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Allan, Luke Blue Pete's Dilemma
Herbert Jenkins N.D. First Edition Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Red cloth covered boards, clean and tight but boards been damp affected toward foredge, page edges are dusty. Dustjacket is complete and bright, but rubbed and creased at tips. A wartime title, the poor quality of binding and materials used under prevailing economy measures make this a rare survival.
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12.50 GBP
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Allan, Luke The Blue Wolf
Herbert Jenkins N.D. First Edition (?) Hardcover Good with no dust jacket
Orange cloth, rubbed at tips. Name on front endpaper & clean tear. Presentable copy of an uncommon title.
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5.00 GBP
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Barnum, Vance Joe Strong, the Boy Wizard
George Harrap 1921 First Edition Hardcover Good with no dust jacket
hardback in blue cloth with dark blue titles and red/blue pictorial onlay, clean, tightly bound, no inscriptions, cloth rubbed at corners, frontispiece has a short closed tear (no loss) . Interesting novel which gives the 'trade secrets' of many conjuring tricks. No dustjacket.
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6.50 GBP
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Beresford, John Davys The middle generation
W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1932 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Good with no dust jacket
Good reading copy, a clean hardback tightly bound in blue cloth with dulled gilt titles, cloth is rubbed at corners and has a mark where a Boots Library shield has been removed, neat name/place on front endpaper, Boots form tipped onto last page, minor fox spotting. Uncommon novel
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15.00 GBP
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Bland, Hubert Olivia's Latchkey
T. Werner Laurie 1913 First Edition Hardcover Good with no dust jacket
hardback in blue cloth with dulled gilt and black titles and decoration, boards are rubbed at the corners and the endpapers are tanned, hinges appear to have been cracked & reglued, but generally this is a clean and tightly bound copy. An uncommon Gothic novel of weird goings on in the Serene Republic in the Middle Ages. 334 pages, frontispiece & 23 engravings on plates. No dustjacket.
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25.00 GBP
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Blatchford, Robert Spangles of Existence
Bodley Head 1921 First Edition Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket
Very good hardback in black cloth with red and yellow title panels, boards are rubbed at the corners and the endpapers are tanned but overall an above average copy. Book of 50 (very) short stories by this Socialist author. No dustjacket. 1
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7.50 GBP
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Burke, Thomas Limehouse nights: tales of Chinatown
Daily Express Fiction Library 1938 New edition Hardcover Good with no dust jacket
Clean small format hardback tightly bound in red cloth with gilt titles, cloth is rubbed at corners, pages age-toned, no inscriptions. 252 pages, new editorial preface to this edition
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5.00 GBP
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Carroll Chilton, Eleanor Shadows Waiting
Usa John Day 1927 First American Edition Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket
hardback in black cloth with white paper spine label; authors presentation copy, signed 'For Bill, E. C. C. ' on the front endpaper, o/w very clean and tight, some pages uncut. No dustjacket. ; Signed by Author
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9.50 GBP
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Collins, Dale Race the Sun
Constable 1936 First Edition Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket
Very good hardback in blue cloth with red titles, has a signed dedication by the author on the front endpaper, and is very clean and tightly bound. Uncommon novel about a round the world flight. ; Signed by Author
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30.00 GBP
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Delteil, Joseph The Porcelain Junk
Routledge 1928 First Edition Hardcover Very Good
Red cloth, gilt decoration and titles, very clean copy, no inscriptions, only fault is a single vertical crease to the front endpaper. Curious, rather precious novel, translated from the French by Paul Courtney - the sort of book that you feel should have been illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley (shame it isn't, as it would no doubt be worth more! ). 1
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7.00 GBP
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Drake, Maurice WO 2
Methuen & Company 1916 Reprint Hardcover Good with no dust jacket
Smaller format hardback tightly bound in red cloth with black titles, cloth is worn and faded, pages age-toned, but otherwise internally unmarked
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12.50 GBP
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott Tender is the night: a romance
The Folio Society 1987 First Edition Thus Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Very clean, tightly bound book with a neat inscription on the verso of the frontispiece but no other marks, in a blue card slipcase. Appears little used. 316 pages, 12 plates by Glynn Boyd Harte, introduction by Dennis Potter
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11.00 GBP
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Fleming, Peter A Story to Tell
Jonathan Cape 1942 First Edition Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket
Yellow cloth, red titles, book is very clean and has no inscriptions, has fox spotting which is visible on closed page edges only, page surfaces clean, binding tight. No dustjacket.
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Frazer, Shamus Acorned Hog
Chapman & Hall 1933 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket
Black cloth, silver titles and vignette. Small inscription (name/date) on front pastedown. Very funny satirical novel, this author's first effort
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7.50 GBP
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Gudmundsson, Kristmann The morning of life
William Heinemann 1936 First English Edition Hardcover Good in Good dust jacket
Clean, tightly bound book with fox spotting at the closed page edges, 'Royal Naval War Libraries' stamp on the front pastedown, no inscriptions, in an unclipped dustjacket which is dulled at the spine and chipped at the corners. Novel about Icelandic fishermen, translated from the Norwegian by Elizabeth Sprigge and Claude Napier
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7.00 GBP
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