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London: John W. Parker. G : in Good condition. Spine cracked on side and edges. Edges rubbed. Hinge cracking on one side. Pages slightly browned. 1837. First Edition. Green hardback cloth cover with floral pattern and gilt titles. 246pp + viii adverts :: 180mm x 110mm (7" x 4") :: Scarce British edition . more information

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London: Heinemann. G : in Good condition with dustwrapper and protective clear view cover. Wrapper fragile with tears at front fold, loss at spine ends and lower edge and inside tape repairs. Some light marking to lower edge of covers. Name of previous owner on fep and half title. Bookplate on paste-down. 1948. First Edition. Black hardback cloth cover. 320pp :: 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5") :: Scarce with wrapper . more information

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London: Museum Press Ltd. VG/G - just below very good condition without dustwrapper. 1957. Black hardback cloth cover with d/w. 230mm x 155mm (9" x 6") . more information

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London: Museum Press Ltd. VG/G - just below very good condition without dustwrapper. 1957. Black hardback cloth cover with d/w. 230mm x 155mm (9" x 6") . more information

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London: Children's Book Club. G+ : in Good+ condition with dustwrapper. Boards bumped with fading corresponding to loss of wrapper. Wrapper rubbed and torn with some loss. Previous owner's bookplate to front paste down. 1941. Reprint. Yellow hardback cloth cover. 328pp :: Numerous b/w illustrations by Harold Jones :: 200mm x 130mm (8" x 5") . more information

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London: John Lane - The Bodley Head. G+ : in Good+ condition with unclipped dustwrapper. Some light foxing to page edges and wrapper. Previous owner's bookplate to front paste down. 1944. First Edition. Blue hardback cloth cover. 214pp :: Numerous b/w illustrations by Stuart Tresilian :: 200mm x 140mm (8" x 6") . more information

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Newcastle upon Tyne: Compuprint Publishing. VG : in Very good condition with clipped dustwrapper. Inscription by the author to fep. 1988. First Edition. Black hardback cloth cover. 220mm x 145mm (9" x 6") :: The book is an attempt to find the next stage of development of the state: Feudalism, Capitalism, Socialism ... and seeks in the limited state and in a market democracy a "synthesis of capitalist and socialist definitions of power and responsibility" . more information

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London: The Times. Worn condition without dustwrapper. Folded into eighths with splits and small holes along folds. Edges chipped and tear to last page. 1931. True first edition. No covers. 450mm x 350mm (18" x 14") . more information

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London: William Heinemann. Corners bumped and fading and superficial damage to spine. Bookplate and small stamp to front paste-down. Some spotting to prelims. End papers browned. Internally very good. Pages uncut. 1911. First Edition. Brown hardback cloth cover. 200mm x 140mm (8" x 6") . more information

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London: Herbert Jenkins. G : in Good condition without dustwrapper. Ex- 'Boots' library. Cover rubbed and marked. Inscribed on fep. Spine faded. Hinges weak. Foxing. 1932. First Edition. Blue hardback cloth cover. 312pp :: 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5") . more information

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Newcastle upon Tyne: Frank Graham. VG : in Very good condition with dustwrapper. 1981. First Edition. Grey hardback cloth cover. 358pp :: 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6") . more information

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London: Hogarth Press. VG : in very good condition with dustwrappers. 1973. Reprint. Grey hardback cloth cover. 230pp, 300pp :: Photographic illustrations; map endpapers :: 240mm x 160mm (9" x 6") . more information

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London: Methuen. G : in good condition without dustwrapper. Slight spine lean - front inner hinge beginning to crack. 1922. First Edition. Blue-green hardback cloth cover with gilt to spine. 313pp + ads :: 190mm x 140mm (7" x 6") :: Satirical novel, adapted for the stage by the author five years later . more information

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London: Chapman & Hall Ltd. Ex lib - "Boots" lending library. Covers soiled. Front hinge weak so tending loose. Some light foxing as well as some pages having stains. Inscribed on fep. 1940. First Edition. Maroon hardback cloth cover. 344pp :: 185mm x 130mm (7" x 5") . more information

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London: Macmillan & Co. VG : in very good condition without dustwrapper. 1912. Limited Edition [275]. Blue hardback cloth cover. White vellum quarter binding. 23 clolour plates :: 360mm x 280mm (14" x 11") :: n.b. Muirhead Bone frontispiece missing . more information

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London: Faber & Faber. G/Worn - in Good condition - boards dampstained - dustwrapper has nicks to spine head & heel - neat inscription in ffep. 1956. First Edition. Blue hardback cloth cover. 200mm x 130mm (8" x 5") . more information

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London: Alvin Redman Ltd. G : in Good condition without dustwrapper. Cover marked. Pages browning. Hinges weak. Light foxing. 1964. First Edition. Brown hardback cloth cover. 272pp :: 200mm x 130mm (8" x 5") . more information

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Cheddar: Balmoral Publishing Works. VF/F - just short of as new condition without dustwrapper. 1987. Grey hardback cloth cover. 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6") . more information

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Cheddar: Balmoral Publishing Works. VF/F - just short of as new condition without dustwrapper. 1987. Grey hardback cloth cover with VG d/w. 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6") . more information

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London: Hamish Hamilton. VG : in very good condition without dustwrapper. Some rubbing and bumping to cover. Tightly bound. (1955). First Edition. Rough Proof. Grey paper cover. 215mm x 140mm (8" x 6") :: Without the illustrations and tables. Some pages are left blank to have details inserted at publication . more information

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London: Heinnemann. VG/VG : in Very good condition. Clipped dustwrapper. 1985. UK First Edition. Blue hardback cloth cover. 240mm x 170mm (9" x 7") . more information

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London: Epworth Press. G : in Good condition without dustwrapper. 1934. first edition. Blue hardback cloth cover. 272pp :: 195mm x 135mm (8" x 5") . more information

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London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Tubner. G : in good condition without dustwrapper - teg - boards rather grubby - corners a little bumped and rubbed - tightly bound - inscription in clipped fep' with the writer's Kind regards' . 1895. First Edition. Quarter green hardback cloth cover over decorated boards. b/w plates :: 290mm x 200mm (11" x 8") . more information

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London: W. H. Allen. VG : in very good condition with dustwrapper. Signed by author opposite forward page. 1964. First Edition. Black hardback cloth cover. 262pp :: 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6") . more information

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London: Jonathan Cape. VG: in very good condition with rubbed and chipped dustwrapper. 1928. First UK Edition. Green hardback cloth cover. 283pp :: 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5") :: Signed inscription to 'Nanny Brown' . more information

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London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd. G : in Good condition without dustwrapper. Front inner hinge cracked. Eps foxed. 1926. First UK Edition. Red hardback cloth cover. 476pp :: 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5") :: Signed inscription by author to 'Nanny Brown' . more information

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London: William Heinemann. VG : in very good condition without dustwrapper. 1942. First Edition. Blue/gilt hardback cloth cover. 130pp :: 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5") :: Scarce. Stories of supernatural . more information

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London: William Heinemann. G : in Good condition without dustwrapper. Cover and spine faded. 1942. First Edition. Blue/gilt hardback cloth cover. 130pp :: 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5") :: Stories of supernatural . more information

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London: Elek. G+ : in Good condition with dustwrapper. Signed on title page by the author. 1954. First Edition. Blue hardback cloth cover. 263pp :: 230mm x 150mm (9" x 6") . more information

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London: Charles Skilton Ltd. VG : in very good condition without dustwrapper. 1962. First Edition. Blue hardback cloth cover. 185mm x 145mm (7" x 6") . more information

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Edinburgh: Canongate Publishing Ltd. VG : in very good condition with dustwrapper. 1987. First Edition. Black hardback cloth cover. 122pp :: 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6") . more information

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London: John Murray. G : in Good condition without dustwrapper. Much loss to spine. Corners dog-eared. Content clean. Blank final endpapers missing. 1815. First Edition, First Issue. Original plain brown wrappers. 53pp, 2pps adverts and 3 half titles of Byron's works :: 225mm x 145mm (9" x 6") :: Has the half titles of Byron's works and the adverts (including Rogers' Jacqueline ). Original cover . more information

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London: Faber & Faber. G : in Good condition with edge-torn dustwrapper. Contents clean and bright. 1946. First Edition. Orange hardback cloth cover. Gilt. 91pp :: 230mm x 140mm (9" x 6") . more information

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London: Constable & Co Ltd. G : in Good condition without dustwrapper. Covers soiled. Some spotting to a few pages. 1917. First Edition. Beige quarter-hardback cloth cover. 106pp :: 230mm x 150mm (9" x 6") :: From the library of Naomi Mitchison . more information

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London: W. Collins & Sons. G : in good condition without dustwrapper. Spine faded. Minor bumping to corners. Minor cracking on rear inner hinge. Previous owner inscription on fep. 1932. First Edition. Black hardback cloth cover. 252pp + ads :: 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5") :: Very scarce title - one of the early Poirot novels. Christie's nineteenth novel . more information

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London: Collins. G : in Good condition with dustwrapper in clear protective wraps. Dustwrapper with split along spine - some edge-chipping to head of wrapper and c. 2 cm loss to spine base. Spine darkened and with slight lean. Previous owner's insc. to fep. 1944. First Edition. Orange hardback cloth cover with red and black lettering. 160pp :: 185mm x 125mm (7" x 5") :: The true first edition. Priced at 7s-6d on dustwrapper flap . more information

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London: Odhams. G : in Good condition without dustwrapper. Spine faded. Remains of label on fep. 1933. First Edition. Red hardback cloth cover. 247pp :: 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5") . more information

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London: The Crime Club. VG: in very good condition with rubbed and chipped dustwrapper. Remains of label on fep. 1942. Second Edition. Orange hardback cloth cover. 192pp :: 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5") . more information

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Barcelona: Ediciones Omega. VG : in very good condition with torn dustwrapper. 1950. First Edition. Cream marbled boards with brown cloth spine. 50pp + 64 plates :: 240mm x 180mm (9" x 7") . more information

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London: Sidgwick & Jackson. G : in good condition without dustwrapper. Hinges and edges lightly rubbed and bumped. External split to upper edge of spine. Covers with areas of sunning. Contents VG. [1952]. 1st edition. Brown hardback cloth cover. 190pp :: 6 b/w illustrated plates :: 185mm x 122mm (7" x 5") :: First edition of his third novel . more information

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London: Fourth Estate Ltd. VG : in Very good condition with dustwrapper. 1990. First Edition. Black hardback cloth cover. 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6") :: Jonathan Coe has written five novels: The Dwarves of Death (1990), a cult murder story filmed as Five Seconds to Spare in 1999; the acclaimed What a Carve Up! (1994), a caustic satire of British life in the 1980s and winner of the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (France); and The House of Sleep (1997), which won the Writers' Guild Award (Best Fiction) and the Prix Médicis Etranger (France) and recounts the adventures of a group of former university students, reunited at the mysterious cliff-top house where they used to live. The Rotters' Club (2001), is set in Birmingham during the 1970s and tells the story of a group of school friends working on the school magazine. It was adapted for BBC Television in 2005. A sequel, The Closed Circle, was published in 2004 . more information

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London: T.C. & E.C.Jack. VG : in very good condition without dustwrapper. Slight staining to edges of cover. 1912. First Edition. Hardback cloth cover, gilt decoration. xxxi; 460pp :: 25 b/w plates :: 230mm x 168mm (9" x 7") :: Writings of early travellers to South Africa . more information

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London: Turnstile Press. VG : in Very good condition with dustwrapper. Light rubbing to otherwise lovely pictorial wrapper. 1951. First edition. Red hardback cloth cover. 200pp :: 130mm x 190mm (5" x 7") . more information

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London: Frank Graham. VG : in very good condition with dustwrapper. 1975. Reprint. Red hardback cloth cover. x, 310pp :: 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6") . more information

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London: Turnstile Press. G : in good condition with dustwrapper. Cover water stained. Wrapper edge chipped and rubbed. With removable plastic cover. 1951. First edition. Red hardback cloth cover. 200pp :: 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5") . more information

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Edinburgh: William Blackwood. VG : in very good condition without dustwrapper. Later rebind with plain endpapers. Pages cut. Contents slightly browning. Some light spotting in places. 1900. First Edition. Green hardback cloth cover. 200mm x 140mm (8" x 6") :: Booksellers stamp in three places - title page, chapter 1 title page - fini. [C Ford - Stationers, Printers and Booksellers]. 'Lord Jim' depicts a British naval officer who is haunted through life by being guilty of cowardice at sea. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) aka Jósef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski was a Polish-born English novelist . more information

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London: Macdonald. VG : in very good condition with rubbed dustwrapper. 1965. First Edition. Orange hardback cloth cover. 200mm x 130mm (8" x 5") . more information

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London: William Heinemann. G : in Good condition with rubbed and chipped dustwrapper. 1974. First Edition. Black hardback cloth cover. 220mm x 150mm (9" x 6") . more information

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London: Macdonald & Co. VG : in Very good condition with plastic cover stuck over dustwrapper. Previous owner's ink inscription to title page. 1969. First Edition. Red hardback cloth cover. 238pp :: 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6") :: Scarce in 1st edn . more information

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London: Macdonald & Co Ltd. VG : in very good condition with dustwrapper. Wrapper rubbed and edge chipped with small tears. Neat ink date to ffep. 1962. First Edition. Blue hardback cloth cover. 220pp :: 200mm x 130mm (8" x 5") . more information

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