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WILLIS, Ted
The Devil's Churchyard
London: Max Parrish, 1957
Small 8vo, pp. 240. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
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ADDONIA, Sulaiman
The Consequences Of Love
London: Chatto & Windus, 2008
8vo, pp. 346. Original black boards, lettered in silver on spine.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: 'David, What can I say.... Thank you for your wonderful support. Best Wishes,... [more]
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BENTINE, Michael
The Condor and the Cross
London: Bantam Press, 1987
8vo, pp. 399. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper, photographic portrait of the author to rear... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[MILLIGAN, Spike] GUILD, Robin
The Complete Victorian House Book
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1989
4to, pp. 320. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition, INSCRIBED TO SPIKE MILLIGAN BY HIS WIFE: ' Spike Darling -- This is more a present for 'us' to enjoy. Love Shelagh xx P.S. See page 22. Xmas 1989.' (p. 22 carries a picture of Holly Lodge in Highgate, at which Shelagh has written 'Lynsey [de Paul]'s house x').
Spike Milligan was married to Shelagh, his third wife, for the last nineteen years of his life until his death in 2002. Shelagh died in 2011.
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HUGHES, Ted
The Burning Of The Brothel
London: Turret Books. 1966
4to, unpaginated. White card covers in dark blue wrappers, lettered in black to front panel.
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[GRAVES, Robert]
The Augustan Poets
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1943
8vo, pp. 32, lacking the outer wrappers.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY GRAVES IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION TO JULIAN GLOVER.
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KOBAL, John
The Art of the Great Hollywood Portrait Photographers 1925-1940
London: Allen Lane, 1980
4to, pp. 292. Original black boards, lettered in silver to spine. Photographic dustwrapper.
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GREGG, Hubert
Thanks For The Memory
London: Gollancz, 1983
Small 8vo, pp. 223. Original brown boards, lettered in silver to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
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SOMERVILLE, E. OE, and ROSS, Martin [pseud. MARTIN, Violet]
Stray-aways
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1920
8vo, pp. 280. Original blue boards, lettered in white and black to front panel and black to spine. Tissue guard to frontispiece. Lacking... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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ALDINGTON, Richard
Stepping Heavenward
Florence: G. Orioli, 1931
8vo, pp. 125. Original yellow three-quarter boards, lettered in gilt on grey to spine. Printed dustwrapper. Leading and lower edges... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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BLYTON, Enid
Signed Contract For My Third Enid Blyton Book
London: N.p., 1953
4pp. typed legal document, horizontal fold across centre.
Legal contract dated 1 December 1953, SIGNED BY ENID BLYTON.
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ELIOT, T.S.
Signed Cheque in payment for Eliot's Introduction to the 1932 Everyman edition of Pascal's Penseés,
London: N.p., 1931
A CHEQUE PAYABLE TO T.S. ELIOT IN THE SUM OF FIFTEEN POUNDS AND DATED 1 OCTOBER 1931, DRAWN ON THE BANK ACCOUNT OF THE PUBLISHER J.M. DENT, AND ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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STEWART, Douglas
Shipwreck
Sydney: Shepherd Press, 1947
4to, pp. 96. Original grey boards, lettered in red to front panel and spine. Printed dustwrapper.
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RUSHDIE, Salman
Shalimar The Clown
London: Cape, 2005
8vo, pp. 398. Original black boards, lettered in guilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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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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SHERRIN, NED
Scratch An Actor
London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1996
8vo, pp.323. Original black boards, lettered in silver to spine.
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HAZLEWOOD, Nick
Savage: The Life and Times of Jemmy Button
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2000
8vo, pp. 384. Original dark blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
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SOMERVILLE, E. OE, and ROSS, Martin [pseud. MARTIN, Violet]
Sarah's Youth
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1938
8vo, pp. 311. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
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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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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]
