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RENDELL, Ruth
The Face of Trespass
New York: Crime Club/Doubleday, 1974
8vo, pp. 184. Original pale green boards, lettered in dark green to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
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[RICKMAN, ALAN] BECKETT, Samuel
Endgame
London: Faber, 1964
8vo, pp. 60. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers.
Faber paperback edition, INSCRIBED BY BETTINA JONIC TO ALAN RICKMAN: 'for Alan,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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NEVILLE, Richard
Hippie Hippie Shake
London: Bloomsbury, 1995
8vo, pp. 376. Original purple boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated endpapers and dustwrapper.
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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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BENCHLEY, Robert
The Early Worm
New York: Henry Holt, 1927
8vo, pp. 263. Original green boards, lettered in yellow to front panel and spine.
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PROULX, E. Annie
Heart Songs
New York: Scribner's, 1988
8vo, pp. 151. Original mauve and tan three-quarter boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper. Leading edge uncut.
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GARDNER, John
Licence Renewed
London: Cape and Hodder & Stoughton, 1981
8vo, pp. 270. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper, author's photographic portrait to rear... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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SOMERVILLE, E. OE, and ROSS, Martin [pseud. MARTIN, Violet]
An Incorruptible Irishman 1767-1843
London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson, 1932
Large 8vo, pp. 265. Original blue boards, lettered in black on red spine label to spine, Bushe coat of arms in gilt on red label to... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[WODEHOUSE, P.G.] MOYLE, Seth
Cheque From the Frank A. Munsey Company
New York: N.p., 1912
Company cheque, hand-dated Sept. 4th 1912, made out to Seth Moyle, and signed by him on reverse.
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GREENE, Graham
The Return Of A. J. Raffles
London: Bodley Head, 1975
Small 8vo, pp. 80. Original orange boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First edition. No. 202 of 250 copies SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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HERLIHY, James Leo
The Sleep of Baby Filbertson
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1959
8vo, pp. 190. Original black boards, lettered in green to spine. Bookplate of George Cukor to front pastedown. Illustrated... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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RIDING, Laura
Four Unposted Letters to Catherine
Paris: Hours Press, N.d. [1930]
Small 8vo, pp. 51. Original illustrated boards. Ownership bookplate laid in.
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[intro. BROWNLOW, Kevin] LOVE, Bessie
From Hollywood With Love
London: Elm Tree Books, 1977
8vo, pp. 160. Original red boards, lettered in silver to spine. Photographic dustwrapper, portraits of the author to front and rear... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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PARKINSON, Norman
Lifework
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983
Large 8vo, pp. 200. Original black boards, lettered in silver to spine. Grey endpapers. Photographic dustwrapper.
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[McKern, Leo] OLIVIER, Laurence
TLS Laurence Olivier to Leo McKern
London: N.p., 1982
1p. TLS on headed notepaper.
1pp. TLS FROM LAURENCE OLIVIER TO LEO McKERN, WELCOMING HIM TO THE CAST OF KING LEAR.
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HEGLEY, John
Uncut Confetti
London: Methuen, 2006
8vo, pp. 85. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers with fold-over flaps.
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[illus. SELLERS, Peter] MILLIGAN, Spike and HOBBS, Jack
William McGonagall: The Truth At Last
London: M. & J. Hobbs/Michael Joseph, 1976
8vo, pp. 144. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Yellow illustrated endpapers. Illustrated... [please click on the image or book title for more details]".... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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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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SHAW, Robert
The Sun Doctor
London: Chatto & Windus, 1961
8vo, pp. 275. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
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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.
