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SOMERVILLE, E. OE, and ROSS, Martin [pseud. MARTIN, Violet]
All On The Irish Shore
New York: Longman's, Green & Co., 1910
8vo, pp. 274. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine and blind stamped to front panel. Tissue guard to... [please click on the image or book title for more details]"Martin Ross" April 19, 1913.' The English literary scholar Nevill Coghill was the nephew of Edith Somerville, the co-author of this book. First published by Longmans in 1903.
Edith Somerville [1858-1949] and her writing partner, her cousin Violet Martin ('Martin Ross') [1862-1915] are best known for writing the Irish R.M. stories together. After Violet's death in 1915 Edith, a firm believer in seances and the afterlife, continued to proclaim dual authorship of her books. This collection comprises eleven articles by the pair previously published in magazines, periodicals and anthologies.
A scarce signature, and a close family association.
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SOMERVILLE, E. OE
The States Through Irish Eyes
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930
Large 8vo, pp. 200. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Edges uncut.
First edition. One of 375 copies SIGNED BY THE... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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JACOBS, W.W.
The Lady Of The Barge
London: Harper & Brothers, 1902
8vo, pp. 300, 8pp. publisher's advertisements bound in at rear. Original orange illustrated boards, lettered in black to front panel and gilt... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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SPARK, Muriel
The Go-Away Bird
London: Macmillan, 1958
8vo, pp. 215. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First edition.
Spark's first collection of short stories, and a... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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BROOKNER, Anita
A Start In Life
London: Cape, 1981
8vo, pp. 176. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Small bookplate to front pastedown. Illustrated dustwrapper.
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SHAFFER, Peter
Equus
London: Andre Deutsch, 1973
Small 8vo, pp. 105. Original orange boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Photographic dustwrapper.
First edition. Film maker Tony... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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CAMUS, Albert
Lyrical And Critical Essays
New York: Albert A. Knopf: 1968
8vo, pp. 365. Original burgundy boards, lettered in gilt to spine, Camus' name in blind to front panel. Printed price-clipped dustwrapper,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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HENTY, G.A.
A March On London
London, Glasgow and Dublin: Blackie & Sons, 1898 [1897]
8vo, pp. 352, 32 pp. catalogue bound in at rear. All edges gilt.
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AMIS, Kingsley
That Uncertain Feeling
London: Gollancz, 1955
8vo, pp. 254. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First edition of the author's second novel.
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[MILLIGAN, Spike] COHEN, Barry
Life With Gough
St. Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1996
8vo, pp. 268. Original purple boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition, later impression (number line ending at 3), INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO SPIKE MILLIGAN: 'To Spike and Shelagh Love Barry and Rue'. ADDITIONALLY SIGNED BY THE BOOK'S SUBJECT, AUSTRALIAN EX-PRIME MINISTER GOUGH WHITLAM, ON TITLE PAGE.
A nice double association.
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BROCK, Brock Norman, and REFN, Nicolas Winding
Bronson
London: Vertigo Films, 2008
90 mimeographed pp., secured with file staple to left edge. Cast ownership label to title page.
Shooting script of the film starring Tom Hardy and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, dated 26 February 2008 on title page, and copyrighted by Vertigo Media in 2006. ACTOR HUGH ROSS'S COPY, WITH PRODUCTION STICKER TO THAT EFFECT TO RIGHT HAND CORNER OF TITLE PAGE.
Hugh Ross played Uncle Jack in this biopic of Charles Bronson -- currently known as Charles Salvador, but born Michael Peterson -- often described as the most dangerous prisoner in Britain, and certainly one of the maddest. Bronson was very happy with the film's portrayal of him, although some of his family took grave exception to the film's depiction of Uncle Jack, in Hugh Ross's splendid performance, as an ageing, lascivious homosexual. (This would worry me deeply if I was Mr. Ross, but he seems remarkably unperturbed. Maybe he doesn't know...).
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[pseud. FINLAY, Peter Warren] PIERRE, D.B.C.
Vernon God Little
London: Faber, 2003
8vo, pp. 279. Original white boards, lettered in black on spine.
First edition. Winner of the Booker Prize.
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[ed. ZUCKERMAN, Lord]
Great Zoos Of The World: Their Origins And Significance
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, N.d. [1979]
Large 8vo, pp. 231. Original tan boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
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NEWMAN, Arnold
Artists
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1980
4to, pp. 157. Original grey boards, lettered in light grey and black on front panel and spine.
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De BERNIERES, Louis
The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman
London: Secker & Warburg, 1992
8vo, pp. . Original black boards, lettered in silver on spine.
First edition.
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McINTOSH, Harlan Cozad
This Finer Shadow
New York: Dial Press, 1941
8vo, pp. 408. Original blue-green boards, lettered in green on front panel and spine.
First edition.
This Finer Shadow was rejected by every publisher it was sent to during... [more]
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O'CASEY, Eileen
Cheerio, Titan
London: Papermac, 1991
8vo, pp. 148. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers. Fine.
First UK edition, first published in the US in 1989. The book isan account of the friendship between George Bernard Shaw and Sean ... [more]
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WANAMAKER, Sam
1 pp. TLS TO DAVID GOTHARD. 1 April 1985.
London: 1985
1 pp. TLS, 295 x 205 mm, lacking the envelope. Inked set of directions in Gothard's hand at top (see below).
Typed letter, signed by Sam Wanamaker, inviting Gothard to become administrator of the... [more]
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CARQUE, Lillian
Mrs. Carqué's Recipe Book
Los Angeles: Otto Carqué, 1928
12mo, pp. 32. Original yellow stiff paper wrappers. Stamp of Sunshine Health Food Store, San Francisco, and publisher's label on front cover.
First and only edition.
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GOLDING, William
Free Fall
London: Faber, 1959
8vo., pp. 253. Original red boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
One of 7500 copies of the author's fourth novel.
Gekoski & Grogan A6a.
