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STRANDLOPER.
London: The Harvill Press, 1996. First edition, 8vo., pp.200, grey hardcover, gilt; a fine, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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RHAPSODY.
A Dream Novel.
London: Constable, 1928. Limited edition of 1,000 copies, 8vo., pp.191, decorative paper-covered boards, pictorial title, 8 largely dichromatic plates, 14 further line-drawn illustrations to text; engraved ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, foxing to prelims and edges, sporadic foxing throughout, webbing slightly visible between pages 96 and 97, sunning to spine and margins of boards, partial ring-marking to front board, light nick to lower edge of front board, else very good.
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TALES FROM TIMBUKTU.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1923. First edition, 8vo, pp. ix,179, multicoloured publisher’s cloth, title inlay to spine, uncut, green top edge, colour frontispiece, 11 b/w plates; toning to endpapers, a few spots of foxing to prelims, frontispiece unaffected, otherwise internally clean, rubbing to boards and spine, overall a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
London: 2008. Penguin classics Bill Amberg edition, 8vo., pp. 295, publisher’s calf, Yapp binding, bookmark tag; a fine copy that is still in its original box.
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BRIDESHEAD REVISITED.
London: Pengiun, 2008. Penguin classics Bill Amberg edition, 8vo., pp. 432, publisher’s calf, Yapp binding, bookmark tag; a fine copy that is still in its original box and sealed with clear plastic wrapping.
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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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DIE BLECHTROMMEL. Roman.
Hermann Luchterhand Verlag, 1960. First edition, 8vo., pp.736, pale grey cloth lettered in red; a very good copy, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is chipped with light loss to extremities, with 4cm closed tear to foot of fold over upper joint, and a couple of further small closed tears, now in a protective cover and else very good.
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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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UNIFORM EDITION OF VIRGINIA WOOLF: 17 Volumes; The Commom Reader, First Series; The Common Reader, Second Series; Three Guineas; A Room Of One’s Own; The Moment And Other Essays; The Captain’s Death Bed; The Voyage Out; Night And Day; Jacob’s Room; Mrs. Dalloway; To The Lighthouse; Orlando, A Biography; The Waves; The Years; Between The Acts; A Haunted House; Flush, A Biography.
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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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PETER ABELARD. A Novel.
New York: Henry Holt and Company. Facsimile reprint, 8vo., pp.277, glazed hardcover, b/w illustrations; fine. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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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 NOVELS OF I. COMPTON-BURNETT. [Set of Nineteen Volumes]
Slipcase I.: Pastors and Masters (1925); Brothers and Sisters (1929); Men and Wives (1931); More Women Than Men (1933); A House and Its Head (1935). Slipcase II.: Daughters and Sons (1937); A Family And A Fortune (1939); Parents and Children (1941); Elders and Betters (1944). Slipcase III.: Manservant and Maidservant (1947); Two Worlds and their Ways (1949); Darkness and Day (1951); The Present and the Past (1953). Slipcase IV.: Mother and Son (1955); A Father and His Fate (1957); A Heritage and its History (19590; The Mighty and Their Fall (1961); A God and His Gifts (1963); 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 wgas her express desire that her first novel, Dolores, should be excluded from this edition.’
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THE SHADOW OF THE WIND.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005. First illustrated edition, limited and signed, no. 430 of 1000 copies, colour 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 BRIGHT PAVILLIONS.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1940. First edition, with presentation inscription by the author, 8vo., pp.xi, 709, red cloth hardcover with gilt lettering, blind lettering/decoration, folding genealogy to rear of volume; very slight rubbing to extremities, otherwise a very good copy. Also included is the order of service from the funeral of the author.
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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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SOVEREIGN
London: Macmillan, 2006. First edition, 8vo., pp.583, blue hardcover, gilt, two small marks to fore-edge slightly affecting a few margins, otherwise a very good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, covered with adhesive plastic which has some wrinkling.
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BETRAYALS.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1994. Signed first edition, 8vo., pp.(ix),308, black hardcover lettered in silver; author’s signature to title page, a very good, clean copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which is sunned to spine, else very good.
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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 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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