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Popper (Sir Karl) Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to title, Oxford, 1972.

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Popper (Karl, Sir) Unended Quest. An Intellectual Autobiography, revised edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to title, Fontana, 1976.

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Mandela (Nelson) Long Walk to Freedom. The Autobiography, first edition, one of 1000 copies signed by the author, 1994.

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Collection of Booker Prize winning novels, a near complete collection, first editions, some signed by the authors, 1969-2025 (70)

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Burgess (Anthony) "James Burgess Wilson". English Literature. A Survey for Students, first edition, 1958.

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Burroughs (Edgar Rice) Tarzan Lord of the Jungle, first edition, Chicago, 1928.

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Conrad (Joseph) Victory, first edition, 1915.

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Deighton (Len) The Ipcress File, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1962; and 3 others by the same (4)

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Faulkner (William) Go Down, Moses, first edition, New York, 1942.

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Greene (Graham) Stamboul Train, first edition, second issue, 1932.

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Greene (Graham) [Works], 22 vol., Collected Edition, first editions, signed presentation inscription from the author in Brighton Rock, 1969-82.

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Hemingway (Ernest) For Whom the Bell Tolls, first edition, New York, 1940.

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Jarman (Derek) a finger in the fishes mouth, first edition, Bettiscombe Press, 1972

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Kipling (Rudyard) The Jungle Book [&] The Second Jungle Book, 2 vol., first editions, 1894-95.

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Larkin (Philip) The North Ship, first Faber edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to "Betty [Hornby] & Alf", 1966.

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McCarthy (Cormac) Blood Meridian, uncorrected proof, 1989.

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McCarthy (Cormac) Blood Meridian Or The Evening Redness in the West, first English edition, 1989.

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Milne (A.A.) When We Were Very Young, first edition, 1924.

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Orwell (George) Animal Farm, first edition, 1945.

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Orwell (George) Nineteen Eighty-Four, first edition, 1949

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Orwell (George) Nineteen Eighty-Four, 4.vol, braille edition, Royal National Institute for the Blind, 1959.

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Orwell (George) Nineteen Eighty-Four, Russian text, paper wrappers, staple bound, pages toned, covers lightly soiled, edgewear, n.d.

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Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first paperback edition, 1997.

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Annotated Playscript of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, director Brian Daubney's copy, with other material related to the first production of Stoppard's play at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, c.196...

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Stoppard (Tom) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, first edition, 1967.

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Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, first impression, 1937.

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Woolf (Virginia) Orlando: A Biography, first English edition, variant cloth, Hogarth Press, 1928

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Hasegawa (Takejiro).- Hearn (Lafcadio, translator.) [Japanese Fairy Tales], 5 vol., Hearn book set, Tokyo, T.Hasegawa, [c.1925].

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Potter (Beatrix) The Tailor of Gloucester, first edition, third printing, deluxe binding, [1904].

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Seidmann-Freud (Tom) Buch Der Hasengeschichten, Berlin, 1924

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Shepard (Ernest Howard) "Into your bunk with you", an original illustration of Lewis Carroll's Alice, possibly for an unrealised publication, pen and ink, [n.d., mid-20th century]

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Cranach Press.- Maillol (Aristide, illustrator.) The Eclogues of Vergil, one of 225 copies, Weimar, Cranach Press, 1927.

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Symons (Arthur, editor.) The Savoy, 3 vol., bound from the original 8 parts, first edition, 1896.

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Whistler (Rex).- Swift (Jonathan) Gulliver's Travels, 2 vol., one of 195 copies on hand-made paper, signed by Rex Whistler, Cresset Press, 1930.

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Bolton (James) Filices Britannicae; an History of the British Proper Ferns, 2 vol., first edition, Leeds [&] Huddersfield, for John Binns, [1785]-90.

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Coffee.- Ellis (John) An Historical Account of Coffee, first edition, for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1774.

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Drury (Dru) Illustrations of Natural History... of Exotic Insects, 3 vol., first edition, for the Author, 1770-82; and 3 others, animals (6)

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Fungi.- Sowerby (James) Coloured Figures of English Fungi of Mushrooms, 3 vol., first edition, by J. Davis, and R. Wilks, 1797-1803[-15]

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Lettsom (John Coakley) The Natural History of the Tea-Tree, with Observations on the Medical Qualities of Tea, and Effects of Tea-Drinking, first edition, Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 17...

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Low (David) The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the British Islands, 2 vol., 1842.

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Repton (Humphry) Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, second edition, T.Bensley for J.Taylor, 1805.

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Birds.- Gould (John) Collection of sixteen plates from 'The Birds of Asia..' and 'A monograph of the trochilidae, or family of humming-birds...', [circa 1850-1887]; with six others, 19th century ...

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Botany.- Castiglioni (Luigi) Storia delle piante forastiere le piu importanti nell'uso medico..., 4 vol., first edition, Milan, Giuseppe Marelli, 1791-4.

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Botany.- Pallas (Peter Simon) Flora Rossica, 2 vol., St Petersburg, Imperial Press, 1784-88.

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Garden design.- Louis Le Rouge (George) [Jardins anglo-chinois ou Détail des nouveaux jardins à la mode], nos. 1-4, and 6-13 (of [?]17), only, [c.1775-1788]

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Horses.- Eisenberg d' (Barone) Description du Manege Moderne dans sa perfection, first edition, n.p., 1727

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Horses.- Ridinger (Johann Elias) Vorstellung und Beschreibung derer Schul [- Anmerkungen von dem Carousel], 2 works in 1 vol., first editions, Augsburg, J. E. Ridinger, 1760-61.

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Douglas (James) A Dissertation on the Antiquity of the Earth, first edition, at the Logographic Press, 1785

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Electricity.- Franklin (Benjamin) Experiments and Observations on Electricity, fourth edition, for David Henry, 1769.

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Mineralogy.- Pryce (William) Mineralogia Cornubiensis; A Treatise on Minerals, Mines, and Mining, first edition, for the Author, 1778.

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Archimedes Opera, 4 parts in 1, first edition, William Godbid, 1675-74.

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[Cadogan (William)] An Essay upon Nursing, and the Management of Children, first edition, Printed for J. Roberts, 1748.

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Compendium of technology.- Schott (Gaspar) Thechnica Curiosa, 2 parts in 1, first edition, Nuremburg, Jobus Hertz, 1664.

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Darwin (Charles) and Alfred Russell Wallace. Three Papers on the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection, in The Zool...

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Darwin (Charles) On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, [second edition, second issue] fifth thousand, 1860.

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Darwin (Charles) On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, fifth edition, ink inscription in the author's hand laid down to half-title, 1869.

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Metallurgy.- Barba (Alvaro Alonso) The Art of Metals, in which is Declared the manner of their Generation, and the Concomitants of them, 2 parts in 1 vol., second edition in English, for S. Mearn...

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Optics.- La Chambre (Marin Cureau de) La Lumiere, first edition, Paris, P. Rocolet, 1657.

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Optics.- Pecham (John) Perspectiva tribus libris succinctis denuo correcta, Paris, Apud Aegidium Gourbinum, 1556.

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Optics.- Pecham (John) Perspectivae communis libri tres, Cologne, Apud Haeredes Arnoldi Birkmanni, 1580.

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$Optics.- Porta (Giambattista della) De Refractione Optices Parte. Libri novem, first edition, Naples, Apud Jo. Jacobum Carlinum, & Antonium Pacem, 1593.$

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Africa.- Ethiopia.- Ludolphus (Job) A New History of Ethiopia being a Full and Accurate Description of the Kingdom of Abessinia, second English edition, for Samuel Smith, 1684.

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Africa.- Slavery.- Matthews (John) A Voyage to the River Sierra-Leone...on the Subject of the African Slave Trade, first edition, Printed for B. White and Son, 1788.

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North America.- Burnaby (Rev. Andrew) Travels through the Middle Settlements in North America, first edition, for T.Payne, 1775.

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Voyages.- Chappe d'Auteroche (Jean, Abbé) A Voyage to California, to Observe the Transit of Venus, first English edition, for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1778.

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South America.- Ulloa (Antonio de) Noticias Americanas: Entretenimientos Phisicos-Historicos, first edition, Madrid, en la Imprenta de Don Francisco Manuel de Mena, 1772.

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America.- Zoology.- Richardson (John) Fauna Boreali-Americana; or the Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America, 4 vol., first edition, Norwich, Josiah Fletcher, 1829-37.

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Australia.- Collins (Lt.-Col. David) An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, 2 vol., first edition, by A. Strahan for T.Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1798-1802.

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Canada.- Burgoyne (John) A State of the Expedition from Canada, first edition, [for J. Almon], 1780.

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China.- Staunton (Sir George Thomas) Ta Tsing Leu Lee; Being the Fundamental Laws and a Selection from the Supplementary Statutes, of the Penal Code of China, first English edition, 1810.

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Greece.- Stuart (James) and Nicholas Revett. The Antiquities of Athens, 5 vol., 1762-1830.

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Greece.- Wheler (George) A Journey into Greece, first edition, for William Cademan, Robert Kettlewell, and Awnsham Churchill, 1682.

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