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Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
£20.00

Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas

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PUBLISHEROxford University Press.
BINDINGBlue cloth boards.
BOOK CONDITIONVery good, just some slight shelf wear to very edges of boards. A couple of small spots on block edges, but text and images remain clear and unmarked.
DUST JACKETA little wear to edges, preserved in removable book wrap.
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Jonathan Swift
£80.00

Gulliver's Travels (Illustrated by Arthur Rackham)

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PUBLISHERJ.M. Dent & Co. London, and E.P. Dutton & Co. New York.
BINDINGGreen silk cloth boards with gilt lettering and design. Illustrated endpapers.
BOOK CONDITIONBoards are generally worn and faded, commensurate with age. Scuffing and a little fraying at edges, corners bumped, several small marks. Hinges are weakened...

Ian Fleming
£50.00

Ian Fleming's James Bond (box set)

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PUBLISHERTriad Panther Books.
BINDINGSoft covers, in an illustrated card box.
BOOK CONDITIONThe covers of the books all have wear, especially around spines. Some discolouration to the white volumes, general scratching and some scuffing. The Man With the Golden Gun has a few pages loose at the beginning. From...

Kenneth Grahame
£25.00

The Headswoman

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PUBLISHERJohn Land The Bodley Head Limited, London.
BINDINGQuarter bound patterned paper covered boards with cream cloth over spine, title patches. 
BOOK CONDITIONGenerally worn and discoloured commensurate with age. Corners bumped, spine title patch has pieces worn away. Browning throughout, mostly affecting outer leaves and some mostly faint foxing....

Eleanor Helme
£20.00

White Winter

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PUBLISHEREyre & Spottiswoode, London.
BINDINGGreen cloth boards with brown lettering and design.
BOOK CONDITIONIn worn condition, boards are discoloured, scuffed and faded at edges. Binding secure. Browning and foxing affecting especially block edges and outer leaves. Text and images are largely clear, with most marks confined to margins. 

E.R. Dodds
£50.00

Missing Persons: An Autobiography

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PUBLISHERClarendon Press, Oxford.
BINDINGNavy blue cloth boards.
BOOK CONDITIONGood, just a little wear to edges of boards. Foxing on block edges, but text and images remain clear with few noticeable marks.
DUST JACKETWorn especially along top edge and a few scuffed patches around spine. Preserved in removable...

Charles Dickens
£20.00

The Life of Our Lord

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PUBLISHERAssociated Newspapers Ltd, London.
BINDINGBurgundy cloth boards with gilt lettering and banded spine.
BOOK CONDITIONGood for age, a little shelf wear to edges. Leaves are browned with some light foxing, although this is largely confined to margins. Text and images remain largely clear and little marked. Ink inscription...

George Steiner
£25.00

Real Presences: Is There Anything IN What We Say?

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PUBLISHERFaber and Faber, London.
BINDINGBlack cloth boards.
BOOK CONDITIONGood, a few marks on endpapers and block edges and slight general shelf wear to very edges of boards. The title page is partly detached, but otherwise binding is secure. Text remains clear and unmarked.
DUST JACKETA little wear...

Michael Bond
£50.00

More About Paddington (first edition)

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PUBLISHERCollins, London.
BINDINGSea green cloth boards.
BOOK CONDITIONA little wear and fading to edges of boards, corners bumped. Faint browning and a few foxing spots and marks affecting endpapers, but text and images remain clear with barely any noticeable marks. Previous owner's name on flyleaf and a small...

Roald Dahl
£75.00

Someone Like You (with signature)

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PUBLISHERAlfred A. Knopf, New York.
BINDINGCream / tan cloth boards with purple and black design and lettering.
BOOK CONDITIONBoards are generally worn at edges, with fading especially to spine. Foxing and a few other marks. Hinges weakened, but binding feels secure. Printed pages remain clear and little marked....

Roald Dahl
£200.00

Over to You (signed copy)

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PUBLISHERReynal & Hitchcock, New York.
BINDINGCream / tan cloth boards with red and blue lettering.
BOOK CONDITIONBoards are rather worn, corners bumped. General fading / discolouration and some foxing and other small marks. Binding secure. There is a little browning to pages throughout, although mainly affecting endpapers and...

Elizabeth Jane Howard
£22.00

Odd Girl Out

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PUBLISHERJonathan Cape, London.
BINDINGRed cloth boards.
BOOK CONDITIONGood, a little wear and slight fading to edges of boards. Text remains clear with no noticeable marks. 
DUST JACKETSpine a little faded, price clipped. preserved in removable book wrap.
EDITIONFirst edition 1972.
DESCRIPTIONA well preserved copy of...

Emily Bronte
£35.00

Wuthering Heights

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PUBLISHERCollins.
BINDINGSemi limp navy leather boards with gilt lettering and design, grained texture. Blue tint to top block edge. Patterned endpapers. 
BOOK CONDITIONIn good condition for age, just a little shelf wear to covers. Very slight browning, but text and images otherwise remain clear with few noticeable marks.

Charlotte Bronte
£40.00

Villette

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PUBLISHERCollins' Clear Type Press, The Olive Classics.
BINDINGSemi limp "persianette" green leather covers with syrian grain texture, gilt lettering and design. Green tint to all block edges, fine thin paper. Ribbon marker, rounded corners and complete with slipcase
BOOK CONDITIONGood for age, a little wear around edges of...

Charlotte Bronte
£40.00

Shirley

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PUBLISHERCollins' Clear Type Press, The Olive Classics.
BINDINGSemi limp "persianette" green leather covers with syrian grain texture, gilt lettering and design. Green tint to all block edges, fine thin paper. Ribbon marker, rounded corners and complete with slipcase
BOOK CONDITIONGood for age, a little wear around edges of...

Joyce Denys, Hampden Cordon and M.C. Tindall
£60.00

Our Hospital ABC

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PUBLISHERJohn Lane at The Bodley Head, London; and John Lane Company, New York.
BINDINGQuarter bound pictorial paper covered boards with blue cloth over spine. 
BOOK CONDITIONIn worn condition commensurate with age. Boards are scuffed and discoloured, corners bumped and torn, some warping and creasing. Front hinge is weakened...

Hsaio Ch'ien
£60.00

The Spinners of Silk and Etching of a Tormented Age (signed copies)

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PUBLISHERGeorge Allen & Unwin Ltd. London. (both books)
BINDINGSpinners of Silk: red cloth boards.
Etching of a Tormented Age: pictorial boards.
BOOK CONDITIONSpinners: boards are quite worn at edged, with bumped corners and some fading. Some browning and foxing mainly affecting outer leaves. Text is little marked....

Hsaio Ch'ien
£150.00

A Harp With a Thousand Strings (signed copy)

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PUBLISHERPilot Press Ltd, London.
BINDINGLight blue cloth boards. Produced to war economy standards.
BOOK CONDITIONBoards are worn at the edges, spine faded. A little browning and foxing mostly affecting outer leaves. Text remains largely clear and little marked. The fold out time line is intact but tattered at...

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