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BOYD, William. An Ice-Cream War. Hamish Hamilton, 1982. First edn. Boards, dust-wrapper; MacLAVERTY, Bernard. Grace Notes. Cape, 1997. First edn. Boards, dust-wrapper, signed by the author; AMIS, Martin. London Fields. Cape, 1989. First edn. Boards, dust-wrapper, and 8 other 1980s/90s first edn fiction in dust-wrappers. (11) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 62 | SCOTT, Paul. The Birds of Paradise. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1962. First edn. Boards, dust-wrapper; and 13 other first edns by Anthony Powell, Colin MacInnes, Bruce Chatwin, Amos Oz et al., all in dust-wrappers. (14) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 63 | BRAINE, John. Room at the Top. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957. First edn. Boards, dust-wrapper; and 11 others, most first edns, by Braine, Barstow, Sillitoe et al., all in dust-wrappers. (12) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 64 | HILL, Susan. The Woman in Black. Hamish Hamilton, 1983. First edn. Boards, dust-wrapper; and 24 others, most first edns, by Emma Tennant, Rose Tremain, Maureen Duffy, Amy Tan, A.L. Barker et al., all in dust-wrappers. (25) £80-120 | Nil |
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| 65 | LEHMANN, Rosamond. A Note in Music. Chatto & Windus, 1930. First edn. Cloth, dust-wrapper; A Sea-Grape Tree. Collins, 1976. First edn. Boards, dust-wrapper, presentation inscription from the author; JHABVALA, Ruth Prawer. Get Ready for Battle. Murray, 1962. First edn. Boards, dust-wrapper; and 18 other first edns by Lehmann, Jhabvala, Jean Rhys, Elizabeth Taylor, Doris Lessing et al., all in dust-wrappers. (21) See illustration £80-120 | Nil |
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| 66 | MURDOCH, IRIS. The Good Apprentice. Chatto & Windus, 1985. First edn. Boards, dust-wrapper, a.l.s. from the author inserted; and 7 other first edns by Murdoch, Antonia White and Margaret Drabble, all with dust-wrapper. (8) See illustration £80-120 | Nil |
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| 67 | BENSON, Stella. Christmas Formula and other stories, frontispiece by Clare Leighton. William Jackson, 1932. First edn., one of 550 numbered copies, signed by the author. Cloth; COLETTE. The Mother of Claudine. Werner Laurie, 1937. First English edn. Cloth; and 14 others. (16) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 68 | HANLEY, James. Men in Darkness. Preface by John Cowper Powys. John Lane, 1931. First edn. Cloth, dust-wrapper by Alan Odle; HAMILTON, Patrick. Twenty Thousand Streets under the Sky. Constable, 1935. First edn. Cloth, dust-wrapper; and 17 other first edns, British and American fiction, all in dust-wrappers. (19) See illustration and front cover £50-100 | Nil |
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| 69 | SPARK, Muriel. The Bachelors. Macmillan, 1960. First edn. Cloth, dust-wrapper; and 14 other first edns by Spark and A.L. Barker, all with dust-wrapper. (15) £80-120 | Nil |
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| 70 | HUXLEY, Elspeth. The Prince Buys the Manor. Chatto & Windus, 1982. First edn. Boards, dust-wrapper, inscribed by the author; GORDIMER, Nadine. A World of Strangers. Gollancz, 1958. First edn. Boards, dust-wrapper; BENSON, Stella. Hope against Hope and other stories. Macmillan, 1931. First edn., one of 650 copies signed by the author. Marbled boards; and 14 others, most first edns, in dust-wrappers. (17) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 71 | KING, Francis. The Man on the Rock. Longmans, 1957. First edn. Boards, dust-wrapper; and 14 other first edns by King (7), Patrick White et al., dust-wrappers. (15) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 72 | POTOCKI, Jan. The Saragossa Manuscript, a collection of weird tales. Cassell, 1962. First English edn. Boards, dust-wrapper; and 12 others, fiction. (13) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 73 | DOCTOROW, E.L. Ragtime. Macmillan, 1976. First English edn. Boards, dust-wrapper, signed by the author; and 11 other first edns in dust-wrappers by William Boyd, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala et al. (12) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 74 | SINCLAIR, Andrew. The Breaking of Bumbo. Faber, 1959. First edn. Cloth, dust-wrapper; and 12 other first edns in dust-wrappers. (13) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 75 | TOLKIEN, J.R.R. The Hobbit. The Lord of the Rings. George Allen & Unwin, 1979-84. 'De Luxe Edition'. 2 vols, buckram, boxed as issued; and 10 others. (12) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 76 | VICTORIAN & EDWARDIAN FICTION, mostly reprints: a quantity. (4 boxes) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 77 | OUIDA. Helianthus. Macmillan, 1908. First edn. Cloth; 7 others by the same, with other late Victorian and Edwardian fiction. (Box) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 78 | TWAIN, Mark. The Choice Humorous Works of Mark Twain revised and corrected by the author. Portrait, illustrations. Chatto and Windus, 1881. First edn. Cloth; 2 others by the same, a 3 vol set of Lane's Arabian Nights, and other literature. (16) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 79 | ELIOT, George. Impressions of Theophrastus Such. Blackwood, 1879. First edn. Cloth; HOOK, James. Pen Owen. Blackwood, 1822. First edn. Three vols., contemporary half calf; and other fiction. (10) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 80 | MURGER, Henry. Scenes de la Vie de Boheme. Compositions de Leandre, gravees en couleurs. Collection des Dix, Paris, 1902. One of 200 copies on velin d'Arches. 4to, parchment wrappers, in new fleece-lined folding box; PHILIPS, F.C. As in a Looking Glass. Illustrated by G. du Maurier. Ward & Downey, 1889. One of 1000 copies. 4to, cloth gilt. (2) £40-60 | Nil |
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| 81 | MILLER, Thomas. Godfrey Malvern. Illustrations by Phiz. Ward & Lock, [ca. 1870]. Quarter morocco; and 17 others, late Victorian/Edwardian fiction. (18) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 82 | MARTINEAU, Harriet. Dawn Island, a tale. [Engraved title and frontispiece.] Gadsby, Manchester, 1845. First edn. Cloth gilt, rebacked; and 11 others. (12) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 83 | BOWDLER, Mrs H.M. Pen Tamar; or, The History of an Old Maid. Longman, 1830. Contemporary calf; DIXON, W.H. Spiritual Wives. Hurst and Blackett, 1868. 2 vols, half morocco; and another. (4) £50-75 | Nil |
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| 84 | BEERBOHM, Max. A Stranger in Venice. Winged Lion, 1993. One of 750 numbered copies printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. Patterned boards, label; GRAY, John. Park, a fantastic story. Saint Albert's Press, 1966. One of 350 copies. Buckram, dust-wrapper; and 14 others by Wilde, Machen, Beardsley et al. (18) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 85 | BETJEMAN, John. Continual Dew. John Murray, 1937. First edn. Cloth, dust-wrapper; and 22 others, literature. (23) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 86 | BRETONNE, Restif de la. Sara. John Rodker, 1927. One of 1000 numbered copies. Quarter cloth, boards. SINCLAIR, Upton. Boston. Upton Sinclair, Long Beach, 1928. 2 vols, cloth; and other literature including modern firsts. (25) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 87 | SITWELL, Osbert, Edith and Sacheverell. Hand and Eye, an anthology for Sacheverell Sitwell, edited by Geoffrey Elborn. Frontispiece by John Piper, drawing by Henry Moore. Privately printed at the Tragara Press, 1977. One of 175 numbered copies. Quarter cloth, boards; SITWELL, Osbert. Penny Foolish. Macmillan, 1935. First edn. Cloth, inscribed by the author; and 22 others by or about the Sitwells. (24) £80-120 | Nil |
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| 88 | LAWRENCE, D.H. Assorted Articles. Secker, 1930. First edn. Cloth; STEVENSON, Fanny and R.L. Our Samoan Adventure. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1956. First edn. Cloth, dust-wrapper; and ca. 45 others, miscellaneous literature, plus a dozen issues of the London Mercury. (Box) £80-120 | Nil |
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| 89 | JUNG, Carl. The Integration of the Personality. Kegan Paul, 1940. First English edn. Cloth; and 19 others, psychology, parapsychology, medicine &c. (20) £50-80 | Nil |
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MICHELL, John. City of Revelation: on the proportions and symbolic numbers of the cosmic temple. Garnstone Press, 1972. One of 150 copies, numbered and signed by bthe author. Buckram gilt; and 20 others, esoteric, occult &c. (21) £50-100 |
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