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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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[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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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]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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[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.
A collection... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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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]
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JOHNSON, B.S.
Poems
London: Constable, 1964
Small 8vo, pp. 53. Original green boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO TONY AND JUNE TILLINGHAST:... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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STEINBECK, John
Nothing So Monstrous
New York: Pynson Printers, 1936
8vo, pp. 31. Original marbled boards, lettered in black on tan cloth spine. Glassine jacket. Unopened.
First separate edition. One... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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WODEHOUSE, P.G.
Lord Emsworth And Others
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1937
8vo, pp. 312. 8 pp. advertisements bound in at rear. Original red boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine. Illustrated... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
