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Second printing. Signed by Pearce on the title page.

First printing. Book has light creasing to head of spine. Unclipped DJ has no wear to speak of. Signed, inscribed and dated to a previous owner by Fiennes on the title page. Ranulph Fiennes tells the story of his unconventional, exceptional family, and reveals the ingredients for the man described by the Guinness Book of Records as the world s greatest living explorer.

First printing. No significant wear either to the book or the unclipped DJ. Signed and dated by Collier on the title page. Secrets carried to the grave don't always stay buried.

First printing. Both book and unclipped DJ are in as new condition. Signed by Sugg and McCulloch on a tipped-in page. The body of a student is discovered at the exclusive summer party at the elite boarding school, Illumen Hall. On her back is an elaborate tattoo of a magpie. When new girl Audrey arrives the following term, running from her own secrets back home in America, she is thrown into solving the case.

First printing. Both book and unclipped DJ are in as new condition. Includes bonus content. Signed by Hanks on the title page. Offers an insider's take on the momentous efforts it takes to make a film.

Limited slipcased edition. Both book and slipcase are in fine condition. No DJ as issued. Number 238 of 500 numbered copies printed. Signed by Deighton on the title page. Gilt page edges and a red ribbon marker included. As a group of Marxist revolutionaries in Spanish Guiana prepare to unseat their country's leader, a group of high-powered men in Washington prepare to keep the current government intact and capitalize on the small country's newfound oil.

Undated, possibly late 1920s, early 1930s. Book has light bumping to the top and bottom edges of the spine. Very good- unclipped DJ is protected in an archival sleeve and has light creasing to the edges. Slight age related discolouration to the page edges. It had been three months since Steve Packard had sailed out of a South Sea port and three days since he had ridden out of the sun-baked town of San Juan. Word of his father's death had come to him. The world was his. Ranch Number Ten belonged to him now. His mood changed quickly however when he spotted a young woman in his path. Later, perhaps, he would admit that she was amazingly pretty; that the curves of her little white body were delightfully perfect. At any another time, that would have put sheer delirium into a man's blood.

Number 89 out of 350 numbered and signed copies of the first edition. The dust jacket is protected in an archival sleeve.

First USA printing. Book has minor creasing to the top and bottom of the spine. Unclipped DJ has slight chipping to the spine edges and a one inch closed tear to the bottom spine corner. There is a bookplate attached to the front endpaper. This is the first complete account in English of the violence-marked career of the audacious Frenchman who tried to carve an empire out of the Bad Lands of Dakota Territory in the 1880's. Young, aristocratic, brilliant, and idealistic, de Mores was a seigneur in the grand style. In his ambitious, imaginative mind, money-making and high adventure went together, and the Old West afforded a matchless opportunity to apply all his resources.

Just light handling and storage wear to DJ.

First printings. Book 1: Running Proud; Book 2: Darken Ship. Both books have some light general handling and storage wear. The unclipped DJs are both protected in archival sleeves, though there is some moisture staining to the inside of Book 1's protective sleeve and this has bled slightly onto the inside of the DJ. Book 1 is signed and year dated by Monsarrat on the front endpaper. There is the personal library stamp of a previous owner also on the front endpaper, below the Monsarrat signature.

Limited edition. Slipcased. As new. No DJ as issued. Number 758 of 1500 numbered copies printed. Signed by Joyce on the title page. A decade after the phenomenal bestseller The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Joyce resurrects the novel's beloved characters for another heartwarming journey of self-discovery, this time following Harold's socially awkward wife.

Viking. Very good. First edition. Hardback. Clean, tight pages. Light tanning to page edges. Signed by Jonathan Lynn/. Very good. Not price clipped. Protected in an archival sleeve.

Seventh Folio printing. Both book and slipcase are in fine condition. Signed by illustrator Reddick on the verso of the half title page. Brown top page edges. A shameful act of drunken impetuousness results in Michael Henchard losing his wife and daughter in an auction. This evil deed remains secret for years, during which time Henchard climbs the social ladder from working as a roving hay-trusser to becoming the upstanding Mayor of Casterbridge. An intricate tale of duplicity, comeuppance and regret, this novel puts its characters' principles to the test.

First printing. Book has a bit of colour fading around the top board edge. Unclipped DJ, which is protected in an archival sleeve, has very light rubbing and creasing to the edges. Signed by Macdonald Fraser on the title page. Previous owner's gift inscription to front endpaper. McAUSLAN IN THE ROUGH, the second volume of stories featuring 'Old Private Piltdown' (as the court-martial defence called him), includes such episodes as the desert mystery of Fort Yarhuna, the Great Regimental Quiz, the search for a deserter in a native town threatened by epidemic, McAuslan in love, and his finest and funniest hour as a caddy to that rugged Caledonian eminence, the Regimental Sergeant-Major, in a golf game whose importance makes the Open Championship look like a seaside putting competition.

First printing. Both book and unclipped DJ are in as new condition. Signed by Silvey on the title page. Black page edges. Thori and Santi have met before. They don't know it yet, but they'll meet again: in numerous lives they will become friends, colleagues, lovers, enemies - meeting over and over for the first time, every time; each coming to know every version of the other. But as they're endlessly drawn together and the lines between their different lives begin to blur, they are faced with one question: why?

First printing of this angling classic. Very good unclipped dust jacket has light creasing to the edges and an internally tape repaired fingernail closed tear to the head of the spine. Signed by Turner on the half title page.

Uncorrected bound proof. Fine condition. Signed by Perry on the title page. A strange manuscript has come into Helen Franklin's possession, and its contents have the power to unravel every strand of her fragile safety net. It is filled with testimonies from the darkest chapters of human history, which all record sightings of a tall, silent woman in black, with unblinking eyes and bleeding feet: Melmoth, the loneliest being in the world. Condemned to walk the Earth forever, she tries to beguile the guilty and lure them away for a lifetime wandering alongside her.

Third printing. Book has light general wear. Unclipped DJ has light creasing to edges. Signed by Hustvedt on the title page.

Limited edition first printing. Both book and unclipped DJ are in as new condition. DJ is protected in an archival sleeve. Signed by Watson on a tipped in limitation page. Number 369 of 500 copies printed. Partially sprayed edges with sheep illustration to lower fore edge. The singular dystopian vision of an island where two prisoners live tethered together, taking pills in order to survive. After twelve years it is time for their parole, but the Warden has not shown up.