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A Large Collection of 43 Radio Times, all with Doctor Who covers and articles

By: N/A

Price: £37.50

Publisher: London, BBC:

Seller ID: 013563

Condition: Very Good

A LARGE COLLECTION OF 43 RADIO TIMES, ALL WITH DR WHO COVERS AND ARTICLES, (larger articles only are mentioned below): 2003 November 22-28; 2005 March 26 - Aprl 1 (with 16 page pull-out), December 17 - 30 (with ten page article) {two copies}; 2006 April 15 - 21 (with 16 page article), May 13 - 19 (with sticker book and 6 stickers), July 8 - 14, October 21 - 27. 2007 March 31 - April 6 (with 16 page article), April 21 - 27 (with stickers), June 30 - July 6, November 10 - 16, December 8 - 14; 2008 April 5 - 11 (14 page article), April 26 - May 2 (no CD), June 21 - 27, J...
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It Happened in Arles

By: Allan, Mabel Esther

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London, Heinemann: 1977

Seller ID: 016659

ISBN: 0434926825

Binding: Cloth

Condition: As New

Second reprint. Small octavo, pp (2), 170, extremely clean internally, black cloth in very good condition, in a perfect dustwrapper which is not price-clipped. An exceptional copy - as new. {Damaris Cleveland finds mystery and adventure beyond her dreams in the wild, beautiful countryside of Aries and the Camargue. Damaris goes to spend the summer along with her cousin Celia in the household of the Gironelles where Celia has been an old familiar. She knows before she goes that something is wrong with the household in Arles. There the younger of the two Gironelles' boys, Paul, 23, seems to be i...
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What I Found Out in the House of a German Prince

By: An English Governess [Williamson, Alice Muriel Livingston]

Price: £6.00

Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company: 1915

Seller ID: 016396

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Small octavo, pp (4), 251, very slightly used internally, red cloth, slightly worn and age-toned, upper cover a bit marked, the spine slightly faded and wrinkled. [Alice Muriel Williamson (1858 - 1933), was an American-English author. Her success, in its early stages, was owing to Alfred Harmsworth who, recognizing her talent, promoted her stories - especially sensational serial stories - in the Daily Mail and his many other publications. Although best known for her series of motor travel romances, she was a literary polymath adept at a wide variety of genres (detective, mystery, Gothi...
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Sentimental Tommy -the Story of His Boyhood

By: Barrie, J.M.

Price: £4.00

Publisher: London, Cassell & Company Ltd: 1896

Seller ID: 001009

Condition: Good

8vo, pp 452 (16 pages of Cassells publications), navy cloth with bevelled edge has slight wear, gilt lettering on spine, corners slightly rubbed, spine slightly sunned, hinges cracked, top edge gilt, bookplate of A.B. Raffle on front paste down endpaper, small hole on front free endpaper, partially erased inscription on half-title, slightly dusty, slight foxing on the fore-edge.
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The Garden Plot

By: Borthwick, J.S.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: New York, St Martin's Press: 1997

Seller ID: 015846

ISBN: 0312151314

Condition: Very Good

Small octavo, pp xii, 322, a very good copy in dustwrapper showing only very slight signs of use. [A murder mystery novel set in a European garden tour].
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Miserere (Le Royaume Du Nord)

By: Clavel, Bernard

Price: £8.50

Publisher: Paris, Albin Michel: 1985

Seller ID: 004702

ISBN: 2226024999

[Le Grand Livre de Mois]. pp 292, a good copy in a dustwrapper which is slightly browned and very slightly worn. [Le Grand Livre du Mois].
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Deceits of Time

By: Colegate, Isabel

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London, Hamish Hamilton: 1988

Seller ID: 009999

ISBN: 0241121930

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, pp 216, a slight suggestion of foxing to the fore-edge, a bit age-toned but otherwise extremely clean and sound internally, half-cloth and marbled boards in very good condition. [Limited edition of 150 numbered copies, signed by the author.].{Catherine Hillery, recently widowed and a biographer of modest attainments is pleased to be asked to write the authorised life of Neil Campion, a politician of the 1930s, now dead. With the apparent approval of the Campion family she begins to investigate the life and early death of this once promising public man. It soon appears that someone else...
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Goose of Hermogenes

By: Colquhoun, Ithell

Price: £3.50

Publisher: London, Peter Owen Ltd: 2003

Seller ID: 007524

ISBN: 0720611776

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Paperback, small octavo, pp (8), 115, the rear cover has a repaired tear, but otherwise a good copy. [The heroine of this story (described only as "I") is compelled to visit a mysterious uncle who turns out to be a black magician who lords over a kind of Prospero's Island that exists out of time and space. Startled by his bizarre behavior and odd nocturnal movements, she eventually learns that he is searching for the philosopher's stone. When his sinister attentions fall upon the priceless jewel heirloom in her possession, bewilderment turns into stark terror and she realizes she must find a w...
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Detective Fiction - the collector's Guide

By: COOPER, John & PIKE, B.A.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Aldershot, Scolar Press: 1994

Seller ID: 006017

ISBN: 0859679918

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Second edition. Illustrated, small quarto, pp x, 341, a good copy in a a dustwrapper which is a little creased and wrinkled along the top edge. [The standard work]
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The Bite

By: Corder, Eric

Price: £6.50

Publisher: London, W.H. Allen: 1976

Seller ID: 009893

ISBN: 049101905X

Condition: Good

First edition, pp 224, age-toned, a small stain to the bottom edge (not noticeable internally, top edge a little dust-marked, otherwise clean and tight inide, red-brown cloth, very slightly bumped, in a dustwrapper which is not price-clipped but which is a little rubbed and worn.
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Sherlock Holmes: Catalogue of an Exhibition held at Abbey House, Baker Street, London May - September 1951

By: Darwin, Bernard (preface)

Price: £22.50

Publisher: London, Public Libraries Committee for the Borough of St Marylebone: 1951

Seller ID: 016967

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Illustrated with a frontispiece, a cover illustration and six tail-pieces by Ronald Searle, slim octavo, pp 60, a little used throughout, corners very slightly dog-eared, paperback, covers slightly worn and marked. [Presented in conjunction with the Festival of Britain]
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The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts

By: De Bernieres, Louis

Price: £6.50

Publisher: London, Secker & Warburg: 1990

Seller ID: 016902

ISBN: 0436200031

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

First UK edition. Large octavo, pp viii, 376, age-toned around the margins, otherwise very clean and sound internally, black cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped and has only very slight signs of use. [Louis de Bernires' magical, tragic and hilarious South American odyssey. When the spoilt and haughty Dona Constanza tries to divert a river to fill her swimming pool, she starts a running battle with the locals. The skirmishes are so severe that the Government dispatches a squadron of soldiers led by the fat, brutal and stupid Figueras to deal with them. Despite vis...
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Colombian Blood (Presentation copy)

By: de Osa, Veronica

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Robert Hale & Company: 1983

Seller ID: 006285

ISBN: 0709009305

pp 316, slightly age-toned, endpapers slightly foxed, otherwise a good copy in a slightly worn dustwrapper which is slightly torn at the spine head and slightly wrinkled on its lower cover. [From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter, with a presentation inscription from the author, and a brief note on a loosely inserted card.]
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Vendetta

By: Dibdin, Michael

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Faber & Faber: 1990

Seller ID: 010156

ISBN: 0571143326

Condition: Very Good

First edition, 8vo, pp 281, rather age-toned (particularly around the margins), otherwise very clean and sound internally, blue cloth showing the faintest suggestion of fading around the edges but otherwise very clean, in a dustwrapper which is not price-clipped and which is showing only very slight signs of use. VERY SCARCE.
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The Heiress of Haddon

By: Doubleday, W.E.

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Buxton, High Peak News & Buxton Advertiser Offices:

Seller ID: 004517

Condition: Fair

Tenth edition. Frontispiece, small 8vo, pp vi, 238, red cloth, faded, rubbed and worn, becoming a bit weak internally. (An average copy of a work very difficult to find in good condition).
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Madonna from Russia

By: Druzhnikov, Yuri

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London, Peter Owen: 2006

Seller ID: 007522

ISBN: 0720612551

Condition: Fine

First UK edition. pp 219, a very good copy in a dustwrapper which is not price-clipped. [Madonna from Russia is the story of Lily Bourbon, a beautiful, mysterious Russian woman and her different husbands. When we first meet her, she is about to turn ninety-six the same age as the twentieth century. Newly arrived from the provinces, the young Lily becomes a prostitute working the streets of Petrograd. Soon she is recruited by the Bolsheviks to a higher category of working woman to service the Communist elite. At the age of twenty-three she makes a fortuitous marriage to Andrei Bourbon, poet, Fu...
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Jan's Journal

By: Duncan, Ronald

Price: £4.00

Publisher: London, William Campion: 1949

Seller ID: 014424

Condition: Good

Small octavo, pp 167, with four line drawings and a coloured frontispiece by Betty Swanwick, fore-edge slightly foxed, otherwise very clean internally, green cloth very slightly bowed.
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The Secret Room

By: Eames, Marion

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Gomer Press: 1995

Seller ID: 016693

ISBN: 0185902291x

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, pp 181, very clean internally, paperback, covers very slightly curled but still an excellent copy. [The author was a Welsh novelist writing mainly in Welsh. This is her best-known work of fiction - an historical novel Y Stafell Ddirgel (1969), which was translated into English by Margaret Phillips as The Secret Room (1975). This was later adapted as a BBC television drama series.]. {The story is set in the reign of King Charles II of England and follows the experiences of Quaker leader Rowland Ellis who founded a Welsh colony in Pennsylvania after being forced to leave Wales because o...
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Early Lessons. A New edition, collected into one volume. [The Little Dog Trusty. The Cherry Orchard. The Orange Man. Frank. Rosamond. Harry and Lucy.]

By: Edgeworth, Maria

Price: £8.50

Publisher: London, Longman Brown & Co: 1855

Seller ID: 006372

MARIA EDGEWORTH. Early Lessons. Published by Longman Brown & Co (and others), 1855. A New Edition, collected into one volume. Small thick 8vo, pp (4), 432, an extra engraved title page, an engraved frontispiece, a little thumbed throughout, a little weak internally, hinge at title page cracking. Spine lacking, original red cloth covers, but lower cover detached, and upper cover nearly so. [Maria Edgeworth was a novelist and children's writer of Anglo-Irish descent. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature. Maria Edgeworth was born at Black Bourton, Oxfordshire, on Janu...
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A Conditional Sentence

By: Fleetwood, Hugh

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London, Hamish Hamilton: 1974

Seller ID: 007745

ISBN: 0241024927

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, pp 188, very clean internally, red cloth showing the faintests signs of uses (and leaning very slightly - almost imperceptable), in a very good dustwrapper which is not price-clipped and which is showing only very slight wear - mainly a little creasing along the top margin. VERY SCARCE. [Hugh Fleetwood was born in England in 1944. At the age of 18 he went to live in France; at 21, he moved to Italy, where he remained for the next fourteen years. He had his first exhibition in 1970 at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto; in 1971 he published his first novel, A Painter of Flowers, for ...
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