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[BARKER, Granville] COFFIN, C. Hayden
Cuttings Scrapbook for the 1912 Savoy Theatre Production of Twelfth Night
V.p.: N.p., 1912
Scrapbook in half leather and green boards, gold bands to black spine. First third of the album filled with production photographic illustrations and... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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BRANDT, Bill
Literary Britain
London: Cassell, 1951
Square 8vo, unpaginated. Original green boards, lettered in gilt and gilt-on-red to spine. Tan endpapers. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition. Introduction by John Heyward.
Now very scarce in the dustwrapper.
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[HOWERD, Frankie] COLIN, Sid
Up Pompeii
London: Ned Sherrin Productions/Anglo-EMI, 1970
Large 8vo, 140 pp., bound in brown stiff paper wrappers, text block secured with two split pins.
First edition. FREELANCE COMEDY WRITER DICK VOSBURGH'S COPY, WITH HIS NOTES TO TITLE PAGE AND OCCASIONAL NOTES AND MARKINGS THROUGHOUT THE TEXT.
Script for the film version of Up Pompeii!, which cast Michael Hordern as Ludicrus, Julie Ege as Voluptua, and Madeleine Smith as Erotica. (The feature film dispensed with the TV show's exclamation mark).
Although his work is uncredited, writer Dick Vosburgh worked on both the TV and film incarnations of Up Pompeii!, a hugely successful show which was worked up by a number of writers from an original idea by Talbot Rothwell.
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ISHIGURO, Kazuo
A Pale View Of Hills
London: Faber, 1982
8vo, pp. 183. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
Ishiguro's first novel, now... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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HUGHES, Ted
Selected Poems 1957-1967
London: Faber, 1972
8vo, pp. 109. Original stiff paper wrappers.
First UK edition, softbound issue, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE.
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AUDEN, W.H.
The Dyer's Hand
London: Faber, 1963
8vo, pp. 527. Original blue-green boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First UK edition, preceded by the US edition which appeared three months... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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HUGHES, Ted
Lupercal
London: Faber, 1970
8vo, pp. 63. Original stiff paper wrappers.
First paperback edition, originally published in 1960, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE.
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HEANEY, Seamus
Death Of A Naturalist
London: Faber, 1969
8vo, pp. 57. Original printed card wrappers.
First softbound issue, appearing three years after its hardbound counterpart. SIGNED BY THE... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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HEANEY, Seamus
Eleven Poems
Belfast: Festival Publications, 1965
8vo, 14 pp. unpaginated, stapled paper wrappers.
First edition, first issue, with the purple nine-point star to front wrapper. ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[illus. PIPER, John; STONE, Reynolds] THOMAS, R.S.
The Mountains
New York: Chilmark Press, 1968
4to, pp. 42. Original three-quarter blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt to black morocco spine. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Original... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[pseud. MATTHEWS, Ronald] COUSINS, Sheila
To Beg I Am Ashamed
Paris: Obelisk Press, 1938
8vo, pp. 270. Original yellow stiff paper wrappers, lettered in red and black on front and rear panels and spine. Edges uncut.
Second edition, first Obelisk edition. The publisher's note on [vi] states: 'An attack against the book, in the London press, of unprecedented ferocity and vindictiveness caused its withdrawal before publication [by Routledge]. This, the Obelisk edition, published in May 1938, is therefore the first effective edition.' Despite being withdrawn before publication, a few copies of the Routledge edition have survived.
It is sometimes claimed, usually by bookdealers, that this book was written by Graham Greene. It wasn't. Although Greene helped his friend by chipping in with a telling phrase here and there -- phrases he would later quote approvingly when he contrived to review the book -- To Beg I Am Ashamed is almost entirely the work of Ronald Matthews.
A very nice copy of a fragile, cheaply made book.
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BARKER, Pat
The Eye In The Door
London: Viking, 1993
8vo, pp. 280. Original black boards, lettered in silver on spine.
First edition.
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BANVILLE, John
Ghosts
London: Secker & Warburg, 1993
8vo, pp. 245. Original black boards, lettered in silver on spine.
First edition.
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[illus. FOREMAN, Michael] JONES, Terry
The Saga Of Erik The Viking
London: Pavilion Books/Michael Joseph, 1983
Large 8vo, pp. 144. Original brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition.
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KING, Jessie M.
The City Of The West
Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis, 1911
Small 8vo, unpaginated. Original deluxe binding, boards lettered in gilt on spine, and gilt illustration and lettering to front panel. Edges... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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WILLIAMS, Kit
Masquerade
London: Cape, 1979
4to, unpaginated. Original illustrated boards, no dustwrapper, as issued.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE: 'To ---- fair... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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MILLIGAN, Spike
The Goon Show: Series Six Number Twelve: The Terrible Revenge Of Fred Fu Manchu (announced as Fred Fu Manchu And His Bamboo Saxophone)
London: N.p. [BBC], 1955
23 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left.
First edition. Series Six, Number Twelve, first broadcast on 6 December 1955.
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[HANCOCK, Tony] GALTON, Ray and SIMPSON, Alan
Hancock's Half Hour: Series 1, Episode 14, 'The Sheikh'
N.p. [London]: N.p. [BBC], 1955
36 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left.
First edition.
Episode 14 of the first series of the peerless radio... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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LOGAN, Anne M.
Wine And Wine Cooking
Richmond: Media General 1972
Large 8vo, pp. 328. Original red boards, lettered in gilt on front panel and spine.
First edition.
