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STAR OF THE SEA.
London: Secker & Warburg, 2002. First edition, 8vo., pp.,xxi,410, burgundy hardcover,gilt, decorative endpapers and decorative front and rear paste down with map detail; pages lightly toned, o/w a very good copy in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE ATLANTIC - MAY 1938 and JUNE 1938 [Two Volumes]. Includes: ‘Women Must Weep - Or, Unite Against War’, Parts I and II, by Virginia Woolf; A Day at the Zoo, by Storm Jameson; The Harness, by John Steinbeck.
Concord: The Atlantic Monthly, 1938. Two volumes, 8vo., pp.730, printed paper wrappers; ex Gardner & Sage Library, N.J., with ink-stamp to front wrappers, o/w clean, spines sunned, closed tears to head and foot of folds along spine, closed tear to rear upper margin of volume for May, rubbing to extremities, o/w very good.
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THE BARRACKS THIEF.
New York: The Ecco Press, 1984. Signed first edition, 8vo., pp.101, quarter black cloth lettered in red, red paper-covered boards; a very good, fresh copy, ex libris Wilfrid Mellers, with signed presentation inscription from the author.
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THE BIRD TALISMAN
An Eastern Tale
London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1939. First edition with Raverat illustrations, 8vo., pp.vii,70, marbled purple cloth, turquoise title band, gilt, colour frontispiece, colour and b/w plates throughout; mild foxing to endpapers, light sunning to edges of boards, overall a nice bright copy, in a good+ pictorial price-clipped dust-jacket, which is toned to the spine and upper margin, has closed tears to extremities which have tissue repairs to reverse and some chipping with small areas of loss to extremities.
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THE BLUEST EYE.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1979. First UK edition, 8vo., pp.(iii),164, blue hardcover, gilt; slight marking/foxing to fore-edges, lower corner of rear board lightly bruised, an otherwise fresh and near-fine copy, in very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has light creasing to laminate coating where price label has been removed.
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THE BOOKSHOP.
London: Gerald Duckworth, 1978. First edition, 8vo., pp.118, green hardcover, gilt; ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, slight mustiness, else clean and very good, in unclipped dust-jacket, which has slight sunning to spine, and adhesive plastic covering.
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THE BULL FROM THE SEA.
London: The Folio Society, 2017. First Folio Society edition, in slip-case, 8vo.,pp. ix,253, pictorial boards, with decorative cloth, spine, white lettering, colour illustrations and frontispiece; a near-fine copy, in a near-fine decorative slip-case.
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THE CAMEL.
A Tale.
London: Constable and Co. Ltd, 1936. First edition, 8vo., pp.174, cerise cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece and 2 further b/w plates, top edges red; upper 2mm of spine sunned, with very light sunning to remainder of spine, slight roll to spine, a very good copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is toned to spine, with light chipping to extremities (with only very slight loss) - now in a protective cover.
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THE CITADEL OF THE AUTARCH.
New York: Timescape Books, 1983. 8vo., pp.317, quarter bound in black cloth with yellow paper covered boards; mark where label has been removed to front free endpaper, else a fine copy in a fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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The Clarendon Edition of the Novels of the Brontes: SHIRLEY.
Oxford: Clarendon Press. First edition thus, 8vo., pp.xii,835, navy cloth, gilt, five b/w plates, comprising the facsimile of one ms. page from Volume III, facsimiles of the original title pages to each volume, and a photograph of Rawfolds Mill; foxing to top edges, an otherwise fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine, with light rubbing to corners.
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THE CROCK OF GOLD.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1926. First edition thus, large 8vo., pp.vii,228, bevelled red buckram, gilt, t.e.g., 12 colour plates and numerous b/w headpieces and tailpieces; ownership gift inscription to front free endpaper (dated 1928), foxing to edges and prelims/ultimate leaves, with some foxing throughout, spine lightly sunned, very slight marking to cloth, a very good copy.
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THE DEPORTEES.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2007. Signed first edition, 8vo., pp.xiii,242, black hardcover, gilt; signed by author to title pages, a very good copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE DEPORTEES AND OTHER STORIES.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2007. First edition, signed copy, 8vo.,pp. xiii,242, hardcover, gilt; author’s signature to title page, lightly toned to edges of text block, otherwise near-fine, in a near-fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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THE EASTERN ANTHOLOGY. [Complete set of Twelve Volumes in Four Volumes:]
VOLUME I. 1. Kuttanimatatam of Damodaragupta; 2. Samayamatrika of Kshemendra; 3. Zenan-Nameb of Fazil-Bey and Ta’dib ul-Nisvan. VOLUME II. 4. The Young Wives’ Tale (Kissat Al-’Ara’is Al-Sabiya) and Tales of Fez; 5. The Loves of Raadha and Krishna and Amores; 6. Love Stories and Gallant Tales from the Chinese. VOLUME III. 7. Comrade Loves of the Samurai and Songs of the Geishas; 8. Ninety Short Tales of Love and Women from the Arabic; 9. The Loves of Dasin and Musa-ag-Amastan from the Tamashek and Camel-Boy Rhythms from the Arabic. VOLUME IV. 10. Love Tales of Cambodia and Song of the Love Nights of Lao; 11. Anthology of Eastern Love; 12. Anthology of Eastern Love.
London: John Rodker, 1927. Limited edition, one of 1000 copies, publisher’s deluxe issue in full vellum, bevelled boards, twelve volumes in four volumes, 8vo., pp.(v),vi,92,(v),100,xiv,152;xiii,128,xii,183,(v),172;viii,136,x,140,ix,130;(vii),106,viii,170,viii,155, uncut, pictorial yellow vellum, gilt, t.e.g., colour frontispieces with tissue guards and further plates within; internally fine, with some mottling to boards, a very good set.
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THE FIERY DIVE AND OTHER STORIES.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1929. Limited edition, one of 150 copies signed by the author, 8vo., pp.283, quarter vellum, gilt, black cloth; small spots of wear to cloth at corners, slight marking to cloth, a very good copy.
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THE FIRST EAGLE.
London: HarperCollins, 1999. First edition, signed by the author, 8vo., pp.(v),278, hardcover, gilt; author’s signature on a presentation plate to title page, toning to upper edge, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, with sunning to spine.
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THE FOLIO SOCIETY DICKENS [Set of 16 Volumes]
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THE FORGOTTEN IMAGE.
New York: Doubleday, 1930. First American edition, 8vo., pp.viii,337, black cloth lettered in red, top edges red; light foxing to inner margins of front endpapers, light creasing to cloth at head of spine, a very good copy, in a good pictorial price-clipped dust jacket, which is worn to extremities, with chipping to headband and apx. 2.5 cm of loss to the tail of the spine, several closed tears with sellotape repairs to reverse, with small yellow dot sticker to spine.
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THE GO-BETWEEN.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953. First edition, small 8vo., pp.296, red cloth, gilt, top edges red; foxing to prelims and edges, spine lightly rolled forward, gilt dulled, splash-marks to cloth, a good+ copy, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is chipped with light loss to extremities, with a few closed tears to margins, reinforced with archival tape to reverse. Now in a protective cover.
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THE GREAT FOG and other weird tales
London: Cassell and Companyy Ltd, 1947. First edition, 8vo., pp.234, red hardcover, black lettering; toning to endpapers, foxing to prelims and edges of text block, occasional spots of foxing throughout, light rubbing to extremities, a good+ copy in a good price clipped dust-jacket, rubbed, particularly to extremities, small area of loss to fore-edge.
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