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Christie, Agatha.
Murder on the Orient Express.
Publisher: Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex;
Date of publication: 1948
£35.00
First Penguin edition. Softcover octavo, pp. 222, [2]. Original green-and-white card wraps. Occasional touches of creasing and wear to edges and corners, with a print offsetting to lower cover panel. Tiny spilt to base of ...
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Gouffé, Jules; Gouffé, Alphonose (trans.).
The Royal Book of Pastry and Confectionery (Le Livre de Patisserie).
Publisher: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, London;
Date of publication: 1874
£350.00
First English edition of 1874, after the first French of 1873. Quarto, pp., xiv, 474, [2] of publisher’s advertisements. Plus 10 chromolithographic plates after drawings by Étienne Antoine Eugène Ronjat, with 137 further woodcuts ...
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Wandrei, Donald.
The Web of Easter Island.
Publisher: Consul Books, London;
Date of publication: 1961
£35.00
First thus. Octavo, pp., 174. Publisher’s pictorial softcover. A fine, unread copy, with slight wrinkling to the spine.
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MacCall, Seamus.
Irish Mitchel: A Biography.
Publisher: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, London;
Date of publication: 1938
£35.00
First edition, large octavo, pp., 391. Publisher’s forest green cloth with sliver titles to spine, top edge black, in a blue, orange and white dust-jacket. Light toning to the dust-jacket, light scattered foxing to ...
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Treece, Henry.
The Green Man [Inscribed by the author, with his manuscript letter]
Publisher: The Bodley Head, London;
Date of publication: 1966
£150.00
Octavo, pp., 254. Publisher’s olive green cloth with gilt titles to spine, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket featuring the Cerne Abbas Giant. With a single side manuscript letter from Treece to his friend Peter ...
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Treece, Henry.
The Green Man.
Publisher: The Bodley Head, London;
Date of publication: 1966
£50.00
First edition. Octavo, pp., 254. Publisher’s olive green cloth with gilt titles to spine, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket featuring the Cerne Abbas Giant. A near fine copy in a like dust-jacket.
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Kundera, Milan; Roth, Philip; Rappaport, Suzanne (trans.).
Laughable Loves [from the library of David Lodge].
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York;
Date of publication: 1974
£125.00
First American edition, and the first edition in English. Octavo, pp., 242, [4]. Publisher’s original terracotta cloth, titled in gilt to spine, and in blind to upper board, top edge dyed red, in the ...
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[Pratt, Samuel Jackson].
Account of John Covey, a Seaman on Board the Venerable, Who Had Both His Legs ...
Publisher: Printed by Gibson & Sanderson, Miln’s Court, Sold by W. Dickson High Street, and W. Whyte, St Andrew’s Street, Edinburgh;
Date of publication: 1812
£45.00
First separately published edition, after a version of the account in Pratt’s Gleanings (1801). Octavo pamphlet in sheets, pp., 8. Woodcut of Covey as a double amputee to title-page. Some soiling to lower section ...
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[Church of England].
The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies ...
Publisher: Printed by John Baskett and Robert Baskett, Printers to the King’s most Excellent Majesty, London;
Date of publication: 1742
£500.00
Folio, pp., [370 ], sig., π1 a-c4 A-2Z4 3A1, plus engraved frontispiece. Collated and complete. Titled in red and black within rules. Contemporary full mottled calf, spine on six raised bands, gilt George II ...
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Prior, Matthew; Humphreys, Samuel; Jacob, Hildebrand, et al.,
Poems on Several Occasions.
Publisher: Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, and H. Lintot; printed for C. Hitch at the Red Lyon in Pater-Noster-Row, and J. Hodges at the Looking-Glass over against St. Magnus-Church London-Bridge, London;
Date of publication: 1754
£600.00
Two imprints in two volumes, comprising a complete set of the fourth edition, which includes works not by Prior, namely Hildebrand Jacob’s notorious erotic poem ‘The Curious Maid’. Duodecimos, pp., [22], 402, [6] index ...
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Wells, H. G.
The Shape of Things to Come The Ultimate Revolution.
Publisher: Hutchinson & co., London;
Date of publication: 1933
£650.00
First edition. Octavo, pp., 431, [1], 12 of publisher’s advertisements. Publisher’s original midnight-blue cloth, titled in gilt to spine, titled in blind to upper board, in the original unclipped bright blue dust-jacket. Colour-printed ...
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La Condamine, Charles Marie de.
Relation abrégée d'un Voyage fait dans l'interieur de l'Amérique méridionale. Depuis la ...
Publisher: Chez la Veuve Pissot, Quay de Conti, à la Croix d’Or, Paris;
Date of publication: 1745
£500.00
First edition. Octavo, pp., [4] preliminaries, xvi, 216, [4]; sig., [pi]4 a8 A-N8 O4. Engraved folding map of the Amazon river by G. N. Delahaye to end. Collated and complete. Contemporary ...
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