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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.
First edition of the author's fourth novel,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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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.
First UK edition of this lecture, first delivered at Harvard... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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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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[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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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]
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[COWARD, Noel] LESLEY, Cole; PAYN, Graham and MORLEY, Sheridan
Noel Coward And His Friends
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979
4to, pp. 216. Original white boards, lettered in silver on spine.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY ALL THREE AUTHORS ON PUBLICATION DAY TO BOB HOLNESS: 'Dear Bob, with our thanks, Coley, Publication Day. Graham, + Sheridan'. ADDITIONALLY SIGNED IN FULL BY ALL THREE AUTHORS ON TITLE PAGE.<
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FONTAINE, Joan
No Bed of Roses
London: W.H.Allen, 1978
8vo, pp. 319. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrappers. Photographic dustwrapper, portrait of the author to front... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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STEWART, Douglas
Ned Kelly
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1956
8vo, pp. 80. Original pale blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine and Ned Kelly illustration to front panel. Illustrated... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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HEATH, Edward
Music: A Joy For Life
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1976
4to, pp. 204, index. Original mauve boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
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SOMERVILLE, E. OE, and ROSS, Martin [pseud. MARTIN, Violet]
Mount Music
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1919
8vo, pp. 309. Original green boards, lettered in black to front panel and gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
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LEONARD, Elmore
Maximum Bob
New York: Delacorte Press, 1991
8vo, pp. 295. Original grey and black boards with gilt lettering.
First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on title page.
