Authors in Literature
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Across the River and Into the Trees.
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00Original price £0.00£125.00£125.00 - £125.00Current price £125.00| /The true first edition, preceding the first US edition by three days, of Hemingway's poignant novel set entirely in Venice at the close of World W...
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Flush: A Biography.
WOOLF, Virginia.Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £0.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00| /Woolf's fictional 'stream of consciousness' tale by Flush, a dog, telling the story of his owner, Elizabeth Browning.First edition, so-called 'Lar...
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A Dictionary of the Underworld.
PARTRIDGE, Eric.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /Author's working copy for the third edition. A rare working copy for the enlarged third edition of Eric Partridge's A Dictionary of the Underworld,...
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The Caretaker.
PINTER, Harold.Original price £325.00 - Original price £325.00Original price £0.00£325.00£325.00 - £325.00Current price £325.00| /Association copy. A lovely association copy, inscribed by Harold Pinter to the actor Jack MacGowran on the title page: 'To Jack from Harold, Enjoy ...
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An Expensive Place to Die.
DEIGHTON, Len.Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £0.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00| /Fifth book featuring the involuntary agent known as Harry Palmer, portrayed by Michael Caine in his screen incarnations. Scarce with the docket.Fi...
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Marriage and Morals.
RUSSELL, Bertrand.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £0.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00| /First edition. An excellent copy of the first edition of Russell's controversial attack on Edwardian Marriage and Morals, which won him the Nobel P...
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Fairy Tales.
ANDERSEN, Hans Christian; ROBINSON, W. Heath (illustrator).Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00| /A leather-bound edition reissued in 1980 as a facsimile of the original edition, limited to 500 copies.Deluxe limited edition, number 423 of 500 c...
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Fahrenheit 451.
BRADBURY, Ray.Original price £50.00 - Original price £50.00Original price £0.00£50.00£50.00 - £50.00Current price £50.00| /First full-length appearance in print. First edition, first printing of Bradbury's classic dystopian novel, expanded from the 1951 novella The Fire...
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The Pilgrim's Progress
BUNYAN, John; STURT, John (engraver).Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /Illustrated with 22 engraved plates. An excellent, well-illustrated edition of this indisputable classic, often considered the first English novel....
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A Confederacy of Dunces.
TOOLE, John Kennedy.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00| /First edition in first issue dustjacket. An outstanding copy of this scarce title in the first issue dustjacket, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for F...
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The Great Gatsby.
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.Original price £4,250.00 - Original price £4,250.00Original price £0.00£4,250.00£4,250.00 - £4,250.00Current price £4,250.00| /First edition, first printing, first issue. A true masterpiece, and simply one of the best-loved and most-admired short novels in the English langu...
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A Farewell to Arms.
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /First UK edition, written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I.A profile of...
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Esthétique du Mal.
STEVENS, Wallace; WILLIAMS, Wightman (illustrator).Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /One of 340 copies - signed by the illustrator and type designer. Number 65 of 300 copies printed from Centaur types on Italian Pace paper, from a t...
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A Critical Exposition of the Philosophy of Leibniz
RUSSELL, Bertrand.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /Rare family association copy. A rare, family association copy of Bertrand Russell's first major philosophical work.With the dated ownership inscrip...
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What I Believe.
RUSSELL, Bertrand.Original price £575.00 - Original price £575.00Original price £0.00£575.00£575.00 - £575.00Current price £575.00| /First edition. The first edition of this pocket-sized philosophical essay on mankind's place in the universe, the nature of happiness, and the mora...
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Eloise in Paris.
THOMPSON, Kay; KNIGHT, Hilary (illustrator).Original price £2,900.00 - Original price £2,900.00Original price £0.00£2,900.00£2,900.00 - £2,900.00Current price £2,900.00| /A fine copy of the second book in the wonderful Eloise series, in a superb leather only binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. The author's inspira...
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The Lord of the Rings.
TOLKIEN, J. R. R.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £0.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00| /The first India paper edition of Tolkien's masterpiece.First India paper edition, 3 vols in 1, 8vo; 1200 pp., complete with 2 folding maps, origin...
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Joseph & the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
RICE, Tim; LLOYD-WEBBER; BLAKE, Quentin (illustrator).Original price £65.00 - Original price £65.00Original price £0.00£65.00£65.00 - £65.00Current price £65.00| /A stunning 'technicolour' illustrated edition based on one of the early Lloyd-Webber/Rice musicals.First U.S. edition; 4to (290 125 mm) story reto...
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Two Letters to Marion from Lewis Carroll.
CARROLL, Lewis [pseud. DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge].Original price £75.00 - Original price £75.00Original price £0.00£75.00£75.00 - £75.00Current price £75.00| /Limited reproduction of the two manuscript letters that accompanied the author's presentation copy of Alice in Wonderland to Marion sold by Dougla...
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On The Farm [Pop-Up Book]
Bancroft & Co. (publisher).Original price £280.00 - Original price £280.00Original price £0.00£280.00£280.00 - £280.00Current price £280.00| /A well-preserved pop-up book from the 1960s containing six charming pop-up farm scenes and animals. Bancroft specialised in the production of chil...
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Dolls House [Pop-Up Book]
Bancroft & Co. [publisher].Original price £175.00 - Original price £175.00Original price £0.00£175.00£175.00 - £175.00Current price £175.00| /A charming pop-up book, extremely well-preserved, which fold out 360 degrees to create a functioning open walled doll house, containing 4 rooms: a...
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