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    Never Let Me Go

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    Never Let Me Go By Kazuo Ishiguro First edition, first impression. Signed by the author to the title page. Adapted to film in 2005 and shortlisted for the Booker Prize and Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2005 and 2006 respectively. Original green cloth with lettering to spine in gilt. A fine book that is seemingly unread, in the original and unclipped dust jacket with one instance of mild wear to the top edge of upper panel, else fine. An excellent, bright and sharp example.
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    Nevernight

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    Nevernight By Jay Kristoff First edition, first impression. Limited to 250 numbered copies to be signed by the author, of which this is number 145. The first novel in the Nevernight Chronicle. Original black cloth with sprayed red edges and decorative star endpapers and paste-downs. Small knock to bottom corner of lower board, else fine in a fine dust jacket.
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    No Longer at Ease

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    No Longer at Ease By Chinua Achebe First edition, first impression. The author's second work and the second book in the African Trilogy. Original burgundy cloth with gilt lettering to spine. A little fading to top portion of upper board with a spine slant and gift inscription to front endpaper, otherwise very good. The original dust jacket is price-clipped with some fading to the spine panel and soiling, primarily to flap folds, and a couple of nicks to top edge and some browning to verso.
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    Norwegian Wood

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    Norwegian Wood By Haruki Murakami First UK edition, first impression, published by The Harvill Press in 2000. Some light marking and a few minor knocks to edges of the box, but otherwise very good indeed. A few very slight signs of rubbing to covers of volume 2, else near fine.
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    Notes from a Small Island

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    Notes from a Small Island By Bill Bryson First edition, first impression (Doubleday, 1995). Signed and inscribed by the author to the title page. Publisher's original blue cloth with silver lettering to spine and pictorial endpapers and paste-downs. A fine copy in a fine and unclipped dust jacket with a couple of minor instances of edge-wear. An excellent example.
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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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    Psycho

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    Psycho By Robert Bloch First UK edition, first impression, published in 1960 and adapted into the timeless 1960 Alfred Hitchcock film. Among the most influential horror novels of the 20th century. Original black cloth with green lettering and gun motif in silver to spine. Faint spotting to preliminaries, final couple of leaves and fore-edge and bottom edge of textblock; previous bookseller label to bottom corner of front paste-down; a couple of knocks to top corners. The original, price-clipped dust jacket, featuring attractive artwork in full colour, has a couple of tiny nicks to edges with some rubbing in places and a small strip of dark marking to spine, otherwise very good indeed.
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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.
    £75.00
    £75.00