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AIDAN MACKEY: MR CHESTERTON COMES TEA, intro R Ingrams, Cambridge Rampant Lions Press, 1978, (370)(350), numbered and signed, orig cl bkd décor...

GODFREY WORDSWORTH TURNER: ART STUDIES OF HOME LIFE, c1890 2nd edn, 24 woodbury type plts, 4to orig décor cl gt £25- 35

PETRUS ABELARD: THE LIVES AMOURS AND MISFORTUNES OF ABELARD AND HELOISE, ill E A Cox, 1947, 1st edn, 4to orig cl d/w (tatty) £20-30

REV JAMES BARCLAY: A COMPLETE AND UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, Bungay 1812, 4to old cf worn £50- 60

JOHN PHILIPS: POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS – THE SPLENDID SHILLING – CIDER, 1728, 1728, 1727, 3 works in one, 1st and 3rd works engraved frontis, 12 pp

HENRY SEATON MERRIMAN: FROM ONE GENERATION TO ANOTHER – THE VELVET GLOVE, Lipzig 1893, 1902, Tauchnitz edns, rebnd cl bkd bds + 3 other similar, (5)...

THE STRAND MAGAZINE, 1894-96 vols 7-12 orig pict cl, (6) £25-35

JOHN BETJEMAN: SUMMONED BY BELLS, 1960 1st edn, orig cl d/w; A RING OF BELLS, ed Irene Slade, ill E Ardizzone 1962 1st edn orig cl d/w, (2) £25...

WILBUR SMITH: THE EYE OF THE TIGER – CRY WOLF, 1975, 1976 1st edns, orig cl d/w £20-30

MOLLY WEIR: SHOES WERE FOR SUNDAY, 1970 1st edn, signed and inscribed autograph Christmas card loosely inserted, orig cl d/w £20-30

A P HERBERT: THE WATER GIPSIES, 1930, 1st edn, 1st iss, orig cl worn & soiled

WILLIAM BRINKLEY: DON'T GO NEAR THE WATER, 1957, 1st edn, cl d/w + JOHN BRAINE: THE CRYING GAME, 1968, 1st edn, cl d/w, (2)

CECIL SCOTT FORESTER 6 TTLS: THE COMMODORE, 1945, 1st edn, orig cl soiled; LORD HORNBLOWER, 1946, 1st edn, orig cl d/w (tatty); MR MIDSHIPMAN HORNBLOW

CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD: LIONS AND SHADOWS, 1938, 1st edn, orig cl worn & soiled £25-35

SYDNEY HORLER 4 TTLS: MAN ALIVE, 1947 1st edn orig cl d/w (tatty); THEY THOUGHT HE WAS DEAD, 1949 1st edn orig cl worn; THE MAN WHO LOVED SPIDERS, 194

JOHN BETJEMAN 4 TTLS: A FEW LATE CHRYSANTHEMUNS, 1954 1st edn orig cl; HIGH AND LOW, 1966 1st edn orig cl d/w; A NIP IN THE AIR, 1974 1st edn orig cl

DICK FRANCIS 5 TTLS: HIGH STAKES, 1975 1st edn orig cl d/w; TWICE SHY, 1981 1st edn orig cl d/w; BOLT, 1986 1st edn orig cl d/w; THE DANGER, 1983 1st

DICK FRANCIS: HIGH STAKES – RISK – BANKER, 1975, 1977, 1982, 1st edns, orig cl d/ws, (3) £20-30

SPIKE MILLIGAN: PUCKOON – A BOOK OF BITS, 1963, 1965, 1st edns orig cl d/ws, (2) £25-35

IAN FLEMING: YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, 1964, 1st edn orig cl d/w £30-40