The Domes of Mars
The Domes of Mars
£300.00
The Domes of Mars
By Patrick Moore
First edition, first impression. Accompanied by an envelope signed by the author.
Original blue cloth with lettering to spine in gilt. A very good copy with a stain to lower board and some spotting to edges.
The original and unclipped dust jacket, featuring striking cover art by Patricia Cullen, has some chipping to edges and rubbing in places with a few nicks and a relatively small stain to lower panel, very good otherwise. A rare title.
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The Domes of Mars
By Patrick Moore
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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A Charlie Brown Christmas
First Edition, Modern First Editions
A Charlie Brown Christmas
By Charles Schulz
First edition, first impression, published by the World Publishing Company in 1965. Original pictorial boards with burgundy endpapers and paste-downs. A very good copy indeed with a touch of rubbing in board edges, in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with a few small closed tears to edges and some rubbing in places. Rare in the dust jacket.
£325.00
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The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
C. S. Lewis, Children's Fiction, First Edition, Modern First Editions, Showcase
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
By C. S. Lewis
First edition, first impression. The first book in The Chronicles of Narnia series, illustrated by Pauline Baynes.
Original green cloth with silver lettering to spine. Some of the often-encountered ghosting to boards. Gift and previous owner inscriptions to front endpaper, slight spine slant, otherwise very good.
The unclipped dust jacket - which is frequently found heavily restored - is completely original with no restoration. Some losses, primarily to upper panel. A few chips and tears to edges with some browning to verso.
£5,000.00
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The Shining
First Edition, Horror, Modern First Editions, Stephen King
The Shining
By Stephen King
First edition, first impression. King's third published novel with 'First Edition' to copyright page and 'R49' to the gutter of page 447. The basis for the iconic Stanley Kubrick film adaptation in 1980.
Quarter-bound in black cloth with tan boards and lettering to spine in gilt. Some toning and spotting to edges, primarily to fore-edge, with a few very shallow indentations to lower and upper boards, else near fine, in a near fine and unclipped dust jacket with a couple of small nicks to top edge and some of the usual toning to verso.
£1,500.00
