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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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A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS.
Great Britain: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 2003. 8vo., pp.,280, paperback; creasing to spine with knock to lower part, edges lightly worn, o/w a very good copy.
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THE FOLIO SOCIETY DICKENS [Set of 16 Volumes]
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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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NO'S KNIFE. Collected Shorter Prose, 1947-1966.
London: Calder and Boyars, 1967. First edition thus, 8vo., pp.168, red hardcover, gilt; very good indeed, in a very good complete and unclipped dust-jacket, lightly foxed, with light superficial rubbing to front panel.
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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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FOR TO END YET AGAIN And Other Fizzles.
London: John Calder, 1976. First edition, 8vo., pp.54, dark orange hardcover, gilt; slight foxing to edges, a fresh and near-fine copy, in a very good+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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PAINT IT TODAY.
New York University Press, 1992. First edition, 8vo., pp.xliii,96, paperback; light corner-crease to half title, a fresh and near-fine copy.
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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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LEARWIFE.
Canongate, in association with Goldsboro Books, 2021. Limited edition, no.160 of 1500 signed copies of the first edition, black hardcover, silver-lettered; very good indeed, in like dust-jacket.
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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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ULUESTUN TO OULSTON: A Village History.
Oulston Village History Group. 8vo., pp.164, pictorial wrappers, colour illustrations; light rubbing, a very good copy indeed.
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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 Zodiac Press Edition of the Novels of Jane Austen, in Six Volumes, comprising: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park.
London: The Zodiac Press, 1968. Five volumes, seventh impression, 8vo.; a very good set, in very good, lightly chipped dust-jackets.
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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 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 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 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 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.: 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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