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Brideshead Revisited.
WAUGH, Evelyn.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00Unclipped dust-jacket. '...his most carefully written and deeply felt novel..... The brightly devastating satirist of England's twenties and thirti...
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Publisher's file photographs for Andy Warhol: The Factory Years 1964-1967.
[WARHOL, Andy]. FINKELSTEIN, Nathan Louis 'Nat'.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £0.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00The publisher used these prints during preparation for Nat Finkelstein's 1989 book Andy Warhol: The Factory Years 1964-1967, first published in th...
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Plany S. Peterburga v 1700, 1705, 1725, 1738, 1756, 1777, 1799, 1840 и 1849 godakh, s prilozheniem planov 13 chastei stolitsy 1853 goda.
TSYLOV, Nikolai Ivanovich.Original price £8,750.00 - Original price £8,750.00Original price £0.00£8,750.00£8,750.00 - £8,750.00Current price £8,750.00Inscribed presentation copy. An excellent example of of this extremely rare work on St Petersburg, inscribed to Secretary of State Vladimir Ivanovi...
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Through Masai Land:
THOMSON, Joseph.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00Presentation copy. presentation copy on the half-title "to David McIntosh with the Author's Compliments. Lokoja. March 27th."David McIntosh was an ...
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Deaths and Entrances.
THOMAS, Dylan.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00An exceptional copy of the author's most celebrated collection of poems, which deals with the effects of World War II.First edition, first impress...
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Through South Africa...
STANLEY, Henry Morton.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00Inscribed copy. Rare inscribed copy of Stanley's final book. It consists of articles originally published in the journal, South Africa. Stanley had...
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In Darkest Africa
STANLEY, Henry Morton.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £0.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00Deluxe edition of Stanley. The deluxe edition of Stanley's remarkable account of his expedition from the East Coast through the heart of Africa to ...
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