Miguel Street
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Miguel Street
£450.00
Miguel Street
By V. S. Naipaul
First edition, first impression, published by André Deutsch in 1959. Winner of the 1961 Somerset Maugham Award.
Original black cloth with lettering to spine in gilt. A hint of faint spotting to front endpaper and paste-down and some exposed webbing at front endpaper, which remains firmly in place. Otherwise a beautifully clean and near fine book.
The original and unclipped dust jacket, featuring the attractive artwork by Aden Kinborn, has minimal traces of wear and fading to spine head, but is otherwise near fine or better.
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Miguel Street
By V. S. Naipaul
First Edition
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Tender Is the Night
First Edition, Modern First Editions
Tender Is the Night
By F. Scott Fitzgerald
First UK revised edition, first impression, published by The Grey Walls Press in 1953. Originally published in 1934. The final version of the author's last novel with his own annotated copy as its source. Grey Walls first published the uncorrected text in 1948, making this their second edition overall.
Original light brown cloth with lettering to spine in gilt. Some offsetting to endpapers, but otherwise fine and clean throughout. The original and unclipped dust jacket, with striking cover art by Edward Pagram, shows a minimal amount of rubbing to extremities in places, else fine.
£375.00
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Look to Windward
First Edition, Iain Banks, Modern First Editions, Science Fiction, Signed First Editions
Look to Windward
By Iain M. Banks
First edition, first impression. Signed by the author to the title page. The sixth novel in the Culture series.
Original black cloth with bronze lettering to spine. Some toning to edges. Very slight wear to top edge of the original and unclipped dust jacket with some fading to spine panel, otherwise near fine with a round retailer sticker to upper panel.
£150.00
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Jurassic Park
First Edition, Modern First Editions, Science Fiction
Jurassic Park
By Michael Crichton
First UK edition, first impression. The basis for the long-running and successful film franchise.
Original white cloth with black lettering to spine. Small knock to top corner of lower board and some of the usual toning to edges, else near fine.
The original and unclipped dust jacket has a little wear to spine head with a couple of tiny nicks, otherwise very good indeed.
£275.00
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The Hobbit
First Edition, J. R. R. Tolkien, Modern First Editions, Showcase
The Hobbit
By J.R.R. Tolkien
Second impression (George Allen & Unwin, 1937).
The second impression of The Hobbit was the first to contain coloured illustrations. It appeared three months after the first in December 1937, and was first published in January 1938. The print run consisted of 2,300 copies, but 423 of these were destroyed during the Blitz in 1940.
Original green cloth with lettering and decoration to boards and spine in dark blue. Map endpapers and paste-downs. Top edge green. Some spotting to edges and very light and occasional foxing to opening and closing leaves, else near fine. Housed in a custom-made clamshell box, and accompanied by the correct and original second impression dust jacket, all sections of which are detached with a small portion of the spine remaining and considerable losses to upper and lower panels.
£15,000.00
