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WODEHOUSE, P.G.

Psmith, Journalist

New York: N.p., 1909

175 loose pp., various sizes. Collation: Chapters I-XIII [pp. 1-92], lacking the last few lines of Chapter XIII; Chapters XVI-XX [pp. 110-150]; Chapters... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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WODEHOUSE, P.G.
Do Butlers Burgle Banks?
N.p. [Remsenberg]: N.p., N.d. [?1967]

123pp. loose leaf, divided into six sections. Section I: 2 pp. Ms., rectos only, loose leaf, ink and pencil, in acid-free plastic... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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£45,000.00

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WOOLF, Virginia
A Room Of One's Own
New York, London: Fountain Press, Hogarth Press, 1929

8vo, pp. 159. Original maroon boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Edges uncut. No dustwrapper, as... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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£6,750.00

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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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£3,500.00

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[ed. RIDING, Laura; GRAVES, Robert; and others]
Focus
Deya: Privately Printed: N.d. [1935]

Four volumes, 12mos, pp. 12, 23, 40, and 64. Rebound in a green three-quarter cloth binding, with original wrappers bound... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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WODEHOUSE, P.G.
Mr. McGee's Big Day
N.p. [New York]: N.p., N.d. [1950]

10 pp. loose leaf, corrected typescript, rectos only, business card to top left of p.2. Two pages in each of five acid-free plastic... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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WODEHOUSE, P.G.
Psmith In The City
London: A&C Black, 1910

8vo, pp. 266, 2 pp. advertisements bound in at rear. Original blue illustrated boards, lettered in gold and white to front panel and gold on yellow to ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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£2,250.00

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WOOLF, Virginia
Orlando
New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928

8vo, pp. 333. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Publisher's device in gold to front panel. Top edge gilt, leading and bottom edge ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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WODEHOUSE, P.G. and BOLTON, Guy
Bring On The Girls!
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953

8vo, pp. 278. Original black three-quarter boards, lettered in red and green on blue to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.

First edition, INSCRIBED BY BOTH AUTHORS IN THE MONTH OF PUBLICATION: 'Lewis Pierson with best wishes from the authors, [sgd.] P. G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton. October 31st.' (Inscription written by Guy Bolton).

Hugely enjoyable, highly unreliable account of Wodehouse and Bolton's involvement as lyricists and book-writers in the early twentieth century Broadway musical, alongside Jerome Kern, Florenz Ziegfeld, and George and Ira Gershwin, among many, many others. Hardly a historical document -- if there is a choice to be made between a fact and a great story, it's the great story that gets the nod -- but a wonderfully vivid evocation of the early days of Broadway, and how much fun it was to be there.

Copies signed by one or other of the authors surface from time to time; copies signed by both are very scarce.

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£1,950.00

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BARR, James [pseud. FUGATE, James]
Quatrefoil
New York: Greenberg, 1950

8vo, pp. 373. Original black boards, lettered and decorated in gilt on front panel and spine.

First edition of the author's first book, inscribed by Barr to Richard Yates on the front free... [more]

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£1,750.00

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WODEHOUSE, P.G.
Blandings Castle
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1935

8vo, pp. 311. Original green boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine. Publisher's device in black to rear panel. Illustrated... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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£1,500.00

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WODEHOUSE, P.G.
Psmith, Journalist
London: A&C Black, 1915

8vo, pp. 247. Original blue illustrated boards, lettered in yellow to front panel and in gilt to spine. No dustwrapper.

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£1,500.00

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WOOLF, Virginia
Monday Or Tuesday
London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1921

Small 8vo, pp. 96. White paper boards, brown cloth spine.

First edition. One of 1000 copies.
Eight ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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£1,500.00

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BOWEN, Elizabeth
Encounters
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1923

8vo, pp. 204, 3 pp. advertisements bound in at rear. Original blue boards, geometric pattern to front panel in gilt, title in gilt to front... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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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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[pseud. DESCLOS, Anne Cécile] RÉAGE, Pauline
Histoire d'O
Sceaux: Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1954

8vo, pp. 245. Original printed yellow wrappers. Later protective slipcase.

First edition, one of 600 numbered copies of which... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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McEWAN, Ian
First Love, Last Rites
London: Cape, 1975

8vo, pp. 165. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine.

First edition of the author's first book, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AT THE TIME OF... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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£1,200.00

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[ed. GREENE, Graham]
The Old School
London: Cape, 1934

8vo, pp. 256. Original black boards, lettered in pale blue to front panel and spine. Bottom edge uncut.

First edition.

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