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ELEPHANT ADVENTURE. Illustrated by Pat Marriott.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First edition. Code in felt-tip on endpaper; wrapper a trifle worn at corners and spine; else a very good copy.
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EVELINA or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World. In Two Volumes.
London.J.M. Dent and Company. 1893. Volume I; xxxii, 1-237pp. with 4 black & white illustrations. Volume II; 276pp. with 3 black & white illustrations. Original brown buckram gilt. No 23 of 150 large paper limited editions printed for the United Kingdom. Some browning to endpapers. Vol I shows slight wear to heel of spine, and small stain to front board. Vol II has slight bump to bottom corner of front board, and some wear to head of spine; else a very good set.
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FAIRY KIST
"FAIRY KIST." Short story contained in The Strand Magazine for February 1928. Spine worn with some small loss of paper, and with a split at base; else a very good copy. Also contains chapter V of The Maracot Deep, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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"GOOD-BYE SWEETHEART!" Copyright edition. In two volumes. Volumes VIII & IX. Asher's collection of English authors British and American.
Berlin: A. Asher & Co, 1872. 256; 238 pages. Bound in two volumes; quarter cloth over marbled boards. Spines shabby and worn; else very good.
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HANNAH, By the author of "John Halifax, Gentleman." Copyright edition. In two volumes. Vol's 1187 & 1188.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1871. 295; 312 pages. Both half-titles present. Bound as one volume in quarter calf gilt over marbled boards. A very good, clean copy.
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HEARTEASE or The Brother's Wife. By the author of "The Heir of Redclyffe." Copyright edition. In two volumes. Vol's CCCXXII & CCCXXIII.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1855. 342; 352 pages. Both half-titles present. Bound as one volume in quarter cloth gilt over marbled boards. Some light browning here & there throughout; else a very good copy.
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HELEN'S BABIES. With some account of their ways innocent, crafty, angelic, impish, witching, and repulsive. By their latest victim.
Boston: Loring, No date [1876]. Softcover. 206, [2] ad's. Original printed wrappers. Octavo. First edition, first issue, complying with all required issue points, except the ad's at the rear has been bound in reverse order to that noted by Blanck Contained in a cloth box gilt. Paper wrappers, splitting at head & heel, and worn at corners; previous owner's name on front cover; box worn and beginning to split at spine; collection label to upper panel; else a very good copy of this scarce first issue.
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HELEN'S BABIES. With some account of their ways innocent, crafty, angelic, impish, witching, and repulsive. By their latest victim.
Boston: Loring, No date [1876]. Hardcover. 206, [2] ad's. Original green cloth,gilt. Octavo. First hardback edition. Bookplate of Mildred Greenhill. A fine copy.
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HENRY BROCKEN His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-imaginable Regions of Romance.
London: John Murray, 1904. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. First issue with plain top edge and no final bracket after Walter Ramal on the title. Ownership name on front endpaper; endpapers lightly spotted; else a very good copy.
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HENRY DUNBAR. Histoire d'un Réprouvé. Traduit de l'Anglais par Charles Bernard Derosne avec l'autorisation de l'auteur.
Paris: Bernard Tauchnitz, 1865. Two volumes. Quarter cloth over marbled boards. First French edition. Some light browning to endpapers; else a very good set.
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His Dark Materials III THE AMBER SPYGLASS.
London.David Fickling Books. Scholastic Children's Books. 2000. Hardback. 548pp. Original boards gilt. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. First Issue. A mint unread copy in a mint, unprice-clipped wrapper.
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HOSTAGES TO FORTUNE. A Novel. Copyright Edition. In two volumes. Vol's 1527 & 1528
Leipzig: Bernard Tauchnitz, 1875. Two volumes bound as one in blue cloth, gilt. A very good copy complete with half-titles.
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I AM NUMBER FOUR.
London: Michael Joseph, 2010. Uncorrected proof copy – not for resale or quotation. 311 pages. Untitled white boards with orange decoration; titled orange slipcase with white decoration. Octavo. A fine unread copy. .
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JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN. Copyright edition. In two volumes. Vol's CCCXCVII & CCCXCVIII.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1857. 344; 318 pages. Both half-titles present. Bound as one volume in quarter calf gilt over marbled boards. Spine a little rubbed; some light browning; else a very good, clean copy.
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JOSUAH HAGGARD'S DAUGHTER. A Novel. Copyright edition. In two volumes. Vol's 1635 & 1636.
Leipzig: Bernard Tauchnitz, 1877. 319; 304 pages. Both half-titles present. Bound as one volume in quarter calf gilt over marbled boards. Endpapers a little spotted; else a very good, clean copy.
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JOTTINGS By C. N. B. With acknowledgments to the Editor of the "Gibraltar Chronicle."
no place of publication, no publisher, no date. [4], 50 pages. Original wrappers. Octavo. Little wear at heel of spine else very good; staples rusting; else very good. The first story is called, The Cruise of the "Tadpole."
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LIFE’S ADVENTURE. Extracts from the works of John Buchan compiled by Susan Tweedsmuir.
London: The St. Hugh’s Press Limited, 1947. 60 pages. Original boards and dust-wrapper. 15. 8 x 12.2 cm. First edition. Presentation copy from Alison Utley, inscribed on half-title: ‘With good wishes to Sonia from Alison Utley.’ Loosely laid in is a two-page signed typed letter from Utley to Sonia wishing her a happy Christmas, commenting on own health, and telling her that she is sending her a copy of Lady Tweedsmuir's book on Buchan, whom she admires highly. She also mentions two of her own books and that she would like to have sent a G.R book [Grey Rabbit] but it is out of print. Book a little rubbed and worn - jacket also and splitting in places; else very good
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LIVIA or Buried Alive. A novel by Lawrence Durrell.
London: Faber and Faber, 1978. Hardback in pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. A near mint copy in a like unprice-clipped dust-wrapper.
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LIVIA or Buried Alive. A novel by Lawrence Durrell.
London: Faber and Faber, 1978. Hardback in pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. A near mint copy in a like unprice-clipped dust-wrapper, signed by Durrell on the title-page.
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LOUDER & FUNNIER.
London: Faber & Faber, 1932. 286 pages. Green cloth gilt; yellow dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition; second issue. Cloth of spine has some browning; some foxing front and rear; wrapper a little worn at head of spine; neat ownership inscription on end-paper.
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