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The Revolt of the Cockroach People.
ACOSTA, Oscar Zeta.Original price £875.00 - Original price £875.00Original price £0.00£875.00£875.00 - £875.00Current price £875.00| /Presentation copy of the author's first book. Presentation copy of the author's first book, inscribed in black ink to the front pastedown, 'For Nor...
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Doctor Sax.
KEROUAC, Jack.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /An exceptional copy of one of Kerouac's scarcer titles, written while living with William S. Burroughs in Mexico City.First edition, first hardbac...
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The Golden Notebook.
LESSING, Doris.Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00| /Signed by the author. Signed first edition of the author's masterpiece, and one of the greatest South African novels of the 20th century. This firs...
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The Hostage.
BEHAN, Brendan.Original price £875.00 - Original price £875.00Original price £0.00£875.00£875.00 - £875.00Current price £875.00| /One of 26 copies - specially bound and signed by the author. First US edition of Behan's masterwork, this being copy N of 26 lettered copies specia...
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Under the Net.
MURDOCH, Iris.Original price £4,250.00 - Original price £4,250.00Original price £0.00£4,250.00£4,250.00 - £4,250.00Current price £4,250.00| /Presentation copy of the author's first novel. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in black ink to the front free endpaper, 'For Adeline Dan...
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The Hostage.
BEHAN, Brendan.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| /Presentation copy inscribed to Paddy Joyce. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to the actor Paddy Joyce in Irish Gaeilge to the front free ...
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The Book of Lies.
[CROWLEY, Aleister] FRATER PERDURABO (pseud).Original price £3,000.00 - Original price £3,000.00Original price £0.00£3,000.00£3,000.00 - £3,000.00Current price £3,000.00| /First edition of Crowley's masterwork, consisting of 93 chapters including a question mark, an exclamation mark, poems, rituals, instructions, and...
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The Buckminster Fuller Reader.
MELLER, James (editor).Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /Presentation copy inscribed by Bucky Fuller. Presentation copy, inscribed by Bucky Fuller and dated April 4 1972 in purple ink to the half-title, '...
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The Gutenberg Galaxy:
MCLUHAN, Marshall.Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00| /Presentation copy inscribed to Bucky Fuller. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author in blue ink to the front free endpaper, 'For the ...
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Poems Written Before Jumping Out of an 8 Story Window.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.Original price £475.00 - Original price £475.00Original price £0.00£475.00£475.00 - £475.00Current price £475.00| /Signed by the author. One of around 400 copies, this copy signed by the author. Contains 'Cows in Art Class' printed lengthwise, alongside a drawin...
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Longshot Poems for Broke Players.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.Original price £3,250.00 - Original price £3,250.00Original price £0.00£3,250.00£3,250.00 - £3,250.00Current price £3,250.00| /One of 200 copies. Bukowski's rare third book, published in an edition of approximately 200 copies. Containing 26 poems and 5 illustrations.First e...
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Run with the Hunted.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /One of 300 copies. Bukowski's scarce fourth book, published in an edition of approximately 300 copies. Contains the poem 'Old Man, Dead in a Room'....
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Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00| /Signed first edition of the author's first book. Signed first edition of the author's rare first book. One of approximately 200 copies.First editio...
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Young India 1919-1922.
GANDHI, Mahatma.Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00| /Rare in the dustjacket. The first edition in book-form of this important collection of articles by the Indian independence leader, Mahatma Gandhi (...
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Animal Farm.
ORWELL, George.Original price £15,000.00 - Original price £15,000.00Original price £0.00£15,000.00£15,000.00 - £15,000.00Current price £15,000.00| /The first edition of Orwell's socio-political classic, intended by the author to serve as a satirical take on the events that led up to the Russia...
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Present Indicative.
COWARD, Noel.Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00| /This is Coward's first volume of autobiography with his now, famous opening lines: 'I was photographed naked on a cushion very early in life, an i...
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Lady Chatterley's Lover.
LAWRENCE, D.H.Original price £10,000.00 - Original price £10,000.00Original price £0.00£10,000.00£10,000.00 - £10,000.00Current price £10,000.00| /One of 1000 copies - signed by the author. This novel shines as an example of Lawrence's finite skill in conveying the nature of relationships and ...
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A Girl Like I:
LOOS, Anita.Original price £875.00 - Original price £875.00Original price £0.00£875.00£875.00 - £875.00Current price £875.00| /Presentation copy. Presentation copy to the actress Rosalind Russell and stage manager Charles Forsythe, inscribed by the author on the half-title:...
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An Artist of the Floating World.
ISHIGURO, Kazuo.Original price £475.00 - Original price £475.00Original price £0.00£475.00£475.00 - £475.00Current price £475.00| /Signed by the author. The author's second novel. A lovely signed example of the author's breakthrough work.First edition, first issue, signed by th...
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The Grapes of Wrath.
STEINBECK, John.Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00| /'muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man'. Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of t...
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Kiss Kiss.
DAHL, Roald.Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00| /Presentation copy. A collection of short-stories by one of the masters of that medium, Kiss Kiss includes the apiologically disconcerting 'Royal Je...
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Islands in the Stream.
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.Original price £325.00 - Original price £325.00Original price £0.00£325.00£325.00 - £325.00Current price £325.00| /The first of Hemingway's fictional works to be published posthumously.First edition, first printing; 8vo; internally fine; publisher's green cloth...
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Blood Meridian.
McCARTHY, Cormac.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /First UK edition of McCarthy's epic novel Blood Meridian. This is McCarthy at his most baroque and apocalyptic.First UK edition; 8vo; slight tonin...
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Thoughts on Life and Literature.
CAMERON, Norman E.Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £0.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00| /Rare first edition by the founder of Guyanese drama, dedicated to 'A New Guiana'.First edition; 8vo; portrait frontispiece, bookshop stamp to vers...
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