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DURRELL, Lawrence
The Black Book
Paris: Obelisk, 1938
Octavo, pp. 260. Original stiff paper wrappers.
First edition.
No. 1 in the Villa Seurat series, established by Henry Miller and Laurence and Nancy Durrell as an imprint of the Obelisk... [more]
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[McKERN, Leo] MORTIMER, John
Will Shakespeare
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1977
8vo, pp. 256. Original light brown boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
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GUDAITIS, Anthony
A Young Man About To Commit Suicide
New York: William Faro, 1932
8vo, pp. 224. Original hessian boards, spine label lettered in red. Paper on rear pastedown a little split at spine.
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WHITE, T.H.
The Once and Future King
London: Collins, 1958
8vo, pp. 677. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Printed dustwrapper.
First compendium edition of White's epic... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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PROULX, E. Annie
The Shipping News
New York: Scribner's, 1993
8vo, pp. 364. Original blue stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to front panel and spine.
Uncorrected advance proof copy, SIGNED BY... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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WODEHOUSE, P.G.
Mulliner Nights
New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1933
8vo, pp. 312. Original orange boards, lettered in black and orange-on-black to front panel and spine. Top edge red, leading edge uncut.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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WODEHOUSE, P.G.
Uncle Dynamite
New York: Didier, 1948
8vo, pp. 312. Original red boards, lettered in silver to spine, facsimile signature in silver to front panel.
First US edition, published five weeks after its UK counterpart. The second Uncle Fred novel.
Uncle Dynamite was the first book Wodehouse had published in the United States following his split from Doubleday:
'He blamed the move on 'the Doubleday organisation', which, he felt, was a 'huge factory' that did not care about his books. ... In England, Uncle Dynamite sold as well as Spring Fever, but in America, despite Didier's efforts, sales were not enhanced...' (McCrum)
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BROWN, Bob
Globe-Gliding
Diessen: Roving Eye Press, 1930
Small 8vo, pp. 151. Original brown stiff paper wrappers, lettered in gilt to front panel.
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[contrib. AUDEN, W.H.]
Public School Verse
London: Heinemann, 1924
Small 8vo, pp. 38. Original grey three-quarter boards, printed spine label.
First edition. One of only 500 copies, and Auden's first... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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RENDELL, Ruth
The Face of Trespass
New York: Crime Club/Doubleday, 1974
8vo, pp. 184. Original pale green boards, lettered in dark green to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
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AUDEN, W.H.
Spain
London: Faber, 1937
8vo, pp. 12. Original red stiff paper wrappers with foldover flaps. Partly unopened.
First edition.
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BENCHLEY, Robert
The Early Worm
New York: Henry Holt, 1927
8vo, pp. 263. Original green boards, lettered in yellow to front panel and spine.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: 'To Dicky, for ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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BURNS, John Horne
The Gallery
New York: Harper & Bros., 1947
8vo, pp. 342. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition.
The author's first novel is barely a novel at all, more a loosely-connected series of short,... [more]
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ELIOT, T. S.
Four Quartets
London: Faber, 1944
8vo, pp. 44. Original tan boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Printed dustwrapper. Leading and lower edges uncut.
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MILLER, Henry
Money and How It Gets That Way
Paris: Booster Publications, 1938
Small 8vo, pp. 64. Original black stiff paper wrappers, lettered in gilt to front panel. Partly unopened.
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PROULX, E. Annie
Heart Songs
New York: Scribner's, 1988
8vo, pp. 151. Original mauve and tan three-quarter boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper. Leading edge uncut.
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O'BRIAN, Patrick
Post Captain
London: Collins, 1972
8vo, pp. 414. Original pale blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First edition.
Only the second instalment in what would be... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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GARDNER, John
Licence Renewed
London: Cape and Hodder & Stoughton, 1981
8vo, pp. 270. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper, author's photographic portrait to rear... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
