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MILNE. A. A. — E. H. Shepard, Illustrates. SET OF WINNIE THE POOH AND CHRISTOPHER ROBIN FIRST EDITIONS. 4 Volumes.– When We were very young. — Winnie the Pooh. — Now We are Six. — The House at Pooh Corner.
Methuen and Co. London. 1924 – 28 FIRST EDITIONS. Four volumes. 8vo. (7.3 x 5 inches). Illustrated throughout with wonderful line drawings by E. H. Shepard. When We Were Very Young second state with page number ix present. Fine, crisp and clean copies throughout. Uniformly bound by Bayntun (Riviere) of Bath in mid to late…
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HAMMETT. DASHIELL. THE MALTESE FALCON.
Alfred A Knopf. New York. 1930 FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.6 inches). viii,268pp. A bright clean copy in a fine recent leather binding. Full black morocco. Spine with raised bands. Red title label, gilt. Compartments with gilt lettering, ruled lines and decoration. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Original cloth front board, with Falcon…
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CHURCHILL. WINSTON. SPENCER. THE WORLD CRISIS. 1911-1914, 1915, 1916-1918-parts 1 and 2, The Aftermath, The Eastern Front.
Thornton Butterworth Limited. London. 1923-31 FIRST EDITION, 1st impressions of all volumes. 6 large 8vo volumes. (9.2 x 6.3 inches). Illustrated throughout with maps, plans and facsimiles of letters and documents. Fine leather bound set in recent full dark blue morocco leather. Spines with raised bands. Red Morocco title labels ruled and lettered in gilt.…
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CHURCHILL. WINSTON. S. WAR SPEECHES. Into Battle; The Unrelenting struggle; The End of the Beginning; Onwards to victory; The Dawn of Liberation; Victory; Secret Session Speeches.
Cassell and Company. London. 1941-46 FIRST EDITION, 1st impressions. 7 Volumes. 8vo. (8.7 x 5.6 inches). A complete set of first editions and 1st impressions of Churchill’s war speeches. A few pages with some light foxing but overall this is a clean and fine set which has been finely bound in recent full dark blue…
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Le Guin, Ursula K. [Kroeber] [LeGuin]
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The Dispossessed: A Novel First edition signed by the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award winner New York: Harper & Row, 1974. Winkowski, Fred. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #2344299ISBN: 0060125632 First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on title page (‘For Larry, at last. Ursula Leguin’). Light crease down front jacket flap, spine head lightly pushed.…
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London, Jack; London, Charmian
Dutch Courage and Other Stories First edition in original jacket (BAL 11985) New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922. Richards, G.M. [George Mather]. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good. Item #2341511 First edition (BAL 11985). Includes original jacket with $1.75 price on flap. Two edges of front jacket flap trimmed (this appears to have happened with most if not…
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Taps at Reveille First edition in scarce first state jacket, includes amusing note from an acquaintance of the author’s New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1935. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good. Item #2334401 First edition, first state, in original first issue jacket. Jacket toned, some loss from jacket corners, amusing ink note from an acquaintance of Fitzgerald’s…
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George, Stefan; Lechter, MelchiorEin achtblätteriger Lotus. Gebete der Nacht. Mit einem nirvanischen Vor- und Nachgesang von Melchior Lechter.Einhorn-Presse/Otto von Holten, Berlin, 1935
First edition of the seventh and final book published by Einhorn-Presse. No. 26 of a limited edition of 100 copies (total edition 150). Description: Vellum-backed blue boards, lettered in gilt; gilt title to spine. Quarto: 34 × 22 cm; unpaginated. Printed in black and blue on toned old handmade paper, the ornamental borders of endpapers…
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Rhys, Jean Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys’s masterpiece. A fine copy of the original British edition in a fine unclipped dust jacket. The cover has a couple of tiny creases, and otherwise looks practically new. Red boards denote first printing. Contents are fresh and clean. No pastedowns. Accompanied by a bright dust jacket presenting a continuous illustration of the estate…
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Burnett, Frances Hodgson, The Secret Garden, First Edition
The children’s classic. First British edition, first printing, fourth impression January-July 1914. Eight illustrations by Charles Robinson. The illustrations are intact with tissue guards present. Unmarked and clean throughout. No tears or nicks. Pastedown to front flypaper records this copy was awarded to a Cambridgeshire schoolgirl. Hint of detachment of front boards less so with…