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    On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

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    On Her Majesty's Secret Service By Ian Fleming First edition, first impression (Jonathan Cape, 1963). Publisher's original black cloth with lettering to spine in gilt. A little spotting to top edge, but a lovely and clean near fine book otherwise, in a near fine and unclipped dust jacket with just a hint of rubbing in places to extremities and a little toning to spine panel. An excellent example.
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    On the Beach

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    On the Beach By Nevil Shute First edition, first impression, published by Heinemann in 1957. Adapted to film twice in 1959 and 2000. Cover art by John Rowland. Original red cloth with lettering to spine in gilt. Some white spotting to boards with foxing to top edge and a previous owner name and date to front paste-down, otherwise very good. The original and unclipped dust jacket has some light edge wear with a little toning to spine panel and spine panel verso, otherwise very good.
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    Pet Sematary

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    Pet Sematary By Stephen King First edition, first impression. Adapted into two films in 1989 and in 2019. Original black cloth with lettering to spine and author's signature to upper board in gilt with red endpapers and paste-downs. A near fine copy with extremely faint spotting to top edge and a few isolated instances of rubbing to edges. The original and unclipped dust jacket has a tear to the spine panel foot with an associated tape repair to verso. Spine panel verso a little toned. Slight hint of fading to spine panel red lettering, otherwise excellent.
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    Quite Early One Morning

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    Quite Early One Morning By Dylan Thomas First edition, first impression. Original blue cloth with lettering to spine in gilt. Very good with some spotting to edges and to front endpaper. The original dust jacket is price-clipped with a few nicks to edges and a tear to top edge of upper panel. Bookseller label to bottom corner of upper flap with a touch of spotting and a small abraded area to lower panel.
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    Red Planet

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    Red Planet By Robert A. Heinlein First UK edition, first impression. The first appearance of Heinlein's Martian elder race. Original red cloth with lettering to spine in gilt. Some toning and spotting to edges with a touch of pushing to spine foot. The original and unclipped dust jacket - featuring cover art by Alan Breese - has a small chip to spine head, which has been inconspicuously repaired, a few small nicks to edges and a couple of areas of water marking to spine panel verso, otherwise very good. A very good copy indeed.
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    Rodney Stone

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    Rodney Stone By Arthur Conan Doyle First edition, first impression (London: Smith Elder & Co, 1896) with advertisements to rear. Quarter bound in brown leather with five raised bands, black labels and gilt lettering with marbled boards. A fine copy with just a touch of toning to edges.
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    Salem’s Lot

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    Salem's Lot By Stephen King First English paperback edition, first impression (NEL, 1977). Originally published in the US in 1975 and in the UK in 1976. Some creasing to spine and rubbing here and there to hinges with some moderate toning to edges, but a very good copy.
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    Salem’s Lot

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    Salem's Lot By Stephen King First illustrated edition, first impression. Original publisher's black cloth with silver lettering to spine. A fine book. The original and unclipped dust jacket has a barcode sticker to verso, else fine and sharp.
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    Salem’s Lot

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    Salem's Lot By Stephen King First UK edition, first impression. Adapted into mini-series in 1979 and 2004 with a film adaptation released in late 2024. Original black cloth with lettering to spine in gilt. Faint off-setting to front and rear endpapers and paste-downs. A few light spots to opening few pages with the usual toning to edges. The original dust jacket is price-clipped with the publisher's reprice sticker to the top corner of upper flap and some spotting to verso. Spine panel lettering very slightly faded. A very good or better example of an uncommon edition of the author's second published novel.
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    Salem’s Lot

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    Salem's Lot By Stephen King First US edition, first impression in the third state dust jacket with 'Father Callahan' correctly stated on the front flap. The author's second published novel. Quarter-bound in black cloth over red boards with lettering to spine in gilt. 'Q37' code present to inner margin of page 439. Some spotting to edges and, very faintly, to endpapers with traces of rubbing to spine. The original dust jacket is price-clipped and, save for a very small nick to the bottom edge of lower flap, is in beautiful near fine condition.
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    Saturday

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    Saturday By Ian McEwan First edition, first impression (Jonathan Cape, 2005). One of 1500 numbered slipcased copies to be signed by the author, of which this is number 1052. Fine, with a very small knock to spine foot, in a fine slipcase.
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    Sharpe’s Enemy

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    Sharpe's Enemy By Bernard Cornwell First edition, first impression. The fifteenth novel in the Richard Sharpe series. Original black cloth with lettering to spine in gilt. Small chip to spine head with some toning to edges and a few spots to top edge, otherwise very good indeed. The original, price-clipped dust jacket has a chip and a couple of thin slivers of loss to flaps with a few spots to the top edge of lower flap, otherwise very good.
    £60.00
    £60.00