PASTERNAK, BORIS

FIRST EDITION, LATER PRINTING (October 1961) TEXT IN RUSSIAN, SCARCE IN DUSTWRAPPER, octavo, mint heavy boards, black text to boards & spine, 568pp, VG+ (v slight scuffing & fading to edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges, previous owner's name in ink to fep) in d/w VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, 3 small (1cm) sections missing to edges of jacket, light to moderate tanning & soiling to jacket)

PUBLISHER: Giangiacomo Feltrinelli 1961

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WAUGH, EVELYN & BLAKE, QUENTIN (illus)

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PUBLISHER: Folio Society 1980

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ACKER, KATHY

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PUBLISHER: Grove Press 1988

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TOLKIEN, J R R

UNCOMMON MINIATURE EDITION BOXED SET OF THREE VOLUMES, duodecimo, illus heavy boards, black & white text to boards & spine, illus eps, illus title page, mixed pagination, extensively illus, VG+ (v slight bruising to spines) in d/ws VG+ (v slight fading to spines) in slipcase VG+ (slight creasing & fading to slipcase)

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HAMILTON, PETER F.

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STEINBECK, JOHN

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PUBLISHER: P.F. Collier & Son Corporation 1936

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STEINBECK, JOHN

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ISHIGURO, KAZUO

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SHAFAK, ELIF

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AUSTER, PAUL

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PUBLISHER: Penguin Books 1987

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NELSON, JAMES

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TAKAMI, KOUSHUN & ONIKI, YUJI (trans)

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CLAVELL, JAMES

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ASTER, ALEX

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SCOTT, MANDA

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SYDNEY, GRAHAME (painter) & TURNER, BRIAN (poet) & MARSHALL, OWEN (writer) & NEILL, SAM (intro)

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PUSHKIN, ALEXANDER & NABOKOV, VLADIMIR (trans & commentary)

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PUSHKIN, ALEXANDER & NABOKOV, VLADIMIR (trans & commentary)

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HEANEY, SEAMUS & GIESE, RACHEL (photos)

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PUBLISHER: Faber & Faber 1992

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MAHR, MARI (photographs) & O'BRIEN, GREGORY (poem) BORNHOLDT, JENNY (text) & O'BRIEN, BRENDAN (design)

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