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SMITH, Tom Rob
Child 44
London: Simon & Schuster, 2008
8vo, pp. 473. Original red boards, lettered in silver to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
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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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HASTINGS, Michael
Tom And Viv
London: Royal Court Theatre, 1984
8vo, pp. 41. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers.
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GREENE, Graham
The Return Of A. J. Raffles
London: Bodley Head, 1975
Small 8vo, pp. 80. Original orange boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First edition. No. 202 of 250 copies SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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GRAVES, Robert
To Juan At The Winter Solstice
N.p. Privately Printed, 1944
178 x 131mm, pp. 4. Single sheet, folded once.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY GRAVES ON THE FRONT LEAF: 'Honor with love from Robert. New ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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GRAVES, Robert
Life Of The Poet Gnaeus Robertulus Gravesa
Deya: New Seizin Press, 1990
Small octavo, pp. 16. Original vellum boards, lettered in red on front panel. Pale green leaf of advice on preserving the vellum tipped... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[GRAVES, Robert]
The Augustan Poets
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1943
8vo, pp. 32, lacking the outer wrappers.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY GRAVES IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION TO JULIAN GLOVER.
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JOHNSON, B.S.
House Mother Normal
London: Trigram Press, 1971
8vo, pp. 204. Original threequarter grey boards, lettered in silver on cream spine. Yellow endpapers.
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JOHNSON, B.S.
Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry
London: Collins, 1973
8vo, pp. 180. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
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JOHNSON, B.S.
Poems Two
London: Trigram Press, 1972
Small 8vo, pp. 61. Original grey boards, lettered in silver to spine. Green endpapers, illustrated dustwrapper.
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MORTIMER, John
Felix In The Underworld
London: Viking, 1997
8vo, pp. 247. Original pale blue boards, lettered in silver 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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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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[McKERN, Leo] [HERRMANN, Edward] selected by WAVELL, A. P.
Other Men's Flowers
London: Cape, 1992
8vo, pp. 448. Original burgundy boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Dustwrappers lettered in red and black to front panel and spine.
Reprinted... [please click on the image or book title for more details]"If" -- the complete version will be sent! E.'.
This last refers to a referenced parody of Kipling's poem which begins: 'If you can keep your girl, when all around you, / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you...'. In the film Hermann and McKern's characters discover that they have been in love with the same woman all their lives.
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[WODEHOUSE, P.G.] MOYLE, Seth
Cheque From the Frank A. Munsey Company
New York: N.p., 1912
Company cheque, hand-dated Sept. 4th 1912, made out to Seth Moyle, and signed by him on reverse.
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SUTHERLAND, Joan
ALS To Leo McKern
Montreux: N.p., 1993
2pp. ALS on headed notepaper ('Joan Sutherland' over a floral design, light red on cream). Original envelope present, address handwritten, postmarked 23.11.93. Colour photograph of Sutherland and McKern on location for On Our Selection in Braidwood, Australia, taken the following year.
2pp. ALS FROM JOAN SUTHERLAND TO LEO MCKERN, FONDLY REMEMBERING THEIR RECENT MEETING AND LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING TOGETHER ON DAD AND DAVE: ON OUR SELECTION.
In 1994, four years after her retirement from the operatic stage, Dame Joan Sutherland returned to her native Australia to make what would turn out to be her only dramatic film: Dad and Dave:On Our Selection, written and directed by George Whaley. Based on the writings of Steele Rudd, the film, set in Queensland at the end of the nineteenth century, starred Geoffrey Rush, Ray Barrett, Noah Taylor -- and Leo McKern as Dad Rudd. Joan Sutherland played Mother Rudd, with not entirely satisfactory results, and the film, made to mark the centenary of the Australian film industry, was a failure with both critics and paying audiences.
This letter dates from the early days of Sutherland and McKern's association, is written on Sutherland's personalised notepaper and sent from her home in the Swiss village of Les Avants, and looks forward, albeit nervously, to the forthcoming shoot:
'[I]f nothing else convinced me to become involved in the film your honest, down-to-earthness did. I hope, if it all gets sorted out that I shan't be too much out of my depth!'
Accompanying the letter is a photograph, taken on location the following year, of a laughing Sutherland and McKern in costume.
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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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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.
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KITCHIN, C.H.B.
The Secret River
London: Secker & Warburg, 1956
8vo, pp. 359. Original black boards, lettered in silver to spine. Printed dustwrapper.
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WAUGH, Evelyn
Black Mischief
London: Chapman & Hall, 1932
8vo, pp. 323. Original purple cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Device in gilt to front panel. Top edge gilt, leading and lower edges... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
