FORSYTH, FREDERICK

FIRST EDITION, SCARCE UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, octavo pale red light card covers, black lettering to spine and front, 357pp, VG- (cocked, moderate scuffing and creasing and chipping to covers, with heavy creasing and closed tears to spine, small segments lost to edges (minor), unobtrusive little pen scribble to front top corner, light tanning within, light foxing to edges and within, publisher's local branch note pasted to fep. (This is a rotating rapid read copy! Please return urgently...), occasional soiling - all as befits a well-thumbed classic page turner)

PUBLISHER: Hutchinson 1971

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POE, EDGAR ALLAN; JOHNSON, R. BRIMLEY (ed.)

FIRST EDITION THUS, lacks fep. octavo hardcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1909

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WHITE, EDMUND

FIRST EDITION. super octavo hardcover (VG+) with d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury 2005

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KAZAN, ELIA

FIRST EDITION, super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG): all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Alfred A Knopf 1982

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JONES, LLOYD

FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION octavo softcover (VG+): all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1985

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LESSING, DORIS

FIRST EDITION, octavo black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 303pp, VG- (heavy soiling to boards, sl. cocked, moderate tanning and foxing to edges and within) in d/w VG- (moderate scuffing and chipping, long closed tears to edges, moderate foxing and tanning to reverse)

PUBLISHER: Michael Joseph 1958

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BAXTER, JAMES K. & WEIR, J. E. (intro)

FIRST EDITION, octavo red cloth boards, white lettering to spine, 107pp, VG+ (light tanning, prev. owner's details in pen to fep.) in d/w VG (moderate fading to covers and spine, light scuffing, light foxing to reverse)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1976

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BAXTER, JAMES K.

FIRST EDITION, SECOND IMPRESSION; octavo blue light card stapled covers, 7pp, VG (moderate fading and soiling to covers, light scuffing and creasing to covers, light tanning within)

PUBLISHER: Caveman Press 1972

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ROLLINS, HENRY

SCARCE FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR; oblong quarto black cloth boards, white lettering to spine, illus., xii+164pp, VG+ (a touch of scuffing to boards and v. slight tanning to edges of pages within, otherwise nr. FINE) in d/w nr. FINE (sl. tanning to reverse)

PUBLISHER: Chicago Review Press 2011

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COETZEE, J. M.

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PUBLISHER: Secker & Warburg 1986

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GORDON, DONALD

FIRST EDITION Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Hodder And Stoughton 1970

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BULL, ANGEL

FIRST EDITION, octavo black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 254pp, illus., VG+ (light foxing to edges and within) in d/w VG+ (light scuffing, with foxing to reverse & flaps)

PUBLISHER: Collins 1984

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HANSEN, RON

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PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus And Giroux 2008

KEYWORDS: literature modern first edition

WHEATLEY, DENNIS

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PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co 1977

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RITZ, DAVID

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PUBLISHER: De Capo Press 2002

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IDRIESS, ION L.

FIRST EDITION, octavo, tan heavy card boards, brown lettering and decoration to spine and decoration to board, illus eps (map), frontispiece, x+ 273pp, VG- ( light tanning and foxing throughout pages + edges, moderate soiling to spine + boards, bruised board corners, closed chip to back board.)

PUBLISHER: Angus & Robertson 1948

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BRAITHWAITE, E. R.

FIRST EDITION (first impression); octavo blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 188pp, VG (sl. cocked, light tanning to edges and within, light to moderate foxing to edges & within) in d/w VG (moderate scuffing and chipping, moderate foxing to rear & reverse)

PUBLISHER: Bodley Head, 1959

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SAWYER, RUTH

FIRST EDITION THUS, octavo blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 260pp, VG (moderate misc. soiling throughout) in d/w VG (moderate misc. soiling & foxing, light scuffing)

PUBLISHER: Bodley Head 1962

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BOURJAILUY, VANCE

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PUBLISHER: W. H. Allen 1963

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CRESSWELL, HELEN

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PUBLISHER: Faber And Faber 1989

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