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Barnum, [Phineas Taylor].
Barnum And Money Making: An Autobiography, By the Great American Showman, Clerk, Editor, Merchant, and ...
Publisher: Willoughby & Co., London;
Date of publication: 1854
£450.00
First British Edition. Small octavo, pp. iv, 331. Frontispiece engraving of Barnum’s American Museum. Publishers’ drab paper-covered boards, with inscribed paper title-label to spine. Binding a little worn with small loss at spine tips ...
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Gray, Simon.
The Smoking Diaries [with] The Year of the Jouncer, Coda [and] The Last Cigarette [David ...
Publisher: Granta Books, London;
Date of publication: 2006
£300.00
First Editions, Association Copies. Octavo, pp., [8], 240; [6], 282; [6], 251, [1]; [6], 312. Monochrome frontispiece of the Author to “Smoking Diaries”. Publishers’ cloth with gilt titles to spines, in unclipped pictorial dust-jackets. Four ...
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Bell, William.
The Road to Jericho.
Publisher: Iron Press, Cullercoats;
Date of publication: 1981
£35.00
Second Printing. Softcover landscape quarto, pp. [2], 45, [1]. 7 monochrome illustrations by the Ashington Group, of which 5 full-page. Stapled pictorial card wraps. Covers lightly surface soiled with a little creasing at spine and ...
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Pfaff, Richard William
Montague Rhodes James [M. R. James]
Publisher: Scholar’s Press, London;
Date of publication: 1980
£100.00
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[xiv]461. Publisher’s Prussian blue cloth with title gilt to spine in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Light sunning to top of spine small rift in cloth of lower spine.
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Davies, W. H.
Beggars
Publisher: Duckworth & Co., London;
Date of publication: 1909
£65.00
First edition. Octavo, pp., vi, 300, [4]. Monochrome photographic frontispiece. Publisher’s racing green boards with titles to spine and upper board and blind-stamping to boards. Light soiling to boards and text-block edges. Overall a ...
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Sitwell, Edith.
Victoria of England.
Publisher: Faber and Faber Limited, London;
Date of publication: 1936
£650.00
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 390, [2]. Vignette to title-page and 16 monochrome full-page plates including frontispiece of the Official Coronation Portrait from the painting by Sir George Hayter. Publishers’ purple cloth with gilt titles and ...
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Harries, Susie
Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life
Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London;
Date of publication: 2011
£35.00
SIGNED FIRST EDITION, SECOND IMPRESSION. Review copy with associated ephemera. Large octavo, pp. xii, [2], [1]-866. Numerous archive photographs to plates. Publishers’ midnight blue cloth with silver titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket ...
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Conner, Rearden
A Plain Tale From the Bogs
Publisher: John Miles Ltd., London;
Date of publication: 1937
£50.00
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 256. Publishers’ green cloth with black titles to spine. A clean and bright copy with just a touch of rubbing and a few minor marks to boards.
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Dale, Rodney.
Louis Wain The Man Who Drew Cats.
Publisher: William Kimber & Co. Limited, London;
Date of publication: 1968
£75.00
First Edition. Square octavo, pp. xii, 204. Monochrome photographic frontispiece with illustrations and photographs throughout. Publisher’s green cloth with gilt titles to spine in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Upper page block edge shows very ...
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Hopkins, Lisa
Bram Stoker: A Literary Life
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan. Basingstoke;
Date of publication: 2007
£45.00
Octavo, pp. x, 173, [1]. Publishers’ grey cloth with silver titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Clean and bright with no annotation or inscriptions. Tiny dents to lower edge otherwise a near fine copy.
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Cooke, Rev. Edward Alexander.
Saint Columba: His Life and Work.
Publisher: St. Giles’ Printing Company, Edinburgh;
Date of publication: 1893
£65.00
Second edition. Octavo, pp. [2], x, 153, [1], [6] catalogue. Monochrome frontispiece of Iona. Publishers’ cream cloth with gilt titles to spine and on brown panel to upper board. Dark brown end-papers. Spine toned and ...
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Bates, H. E.
The Vanished World: An Autobiography Volume One [with] The Blossoming World Volume Two [and] The ...
Publisher: University of Missouri Press, Columbia;
Date of publication: 1969
£50.00
First American Editions. Three vols, octavo’s, pp., 188, [2]; 181, [1]; 152. All illustrated with line drawings by John Ward. Publishers’ blue cloth with silver titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jackets in orange ...
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