Moore,John

BRENSHAM VILLAGE, The

London, Collins first edition 1946 Frontis. by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis . Octavo cloth in dust jacket (sl.bump to fore-edge/tips sl.rubbed) 223pp inscription on FEP else V.G in edge rubbed jacket

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Sonstige Stichworte: Cotswolds country life first edition

Mortimer, John (1923-2009)

RUMPOLE FOR THE DEFENCE

London, Penguin Books Ltd. 1984 . Paperback (tips sl.rubbed) 186pp +[6]pp publisher's book list. One ink spot to margin of 9 leaves never touching text. Slight edge tanning else neat and clean. *Seven stories of courtroom drama.

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Murray,Charlotte

WARDLAUGH; or "Workers Together"

London, Partridge & Co 1900 by inscription) Plates by Sydney Cowell . Octavo blue blindstamped art nouveau cloth (tips rubbed/sl.marked) 288pp+24p Victorian illustrated book catalogue. Prize inscription for 1900 on FEP else slight marginal foxing to a few pages & 1/2" closed tear to FEP but neat tight copy.

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Myers,Robert J.

CROSS OF FRANKENSTEIN a novel

London, Hamilton first edition 1975 . Seems to be signed by the author on FEP. Octavo boards in dust jacket with one clean tear without loss (tips slightly rubbed) 208pp V.G * "Written in the Victorian Gothic Tradition and faithful to the style and mood of Mary Shelley's classic."

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Sonstige Stichworte: first edition Occult novel first edition

Niall,Ian

NO RESTING PLACE

London, Heinemann 1951 . Octavo beige cloth (tips rubbed) 226pgs. *Story deals with the tensions between tinkers & gypsies and the communities they come among with an eye on the family that has a dark secret to keep. Nice clean, tight copy. No ownership or other marks.

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Sonstige Stichworte: murder fiction gypsy gypsies

Norfolk, Lawrence

LEMPRIERE'S DICTIONARY

London, Minerva 1996 . Thick paperback [8]+627pp +publisher's booklist. A very neat copy. *Historical fiction ..engrossing ..comic brilliance are just some of the reviews of this novel of the East India Company, the siege of La Rochelle and the eponimous classical dictionary. A neat copy no inscriptions, bright and tight..

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Sonstige Stichworte: historical background comic novel

Parker,Robert B.

A CATSKILL EAGLE The new Spencer Novel

London, Viking 1st edition in England 1986 . Octavo black boards in dust jacket (tips rubbed) 311pp ex library with stamp & withdrawn on title -no other library marks on text or binding or jacket. Minor signs of use.

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Parr,Olive Katherine

WHITE-HANDED SAINT, A

London, Washbourne Ltd 2nd edition 1917 . Octavo blue cloth gilt lettered spine, decoratively titled to cover in white & black (white sl.chipped) (foot of spine with small splits/tips rubbed/minor marks) viii+316pp+catal.leaf (which is browned) lacks Fly leaf else neat tight clean copy of a novel based on a true life story by this Catholic novelist.

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Sonstige Stichworte: fiction religion religious moral

Payne,Robert

THE LION ROARS A novel

London, William Heinemann Ltd 1st first edition 1949 Dust jacket by A.E. Barlow. . Octavo red cloth gilt lettered to spine (spine gilt sl.dulled/jacket with small nicks mostly without loss/price clipped). *Set in Africa then New England.

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Pemberton,Max

MID THE THICK ARROWS

London, Hodder & Stoughton 1907 . Octavo limp yellow printed cloth (some dusting due to light color but no wear) 136pp + Plantol soap advert with wild haired black girl holding a large bar of soap on a tray. Humorous advert for Bovril to face TP & Hovis advert to rear of TP. Corner of EP cut away to remove inscription? Paper off white but print very clear and sharp and paper supple and good.

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Pemberton,Max

RED MORN bound with KRONSTADT bound with THE GARDEN OF SWORDS bound with the PURITAN'S WIFE

London, Cassell & Co 1906, 1903, 1904, 1904 Frontis to first volume. Each volume bound with original pictorial paper covers & pictorial advert to rear cover. . 4 VOLUMES in One 206x130mm bound together into maroon cloth titled Pemberton 5 (tips sl.worn) Each has period illustrated adverts on endpapers & to inside of rear covers. Slight paper tanning but supple and clean, neat alpha-numeric code to margin of TP. Last volume also has an inscription. Quite unusual early paper-backs in very good condition front and rear wrappers.

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Peters,Ellis

HERMIT OF EYTON FOREST the 14th Chronicle of Brother Cadfael

London, Guild Publishing/Headline book publ. 1987 Map end-papers . Octavo boards in dust jacket (tips sl.worn/slight marks of tape removal) 224pp ex library with stamp to EP & halftitle & slight tape removal damage to EPs where jacket anchored. Slight paper toning as usual else clean and neat. Flaps of jacket sl.torn where tape removed else V.G.

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Sonstige Stichworte: medieval 12th century crime novel

Plomer, William set to Music by Benjamin Britten Op.77

BURNING FIERY FURNACE second Parable for Church Performance

London, Faber Music 1st edition 1966 . Duodecimo card in dust jacket wrapper (one closed tear and some wrinkling and slight brown marking) 38pp slight waviness else clean, neat and no damp marking to pages.

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Sonstige Stichworte: church biblical play

Price, Anthony

Price, Anthony - GUNNER KELLY A Novel

London, Book Club Associates/Victor Gollancz 1983 . Octavo boards in dust jacket 219pp V.G in V.G jacket. *Story of two rival British Intelligence agents concealing their activities from each other in a battle of wits.

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Sonstige Stichworte: crime spy novel espionage

Le Queux, William (1864-1927)

A SECRET SERVICE, being Strange tales of a Nihilist.

London, Ward, Lock & Bowden 1st edition 1896 Frontispiece with tissue guard. . Octavo, blue cloth pictorially illustrated in green & red (tips worn/spine sl frayed to head and foot) 320pp, some pages loose/some edges worn, text & illustrations clean and book largely unused. *Le Queux was an Anglo- French journalist, a notable writer of "invasion fiction" during its peak popularity at the turn of the century. He was a pioneer of wireless radio, and broadcast music from his own station before radio was generally available.

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Sonstige Stichworte: invasion fiction