Cancer Ward
Cancer Ward
£100.00
Cancer Ward
By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Two volumes. First editions, first impressions. Very good or better books with a little spotting to edges and a few minor bumps to corners in very good jackets with a few small nicks and tears to edges and some rubbing in places. Fading to spine panel of vol II. A very good set.
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Cancer Ward
By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
First Editions
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Against the Fall of Night
Arthur C. Clarke, Modern First Editions, Science Fiction
Against the Fall of Night
First edition, first impression (Gnome Press, 1953).
Publisher's original teal boards with red lettering to spine. A near fine copy with a few marks to top edge and some rubbing here and there to spine tips and corners; free from names or inscriptions. The original pictorial dust jacket by Frank Kelly Frease is beautifully preserved with very minor traces of chipping to spine foot and a little rubbing here and there to extremities with very faint marking in places to lower panel. A beautiful, near fine copy.
£525.00
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The Sandcastle
First Edition, General Literary Fiction, Iris Murdoch, Modern First Editions
The Sandcastle
By Iris Murdoch
First edition, first impression (Chatto & Windus, 1957). Publisher's original green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Spine has some sunning with very faint evidence of spotting to edges and darkening to top, near fine otherwise in a near fine or better dust jacket with trivial and isolated instances of wear to top edge and a minuscule nick to bottom edge of rear flap. A lovely copy of the author's third novel.
£175.00
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On Chesil Beach
First Edition, General Literary Fiction, Ian McEwan, Modern First Editions, Signed First Editions
On Chesil Beach
By Ian McEwan
First edition, first impression (Jonathan Cape, 2007). Signed and dedicated by the author: 'To Allan, Ian McEwan'. Copies that have been signed and dedicated are considerably less numerous that those that have just been signed. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2007 and recently adapted to film in 2017.
Fine in a fine dust jacket.
£60.00
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Odds Against
First Edition, Modern First Editions
Odds Against
By Dick Francis
First edition, first impression (Michael Joseph, 1965). Signed and inscribed by the author to the title page: 'Best Wishes, Dick Francis'.
Original publisher's brown cloth with gold lettering to spine. Previous owner name to front endpaper with some toning and occasional foxing to edges; contents nice and clean otherwise. The original and unclipped dust jacket is in excellent, fine condition with just the mildest traces of toning to spine panel verso.
An excellent, near fine copy of the author's fifth novel.
£300.00
