Recent Arrivals from Primrose Hill Books
Recent Arrivals from Primrose Hill Books

Death Comes for Peter Pan.
by Brady, Joan.
- Seller
- Primrose Hill Books
- Published
- 1996
- Condition
- Fine in Very Good DJ
- Edition
- Signed First Edition
- Item Price
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$21.65
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London:: Secker & Warburg,, 1996. Signed First Edition. Cloth. Fine in Very Good DJ. Association copy: Author's dedication to title page reads 'For Diana [Athill], With love and thanks, Joan, 15 April 1996'. Dj worn along head and tail edges, marked, and scratched. Some very small tears. Gilded lettering to spine bright. Cloth bumped at head edge of… Read more
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Life and Andrew Otway.
by Bell, Neil.
- Seller
- Primrose Hill Books
- Published
- 1931
- Condition
- Very Good +/no DJ
- Edition
- First edition
- Item Price
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$17.32
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London:: Victor Gollancz Ltd,, 1931. First edition. Cloth. Very Good +/no DJ. Endpapers and edges discoloured, sporadic foxing. Cloth worn at head of spine and slightly marked, top edges dusted. Pages unmarked. A firm, tight copy.
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Highways and Byways in the Central Highlands.
by Gordon, Seton.
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- Primrose Hill Books
- Published
- 1949
- Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- Reprint
- Item Price
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$8.66
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London:: Macmillan,, 1949. Reprint. Cloth. Fine. Foreward by W. J. Watson. Numerous b&w illustrations throughout. Fold-out topographic map of the Highlands. Prev. owner's inscription to ffep. Cloth slightly bumped at head and tail of spine, a few minor scratches.
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The Testament of Cresseid
by Henryson, Robert, Bruce Dickins (ed.).
- Seller
- Primrose Hill Books
- Published
- 1943
- Condition
- Very Good in Fair DJ
- Edition
- Later printing
- Item Price
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$10.10
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London:: Faber & Faber,, 1943. Later printing. Cloth. Very Good in Fair DJ. Dj price clipped, torn with loss along edges and at head of spine, spine heavily sunned, generally discoloured and foxed. Cloth worn at head and tail of spine, edges dusted. Endpapers discoloured.
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Polly: An Opera
by Gay, John.
- Seller
- Primrose Hill Books
- Published
- 1922
- Condition
- Good in Poor DJ
- Edition
- Edition not stated
- Item Price
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$17.32
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London:: Daniel O'Connor,, 1922. Edition not stated. Cloth. Good in Poor DJ. Foreward by Oswald Doughty, MA. DJ torn along 2/3rds height of spine and at tail corners of covers, significantly discoloured, and stained on front cover. Ex libris plate to inside cover. Cloth somewhat dirty but in good condition. Endpapers heavily discoloured and foxed, lightly foxed throughout.… Read more
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Evergreen Review, Volume 7, No. 31
by Various.
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- Primrose Hill Books
- Published
- 1963
- Condition
- Very good
- Item Price
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$11.54
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New York:: Evergreen Review,, 1963. Paperback. Very good. Contributions by Richard Brautigan, Anselm Hollo, Sabine Destre, Paulina Reage, W. S. Broughton, Andrei Voznesensky, Lenore Kandel, Jack Gelber, Harold Norse, Robert Coover, Yadoya No Meshimori, W. S. Merwin, Jack Kerouac, Douglas Woolf, and Martin Williams. Spine sunned and slightly creased, covers discoloured.
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Traberne's Poems of Felicity
by Traherne, Thomas, H. I. Bell (Ed.).
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- Primrose Hill Books
- Published
- 1910
- Condition
- Good
- Edition
- Edition not stated
- Item Price
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$17.32
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Oxford:: Clarendon Press,, 1910. Edition not stated. Boards. Good. Cream boards with decorative grooves. Spine heavily sunned, some cracking, boards dirtied and edges worn, two small water stains to front and rear boards. Edges deckled. Pages clean and unmarked.
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Romanoff and Juliet
by Ustinov, Peter.
- Seller
- Primrose Hill Books
- Published
- 1957
- Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Item Price
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$10.10
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London:: English Theatre Guild Ltd.,, 1957. First edition. Pictorial Boards. Good. Covers very dirty, corners bumped and worn. Cloth spine worn. Endpapers heavily discoloured. Pages clean and unmarked.
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Forfeit.
by Fuller, Kay.
- Seller
- Primrose Hill Books
- Published
- 1955
- Condition
- Very Good + in Good DJ
- Edition
- First edition
- Item Price
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$8.66
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London:: James Barrie,, 1955. First edition. Cloth. Very Good + in Good DJ. Eight b&w illustrations. Dj worn and creased along edges, torn with loss at head of spine and head of rear cover. Cloth worn at head of spine, endpapers discoloured.
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Evergreen Review, Volume 6, No. 22
by Various.
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- Primrose Hill Books
- Published
- 1962
- Condition
- Very good
- Item Price
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$11.54
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New York:: Evergreen Review,, 1962. Paperback. Very good. Contributions by Samuel Beckett, Ben Bellit, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Evgeny Evtushenko, Ricardo Garibray, Horace Gregory, Anselm Hollo, Paula Horn, Anand Lall, Pablo Neruda, Andre Pieyre De Mandiargues, Al Sens, and Mack Sheldon Thomas. Prev. owner's inscription to ffep 'Alan Coren, Yale 1962'. Spine sunned and worn, slight wear to… Read more
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Thinking About Art
by Lucie-Smith, Edward.
- Seller
- Primrose Hill Books
- Published
- 1968
- Condition
- Fine in Good DJ
- Edition
- First edition
- Item Price
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$11.54
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London:: Calder & Boyars,, 1968. First edition. Cloth. Fine in Good DJ. A collection of essays originally published in the Time Times between 1963 and 1967. DJ torn with loss at head and tail of front cover, torn at head and tail of spine and along head edge of rear cover; spine sunned, front cover marked. Cloth… Read more
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The incurable.
by Dunn, Nell.
- Seller
- Primrose Hill Books
- Published
- 1971
- Condition
- Fine in Near Fine DJ
- Edition
- First edition
- Item Price
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$8.66
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London:: Jonathan Cape,, 1971. First edition. Cloth. Fine in Near Fine DJ. Dj sunned, discoloured, and price clipped. Spine slightly cocked, gilt lettering to spine bright. A fine copy.
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The Romance of King Arthur.
by Malory, Sir Thomas.
- Seller
- Primrose Hill Books
- Published
- 1994
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good DJ
- Edition
- First edition thus
- Item Price
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$11.54
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London:: Studio Editions,, 1994. First edition thus. Cloth. Very Good+ in Very Good DJ. First published in 1920 by Macmillan, this features an abridged and adapted version of Thomas Malory's text together with 16 colour plate illustrations by Arthur Rackham. DJ torn and worn along head edge of rear cover, spine sunned. Slight scratching to cloth, gilt lettering… Read more
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Notes on Cafés and Bedrooms.
by Tonks, Rosemary.
- Seller
- Primrose Hill Books
- Published
- 1963
- Condition
- Fine in Very Good+ DJ
- Edition
- First edition
- Item Price
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$577.20
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London:: Putnam,, 1963. First edition. Quarter Cloth. Fine in Very Good+ DJ. The first volume of Rosemary Tonk's poems; the poet later converted to fundamentalist Christianity and completely withdrew from public life, allegedly reading nothing but the Bible from her baptism in the River Jordan in 1981 until her death in 2014. Ex libris Alan Coren, his inscription… Read more
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In Search of C. S. Lewis
by Schofield, Stephen (Ed.).
- Seller
- Primrose Hill Books
- Published
- 1983
- Condition
- Near fine
- Edition
- First edition
- Item Price
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$11.54
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South Plainfield, NJ:: Bridge Publishing Inc.,, 1983. First edition. Paperback. Near fine. Ask and answers 'startling' questions about the author and academic. Spine sunned and creased, rear cover sunned.
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Adventures in Woodcraft.
by Woodward, Marcus.
- Seller
- Primrose Hill Books
- Published
- 1944
- Condition
- Very good+
- Edition
- New Edition
- Item Price
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$25.97
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London:: Museum Press Ltd.,, 1944. New Edition. Cloth. Very good+. School prize copy presented to writer Gavin Lyall. Plate to inside front cover reads 'King Edward's School, G. T. Lyall, Shell A&B, Block Prize, Art, 1944'. Bright gilt decoration of school's crest to front cover. 50 b&w photographs by Eric J. Hosking. Covers slightly bumped, spine sunned, cloth… Read more
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Stranded.
by Coleridge, Ann.
- Seller
- Primrose Hill Books
- Published
- 1987
- Condition
- Fine in Fine DJ
- Edition
- First UK edition
- Item Price
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$8.66
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London:: Angus and Robertson,, 1987. First UK edition. Cloth. Fine in Fine DJ. DJ a little creased at head of spine. Top edges dusted.
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My Cousin the Writer.
by Binding, Paul.
- Seller
- Primrose Hill Books
- Published
- 2002
- Condition
- As NEW
- Edition
- First edition
- Item Price
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$8.66
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Stockport:: Dewi Lewis,, 2002. First edition. Paperback. As NEW. Top edges dusted.
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Innocents in Africa.
by Pifer, Drury.
- Seller
- Primrose Hill Books
- Published
- 1994
- Condition
- Fine in Fine DJ
- Edition
- First UK edition
- Item Price
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$8.66
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London:: Granta,, 1994. First UK edition. Cloth. Fine in Fine DJ. DJ very lightly sunned and dusted.
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Political Handbook of the World 1950
by Mallory, Walter H.
- Seller
- Primrose Hill Books
- Published
- 1950
- Condition
- Very Good + in Poor DJ
- Edition
- First edition
- Item Price
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$21.65
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New York:: Harper & Brothers for the Council on Foreign Relations,, 1950. First edition. Cloth. Very Good + in Poor DJ. DJ heavily discoloured and torn with loss at head and tail of spine, front cover, and rear cover. Endpapers discoloured. Ffep bears mark of removed library plate: 'Embassy of the United States of America: Ottowa'. Cloth soiled… Read more
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