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  • 20161 - AMADIO, NADINE
  • Paris Dreaming: A Celebration of a City of Imagination, The Paris Drawings
  • Forest, Reed, 1982. 143pp, folio, with many bw and colour illustrations. Paperback first edition bearing minor wear to corners and edges and discoloration as is usual with this title, otherwise near fine.
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  • 20107 - HAMILTON, RICHARD
  • Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors Even.
  • London, Percy Lund, Humphries & Co., 1960. 8vo, many b/w illustrations. Near fine facsimile signature first edition in plastic wrapper as issued, green illustrated boards bearing a small dent to the top edge. There is a small amount of spotting to the endpapers and slight discoloration to the fore-edges and a bookseller’s label on the front paste-down. Very neat and clean otherwise, illustrated throughout and complete with fold-outs, transparent plans and colour type and corrections.
  • A typographic version by Richard Hamilton of Marcel Duchamp's Green Box translated by George Heard Hamilton. Buy online Art books available online
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  • 20090 - BOREHAM, FW
  • My Christmas Book.
  • London, Epworth Press, 1954. 79pp, 12mo. Very good second impression in price clipped dw bearing minimal wear to the corners, predominantly near spine, which is slightly sunned. There is also a small amount of spotting to the fore-edges and endpapers.
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  • 20163 - CLARKE, ARTHUR C
  • 2001 A Space Odyssey.
  • London, Hutchinson & Co, 1968. 224ppm 12mo. Very good first edition in price clipped dw bearing minor wear to edges and top of spine. Some foxing to the top fore-edge, but otherwise neat and clean.
  • Based on the screenplay by Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick. Buy online Other Modern Firsts available online
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  • 19366 - WELSH, IRVINE
  • Filth.
  • London, Jonathan Cape, 1998. 393pp, 8vo. Very good uncorrected proof with minimal darkening to the page edges and a small amount of creasing to the spine edge and across the corner of the front panel. More images available at your request.
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  • 20166 - KHAN, HADJI & WILFRID SPARROY
  • With the Pilgrims to Mecca.
  • London, John Lane, 1906. 314pp, 8vo, 25 illustrations. Very good ex-lib hardback, complete with errata slip, green illustrated cloth with minor wear to edges and a slight discoloration where a library sticker has been removed from the spine. Stamp has been used intermittently throughout, but otherwise the pages are neat and clean.
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  • 20170 - MALTBY, PEG
  • Ben and Bella in the Clouds.
  • Moorabbin, PC Grosser, 1961. 16pp, folio, many colour illustrations. Reprint bearing two stamps inside front cover, wear to edges and held together by tape.
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  • 20158 - TEMPLE, SHIRLEY
  • Five Books About Me.
  • Saalfield Pub Co, 1936. Starring Roles, Twinkletoes, Just a Little Girl, Little Playmate and On the Movie Lot. All in near fine condition bearing only minor discoloration as they have been preserved by their original box which is in very good condition bearing some wear to the corners of the illustrated lid and base. More images available at you request.
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  • 20172 - DUNN, BOB
  • Angling in Australia: Its History & Writings.
  • Sydney, David Ell Press, 1991. , folio, many colour and bw illustrations. Very good hardback in dw bearing minor wear to edges and sunning to spine. There is a small inscription in ink to the ffep, but it does not detract from this scarce title. More images available at your request.
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