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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1995. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. First Printing. An Uncorrected Proof Copy, precedes all other editions. Softcover format with printed wrappers, the front cover featuring a photograph-portrait of the author. Presents as an unread copy with no reading creases to the spine, tight and square. Trivial creases to the corners but a Fine copy indeed and SIGNED directly to the title page by the author. Scarce thus.
TROLLKARLENS HATT (Finn Family Moomintroll) - Hand-Signed by Tove Jansson by Jansson, Tove - 1957
by Jansson, Tove
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TROLLKARLENS HATT (Finn Family Moomintroll) - Hand-Signed by Tove Jansson
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Gebers, 1957. 3rd Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Printed in the Swedish language. A very pretty example of the third (Swedish) edition of the Moomins book, Trollkarlen's Hatt, 1957. Published in English as Finn Family Moomintroll, this particular title remains the most enduringly popular and sought-after title in the series. Printed by Jacob Simelii of Helsinki. Original pictorial boards with (just about) 1/4 cloth, pp. 163, illustrated by the author with vignettes and including the map at the title. Price in Swedish kroner at the lower cover.The boards are bright and clean, corners lightly bumped/rubbed. Binding firm and square. The block is fresh, free from owner names and scribbles etc. At page 76 there are two tiny marks/stains at the inner margin and there is a tiny spot at the rear endpaper. Otherwise very clean. An attractive copy and signed in blue ink directly to the front endpaper by Tove Jansson.
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- Keywords MOOMINS, MUMIT, MOOMINPAPPA, MOOMINMAMMA, SNIFF, SNUFKIN, TOO-TICKY, THE SNORK MAIDEN, MOOMINVALLEY, Finn Family Moomintroll, HATTIFATTENERS, THE GROKE, FILLYJONK, STINKY. HEMUL, THE HEMULEN, SIGNED MOOMINS BOOKS, RARE MOOMINS TITLES
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OUR GAME - Proof Copy, Signed
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Pappan Och Havet (Moominpapa At Sea) - Hand-Signed By Tove Jansson
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Helsinki: Schildts, 1991. 5th or later Edition . Hardcover. Fine. 5th Edition. Printed in the original Swedish language. Original laminated pictorial boards (no dustjacket issued), 202 (203) pp., illustrated. Minor bump to the foot of the spine, otherwise a Fine clean copy, appears unread. Beautifully signed (with soft-coloured highlighting) by Tove Jansson at the half-title.
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SOLSTADEN (Sun City) - - First Printing, Hand-Signed by Tove Jansson
Jansson, Tove
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DOCHERTY - First UK Printing, Signed
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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1975. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Printing. Original black cloth with bright red titles at the backstrip. First Printing. 324 pp. Lightly pushed at the spine tips and bumped at the corners of the lower cover. At the front endpaper there is a gift inscription (two lines, name and date). Text-block toned commensurate with age only. The book is square and tight with no reading creases to the backstrip. The dustjacket is unclipped but the original price has been inexpertly scraped off. No nicks or tears to the edges or corners, some colour fading to the spine and also the rear panel but overall a VG dustjacket. A nice copy, SIGNED and inscribed without dedication ("Best Wishes, Willie McIlvanney") for the seller in person. Now a genuinely scarce title. particluarly signed.
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O Caledonia
by Barker, Elspeth
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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1991. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The author's celebrated, first - and indeed only - novel which despite attracting acclaim from the critics and winning several prizes, failed to find much of an audience at the time of its release. Re-issued by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 2021, the book is now considered something of a classic of Scottish literature and is currently enjoying international success. Sadly, the author passed away earlier this year. Original burgundy-coloured boards, pp. 151. An attractive, square, tight copy. Pushed at the crown a little, the block is lightly tanned but free from owner names etc. About Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped with price of £14.99. There is minor rubbing to both the spine tips and the corners with accompanying loss of the laminate but not paper. Minor scrape to front panel near the titles but no nicks or tears - a VG dustjacket. Exceptionally scarce, the print-run would have been limited for a first novel but…
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OUR GAME - Proof Copy, Signed
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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1995. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. First Printing. An Uncorrected Proof Copy, precedes all other editions. Softcover format with printed wrappers, the front cover featuring a photograph-portrait of the author. Presents as an unread copy with no reading creases to the spine, tight and square. Trivial creases to the corners but a Fine copy indeed and SIGNED directly to the title page by the author. Scarce thus.
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Pappan Och Havet (Moominpapa At Sea) - Hand-Signed By Tove Jansson
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Helsinki: Schildts, 1991. 5th or later Edition . Hardcover. Fine. 5th Edition. Printed in the original Swedish language. Original laminated pictorial boards (no dustjacket issued), 202 (203) pp., illustrated. Minor bump to the foot of the spine, otherwise a Fine clean copy, appears unread. Beautifully signed (with soft-coloured highlighting) by Tove Jansson at the half-title.
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SOLSTADEN (Sun City) - - First Printing, Hand-Signed by Tove Jansson
by Jansson, Tove
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Helsinki: Schildts, 1974. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First Printing, the true first edition of Tove Jansson's first full-length novel for adults. Publshed in Helsinki by Schildts, the author's Swedish-language publisher in her native Finland. Set in a Florida retirement centre, Solstaden is, in the author's own words, "a book about what it's like to get old and I have described the love of two very young and beautiful people in the city of the elderly.". Hardcover in dustjacket, pp.171. The dustjacket illustration by the author. Printed in the Swedish language. A Fine, tight, square copy, appears unread. The dustjacket has minor rubbing/wear to the extremities otherwise VG. SIGNED in black ink at the title page by the author, extremely rare thus.
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ZOO - Signed with Original Drawing
by Browne, Anthony
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London: Julia MacRae Books, 1992. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First printing. An exceptional example of this wonderful picture book by arguably the world's leading illustrator for children. Laminated pictorial covers with matching dustjacket, unpaginated. Several full-page illustrations accompanied by text. This copy has been SIGNED by Anthony Browne to the verso of the flyleaf with an accompanying ORIGINAL DRAWING of his Gorilla character. Superb copy, almost As New condition with no notable faults.
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DOCHERTY - First UK Printing, Signed
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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1975. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Printing. Original black cloth with bright red titles at the backstrip. First Printing. 324 pp. Lightly pushed at the spine tips and bumped at the corners of the lower cover. At the front endpaper there is a gift inscription (two lines, name and date). Text-block toned commensurate with age only. The book is square and tight with no reading creases to the backstrip. The dustjacket is unclipped but the original price has been inexpertly scraped off. No nicks or tears to the edges or corners, some colour fading to the spine and also the rear panel but overall a VG dustjacket. A nice copy, SIGNED and inscribed without dedication ("Best Wishes, Willie McIlvanney") for the seller in person. Now a genuinely scarce title. particluarly signed.
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Trollkarlens hatt
by Jansson, Tove
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Cloth-bound / Cloth spine. Publisher: Förlaget M | 2016 | Cloth-bound / Cloth spine | 152 p. | This book is brand new. | Language: Svenska | We have this book in our store house - please allow for a couple of extra days for delivery.
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Trollkarlens hatt (finn family moomintroll) 1949 good+ condition Tove Jansson Tove Jansson
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Some forward-lean and a stamped name twice on front-free endpaper along with a number 4 in one place there. Also has a name stamped up high above text on one of the other pages. The pages has some small stains and some foxing. :) sought after. In true swedish language.
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Journeys
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200 copies were published by Quill & Brush for the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. Features Octavia E. Butler, Michael Chabon, Maxine Clair, Annie Proulx and Jane Smiley.
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Gold
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First edition. Spine ends lightly rubbed, spine has small nick, small reddish stain to front cover and rear cover, otherwise very good or better. Lacks dust jacket.
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A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories
by Cohen, Leonard
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New York, Grove Press, 2022, trade paperback, 272 pp, Advance Uncorrected Proof (ARC), New. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings in bright, pictorial card covers, no dustjacket as issued. The pieces in this collection, written between 1956 and 1961 and including short fiction, a radio play, and a stunning early novel, offer startling insights into Cohens imagination and creative process. Cohen explores themes that would permeate his later work, from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire in all its sacred and profane dimensions to longing, whether for love, family, freedom, or transcendence. ISBN 9780802160478
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When We Were Orphans
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When We Were Orphans, Ishiguro's exploration of human memory, was shortlisted for the 2000 Booker Prize for Fiction. This is a fine/fine copy of the first American edition (as stated on the copyright page). Dust jacket is housed in protective mylar.
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Quelques Optimistes.
by Sempe
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Paris Editions Denoel, 1992, First Edition. paperback. First edition, Paris 1992, one of 3443 printed. -- Text (the cartoon captions) in FRENCH. -- Softcover, 8.3x10.8 inches, stiff cover with flaps. Condition: near fine (small surface scratch rear cover). -- Nice collectible example of Sempe's classic cartoon work, familiar to New Yorker readers. ISBN 220723861X
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The Polynesian Triangle
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Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.
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Manhattan Beach
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First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket with no visible flaws, as new and unread. SIGNED by the author on a tipped-in page. A pristine copy of this novel from the Pulitzer winning author of "A Visit From the Good Squad". Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship in a sturdy box.
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Two Novels by Anthony Powell. Venusberg. Agents & Patients
by POWELL, Anthony (1905-2000)
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New York: Periscope-Holliday, 1965. First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine-. First American Edition of two early novels. 8vo: [4],328pp. Publisher's quarter-bound black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, slate grey paper-covered boards; dust jacket, priced $4.75, replicating (separately, on front and back panels) Osbert Lancaster's illustrations for the original wrappers. Near Fine (top edge soiled and stained, gilt a bit faded, gift inscription on fly-leaf); about Fine jacket. Lilley A.10. First collected in 1952 by Rinehart for the Periscope Book Shop and Holliday Bookshop in New York; the unsold stock was reissued in 1965 by Little, Brown, Powell's then American publisher (our copy), with publisher's label pasted to jacket's spine panel. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions…
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Cottonwood; A Novel
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New York: Ballantine Books, 2004. First edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 292pp. 8vo. Paper over boards, gilt on spine. Signed by the author on half-title page. Book has a complete number line from 1-10 and is a stated First Edition: February 2004. Book is straight, bright, unmarked, unclipped, unread, and has a Brodart jacket protector. Author also wrote "The Ice Harvest" and "The Walkaway.
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The Story of the Lost Child: Maturity, Old Age
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The first American edition of the final installment in Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels. States "first publication 2015 . . ." Book is in near fine condition. Minor damage to lower left corner on front of book, but does little distract from overall condition. Translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein. First American editions are difficult to find in this condition.
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