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DOYLE, Arthur Conan
The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
London: George Newnes, 1891-3
Six bound large 8vo volumes in the standard Strand livery of blue and gilt.
First appearance of the Sherlock Holmes short stories comprising The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, first published.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[MILLIGAN, Spike]
Roma
N.p. N.p. N.d. [1940s]
Large 8vo, unpaginated. String bound in original illustrated stiff paper wrappers.
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AVEDON, Richard and BALDWIN, James
Nothing Personal
London: Penguin, 1964
4to, pp. 90, unpaginated. Original white boards, black on silver title label to front panel, black on silver collaborators' label to rear panel... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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ELIOT, T. S.
Poetry And Drama
London: Faber, 1951
8vo, pp. 35. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Printed dustwrapper.
First UK edition of this lecture, first delivered at Harvard... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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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.
Uncorrected proof copy of the author's...[please click on the image or book title for more details]
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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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CARROLL, Jock
Bottoms Up
Paris: Olympia Press, 1961
Small 8vo, pp. 210. Original green stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to front and rear panels and spine. New price printed faintly to rear panel.
First edition. CANADIAN PUBLISHER STUART.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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HEGLEY, John
Uncut Confetti
London: Methuen, 2006
8vo, pp. 85. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers with fold-over flaps.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO ALAN RICKMAN: .... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[McKern, Leo] OLIVIER, Laurence
TLS Laurence Olivier to Leo McKern
London: N.p., 1982
1p. TLS on headed notepaper.
1pp. TLS FROM LAURENCE OLIVIER TO LEO McKERN, WELCOMING HIM TO THE CAST OF KING LEAR.
In 1959, Laurence Olivier hired....[please click on the image or book title for more details]
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THOMAS, R.S.
The Bright Field/Das Helle Feld
Munich: Babel, 1983
8vo, pp. 20. White pamphlet, lettered in black to front and rear panels, stapled in to unprinted dark blue oversized wrappers.
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NEVILLE, Richard
Hippie Hippie Shake
London: Bloomsbury, 1995
8vo, pp. 376. Original purple boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated endpapers and dustwrapper.
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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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SOMERVILLE, E. OE, and ROSS, Martin [pseud. MARTIN, Violet]
Mount Music
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1919
8vo, pp. 309. Original green boards, lettered in black to front panel and gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[Cinema History] [ed. BAZIN, André, LO DUCA, Joseph-Marie and DO
Cahiers Du Cinema
Paris: Les Editions De L'Etoile, 1951
Five issues. Uniform yellow photo-illustrated wrappers, lettered in black. Between 50 and 60 pp., profusely illustrated with b&w photographs throughout, advertisements at rear.....[please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[PARKER, Dorothy] OPPENHEIMER, George
The Passionate Playgoer
New York: Viking, 1958
8vo, pp. 623. Original pale purple boards, lettered in dark purple to front panel and gilt on dark purple to spine. Top edge purple. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition. DOROTHY PARKER'S COPY.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[JOY DIVISION] CUMMINS, Kevin
Juvenes
London: To Hell With Publishing, 2007
Large 8vo, pp. 192. Original silk-screened boards, the book wrapped in original, sealed blue paper, with the number '38' pencilled to... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[WALLACE, Edgar]
Papers and Correspondence Concerning the Publication by J.W. Arrowsmith of Angel Esquire (1908) and The Melody of Death (1915)
V.p.: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1925-1959
A small quantity of contracts, correspondence and related materials, housed in a manila folder.
A DETAILED PUBLISHER'S ARCHIVE CONCERNING THE PUBLICATION OF TWO NOVELS BY EDGAR WALLACE: ANGEL ESQUIRE.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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BLYTON, Enid
Signed Contract For My Third Enid Blyton Book
London: N.p., 1953
4pp. typed legal document, horizontal fold across centre.
Legal contract dated 1 December 1953, SIGNED BY ENID BLYTON.
The contract... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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WODEHOUSE, P.G.
1p. TLS Discussing the Publication of The Harmonica Mystery and Something Fresh
New York: N.p., 1915
1p. TLS.
1p. TLS FROM P.G. WODEHOUSE (SIGNED 'STEVE'), ALMOST CERTAINLY TO HIS FORMER CONTACT AT MUNSEY'S MAGAZINE BOB DAVIS.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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NORTON, Mary
A Collection of Correspondence between Mary Norton, her publisher and other interested parties, relating to the publication of Are All the Giants Dead?
V.p.: N.p., V.d.
A small quantity of typed and holograph correspondence, and associated materials, between and concerning Mary Norton, her publisher, and interested parties, relating to the publication of Are All The Giants Dead?, .... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
