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First printing. Book has light age related wear. Price clipped DJ has a large piece missing from the rear inner flap. The head of the spine is a little frayed and there are sundry small chips and tears. There is age browning to the inside of the jacket. Signed by Bonavia-Hunt on the title page. An early sequel to Jane Austen's beloved masterpiece takes place some three years after Elizabeth Bennett's marriage to Fitzwilliam Darcy. Rare, especially signed.

First printing. Signed by Marriot on the title page. A scarce and invaluable reference book. Never before has so much original research been done to establish just where, when and with whom, Chaplin spent his time on the stage, before going into films.

Girard Bank. Very good+. First edition. Hardback. Clean, tight pages. Slight fading to the lettering on the spine./Very good Slipcase. Light creasing to the bottom of the spine, very light rubbing to edges, and a tiny open tear to the top corner of the open edge..

First print paperback. Book has no significant wear. Signed by the creator of the series Patrick Ness on the title page. There's an old stone house near Coal Hill School. Most people hurry past it. They've heard the stories. But, if you stop, and look up, you'll see the face of a girl, pressed up against the window. Screaming. Something is waiting for Tanya in the stone house. Something that has been trapping others in its web over the years. Something that is far worse than any ghost.

No.87 of a Numbered Limited Edition of 250, bound in vellum and with the silk tie present. Personal message inscribed and dated May 1943 on the front endpaper. No dust jacket as issued. Internally, the pages are tanned and lightly age spotted. Gilt top page edges a little soiled. Otherwise a presentable copy. A collection of Victorian photographs with caricatures and drawn illustrations, including history and information on printing, cameras and photographers during the Victorian era.

No date given but stated "First Printing" on the copyright page (c. 1946). Photographs taken by the author. The book is in good condition (blue cloth boards and gold lettering on spine and the publisher's embossed stamp at the back cover) with only slight wear. No dust jacket. Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions. Between the title page and the frontispiece page, there is slight spinal 'crack', but the pages are intact. There is very light tanning to the pages.

First printing. Both book and unclipped DJ are in as new condition. Signed by Abdullah on a publisher's bookplate attached to the half title page. Loulie al-Nazari is the Midnight Merchant: a criminal who, with the help of her jinn bodyguard, hunts and sells illegal magic. When she saves the life of a cowardly prince, she draws the attention of his powerful father, the sultan, who blackmails her into finding an ancient lamp that has the power to revive the barren land - at the cost of sacrificing all jinn.

Later edition first printing. Light creasing to both covers and spine, very light curling to the front cover, along with minor age spotting and tanning to the page edges. Internally some of the pages towards the front of the book have very light creasing with the occasional tiny stain. Signed and dated by Abercrombie on the title page. Bitter and merciless war is coming to the frozen north. It's bloody and dangerous and the Union army, split by politics and hamstrung by incompetence, is utterly unprepared for the slaughter that's coming.

Limited edition. Book has no significant wear. Unclipped DJ has light creasing to edges. Signed by Adaf on the limitation page. Number 19 out of 100 signed copies printed. Twenty years after God appears to Ori through the television we meet her again, married to a successful man and the mother of a little girl. She has become a well-known writer for young adults, focusing on various Wonderland themes. And then a second revelation, very different from the first, rattles the foundations of her life and puts all in doubt.

Fairyloot exclusive edition. Both book and unclipped DJ are in as new condition. Signed by Silvera on a tipped in page. Comes with an exclusive cover and digital sprayed edges. On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: They're going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they're both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: There's an app for that. It's called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure to live a lifetime in a single day.

First print paperback. Book has no wear to speak of. Signed by Adams and series creator Patrick Ness on the title page. Some of the students of Coal Hill School are not themselves. Some of them are dying. Ram has just woken up in a body he doesn't recognise, and if he doesn't figure out why he may well be next.

First printing. Both book and unclipped DJ are in as new condition. Signed by Adams on the front endpaper. A skilfully wrought and intellectually probing investigation of the most mysterious epoch in our history, The First Kingdom presents an image of post-Roman Britain whose resolution is high enough to show the emergence of distinct political structures in the sixth century - polities that survive long enough to be embedded in the medieval landscape, recorded in the lines of river, road and watershed, and memorialised in place names.

Severn House. Very good. First edition. Hardback. Clean, tight pages./Very good DJ. Not price clipped. Minor creasing mainly around spine edges..

Goldsboro limited edition. Both book and unclipped DJ are in as new condition. DJ is protected in an archival sleeve. Number 952 of 1000 copies printed. Signed by Tchaikovsky on the limitation page. Digitally printed fore edge. Behind the front lines of a crusade to scour the world of magic, the crew of a field hospital confront the horrors of war.

First printing. Both book and unclipped DJ are in as new condition. Signed by WeiWei on the title page. At once ambitious and intimate, 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows offers a deep understanding of the myriad forces that have shaped modern China, and serves as a timely reminder of the urgent need to protect freedom of expression.

Special limited edition. Both book and unclipped DJ are in fine condition with no significant wear. Includes DVD. Signed by Hackett on the half title page. Steve Hackett has been at the forefront of inventive music and original playing for almost four decades. After his origins and "apprenticeship" in 70's progressive rock group, Genesis, he moved on through the passing trends of time in a unique and solitary fashion. Since his highly successful debut album in 1975, his music as a solo artist has encompassed a vast array of differing styles. Both influential and inspiring to other guitarists, Hackett has honed his skills, from the exciting techniques he pioneered on the electric guitar, to playing nylon-strung guitar with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra on some of his critically acclaimed, classical albums.

A Waterstones Exclusive Signed Edition, October 2017. Signed by Hollinghurst on the front endpaper. No significant wear to either book or unclipped DJ.

Fifth print paperback. Light general wear. Signed and dated to a previous owner by Warner on the title page. Twenty-one-year-old Morver Callar, a low-paid supermarket employee, wakes one morning to find her strange boyfriend has committed suicide and is lying on their kitchen floor. Morvern's laconic reaction is both intriguing and immoral. What she does next is even more appalling.

First printing. Light creasing to the bottom edges of the spine. Unclipped DJ is protected in an archival sleeve and has light creasing to the bottom of the spine. Ruins exemplifies the novella form - and shows Brian Aldiss at the top of his writing powers. Departing from the science-fictions arena in which his reputation has chiefly derived, he tells the story of a sad and self-absorbed everyman who recovers simply by acknowledging the power of the human spirit.

First printing. Both book and unclipped DJ are in as new condition. Signed by Michaelides on a tipped in page. A closed community thriller, in which a former movie star throws a select party on a private Greek island whilst a murderer lurks in the shadows.