
[COWARD, Noel] LESLEY, Cole; PAYN, Graham and MORLEY, Sheridan
Noel Coward And His Friends
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979
4to, pp. 216. Original white boards, lettered in silver on spine.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY ALL THREE AUTHORS ON PUBLICATION DAY TO BOB HOLNESS: 'Dear Bob, with our thanks, Coley, Publication Day. Graham, + Sheridan'. ADDITIONALLY SIGNED IN FULL BY ALL THREE AUTHORS ON TITLE PAGE.<
MANTEL, Hilary
An Experiment In Love
London: Viking, 1995
8vo, pp. 250. Original black boards, lettered in silver on spine.
First edition SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
[HANCOCK, Tony] [trans. AUDEN, W.H.] HAMMARSKJOLD, Dag
Markings
London: Faber, 1965
8vo, pp. 186. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
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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.
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SPAETH, Sigmund
Fifty Years With Music
New York: Fleet Publishing Corporation, 1959
8vo, pp. 288. Original maroon boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
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[HEMINGWAY, Ernest] STIPES WATTS, Emily
Ernest Hemingway And The Arts
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1971
8vo. pp. 243. Original russet boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
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ATKINSON, Kate
Behind The Scenes At The Museum
London: Doubleday: 1995
8vo, pp. 333. Original blue boards, lettered in silver on spine.
First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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CASTRO, Adam-Troy
Lost In Booth Nine
Woodinville: Silver Salamander Press, 1993
8vo, pp. 208. Original black boards, lettered in red on front panel and spine.
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[MILLIGAN, Spike] GUILD, Robin
The Complete Victorian House Book
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1989
4to, pp. 320. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition, INSCRIBED TO SPIKE MILLIGAN BY HIS WIFE: ' Spike Darling -- This is more a present for 'us' to enjoy. Love Shelagh xx P.S. See page 22. Xmas 1989.' (p. 22 carries a picture of Holly Lodge in Highgate, at which Shelagh has written 'Lynsey [de Paul]'s house x').
Spike Milligan was married to Shelagh, his third wife, for the last nineteen years of his life until his death in 2002. Shelagh died in 2011.
DOYLE, Roddy
Oh, Play That Thing
London: Jonathan Cape, 2004
8vo, pp.376. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on the spine.
First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
SHERRIN, NED
Scratch An Actor
London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1996
8vo, pp.323. Original black boards, lettered in silver to spine.
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[POWELL, Michael] GIBBON, Monk
The Tales Of Hoffmann
London: Saturn Press, 1951
4to, pp. 96. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Cockerel device in gilt to front panel.
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(BAUDELAIRE, Charles) (illus. NOLAN, Sidney) (trans. LOWELL, Robert)
The Voyage:
London: Faber, 1968
4to, pp. 60. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Illustrated dustwrapper. Two brochures for the Sidney Nolan Trust laid in.
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SPARK, Muriel
A Hundred and Eleven Years Without A Chauffeur
London: Colophon Press, 2001
Large 8vo, pp. 15. Original oversize blue stiff paper wrappers. Title label to front panel. Sewn gatherings.
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SPARK, Muriel
Harper And Wilton
London: Colophon Press, 1996
Large 8vo, pp. 17. Original quarter-bound boards in Nigerian goatskin. Title label to front panel.
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BETJEMAN, John
A Wembley Lad / The Crem
London: Poem Of The Month Club, 1971
Broadside, single sheet, 11" X 15".
First edition, one of 1000 copies SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, AND WITH A TWO-WORD CORRECTION IN HIS HAND. With the original Poem of the Month cover letter.
BETJEMAN, John
Ode On The Marriage Of HRH Prince Charles To The Lady Diana Spencer In St. Paul's Cathedral On 29th July 1981
London: Warren Editions, 1981
Broadside, single white sheet, 485mm x 215mm, with red and blue fleur de lys and encircling decoration.
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HEANEY, Seamus
Wintering Out
London: Faber, 1972
8vo, pp. 80. Original printed card wrappers.
First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. This issue precedes the hardbound edition.
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HEANEY, Seamus
Door Into The Dark
London: Faber, 1972
8vo, pp. 56. Original stiff paper wrappers.
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BETJEMAN, John
Poems In The Porch
London: SPCK, 1954
8vo, unpaginated. Original illustrated stiff paper wrapper, lettered in blue and red to front panel.
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