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Macmillan & Co, 1912. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Red boards with gilt decoration. Gilt topedge. A near fine/fine copy with clean boards and bright gilt. Light wear only and no marks of note. Internally very clean with no inscriptions. Small mark to gutter hinge of titlepage o/w fresh. Endpapers original and unsplit. A truly wonderful copy. Philip Haldane builds a play city out of odds and ends that comes to life. Friends get trapped with Nurse tears the city down. The Deliverer must perform seven valorous deeds opposed by the Pretenderette, a strange veiled woman who wants to be Queen and that is just the beginning.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1991. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Black boards with gilt titles. Pictorial dustwrapper. A fine copy with clean boards. Internally spotless with no inscriptions. The fine dustwrapper is fresh and clean with no wear. Original price of £13.99net to front flap. An exceptional copy of one of the hardest titles in the Gardner/Bond series. A Deadly case of mistaken identities puts Bond in the firing line of a new type of Terrorist.

Constable, 1928. First edition, first printing. Blue boards with gilt titles. A very good+ copy. Clean boards with light wear only. Internally complete with no inscriptions. Some light spotting to half title. A really lovely copy. Covers travels in Spain, Portugal, the Recovered Country, France, the Rhine, Tournai & the Three Towns of Life and Death.

Gollancz, 1954. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Red boards with gilt titles. Yellow Gollancz dustwrapper. A near fine copy with clean boards & no inscriptions. An occasional spot to the textblock edge. Usual tanning to leaf stock. The very good+ dustwrapper is complete with some edgewear to extremities and some light spotting to rear panel. Original price of 12/6net to front flap. A fictionalised account of the real life story of Du Maurier's great-grandmother - Mary Anne Clarke trying to navigate her way through Regency society.

The Bodley Head, 1967. Signed & inscribed by author to titlepage - "Good Wishes/Graham Greene" First edition, first printing. 8vo. Green cloth boards with gilt titles. Pictorial dustwrapper. A very good+ copy with clean boards. Small mark at foot of spine. Some occasional spotting. Thimble sized mark to foot of gutter hinge on endpaper & less so at foot on further few leaves. No inscriptions. The near fine dustwrapper is bright with light wear & a couple of short closed tears. Original price of 21s net on front flap. An attractive copy with a very bright spine of a Greene title rarely found signed in first trade edition. Affairs, obsessions, grand passions and tiny ardours ....this collection contains some of Greene's saddest observations on the hilarity of sex.

Cassell, 1923. First edition, first printing. 8vo. 304pp. Green boards. First Issue Currey "A" binding with gilt lettered "Cassell" at foot of spine & printer's code of "F.200.123" on p.304. Buff dustwrapper with purple lettering. A near fine copy with clean boards.Internally clean with neat old ink name & date [1923] & offsetting to front endpaper. Endpapers original and unsplit. Some light occasional spotting to leading textblock edge. No spotting within text and appears unread. The very good+ dustwrapper is complete. Edgewear to extremities with a few short closed tears & some toning to spine. Original price of 7/6net on spine. An attractive copy of the first issue. Wells (80). Wells Society 85. Currey p.521. Referred to by Wells as a "scientific fantasy" - featuring a utopia located in a parallel universe.

Jonthan Cape, 1991. First edition, first printing. Illustrated boards by Patrick Benson. Wrapper replicating boards. A fine copy. No inscriptions. The fine dustwrapper is fresh & clean. Appears unread. Original price of £8.99net to front flap. From the estate of a lady who bought multiple copies of Dahl's books on release and stowed them away immediately - an exceptional copy. Dahl's final children's title. Billy tired of being a good boy explores the Forest of Sin and with the help of the Minpins defeats the monsters. Published posthumously.

Jonathan Cape, 1991. First edition, Special Presentation Proof Edition - No 331 of 500 copies with limitation on titlepage. Illustrated boards with dustwrapper mirroring the boards. A fine copy with clean boards. No inscription or marks. The fine dustwrapper is fresh and crisp. Original price of £8.99net on front flap. A lovely copy. Roald Dahl's final work and published several months after his death. Illustrated by Patrick Benson. Minpin was the nickname for Roald Dahl's daughter Ophelia.

The Bodley Head, 1982. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Green boards with gilt titles. Purple & white typographical dustwrapper. A near fine/fine copy with no marks to boards & no inscriptions. The fine dustwrapper is unrubbed and fresh. Original price of £5.95net on front flap. A pastiche on the classic Spanish novel Don Quixote with moments of comedy and also reflection on matters of dictatorship, Communism and Catholicism.

Collins Crime Club, 1952. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Orange boards with black titles. Red, black & blue geometric designed dustwrapper by Kenneth Farnhill. A fine copy with clean boards. No marks to boards or textblock edges. Internally very clean & fresh with no inscriptions. The very good+ dustwrapper is complete with a few short closed tears, edgewear to foot & offsetting to rear panel of wrapper. Unfaded red wrapper spine. A very good+ copy. Wagstaff & Poole p202. Mrs McGinty was killed with a brutal blow to the head and her savings stolen. Immediate suspicion falls on the "down at heel" lodger but Hercule Poirot has his own ideas.

Gollancz, 1962. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Red boards with gilt lettering to spine. Yellow Gollancz dustwrapper. A fine copy with clean boards. The very good dustwrapper has several closed tears with one very long one to rear panel/flap fold - strengthening on rear to tears. Original price of 18/- to front flap.