For the Literary Enthusiast: Books on Literature
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March of Intellect.
[HEATH, William].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| /An excellent example in contemporary hand-colour of this satire on the pace of technological and social change from William Heath's (d.1840) celeb...
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Kiss Kiss.
DAHL, Roald.Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00| /Presentation copy. A collection of short-stories by one of the masters of that medium, Kiss Kiss includes the apiologically disconcerting 'Royal Je...
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The New English Bible. New Testament.
[NEW TESTAMENT].Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00| /The first edition, Oxford University Press issue of The New English Bible, New Testament, a completely new translation from the original texts ren...
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
FLEMING, Ian.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| /The second title in the Blofeld trilogy, preceded by Thunderball (1961) and concluding with You Only Live Twice (1964). The novel is significant i...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles.
DOYLE, Arthur Conan.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00| /The Hound of the Baskervilles is not merely one of the most famous of all Sherlock Holmes novels but also one of the great Edwardian novels. Belov...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [with] The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
DOYLE, Arthur Conan.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00| /Produced in significant numbers at the time but heavy and heavily read through the years, copies do not survive often in anything approaching the ...
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For Self Examination and Judge for Yourselves!
KIERKEGAARD, Søren.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00| /The first edition in English of these essays by the founding-father of existential philosophy, Søren Kierkegaard. Written during his 'second autho...
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Lady Chatterley's Lover.
LAWRENCE, D[avid] H[erbert].Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /One Of The Most Controversial Novels Of The Twentieth Century. . This novel shines as an example of Lawrence's finite skill in conveying the nature...
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The Wind in the Willows.
GRAHAME, Kenneth.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00| /The Wind in the Willows, is a far more interesting book than its popular and often juvenile audience might suggest. First, it is the work of a wri...
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The Holy Bible
[BIBLE. KING JAMES VERSION].Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00| /Original silver 'furniture'. The King James Version, splendidly preserved in the original black morocco gilt binding furnished in silver. A handsom...
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Rosemary's Baby.
LEVIN, Ira.Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £0.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00| /A classic of horror fiction, famously made into a psychological horror film by Roman Polanski in 1968, with Mia Farrow as the eponymous Rosemary: ...
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Desert, Marsh and Mountain
THESIGER, Wilfrid.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| /Signed limited edition. Thesiger's splendid look back at his earlier explorations in Abyssinia, the Arabian gulf, Iraq, and Yemen, in a well illust...
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
ROWLING, J.K.Original price £2,800.00 - Original price £2,800.00Original price £0.00£2,800.00£2,800.00 - £2,800.00Current price £2,800.00| /Signed. A a near-fine, signed first edition of the fourth Harry Potter book by J.K. Rowling, recounting Harry's adventures during the Triwizard Tou...
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Nothing More to Declare.
HOLMES, John Clellon.Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £0.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00| /First UK edition of this notable assessment of the literature of the Beats and their contemporaries, with essays on Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, ...
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Oh! Calcutta!
TYNAN, Kenneth.Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00Original price £0.00£125.00£125.00 - £125.00Current price £125.00| /First edition of the controversial musical ensemble, which was performed mostly in the nude. Authors who contributed skits to the show include Tyn...
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The Holy Bible:
[ILLUSTRATED BIBLE].Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00| /A delightful family Bible following the King James Version, illustrated with more than 900 engraved illustrations depicting scenes from the Old an...
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