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FIELDING, Xan.
Best of Friends. The Brenan-Partridge Letters 1986
£45
First Edition, First Impression.
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the dust jacket. Read more
MACAULAY, Lord.
Biographical, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, and Poetical Works, c.1890
£45
Octavo. Contemporary tan calf, black morocco label, elaborate gilt tooling to spine, raised bands, gilt roll to boards, school crest to upper board, marbled endpapers and edges....
Octavo. Contemporary tan calf, black morocco label, elaborate gilt tooling to spine, raised bands, gilt roll to boards, school crest to upper board, marbled endpapers... Read more
LYND, Robert.
Books & Authors. 1922
£45
First Edition, First Impression. From the library of Norman Douglas with his rubber stamp and crayon note to the front free endpaper giving the page number of the chapter devoted to...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. Edges very lightly rubbed but an excellent copy. Read more
MCGUINNESS, Frank.
Booterstown. 1994
£45
First edition, first impression, paperback issue. Inscribed by the author on the half-title, "22-7-1995, For Peter, Best Wishes, Frank McGuinness".
Original pictorial wrappers, blue endpapers. Spine faded. An excellent copy. Read more
BOYD, William.
Brazzaville Beach. 1990
£45
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine in blue. With the dust jacket. Dust jacket ever so slightly creased, an excellent copy. Read more
BLUNT, Reginald.
By Chelsea Reach. Some Riverside Records. 1921
£45
First edition, first impression. Essays on notable people and places of Chelsea including Thomas More, Sir Hans Sloane, Jonathan Swift, and Fanny Burney.
Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt. Black and white frontispiece and 23 plates. Boards lightly rubbed with small marks, tanning to free... Read more
CHANDLER, Raymond.
Chandler Before Marlowe. 1973
£45
First edition, first printing. An out-of-series copy from a limited edition of 499 numbered copies.
Octavo. Original red morocco backed fawn marbled boards, titles to spine and quotations to boards gilt, fawn marbled endpapers, edges stained red. Portrait... Read more
FENTON, James.
Children In Exile. 1983
£45
First edition, first impression, in the first issue dust jacket.
Octavo. Original green cloth backed light green boards, titles to spine gilt, printed paper label to upper board. With the dust jacket. Boards slightly bowed. An... Read more
McCARTHY, Cormac.
Cities of The Plain. 1998
£45
First Edition, First Impression.
Octavo. Original black cloth-backed boards, titles to spine and initials to front board gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the dust jacket. Read more
BURROUGHS, William S.
Cities of the Red Night. 1981
£45
First UK Edition.
Octavo. Original quarter salmon cloth with grey paper boards, titles to spine gilt, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Near fine in dust jacket, lightly... Read more
CHEVALIER, Gabriel.
Clochemerle-les-Bains. 1964
£45
First UK Edition, First Impression.
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. A fine copy in the dust jacket. Read more
(GISSING, George) COUSTILLAS, Pierre (eds.)
Collected Articles On George Gissing. 1968
£45
First edition, first impression, with the ownership inscription of John Heygate to the title page.
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket. Read more
SPARK, Muriel.
Collected Poems I. 1967
£45
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with slightly faded spine panel. Read more
FOTHERGILL, John.
Confessions of an Innkeeper. 1938
£45
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original pink cloth, titles to spine and upper board in blue. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 7 plates. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed and... Read more
(LAWRENCE, D. H.) DOUGLAS, Norman.
D. H. Lawrence and Maurice Magnus. A Plea for Better Manners. 1924
£45
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original brown wrappers printed in red. Portrait frontispiece. Small marginal annotation to final page of text. Very slightly rubbed at extremities, some mild... Read more
SIMENON.
Danger Ahead. 1955
£45
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine rolled and a little tanned, light partial tanning to endpapers. A very good copy in the... Read more
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Departmental Ditties and Other Verses. 1904
£45
Sixteenth edition. A handsomely bound copy.
Octavo (187 × 124 mm). Bound by Hatchards in red half calf, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, matching cloth boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt.... Read more
GRAVES, Robert.
Difficult Questions, Easy Answers. 1972
£45
First edition.
Octavo. Original light brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with dust jacket. Very slight lean, exceptional condition except for minor crumpling and slight nick to... Read more
O’HARA, Frank, & Joe Lesueur.
Digressions On Some Poems 2003
£45
First edition, first printing. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper "For Alan – with love and memories, Freddy, New York, September 12, 2003". From the library of Alan...
Octavo. Original dark and light grey boards, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. 16 plates. An excellent copy in the dust jacket. Read more
MIDDLETON, Stanley.
Distractions. 1975
£45
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. Mark to front free endpaper, else an excellent copy in the lighly rubbed jacket witha... Read more
AMIS, Kingsley.
Ending Up. 1974
£45
First Edition.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Read more
CHRISTIE, Agatha.
Endless Night. 1967
£45
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original red and black boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket. Read more
(ELIOT, T. S.) VIVANTE, Leone.
English Poetry and its contribution to the knowledge of a creative people. 1950
£45
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original turquoise cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Slight discolouration to lower edge of boards, contents lightly toned. A very good copy... Read more
ORTON, Joe.
Entertaining Mr. Sloane. 1973
£45
Reissue, originally published in 1964 this edition was the first to print the Lahr introduction.
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. A fine copy in the dust jacket. Read more
LYTTON, Lord.
Ernest Maltravers. c.1890
£45
A handsomely bound copy.
Octavo (178 × 115 mm). Contemporary blue half calf, two red morocco labels, decoration to spines in compartments separated by raised bands, marbled boards and... Read more
