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Evans Brothers, London., 1954. First edition thus: ''Acting Edition''. We do not know if this precedes the Gollancz edition of the same year. Wrappers. Frontispiece photograph of the set design. The play was adapted from the Berlin stories of Christopher Isherwood. Included is the cast list of the first London production, in which Sally Bowles was played by Dorothy Tutin.Crease to rear cover. Very good. ... more information

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Corvinus Press, [London]., 1939. First edition. Quarto. Unpaginated. Quarto. Quarter leather, lettered in gilt, patterned paper boards. Top edge gilt. Printed in Corvinus light type on Bachelor parchment paper. A short story.Number 16 of 35 numbered copies signed by the author (there were a further three copies reserved for him).Presentation copy, inscribed by Norman Douglas to Constantine Fitzgibbon: "For Con - hoping he'll like it from (Uncle) Norman - August 1945". The presentee subsequent... more information

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Chatto & Windus, London., 1932. First edition. Octavo. pp [viii], 313. The novel is dedicated to Malcolm Lowry, to whom four terrible lyrics in the text are attributed. One of the characters in the novel, James Dowd, was apparently based on Malcolm Lowry. The author was married to the Communist scientist J.B.S. Haldane and their house was known to be the most politically advanced in Cambridge. Lowry moved in their circle for a while but was less than pleased with his depiction here as a Jazz musician w... more information

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Leslie Frewin, London., 1966. First edition. Octavo. 403 pages.Very good indeed in very good, price-clipped dustwrapper a bit creased at the edges. ... more information

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Grey Walls Press, London., 1946. First edition. Octavo. 202 pages. The author's first collection of short stories. Free endpapers partially and faintly browned, otherwise fine in near-fine dustwrapper (its design a near steal from E. McKnight Kauffer) slightly rubbed at edges. ... more information

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Victor Gollancz, London., 1966. First edition. Octavo. 297 pages. Illustrated with photographs. The author's first book. The dustwrapper photo shows him hanging from a rock one-handed and with no safety equipment whatsoever.Short tear to rear free endpaper. Very good indeed in very good, slightly nicked, price-clipped dustwrapper with a couple of short tears. ... more information

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In Venetia, per G. de Farri & fratelli., 1541. First edition thus: di Greco in volgare tradotte per M. Nicolo da Lonigo: & historiate, & di nuovo accuratamen reviste, & emendate. Small octavo. ff 223. Illustrated with a number of charming woodcuts in the text, including two which show a sea monster attacking and devouring a ship, one of charon's boat carrying souls across to the Inferno, and one of a castle suspended in mid-air. Lucian, a second-century Syrian satirist and rhetorician, ... more information

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The Olympia Press, Paris., 1958. First edition. The author's first book, published in the Traveller's Companion series. A novel narrated by a schizophrenic.Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Very good indeed in very good, rubbed and nicked dustwrapper. ... more information

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Privately printed by the Lion and Unicorn Press for James Campbell., 1958. First edition thus. Quarto. pp 82, x. Number 23 of 150 copies. Cloth cover designs lithographed from a painting by the author. Numerous black and white drawings by Leslie Jones. Introduced by Helen Roeder. Includes several letters from the author to her on the publication of Maiden Voyage. From the library of John Sparrow with his bookplate on the front pastedown.Cover edges slightly rubbed. Very good indeed. ... more information

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Jonathan Cape, London., 1966. First UK edition. A collection of writings by one of the great cinema critics. 365 pages.Fine in fine dustwrapper very slightly creased at the edges. ... more information

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Souvenir Press, London., 1967. First edition. The third Modesty Blaise novel.Upper corners a little bruised. Very good indeed in very good indeed dustwrapper just a trifle creased and rubbed at edges. ... more information

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The Bobbs-Merrill Company, New York., 1937. First edition. Octavo. 277 pages. A spy thriller set behind German lines in 1915.Very good indeed in very good indeed dustwrapper a bit rubbed at the edges. ... more information

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W.H. Allen, London., 1975. First edition. Octavo. A novel of 197 pages.Endpaper slightly browned. Near-fine in near-fine dustwrapper slightly rubbed at edges and creased at lower flap. ... more information

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Arthur Barker, London., 1938. First U.K. edition. A Hollywood novel.Edges very lightly spotted. Very near fine. No dustwrapper. ... more information

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The Hogarth Press, London., 1927. First edition. Three short novels and seven short stories.Edges spotted. Prelims slightly spotted. Free endpapers browned. Covers faded at the spine and edges. Very good. No dustwrapper. ... more information

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Jonathan Cape, London., 1967. First U.K. edition. The scarcer hardbound issue. Reported, edited and introduced by Edith Heal; she jotted down the poet's unrehearsed comments on his books. 111 pages. Cape Editions 5.Fine in near-fine dustwrapper with a small nick. ... more information

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Editori Laterza, Bari., 1993. Second edition. Copiously illustrated, most of the plates in colour. Small square quarto. Spine slightly bruised at head and tail. Very good indeed in very good indeed dustwrapper creased at edges. ... more information

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Alkonost, St. Petersburg., 1919. First edition. Small octavo. 33 pages. Wrappers. Cover design by N.N. Kupreyanov and Yuri Annenkov. Poems, written bertween 1907 and 1914. Three page publisher's catalogue at the rear. Covers worn, spotted, browned and slightly soiled and defective at one corner. Contents spotted. Good reading copy of a very rare and fragile item. Ownership blind-stamp and name and date in biro on verso of epigraph page. ... more information

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Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh., 1976. First edition. 12mo. Wrappers. A five-page essay.Fine. ... more information

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Longmans, Green and Co, London., 1900. First edition. Octavo. pp xiv, 409, [iv] (adverts) + separate 32-page publishers' catalogue (dated 10/99). Four page Preface by the author. Frontispiece portrait and ten maps and plans, including one extending map at the rear.Prelims and edges spotted. Spine slightly faded. Very good indeed. A bright copy. ... more information

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