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  • Edited by: LAMB, Hugh.
    THE BEST TALES OF TERROR OF ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN.

    London: Millington Books, 1981. First edition, 8vo., pp,xv,263, blue hardcover, gilt; head and tail slightly spotted, o/w a very good copy in very good clipped dust-jacket in clear book protector.

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  • WEDGEWOOD, Henry Allen. Illustrated by RAVERAT, Gwen.
    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. by MORRISON, Toni.
    MORRISON, Toni.
    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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  • FITZGERALD, Penelope.
    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. by RENAULT, Mary. Illustrations by, GRANDFIELD, Geoff.
    RENAULT, Mary. Illustrations by, GRANDFIELD, Geoff.
    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 BURNT ONES. by WHITE, Patrick.
    WHITE, Patrick.
    THE BURNT ONES.

    London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1964. First edition, 8vo.,pp. 314, brown hardcover, gilt; toned with light foxing to edges of text block, spine slightly rolled, otherwise very good, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed and toned to extremities, with light wear to corners.

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  • BERNERS, Lord. With three illustrations by the Author.
    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. by WOLFE, Gene.
    WOLFE, Gene.
    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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  • BRONTE, Charlotte. Edited by ROSENGARTEN, Herbert; SMITH, Margaret.
    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. by STEPHENS, James. Illustrated by: MACKENZIE, Thomas.
    STEPHENS, James. Illustrated by: MACKENZIE, Thomas.
    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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  • DOYLE, Roddy. [Signed by the author]
    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. by DOYLE, Roddy.
    DOYLE, Roddy.
    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:] by MATHERS, E. Powys.
    MATHERS, E. Powys.
    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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  • WHITE, Patrick.
    THE EYE OF THE STORM.

    London: Jonathan Cape, 1973. First edition, 8vo.,pp.,608, black hardcover, gilt; top shaded, light spotting to fore-edge, o/w a very good copy in very good dust-jacket showing wear to edges.

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  • THE FIERY DIVE AND OTHER STORIES. by ARMSTRONG, Martin. [Signed by the author].
    ARMSTRONG, Martin. [Signed by the author].
    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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  • HILLERMAN, Tony.
    THE FIRST EAGLE.

    London: HarperCollins, 1999. First edition, signed by the author, 8vo.,pp. 278, hardcover, gilt; author’s signature on a presentation label 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 FIRST ‘WOMEN IN LOVE’ by LAWRENCE, D.H. Edited by WORTHEN, John and VASEY, Lindeth. [First Edition]
    LAWRENCE, D.H. Edited by WORTHEN, John and VASEY, Lindeth. [First Edition]
    THE FIRST ‘WOMEN IN LOVE’ The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D.H. Lawrence.

    Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 8vo., pp. lv,532, red hardcover, gilt; a few spots of foxing to edges of text-block particularly to top edge, a very good copy, in a vg unclipped dust-jacket, which has some light surface scratches.

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  • DICKENS, Charles. With the original illustrations by Phiz. Introduction by Andrew Davies.
    THE FOLIO SOCIETY DICKENS [Set of 16 Volumes]

    London: Folio Society, 2007. Complete in sixteen volumes, follows the edition of the Nonesuch Dickens, bound in publisher’s half leather, title inlay to spine, and printed on St. Edmundsbury wove paper, t.e.g., ribbon bookmarks; Bleak House crease to headband, Barnaby Rudge minor crease to tailband, Dombey and Son minor creases to fore-edge of prelims, Great Expectations minor crease to tailband, David Copperfield very light barely visible surface mark to front board, Oliver Twist small spot of very light rubbing to headband, Little Dorrit minor scratch to front board, few very light surface marks to rear board, barely visible light surface scratch to title inlay. Else a fresh and near-fine set, in very good+ slipcases. ’The text and illustrations follow…

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    London: Folio Society, 2007. Complete in sixteen volumes, follows the edition of the Nonesuch Dickens, bound in publisher’s half leather, title inlay to spine, and printed on St. Edmundsbury wove paper, t.e.g., ribbon bookmarks; Bleak House crease to headband, Barnaby Rudge minor crease to tailband, Dombey and Son minor creases to fore-edge of prelims, Great Expectations minor crease to tailband, David Copperfield very light barely visible surface mark to front board, Oliver Twist small spot of very light rubbing to headband, Little Dorrit minor scratch to front board, few very light surface marks to rear board, barely visible light surface scratch to title inlay. Else a fresh and near-fine set, in very good+ slipcases. ’The text and illustrations follow those of the Nonesuch Dickens, published in 1937 under the editorial direction of Arthur Waugh, Hugh Walpole, Walter Dexter and Thomas Hatton, with minor emendations. The Nonesuch Press took their text from the Charles Dickens Edition, which Dickens corrected for the Press - its 21 volumes published by Chapman and Hall between 1867 and 1875 - and their illustrations from the original edition.’

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  • THE FORGOTTEN IMAGE. by SCOTT, Eleanor.
    SCOTT, Eleanor.
    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. by HARTLEY, L.P.
    HARTLEY, L.P.
    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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