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O'BRIAN, Patrick
The Mauritius Command
London: Collins, 1977
8vo, pp. 268. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First edition.
An early entry -- instalment four -- in O'Brian's... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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AUDEN, W.H. and MacNEICE, Louis
Letters From Iceland
London: Faber, 1937
8vo, pp. 268. Original green boards, lettered in red and black to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition.
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BETJEMAN, John
First And Last Loves
London: John Murray, 1969
8vo, pp. 244. Original pink and white illustrated stiff paper wrappers.
Later edition, AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED BY BETJEMAN ON... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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SOMERVILLE, E. OE, and ROSS, Martin [pseud. MARTIN, Violet]
Sarah's Youth
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1938
8vo, pp. 311. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR TO TITLE PAGE, AND... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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O'BRIAN, Patrick
The Thirteen Gun Salute
London: Collins, 1989
8vo, pp. 319. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First edition.
Instalment no. 13 in what became O'Brian's 20-volume ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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CAREY, Peter
Oscar And Lucinda
London: Faber, 1988
8vo, pp. 512. Original blue boards, lettered in white on spine.
First UK edition. Winner of the Booker Prize, and filmed by Gillian Armstrong... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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MILLER, Henry
Plexus
Paris: Olympia Press 1953
2 vols. 8vos, pp. 342 and 348. Original stiff paper wrappers.
First English-language edition, preceded only by the French translation published by Corrêa a year before in an edition of just ... [more]
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MILNE, A.A.
The House At Pooh Corner
London: Methuen,
1928
8vo, pp. 178. Original salmon boards, lettered in gilt to spine, two Sheperd vignettes in gilt to front panel. Pink illustrated endpapers.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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HERLIHY, James Leo
Midnight Cowboy
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965
8vo, pp. 253. Original blue 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]
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[MILLER, Henry] ed. PERLES, Alfred
The Booster, Christmas Special
Paris: P.p., 1937
Small 8vo, pp. 48. Original green stiff paper wrappers, printed in black to front and rear panels.
First edition.
In 1937, and for reasons best known to himself, the head of the American Country Club of France entrusted its house journal to the editorial control of Alfred Perlès, encouraging him to bring in his literary friends and turn it into 'something really good'. Perlès took him at his word. Henry Miller, William Saroyan and Lawrence Durrell were installed as Literary Editors, which was a solid start, but alarm bells must have started to ring when Michael Fraenkel opened the Department of Metaphysics and Metempsychosis, and Walter Lowenfels was appointed to the key position of Head of Butter News. The newly conceived organ was relaunched in September 1937 and followed a less than predictable orbit before crashing to earth seven issues later in April, 1939. (It was lucky to get to seven: when Durrell published a piece about an old man being fucked to death by Eskimo Nell, the name of the magazine was changed to Delta at the insistence of a management understandably fearing legal action.)
This is the third issue, which bears the seasonal title 'The Tri-Lingual Womb Number'. It features contributions from Gerald Durrell (Death), Henry Miller (How to Lead the Podiatric Life) and Perlès (Limbs Ancient and Modern), as well as Saroyan, Raymond Queneau and Anais Nin.
A scarce survivor, and a bizarre literary side street.
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[FRAENKEL, Michael and LOWENFELS, Walter] ANONYMOUS
Anonymous
Paris: Carrefour Editions, N.d. [1930]
12mo, pp. 29. Original yellow stiff paper wrappers.
First edition of Fraenkel's first book, and the first publication of the ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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MORTIMER, John
The Summer Of A Dormouse
London: Viking, 2000
8vo, pp. 213. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
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MORTIMER, John
Paradise Postponed
London: Viking, 1985
8vo, pp. 374. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
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GARNER, Alan
The Lad of the Gad
London: Collins, 1980
8vo, pp. 116. Original black boards, lettered in silver to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
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ROBSON, Don
Young and Sensitive
London: Hutchinson, 1964
8vo, pp. 175. Uncorrected proof copy. Original printed red stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to front panel and spine. Endpapers illustrated with facsimile manuscript.
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MacDONALD, John D.
Dress Her In Indigo
London: Robert Hale, 1971
8vo, pp. 208. Original black boards, lettered in silver to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First UK edition, and a very nice example.
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MILNE, A.A.
Now We Are Six
London: Methuen, 1927
8vo, pp. 104. Original maroon boards, lettered in gilt to spine and with E.H. Shepard designs in gilt to front and rear panels. Pink endpapers with... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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SOMERVILLE, E. OE, and ROSS, Martin [pseud. MARTIN, Violet]
All On The Irish Shore
New York: Longman's, Green & Co., 1910
8vo, pp. 274. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine and blind stamped to front panel. Tissue guard to... [please click on the image or book title for more details]"Martin Ross" April 19, 1913.' The English literary scholar Nevill Coghill was the nephew of Edith Somerville, the co-author of this book. First published by Longmans in 1903.
Edith Somerville [1858-1949] and her writing partner, her cousin Violet Martin ('Martin Ross') [1862-1915] are best known for writing the Irish R.M. stories together. After Violet's death in 1915 Edith, a firm believer in seances and the afterlife, continued to proclaim dual authorship of her books. This collection comprises eleven articles by the pair previously published in magazines, periodicals and anthologies.
A scarce signature, and a close family association.
