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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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THE GREATEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD
And Other Stories.
London: Johnathan Cape. First edition, 8vo., pp.79, blue cloth; contemporary ownership autograph to front free endpapera very good, fresh copy, in unclipped dust-jacket which is rubbed to extremities, and has 3cm closed tear to lower fold of spine, with creasing to adjacent area, and small closed tear to lower margin of rear cover, now in protective cover and o/w very good. With ‘London Calling Overseas’ advert to rear flap of dust-jacket,
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THE HAUNTED GRANGE.
Wellingborough: William Kimber, 1988. First edition, 8vo., pp.184, blue hardcover, silver; toning to margins, a very good, clean copy, in very good+ complete and unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE HITCH HIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY.
London: Arthur Barker, 1979. First edition in second issue dust-jacket, 8vo., pp.159, navy hardcover, gilt; slight crease to head of spine, light water-stain/toning to lower fore-margin of front free endpaper, a very good+ copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is sunned to spine, with pale foxing to flaps, and matching water-stain/toned area to front flap, else very good.
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THE KING MUST DIE.
London: The Folio Society, 2016. First Folio Society edition, 8vo., pp.xix,364, pictorial boards backed in black cloth, lettering in white, colour frontispiece and 7 further plates; a fine, fresh copy, in near-fine slipcase, with slight sunning to fore-edge.
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THE LAGOON AND OTHER STORIES.
Christchurch: The Caxton Press. German edition 1961 (text printed in English), 8vo.,pp. 123, green and red mottled hardcover, yellow lettering; pencilling to half title page and ownership autograph to front free endpaper, light toning to spine, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is toned and soiled to spine and rear, which has wear to corners and head and foot of spine with small areas of loss, overall a very good copy.
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THE LAZY TOUR OF TWO IDLE APPRENTICES. NO THOROUGHFARE. THE PERILS OF CERTAIN ENGLISH PRISONERS.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1895. 8vo., pp.vi,327, half red morocco with contrasting moire silk boards, five raised bands, decorative gilt to compartments, 8 b/w plates, marbled endpapers, speckled edges; pencilled ownership autograph to front free endpaper verso, foxing to prelims and ultimate leaves, light yellowing to margins, extremities lightly rubbed, a very good copy in a handsome binding.
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THE LORD OF THE RINGS.
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THE MACHINE STOPS, AND OTHER STORIES. The Abingdon Edition of E.M. Forster, Volume 7.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1997. First edition, 8vo., pp.xvii,190, black cloth, gilt; a fresh and near-fine copy in very good indeed unclipped dust-jacket with a few light surface scratches.
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THE MAN WITHOUT QUALITIES. A Novel. [Set of Three Volumes].
Volume I. A Sort of Introduction; The Like of It Now Happens (I). Volume II. The Like of It Now Happens (II). Volume III. Into the Millennium (The Criminals).
London: Secker and Warburg, 1979. Reissue, three volumes, 8vo., pp.xxxv,365;vii,454;xii,445, red hardcover, gilt; small handwritten stock-code and price to upper corner of front paste-down endpaper of all three volumes (concealed by flap of dust-jackets), small bump to headband of Volume II, a very good set indeed, in very good unclipped dust-jackets, with creasing and small closed tear to headband of jacket to Volume I.
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THE MAN WITHOUT QUALITIES. A Novel. [Set of Three Volumes].
Volume I. A Sort of Introduction; The Like of It Now Happens (I). Volume II. The Like of It Now Happens (II). Volume III. Into the Millennium (The Criminals).
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THE MARQUISE OF O- And Other Stories.
London: Faber and Faber, 1963. First edition, 8vo., pp.318, red cloth with purple title-band, gilt; light evidence of erased pencilling to title page of ‘Michael Kohlhaas’, foxing to fore-edges, spine lightly rolled, a very good copy, in a very good price-clipped dust-jacket, with light rubbing to extremities, and small closed tears to head of folds for spine.
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THE NOVELS OF I. COMPTON-BURNETT. [Set of Nineteen Volumes]
Slipcase I.: 1. Pastors and Masters (1925); 2. Brothers and Sisters (1929); 3. Men and Wives (1931); 4. More Women Than Men (1933); 5. A House and Its Head (1935). Slipcase II.: 6. Daughters and Sons (1937); 7. A Family And A Fortune (1939); 8. Parents and Children (1941); 9. Elders and Betters (1944). Slipcase III.: 10. Manservant and Maidservant (1947); 11. Two Worlds and their Ways (1949); 12. Darkness and Day (1951); 13. The Present and the Past (1953). Slipcase IV.: 14. Mother and Son (1955); 15. A Father and His Fate (1957); 16. A Heritage and its History (1959); 17. The Mighty and Their Fall (1961); 18. A God and His Gifts (1963); 19. The Last and the First (1971).
London: Victor Gollancz Limited, 1972. Limited edition of 500 sets, of which this is no.58, each volume hand-numbered to title verso, complete in nineteen volumes, 8vo., red cloth, gilt, ribbon bookmarks, top edges magenta; a fine set, in unclipped dust-jackets, which are uniformly lightly sunned to spines, but complete and otherwise near-fine, with just slight chipping to Volumes 17 and 18 at head of spines. The set is housed in four slipcases, all of which show sunning to edges and upper panel, but are otherwise very good. ‘This limited and numbered edition of 500 copies has been produced posthumously in accordance with Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett’s wishes. It was her express desire that her first novel, Dolores, should be excluded from this edition.’
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THE ONE WHO IS LEGION.
Orono: The National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine, 1987. 8vo.,pp. 174, paperback, facsimile reprint, b/w illustrations and b/w frontispiece; front free endpaper coming loose otherwise contents firm and clean, light shelf wear to extremities, overall a very good copy.
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THE PLAYER OF GAMES.
London: Macmillan. First edition, 8vo., pp.309, blue hardcover, gilt; author’s presentation inscription to title, a little rubbing to head and foot of spine, else fresh and very good indeed. in vg complete and unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE PRUSSIAN OFFICER AND OTHER STORIES: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D.H. Lawrence.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. 8vo., pp. lv,303, 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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THE SALUTATION.
London: Chato and Windus, 1932. First edition, 8vo., pp.(iv),303,(iv)adverts, blue-black cloth with marbled design, gilt; toning to prelim blank, sunning to spine (black outline of marbled design remains, with the blue under-colour sunned to brown), some sunning also to margins of boards, an otherwise very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE SECRET AGENT.
A Simple Tale.
London: Methuen & Co. First edition, first impression (adverts dated 1907; misprint at p.117 reads ‘be be’ for ‘to be’), pp.(iii),442,40(publisher’s adverts), uncut, red cloth, gilt, decorative gilt motifs to spine; pictorial ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, foxing to prelims and to fore-edges (occasionally affecting margins), some rubbing to extremities, a very good, rather bright copy. (No dust-jacket).
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THE SHADOW OF THE WIND.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005. First illustrated edition, limited and signed, no. 430 of 1000 copies, pictorial hardcover, map design to endpapers, marble design to title and chapter titles, 14 monochromatic plates; very slight bruise to head of spine, very slight creasing to tail of spine, signed by author to limitation page, with previous owner’s autograph inkstamp to lower margin of same page, a fresh and near-fine copy, in matching near-fine slipcase, with very minimal shelfwear to upper margins, and lightly sunned to fore-edge.
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THE SHAKESPEARE HEAD EDITION OF THE NOVELS OF ANTHONY TROLLOPE. [14 Volume Set: Complete Set of the Barsetshire Novels in 13 Volumes, plus An Autobiography].6
Barchester Towers I and II; Framley Parsonage I and II; The Small House at Allington I and II; The Warden; Dr. Thorne I and II; The Last Chronicle of Barset I-IV; An Autobiography.
Straford-upon-Avon: The Shakespeare Head Press, by Basil Blackwell, Oxford. Large paper edition, limited to 525 copies, 14 volumes, 8vo., uncut, green cloth, gilt, t.e.g.; offsetting and light foxing to free endpapers, some light foxing to fore-edges and to prelims, o/w bright and clean, light marking to front board of ‘Allington’ vol.I, a very good set.
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