COOK, WILLIAM

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PUBLISHER: William Cook 1996

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BARFORD, CHERIE

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PUBLISHER: Hard Echo Press 1986

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PAISLEY, JOHN

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PUBLISHER: Helicon Press 1982

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VAN DE WETERING, JANWILLEM

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PUBLISHER: William Heinemann 1979

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WITTIG, MONIQUE & LE VAY, DAVID (Trans)

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PUBLISHER: Bard / Avon Books 1976

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AUSTEN, JANE & CHESTERTON, G K (Preface)

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PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1922

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BAXTER, JAMES K

SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, beige stapled light card covers, 20pp, VG (moderate tanning & light creasing/curling to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, sl foxing sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: The Caxton Press 1952

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HULME, KERI

FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE (name not highlighted on cover), octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, 469pp, G+ (heavy creasing to spine & covers/edges, heavy cracking/closed tearing to spine hinges- binding sl loosened to rear, moderate chafing to covers, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, sm annotation in ink to rear pg, heavy soiling to pg31)

PUBLISHER: Spiral 1983

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EDMOND, MURRAY

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PUBLISHER: Caveman Press 1973

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SMITH, HUGH & BURNS, BERTA SINCLAIR (Ed)

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PUBLISHER: Hugh Smith 1946

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KNIGHT, HARDWICKE & BROSNAN, BILL & COLLINS, BRUCE E & JACKSON, LEWIS & WESTON, GEOFF

UNCOMMON, SIGNED BY HARDWICKE KNIGHT, oblong spiral bound covers, 78pp, VG+ (minor creasing to front cover, sl wrinkling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Albion Press 2005

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CHURCHILL, WINSTON S

4 VOL SET, imperial octavo, blu ebuckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spines & front boards, top pages stained blue, mixed pagination, illus/photos, VG+ (light scuffing/chafing to boards & edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to half title page of vol 3)

PUBLISHER: The Educational Book Company 1956-58

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MARAINI, FOSCO & MOSBACHER, ERIC (Trans)

FIRST US EDITION, super octavo, green heavy boards, black lettering to spine, illus eps, 95pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate bruising to extrems, adhesive paper residue to front board, moderate scuff with surface loss to the base of rear board, light tanning & foxing to page edges, light to moderate cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG- (v heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, moderate to heavy chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Harcourt, Brace & World 1962

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SUMMERS, MONTAGUE

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PUBLISHER: University Books 1956

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JOHNS, CAPT W E & STEAD, LESLIE (Illus)

Octavo, red heavy boards, black lettering & dog illus to spine, frontispiece, 192pp, VG (light bruising & fading to board edges & extrems, sl paper residue to rear board, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, occasional light cracking to gutters & sl foxing, 1cm closed tear to base of title page) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges with minor loss, moderate chafing)

PUBLISHER: Brockhampton Press 1955

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HUXLEY, ALDOUS

FIRST US EDITION, LACCKS D/W, octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering & rule to black cloth spine, 335pp, VG- (lg crack to top spine extrem, light scuffing to board edges, moderate soiling to spine & boards, light to moderate tanning & soiling/foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear pastedown)

PUBLISHER: Harper & Brothers 1962

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SEXTON, ANNE

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PUBLISHER: Houghtno Mifflin Company 1961-69

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ALLENDE, ISABEL & CAISTOR, NICK (Trans) & HOPKINSON, AMANDA (Trans)

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PUBLISHER: Scribner 2015

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FOX, WILLIAM L (Ed) & MEYER, DONALD (Fore)

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PUBLISHER: University of Nevada Press 1995

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SANDERSON, BRANDON

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PUBLISHER: Gollancz 2011

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