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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]
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MOODY, Rick
Purple America
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1997
8vo, pp. 298. Original purple and black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
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ELIOT, T. S.
Poetry And Drama
London: Faber, 1951
8vo, pp. 35. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Printed dustwrapper.
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JOHNSON, B.S.
Poems Two
London: Trigram Press, 1972
Small 8vo, pp. 61. Original grey boards, lettered in silver to spine. Green endpapers, illustrated dustwrapper.
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BETJEMAN, John
Poems In The Porch
London: SPCK, 1954
8vo, unpaginated. Original illustrated stiff paper wrapper, lettered in blue and red to front panel.
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McCOWEN, Alec
Personal Mark
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984
8vo, pp. 236. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper, author's photographic portrait to front... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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MORTIMER, John
Paradise Postponed
London: Viking, 1985
8vo, pp. 374. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
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GALSWORTHY, John
Over The River
London: Heinemann, 1933
8vo, pp. 322. Original three-quarter green boards, lettered in gilt to vellum spine. Publisher's device in gilt to front panel. Top edge gilt, leading ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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MORECAMBE, Eric
Over The Moon, Sick As A Parrot
London: Hutchinson/Stanley Paul, 1982
4to, unpaginated. Original photographic laminated stiff paper wrappers.
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GRAY, Simon
Otherwise Engaged and other plays
London: Methuen, 1987
Small 8vo, pp. 135. Original photographic stiff paper wrappers, author's photographic portrait to rear wrapper.
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[McKERN, Leo] [HERRMANN, Edward] selected by WAVELL, A. P.
Other Men's Flowers
London: Cape, 1992
8vo, pp. 448. Original burgundy boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Dustwrappers lettered in red and black to front panel and spine.
Reprinted... [please click on the image or book title for more details]"If" -- the complete version will be sent! E.'.
This last refers to a referenced parody of Kipling's poem which begins: 'If you can keep your girl, when all around you, / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you...'. In the film Hermann and McKern's characters discover that they have been in love with the same woman all their lives.
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[LARKIN, Philip] EWART, Gavin
Original Carbon Typescript of an Unpublished Poem for Philip Larkin
London: N.p., 1985
2 typed carbons, with corrections, and a 1p. cover TLS from Gavin Ewart.
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DOYLE, Roddy
Oh, Play That Thing
London: Jonathan Cape, 2004
8vo, pp.376. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on the spine.
First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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BETJEMAN, John
Ode On The Marriage Of HRH Prince Charles To The Lady Diana Spencer In St. Paul's Cathedral On 29th July 1981
London: Warren Editions, 1981
Broadside, single white sheet, 485mm x 215mm, with red and blue fleur de lys and encircling decoration.
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BIMSON, Walter R.
O Caledonia:
N.p. 'Privately printed by Walter R. Bimson for a few of his hunting and fishing companions' February 1, 1965
20 pp. pamphlet, stiff paper wrappers.
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SOMERVILLE, E. OE, and ROSS, Martin [pseud. MARTIN, Violet]
Notions In Garrison
London: Methuen, 1941
Square 8vo, pp. 134. Original orange boards, lettered in black to spine. Leading and bottom edges uncut.
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SPARK, Muriel
Not To Disturb
London: Observer Books, 1971
8vo, pp. 159. Original yellow three-quarter boards, lettered in gilt to tan spine, illustration in gilt to front panel. Yellow endpapers, silk... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
