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POTTER, Beatrix. THE TALE OF TIMMY TIPTOES Frederick Warne and Co., London, 1911. FIRST EDITION. 12mo; frontispiece and 26 colour plates; with neat gift inscription on front free endpaper dated 'Christmas 1911'; original dark green boards with coloured pictorial label on upper cover, slight wear.
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ROSS, Margaret. RUSTY FOX GOES TO THE BANQUET. Museum Press. London. 1946. First Edition, Presentation Copy signed by the Author. Oblong 4to; 12 full page colour illustrations by Ross; original orange cloth, lettered in gilt, cloth slightly cockled, coloured dust-wrapper, slightly soiled with a few small marginal tears. ROSS, Margaret. MR. BADGER'S SUCCESSFUL PLAN The Museum Press & The Soho Gallery Ltd. 1944. First Edition, Presentation Copy signed by the Author. Oblong 4to; 13 coloured plates by Ross; very light marginal soiling and some slight off-setting; original blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, coloured dust-wrapper, somewhat soiled with some marginal tears. ROSS, Margaret. THE DOWNFALL OF AUGUSTUS HARE. The Museum Press. & The Soho Gallery. 1945. First Edition, Presentation Copy signed by the Author. Oblong 4to; 12 coloured plates by Ross; light marginal browning; original green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, spine and margins faded and lightly sunned, coloured dust-wrapper, soiled with some marginal tears. (3).
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UPTON, Florence K., Illustrator and UPTON, Bertha. THE GOLLIWOGG'S 'AUTO-GO-CART' Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1901. FIRST EDITION. Oblong folio (220 x 280mm); coloured title and 30 colour plates, one double-page, numerous monochrome text illustrations; ownership signature at head of title, partially erased, some slight dust-soiling; original green cloth backed coloured pictorial boards, surface wear and rubbing to extremities.
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ECONOMIC HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY - FITZMAURICE, Lord Edmond. THE LIFE OF SIR WILLIAM PETTY 1623-1687. John Murray, London, 1895. First Edition, Presentation Copy. 8vo; inscribed 'from the author' on front free endpaper and with the ownership signature of Frederic Harrison; original green cloth, lettered in gilt, slight wear to extremities. THOROLD ROGERS, James E. SIX CENTURIES OF WORK AND WAGES. The History of English Labour. Swan Sonnenschein, London, 1886. New Edition. 8vo; original red cloth, worn and sunned; HIDY, Ralph W. THE HOUSE OF BARING IN AMERICAN TRADE AND FINANCE. English Merchant Bankers at Work 1763-1861. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1949. 8vo; original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; and 45 other works, including a first edition, in a worn dust-wrapper, of Harrod's Life of John Maynard Keynes, 1951. (48)
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ECONOMICS - AISLABIE, John. THE SPEECH OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN AISLABIE, ESQ; upon his defence make in the House of Lords, aginst the Bill for raising money upon the Estates of the South-Sea directors. J. Roberts, London, 1721. Third Edition, printed in the same year as the first. 4to; Goldsmiths 5951; (see Kress 3353-4, 1st and 2nd eds); Hanson 2936n; AISLABIE, John. MR. AISLABIE'S SECOND SPEECH ON HIS DEFENCE. J. Roberts, London, [1721]. 4to; pp. 22; folios shaved; Goldsmiths 5953; Kress 3352; Hanson 2938; [AISLABIE, John]. THE CASE OF THE RIGHT HONBLE JOHN AISLABIE, ESQ J. Roberts, London, [1721]. FIRST EDITION. Evidently by Aislabie himself and attributed to him by ESTC, although Kress 3368 and Goldsmiths 5967 list it under ÔCase'; Hanson 3032; [ANON]. A SPEECH UPON THE CONSOLIDATED BILL [London], 1721. FIRST EDITION. 4to; ESTC(BL) Speech t049726; Kress 3438; Goldsmiths 6042; Hanson 3044; 4to; four pamphlets bound together in contemporary calf, slightly stained and joints starting to split.
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ECONOMICS - DOWELL, Stephen. A HISTORY OF TAXATION AND TAXES IN ENGLAND, from the earliest times to the present day. Vol I [-IV]. London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1884. First Edition. Four volumes, 8vo; light marginal browning, occasional minor soiling; with book-plate on front paste-downs; contemporary polished calf, red and blue morocco labels lettered in gilt, ruled gilt borders, spines sunned, light rubbing and scuffing to boards and extremities. Einaudi 1608 (Second edition 1888). SELIGMAN, Edwin Robert. PROGRESSIVE TAXATION IN THEORY AND PRACTICE. Second Edition Completely Revised and Enlarged. [Printed by Princeton University Press]. 1908. Second Edition, Presentation Copy. 8vo; uncut, contemporary publisher's cloth, spine lettered in gilt, lightly rubbed; with presentation inscription on front free endpaper 'To Prof H. C. Adams with the regards of Edwin R Seligman, Feb 1909', with Carter's book-plate on front paste-down.
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ECONOMICS - HUSKISSON, William. THE SPEECHES OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM HUSKISSON, with a biographical memoir, supplied to the editor from authentic sources ... London, John Murray ... 1831. FIRST EDITION. Three volumes, 8vo; engraved portrait in volume I; occasional light spotting and dust-soiling; contemporary calf, spine elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt, joints and extremities lightly rubbed; contemporary inscription on half-title of vol I. Kress C2837; Goldsmiths 26664; HORNER, Francis. MEMOIRS AND CORRESPONDENCE ... edited by his brother, Leonard Horner, Esq. F.R.S ... London: John Murray ... 1843. FIRST EDITION. Two volumes, 8vo; engraved frontispiece portrait by S.W. Reynolds after Raeburn in Vol I, engraved frontispiece of Chantrey's monument at Westminster Abbey in Vol II; light marginal browning; contemporary half morocco, joints and extremities rubbed and lightly worn, small chip at tail of Vol. I. Einaudi 2930; not in Kress; BURGON, John William. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SIR THOMAS GRESHAM; compiled chiefly from his correspondence preserved in her Majesty's state-paper office ... In Two Volumes ... London: Robert Jennings ... 1839. FIRST EDITION. Two volumes, 8vo; with steel engraved portrait and 9 plates, one folding; some light foxing and marginal browning; uncut, contemporary ribbed cloth, spines lettered in gilt, spines and outer margins lightly sunned. (7)
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ECONOMICS THEORY & FINANCE - BUXTON, Sydney. FINANCE AND POLITICS; An Historical Study 1783-1885. In Two Volumes. Vol. I [-II]. John Murray, London, 1888. FIRST EDITION. Two volumes, 8vo; with the book-plate of the Marshall Library of Economics, University of Cambridge and their stamp on titles and final page; later library buckram, spines lettered in gilt; ROBINSON, Joan. THE ACCUMULATION OF CAPITAL Macmillan & Co., London, 1956. FIRST EDITION. 8vo; original cloth, printed dust-wrapper, dust-soiled; GILBART, J.W. LECTURES ON THE HISTORY AND PRINCIPLES OF ANCIENT COMMERCE Waterlow and Sons, London, 1847. First Edition, Presentation Copy. 8vo; inscribed by the author at head of title; recent blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt; and 40 others, including works by Pigou, Hayek and J.M. Keynes. (44)
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LOCKE, John. THE WORKS OF JOHN LOCKE ESQ ... with alphabetical tables ... London, printed for John Churchill ... and Sam. Manship ... 1714. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Three volumes, folio; with engraved portrait and one engraved plate; dampstain affecting upper gutter of preliminary leaves of Vol. I, title-page of Vol. II torn in centre at gutter, worm-trail affecting first few gatherings of Vol II, occasional light browning and marginal soiling throughout, but generally crisp and clean; in contemporary panelled calf, spines gilt, joints cracked, head of spines chipped and worn, especially to Vol II, boards and extremities scuffed and worn. (3).
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NECKER, Jacques. OEURVES A Lausanne, Chez J.P. Heubach, 1786. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, Large Paper Copy. Four volumes, large 4to; engraved frontispiece portrait by N. de Launay in Vol I, two folding hand-coloured engraved maps, and two folding letterpress tables on one leaf (in Vol III); some offsetting to margins of half-titles and title-pages, occasional spotting, a few gatherings browned, otherwise clean and crisp; contemporary sprinkled polished calf, ruled with gilt decorative border, spines in compartments tooled in gilt, each with three red morocco label and green morocco numbering piece, minor rubbing to joints and extremities. (4).
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MEDICINE - HEAD, Henry. STUDIES IN NEUROLOGY ... in Two volumes. Vol. I [-II]. Frowde & Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1920. Two volumes, 8vo; original red cloth, worn; BALANCE, Charles A. SOME POINTS IN THE SURGERY OF THE BRAIN and its Membranes. Macmillan and Co., London, 1907. First Edition. 8vo; recent cloth; DITTRICH, Dr. Ottmar. BILDERATLAS and its Membranes. Macmillan and Co., London, 1907 8vo; many illustrations; contemporary calf backed boards, rubbed; and a quantity of other works, mostly on Neurology. (qty.)
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MEDICINE - PICKERILL, H.P. FACIAL SURGERY. E. & S. Livingston, Edinburgh, 1924. First Edition. 8vo; with many photographs; original cloth, worn; RONALD, David. HANDBOOK ON OFFENSIVE TRADES. William Hodge & Company, London, 1935. First Edition. 8vo; original cloth, rubbed; GORDON-TAYLOR, Gordon. THE ABDOMINAL INJURIES OF WARFARE. William Hodge & Company, London, 1935. First Edition. 8vo; with 68 illustrations; original cloth, gilt; and a quantity of further works on plastic surgery and occupational health. (qty.)
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MEDICINE & SCIENCE - RYAN, Michael. A MANUAL OF MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE, Compiled from the Best Medical and Legal Works. Renshaw and Rush, London, 1831. First Edition. 8vo; contemporary marbled boards, worn, rebacked in modern cloth, spine lettered in gilt; WORSLEY, Rev. Henry. JUVENILE DEPRAVITY. £100 Prize Essay. Charles Gilpin, London, 1849. First Edition. 8vo; original cloth, spine defective; WILLIS, Robert. THE WORKS OF WILLIAM HARVEY, M.D, London, 1847. 8vo; original cloth, worn; and 18 other works on medical and scientific subjects. (21)
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DARWIN, Charles, and Robert FITZROY. JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES INTO THE GEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY OF THE VARIOUS COUNTRIES VISITED BY H.M.S. BEAGLE, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N. from 1832 to 1836 ... London, Henry Colburn, Great Marlborough Street, 1839. FIRST EDITION, Second Issue. 8vo; 16 advertisements at end; two folding engraved charts, both with old tears; uncut in original brownish purple blind-stamped ribbed publisher's cloth, spine lettered in gilt, cloth chipped at head and foot of spine, lacking front free endpaper.
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LOWE, Edward Joseph. OUR NATIVE FERNS; or, A History of the British Species and their Varieties. Volume I [-II]. London: Groombridge and Sons. 1867. Two volumes, large 8vo; numerous chromolithograph plates and wood-engravings; light foxing, small tear to outer margin of first frontispiece; original green embossed cloth, spine gilt, with central fern motif to upper cover, head, tail & corners a little bumped, spine slightly cockled. Freeman, 2328. SELBY, Prideaux John. A HISTORY OF BRITISH FOREST-TRESS, Indigenous and Introduced. London: John Van Voorst, 1842. First Edition. Large 8vo; illustrated with nearly 200 engravings; endpapers slightly foxed otherwise clean and crisp; contemporary red calf, spine tooled in gilt with green labels, covers lightly sunned, light wear to extremities. Freeman 3352. NONESUCH PRESS. [GOODEN, Stephen]. SONGS OF THE GARDENS. Edited by Peter Warlock. The Nonesuch Press. 1925. Number 666 out of 875 copies. 4to; title-page device designed by Stephen Gooden, ornaments by W.M.R. Quick; uncut in original full vellum, boards bowed as usual, with patterned dust-wrapper extremities chipped, spine browned; and two other items relating to plants. (6).
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BYRON, Robert. THE ROAD TO OXIANA. Macmillan, London, 1937. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Former owner's name and address to the head of the front free endpaper, otherwise a very clean bright, tight copy in a price-clipped but otherwise near fine dustwrapper with very slight wear to the spine extremities and a hint of creasing to the edges. A clean copy.
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GLIDDON, George R. OTIA EGYPTIACA Discourses on Egyptian Archaeology and Hieroglyphical Discoveries. London: James Madden ... 1849. First Edition. 8vo; some soiling and marginal browning throughout; publisher's adverts tipped at front; uncut, original red publisher's blind-stamped cloth, upper cover gilt, spine and upper covers soiled and darkened, corners bumped and worn.
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HUNTER, John. AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE TRANSACTIONS OF PORT JACKSON & NORFOLK ISLAND. Including the Journals of Governors Phillip & King, Since the Publication of Phillip's Voyage. With An Abridged Account of the New Discoveries In the South Seas. John Stockdale, London, July 1793. FIRST ABRIDGED EDITION. 8vo; portrait frontispiece of Hunter, vignette on title and large fold-out map of New South Wales and an illustration of a NSW Family, engraved by William Blake; some marks and damp stains, hinges strengthened, title page cropped as usual, date incomplete (dated Sept. 9, 1792 on frontis.; dated July 5, 1793 in the Abridgement Preface ['Advertisement.']); full dark brown calf, original covers, recently rebacked, blind tooling on spine, gilt spine lettering on maroon label, marbled edges, corners rubbed.
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JOHNSTON, James. REALITY VERSUS ROMANCE IN SOUTH CENTRAL AFRICA. Being the Account of a Journey across the Continent from Benguella on the West through Bihe, Ganguella, Barotse, The Kalahari Desert, Mashonaland, Manica, Gorongoza, Nyasa, ... to the Mouth of the Zambesi, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1893. First Edition. Large 8vo; 51 photogravure illustrations and a map, frontispiece slightly stained at edges; modern half brown calf.
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LAWRENCE, T.E. SECRET DESPATCHES FROM ARABIA. Published by Permission of the Foreign Office. The Golden Cockerel Press [1939]. LIMITED EDITION, No. 239 of 1000 copies. Large 8vo; quarter niger morocco, cream cloth boards, top edge gilt, boards a little marked, occasional foxing; T.E. LAWRENCE TO HIS BIOGRAPHER, ROBERT GRAVES [together with:] T.E. LAWRENCE TO HIS BIOGRAPHER, LIDDELL HART. Doubleday, Doran & Co, New York 1938. FIRST U.S. EDITIONS. Unnumbered copy of an edition of 500 copies, signed by Robert Graves and Liddell Hart. Two volumes bound as one, 8vo; portrait frontispieces; full blue morocco, gilt ruled spine; top edge gilt, hinges rubbed; and one other, T.E. Lawrence related. (3)
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TENNENT James Emerson. SKETCHES OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF CEYLON, with Narratives and Anecdotes Illustrative of the Habits and Instincts of the Mammalia, Birds, Reptiles, Fishes, Insects &c. Including a monograph of the Elephant and a description of capturing and training it. Longman Green, Longman and Roberts, London 1861. First Complete Separate Edition. 8vo; errata slip, half title, engraved plates and cuts; original blind stamped green cloth gilt.
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AMBLER, Eric. THE ABILITY TO KILL. The Bodley Head, London, 1962. First edition. 8vo. Includes the suppressed chapter on Bodkin Adams, later replaced by a chapter on James Hanratty. 8vo. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust-wrapper [and] WALLIS MARTIN, J.: A LIKENESS IN STONE Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1997. Large 8vo. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust-wrapper [and] CARVER, Caroline. BLOOD JUNCTION Orion Publishing, London, 2001. A fine copy in a fine dust-wrapper. Signed by the author on the title-page. Sold with ten other crime thrillers, all first editions in dust-wrapper, nearly all in fine condition throughout. (13)
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BALLARD, J.G. CRASH. Jonathan Cape, London, 1973. First edition. 8vo. A clean bright copy in a dustwrapper with some edge-wear and rubbing to the spine extremities. Sold with David Goodis's Nightfall, Paul Bowles's The Sheltering Sky, both first editions in dustwrapper; Graham Greene's Stamboul Train, a fairly rough first edition in the remains of a dustwrapper; and a reprint of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Flappers and Philosophers in dustwrapper. (5)
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BANVILLE, John. SHROUD Joe McCann.com in association with Picador, Oxford, 2002. First edition, thus. 8vo. Number 16 of an edition of eighty copies, of which this is one of sixty-five bound in full black cloth with printed paper labels on the upper cover and spine. Signed by the author on the limitation page. A very fine copy.
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[BARNES, JULIAN] KAVANAGH, Dan. DUFFY. Jonathan Cape, London, 1980. First edition. 8vo. His first Duffy book. Internally clean and bright in a fine dust-wrapper. Sold with Fiddle City and Putting the Boot In, the second and third Duffy novels, one signed, all first editions in dust-wrapper. (3)
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BURGESS, Anthony. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE Heinemann, London, 1962. First edition. 8vo; front free endpaper missing; a fair Ex-library copy in the second state purple publisher's cloth, spine lettered in gilt, in a good original printed dust-wrapper, price clipped with minor nicks to edges, lightly sunned.
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CHRISTIE, Agatha. THE MIRROR CRACK'D FROM SIDE TO SIDE. Collins for The Crime Club, London, 1962. First edition. 8vo. Internally clean and bright in a very near fine dust-wrapper with the minutest rubbing to the spine. Sold with five other Christie items all fine in dust-wrapper; three Ann Cleeves books all signed first editions in dust-wrapper; and Writing Detective and Mystery Fiction, edited by A.S. Burack, New York, 1945. (10)
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CHRISTIE, Agatha. THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD Collins, London, 1926. First edition. 8vo. Owner's name to the head of the title-page, otherwise internally clean in recent full black crushed morocco over bevelled boards, upper board with gilt border with a flower in each corner, repeated in blind on the lower board, spine with raised bands, gilt. With seven other Agatha Christie titles, all first editions, identically bound. (8)
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ELIOT, T.S. MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL, Acting Edition for the Festival of the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral 1935. Canterbury, H.J. Goulden, Limited (by permission of the Author and Messrs. Faber and Faber). [1935]. FIRST EDITION, Signed by the Author. 8vo; minor spotting in places, otherwise clean throughout; original printed wrapper concealed by contemporary crude paper dust-wrapper; with the original printed flyer listing the cast loosely inserted.
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JAMES, P.D. DEVICES AND DESIRES Faber, London, 1989. First edition. Large 8vo. Usual tanning of the text-block apart, this is a fine copy in a fine dust-wrapper. Signed by the author on the title-page. Sold with four other later signed P.D. James's and five other crime thrillers, all first editions in dust-wrapper. (10)
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MILNE, A.A. FOUR DAYS WONDER Methuen, London, 1933. First edition. 8vo. Light partial browning to the free endpapers as usual and some foxing to the edges, otherwise internally very clean and bright in the rather utilitarian dust-wrapper, with just a hint of wear to the spine extremities and corners. The book is slightly cocked but is overall an attractive item
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MORTIMER, John. SUMMER'S LEASE Viking, London, 1988. First edition. 8vo. Usual slight tanning to the text-block, otherwise clean and bright in a fine dust-wrapper. Signed by the author on the title-page. Sold with two other books by John Mortimer, one signed, and three books by Penelope Mortimer, all first editions in dust-wrapper. (6)
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ORWELL, George. NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR, a novel. Secker & Warburg, London, 1949. First edition. 8vo. Internally clean and bright in the original pale-green boards with the spine lettered in red, spine very slightly faded. Lacks the dust-wrapper but contains the original inner folds neatly if perversely cut out. Offered with Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence [and] Themes and Variations, both first editions in dust-wrappers. (3)
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PARKS, Tim. TONGUES OF FLAME. Heinemann, London, 1985. First edition. 8vo. His first book. Usual slight tanning to the text-block, otherwise clean and bright in a fine dust-wrapper.With the book-plate of Peter apap Bologna on the front paste-down. Sold with four other books by Tim Parks, one signed, all first editions in dust-wrapper. (5)
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RAWNSLEY, Violet. THE MAGIC HOUR Printed at The Shakespeare Head Press and sold by Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1933. First edition. Slim 8vo. With a printed presentation slip from the author, addressed and dated in her hand, affixed to the front free endpaper. A fine copy in the original blue covers lettered gilt. Sold with four other items printed by The Shakespeare Head Press. (5)
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TOLKIEN, J.R.R. THE LORD OF THE RINGS. George Allen & Unwin, London, 1954-1955. First edition, 8vo; 3 volumes, fifth, fifth and third impressions respectively, 1956-1957. Slipcased, but without dust-wrappers. Offered with first editions of Tolkien's The Father Christmas Letters and The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. (5)
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WHEATLEY, Dennis. TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER. Hutchinson, London, 1953. First edition. 8vo. Internally clean and bright in a bright dust-wrapper with just a little wear to the spine extremities and corners. Offered with six other Wheatley first editions all in dust-wrappers and six early reprints also in dust-wrappers (13)
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WODEHOUSE, P.G. FULL MOON. Herbert Jenkins, London, [1947]. First edition. 8vo. Clean and bright in a dust-wrapper wih slight wear to the spine extremities and corners, some creasing and one small tear to the foot of the upper panel and very slight fading to the spine. Sold with an early reprint of Leave It To Psmith and seven other Modern Firsts all in dust-wrapper. (9)
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