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    The Philosopher’s Pupil

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    The Philosopher's Pupil By Iris Murdoch First edition, first impression. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by the author to the title page for Rolando Pieraccini, artist and publisher: 'For Rolando Pieraccini with all best wishes Iris Murdoch'. Cover art by Cathie Felstead. Rare inscribed. Original dark blue cloth with silver lettering to spine. A touch of toning to edges with small biro mark to top edge, otherwise near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with a small nick to top edge of lower panel and a little edge wear. Jacket hinges fit a little loosely on the book
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    The Player of Games

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    The Player of Games By Iain M. Banks Limited edition. One of 201 numbered copies to be signed by the author, of which this is number 178. Housed in accompanying cloth slipcase. A beautiful, fine book in a fine slipcase with a little rubbing in places, primarily to the corners and back.
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    The Remains of the Day

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    The Remains of the Day By Kazuo Ishiguro First edition, first impression. The author's Booker Prize-winning third novel, and the basis for the successful 1993 film adaptation of the same name. Original black cloth with white lettering to spine. A very good copy with a couple of bumps to corners, otherwise clean and free from names and inscriptions. The original and unclipped dust jacket has some of the usual fading to the spine panel and a couple of creases to the top corners and very minor traces of edge wear, else very good.
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    The Rise of Gerry Logan

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    The Rise of Gerry Logan By Brian Glanville First edition, first impression. An excellent, near fine example with some spotting to edges.
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    The Road to Little Dribbling

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    The Road to Little Dribbling By Bill Bryson First edition, first impression. Signed by the author to the title page. Original blue cloth with lettering to spine in gilt. Some toning to edges, else fine, in a near fine dust jacket with a hint of wear to spine head.
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    The Satanist

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    The Satanist By Dennis Wheatley First edition, first impression. Quarter-bound in black cloth with pictorial boards and lettering to spine in red and gilt. some bumping to top corners and spine head with some toning to edges, otherwise very good. The original and unclipped dust jacket, featuring striking cover art by Sax, is also very good with some rubbing, primarily to edges and folds, and tape reinforcement to top of spine panel verso.
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    The Second Jungle Book

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    The Second Jungle Book By Rudyard Kipling First edition, first impression. Illustrations by John Lockwood Kipling. Blue cloth with motifs and lettering to spine and upper board in gilt. All edges gilt. Some occasional spotting to first 32 or so pages, primarily to preliminaries, otherwise clean and free from any names or inscriptions. A few light marks to cloth and a touch of the usual rubbing to spine ends. Gilt lettering and snake and spine motifs still beautifully preserved. A beautiful copy.
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    The Shadow of the Wind

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    The Shadow of the Wind By Carlos Ruiz Zafón First US edition, first impression (Penguin, 2004). Signed by the author to the title page. Precedes the Weidenfeld & Nicolson limited edition, which was published the following year in 2005. Quarter-bound in burgundy cloth with lettering to spine and upper board in gilt. A touch of pushing to spine ends, else fine in a fine dust jacket. An excellent, crisp copy.
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    The Shadow of the Wind

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    The Shadow of the Wind By Carlos Ruiz Zafón First edition, first impression. Signed by the author to the title page. Original red cloth with lettering to spine in gilt and orange endpapers and paste-downs. A hint of pushing to spine foot with a very small spot to front endpaper, else near fine or better. The original and unclipped dust jacket, save for a couple of isolated and minimal instances of wear to flap edges, is in excellent, near fine condition.
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    The Sheep-Pig

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    The Sheep-Pig By Dick King-Smith First edition, first impression published by Gollancz in 1983. Illustrations and dust jacket art by Mary Rayner. Famously adapted to cinema in 1995 under the title 'Babe'. Original dark blue cloth with lettering to spine in gilt. A fine book in a very good or better dust jacket with a couple of small tears to bottom edge and one very small nick to spine head. A lovely, bright example.
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    The Sherlock Holmes Long Stories

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    The Sherlock Holmes Long Stories By Arthur Conan Doyle First edition, first impression (John Murray, 1929). Publisher's original red cloth with lettering to spine and upper board in gilt. A better than very good book with the usual spotting to edges, preliminaries and final couple of leaves. Red top-stain still nice and bright. Small sticker to bottom corner of front paste-down. The original and unclipped dust jacket is similarly better than very good with a little fading to spine panel and a small area of staining to spine foot. One or two very small nicks and chips to spine ends. An excellent example in significantly better condition than usually encountered.
    £750.00
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    The Sirens of Titan

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    The Sirens of Titan By Kurt Vonnegut First UK edition, first impression. The author's second novel Original red cloth with lettering to spine in gilt. An excellent book with a slight spine slant and some toning and light spotting to top edge, in a near fine and unclipped dust jacket with a little spotting to spine panel and a few shallow chips to corners. A superb, near fine example.
    £1,150.00
    £1,150.00