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O'BRIAN, Patrick
Clarissa Oakes
London: Harper Collins, 1992
8vo, pp. 256. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
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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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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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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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[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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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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SHERRIN, NED
Scratch An Actor
London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1996
8vo, pp.323. Original black boards, lettered in silver to spine.
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WEST, Timothy
A Moment Towards the End of the Play...
London: Nick Hern Books, 2001
8vo, pp. 286. Original black boards, lettered in silver to spine. Photographic dustwrapper, portrait of the author to front... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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GREGG, Hubert
Agatha Christie and All That Mousetrap
London: William Kimber, 1980
8vo, pp. 170. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
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WODDIS, Roger
The Woddis Collection
London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1978
8vo, pp. 96. Original laminated photographic boards.
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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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CUDLIPP, Hugh
The Prerogative of the Harlot: Press Barons and Power
London: Bodley Head, 1980
8vo, pp. 304. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Printed dustwrapper, author's photographic portrait to rear panel.
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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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MUIR, Frank and NORDEN, Denis
You Can't Have Your Kayak and Heat It
London: Eyre Methuen, 1973
8vo, pp. 96. Original laminated boards, photographic portraits of the authors to rear panel.
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McCOWEN, Alec
Double Bill
London: Elm Tree Books, 1980
8vo, pp. 198. Original black boards, lettered in silver to spine. Photographic dustwrapper, portraits of McCowen to front and rear... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[BETJEMAN, John] DELANEY, Frank
Betjeman Country
London: Hodder & Stoughton/John Murray, 1983
Tall 8vo, pp. 233. Original dark green boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper, photographic portrait of... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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ALLGOOD, Jill
Bebe and Ben
London: Robert Hale, 1975
8vo, pp. 192. Original blue boards, lettered in silver to spine. Photographic dustwrapper.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO BOB... [please click on the image or book title for more details]"A.M." All kind wishes, Jill Allgood July 1975'. TLS FROM ALLGOOD TO HOLNESS LAID IN, THANKING HIM ONCE AGAIN FOR HER APPEARANCE ON HIS SHOW.
From 1975 to 1985, Bob Holness co-presented a morning radio show on London's LBC, and over the years amassed a large collection of inscribed copies of books whose authors had appeared on the show.
An excellent copy.
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McCOWEN, Alec
Young Gemini
London: Elm Tree Books, 1979
8vo, pp. 87. Original vermilion boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Printed dustwrapper, author's photographic portrait to rear panel.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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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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[Intro. DURRELL, Gerald] GRAHAM-JONES, Oliver
First Catch Your Tiger
London: Collins, 1970
8vo, pp. 223. Original pale blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Photographic dustwrapper.
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