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TITLE |
AUTHOR |
ISBN |
PUBLISHER |
YEAR |
HC/PB |
COND. |
Norwegian Wood |
Haruki Murakami |
1860468004 |
Harvill/Ted Smart |
2000 |
PB |
NM |
Near mint first edition (Ted Smart edition) in Near Mint gold box. |
Price £60.00 |
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Lost In The Barrens |
Farley Mowat |
0771066406 |
McClelland & Stewart |
1974 |
PB |
Good |
Light tanning to page edges – no rips or creases. Slight signs of being read. Printed in Canada. Inscription on inside front cover (from my Mum to me!) |
Price £5.00 |
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The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be |
Farley Mowat |
0330253654 |
Pan |
1978 |
PB |
VG |
Light tanning to page edges – no rips or creases. Slight shelf-wear to cover and very slight corner-wear on one corner. |
Price £1.00 |
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Owls In The Family |
Farley Mowat |
0330029568 |
Piccolo |
1978 |
PB |
VG |
Light tanning to page edges – no rips or creases. Slight indent to top of front cover. |
Price £0.50 |
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A Whale For The Killing |
Farley Mowat |
0330258893 |
Pan |
1979 |
PB |
VG |
Light tanning to page edges – no rips or creases. Slight shelf-wear to cover. |
Price £0.50 |
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The Boat Who Wouldn’t Float |
Farley Mowat |
0771065876 |
McClelland & Stewart |
1974 |
PB |
Good |
Light tanning to page and cover edges – no rips or creases. Slight shelf/spine-wear to cover & bottom back corner creased. Printed in Canada. Book-plate on inside front cover, inscription on first fly-leaf page (from my Dad to me!) |
Price £7.50 |
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The Naked Lunch |
William Burroughs |
0714539694 |
John Calder |
1982 |
PB |
Good |
Light tanning to page edges – no rips or creases. Slight shelf-wear to cover. VG except for the light tanning. |
Price £20.00 |
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Junky |
William Burroughs |
0140043519 |
Penguin |
1981 |
PB |
VG |
Excellent condition apart from light tanning to page edges/cover edges. No sign of being read. |
Price £3.00 |
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SOLD |
A Christmas Carol and The Chimes |
Charles Dickens |
N/A |
Cassell’s |
1903 |
HC |
OK |
Red board cover – some spine wear, marked/worn on front. Light tanning to pages, but no rips/creases, very little edge wear. Owner’s name written on fly-leaf page. First 3 fly-leaf pages (including photo of Dickens) loose, otherwise binding seems reasonably secure. |
Price £12.50 |
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A Tale Of Two Cities, American Notes, Pictures From Italy |
Charles Dickens |
N/A |
Odhams
| 1933? |
HC |
Good |
Brown/black mottled cover, with gilt lettering and embossed image of Dickens on front cover. Slight edge/corner-wear, secure binding. Light tanning to pages edges. Occassional page has slight spotting. Slight creases to 3 or 4 pages near the end. |
Price £2.50 |
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Joseph Vance. An Ill-Written Biography |
William de Morgan |
N/A |
Heinemann |
1906 |
HC |
OK |
Second impression. Secure binding, no DJ, cover/spine shows signs of age, but only slight edge/corner-wear. Some tanning/spotting on page edges, considerable spotting on first few/last few pages. No rips/writing. Very occasional page has slight crease. |
Price £6.00 |
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Digging To America |
Anne Tyler |
9780099542315 |
Vintage
| 2009 |
PB |
NM |
Psychologies Magazine 2009 edition. Unread copy. Slight edge-wear to small portion of front cover. |
Price £3.00 |
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Emma |
Jane Austen |
N/A |
Oxford University Press |
1934 |
HC |
Good |
Burgundy flexible, dimpled board cover, with gilt lettering on spine. Secure binding, no rips, marks or creases on pages. Some minor spine-wear. In original grey slipcase (printed with author/title) which is a bit worn and has faded inscription. |
Price £9.00 |
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Mansfield Park |
Jane Austen |
N/A |
Oxford University Press
| 1950 |
HC |
Good |
Red dimpled board cover, with gilt lettering on spine. Secure binding, no rips, marks or creases on pages. Some minor spine-wear. In original red slipcase (printed with author/title) – a bit worn. |
Price £5.00 |
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The Professor |
Charlotte Bronte |
N/A |
Thomas Nelson |
1940s? |
HC |
Good |
Blue flexible board cover, gilt on spine and top of pages. Pages tanned at edges, a few have minor edge/corner-wear. Slight curl to cover. Inscription on first fly-leaf. |
Price £4.50 |
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Jane Eyre |
Charlotte Bronte |
N/A |
John Murray
| 1938 |
HC |
OK |
Spine slightly loose, pages tanned with other signs of wear and use, also to cover. Reading copy. |
Price £3.50 |
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Villette |
Charlotte Bronte |
N/A |
John Murray |
1937 |
HC |
Good |
Secure binding, no rips or marks to pages. Pages edges a bit dusty/faded. Cover has some wear, rubbing etc. |
Price £4.00 |
|
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Shirley |
Charlotte Bronte |
N/A |
Collins
| 1940s? |
HC |
OK |
Spine slightly loose, otherwise good. No rips or marks on pages. Cover slightly worn, spine faded |
Price £1.50 |
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Wuthering Heights |
Emily Bronte |
N/A |
Collins |
1940s? |
HC |
OK |
Spine slightly loose, otherwise good. No rips or marks on pages. Cover slightly worn, spine faded and damaged. Includes still photos of 1939 film. |
Price £1.50 |
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Night Of Reunion |
Michael Allegretto |
0380714426 |
Avon
| 1990 |
PB |
Good |
Secure binding, no rips, marks or creases to pages. Pages tanned at edges. Front cover has crease along length, plus other signs of wear. |
Price £4.25 |
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Lorna Doone |
R D Blackmore |
N/A |
Collins |
1915? |
HC |
OK |
No rips or creases to pages. Pages edges a bit dusty/faded, with some spotting. Cover has some wear, rubbing etc. Spine is loose, thus reading copy. |
Price £1.50 |
|
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The Golden Asse of Lucius Apuleius |
William Adlington (Trans.) |
N/A |
Abbey Classics |
1930s? |
PB |
OK |
Undated Abbey Classics edition. 1930s? Secure binding, no rips, creases or marks to pages. Page edges a bit grubby. Cover water-damaged, worn and faded esp. spine.. |
Price £5.00 |
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Agnes Grey |
Anne Bronte |
N/A |
Collins |
1954 |
HC |
VG |
Green flexible, dimpled cover, faded silver gilt lettering. Collins Olive Classics edition. All pages edges in olive. Appears unread, like new. In original Olive Classics slipcase – 1 cm rip at bottom and some edge-wear. |
Price £11.00 |
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Prester John |
John Buchan |
N/A |
Thomas Nelson |
1911? |
HC |
OK |
Undated Nelson edition. 1911? Frankly, this book is hanging together by it’s fingernails, but I hate to discard it. Please buy it and give it a loving home. |
Price £3.50 |
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Honoré de Balzac |
César Birotteau |
N/A |
Elek |
1960s? |
HC |
Good |
Undated. Translated by Frances Frenaye. Secure binding, no rips, creases or marks to pages. Bottom edges of pages grubby. Cover has minor corner-wear. DJ is in pretty rough shape – rips, bits missing. Owner’s name on fly-leaf. |
Price £9.00 |
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Four Tales |
John Buchan |
N/A |
William Blackwood |
1944 |
HC |
OK |
Secure binding, inscription on first page. Pages tanned but no rips, creases or marks. Cover shows signs of wear, but no major damage. Bottom edge of pages not level i.e. uneven cut by printer. |
Price £6.50 |
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The Pathfinder |
James Fennimore Cooper |
N/A |
Signet |
1961 |
PB |
OK |
Secure binding, no rips to pages. Very little sign of use, but some minor water damage to one corner of last 50 or so pages and back cover/spine. Small price sticker on front. Owner’s name on fly-leaf. |
Price £3.00 |
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The Deceitful Marriage and other exemplary novels |
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |
N/A |
Signet |
1963 |
PB |
VG |
Appears unread. Cover has slight corner-wear, slight fading. Owner’s name of fly-leaf. |
Price £9.00 |
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John Halifax, Gentleman |
Mrs Craik |
N/A |
Collins |
1939? |
HC |
VG |
Undated, possibly 1939. Blue flexible, dimpled cover, gilt on spine. Secure binding, no rips, marks or creases to pages. Only very slight wear to cover. In blue cardboard slipcase which is split on one edge and has other signs of wear. |
Price £9.00 |
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The Christmas Stories of Charles Dickens |
Charles Dickens |
N/A |
Jonathan Cape |
1922 |
HC |
Good |
First edition. Secure binding, no rips, creases or marks to pages. Pages edges slightly tanned and spotted and a bit dusty. Book plate on inside front cover (book was a prize in 1925). Cover has minor rubbing, fading, esp. spine. |
Price £40.00 |
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The Fates Are Laughing |
W P Crozier |
N/A |
Jonathan Cape |
1947 |
PB |
Good |
Binding OK, spine starting to unstick. No rips, creases or marks to pages. Top edges a bit dusty. Owner’s name on fly-leaf. |
Price £8.00 |
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G Patrol |
Michael Crichton-Stuart |
N/A |
Kimber |
1959 |
PB |
Good |
Secure binding. No rips, marks or creases to pages. Page edges tanned. Minor wear to cover. Owner’s name on fly-leaf. |
Price £7.00 |
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SOLD |
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland |
Lewis Carroll |
333029461 |
Macmillan |
1974 |
HC |
Good |
Reprint of 1927 children’s edition. Spine is faded, no DJ, but otherwise appears unread. Pages like new. |
Price £4.00 |
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Through The Looking-Glass |
Lewis Carroll |
333041038 |
Macmillan |
1975 |
HC |
Good |
Reprint of 1927 children’s edition. Spine is faded, no DJ, but otherwise appears unread. Pages like new. |
Price £4.00 |
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Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass |
Lewis Carroll |
361028008 |
Purnell |
1975 |
HC |
VG |
Secure binding. No rips, creases or marks to pages. Top edges slightly dusty. No wear on cover. Appears unread. |
Price £4.00 |
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SOLD |
Double Standard |
Linda DuBreuil |
N/A |
Nordon Leisure |
1980 |
PB |
OK |
Secure binding, no rips or creases to pages. Page edges tanned, top edges have pen mark. Cover has general signs of wear. |
Price £1.50 |
|
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The Keys Of The Kingdom |
A J Cronin |
N/A |
Victor Gollancz |
1948 |
HC |
OK |
Secure binding. No rips, creases or marks to pages. Pages edges tanned and first/last few spotted. Cover also has some spots. |
Price £1.50 |
|
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The Citadel |
A J Cronin |
N/A |
Victor Gollancz |
1942 |
HC |
OK |
Reading copy in poor shape. Please save this book – all the pages are there – just! |
Price £1.00 |
|
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The Bondman |
Hall Caine |
N/A |
Cassell & Co |
1924 |
HC |
OK |
Reading copy in poor shape. Please save this book as well. One loose page, the rest not that bad. Page edges and cover well-worn. |
Price £1.00 |
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Cockpit |
Jerzy Kosinski |
0091243602 |
Hutchinson |
1975 |
HC |
VG |
First edition. Pages almost as new. No damage to cover. DJ Good – minor edge-wear and rubbing. |
Price £7.50 |
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The Refugees |
Arthur Conan Doyle |
N/A |
T Nelson & Sons |
1916? |
HC |
OK |
Undated, believed 1916, inscription from 1920. Pages in Good condition – slightly tanned and a bit dusty at edges. Cover a bit faded, esp spine. Binding a bit loose on first few pages. |
Price £3.50 |
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The Mystery Of Cloomber |
Arthur Conan Doyle |
N/A |
Hodder & Stoughton |
1913 |
HC |
OK |
Pages very tanned with some spotting. Cover discoloured, spine very damaged. It’s 100 years old – please give it a good home. |
Price £4.00 |
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Mission Incredible |
Lawrence Cortesi |
N/A |
PBS Five Star |
1973 |
PB |
OK |
Secure binding. No rips or marks to pages. Page edges tanned. Cover has minor wear and a small dent on the back. |
Price £9.00 |
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Borstal Boy |
Brendan Behan |
N/A |
Corgi/Transworld |
1961 |
PB |
OK |
Reading copy – secure binding, pages OK, but spine is bent and cover a bit damaged and grubby. |
Price £3.00 |
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SOLD |
David Copperfield |
Charles Dickens |
N/A |
Chapman & Hall |
1905? |
HC |
OK |
Secure binding, no rips, creases or marks to pages. Pages edges tanned and a bit dusty. First/last fly-leafs spotted. Undated, but inscription (1905) on front fly-leaf. Cover has edge/corner-wear, some other signs of age. |
Price £8.50 |
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The Uncommercial Traveller |
Charles Dickens |
N/A |
Chapman & Hall
| 1907 |
HC |
OK |
Secure binding, no rips to pages. Page edges spotted and a bit grubby. Cover shows signs of age but no major wear. |
Price £3.50 |
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The Old Curiosity Shop |
Charles Dickens |
N/A |
Walter Scott |
1910s? |
HC |
OK |
Undated Walter Scott ‘The Million Library’ edition. Secure binding, no rips, creases or marks to pages. Pages edges tanned and a bit dusty. First/last fly-leafs spotted. Cover has edge/corner-wear, some other signs of age and top of spine ripped a bit. |
Price £3.50 |
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A Christmas Carol and The Cricket On The Hearth |
Charles Dickens |
N/A |
The Readers Library |
1920s? |
HC |
OK |
Undated. Secure binding, but one loose page. Pages tanned. Cover faded and a bit grubby. This tired book needs a loving home. |
Price £3.50 |
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Barnaby Rudge |
Charles Dickens |
N/A |
J M Dent |
1906 |
HC |
OK |
Reading Copy. Secure binding, pages OK, but top half of cover and first 40 or so pages have significant water damage – also on top of spine and a bit on back cover. Please save this poor hundred-year-old book – if you don’t, who will? |
Price £3.00 |
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Trilby |
George Du Maurier |
N/A |
Collins |
1940s? |
HC |
OK |
Undated, but fly-leaf inscription Sept 1946. Flexible dimpled board cover. Spine is loose. No rips, marks or creases to pages. Little sign of wear to cover. Would be Good if not for loose binding. |
Price £4.00 |
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Marguerite De Valois |
Alexandre Dumas |
N/A |
Thomas Nelson |
1950s? |
HC |
Good |
Undated blue flexible, dimpled board with gilt spine. Secure binding. No rips, marks or creases to pages. Cover in very good condition. A couple of small (2 mm) spots on top of page edges – otherwise very good. |
Price £5.00 |
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The Countess Dubarry |
Alexandre Dumas |
N/A |
Collins |
1940s? |
HC |
Good |
Undated. Burgundy flexible dimpled cover, gilt lettering on spine, gilt top edge of pages. Secure binding, no rips, creases or marks on pages. Some minor spine-wear. Nearly very good condition. In burgundy slip-case, which is in good, solid condition, with some edge/corner-wear. Probably 1940s. |
Price £9.00 |
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SOLD |
Middlemarch |
George Eliot |
N/A |
Oxford University Press |
1953 |
HC |
OK |
Secure binding. No rips, marks or creases to pages, although light tanning to pages edges. Spine is quite faded, cover has come minor edgewear. |
Price £5.00 |
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DOG Sharon |
Dave Ewer |
9781461143178 |
Dave Ewer |
2011 |
PB |
New |
New book – written by a guy who used lived on the same street as me |
Price £4.00 |
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The Larkin Saga |
H E Bates |
N/A |
Penguin |
1974 |
PB |
OK |
Box set of 5 books. All books show signs of age and wear, mainly to cover. Secure binding, no rips or marks to pages – edges lightly tanned. Box is quite worn and faded. |
Price £3.00 |
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SOLD |
The Shadow Of A Crime |
Hall Caine |
N/A |
Eveleigh Nash & Grayson |
1922 |
HC |
OK |
Reading copy. Secure binding, pages intact, but looks like it was left in the loft for 50 years. |
Price £3.00 |
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The Heaven-Kissed Hill |
J S Fletcher |
N/A |
Hodder & Stoughton |
1937? |
HC |
OK |
Undated, assume 1937. Reading copy, one loose page, plus many other signs of age/wear. |
Price £3.00 |
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The Conan Doyle Stories |
Arthur Conan Doyle |
N/A |
John Murray |
1940 |
HC |
OK |
Cover detached, pages intact. Please give this tired and worn old reading copy a good home. |
Price £4.00 |
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An Old-Fashioned Girl |
Louisa M Alcott |
N/A |
Blackie & Son |
1940s? |
HC |
OK |
Undated, probably 1940s. Secure binding, no rips or creases to pages. Page edges quite spotted, esp. first/last few pages. Cover also spotted, but not much wear. |
Price £4.00 |
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Great Spanish Short Stories |
Angel Flores (Ed.) |
N/A |
Dell |
1972 |
PB |
Good |
Very little sign of being read. Secure binding, no rips, creases or marks to pages. Pages are tanned at edges. Very little wear to cover. Mark on cover where small price sticker removed. Owner’s name on fly-leaf. |
Price £3.50 |
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The Good Soldier |
Ford Madox Ford |
N/A |
Mayflower-Dell |
1965 |
PB |
Good |
Secure binding, no rips or marks on pages – tanning to page edges. Slight mark on bottom of page edges. Cover has minor edge/corner-wear, slightly faded. Owner’s name on fly-leaf. Note the extra ‘D’ on ‘Maddox’ on the cover. |
Price £4.00 |
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Jacob Witherby or Need Of Patience |
Agnes Giberne |
N/A |
Religious Tract Society |
1882? |
HC |
OK |
Undated, believed 1882. Secure binding. Pages tanned and a bit grubby on the edges. Cover has discolouration and marks. |
Price £4.00 |
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Duncan And Clotilda |
Giovanni Guareschi |
356028100 |
Macdonald |
1969 |
HC |
OK |
Ex-library with usual stamps, markings. Secure binding, pages in reasonable condition. |
Price £10.00 |
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The House That Nino Built |
Giovanni Guareschi |
N/A |
Penguin |
1967 |
PB |
OK |
Secure binding, no rips or marks on pages – tanning to edges. Some corner-wear bottom right. Owner’s name on fly-leaf. |
Price £3.00 |
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Comrade Don Camillo |
Giovanni Guareschi |
N/A |
Penguin |
1966 |
PB |
OK |
Secure binding, no rips, creases or marks to pages. Page edges tanned. Cover has some corner creases. Owner’s name on fly-leaf. |
Price £3.50 |
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SOLD |
Don Camillo And The Devil |
Giovanni Guareschi |
N/A |
Penguin |
1966 |
PB |
OK |
Secure binding, no rips or marks on pages – tanning to edges. Back cover has a few creases, otherwise it would be Good. Owner’s name on fly-leaf. |
Price £4.50 |
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Don Camillo And The Prodigal Son |
Giovanni Guareschi |
N/A |
Penguin |
1966 |
PB |
OK |
Secure binding, no rips, creases or marks to pages. Page edges tanned. Cover has some corner creases and spine-wear. Owner’s name on fly-leaf. |
Price £3.00 |
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The Little World Of Don Camillo |
Giovanni Guareschi |
N/A |
Reprint Society |
1953 |
HC |
Good |
Secure binding, no rips, creases of marks to pages. Page edges lightly tanned. Very little wear to cover. DJ OK – faded, marked and with some other wear. Owner’s name on fly-leaf. |
Price £4.00 |
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The Spendthrifts |
Benito Perez Galdos |
N/A |
Readers Union |
1953 |
HC |
Good |
Secure binding. No rips, creases or marks to pages – very little sign of use. Little wear to cover. DJ Acceptable – intact but discoloured on front, spine faded. Overall nearly VG, apart from DJ. Owner’s name on fly-leaf. |
Price £3.50 |
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Doctor In The House |
Richard Gordon |
N/A |
Michael Joseph |
1952 |
HC |
OK |
6th impression. Secure binding, no rips, creases or marks to pages. Pages edges spotted & tanned, esp. fly-leafs. Cover has some wear esp. to spine. |
Price £3.00 |
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Six-Fingered Stud |
Lance Horner |
0330250221 |
Pan |
1979 |
PB |
Good |
Secure binding, no rips, creases or marks to pages. Page edges lightly tanned. Cover has some edge/corner/spine-wear. |
Price £6.00 |
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Rupert Of Hentzau |
Anthony Hope |
N/A |
T Nelson & Sons |
1930s? |
HC |
OK |
Undated, 1930s? No rips to pages, but a bit worn/spotted around the edges. Front hinge insecure and a couple of loose pages. Spine faded. |
Price £3.00 |
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Paris |
Emile Zola |
N/A |
Chatto & Windus |
1898 |
HC |
OK |
First edition. Secure binding, no rips, creases or marks to pages. Page edges dusty and a bit spotted. Board cover has some spine-wear and discolouration esp. spine. Name/date (1898) on fly-leaf. |
Price £5.00 |
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Germinal |
Emile Zola |
N/A |
J M Dent & Sons |
1948 |
HC |
Good |
Secure binding, no rips, creases or marks to pages. Pages edges slightly dusty, spotted. Little wear to red board covers, but spine a bit faded. |
Price £4.00 |
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Zadig And Other Tales |
Voltaire |
N/A |
G Bell & Sons |
1923 |
HC |
OK |
English edition. Secure binding, no rips or marks to pages. Top edges dusty. Cover has little wear, but a few small marks and spine is faded. |
Price £3.50 |
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The Pipe Pushers and Other Stories |
Weston Martyr |
N/A |
J William Blackwood & Sons |
1938 |
HC |
OK |
Secure binding, but pages and cover heavily foxed. Reading copy. |
Price £7.00 |
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