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Fourth Estate, London., 2007. First U.K. edition. Translated by Humphrey Davies. Octavo. pp xii, 255. Made into a hugely successful Egyptian film.Signed by the author on the title-page.Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Near fine in near-fine dustwrapper. ... more information

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Gallery Books, Dublin., 1992. First edition. One of 350 copies. Octavo. A 5-page poem. Frontispiece drawing by Barrie Cooke. Wrappers. Signed by the author on the title-page.Fine. ... more information

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Collins, London., 1956. First U.K. edition. Translated by Joan Selby-Lowndes. 63 pages. Illustrated with numerous photographs, by the author, of native Amazonians.Fine in near-fine dustwrapper slightly rubbed at the edges and with a short closed tear to the rear panel. ... more information

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Peter Owen, London., 1976. First U.K. edition. One corner corner bruised. Very good in very good nicked and rubbed dustwrapper. Name on front free endpaper. ... more information

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The Hogarth Press, London., 1937. First edition. A 469-page novel. Very faint traces of damp to edges of endpapers and prelims. Spine ... more information

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Oyez, Berkeley., 1966. First edition. Octavo. pp xii, 94, [v]. One of 200 copies in boards. Eleven-page Introduction by the author. Loosely inserted is a publicity sheet with two specially written contributions, "On Reading the Early Poems of Robert Duncan" by Denise Levertov and an untitled piece, possibly a poem, by Charles Olson.Fine in fine dustwrapper very slightly creased at the edges. ... more information

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John Lane The Bodley Head, London., 1937. First edition. Octavo. 151 pages. Includes two poems by Dylan Thomas beginning "We lying by seasand ..." and "It is the sinners' dust-tongued bell ..." Other contributors include Aiken, Lorca, Neruda, Auden, MacNeice, Kathleen Raine, Spender, Gascoyne, etc. Small contemporary ownership inscription on front pastedown hidden beneath dustwrapper flap. Free endpaper partially tanned. Near fine in very good indeed dustwrapper a little rubbed a... more information

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John lane The Bodley Head, London., 1934. First edition. Octavo. 144 pages. Includes "Light" by Dylan Thomas, this being his first appearance in book form. A particularly rich year with poems from Yeats, Auden, De la Mare, Edwin Muir, V. Sackville-West, Hugh MacDiarmid, Empson, MacNeice, Spender, George Barker, etc. Covers slightly spotted. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper darkened at spine and rubbed at the edges. ... more information

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Oxford University Press, London., 1923; 1925. First editions. Octavo. Two volumes: pp 269, [vii] adverts; 345, [x] adverts. Grey boards printed in black. In each volume Tolkien reviews the year's work in philology, his contributions taking up 18 and 29 pages respectively. Pages unopened.Small chip to top edge of front free endpaper of first volume. Edges spotted. Faint rubbing to spines. Very good indeed. Scarce. ... more information

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HarperCollins, London., 1997. First edition. Octavo. pp [vi], 262. The eighteenth Jack Aubrey novel.Fine in fine dustwrapper very slightly creased at tail of spine. ... more information

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Doubleday, Garden City, New York., 1969. First edition. The author's second book. Octavo. 177 pages. Fine in near-fine dustwrapper a little marked and slightly creased at edges. ... more information

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Gallery Books, Oldcastle., 1997. First edition. The scarce cloth issue. Octavo. 57 pages. A sequence of 20 poems prefaced by a version from Baudelaire.Slight rubbing at tail of spine (probably a production fault), otherwise fine in fine dustwrapper. ... more information

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Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1935. New impression. Octavo. pp xvi, 321. Numerous illustrations by Henry J. Ford. Yellow cloth decorated in blind and gilt.Small contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper. Very good indeed in very good, chipped and torn dustwrapper. ... more information

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The Fortune Press, London., 1944. First edition. Octavo. 48 pages. Illustrations, including a frontispiece portrait of the author, by David Haughton. Dannie Abse's copy with his ownership signature on the front free endpaper. The World War Two poet was killed in action.Spine and lower corners a little affected by damp. Very good in good, marked and rubbed dustwrapper chipped at head and tail of spine. ... more information

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Little, Brown and Company, London., 1994. First edition. A 233-page crime novel.Fine in fine dustwrapper. ... more information

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Printed in Oxford. March and May,, 1939. Wrappers. John Betjeman contributes a poem, ''In Holy Trinity, Sloane Street''. Gavin Ewart contributes two poems, one of which is ''John Betjeman's Brighton''. Three stories by Dylan Thomas. John Collier, Jean Cocteau, Beatrix Lehmann, Henry de Montherlant, Robert Waller, T.F. Powys etc also contribute.The first issue lacks the yellow cellophane dustwrapper. The second volume has it but in slightly chipped and torn state. A very ... more information

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London. May,, 1939. Wrappers. Only two issues were ever published. Dylan Thomas contributes two four-page stories, ''The True Story'' and ''The Vest''. Gavin Ewart contributes a poem, ''John Betjeman's Brighton''. T.F. Powys contributes the short story ''Uncle Dottery''. John Collier contributes a seven page story ''The Frog Prince''. There is a review of T.S. Eliot's Family Reunion. Two page Editorial by Constantine Fi... more information

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McDowell, Obolensky, New York., 1959. First edition.First and rear blanks a little browned. Very good indeed in very good rubbed and frayed dustwrapper. ... more information

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Trigram Press, London., 1969. First edition. Royal octavo. 61 pages. One of 100 numbered copies, specially bound, signed by the author. Illustrations by the author. Full grey and black buckram decorated and lettered in silver.Near fine. No dustwrapper issued. ... more information

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Collins, London., 1982. First edition. Illustrations. Descriptive catalogue by John Pemberton 3rd. Quarto.Fine in near fine dustwrapper a little rubbed at edges. ... more information

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