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Featured Books
Featured Books
St Mary's Books
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Miniature Koran
Glasgow: David Bryce and Sons. One of Bryce's more famous miniature publications. First issued c.1900. Text in Arabic. Copies were often issued to Muslim soldiers fighting in World War I with the Allied forces. With original metal locket complete with inset magnifying glass - designed to be easy to wear around the neck. Book dimensions approx. 2cm x 3cm. Red covers with bright gilt tooling. All edge gilt. With original card box. A unique item in wonderful condition. (054146) £750.00
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Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
First Edition
London: Chapman and Hall Ltd, 1945. 12mo. Very Good / Very Good. 'The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder. A novel by Evelyn Waugh'. First Edition with red cloth boards and intact dust jacket - not price clipped (10s 6d net). No damage or wear to cloth boards, no foxing. Generally the dust jacket is in good condition, however it has has some sunning to spine and to crease joining front cover to fly leaf. Two small closed tears to dust jacket at top of spine max 8mm and corners showing wear and minor loss especially to front right corner also some chipping to jacket at top and base of spine. Ex-libris label to front paste down. A very nice clean copy. 304 pp. (045120) £2,500.00
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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
T. S. Eliot
First Edition
London: Faber And Faber Limited, 1939. 1st Edition 1st Impression. 45 printed pages, complete with the original yellow dustjacket. The famous work by T.S. Eliot, here as a very good bright copy with only a small nick to the top of the front cover and some slight rubbing to the edges. The contents are clean and bright and free from inscription. The spine is a little darkened. Overall a very good examaple with no restoration. (055309) £750.00
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Rebecca
Daphne Du Maurier
First Edition, Signed
London: Victor Gollancz, 1938. First Edition. 8vo. Very Good / Very Good. Signed by the author on a visiting card neatly placed on the front free end paper. Bound in original black cloth with gilt tooling. Original yellow and pink dust wrapper - some minor sunning/creasing to extremities but overall wrapper is in very good condition, clean and bright. A lovely copy of this much loved work. (055129) £4,250.00
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Jane Austen's 'Emma'
First Edition, 1816
(Edited By Reginald Brimley Johnson). Emma : A Novel. (3 Volumes). London: Printed for John Murray, 1816. 12mo. Rebound in half brown calf with marble boards. Gilt lettering to spines. With the rare half title pages to all three volumes. Housed in a green slipcase. A wonderful set. (029202) £18,000.00
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Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice'
First Edition, 1813
(Edited By Reginald Brimley Johnson). Pride And Prejudice: A Novel (Three Volumes). London: Printed for T. Egerton, 1813. 12mo. With half-titles to volumes two and three, bound without half-title to volume one. Previous owners inscription "Catherine Bouverie" (?) at the head of each title page. Bottom four lines of letterpress on F2 recto in volume two faintly printed but legible, original printing fault affecting a few words of letterpress on G8 in volume three, tiny stab marks on three leaves, not affecting letterpress. Some light browning in the text, but overall in excellent condition. Recent period-style binding in quarter black calf, flat spines lettered and banded in gilt, marbled board sides. Contemporary marbling on the edges, in a recent purpose-made slipcase. All Volumes match Jane Austen - David Gilson 1985 & Keynes Jane Austen 1929. (029201) £40,000.00
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Swallows and Amazons
Arthur Ransome
First Edition, 1931
London: Jonathan Cape, 1931. 8vo. Very Good. New Illustrated edition. Recently bound in full blue morocco, gilt tooling to spine, with vellucent colour illustration inlaid to upper cover, bound by the Cottage Bindery, Bath, contained in custom-made blue slipcase. Contents very clean with the merest hint of foxing to the margins. Usual map endpapers to the front and rear. pp 349. A Fine binding. (054459) £1,200.00
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