Policeman.
O'BRIEN, Flann.Original price $639.00 - Original price $639.00Original price $0.00$639.00$639.00 - $639.00Current price $639.00| /One of The Master's masterpieces. A mystery story concerning the disappearance of a policeman and the strange presence of strange bicycles....Firs...
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I am Lazarus.
KAVAN, Anna.Original price $1,117.00 - Original price $1,117.00Original price $0.00$1,117.00$1,117.00 - $1,117.00Current price $1,117.00| /First impression of the true first edition, produced to wartime economy standards, in its original thin boards. Scarce in its original fragile war...
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Loot.
ORTON, Joe.Original price $415.00 - Original price $415.00Original price $0.00$415.00$415.00 - $415.00Current price $415.00| /Orton's second staged play, widely regarded as a comic masterpiece. Winner of the 1966 Evening Standard Drama Award for best play.First edition, c...
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Stories and Plays.
O'BRIEN, Flann.Original price $224.00 - Original price $224.00Original price $0.00$224.00$224.00 - $224.00Current price $224.00| /A collection of stories in which the writer reveals himself in all his incarnations - as playwright, as novelist, as short-story writer and critic...
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The Poor Mouth (An Béal Bocht).
[O'BRIEN, Flann] GOPALEEN, Miles na (pseud.); POWER, PATRICK C. (translator); STEADMAN, Ralph (illustrator).Original price $224.00 - Original price $224.00Original price $0.00$224.00$224.00 - $224.00Current price $224.00| /First English-language edition of Flann O'Brien's comic masterpiece, first published in the original Gaelic and Anglo-Irish dialect in 1941.First ...
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The Case of the Perjured Parrot.
GARDNER, Erle Stanley.Original price $766.00 - Original price $766.00Original price $0.00$766.00$766.00 - $766.00Current price $766.00| /First edition of the author's fourteenth title to feature the character of Perry Mason.First edition, first impression; 8vo; very slight age-tonin...
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Dictionnaire Abrégé du Surréalisme.
[SURREALISM].Original price $671.00 - Original price $671.00Original price $0.00$671.00$671.00 - $671.00Current price $671.00| /Containing valuable information about the poets and visual artists of the movement, the work was compiled to accompany the 1938 Exposition Interna...
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Le Nouveau Candide.
PENROSE, Valentine.Original price $2,872.00 - Original price $2,872.00Original price $0.00$2,872.00$2,872.00 - $2,872.00Current price $2,872.00| /Superb association copy - inscribed to André Breton. A superb association copy, inscribed by the author to André Breton on the half-title, 'à André...
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