Authors in Literature
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
FLEMING, Ian.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £0.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00| /The second title in the "Blofeld trilogy", preceded by Thunderball (1961) and concluding with You Only Live Twice (1964). In the novel Bond adopts...
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Thunderball.
FLEMING, Ian.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /The ninth James Bond book by Ian Fleming, also memorable as a film version with Sean Connery featuring a theme tune sung by Tom Jones.First editio...
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On the Beach.
SHUTE, Nevil.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00| /First edition of Shute's chilling dystopian novel, the basis for the 1959 film starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, and Anthony Perki...
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
STOPPARD, Tom.Original price £300.00 - Original price £300.00Original price £0.00£300.00£300.00 - £300.00Current price £300.00| /First edition of Tom Stoppard's first play, a development on the story of two of the minor characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet. The National Thea...
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The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck
POTTER, Beatrix.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £0.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00| /Inscribed and dated by the author. The inscription from Beatrix Potter reads; 'Beatrix Potter, Castle Cottage, Sawrey, Nov 22. 40'; the gift inscri...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
TWAIN, Mark.Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00| /A sweet edition of Mark Twain's classic novel in red calf gilt by Bayntun, with colour-plate and in-text illustrations by Cyril Walter Hodges (190...
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The Swiss Family Robinson.
WYSS, Johann David.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00| /A sweet, illustrated edition of Johann David Wyss' classic novel about a Swiss family shipwrecked in the East Indies en-route to Port Jackson, Aus...
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Just So Stories
KIPLING, Rudyard.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /Kipling's famous stories include: How the Whale Got His Throat, How the Camel Got His Hump, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, How the Leopard Got H...
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Troubles.
FARRELL, J.G.Original price £975.00 - Original price £975.00Original price £0.00£975.00£975.00 - £975.00Current price £975.00| /Winner of the 'lost' Booker Prize. The winner of the so-called 'lost' Booker Prize, a special edition of the Booker Prize awarded after a decisive ...
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
ROWLING, J.K.Original price £300.00 - Original price £300.00Original price £0.00£300.00£300.00 - £300.00Current price £300.00| /This is second title in the Harry Potter series, confirming the author's standing alongside J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. It was nominated for th...
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
WOLFE, Tom.Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00| /First edition of this remarkable record of the 1960s 'tune in, turn on, drop out' culture that defined the decade for many, preceding the UK editi...
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The Importance of Being Earnest.
WILDE, Oscar.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00| /One of 1000 copies. One of 1000 copies of Wilde's most celebrated play.First performed on 14th February 1895, The Importance of Being Earnest marke...
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An Ideal Husband.
WILDE, Oscar.Original price £17,500.00 - Original price £17,500.00Original price £0.00£17,500.00£17,500.00 - £17,500.00Current price £17,500.00| /One of 100 large paper copies - signed by the author. A masterpiece of intrigue, political corruption, blackmail and hypocrisy but also one of forg...
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A Small Town in Germany.
LE CARRÉ, John.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00| /Signed by the author. 'Only the Foreign Officer;, a junior diplomat remarks, 'could have sent a bull to catch a matador.' The bull is Alan Turner, ...
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The Spy Who Came in From the Cold.
LE CARRÉ, John.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| /With an atmosphere of chilly hell. 'Superbly constructed with an atmosphere of chilly hell' (J.B. Priestley). Le Carré's Cold War spy thriller sees...
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Vet in a Spin.
HERRIOT, James.Original price £325.00 - Original price £325.00Original price £0.00£325.00£325.00 - £325.00Current price £325.00| /Signed. It was his wife, Joan, who finally pushed James Herriot to pursue his dream of being an author. Despite an abundance of enthusiasm, his ini...
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The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1918.
QUILLER-COUCH, Sir Arthur (editor).Original price £175.00 - Original price £175.00Original price £0.00£175.00£175.00 - £175.00Current price £175.00| /A handsome copy of this important anthology of English poetry spanning 650 years, attractively bound in tan calf gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe...
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The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson.
STEVENSON, Robert Louis.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /The complete works of Robert Louis Stevenson in 35 volumes, including his best known novels Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr H...
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Responses.
HEANEY, Seamus (Contributor).Original price £45.00 - Original price £45.00Original price £0.00£45.00£45.00 - £45.00Current price £45.00| /First edition, with contributions from Seamus Heaney ('Servant Boy'), D. J. Enright, Jon Silkin, among others.First edition, unnumbered issue; 4to...
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Tales from Shakespeare.
LAMB, Charles and Mary.Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00Original price £0.00£125.00£125.00 - £125.00Current price £125.00| /A sweet copy of Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare, retelling twenty of the Bard's plays as short narrative stories intended for young...
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Hampstead Heath.
HAMPSTEAD SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY.Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £0.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00| /The first edition of this interesting survey of Hampstead Heath, taking account of the topography, geology, plant and animal life of London's wild...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton.
MILTON, John.Original price £175.00 - Original price £175.00Original price £0.00£175.00£175.00 - £175.00Current price £175.00| /A sweet copy of Milton's collected poetry in three volumes, comprising his major blank verse works Paradise Lost and Paradise Regain'd, his closet...
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