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Alan Ross, London, 1967. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of Carr's scarce second novel. 8vo. 192pp. Brown boards lettered in gold at the spine. Several miniscule blemishes to the top edge, else a virtually fine copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, fractionally chafed at the top edge and with a shade or two of fading to the spine panel. Carr's second novel, drawn from his own experiences as an intelligence officer stationed at RAF Bathurst in Gambia and featuring a wonderfully bizarre cricket match..
Breakfast at Tiffany's. A Short Novel and Three Stories. by TRUMAN CAPOTE - 1958
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Breakfast at Tiffany's. A Short Novel and Three Stories.
by TRUMAN CAPOTE
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Random House, New York, 1958. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 199pp. Yellow cloth stamped in black and gold at the spine. Pastedowns and free endpapers lightly browned and spotted. One binding string snapped (the binding still perfectly sound) and another possibly replaced as the string is a different colour from the others. Very good indeed in non-price-clipped ($3.50) Ismar David-designed dust wrapper, chipped with a little loss at the spine panel ends, and with a touch more loss to two corner tips, a little light chafing to the natural folds, some dust soiling, predominantly to the rear panel, and a two-inch enclosed slit to the front panel. The celebrated title novella (which was first printed in the November 1958 issue of 'Esquire'), plus the short stories 'House of Flowers', 'A Diamond Guitar' and 'A Christmas Memory'.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.
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A Season in Sinji. A novel.
by J.L.CARR.
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The Poorhouse Fair. A novel.
by JOHN UPDIKE.
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Victor Gollancz, London, 1959. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing). 8vo. 185pp. Pink pebbled cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A small smudge to the front free endpaper, and three tiny instances of very light miscellaneous soiling to the fore edge. Very good indeed in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, somewhat tanned at the spine panel with five tiny enclosed areas of loss, and a little rubbed at extremities with two tiny closed tears and several further slivers of loss. The author's second book and first novel - extremely elusive in this UK edition (which was issued the same year as the more common US edition)..
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Explorations.
by ROBERT MCALMON
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The Egoist Press, London, 1921. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of the author's uncommon first book: a collection of forty poems and sixty prose pieces which was reputedly limited to 500 copies. 8vo. 79pp. Navy blue cloth lettered in lighter blue at the spine and upper board. Cloth chafed at the spine ends and corner tips. Front free endpaper very lightly browned, and the half-title and final text leaf tanned and with a hint of spotting. Very good. No dust wrapper called for..
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The Stuff to Give the Troops. Twenty-Five Tales of Army Life.
by J.MACLAREN-ROSS
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Jonathan Cape, London, 1944. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 164pp. Red cloth lettered in silver at the spine. Cloth a little mottled and rubbed at the head of the backstrip. Printed on very slightly substandard wartime paperstock, yet still a very crisp and bright copy in non-price-clipped Hans Tisdall-designed dust wrapper, a little dust soiled, chipped and edgeworn, with some fading to the publisher's red spine panel colouring. The author's first book..
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Black Mischief.
by EVELYN WAUGH.
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Chapman & Hall, London, 1932. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 303pp. Original publisher's 'snakeskin' cloth, lettered in gold at the spine. With a frontispiece map, unaccredited but drawn by the author. Top edge lightly dust soiled and with a hint of wear to the backstrip ends, a tiny nick to the fore edge of the rear free endpaper and a pinprick or two of light occasional margin spotting. A very good copy in a good example of the uncommon dust wrapper: a little dust soiled, with several slivers of loss to the spine ends, and an additional small enclosed area of loss and some accompanying surface abrasion. A small area of miscellaneous red staining to the base of the rear panel, and the rear panel-spine panel join tender. The author's third novel. Davis, Doyle &c viii..
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The Star-Born. With wood engravings by C.F.Tunnicliffe. ([UN]SIGNED LIMITED EDITION PLUS FIRST ISSUE SIGNED COLOPHON)
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Faber, London, 1933. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition - one of the deluxe issue of seventy specially bound, numbered and signed copies printed on handmade paper - this copy unsigned and marked 'Out of Series'. Green parchment-vellum, lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Illustrated with fifteen full-page wood-engravings, eighteen tailpieces and two vignettes by C.F.Tunnicliffe. Boards lifting a fraction and vellum quite faded at the backstrip. Internally in fine state. No dust wrapper, as issued. One of the scarcest editions in the Williamson canon. This deluxe issue was originally to be limited to fifty copies but the print run was increased quite late in the publication process necessitating the disposal of the first gathering which Williamson had already signed. Included with this volume is one of those original fifty signed colophons..
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A Month in the Country. A novel. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION)
by J.L.CARR.
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Cornucopia Press, London, 1990. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 2nd Edition. The second edition of Carr's classic, with a slightly revised text and a new foreword by the author. Issued in a limitation of 300 numbered copies signed by the author and by Ronald Blythe who provides an introduction (this being #282). Printed on mould-made paper by The September Press. Crown 4to. 105pp. Green cloth with paper spine and title labels. Top edge gilt. Former owner gift inscription to the half-title, else a fine copy in the original unprinted acetate protector, just a little nicked at the head of the spine panel..
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Explorations.
by ROBERT MCALMON
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The Egoist Press, London, 1921. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of the author's uncommon first book: a collection of forty poems and sixty prose pieces which was reputedly limited to 500 copies. 8vo. 79pp. Navy blue cloth lettered in lighter blue at the spine and upper board. Cloth chafed at the spine ends and corner tips. Front free endpaper very lightly browned, and the half-title and final text leaf tanned and with a hint of spotting. Very good. No dust wrapper called for..
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The Stuff to Give the Troops. Twenty-Five Tales of Army Life.
by J.MACLAREN-ROSS
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Jonathan Cape, London, 1944. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 164pp. Red cloth lettered in silver at the spine. Cloth a little mottled and rubbed at the head of the backstrip. Printed on very slightly substandard wartime paperstock, yet still a very crisp and bright copy in non-price-clipped Hans Tisdall-designed dust wrapper, a little dust soiled, chipped and edgeworn, with some fading to the publisher's red spine panel colouring. The author's first book..
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Pincher Martin. A novel. (SIGNED)
by WILLIAM GOLDING
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Faber, London, 1956. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy signed by the author by way of a bookplate pasted to the front free endpaper. 8vo. 208pp. Original publisher's red cloth with very slightly defective gilt lettering and rule to the spine. A touch of dust soiling to the top edge, and just the ghost of an almost entirely erased former owner inscription. A very crisp copy in the Anthony Gross-designed double-spread pictorial dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but a little nicked at the spine ends with several tiny fractions of loss. Small dealer plate to the front pastedown, obscured by the wrapper flap. The author's third novel; an existential classic..
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Breakfast at Tiffany's a short novel and three stories
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New York: Modern Library, 1994. Later Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Later printing, nice and tight, couple of small stains to fore edge.
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Breakfast at Tiffany's. A Short novel and Three Stories
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NY: Signet Books, 1959. 127pp. James Avati cover. Photos on request.. D1727, Nov., First Printing. Paperback. Fine-. Massmarket.
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Breakfast At Tiffany's A Short Novel and Three Stories
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Modern Library. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. 067960085X . Modern Library; 4.93 X 0.63 X 7.55 inches; 161 pages .
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BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S A Short Novel and Three Stories
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New York: Modern Library / Random House. 1994. Eighteenth Printing. Hardcover. 067960085X . Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. ; Modern Library; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 161 pages .
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Breakfast At Tiffany's. a Short Novel and Three Stories.
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New York: Random House. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1958. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket. (179pp. ) (5 3/4" X 8") (Virtually no fading to orange & white spine on dust jacket. A few tiny nicks at top & bottom of spine on jacket. ) The author's most beloved work with only the slightest toning to spine. A remarkable survival. ; 5 3/4" X 8" ; 179 pages .
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Breakfast At Tiffany’s. A Short Novel and Three Stories.
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New York: Random House, 1958. "Truman Capote is the most perfect writer of my generation. He writes the best sentences word for word, rhythm upon rhythm. If you want to capture a period in New York, no other book has done it so well. He could capture period and place like few others" (Norman Mailer). The film adaptation was directed by Blake Edwards, starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard.
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THE TIE MANS MIRACLE.
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New York: Morrow Junior Books., 1995. First edition.. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Stephen T. Johnson. Illustrated by Stephen T. Johnson. New York: Morrow Junior Books, (1995). First edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket. faint rumpling to the jacket, otherwise near fine. ISBN: 0688134645
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Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole
by Engle, Joanna
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Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.
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Gold
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A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories
by Cohen, Leonard
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New York, Grove Press, 2022, trade paperback, 272 pp, Advance Uncorrected Proof (ARC), New. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings in bright, pictorial card covers, no dustjacket as issued. The pieces in this collection, written between 1956 and 1961 and including short fiction, a radio play, and a stunning early novel, offer startling insights into Cohens imagination and creative process. Cohen explores themes that would permeate his later work, from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire in all its sacred and profane dimensions to longing, whether for love, family, freedom, or transcendence. ISBN 9780802160478
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The Treasure Of Sierra Madre
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Traven, B. : The Treasure Of Sierra Madre. 1994 THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE-PRINT EDITION. Thorndike, Maine. EXLIB. Good/ No DJ if issued. ISBN0786201002. 533 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¾. Summary: "The story of three American adventurers who search for a lost gold mine in the mountains of Mexico. A tale of 'gold fever' and desperate greed." Basis for the Humphrey Bogart, John Houston film of the same name.
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The Sky and the Forest
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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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Samuel The Seeker
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Sinclair, Upton. Samuel, The Seeker Copyright 1910. Apparently published by author. No publisher stated. First Edition. States printed at Western Printing and Lithography, Racine, WI. Yellow Boards with black titling. Used. Very Good/ No Dj is Included. Rare/Scarce. A nice copy.
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The Mudlark
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The Man Who Lost His Head
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The Man Who Lost His Head. By Claire Huchet Bishop. Viking Press, Copyright Renewed 1970. 16th Impression thus. Exlib. VG/VG unclipped DJ. Original cover price $3.56. Wrap-around blue and white endpapers show a headless man walking past farm animals on his way to the fair to look for his head there. Pages are bright. Now protected in a mylar wrap. A fantasy illustrated by Robert McCloskey, author and illustrator of "Make Way For Ducklings". Summary: "A man wakes up to find that he has no head, so he goes looking for it." Hard title to find.
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Lucky You, What Science Has Done For Us
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Lucky You: What Science Has Done For Us J.B. Lippincott Stated First Edition. SCIENCE. Artfully illustrated by MUNRO LEAF. Good EXLIB in a Good unclipped $2.25 orig. price dust jacket. Last page states: 152 4.
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