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BROMLEY, Nick
Theatre Lore
London: LNP Books, 2012
8vo, pp. 248. Original stiff paper wrappers.
First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE. Foreword by Simon Callow.
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[MILLIGAN, Spike]
Roma
N.p. N.p. N.d. [1940s]
Large 8vo, unpaginated. String bound in original illustrated stiff paper wrappers.
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DOYLE, Arthur Conan
The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
London: George Newnes, 1891-3
Six bound large 8vo volumes in the standard Strand livery of blue and gilt.
First appearance of the Sherlock Holmes short stories comprising The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, first published.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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ELIOT, T.S.
A Choice of Kipling's Verse
London: Faber, 1941
8vo, pp. 306. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Partly unopened. Printed dustwrapper. Handmade woodcut design Christmas card laid... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[AUDEN, W.H.] SPENDER, Stephen
A Memorial Address By Stephen Spender
London: Faber, 1973
8vo, pp. 10. Original cream stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to front panel. Compliments slip laid in.
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SOMERVILLE, Edith and SOMERVILLE, Boyle
Records Of The Somerville Family Of Castlehaven And Drishane From 1174, To 1940
Cork: Guy & Co., 1940
Large 8vo, pp. 134. Original blue three-quarter boards, lettered in back to front panel and black to white to spine.
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LARKIN, Philip
The Less Deceived
Hessle: Marvell Press, 1955
8vo, pp. 45. 2pp. list of subscribers at rear. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Printed dustwrapper, bookseller's revised price... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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BRANDT, Bill
Literary Britain
London: Cassell, 1951
Square 8vo, unpaginated. Original green boards, lettered in gilt and gilt-on-red to spine. Tan endpapers. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition. Introduction by John Heyward.
Now very scarce in the dustwrapper.
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[HOWERD, Frankie] COLIN, Sid
Up Pompeii
London: Ned Sherrin Productions/Anglo-EMI, 1970
Large 8vo, 140 pp., bound in brown stiff paper wrappers, text block secured with two split pins.
First edition. FREELANCE COMEDY WRITER DICK VOSBURGH'S COPY, WITH HIS NOTES TO TITLE PAGE AND OCCASIONAL NOTES AND MARKINGS THROUGHOUT THE TEXT.
Script for the film version of Up Pompeii!, which cast Michael Hordern as Ludicrus, Julie Ege as Voluptua, and Madeleine Smith as Erotica. (The feature film dispensed with the TV show's exclamation mark).
Although his work is uncredited, writer Dick Vosburgh worked on both the TV and film incarnations of Up Pompeii!, a hugely successful show which was worked up by a number of writers from an original idea by Talbot Rothwell.
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ISHIGURO, Kazuo
A Pale View Of Hills
London: Faber, 1982
8vo, pp. 183. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
Ishiguro's first novel, now... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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HUGHES, Ted
Selected Poems 1957-1967
London: Faber, 1972
8vo, pp. 109. Original stiff paper wrappers.
First UK edition, softbound issue, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE.
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AUDEN, W.H.
The Dyer's Hand
London: Faber, 1963
8vo, pp. 527. Original blue-green boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
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HUGHES, Ted
Lupercal
London: Faber, 1970
8vo, pp. 63. Original stiff paper wrappers.
First paperback edition, originally published in 1960, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE.
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HEANEY, Seamus
Death Of A Naturalist
London: Faber, 1969
8vo, pp. 57. Original printed card wrappers.
First softbound issue, appearing three years after its hardbound counterpart. SIGNED BY THE... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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HEANEY, Seamus
Eleven Poems
Belfast: Festival Publications, 1965
8vo, 14 pp. unpaginated, stapled paper wrappers.
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[illus. PIPER, John; STONE, Reynolds] THOMAS, R.S.
The Mountains
New York: Chilmark Press, 1968
4to, pp. 42. Original three-quarter blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt to black morocco spine. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Original... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[pseud. MATTHEWS, Ronald] COUSINS, Sheila
To Beg I Am Ashamed
Paris: Obelisk Press, 1938
8vo, pp. 270. Original yellow stiff paper wrappers, lettered in red and black on front and rear panels and spine. Edges uncut.
Second edition, first Obelisk edition. The publisher's note on [vi] states: 'An attack against the book, in the London press, of unprecedented ferocity and vindictiveness caused its withdrawal before publication [by Routledge]. This, the Obelisk edition, published in May 1938, is therefore the first effective edition.' Despite being withdrawn before publication, a few copies of the Routledge edition have survived.
It is sometimes claimed, usually by bookdealers, that this book was written by Graham Greene. It wasn't. Although Greene helped his friend by chipping in with a telling phrase here and there -- phrases he would later quote approvingly when he contrived to review the book -- To Beg I Am Ashamed is almost entirely the work of Ronald Matthews.
A very nice copy of a fragile, cheaply made book.
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[Olympia Press][pseud. TROCCHI, Alexander] LENGEL, Frances
The Carnal Days Of Helen Seferis
Paris: Atlantic Library, 1954
8vo, pp. 183. Original yellow stiff paper wrappers.
First edition. The pornographic sequel to Trocchi's first book, Helen And... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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BARKER, Pat
The Eye In The Door
London: Viking, 1993
8vo, pp. 280. Original black boards, lettered in silver on spine.
First edition.
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KING, Jessie M.
The City Of The West
Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis, 1911
Small 8vo, unpaginated. Original deluxe binding, boards lettered in gilt on spine, and gilt illustration and lettering to front panel. Edges... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
