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First printing. Includes letters K-X on the copyright page as called for. Some light rubbing to the edges and corners and light colour fading to the back board and spine which also has light creasing to the top edge. The pages and page edges are lightly age tanned, with more pronounced tanning to the endpapers and pastedowns. The book is lacking its dust jacket. Internally some pages have a light folding crease to the top corner but are otherwise clean and tight and there are no tears or inscriptions. From the master of the western comes a novel full of romance and adventure. Includes four black & white illustrations.

First printing. Unclipped dust jacket has light creasing to the top and bottom of the spine. Signed by Moseley and Wilmer on the title page. Cambridge means many things to many people. University and city, it has been visited, described, commented on, indeed observed from medieval to modern times. This new anthology of prose and poetry captures some of the astonishing variety of reactions to Cambridge as seen in the past and recalled by contempories of every period.

First printing. Light general wear. Unclipped DJ has light creasing here and there. Signed 'Very Best Wishes' by Paisley on the front endpaper. Containing 31 chapters, in excess of 750 pictures and illustrations, this book is a remarkable piece of work about carp and how to catch them, with contributions from a number of top anglers.

First printing. Book has light bumping to the bottom corner of the front board, light age tanning and foxing to the front page edges. Unclipped DJ has no significant wear. Signed by Dora Saint (Miss Read) on the title page. With this delightful story of the Cotswold village and its much-loved residents, Miss Read's warm and humorous observation of the drama of country life will captivate her many readers once again.

Reprint paperback. No significant wear. Signed by Tyler on the title page. 'Signed by the Author' sticker to front cover. Jeremy is a child-like, painfully shy bachelor who has never left home. He lives on the third floor of his mother's boarding house and spends his days cutting up coloured paper to make small collages - until the day his mother dies and the beautiful Mary Tell arrives to turn his world upside down.

First UK printing. Both book and unclipped DJ are in as new condtion. Signed by Moreno-Garcia on the title page. From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes Certain Dark Things, a pulse-pounding neo-noir reimagining vampire lore.

First printing. Signed by Marriot on the title page. A scarce and invaluable reference book. Never before has so much original research been done to establish just where, when and with whom, Chaplin spent his time on the stage, before going into films.

First printing. Unclipped dust jacket has a bit of creasing here and there, a fingernail open tear to the top of the spine and a diagonal folding crease to the rear inner flap. Signed, dated, located, and inscribed to a previous owner by Nicholls on the title page. There is a date, 'June 1990' written on the front endpaper. Also included is a letter inviting the previous owner on a Battlefield Tour on which a veteran from the First World War will be travelling. This veteran is mentioned several times in the book.

First printing. Both book and unclipped DJ have light general wear including light tanning around the page edges. Signed by Thomas on the title page. When Chloe Smith, once more on her uppers, answered the advertisement, she little guessed it would involve her in a dramatic night over forty years previously, and a lady plunging to her death from a Dorset cliftop. Nor did she imagine it would end with her sitting in the dock in Winchester Crown Court two years later on charged with murder.

Hutchinson. Very good. First edition. Hardback. Clean, tight pages. Light creasing to the bottom edges of the spine, slight foxing to the page ends and the very slightest spinal lean/Very good- DJ. Not price clipped. Light creasing to the edges and some tanning to jacket flaps, slight yellow patch on the front flap and inside the front board together with slight peeling probably caused by tape or a sticker.

First printing. No significant wear either to the book or the unclipped DJ. Signed by Dobbs on the title page. 'Signed by the Author' sticker to front cover.

Fairyloot exclusive edition. Both book and unclipped DJ are in as new condition. Signed by Bayron on a tipped in page. Redesigned cover, digitally sprayed edges with a flower design to the fore edge and foil on the hardcover. It's 200 years on from Cinderella finding her prince and Sophie knows she must follow in Cinderella's glass slippered footsteps and attend a ball to find her own Prince Charming - lest her life become forfeit, but what if she's not interested in Princes?

Fairyloot exclusive edition. Both book and unclipped DJ are in as new condition. Signed by Sim on a tipped-in page. Exclusive cover, sprayed edges, design on the endpapers and a ribbon bookmark included. Set in a gorgeous world of bone and shadow magic, of vengeful gods and defiant chosen ones, The City of Dusk is the first in a dark epic fantasy trilogy that follows the four heirs of four noble houses each gifted with a divine power as they form a tenuous alliance to keep their kingdom from descending into a realm-shattering war.

First print paperback. Book has no wear to speak of. Signed by Adams and series creator Patrick Ness on the title page. Some of the students of Coal Hill School are not themselves. Some of them are dying. Ram has just woken up in a body he doesn't recognise, and if he doesn't figure out why he may well be next.

First print paperback. Book has no significant wear. Signed by the creator of the series Patrick Ness on the title page. There's an old stone house near Coal Hill School. Most people hurry past it. They've heard the stories. But, if you stop, and look up, you'll see the face of a girl, pressed up against the window. Screaming. Something is waiting for Tanya in the stone house. Something that has been trapping others in its web over the years. Something that is far worse than any ghost.

First print paperback. Book has no wear to speak of. Signed by Goss and the creator of the series Patrick Ness on the title page. At Coat Hill School, things have started to get public. Kids have become obsessed with a website that demands you perform risky stunts, or tell it your most painful secrets. And Seraphin, everyone's favourite vlogger, wants you to get involved. All in the name of charity. At first people just get hurt. Then their lives are ruined. Finally, they disappear.

Third printing. Book has light creasing to the head and tail of the spine and some light yellowing to the page edges which also has a small felt tip mark to the top page edges as pictured (perhaps a remainder mark). Unclipped DJ has light creasing to the top and bottom edges of the spine and top of the front cover, as well as two areas of light bleeding from the boards to the inner jacket, also pictured. Signed to a previous owner by Clare on the title page. The year is 1878. Tessa Gray descends into London s dark supernatural underworld in search of her missing brother. She soon discovers that her only allies are the demon-slaying Shadowhunters including Will and Jem, the mysterious boys she is attracted to. Soon they find themselves up against the Pandemonium Club, a secret organization of vampires, demons, warlocks, and humans. Equipped with a magical army of unstoppable clockwork creatures, the Club is out to rule the British Empire, and only Tessa and her allies can stop them.

Limited edition. As new condition. No DJ as issued. Number 34 of 500 copies printed. Signed by Hays on the limitation page. What begins as academic curiosity quickly turns into obsession when Ann Stilwell discovers a hidden 15th-century deck of tarot cards that might hold the key to predicting the future. When the dangerous game of power, seduction, and ambition at The Cloisters turns deadly, Ann becomes locked in a race for answers as the line between the arcane and the modern blurs.

Folio Society. Near fine. First Folio edition. Hardback. Clean, tight pages./Very good+ slipcase. Light general wear..

First printing. Pink tinted top page edges. Book has no wear to speak of. Unclipped DJ has light creasing to edges. Signed to a previous owner by Delderfield on the title page. Charlie Pritchard looks back and tells the story of a perfect bank robbery which he planned and executed in a small Welsh seaside town, forty years ago. Life in Penmadoc offered little but boredom and frustration to twenty-three-year-old Charlie, a clerk in the local branch of Cadwallader's Bank. At first only half seriously, he devised a means of breaking into the bank's vaults but soon with his two accomplices, Delphine and Beppo, he was perfecting the details of a raid that would leave him triumphant over his smallminded employers, rich beyond his dreams and free to start a new life with the delectable Delphine.