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003½: The Adventures of James Bond Junior
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003½: The Adventures of James Bond Junior

by MASCOTT, R.D.

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London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. [Young Bond] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.175 [1]. Publisher's black cloth, with gilt titles to spine and cartographic endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Jane Hood, priced at 16s. With occasional illustrations by Christopher Chamberlain. A few spots/marks to edges, dust-jacket a little edge worn but without the usual fading to the red portions of the spine panel. A bright copy, with a paper reinforcement to the inside of the spine. From the comprehensive James Bond collection assembled by Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert (bookplate to first blank). Although an officially licensed spin-off, 003½: The Adventures of James Bond Junior is considered a failed attempt at launching a youth-oriented line of fiction aimed at 8 to 14 year olds. A moderately successful TV cartoon series by the same name was, produced by EON Productions (1991), and in 2005, unrelated to 003½, Ian Fleming Publications published a successful youth-oriented line of 'Young Bond'… Read More
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The £10 Adventure [The Case of the City Clerk] [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume LXXXIV, number 503

The £10 Adventure [The Case of the City Clerk] [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume LXXXIV, number 503

by VARIOUS; CHRISTIE, [Dame] Agatha (1890-1976), et al.

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London: George Newnes, November 1932. [Literary Magazine] FIRST UK APPEARANCE. Octavo magazine (25 x 17cm), pp.[32] 443-554 [33-44]. With a suite of four double-sided black and white photographs of Cedric Hardwicke, and numerous in-text illustrations. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, priced at 1s. A nice clean copy with a little wear to covers. Near fine. The first UK appearance of a Parker Pyne mystery which was first published in the US in Cosmopolitan Magazine in August 1932, and later featured in the short story collection 'Parker Pyne Investigates' (1934) as 'The Case of the City Clerk.'.
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100%. The Story of a Patriot
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100%. The Story of a Patriot

by SINCLAIR, Upton (1878-1968)

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Pasadena, California: Published by the Author, 1920. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.; [8]. Publisher's brown paper wraps, with black titles and double border ruling to covers. Natural browning, internally clean, minor creasing to spine. Near fine. The story of a labour spy: a book of fictional responses to Sinclair's social and economic concerns.
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18 Poems

18 Poems

by THOMAS, Dylan (1914-1953)

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London: The Fortune Press, 1934 [1942]. [Poetry] FORTUNE PRESS EDITION, First Issue. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.32. 'Knole Park Press' imprint at rear, with 'nor' to p.12 and 'world' to p.23. Blue / grey cloth with gilt titles to rounded spine. With the yellow dust-jacket, priced at 6s. Hinges starting. Rubbing and bumping to board edges and corners. Gilt largely worn from spine. Jacket heavily rubbed and worn to edges; spine toned and rubbed. Losses to head and tail of spine; some further chips and closed tears. Very good. Thomas' first poetry collection, including 'The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower.' Originally published in a very small edition by Sunday Referee & Parton Bookshop in 1934, the book was confusingly re-issued a number of times over the following decade without any edition statements on the copyright page, in a number of variant bindings.
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5 Passengers from Lisbon
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5 Passengers from Lisbon

by EBERHART, M.G. [Mignon Good] (1899-1996)

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London: for the Crime Club by Collins, 1946. [Murder mystery novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.192. Bound in tan cloth blocked in black, illustrated dust-jacket with printed price at 8/6. Contents clean, neat ink name to front endpaper, in a secondary or cheap edition binding, jacket with reduced (4/6) label to spine. Some minor edgewear, one short tear to rear. Shows well. The prolific and long-lived U.S. mystery writer was dubbed 'America's Agatha Christie' by her publisher and was the recipient of the 1994 Agatha Award.
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61 Hours. A Reacher Novel

61 Hours. A Reacher Novel

by CHILD, Lee [pseudonym of GRANT, James Dover] (born 1954)

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New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Delacorte Press, 2018. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] xiv; 383 [3]. Number 8 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. Lilac endpapers. A fine, as-new copy. The fourteenth Jack Reacher novel, and the 22nd story in the series chronologically. First published in 2010, this special edition contains a new introduction by the author. This novel was shortlisted for the prestigious Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, recognising best thriller of the year.
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63: Dream Palace. A Novella and Nine Stories
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63: Dream Palace. A Novella and Nine Stories

by PURDY, James (1914-2009)

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London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1957. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's purple cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 12/6 to front flap. Internally bright and clean with toning to margins and edges. Ownership inscription in black ink to flyleaf. Minimal bumping to spine extremities. Dust-jacket is toned to covers and spine. Tearing and fraying to jacket extremities. Still very good. An earlier Purdy anthology, the titular novella displaying his reverence for Chicago's Jazz scene and the Harlem Renaissance.
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The 7th Function of Language
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The 7th Function of Language

by BINET, Laurent (1972), [TAYLOR, Sam, translator]

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London: Harvill Secker, 2017. [Political Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (23 x 14cm), pp.[8] 390 [4]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to red preliminary leaf. Publisher's red paper-covered boards, with matching endpapers. A red '7' to fore-edge. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £16.99. 'Signed by the Author' sticker to front cover. A fine, as-new copy. First published in French in 2015.
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The 9th Directive. The 9th Directive Quiller in Bangkok

The 9th Directive. The 9th Directive Quiller in Bangkok

by HALL, Adam (1920-1995)

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London: Heinemann, 1966. [Espionage fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.254; [2] blank. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine, photographic dust-jacket designed by Tom Simmonds. Internally clean and bright, a little spotting to edges, cloth bright. Price clipped wrapper shows wells, a little edge wear and a couple of small closed tears. Near fine. Elleston Trevor wrote under many pseudonyms, this novel is second in the series of Cold War thrillers written under the name Adam Hall. The novel features secret agent Quiller in South-East Asia and his attempts to prevent an assassination. A previous book in the series was made into a film, 'The Quiller Memorandum', in 1966.
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The ABC Murders
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The ABC Murders

by CHRISTIE, [Dame] Agatha (1890-1976)

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New York, NY: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1936. [Murder mystery] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm) pp.[x]; 306; [4], blank. Publisher's lemon yellow blue cloth blocked in dark green, top edge yellow, fore-edge untrimmed, illustrated dust-wrapper. Fine in a price-clipped dust-jacket, which has wear at spine tips, hinges, and front flap fold. A scarce title, especially in dust-jacket. Another case for the legendary detective partnership of Hercule Poirot and best friend Captain Arthur Hastings, a military man of great bravery who faced death unflinchingly when confronted by 'The Big Four' and who, when forced to choose between Poirot and his wife in the novel of the same name, promptly chose Poirot.
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ABC of Plain Words. A Reference Book on the Use of English

ABC of Plain Words. A Reference Book on the Use of English

by GOWERS, Sir Ernest (1880-1966)

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London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1951. [Official English] Second Impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xiv; 146. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to navy backing on spine. With the typographic dust-jacket, priced at 4/6. A nice crisp copy showing some toning to jacket and light wear to jacket edges. Near fine. A companion to the classic 'Plain Words' (1948), originally drafted to provide instructions on the correct use of English for the Civil Service.
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Abaft the Funnel

Abaft the Funnel

by KIPLING, [Joseph] Rudyard (1865-1936)

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New York, NY: B.W. Dodge and Company, 1909. [Short stories] FIRST US UNAUTHORISED EDITION. Octavo (30 x 13cm), pp.viii; 360. Pictorial blue cloth binding lettered in red (the secondary binding). Contents clean, edges a little soiled, label neatly removed from pastedown, cloth with light edge wear, lower corner bumped. A very good copy. This is the true first of this title, a pirate issue, published about two months before the authorised edition. Stewart [324].
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The Ability to Kill: True Tales of Bloody Murder
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The Ability to Kill: True Tales of Bloody Murder

by AMBLER, Eric (1909-1998)

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New York, NY: The Mysterious Press, 1987. [True Crime] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxii; 214 [2]. Letter I of 26 lettered copies, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's deep red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the matching cloth-covered slipcase. A fine, as-new copy. Not exactly bedtime reading! Ambler's examination of what kind of mentality is required to become a killer, first published in 1963.
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About the House

About the House

by AUDEN, W.H. (1907-1973)

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London: Faber and Faber, 1966. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, with the errata slip at p.7. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.94 [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green and pink dust-jacket, priced at 15s. South African bookseller's ticket to pastedown. The lightest of offsetting to endpapers. Spine lightly toned, with extremely light rubbing to edges. Near fine.
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Absolute Friends

Absolute Friends

by LE CARRÉ, John [pseudonym of CORNWELL, David John Moore] (born 1931)

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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2004. [Intrigue] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.383; [1]. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, purple endpapers, purple dust-wrapper with red and white titles, priced at £18.99. No inscriptions, contents clean, jacket lightly handled; near fine. A theatrical masterstroke of tragi-comic writing and a savage fable of our times, almost of our hours. The friends are Ted Mundy, a British soldier's son born in 1947, in the newly independent Pakistan, and Sasha, the refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife who have sought sanctuary in the West. The two men meet first as students in the riot-torn West Berlin of the late sixties, again in the grimy looking-glass of Cold War espionage and, most terribly, in today's uni-polar world of terror, counter-terror and the war of lies.
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Absolute Beginners
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Absolute Beginners

by MACINNES, Colin (1914-1976)

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London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1959. [Modern Literarure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.223; [1], blank. Publisher's red cloth binding, photographic jacket by Roger Mayne priced 15s. No inscriptions, contents clean, one spot to fore-edge. Jacket moderately rubbed, toned to extremities, some wear to spine tips. A very good copy. Youth culture novel about London life in the late 1950s. Basis for the 1986 cult teen drama starring Patsy Kensit, Ray Davies, Sade, Tenpole Tudor and David Bowie, who recorded the title song. Mod revival band The Jam recorded the single 'Absolute Beginners' in 1981; MacInnes' novel was a favourite of songwriter Paul Weller's, being chosen by him when he appeared on Desert Island Discs.
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Absolute Friends
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Absolute Friends

by LE CARRÉ, John [pseudonym of CORNWELL, David John Moore] (1931-2020)

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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2004. [Intrigue] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.383; [1]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the title page. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, and purple endpapers. With the purple dust-jacket designed by gray318, priced at £18.99. A fine, as-new copy, carefully dark-stored by ourselves since publication. A theatrical masterstroke of tragi-comic writing, and a savage fable of the time of nine/eleven and the Iraq War. The friends are Ted Mundy, a British soldier's son born in 1947, in the newly independent Pakistan, and Sasha, the refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife who sought sanctuary in the West. The two men meet first as students in the riot-torn West Berlin of the late sixties, again in the grimy looking-glass of Cold War espionage and, most terribly, in the modern world of terror, counter-terror and the war of lies.
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The Abysmal Brute
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The Abysmal Brute

by LONDON, Jack (1876-1916)

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Toronto: Bell and Cockburn, 1913. [Modern literature] FIRST CANADIAN EDITION. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[4]; 169; [3]. With the tissue-guarded frontispiece illustrated by Gordon Grant. Publisher's green cloth to boards, titles and pictorial decoration in yellow and black to upper and spine. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Interior bright with minor spotting throughout, concentrated mostly to endpapers, preliminaries, and rear leaves. Toning to edges, especially top. Rubbing to boards, mostly to joints and black decoration. Spine also slightly toned. Moderate wear to binding extremities. Very good. London's novel about an unsociable log cabin-dweller turned famous boxer.
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Academic Graffiti

Academic Graffiti

by AUDEN, W.H. (1907-1973), [SANJUST, Filippo, illustrator]

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London: Faber and Faber, 1971. [Illustrated Clerihews] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), unpaginated. 60 poems with an illustration by Sanjust to each facing leaf. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Sanjust, priced at £2.00. Light handling; a fine copy.
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The Acceptance World
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The Acceptance World

by POWELL, Anthony (1905-2000)

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London: William Heinemann, 1955. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression, with a later jacket. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[10] 214. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to black backing on spine. Paired with a later jacket circa 1971, priced at £1.75 to front flap. Toning and spotting to edges and endpapers, otherwise internally clean. Titles heavily rubbed to spine. Bright later jacket shows just a touch of toning to spine and a little wear to edges. Very good. The third instalment in Powell's twelve volume series A Dance to the Music of Time.
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