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The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke : With a Memoir

By: Brooke, Rupert

Price: £60.00

Publisher: London, Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd. 1922: 1922

Seller ID: 62954

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Near Fine

clix, 160 pp. Contemporary dark brown full leather with gilt head of Rupert Brooke to front board. All edges gilt. Gilt turn-ins. Ink owner's inscription to front pastedown. Internally clean. Frontis and one additional portrait.
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The Rover

By: Conrad, Joseph

Price: £950.00

Publisher: Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Company 1923: 1923

Seller ID: 55433

Binding: Hardback

Condition: Fine

This is copy no. 193 of an edition limited to 375 copies signed by the author Joseph Conrad on the limitation leaf. 371 pp. Publisher's original gilt-decorated paper-covered boards. Top edge gilt. Clear acetate jacket. In custom Asprey's quarter morocco solander box with gilt panels and lettering to spine. Without the publisher's slipcase and paper jacket. From the library of Stanley Seeger with his bookplate to front pastedown and inside panel of box. Minor nick to front endpaper. Book and solander box in Fine condition.
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The Encyclopedia of Yacht Designers

By: Del Sol Knight, Lucia and Daniel Bruce MacNaughton

Price: £75.00

Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton & Company 2005: 2005

Seller ID: 62400

ISBN: 0393048764

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

528 pp. Publisher's full cloth in dust jacket. In original publisher's shipping box. In As New condtition. Still in shrinkwrap. 9780393048766
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The Three Musketeers [and] Twenty Years After. In two volumes

By: Dumas, Alexandre

Price: £120.00

Publisher: London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1927 / 1929: 1929

Seller ID: 62932

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

In 2 volumes. 555; 781 pp. Uniformly bound in publisher's maroon cloth with gilt arts & crafts design to front boards & spines. Faint faing to one spine. Slight bump to corners. Boards bright and clean. Internally clean. No ownership names. Each volume has sixteen full-page colour illustrations by Rowland Wheelwright.
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Octopussy and The Living Daylights

By: Fleming, Ian

Price: £150.00

Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape 1966: 1966

Seller ID: 60429

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition, 95 pp. Some darkening to the price clipped jacket, else a very good copy
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Flashman at the Charge

By: Fraser, George MacDonald

Price: £95.00

Publisher: London, Barrie & Jenkins 1973: 1973

Seller ID: 61294

ISBN: 021466841X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. 286 pp., a nice clean copy with spotting to the edges. Maps to endpapers 021466841X
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Flashman and the Redskins

By: Fraser, George MacDonald

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, Barrie & Jenkins 1982: 1982

Seller ID: 61296

ISBN: 021466841X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. 479 pp. Overall a very good copy, but with some staining to the inner flaps and spots to the top edge. 021466841X
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Men Without Women

By: Hemingway, Ernest

Price: £950.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons 1927: 1927

Seller ID: 55579

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

First edition, first issue. 232 pp. Publisher's black cloth with gold-paper title onlay to front board & spine. With remnants of original jacket, lacking spine panel. Supplied in a new facsimile dust jacket. Spine label slightly chipped and boards slightly marked. Slight darkening to endpapers with early ink owner's name to front endpaper. Internally clean.
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The Old Man and the Sea

By: HEMINGWAY, Ernest

Price: £195.00

Publisher: London, Reprint Society 1953: 1953

Seller ID: 60921

Binding: 1/4 Morocco

Condition: Near Fine

117 pp. Bound in a recent quarter black morocco over marbled boards with gilt lettering to spine. Original pictorial endpapers. Slight tanning to page edges. No ownership marks. Illustrated throughout by C. F. Tunnicliffe and Raymond Sheppard.
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Moby Dick or The Whale

By: Melville, Herman

Price: £150.00

Publisher: London & New York & Toronto, Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press 1958: 1952

Seller ID: 60924

Binding: 1/4 Morocco

Condition: Near Fine

xxviii., 582, [2] pp., bound in a recent quarter blue morocco, with a red morocco labels. Gilt lettering and devices in the compartments on the spine. Cloth boards, top edge burnished red.. A volume from the World's Classics series in a very nice modern leather binding. 15.5 cm. tall.
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Scott's Last Expedition. In two volumes

By: Scott, Captain Robert F.

Price: £300.00

Publisher: London, Smith, Elder and Co. 1914: 1914

Seller ID: 61909

Binding: Publisher's Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

In 2 volumes. xxvi, 636; xvi, 534 pp. Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to front boards & spines. Spotting to fore-edges. Internally clean. Cloth bright and fresh. Frontis portraits. With photogravures, coloured plates, panoramas, double-page plates, b&w plates and maps. All plates & maps complete. A nice clean set.
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British Sports and Sportsmen : Athletic Sports Tennis Rackets and Other Ball Games

By: The Sporting Life, edited by

Price: £300.00

Publisher: London, Sports and Sportsmen Ltd. N.d. [c. 1920's]: 1912

Seller ID: 56837

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Near Fine

This is copy no. 536 of an edition limited to 1,000 copies. xiii, 421 pp. Large thick folio. Full dark red morocco with gilt lettering to front board. Raised bands to spine with gilt decoration & lettering. All edges gilt. Gilt turn-ins and marbled endpapers. Internally clean. Title-page in red & black. Tissue-guarded full-page photogravure portraits. Numerous in-text illustrations. In Near Fine condition.
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The Mysterious Island Trilogy: Dropped From the Clouds; Abandoned; The Secret of the Island. Three volumes

By: Verne, Jules

Price: £2,250.00

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle 1875: 1875

Seller ID: 48559

Binding: Gilt Decorated Cloth

Condition: Very Good

First editions. In three volumes complete. viii, 310, 40; viii, 304; viii, 299, iii, 40 pp. Publisher's original elaborately gilt & black decorated cloth. 'Dropped From the Clouds' in green cloth, the others in burgundy. All edges gilt. Bevelled boards. Slight wear to corners and spine ends. Slight foxing to prelims. Publisher's lists at rear of 2 volumes. Numerous illustrations. Plates especially crisp and bright. All volumes are first editions. Uncommon. A Very Good set.
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