FREW, PEGGY

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PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin 2022

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MACKAY, HUGH

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MOOR, JESSICA

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PUBLISHER: Manilla Press 2024

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TAYLOR, AMY

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BLAKEMORE, A K

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PUBLISHER: Granta 2023

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ZAFON, CARLOS RUIZ & GRAVES, LUCIA (Trans)

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PUBLISHER: Text Publishing 2009

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POWERS, TIM

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PUBLISHER: Chatto and Windus 1986

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MASON, BOBBIE ANN

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PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1986

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ALI, MONICA

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LUKE, Sir HARRY

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PUBLISHER: George G Harrap & Co 1961

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JAMES, ESME LOUISE & JAMES, Dr SUSAN (Research)

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RUTHERFURD, EDWARD

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PUBLISHER: Century 2000

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INGALLS, RACHEL

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PUBLISHER: Graywolf Press 2005

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RAINA, RAHUL

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MISHIMA, YUKIO & SPARLING, KATHRYN (Trans)

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PUBLISHER: Condor / Souvenir Press 1977

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FRANZEN, JONATHAN

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PUBLISHER: Farrar Straus Giroux 1988

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JACKSON, JENNY

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CAMPION, SARAH (ALPERS, MARY ROSE / ALPERS, SARAH)

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PUBLISHER: Peter Davies 1942

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MEADE, Lieut The Hon HERBERT

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PUBLISHER: John Murray 1871

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SWIFT, JONATHAN (& ANONYMOUS)

A very scarce forged illegitimate third volume of Gulliver's Travels, issued in 1727, octavo, brown leather boards, remnants of gilt lettering & rule with raised bands to spine, gilt rule/borders to boards, decorative blind stamp to board edges, (14) + 159pp, vignette to prelims, decorated headers at begininning of new chapter pages, G (boards & ffep completely detached but present, spine heavily crackled with severe rubbing & heavy surface loss, heavy scuffing to boards & board edges with age appropriate discolouration, heavy tanning & moderate soiling/staining to page edges, level of internal tanning & markings at level expected of books this age but text block still very clear, multiple prev. owners' names in ink to prelim pgs- historical)

PUBLISHER: LONDON: Printed in the Year M.DCC.XXVII. (1727)

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