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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.

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[pseud. RENDELL, Ruth] VINE, Barbara

King Solomon's Carpet

London: Viking, 1991

Large 8vo, pp. 356. Original black boards, lettered in silver on spine.

First edition.

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BRADBURY, Malcolm

Cuts

London: Hutchinson, 1987

8vo, pp. 106. Original red threequarter boards, lettered in gilt on front panel and black spine.

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[pseud. RENDELL, Ruth] VINE, Barbara

Asta's Book

London: Viking, 1993

8vo, pp. 437. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First edition. The sixth Barbara Vine novel.

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McGRATH, Pat

The Green Leaves Of Nottingham

London: W.H. Allen, 1970

8vo, pp. 172. Original brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First edition of the author's first book, written when he was fourteen years old and published a year later. With a foreword by Alan Sillitoe, and a marvellously evocative photograph of the author on the rear panel.

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[illus. BAWDEN, Edward] AUDEN, W.H.

Mountains

London: Faber, 1954

8vo, 4 pp., unpaginated. Original yellow stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to front and rear panels. Stitched binding. Original pink envelope,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

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GREENE, Graham
J'Accuse
London: Bodley Head, 1982

8vo, pp. 69. Original unprinted stiff paper wrappers. Printed dustwrapper. Text in English and French.

First edition.

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AUDEN, W.H.
About The House
London: Faber, 1966

8vo, pp. 94. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Printed dustwrapper. Lacking the errata slip.

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PERLES, Alfred
Henry Miller In Villa Seurat
London: Village Press, 1973

Tall pamphlet, 8pp., bound in illustrated stiff paper wrappers and lettered in black to front panel.

First separate edition.

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KENT, Alexander
With All Despatch
London: Hutchinson, 1988

8vo, pp. 272. Original blue boards, lettered in gold to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.

First edition of the eighteenth Bolitho title.

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[contrib. AUDEN, W.H.] ed. PLOTZ, Richard
Happy Birthday J.R.R. Tolkein
New York: Tolkein Society of America, 1967

Magazine format, pp. 27. Original illustrated glossy paper wrappers.

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NAIPAUL, V. S.
Guerillas
London: Deutsch, 1975

8vo., pp. 253. Original brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First edition.

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THEROUX, Paul
Doctor Slaughter
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984

Large 8vo., pp. 137. Original black boards, lettered in silver on spine.

First edition.

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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.
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YATES, Dornford
Red In The Morning
London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1946

8vo, pp. 255. Original tan boards, a little cocked, printed in black on spine.

First edition.

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LESSING, Doris
The Good Terrorist
London: Cape, 1985

8vo, pp. 370. Original black boards lettered in gold on spine.

First edition, lacking the rare wraparound band.

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AMIS, Kingsley
Jake's Thing
London: Hutchinson, 1978

8vo, pp. 285. Original blue boards, lettered in silver on spine.

First edition. Shortlisted for the 1978 Booker prize.

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FULLER, Roy
Poor Roy
London: Andre Deutsch, 1977

8vo, pp. 64. Original green boards lettered in silver on spine.

First edition of the author's second book of poems for children.

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