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New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1934
First edition, first printing. Original green cloth, in dustwrapper. A superb FINE copy, the binding square and tight and the contents without inscriptions or stamps. Minor discoloration of the cloth as always. Complete with the exceptional NEAR FINE pictorial dustwrapper which has only mild rubbing to the extremities. The dustwrapper is the preferred red version (also issued simultaneously in green) and is entirely without fading or loss, rare thus.
+ add to basket £18,750.00
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London: Jonathan Cape. 1964
First edition, first printing [first state]. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A lovely NEAR FINE copy the cloth very clean and the binding tight with only light bumping at the spine tips. The contents are complete and without previous owner’s inscriptions or stamps. With the VERY GOOD original dustwrapper which is entirely without loss but with a small splash mark to the upper panel and some darkening of the spine. Not price-clipped (16s. net as called for to the - view full listing...
+ add to basket £11,000.00
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Original Corrected Typescript. c.1952
Eight pages, foolscap on rectos only. In VERY GOOD condition with punch holes to the edge, old rust marks from staples now removed and some spotting. With a number of ink corrections and authorial emendations. An entertaining slice of Dublin life, consisting mainly of dialogue in a pub between a Dublin woman whose husband had just died of tuberculosis, and a group of her friends, including Denis the bookie and Teresa (of Avila). Given by the author to the artist Tom Nisbet RHA in 1952, - view full listing...
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London: Jarrold and Sons. [1877]
First edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY. Original brown cloth, decorated in black and gilt. (Carter’s C binding). Undated eight page publisher’s catalogue to the rear. A near VERY GOOD copy, the binding a little worn to the extremities, inner hinges with unobtrusive repairs and traces from an old newspaper clipping removed from the front free endpaper. The contents are clean and bright throughout. Rarely found in FINE condition, this copy presents very well indeed. Inscribed presentation - view full listing...
+ add to basket £6,000.00
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London: Macmillan and Co. 1866 & 1872
First editions. Two volumes. Publisher’s original red cloth with gilt titles and illustration. Top edge gilt. Original green coated endpapers to each volume with the Burn bindery ticket to the rear pastedown. With the bookplate of Republican senator Boise Penrose (1860–1921), Pennsylvania to the pastedown of each volume. Illustrated throughout by John Tenniel. A VERY GOOD attractive set in entirely original condition. Alice shows a little rubbing and light marking to the boards, the hinge - view full listing...
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Dahl, Roald illustrated by Quentin Blake: MATILDA |
| First edition, first printing. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR and ILLUSTRATOR. Original red cloth in - more info... |
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Sayers, Dorothy L.: IN THE TEETH OF EVIDENCE and 16 Other Stories |
| First edition, first printing. Original cloth, in dustwrapper. A VERY GOOD or better copy, the - more info... |
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Farjeon, J. Jefferson: THE HOUSE OPPOSITE |
| First edition, first printing. Original orange cloth with black titles to the upper board and - more info... |
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Allingham, Margery: BLACK PLUMES |
| First edition, first printing. Original beige cloth with black lettering to spine in dustwrapper. A - more info... |
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Barrie, J. M. (Illustrated by F. D. Bedford): PETER AND WENDY |
| First edition thus. Undated. Original green cloth with gilt titles and illustration to the front - more info... |
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