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DUNNING, John
The Bookman's Wake
New York : Scribner, 1995
8vo, pp. 351. Original tan and maroon quarter boards, lettered in red and tan-on-red on spine.
First edition. The second of Dunning's biblio-mysteries featuring the bookloving detective... [more]
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DeLILLO, Don
The Body Artist
London: Picador, 2001
8vo, pp. 124. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First UK edition.
Review copy: London Review of Books slip laid in.
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CLARK, Barrett H[arper].
The Blush Of Shame
New York: N.p. 1932
Small 8vo, pp. 16. Original stiff paper wrappers, string binding and tie.
First edition, first issue.
'This pamphlet owes its existence to the fact that it was rejected by nearly fifty... [more]
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[Olympia Press] DURRELL, Lawrence
The Black Book
Paris: Olympia Press, 1959
Small octavo, pp. 301. Original green stiff paper wrappers.
First issue of the two Olympia Press versions issued by Maurice Girodias.
First published by Girodias' father Jack Kahane... [more]
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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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[Olympia Press] DURRELL, Lawrence
The Black Book
Paris: Olympia Press, 1959
Small octavo, pp. 301. Original green stiff paper wrappers.
First issue of the two Olympia Press versions issued by Maurice Girodias.
First published by Girodias' father Jack Kahane... [more]
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[trans. VIVIS, Anthony] FASSBINDER, Rainer Werner
The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant and Blood On The Neck Of The Cat
London: Amber Lane Press, 1984
Small 8vo, pp. 102. Original green laminated stiff paper wrappers.
First English-language edition, INSCRIBED BY THE TRANSLATOR: 'To... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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ALVAREZ, Al
The Biggest Game In Town
London: Deutsch, 1983
8vo, pp. 185. Original brown boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Photographic dustwrapper.
First UK edition.
Informed, thrilling and brilliantly written, The Biggest Game In Town became one of the key poker texts the minute it was published, and has been read, loved and learned from by both poker players and literature lovers ever since.
A perfect copy of a perfect book. Every home game should have one.
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MANN, Thomas
The Beloved Returns (Lotte In Weimar)
New York: Knopf, 1940
8vo, pp. 453. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition in English, trade issue, stated first and second printings... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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PLATH, Sylvia
The Bell Jar
London: Faber, 1967
Small 8vo, pp. 258. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
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OWEN, Jack
The Beach Bums
New York: Coward-McCann, 1959
8vo, pp. 192. Original off-white boards, lettered in red on spine.
First edition, signed by THE AUTHOR in the year of publication.
This was the author's only novel, a story of... [more]
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AUDEN, W.H.
The Ballad of Barnaby
New York: G. Schirmer, 1970
4to, pp. 53. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to front and rear panels.
First edition.
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SMITH, Zadie
The Autograph Man
London: Hamish Hamilton, 2002
8vo, pp. 419. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on front panel and spine.
First edition of the author's second novel.
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[ed. BOYLE, Kay] CARNEVALI, Emanuel
The Autobiography of Emanuel Carnevali
New York: Horizon Press, N.d. [1967]
Large 8vo., pp. 264. Original white boards, lettered in blind on front panel and in black on spine.
First edition.
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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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NESS, Patrick
The Ask And The Answer
London: Walker Books, 2009
8vo, pp. 519. Original blue patterned boards lettered in silver and grey on front and back panels and spine.
First edition of the second ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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AUDEN, W.H. and ISHERWOOD, Christopher
The Ascent Of F6
London: Faber, 1936
8vo, pp. 123. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition, one of 2000 copies.
First... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[ed. NEWMAN, Charles] PLATH, Sylvia
The Art of Sylvia Plath: A Symposium
London: Faber, 1970
Large 8vo., pp. 319. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition.
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WALDO, Myra
The Art Of South American Cookery
New York: Doubleday, 1961
8vo., pp. 266. Original blue and green boards, lettered in white on spine.
First edition.
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MEYER, Elise Landauer
The Art Of Cooking With Spirits
New York: Doubleday, 1964
8vo., pp. 325. Original blue and black boards, lettered in gilt on front panel and spine.
First edition.
Scarce in decent condition.
