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Amis, Kingsley (1922-1995): I WANT IT NOW.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1968. First edition. 255 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
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Amis, Kingsley (1922-1995): MR BARRETT'S SECRET AND OTHER STORIES.
London: Hutchinson, 1993. First edition. (6), 185 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
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Amis, Kingsley (1922-1995): NEW MAPS OF HELL. A Survey of Science Fiction.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1961. First UK edition. 161 pp. Publisher's hard cover in a little worn and mended dust jacket.
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Amis, Kingsley (1922-1995): RUSSIAN HIDE-AND-SEEK.
A melodrama. London: Hutchinson, 1980. First edition. 239, (1) pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
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Amis, Kingsley (1922-1995): STANLEY AND THE WOMEN.
London: Hutchinson, 1984. First edition. 255, (1) pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
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Amis, Kingsley (1922-1995): THE BIOGRAPHER'S MOUSTACHE.
London: Flamingo, 1995. First edition. (6), 282 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
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Amis, Kingsley (1922-1995): THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY.
New York: The Mysterious Press, 1989. First US edition. X, (2), 162 pp. Publisher's quarter cloth in dust jacket.
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Amis, Kingsley (1922-1995): THE RIVERSIDE VILLAS MURDER.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1973. First edition. 224 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
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Amis, Kingsley (1922-1995): YOU CAN'T DO BOTH.
London: Hutchinson, 1994. First edition. (8), 306 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
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Atwood, Margaret: PAYBACK. Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth.
London: Bloomsbury, 2008. First UK edition. (8), 230 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
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Auster, Paul: WINTER JOURNAL.
London: Faber and Faber, 2012. First UK edition. (6), 230 pp. Publisher's printed soft cover.
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Bailey, Anna: TALL BONES.
London: Doubleday, 2021. First edition, first printing. Signed and numbered edition 514/1500. (6), 339, (4) pp. Publisher's hard cover with printed fore edge and dust jacket in mylar cover.
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Bantock, Nick: GRIFFIN & SABINE. An Extraordinary Correspondence.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1991. Second printing. (43) pp. 20x20 cm. Publisher's printed hard cover in dust jacket. Both endpapers printed in color. Illustrated by the author in color, partly with pop-up envelopes. Inscription on half title.
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Baxter, Glen: THE BILLIARD TABLE MURDERS. A Gladys Babbington Morton mystery.
London: Picador, 1991. New edition. (6), 246 s. 24,5x19 cm. Publisher's soft cover in adhesive plastic. Illustrated in black-and-white by the author.
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Beerbohm, Max: THE ILLUSTRATED ZULEIKA DOBSON OR AN OXFORD LOVE STORY.
Introduction by N. John Hall. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985. New edition reprinted from edition 1911. (20), (8), 350 pp + plates. Publisher's pictorial cloth in slipcase. With printed endpapers. With 80 illustrations in colour by the author in text and with plates.
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Bellow, Saul (1915-2005): HUMBOLDT'S GIFT.
New York: The Viking Press, 1975. First edition. (8), 487 pp. Publisher's cloth in damaged and mended dust jacket. Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature 1976.
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Bierce, Ambrose: THE SARDONIC HUMOR OF AMBROSE BIERCE.
Edited by George Barkin. New York: Dover, 1963. XII, 232, (11) pp. Publisher's printed soft cover.
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Blake, James: WINTERHOLM.
Stockholm: Underjordiska Slumtryckeriet, 1987. (41) pp. 16x13 cm. Publisher's soft cover in dust jacket. Illustrated with 1 original graphic colour print. Signed and numbered edition of 105 copies. With presentation inscription from the author "Jimmy".
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Blixen, Karen (written under pseudonym Isak Dinesen 1885-1962): EHRENGARD.
New York: Random House, 1963. First US edition. (5), 111, (3) pp. Publisher's decorated cloth in a little worn and mended dust jacket.
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Brink, André: THE WALL OF THE PLAGUE.
London: Faber and Faber, 1984. First edition. 447 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
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Buchanan, Greg: SIXTEEN HORSES.
London: Mantle, 2021. First edition, first printing. Signed and numbered edition 615/1500. (10), 454 pp. Publisher's hard cover with printed fore edge and dust jacket in mylar cover.
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Bulwer Lytton, Edward (1803-1873): RIENZI. The Last of the Tribunes (1848).
Belle Fourche (US): Kessinger, (no date). Facsimile of the 1848 edition from "Bulwer's Works" . (3), 604-848 pp. 26,5x20 cm. Publisher's printed soft cover with minor traces of use.
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Burgess, Anthony (1917-1993): THE PIANOPLAYERS.
London: Hutchinson, 1986. First edition. 208 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket. Illustrated with some sheet music.
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Burton, Richard: THE KASIDAH OF HAJI ABDU.
Mount Vernon: The Peter Pauper Press, no date. New edition. Unpaginated. Publisher's printed hard cover in slightly damaged slipcase. Illustrated in color by Vera Bock.
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Byatt, A. S.: BABEL TOWER.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1996. First UK edition, first printing. (6), 618 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
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Cameron, Ann: COLIBRÍ.
New York: Frances Foster, 2003. First edition. (8), 227, (1) pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket. Presentation inscription from the author "Ann Cameron".
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Carroll, Lewis (1832-1898): ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND AND THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS.
Stockholm: Zephyr Books, The Continental Book Company, 1946. 347, (5) pp. Publisher's printed soft cover. Without dust jacket. Illustrated with drawings in black and white by Mervyn Peake. Inscription on half title dated 1954. English text. A Library of British and American Authors, Vol. 67.
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Chandler, Raymond (1888-1959): PLAYBACK.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1958. First UK edition. 207, (1) pp. Publisher's slightly soiled hard cover with small tear in lower spine. Without dust jacket. With "doodle" on free endpaper.
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Cheever, John: THE LETTERS OF JOHN CHEEVER.
Edited by Benjamin Cheever. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988. 397 pp + plates. Publisher's quarter cloth in dust jacket. Photoillustrated with plates in black-and-white.
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Chesterton, G. K. (1874-1936): THE COLOURED LANDS.
Illustrated by the author. London: Sheed & Ward, 1938. First edition. 238 pp. 25x19,5 cm. Publisher's quarter cloth with minor wear at outside corners. Without dust jacket. Illustrated in black-and-white and colour. With bookplate.
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Chesterton, G. K. (1874-1936): THE WILD KNIGHT.
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1914. Fourth Edition With Additional Poems. XII, 155, (1) pp. Publisher's quarter vellum with light worn front corners, and top edges gilt. G. K. Chesterton = Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
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Collins, Billy: AIMLESS LOVE. New and Selected Poems.
New York: Random House, 2013. Seventh printing. XIX, 261, (4) pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
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Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924): LORD JIM. Authoritative Text. Backgrounds. Sources. Criticism.
Edited by Thomas C. Moser. New York: Norton & Comp., 1996. Second edition, reprint. XIV, 506 pp. Publisher's printed large paperback in good condition. A Norton Critical Edition.
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Cornwell, Patricia: SOUTHERN CROSS.
London: Little, Brown and Company, 1999. English reprint edition. (6), 340 pp. Publisher's hard cover in fine dust jacket.
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Coupland, Douglas: ALL FAMILIES ARE PSYCHOTIC. A Novel.
New York: Bloomsbury, 2001. First US edition. (6), 279, (3) s. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
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Crane, Stephen: THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE I-II. A Facsimile Edition of the Manuscript.
Edited with an Introduction and Apparatus by Fredson Bowers. USA: Bruccoli Clark Boook, 1973. Limited edition of 1000 numbered copies. XI, (3), 120, (3); 263 pp. 28,5x19,5 cm. Publisher's cloth, 2 volumes in slipcase. With one portrait in color.
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Curry, Neil: THE BENDING OF THE BOW.
London: Enitharmon Press, 1993. Trade edition. (4), 63 pp + plates. Publisher's printed soft cover. Illustrated in black-and-white with images by Jim Dine on plates.
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Dahl, Roald (1916-1990): KISS KISS.
London: Michael Joseph, 1960. First UK edition. 255 pp. Publisher's cloth with with faded spine, without dust jacket.
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DeMille, Nelson: RADIANT ANGEL.
New York: Grand Central, 2015. First edition. (6), 311, (2) pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket. A John Corey Novel.
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Dickens, Charles (1812-1870): MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK and A CHILD'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND.
Introduction by Derek Hudson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978. Reprint. XI, (1), 531 pp + plates. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket. Illustrated with plates in black-and-white by George Cattermole and Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). The Oxford Illustrated Dickens.
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Doctorow, E. L.: CITY OF GOD. A Novel.
New York: Random House, 2000. First edition, second printing. (7), 272, (7) pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
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Durrell, Lawrence (1912-1990): ESPRIT DE CORPS. Sketches from Diplomatic Life.
London: Faber and Faber, 1957. First edition. 89 pp. Publisher's cloth in light mended dust jacket. Illustrated with drawings in black-and-white by V. H. Drummond. Inscription on free endpaper.
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Durrell, Lawrence (1912-1990): NUNQUAM.
A novel. London: Faber and Faber, 1970. First edition. 282, (3) pp. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket with light wear.
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Durrell, Lawrence (1912-1990): THE IKONS and other poems.
London: Faber and Faber, 1966. First edition. 48 pp. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket.
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Durrell, Lawrence (1912-1990): TUNC.
A novel. London: Faber and Faber, 1968. First edition. 316, (1) pp. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket with light wear.
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Durrell, Lawrence (1912-1990): TUNC.
A novel. London: Faber and Faber, 1968. Second reprint of first edition. 316, (1) pp. Publisher's cloth in price clipped dust jacket with one small mended tear.
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Eggers, Dave: ZEITOUN.
San Fransisco: McSweeney's books, 2009. First edition, first printing. 351 pp. Publisher's printed hard cover. With wrap-around sleeve on rear board.
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Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns Eliot, 1888-1965): OLD POSSUM'S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS.
Boston: Harcourt Children's Books, 2009. First US edition. 64 pp. 23x18,5 cm. Publisher's pictorial hard cover in dust jacket. With printed endpapers. Illustrated in color by Axel Scheffler. Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature 1948.
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ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH BALLADS.
Edited with an Introduction and Critical Notes by Robert Graves. London: Heinemann, 1957. First edition. XXVI, (2), 163 pp + black-and-white frontispiece plate. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
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Feiffer, Jules: HARRY, THE RAT WITH WOMEN.
A Novel. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1963. First edition. 181, (2) pp. Publisher's hard cover in price clipped dust jacket.
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Fischl, Eric / Kincaid, Jamaica: ANNIE, GWEN, LILLY, PAM AND TULIP.
Text by Jamaica Kincaid. Zurich / New York: Parkett / Whitney Museum of American Art, 1989. First trade edition. (20) pp. 31x23 cm. Publisher's pictorial quarter cloth in printed slipcase. Illustrated by Eric Fischl in black-and-white and color. English text. A short story by Kincaid illustrated with reproduced lithographs by Fischl.
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Follett, Ken: NEVER.
London: Macmillan, 2021. First edition. (8), 815, (2) pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket with minor wear.
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Ford, Richard: THE LAY OF THE LAND.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. First edition. (7), 485, (3) pp. Publisher's title decorated hard cover in dust jacket.
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Frayn, Michael: SPIES.
London: Faber and Faber, 2002. First edition. (4), 213 pp. Publisher's hard cover in fine dust jacket.
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Frost, Mark: THE SECOND OBJECTIVE.
New York: Hyperion, 2007. First edition. (8), 319, (4) pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket. Both endpapers printed with maps in black-and-white.
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Galbraith, Robert (pseudonym for J. K. Rowling): THE CUCKOO'S CALLING.
London: Sphere, 2013. Reprint. (8), 449 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
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Gallico, Paul: SNOWFLAKE.
London: Michael Joseph, 1952. First edition. 63, (1) pp. Publisher's printed quarter cloth with light misscoloured front cover. Illustrated with drawings by David Knight. Inscription on free endpaper.
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Gardner, John (1933-1982): MICKELSSON'S GHOSTS.
A Novel. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. First edition. VIII, 590, (3) pp. Publisher's title decorated cloth in dust jacket. With printed endpapers. Photoillustrated in black-and-white by Joel Gardner.
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Gardner, John (1933-1982): OCTOBER LIGHT.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. First edition. (11), 433, (3) pp. Publisher's pictorial cloth in dust jacket with light faded spine. With printed endpapers. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings by Elaine Raphael and Don Bolognese.
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Grant, Michael: FRONT LINES.
New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2016. First edition. XV, (1), 548, (7) pp. Publisher's pictorial hard cover in dust jacket.
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Greene, Graham (1904-1991): A SENSE OF REALITY.
London: The Bodley Head, 1963. First edition. 140 pp. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket.
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Greene, Graham (1904-1991): DOCTOR FISCHER OF GENEVA OR THE BOMB PARTY.
London: The Bodley Head, 1980. First edition. 139, (1) pp. Publisher's cloth in price clipped dust jacket.
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Greene, Graham (1904-1991): DOCTOR FISCHER OF GENEVA OR THE BOMB PARTY.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980. First US edition. 156 pp. Publisher's cloth in slightly darkened dust jacket.
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Greene, Graham (1904-1991): TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT. A Novel.
London: The Bodley Head, 1969. First English edition. 319 pp. Publisher's cloth without dust jacket.
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Grey of Fallodon, Edward 1st Viscount: FALLODON PAPERS.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1926. V, (3), 168, (2) pp + frontispiece. Quarter cloth with minor wear. Illustrated in black-and-white with woodcuts. Some pages with small crease in lower corner. Essays: The Pleasure of Reading - Pleasure in Outdoor Nature - Recreation - Some Thoughts on Public Life - Waterfowl at Fallodon - The Fly-Fisherman - Wordsworth's "Prelude".
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Hall, J. J.: THE CRYSTAL BOWL. Australian Nature Stories.
London: Angus & Robertson, 1981. New edition. 78 s. 25x18,5 cm. Publisher's printed hard cover with slightly worn upper spine. Illustrated in colour and black-and-white by Dorothy Wall.
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Heller, Joseph (1923-1999): GOOD AS GOLD.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1979. First UK edition. 447 pp. Publisher's hard in dust jacket with small mended tears.
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Heller, Joseph (1923-1999): GOOD AS GOLD.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979. First US edition. 447 pp. Publisher's cloth in slightly worn dust jacket. Inscription on free endpaper.
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Hilton, James (1900-1954): GOOD-BYE MR. CHIPS.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1934. First UK edition, second reprint October 1934. 127, (1) pp. Publisher's title decorated cloth with minor traces of use and small wear to head of spine. Without dust jacket. Both endpapers printed in blue. Illustrated in black-and-white by Bip Pares. The book is laid in a parcel box addressed to the author. Presentation inscription from the author on title page "To Ragna with love from memory of a happy mailing, from James Hilton".
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Hitchcock, Jane Stanton: SOCIAL CRIMES.
New York: Hyperion, 2002. First edition. (8), 338, (3) pp. Publisher's quarter cloth in dust jacket. Presentation inscription from the author to former Swedish Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations Jan Eliasson and wife Kerstin "To Jan and Kerstin. With love and admiration. Jane Stanton Hitchcock".
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Hubbard, Elbert: A THOUSAND & ONE EPIGRAMS. Selected from the writings of Elbert Hubbard.
New York: The Roycrofters, 1911. (5), 9-186, XI, (1) pp. 15,5x12 cm. Bound in decorated full leather with faded spine and top edges gilt.
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Hughs, Anne: ANNE HUGHS: HER BOKE.
Edited by Mollie Preston. Introduced by Michael Croucher. London: The Folio Society, 1981. First edition published 1937. 176 pp. Publisher's printed cloth in slipcase. Illustrated with black-and-white linocuts by Tony Evora.
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Keating, H. R. F.: BRIBERY, CORRUPTION ALSO.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. First American edition. 282 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket. Signed by the author "H. R. F. Keating".
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Kosinski, Jerzy (1933-1991): COCKPIT. A Novel.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975. First edition. (12), 248, (3) pp. Publisher's title decorated cloth in dust jacket.
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Lawrence, T. E. (1888-1935): THE MINT. A day-book of the R.A.F. Depot between August and December 1922 with later notes by 352087 A/c ROSS.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. First English trade edition. 206 pp. 25,5x19,5 cm. Publisher's pictorial partly faded cloth. Without dust jacket.
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Lear, Edward (1812-1888): BOOK OF NONSENSE.
London: J.M. Dent, 1980. 47, (1) pp. 16x24,5 cm. Publisher's printed hard cover in dust jacket. Illustrated by the author in colour.
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Lear, Edward (1812-1888): NONSENSE SONGS AND LAUGHABLE LYRICS.
Mont Vernon: Peter Pauper Press, (no date). 85, (1) pp. 22,5x16 cm. Publisher's printed hard cover in slip case. Illustrated by the author with black-and-white drawings on light blue background.
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Lear, Edward (1812-1888): TEAPOTS AND QUAILS And Other New Nonsenses.
Edited and Introduced by Angus Davidson and Philip Hofer. London: John Murray, 1953. First edition. 63, (1) pp. 25x17 cm. Publisher's printed hard cover. With printed endpapers. Without dust jacket. Illustrated with drawings in black-and-white by the author.
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Lear, Edward (1812-1888): THE TWO OLD BACHELORS.
Illustrated by Paul Galdone. London: The Bodley Head, 1963. First UK edition. (32) pp. 25,5x17 cm. Publisher's printed hard cover in dust jacket. With printed endpapers. Illustrated with drawings in black-and-white, red and yellow.
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Lennon, John (1940-1980): A SPANIARD IN THE WORKS / EN SPANN JORD I MASKINERIET.
Lund: Bakhåll, 1997. Första svenska upplagan. 126, (2) s. Limhäftad med vikomslag. Illustrerad med svartvita teckningar av författaren. Med svensk och engelsk parallelltext. Med separat CD-skiva i pärmficka i bakre omslaget.
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Lennon, John (1940-1980): IN HIS OWN WRITE and A SPANIARD IN THE WORKS.
Introductions by Yoko Ono and Paul McCartney. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010. New edition, second impression. 90, (5) pp. Publisher's printed hard cover. Illustrated with drawings by the author.
(#152794) 125:-
Levin, Ira: THE STEPFORD WIVES.
London: Michael Joseph, 1970. First UK edition. 159, (1) pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket with small mended tear. 1 leaf with minimal tear in upper margin.
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Lundkvist, Artur (1906-1991): KVINNOR OCH FÅGLAR / FEMMES ET OISEAUX / WOMEN AND BIRDS.
Förord av Michel Ragon. Malmö: GKM Siwert Bergström, 1998. Ny upplaga. 98, (2) s. Inbunden i förlagets dekorerade klotband. Illustrerad i färg och svartvitt av Corneille. Text på svenska, engelska och franska.
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Mailer, Norman (1923-2007): BARBARY SHORE.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1952. First UK edition. 286 pp. Publisher's title decorated cloth in a little worn and mended dust jacket.
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(MANSFIELD) Murry, John Middleton (Ed.): KATHERINE MANSFIELD'S LETTERS TO JOHN MIDDLETON MURRAY 1913-1922.
London, Constable, 1951. First edition. VII, 701 pp. Publisher's cloth in slightly worn dust jacket.
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(MANSFIELD) Murry, John Middleton (Ed.): THE LETTERS OF KATHERINE MANSFIELD.
New York, Knopf, 1941. Special One Volume Edition, reprint. VIII, 517, (5) pp. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket.
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Mare, Walter de la (1873-1956): THE COLLECTED POEMS OF WALTER DE LA MARE.
London: Faber and Faber, 1979. 467 pp. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket with slightly faded spine.
(#163801) 100:-
Martin, Steve: AN OBJECT OF BEAUTY.
A Novel. New York: Grand Central Publ., 2010. First edition. (6), 295 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket. Both endpapers printed in color.
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McCullers, Carson: REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE.
Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1941. First US edition. (6), 182, (1) pp. Publisher's printed cloth with minor wear. Without dust jacket.
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McEwan, Ian: SOLAR.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2010. First edition, first printing. (10), 285 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket with minor traces of use.
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McEwan, Ian: SWEET TOOTH.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2012. First edition. (8), 320, (3) pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
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Milne, A. A. (1882-1956): NOW WE ARE SIX.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1934. Copyright edition. 116, (2) pp. Nice private half cloth, covers bound in. Illustrated in black-and-white by Ernest H. Shepard. English text.
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Murdoch, Iris (1919-1999): AN UNOFFICIAL ROSE.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1962. First UK edition. 348 pp. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket with mended tears and minor wear.
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Murdoch, Iris (1919-1999): THE NICE AND THE GOOD.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1968. First edition. 349, (1) pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
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Murray, Les: FREDY NEPTUNE.
Collingwood (AU): Black Inc, 2007. New edition. 276 pp. Large paperback. With stamp on half-title. A novel in verse.
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Nabokov, Vladimir (1899-1977): LOLITA I-II
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1959. First edition, third printing. 189, (3); 223, (1) pp. 2 volumes in publisher's printed soft covers with light wear and slightly soiled spines. English text. No 66 in the Traveller's Companion series.
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Nordqvist, Sven: THE BIRTHDAY CAKE.
Stockholm: Opal, 1999. First English language edition. (24) pp. Publisher's printed hard cover. Illustrated in colour by the author. The Adventures of Pettson and Findus.
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Novak, Barbara: THE MARGARET-GHOST.
A Novel. New York: George Braziller, 2003. First edition. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket. Presentation inscription from the author 2003 to former Swedish Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations Jan Eliasson and wife Kerstin "Barbara".
(#142011) 100:-
Oates, Joyce Carol: MY SISTER, MY LOVE: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike.
New York: HarperCollins, 2008. First edition. (10), 562 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
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Oates, Joyce Carol: SON OF THE MORNING.
A novel. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1978. Book club edition. (4), 342 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket with one small mended tear.
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Omar Khayyam (1048-1131): THE RUBA'IYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM.
Translated by Peter Avery and John Heath-Stubbs. London: Penguin, 1988. Reprint. 128 pp. Large paperback. Illustrated in colour.
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ONE FOR THE TROUBLE. Book Slam Volume One.
Preface by Patrick Neate. Contributions by Richard Milward, Hari Kunzru, Simon Armitage, Irvine Welsh, Bernadine Evaristo, Kate Tempest. Joe Dunthorne, William Boyd, Paul Murray, Roger Robinson, Helen Oyeyemi, Don Peterson, Patrick Ness, Luke Wright, Sophie Woolley, Jon Ronson, Tim Key and Jon McGregor. London: Book Slam Production, 2011. Numbered edition. X, (2), 137 pp. Publisher's title decorated cloth. With some black-and-white illustrations. The book is signed on title page by 11 of the authors.
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O'Neill, Eugene (1888-1953): THE ICEMAN COMETH.
A Play. New York: Random House, 1946. First US edition. VIII, 260 pp. Publisher's title decorated cloth in dust jacket minor wear. Nobel Prize Winner in literature 1936.
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Osborne, John (1929-1994): THE WORLD OF PAUL SLICKEY. A Comedy of Manners with Music.
London: Faber and Faber, 1959. First edition. 96 pp. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket with minor wear. Inscription on free endpaper.
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Parker, Dorothy: DEATH AND TAXES.
Garden City: Sun Dial Press, 1939. Reprint. 62 pp. Publisher's pictorial cloth. Without dust jacket.
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Pelecanos, George P.: DRAMA CITY.
A novel. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 2005. First edition, first printing. (6), 295 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
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Pelecanos, George P.: HARD REVOLUTION.
A novel. London: Orion Books, 2004. First UK edition. (8), 376 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
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Pelecanos, George P.: THE CUT.
A novel. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 2011. First edition, second printing. (6), 292, (5) pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
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Pelecanos, George P.: THE NIGHT GARDENER.
A novel. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 2006. First edition, first printing. (6), 377 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
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Phillips, Jayne Anne: MACHINE DREAMS.
London: Faber & Faber, 1984. First UK edition. (14), 331 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
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Reese, Laura: TOPPING FROM BELOW.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. First edition. XVI, 364 pp. Publisher's quarter cloth in dust jacket. An excellent copy. An explosive, erotic novel about two sisters, each of whom embarks upon a voyage into the heart of evil and a game with a seductive man who knows no rules or limits.
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Rowling, J. K.: HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS.
London: Bloomsbury, 2007. First edition. 607 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket with minor traces of use. Part 7 in the Harry Potter-series. The first edition was released with two different covers, this it the so called "adult edition.
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Rowling, J. K.: HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS.
London: Bloomsbury, 2007. First edition. 607 pp. Publisher's printed hard cover in dust jacket with minor traces of use. Part seven in the Harry Potter series. The first edition was released with two different covers, this it the so called "children's edition".
(#120644) 100:-
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de (1900-1944): AIRMAN'S ODYSSEY. A Trilogy Comprising: Wind, Sand and Stars / Night Flight / Flight to Arras.
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1942. Second printing. (6), 437 pp. Publisher's cloth with minor wear, without dust jacket. With gift inscription on free endpaper dated 1947.
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Sale, Charles (1885-1936): THE SPECIALIST.
London: Putnam, 1952. Thirty-sixth impression. 29, (1) pp. Publisher's pictorial hard cover without dust jacket. Illustrated in black-and-white by William Kermode.
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Sanders, Lawrence: THE ANDERSON TAPES.
London: W. H. Allen, 1970. First English edition. 221 pp. Publisher's hard cover with two mended tears in dust jacket.
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Sansom, William: GOODBYE.
A Novel. London: The Hogarth Press, 1966. First edition. 252, (1) pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
(#102127) 250:-
Sassoon, Siegfried (1886-1967): MEMOIRS OF A FOX-HUNTING MAN.
London: Faber and Faber, 1929. Second impression of the illustrated edition. 295, (1) pp + plates. Publisher's pictorial cloth without dust jacket. With printed endpapers. Illustrated by William Nicholson in black-and-white in text, and with 7 plates.
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Self, Will: TOUGH, TOUGH TOYS FOR TOUGH, TOUGH BOYS.
London: Bloomsbury, 1998. First edition. (12), 244 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
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Shaffer, Peter: EQUUS AND SHRIVINGS. Two Plays.
New York: Atheneum, 1975. Second printing. 211, (4) pp. Publisher's title decorated cloth in dust jacket.
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Shakespeare, William (1564-1616): TEMPEST / TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA / MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR / TWELFTH NIGHT; OR, WHAT YOU WILL / MEASURE FOR MEASURE (BY WILLIAM SHAKSPERE) - WITH THE LIFE OF SHAKSPERE.
Leipsic: Brothers Schumann, No date (ca 1840). (2), XXXV (Charles Symmons: The Life of Shakspere), (1); 59, (1); 58, (2); 72; 64; 72 pp. 12x8,5 cm. Contemporary half leather with pictorial spine. Inscription on free endpaper.
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Shakespeare, William (1564-1616): THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA.
New York: Royal Composing Room, 1976. ? pp. 21x20,5 cm. Publisher's title decorated cloth with leather spine in slipcase. Design by Daniel Haberman. Illustrations in black-and-white by Isadore Seltzer.
(#142712) 150:-
Shaw, (George) Bernard: MAN AND SUPERMAN. A Comedy and a Philosophy.
London: Constable and Company, 1924. 16th impression. XXXVIII, (4), 244, (4) pp. Publisher's cloth. Without dust jacket. Nobel Prize Winner in Literature 1925.
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Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950): BACK TO METHUSELAH. A Metabiological Pentateuch.
London: Constable, 1921. First edition. XCI, (1), 267 pp. Publisher's slightly faded cloth with a few traces of use. Without dust jacket. Nobel Prize Winner in Literature 1925.
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Sinclair, Upton: KING COAL.
A Novel. Introduction by Georg Brandes. London: Hutchinson, 1917. First English edition. VII, (1), 368 pp. Publisher's red cloth with minor traces of use. Without dust jacket.
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Singer, Isaac Bashevis (1904-1991): A CROWN OF FEATHERS AND OTHER STORIES.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1974. First UK edition. (8), 342 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket with a mended tear in rear part. Nobel Prize Winner in literature 1978.
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Steinbeck, John (1902-1968): THE FORGOTTEN VILLAGE.
With 136 photographs from the film of the same name by Rosa Harvan Kline and Alexander Hackensmid. New York: The Viking Press, 1941. First edition, first printing May 1941. 143 pp. 26x18,5 cm. Publisher's pictorial cloth. Without dust jacket. Photoillustrated in black-and-white. Nobel Prize Winner in literature 1962.
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Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894): ISLAND NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENTS.
Consisting of The Beach of Falesá, The Bottle Imp & The Isle of Voices. London: Cassell, 1893. First edition. (8), 277, (18) pp. Publisher's pictorial cloth with minor wear at head of spine. With 26 black-and-white illustrations in text, and title plate in black-and-white & colour lithograph map "Sketch map of the beach and surrounding country".
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Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894): THE TREASURE OF FRANCHARD.
London: The Rodale Press, 1954. Edition of 1000 numbered copies for subscribers. XIV, 73, (1) pp + plates. 24,5x19 cm. Publisher's pictorial cloth. Without slipcase. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings on plates by Laszlo Matulay printed on various coloured sheets.
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Strindberg, August (1849-1912): A WITCH.
Translated by Mary Sandbach. Venice (US): The Lapis Press, 1991. (121) pp + plates. 26x18,5 cm. Publisher's printed hard cover with partly faded cover. Illustrated with plates in color.
(#151509) 100:-
SWEDISH POETRY NOWADAYS. An Anthology of 6 poets in the 21st Century.
Translated by Kristian Carlsson. Malmö: Dracopis, 2016. 137, (1) pp. Publisher's printed soft cover. With inscription on half title. Poems by Johannes Anyuru, Eva-Stina Byggmästar, Naima Chahboun, Martin Högström, Freke Reihä and Matilda Södergran.
(#149740) 100:-
THE SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, FOR THE YEAR MDCCCXXIII, MDCCCXXIV AND MDCCCXXV. Being an Impartial Selection of the most Exquisite Essays, Jeux d'esprit, and Tales of Humour, Prose, and Verse. With explanatory notes.
London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co, 1825, 1825 and Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1826. 3 volumes of which the first in second edition. First volume illustrated with a portrait of His Majesty, and six humorous designs by Cruikshank. XV, (1), 576 pp. Second volume with a portrait of Lord Noel Byron drawn by Wageman and engraved by Woolnoth. Wood engravings in text designed by Rowlandson, Cruikshank and others. XX, 568 pp. Third volume with a portrait of Sir Walter Scott engraved after a miniature by Woolnoth. Wood engravings in text designed by Cruikshank engraved by Bonner. XIX, (1), 530 pp. Three contemporary rebacked half leather volumes with preserved old spines and new free endpapers. All three volumes with minor foxing.
(#135531) 1200:-
Tournier, Michel: THE FETISHIST AND OTHER STORIES.
London: Collins, 1983. First UK edition. 220 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket with a small mended tear.
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TRANSLATIONS FROM THE CHINESE. Waley, Arthur:
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941. (18), 325, (2) pp + plates. 27,5x19 cm. Publisher's pictorial cloth with light faded spine in printed slipcase (28,5x19,5cm). Illustrated by Cyrus Le Roy Baldridge with grey drawings in text and color plates.
(#155613) 250:-
Trollope, Anthony: THE LAST CHRONICLE OF BARSET.
Introduction by Julian Symons. London: The Folio Society, 1980. First edition published 1867. 772, (1) pp. Publisher's quarter cloth in slipcase. Both endpapers printed with maps. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings by Peter Reddick.
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Trotter, Catherine: THE REVOLUTION OF SWEDEN. A Tragedy.
Edited by Gunnar Sorelius. Uppsala: Uppsala University, 2012. XXXVIII, 143, (4) pp. Publisher's printed soft cover. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Studia Anglistica Upsaliensia 134. The play was originally performed and published in London 1706 and depicts the story of Gustavus Vasa.
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Tucker, James: RALPH RASHLEIGH.
London: Folio Society, 1977. 341, (1) pp. Publisher's pprinted cloth. Without slipcase. Both endpapers printed with maps. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings by Nigel Lambourne.
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Twain, Mark (1835-1910): THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN.
Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1947. New edition. 377, (2) pp + plates. Publisher's printed cloth in damaged and mended dust jacket. Illustrated in black-and-white in the text and with color plates by Baldwin Hawes.
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Updike, John (1932-2009): RABBIT AT REST.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First trade edition. (10), 512, (6) pp. Publisher's title decorated cloth in dust jacket.
(#156305) 300:-
Wahlöö, Per (1926-1975): THE GENERALS.
Translated from the Swedish by Joan Tate. New York: Pantheon, 1974. First American edition. (8), 277, (1) pp. Publisher's pictorial cloth in slightly worn dust jacket with faded spine.
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Wallace, Irvine: THE THREE SIRENS.
London: Cassell, 1964. First UK edition. 550, (1) pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
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Waugh, Evelyn (1903-1966): LOVE AMONG THE RUINS. A Romance of the near Future.
With decorations by various eminent hands including the Author's. London: Chapman & Hall, 1953. First edition. (8), 51, (2) pp. Publisher's pictorial cloth without dust jacket. Illustrated in black-and-white.
(#154760) 150:-
Waugh, Evelyn (1903-1966): SCOTT-KING'S MODERN EUROPE.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1947. First UK edition. (6), 88, (1) pp. Publisher's cloth. Without dust jacket.
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Williams, Andrew: TO KILL A TSAR.
London: John Murray, 2010. First edition. (10), 436 pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
(#161481) 100:-
Wolfe, Tom (1931-2018): THE PUMP HOUSE GANG.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968. First printing. X, 309 pp. Publisher's quarter cloth in dust jacket. 0,5 cm at tail of spine a little faded, otherwise a nice copy. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings by the author.
(#102226) 900:-
Vonnegut, Kurt (1922-2007): TIMEQUAKE.
New York: Putnam, 1997. First edition, first printing. XIV, (2), 219 pp. Publisher's quarter cloth in dust jacket.
(#152844) 200:-
Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941): THE WAVES.
London: Hogarth Press, 1955. Eighth impression. 211 pp. Publisher's cloth in damaged and mended dust jacket. With bookplate.
(#164518) 200:-
YANKEE DOODLE'S LITERARY SAMPLER OF PROSE, POETRY & PICTURES. Being an Anthology of Diverse Works Published for the Edification and/or Entertainment of Young Readers in America Before 1900.
Selected and introduced by Virginia Haviland and Margaret N. Coughlan. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1974. (10), 466, (1) pp. 28,5x22 cm. Publisher's embossed cloth in damaged and mended dust jacket.
(#164074) 150:-
Yokoyama, Hideo: SIX FOUR.
Translated from the Japanese by Jonathan Lloyd-Davies. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2017. VI, 566, (1) pp. Publisher's hard cover in dust jacket.
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