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[Literary Periodical] ed. Foley, Martha and BURNETT, Whit

Story

New York: Story Magazine, 1937

4to, pp. 112. Original red stiff paper wrappers.

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[Literary Periodical] ed. Foley, Martha and BURNETT, Whit

Story

New York: Story Magazine, 1939

4to, pp. 98. Original red stiff paper wrappers.

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[Literary Periodical] ed. Foley, Martha and BURNETT, Whit

Story

New York: Story Magazine, 1937

4to, pp. 98. Original blue stiff paper wrappers.

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[Literary Periodical] ed. Foley, Martha and BURNETT, Whit

Story

New York: Story Magazine, 1936

4to, pp. 120. Original gold stiff paper wrappers. Subscription form laid in.

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[MOORE, Marianne]

Sagetrieb

Maine: University of Maine, 1986

8vo, pp. 202. Original stiff paper wrappers, photographic portrait of Moore by Zbyszek Meissner to front panel.

First edition.

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FRAENKEL, Michael

Défense du Tropique du Cancer

Paris: Variété, 1947

Small 8vo, pp. 93. Original stiff paper wrappers, lettered in red and black to front panel. Original glassine wrapper.

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FRAENKEL, Michael

Death is Not Enough

London: C.W.Daniel & Co., 1939

8vo, pp. 170. Original brown boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine. Printed dustwrapper. Glassine outer wrapper.

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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.

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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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DUNNING, John

The Sign Of The Book

New York: Scribner, 2005

8vo, pp. 353. Original red and yellow three-quarter boards, lettered in gilt on red at spine.

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COOPER, Susan

Seaward

New York: Atheneum, 1973

8vo, pp. 167. Original pale blue boards, lettered in dark blue on front panel and spine.

First US edition.
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