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Konstantinopel und das westliche Kleinasien:
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00With censorship slip.. First edition of this scarce title with the rare censorship slip warning travellers to hide the book from the authorities.Th...
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The Dark.
MCGAHERN, John.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00The author's scarce second novel, banned in Ireland by the Censorship Board for obscenity in 1965.First edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked i...
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The Ginger Man.
DONLEAVY, J.P.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00First edition of the author's first novel; a debauched comedy set in post-war Dublin, following the misadventures of Sebastian Dangerfield.First e...
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Lollipop.
[SOUTHERN, Terry & HOFFENBERG, Mason] KENTON, Maxwell (pseud).Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00Second edition of Lollipop by Maxwell Kenton, the joint pseudonym of Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg, who co-authored this highly sexual satir...
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Opere di Galileo Galilei
GALILEI, Galileo.Original price £9,500.00 - Original price £9,500.00Original price £0.00£9,500.00£9,500.00 - £9,500.00Current price £9,500.00Galileo rehabilitated. The first collected edition of Galileo's (1564-1642) works to include his famous Dialogo defending Copernicus' heliocentric ...
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Die Geschichte von der Liebe der schönen Seneschallin Blanche, anders Die lässliche Sünde...
BALZAC, Honoré de.Original price £200.00 - Original price £200.00Original price £200.00£200.00£200.00 - £200.00Current price £200.00The Catholic Church placed Balzac's work on their list of Banned Books, the Index Librorum Prohibitorum in 1841, where it remained up until the In...
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Animal Farm.
ORWELL, George.Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00The first edition of Orwell's socio-political classic, intended by the author to serve as a satirical take on the events that led up to the Russia...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
GIBBON, Edward.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £0.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00First great history of Rome's fall. A beautiful six-volume set of this classic work. Gibbon's (1737-1794) History of the Decline and Fall of the Ro...
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Histoire philosophique et politique des établissemens et du commerce des européens dans les deux Indes.
RAYNAL, Guillaume Thomas.Original price £9,500.00 - Original price £9,500.00Original price £0.00£9,500.00£9,500.00 - £9,500.00Current price £9,500.00The definitive edition. The final, expanded edition of this radical tour-de-force of global commerce and politics. The definitive version of the te...
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit
POTTER, Beatrix; SENDAK, Maurice.Original price £1,150.00 - Original price £1,150.00Original price £0.00£1,150.00£1,150.00 - £1,150.00Current price £1,150.00Maurice Sendak meets Beatrix Potter. An excellent production reproducing 34 of the original 41 plain illustrations from the edition of The Tale of ...
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