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Williams (Margery). The Velveteen Rabbit, or How Toys Become Real, 1st ed., Heinemann, 1922, four full-page and three double

Dominic Winter Book Auctions

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Williams (Margery). The Velveteen Rabbit, or How Toys Become Real, 1st ed., Heinemann, 1922, four full-page and three double-page col. lithos. by William Nicholson, occn. light foxing, dec. endpapers, orig. pictorial boards, rubbed to spine ends, with sl. loss at foot, in dusty d.j., with some rubbing and edge tears, split down spine with loss, 4to Extremely scarce first edition of this classic children's work (the only printing from lithographic stones), seldom seen with the dustjacket. With contemporary inscription on the front free endpaper verso to Nino Wardrop, daughter of Sir John Oliver Wardrop, British diplomat, traveller and translator, who published his famous work 'The Kingdom of Georgia' in 1888. (1)

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Davies (Rhys). The Song of Songs and other Stories, 1st ed., [1927], the author's first book, port. frontis. after William Roberts, orig. printed wrappers, a little soiled and marked, slim 4to (limited edition 812/900) together with Rings on her Fingers, by Rhys Davies, pub. Harold Shaylor, 1930, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. cloth in cellophane d.j. and slipcase, 8vo (Collectors Edition, no. 72/175 copies, signed by the author, with addn. signed inscription on flyleaf 'H.A. Ovenden, who wastes money buying my disgustingly expensive editions'), plus The Weathered Route, 1927, Rings on her Fingers, 1930, A Pig and a Poke, 1931, Honey and Bread, 1935, all 1st eds., all signed on the flyleaf by the author, all orig. cloth in Art Deco-style black and white d.j.s, 8vo, and others by/about Rhys Davies (20)

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Doyle (Arthur Conan). Works, Author's Edition, 12 vols., Smith, Elder, 1903, frontis. to each, first vol. with upper hinge split, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. cloth gilt, spines faded and sl. rubbed at ends, some light soiling, 8vo Limited edition, 230/1000 copies, volume 1 signed by Doyle. (12)

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Peters (Ellis, writing as Edith Pargeter). Hortensius, Friend of Nero, 1st ed., Lovat Dickson, 1936, illusts. by John Farleigh, orig. blue cloth in sl. darkened d.j., d.j. chipped with loss at head of spine, 8vo Limited edition 59/125, signed by Edith Pargeter and John Farleigh. Author's first book. (1)

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Two replicas, in 18ct gold, of the Sir Winston Churchill commemorative stamp, November 1965, first edition, A1526; B1526; 41

Anderson & Garland

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Two replicas, in 18ct gold, of the Sir Winston Churchill commemorative stamp, November 1965, first edition, A1526; B1526; 41 grms. in presentation case.

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David Duggleby Scarborough

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"Doncaster Races-St Leger 1836-False Start" Plate 1 hand coloured engraving pub Ackermann 1837, together with "The History of the St Leger Stakes" by J S Fletcher (first edition)

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David Duggleby Scarborough

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Shadowmancer by Graham Taylor signed paperback first edition 2002

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Morphets of Harrogate

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JARDINE (WILLIAM) The Natural History of Humming Birds, two volumes, Edinburgh, 1833, sixty-six hand coloured engraved plates, marble end papers, bookplate of Joseph Hornby Baxendale, full green calf, gt frontispiece Fairfax (Thomas), The Complete Sportsman or Country Gentlemen’s Recreation, first edition, engraved, n.d c.1765, new end papers, full calf

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Morphets of Harrogate

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THE ROYAL ARTILLERY COMMEMORATION BOOK 1939-1945 first edition 1950, numerous colour and black and white illustrations, folding maps and plans, original blue cloth, gt, armorial

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Dreweatt Neate Bristol Salerooms

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Twenty-four Original Omnibus Company model buses, including a No.43701, Q1 Trolleybus 'London Transport'; No.43904, A.E.C. Utility 'Leicester City'; and No.43311, Plaxton Premiere 'Bassetts Coachways', each boxed; and nine Exclusive First Edition commercial vehicles, including No.23603, Bedford TK Luton 'Pickfords', seven of them boxed, (33).

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Twenty-nine Exclusive First Edition model buses, including a No.23308, A.E.C. RF 'London Transport'; and two 'Model Collector' Southdown sets, each boxed.

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Dreweatt Neate Bristol Salerooms

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Thirty-two Exclusive First Edition model buses, including a No.26501, Bristol Utility 'Maidstone & District'; No.16001, Leyland PD2 Lowbridge 'Todmorden'; No.18001, Daimler Fleetline 'Birmingham City'; and No.24401, Alexander Fleetline 'London Transport', each boxed.

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Thirty-two Exclusive First Edition model buses, including a No.20001, Leyland PD2 'Maidstone & District'; and a No.16516, Leyland Atlantean 'Portsmouth', each boxed.

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Dreweatt Neate Bristol Salerooms

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Twenty Exclusive First Edition model buses, including a No.18101, Leyland Atlantean 'London Transport'; and No.12304, Harrington Cavalier 'Southdown', each boxed; together with thirteen E.F.E. commercial vehicles, including a No.24002, Bedford TK box van and trailer 'B.R.S.', each boxed, (33).

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Twenty-five boxed Exclusive First Edition model buses, including a No.16203, Bristol MW Coach 'Royal Blue'; and two Southdown sets; together with a further thirty unboxed E.F.E. model buses, (55).

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Dean's Collectors Club: a golden plush 'Uncle Eustace' teddy bear, 37cm high; a cream plush 'Golden Jubilee Bear', limited edition of 2,450, 37cm high; a golden plush 'My First Teddy' teddy bear, limited edition of 5,000, 34cm high; a white plush 'Father's Day' teddy bear, limited edition of 250, 40cm high; a golden plush 'Golden Dawn' teddy bear, limited edition of 2,000, 29cm high; and a white plush 'Carrington' teddy bear, limited edition of 2,950, 35cm high, (6).

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Ephemera - Jordan, H.E. The Tramways of Reading, first edition, Light Railway Transport League, London 1957. Maroon cloth, illustrations, signed by author, octavo; a Reading Official Town Guide, circa 1939. Pictorial paper covers, illustrations, octavo; twenty postcards, many of Reading interest, including Corinthian F.C. football 'A' team; and assorted other items, including three circus programmes, circa 1950s.

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Football - Tom Finney's Preston North End Scrapbook, first edition, Souvenir Press, London 1982. Pictorial soft covers, illustrations from photographs, presentation copy signed by Bobby Moore, Bobby Charlton, Jimmy Greaves, Ray Wilson, Martin Peters, Alan Ball, Gordon Banks, Roger Hunt, Bill Foulkes, George Best, Stanley Matthews, Tom Finney and others, octavo.

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Kennett, White. Parochial Antiquities Attempted in the History of Ambrosden, Burcester, and Other Adjacent Parts in the Coun

Dreweatt Neate Bristol Salerooms

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Kennett, White. Parochial Antiquities Attempted in the History of Ambrosden, Burcester, and Other Adjacent Parts in the Counties of Oxford and Bucks, first edition, Oxford 1695. Modern half calf, nine engraved plate illustrations (eight folding), quarto.

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Ferris, Benjamin G. Utah and the Mormons. The History, Government, Doctrines, Customs and Prospects of the Latter-Day Saints, first edition, Harper, New York 1854. Blind-stamped brown cloth, four plate and further text illustrations, octavo.

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Milne, A.A. Now We Are Six, first edition, Methuen, London 1927. Crimson cloth gilt, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, octavo; Tuer, Andrew. Luxurious Bathing, second edition, Field & Tuer, London no date. Vellum, eight etchings by Tristram Ellis, oblong small quarto; Elwes, Alfred. The Adventures of a Dog, and a Good Dog Too, Routledge, London 1857. Pictorial crimson cloth gilt, seven (of eight) illustrations by Harrison Weir, octavo; and four other works, (7).

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Dickens, Charles. Little Dorrit, two volumes, first edition in book form, later issue, Bradbury & Evans, London 1857. Half morocco by Proudfoot, thirty-nine plate illustrations including eight dark plates, vignette title page, errata at foot of plate list, octavo.

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Doyle, A. Conan. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, first edition, Newnes, London 1894. Bevelled blue cloth, illustrations by Sidney Paget, octavo; and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, second edition, Newnes, London 1893. Bevelled light blue cloth, octavo, (2).

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Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist; or The Parish Boy's Progress, three volumes, Bentley, London 1838. First edition, twenty one plate illustrations after George Cruickshank, 'Boz' on title page, without list of illustrations, half-titles and adverts, 'fireside' plate on p.312 of Vol.3, half roan, duodecimo (vol.1 with split lower joint and tender hinges; vol.2 p.223/4 torn and repaired; throughout few plates cropped; one plate torn; some fore edges chipped and torn).

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Combe, William. The First Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of the Picturesque, ninth edition, Nattali & Bond, London 1855. Blind-stamped sage green cloth, hand-coloured plate illustrations after T. Rowlandson, octavo; with The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of Consolation, London 1855; and The Third Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of a Wife, London 1855, both uniformly bound (spines torn and browned; some pages loose; sold with all faults); Messel, Oliver. (illustrator) - Shakespeare, William. Romeo & Juliet, new edition, Batsford, London 1936. Mulberry cloth, mounted colour plates, quarto; and seven other works, (11).

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Lewis, John. John Nash, the Painter as Illustrator, The Pendomer Press, circa 1978. Brown cloth, dustjacket, illustrations, quarto; Rothenstein, John. John Nash, first edition, Macdonald, London 1983. Boards, dustjacket, illustrations, octavo; Shaw-Sparrow, Walter. Frank Brangwyn and His Work, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., London 1910. Oatmeal cloth, colour plate illustrations, quarto; Corn, Wanda. The Art of Andrew Wyeth, eighth edition, New York Graphic Society, Boston 1973. Cloth, dustjacket, illustrations, oblong quarto; A Way of Life: Kettle's Yard, first edition, Cambridge University Press 1984. Cloth, dustjacket, illustrations from photographs, quarto; and fifteen other works, (20).

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Bliss, Douglas Percy. Edward Bawden, The Pendomer Press, Godalming no date. Blue cloth, dustjacket, illustrations, quarto; Binyon, Helen. Eric Ravilious, Memoir of An Artist, first edition, Lutterworth Press, Guildford 1983. Boards, dustjacket, illustrations, octavo; Constable, Freda. The England of Eric Ravilious, first edition, Scolar Press, London 1982. Maroon cloth, dustjacket, illustrations, octavo; and eight other assorted works, (11).

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Cornwell, Bernard. Sharpe's Eagle, first edition, Collins, London 1981. Boards, dustjacket, octavo.

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Woolf, Virginia. The Common Reader, first edition, Hogarth Press, London 1925. Cloth-backed pictorial boards, octavo (spine

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Woolf, Virginia. The Common Reader, first edition, Hogarth Press, London 1925. Cloth-backed pictorial boards, octavo (spine head torn); Woolf, Virginia. The Common Reader, Second Series, first edition, Hogarth Press, London 1932. Green cloth, inscribed 'Nelly Cecil / from / Virginia Woolf', octavo (spine punctured, without loss); Woolf, Virginia. The Moment and Other Essays, first edition, Hogarth Press, London 1947. Crimson cloth, dustjacket, octavo (jacket fragmentary); and Woolf, Leonard & Strachey, James, eds. Virginia Woolf and Lytton Strachey, first edition, Hogarth Press / Chatto & Windus, London 1956. Tan cloth, dustjacket, octavo, (4).

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Fitzgerald, Edward (Translator) - The Golden Cockerel Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. The First e

Neales Nottingham

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Fitzgerald, Edward (Translator) - The Golden Cockerel Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. The First edition reprinted together with Fitzgeralds's Monk-Latin version now printed for the first time. Translations of the Latin & of the Persian originals and a critical essay by Sir E.Denison Ross, intro by Charles Ganz & line engravings by John Buckland - Wright: London, Golden Cockeral Press, 1938, large paper edition, quartered velum over tan buckram, gilt design to upper board, gilt titles to spine. Bound by S & S London.

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Hood, Thomas - The Comic Annual: London, Charles Tilt, 1832, 2nd edition, 12mo. Famous work issued yearly on humorous elemen

Neales Nottingham

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Hood, Thomas - The Comic Annual: London, Charles Tilt, 1832, 2nd edition, 12mo. Famous work issued yearly on humorous elements of life. Title page and frontis vignette engraving, illustrated with copious highly humorous woodcuts. Together with The New Comic Annual, being a similar but undated copy.[1830] The first piece is titled Falstaff s Festival Or The power Of Mirth. An Ode In Honor Of Comus. Illustrations by W. Brown. (2)

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Dee, Atkinson & Harrison

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A A Milne, When We Were Very Young, first edition 1924, illustrated by Ernest H Shepard

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Dee, Atkinson & Harrison

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A A Milne, Now We Are Six, first edition 1927, illustrated by Ernest H Shepard

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THOMAS HARDY: "Desperate Remedies”, First Edition, single volume, published Ward & Downey, 1889

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THOMAS HARDY: "Under the Greenwood Tree", First Edition, two volume edition bound as a library copy, published Tinsley Brothers, 1872

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THOMAS HARDY: "The Trumpet Major", First Edition in three volumes published Smith Elder & Co, 1880 (3).

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THOMAS HARDY: "The Trumpet Major", First Edition in three volumes published Smith Elder & Co, 1880 (3).

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THOMAS HARDY: "The Hand of Ethelberta", First Edition, rebound, published Smith Elder & Co, London, 1876, two volumes

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THOMAS HARDY "A Laodicean", First Edition, published, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, London, 1881, three volumes

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THOMAS HARDY: "Two on a Tower", First Edition, published Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1882, three volumes

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THOMAS HARDY: "The Mayor of Casterbridge", First Edition, published Smith Elder & Co., London 1886, rebound in calf with mar

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THOMAS HARDY: "The Mayor of Casterbridge", First Edition, published Smith Elder & Co., London 1886, rebound in calf with marbled boards two volumes See illustration

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THOMAS HARDY: "The Woodlanders", First Edition, in three volumes, published Macmillan & Co., London & New York, 1887 (3)

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THOMAS HARDY: "Tess of the d’Urbervilles", first Edition in three volumes, published Osgood, McIlvaine & Co, 1891 (rebound) (3)

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THOMAS HARDY: "Wessex Tales", First Edition in two volumes, published Macmillan & Co, London & New York, 1888. See illustrat

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THOMAS HARDY: "Wessex Tales", First Edition in two volumes, published Macmillan & Co, London & New York, 1888. See illustration

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THOMAS HARDY: "Life’s Little Ironies", First Edition, published Osgood McIlvaine & Co, 1894, another and another published Macmillan 1915 (3)

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THOMAS HARDY: "Poems of the Past and the Present", First Edition, published Harper & Brothers, 1901

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ALFRED LORD TENNYSON: "Enoch Arden", first edition, contemporary full green morocco, published London 1865, three other Tennyson calf bound volumes and other calf bound volumes of poetry (a lot)

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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: "The Poetical Works", published Longman, Rees Orme Brown and Green, Paternoster Row, London 1827, marble boards, calf bound, five volumes and Christopher Marlow, "The Works", first collected edition, published William Pickering, London 1826, three volumes (8)

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ANTHONY TROLLOPE: "The Way we Live Now" in two volumes, first edition, with 40 wood cut engraved plates by Luke Fildes, publ

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ANTHONY TROLLOPE: "The Way we Live Now" in two volumes, first edition, with 40 wood cut engraved plates by Luke Fildes, published Chapman & Hall, 1875, Anthony Trollope, "He Knew he was Right", with 64 illustrations by Marcus Stone, published Strahan & Co., London 1869, two volumes. (4) See illustration

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ANTHONY TROLLOPE: "The Small House at Allington" with 18 illustrations by J E Millais, RA, in two volumes, published Smith Elder & Co., 1864, half calf gilt spines, and Anthony Trollope - "The Vicar of Bullhampton", first edition with a vignette title page and other illustrations by H Woods, contemporary half carved, gilt panelled back, published Bradbury & Evans, 1870 and Anthony Trollope - "The Claverings", first edition with 16 illustrations by M Ellen Edwards, two volumes, modern half calf, published Smith Elder & Co., 1867 (3)

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GEORGE ELIOT: "Adam Bede", second edition in three volumes, published William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London, 1859, Samuel Warren "Ten Thousand a Year", first edition 3 volumes, published Edinburgh & London, 1841 and Henry Fielding "The History of Amelia", published London 1832, 2 volumes, (8)

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GEORGE ELIOT: "The Mill on the Floss", first edition, published William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh and London 1860 with half titles, title pages, marble boards, leather spine three volumes

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ANTHONY TROLLOPE: "Orley Farm" with illustrations by J E Millais, first edition, published Chapman and Hall, 1862, two volumes, and William Thackeray "The Newcomers - Memoirs of a most Respectable Family" edited by Arthur Pendennis with illustrations after Richard Doyl, first edition, published Bradbury & Evans 1854-55, two volumes (4)

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ELIZABETH GASKELL: "North and South", first edition, published Chapman & Hall, 1855, two volumes, and "Mary Barton": A Tale of Manchester Life, second edition, published Chapman & Hall (4)

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WILLIAM MAKEPIECE THACKERY: "Vanity Fair": a novel without a hero, with illustrations on steel and wood by the author, first edition, published Bradbury & Evans, London 1848

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EDITH SITWELL: "Poems, New and Old", published Faber & Faber, John Betjamen: "Summoned by Bells", first edition, 1960, Lawrence Whistler: "Ode to the Sun and other Poems", published Heinemann and other volumes of 20th century poetry (a collection)

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, first edition plus other items.

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O'Brian (Patrick), The Unknown Shore 1959, First edition with dust wrapper.

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John (W.D.), Nantgarw Porcelain, First edition 1948, brown leather binding.

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John (W.D.), The Nantgarw Album, First edition 1975.

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John (W.D.), William Billingsley (1758-1828), First edition, 1968.

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