DAHL, Roald
Rhyme Stew
Jonathan Cape: 1989
First edition, first printing. Small 4to. Blue boards with gilt titles. Pictorial dustwrapper by Quentin Blake. A fine copy with clean boards. No inscriptions. The fine dustwrapper is fresh & clean. Original price of £7.95net on 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. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. Published the year before Roald Dahl's death.
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First edition, first printing. 8vo. Green boards with gilt titles. A fine copy with clean boards. The merest hint of spotting to topedge. Internally clean and fresh with no inscriptions and no marks. The near fine dustwrapper is complete with no chipping or tearing. Light wear to extremities. Original price of £9.95net to front flap. None of the usual fading to wrapper spine. The third Discworld novel with a small print run of only 2850 copies in which a dying wizard attempts to hand down his powers to his eighth son. The Spy Who Loved Me
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First paperback edition. 8vo. Illustrated covers by Pauline Baynes. A near fine copy. Light wear with to extremities with usual tanning to leaves. No inscriptions. A much smarter copy than usually encountered. "In a hole in the ground lived a hobbit.". Since first publication it has met with critical acclaim - a timeless classic. It introduces the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, the wizard, Gandolf, Gollum, Smaug the Magnificent, the invisible ring & the spectacular Middle Earth. Thunderball
First edition, first printing. 8vo. Original black boards with gilt titles & blind stamped skeletal hand to front board. A fine copy with clean boards. No marks to textblock edges - topedge clean & unmarked. Internally very clean and complete with no inscriptions. The near fine/fine dustwrapper is complete with the lightest wear. Original price of 15s.net to front flap. An attractive copy with none of the usual toning to wrapper spine. Gilbert A9a 1.1. The ninth James Bond title & the introduction of Spectre and Blofeld. James Bond turns up in the Bahamas and has less than a week to find two stolen nuclear bombs hidden amongst its reefs. The Second Jungle Book [Full Polished Calf]
Early printing. 8vo. Full red polished calf boards with raised bands and bottle green spine label. Decorative floral spine compartments. Gilt gadrooned board edges. Decorative trailing floral turn ins. Marbled edges & endpapers. A near fine copy with no chipping or splitting to boards. Some superficial rubbing to spine label. Internally clean and complete. Ink inscription to blank endpaper dated 1918. Very clean and fresh leaves with sharp corners. A very attractive copy. The second of Kipling's two part Classic. Esio Trot
First edition, first printing. 8vo. Blue boards with gilt titles. Pictorial dustwrapper & illustrations by Quentin Blake. A fine copy with clean boards & edges. No inscriptions & no marks to textblock edges. The fine dustwrapper is fresh and clean.Small mark next to spine. Original price of £6.95net to front flap. An attractive copy. Mr Hoppy is in love with Mrs. Silver but her heart belongs to her pet tortoise, Alfie. A Smarties Prize winner. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
Circa 1915. First edition thus [truncated edition]. 8vo. Green boards with gilt titles & vignette to front board. A very good+/near fine copy. No marks to boards. Bright gilt. No chipping or splitting. Some spotting to edges only - text clean. Internally clean with all 24 colour plates present with tissue guards. No inscriptions. Map endpapers original and unsplit. A lovely copy. One of the immortals of children's literature, Peter Pan as a boy living in secret with the birds and fairies in the middle of London and as the children he was invented for grow up so does Peter reappearing in Neverland. A Better Class of Person – An Autobiography 1929-1956 [Signed]
Signed by author on endpaper. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Red boards with silver gilt titles. Pictorial dustwrapper. A near fine copy with clean boards. Mild toning to edges. No inscriptions. The very good+/near fine dustwrapper is complete with lightest wear & one short closed tear to rear panel. Original price of £7.95net to front panel. The first installment of John Osborne's autobiography that tells of his early life up to the writing of "Look Back in Anger" They Do It With Mirrors
First edition, first printing. Orange boards with black titles. Purple and grey geometric style dustwrapper. A near fine/fine copy with unmarked boards. Clean edges. Internally complete with no inscriptions. The very good dustwrapper is complete with edgewear to extremities. Dusting to rear panel but no marks. Original price of 10s6dnet on front flap. One of the hardest titles in from the 1950s. Wagstaff & Poole P.203. A Miss Marple novel. A man is shot at in a juvenile reform home - but someone else dies.! The Minpins
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First edition, first printing. 8vo. First issue green boards with gilt titles. A near fine/fine copy with clean boards and light wear only. One tiny mark to top left corner of front board. Internally clean with neat inscriptions to front endpaper. Offsetting to endpapers which are original and unsplit. A lovely fresh copy. The Silmarillion
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DAHL, Roald Complete with original typed & signed Roald Dahl letter (loosely laid in) on Dahl's "Gypsy House" notepaper dated 27/9/90 - "Dear Mr, Martin/Thank you for your letter. I will buy your "Gremlins" copy. Here's my cheque/Yours Roald Dahl". True first edition, first printing. 4to. A very good+ copy with clean boards. Some edgewear to extremities. Internally very clean indeed with no inscriptions & importantly with this title - non of the usual splitting to Gremlin illustrated endpapers. The very good dustwrapper has a few short closed tears - a couple with old tape strengthening to rear. Some edgewear to other extremities with nicking at spine corners. Original first issue price of $1.00 to top right of front flap. None of the usual fading to red spine. An attractive copy of the true first printing of Dahl's first book complete with original dustswrapper and with provenance which suggests it was owned by the author himself just three months before his death on 23rd November 1990. Dahl's first children's book about mischevious little creatures that were part of RAF folklore. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and a Selection of Entrees
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MILNE, A. A. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Green boards with gilt titles & gilt vignette of Pooh to front board. Gilt topedge. A very good copy. No fraying, chipping or splitting. A few small marks to front & rear board. Internally complete. A few small occasional handing marks. Two leaves with short 0.5" closed tear to foot of blank margin. No inscriptions. Original endpapers original and unsplit. No colouring of illustrations & no loose leaves. A very good copy of the first edition of this children's classic. The classic adventures of Christopher Robin and his friends in which Pooh bear pursues honey at a sore cost, Eeyore has a birthday and Piglet meets a Heffalump.- $797
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [Deluxe Edition]
ROWLING, J. K. Still in original cellophane shrinkwrap with barcode to rear - just slit to leading edge to confirm first printing/impression status - states "First Edition" on copyright page [please be aware that some sealed copies will not necessarily be first editions as thiese early deluxe edition titles still had reprints]. First Deluxe Edition. First Printing. Purple cloth boards with gilt titles & illustrated vignette to front board. Totally "as new" copy in original shrink wrap. A big death shakes to the cores and everything about their life will change forever. One of the darkest of the Harry Potter novels.- $446
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Strange Stories [rare in dustwrapper]
BLACKWOOD, Algernon First edition, first printing. 8vo. Black boards with gilt titles. A fine copy with clean boards. Internally clean and complete with no inscriptions and no marks to textblock edges. The very good+ dustwrapper is scarce with one small slither chip to top right corner of front panel and a closed tear to left corner. Normal edgewear to extremities & mild toning to spine. Orignal price of 7/6net to spine. Incredibly hard to locate in dustwrapper. Twenty six stories of the Occult.- $701
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CHRISTIE, Agatha First edition, first printing. 8vo. Black boards with silver gilt titles. Pink typographical dustwrapper. A near fine copy with clean boards. A hint of spotting to topedge o/w clean and fresh with no inscriptions. The near fine dustwrapper is fresh and clean with no edgewear. Mild lightening to spine but much less than usual. Original price of £3.50net to front flap. An attractive copy. Wagstaff & Poole p.221. Gwenda moves to a new home and strange things start to happen; Miss Marple is called in to exorcise her ghosts and consequently an old crime to solve.- $172
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4.50 From Paddington
CHRISTIE, Agatha First edition, first printing. 8vo. Red boards with black titles. Grey and red typographical dustwrapper. A near fine copy with clean boards. Internally complete with no spotting to textblock edges. Usual toning to leaves. No inscriptions. The very good+ dustwrapper has some edgewear with small nick to top & bottom left spine tip/corner o/w complete. Some dustiness with a few spots to rear wrapper panel. None of the usual heavy fading to red spine & white spine lettering. The original price of 12s6dnet to front flap. Wagstaff & Poole p.207. A Miss Marple novel. Two trains pass each other in the night - a glimpse of a possible murder flashed by. On arrival at the her destination Elspeth receives little sympathy for her fleeting images but on the fortunate arrival of Jane Marple the potential investigation takes on a new level of credibility.- $338
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