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The Mummy ! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century

By: Loudon, Jane (Mrs). Webb, Jane

Price: £4,500.00

Publisher: London, Henry Colburn: 1828

Seller ID: 016146

Binding: Half Leather

Condition: Very Good

Second edition. Three volumes, small octavo, pp viii, 309; 331; 311, half calf and marbled boards, very slightly scuffed, the spines a little faded. The first and last few pages in each volume suffer from foxing (see illustration), but otherwise the contents are remarkably clean and tight. One volume contains a signature on the first blank. The binding is by James Clyde, which dates it perhaps twenty years later than the books, as Clyde was the foreman to the long established firm of Herings, and took over their business and premises in 1845. [A rare early fantasy novel. It was written anony...
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Very Ordinary Seaman

By: Mallalieu, J.P.W.

Price: £100.00

Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz: 1944

Seller ID: 011487

Condition: Good

One illustration, small 8vo, pp 278, very age-toned, a few creased corners, a small signature on the front endpaper, green cloth, dull and slightly worn, spine a little spotted, binding leaning slightly. [First edition, first impression of what is generally considered one of the finest accounts of life at sea in the Second World War. A fictionalised but accurate account, based on the author's experiences in a destroyer on the Murmansk run.]
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Something of the Night

By: Marchant, Ian

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London & New York, Simon & Schuster: 2012

Seller ID: 007521

ISBN: 1847376347

Condition: Very Good

First edition, pp (6), 293, a very good copy in a very slightly worn dustwrapper.
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Easy Money

By: Mather, Arthur

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1979

Seller ID: 007823

ISBN: 0340234598

Condition: Very Good

First UK edition. pp 223, fore-edge slightly foxed, otherwise very clean internally, black cloth in very good condition, in a dustwrapper which is not price-clipped but which is very slightly rubbed along the margins and with a tiny closed tear on the lower cover. SCARCE.
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The Covenant

By: Michener, James A.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: South Africa., Nationwide Book Service Ltd: 1980

Seller ID: 010890

Condition: Very Good

Large thick 8vo, pp (10), 863, (8), very clean internally, green cloth showig only the slightest signs of wear, the dustwrapper is a little creased and worn. [The scarce first edition from Zimbabwe, published by agreement with Martin Secker & Warburg.]. {James A. Michener s masterly chronicle of South Africa is an epic tale of adventurers, scoundrels, and ministers, the best and worst of two continents who carve an empire out of a vast wilderness. From the Java-born Van Doorn family tree springs two great branches: one nurtures lush vineyards, the other settles the interior to become the first...
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The Source

By: Michener, James A.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Secker & Warburg: 1966

Seller ID: 011071

Condition: Good

Second reprint, August 1966. Large thick 8vo, pp (8), 909, edges slightly marked, an inscription on the front endpaper, black cloth very slightly worn, upper corners very slightly bumped, the dustwrapper is price-clipped and is rubbed and rather frayed.
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Gigi e Mister J.

By: Morais, Jose

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Lisbon, Livros e Leituras: 2000

Seller ID: 008818

ISBN: 9728483201

Condition: Good

Large 8vo, pp 199, paperback, very slightly worn. (Text in Portuguese)
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Lolita

By: Nabakov, Vladimir

Price: £35.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1958

Seller ID: 016931

Binding: Quarter cloth

Condition: Very Good

Sixteenth impression. Octavo, pp 319, the fore-edge untrimmed, the upper edge red, bright red endpapers, very clean internally, black quarter cloth and patterned boards, with the slightest signs of wear, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped but it is rather age-toned and a little worn, the spine rather dull and browned. [This edition was published by special arrangement with the Olympia Press. A faint number stamped on the half-title shows as 16K 3.24]
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Animal Farm - a fairy story

By: Orwell, George

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Secker & Warburg: 1950

Seller ID: 015149

Condition: Very Good

"Cheap edition", second reprint. Small octavo, pp 92, some age-toning throughout, very slight foxing to the edges, endpapers unevenly age-toned and slightly foxed, otherwise very clean and sound internally,green cloth showing only very slight signs of wear, the dustwrapper is complete and showing the 3/6 price, it is age-toned, particularly on the lower cover, there are several small closed tears, but no real loss, the front fold-over flap has creases,.
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Little Marvel and Other Stories

By: Perriam, Wendy

Price: £7.00

Publisher: London, Robert Hale & Company: 2008

Seller ID: 007457

ISBN: 0709085974

Condition: Very Good

Large 8vo, pp 223, a very good copy in dustwrapper. [A girl with a crippling pea-phobia, a woman driven to murderous rage in an Anger Management Workshop, a wife torn between her dashing artist-lover and her uptight accountant-husband - these are some of the characters in Wendy Perriam's fifth short-story collection. Whatever the scenario, Perriam is alive to the raw emotion and underlying drama in even the most limited of lives, combining the daily dilemmas of personal relationships with a deeper exploration of psychological complexities.Many of the stories focus on some triumph or trauma of ...
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Scattered Remains - a celebration of 750 years of bedlam

By: Pinn, Paul

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Leicester, Tanjen Ltd: 1997

Seller ID: 011083

ISBN: 1901530051

Condition: Very Good

Small 8vo, pp 209, very slightly used internally with a few very slightly turned corners, paperback, covers showing only the faintest signs of wear. [[A collection of short stories to celebrate the 750th anniversary of Royal Bethlem Mental Hospital.]
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A Killing in Horseshoe Bend (A Black Horse Western)

By: Rey, Bret

Price: £4.00

Publisher: London, Robert Hale: 1995

Seller ID: 011447

ISBN: 0709054467

Condition: Very Good

Small 8vo, pp 156, pictorial laminated boards, a very good copy.
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Best Railway Stories

By: Rolt, L.T.C. (editor)

Price: £4.00

Publisher: London, Faber & Faber: 1969

Seller ID: 015086

ISBN: 0571088473

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, pp 256, very clean internally, red cloth with very slight fading to the head of the spine, otherwise a very good copy in the dustwrapper designed by Felix Kelly, not price-clipped and only very slight wear to the corners, the rear cover a little soiled.
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Death of a Dormouse

By: Ruell, Patrick

Price: £6.50

Publisher: New York & London, The Mysterious Press: 1987

Seller ID: 017019

ISBN: 0892962607

Binding: Cloth-backed boards

Condition: Very Good

First American edition. Octavo, pp (2), 281, very slight wear to the top edge, a very slight paper fault to the edge of page 235/236, otherwise very clean and sound internally, black and cream cloth-backed boards, a very slight suggestion of a lean to the binding, the dustwrapper shows only very slight signs of use, and is not price-clipped. [Reginald Hill, writing as Patrick Ruell. Stated first edition, with sequence below 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ]. {Trudi Adamson has lived her life in fear - of strangers, of asking questions, of angering her husband, of leaving the house. When her husband di...
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The Orchid Seekers in Borneo

By: Russan, Ashmore & Boyle, Frederick

Price: £9.25

Publisher: Kota Kinabalu, 2006

Seller ID: 005121

ISBN: 9838121185

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

(First published 1893, and very scarce). Facsimile reprint, much reduced in size. Illustrated, small thick 8vo, pp xii, 397, paperback, a very good copy. [A fantastic tale of adventure, bravado and a liberal dose of colonial grandiose in search of the fabled ‘blue orchid’. The Orchid Seekers in Borneo is a collaboration between a writer, Ashmore Rusan, and an explorer, Frederick Boyle, who had indeed traveled to countries where orchids grow and was himself a successful grower of these spectacular blooms. First published in 1893, the book captures life in Sarawak then under the rule of the ...
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River Lines

By: Sandys, Elspeth

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Sceptre: 1995

Seller ID: 010083

ISBN: 0340640561

Condition: Good

Large thick 8vo, pp (8), 534, fore-edge a little thumbed, a couple of lightly turned corners, inscription on half-title, slight age-toning, otherwise clean and sound internally, binding leaning very slightly otherwise cloth in very good clean condition, in a slightly worn dustwrapper which is a little faded on the spine. [Deirdre Byrne grows up in a remote part of New zealand, and becomes a nurse despite her father's opposition. By contrast, Sarah Dutton's background is one of privilege, and when she falls in love with a radical artist she has to face up to unresolved issues within her family....
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Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

By: Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press: 1994

Seller ID: 005036

ISBN: 0520089421

Condition: New

Illustrated by Barry Moser, pp xiv, 254, paperback, a very good new copy.
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Not Before Sundown

By: Sinisalo, Johanna

Price: £2.40

Publisher: London, Peter Owen Limited: 2010

Seller ID: 007519

ISBN: 0720613507

Condition: New

Small 8vo, pp 236, paperback, a very good copy. [Translated from the Finnish by Herbert Lomas, this is an international fantasy best-seller (published in America as Troll) and winner of the Finlandia Prize. Mikael, a young gay photographer, finds in the courtyard of his apartment block a small, man-like creature. It is a young troll, known from Scandinavian mythology as a demonic wild beast, a hybrid like the werewolf. Supposedly extinct, today it is regarded as a hairy, cuddly toy by Nordic children. Mikael gives the troll a name, Pessi, and takes him home and hides him. The first thing Mikae...
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Wolfsbane

By: Thomas, Craig

Price: £4.00

Publisher: London, Michael Joseph: 1978

Seller ID: 009060

ISBN: 0718116631

Condition: Good

8vo, pp 253, slight signs of use internally, binding leaning slightly, corners very slightly bumped, otherwise a good souond copy in a slightly worn and browned dustwrapper which is not price-clipped.
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Chandlertown - the Los Angeles of Philip Marlowe

By: Thorpe, Edward

Price: £6.50

Publisher: New York, St Martins Press: 1983

Seller ID: 011310

ISBN: 0312128517

Condition: Good

Illustrated, slim 8vo, pp 112, lower corner slightly damp-wrinkled, long inscription on front endpaper, black cloth slightly marked, in a dustwrapper which is not price-clipped but which is slightly worn and marked.
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